Pregnancy update

Here are the Hester pregnancy updates. This is a LOT more difficult to keep up with than I originally thought it would be!

This week was a great week because we got to see our little one again on the screen. We definitely have a wiggly little one! We also learned that we are at the lowest risk for any birth defect, which was great to hear!

You'll have to excuse the blurriness of this picture. I was feeling really good for two weeks because I didn't have to go into work because of track-out. After getting scolded for painting the baby's bathroom, my handy-dandy father-in-law came up to pain the actual bedroom. It looks GREAT! Now all we need to do is get the furniture and decorate!

Now that I'm back at work I am exhaused almost every day. Teaching really takes a tole on my body! A lot of exciting thing have happened since the last picture for us. 1-We got to feel the baby move! This was the wildest, weirdest, and coolest thing I have ever experienced. I've felt babies move before on other people's tummies, but it is completely different to feel it on the inside! 2-I am NO longer lactose intolerant!! That's right folks, it went away! Praise God! When we went to the fair I forgot to bring my lactate pills with me. I decided, well we only get to go once a year I'll deal with tummy issues later because I want some bad for you food! Guess what, I didn't get sick! So the next day I got brave and tried to eat 3 pieces of cheese and I didn't get sick! I gradually added dairy back into my diet because I was still a little nervous, but everything is good! I can now eat all the milk, butter, cheese, and CHEESE that I want! 4-We got to go to some friends' Great Gatsby themed house warming party. I dressed up as a flapper (with a little belly) and Jeff was a gangster from the 20s. We had a lot of fun hanging out with some really great people all dressed up!

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Bunny

About a year ago I got a bunny as my classroom pet. I have wanted a Netherland Dwarf bunny for quite some time because of their cute ears and they stay small. Small bunny = perfect for classoom life. So after the beloved Max (my old guinea pig) left us, I knew now was the time to get a bunny! Thank goodness my sister Anna looks on Craigs List all the time for animals because she actually found a Netherland Dwarf Bunny that was up for adoption! YAY! I got her a couple of days after I found the post and was so excited. The kids decided to name her Maddi after a character in the book Fever 1793 . If you like historical fiction books, you should check it out because it's really good! Little did I know that bunnies are full of personality! On her first day home she bit me 3 times and got me 2 times with her nails. Good thing is now she likes me (most of the time) and is much more friendly! She lets the kids in the class pet her and feed her. She also hops around the classroom....

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving started off with a sister, husbands, and dog walk before we stuffed ourselves silly! A Riegel girl tradition started many years ago after watching Winnie the Pooh. Pooh and his friends play a game where they all put a stick in the river and see whose stick comes out on the other side first. We've called it Pooh sticks since we started playing. I won! Back at the parents house ready to eat: Naomi enjoyed her first Thanksgiving meal: After Naomi's nap we went to have Thanksgiving with Jeff's family: Naomi enjoyed playing will all of the kids And Uncle Nich: Brother time:

Katie

The last three weeks have been a bit of a whilrwind for my family. We found out that my sister, Katie, had stage 3 ovarian cancer. She went into the ER because she was having pains in her abdomen, and they found a football sized tumor. My sister is such a strong woman and was walking around the day after her surgery that removed the tumor! Katie decided to have some fun with her hair before her chemo treatments start. It's a good thing that we have a sister that is a hairdresser, she can do so many fun things to hair. This is what Katie looked like to start: Here is Lauren applying bleach to Katie's hair: Here is Katie as a blonde....I never thought I'd see one of my sisters EVER with blonde hair. I like the analogy she used...she said she looked like Orlando Bloom in Lord of the Rings. :) All the fun colors for Katie's hair: The final product: Please pray for Katie as she starts her first chemo treatment today! Love you sister w...

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