a new NEPHEW!

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baby jonah ryan proctor finally decided to show up!
sarah's contractions became regular around 10pm on saturday night and by 1am ray was helping her relax her way through them. i got the phone call at about 1:45am that i should probably go ahead and leave work because the contractions were coming about every 5 minutes and lasting a minute each. i got to their house at about 2:30am and stepped in to help sarah with her relaxation so ray could get things ready to head out the door. uncle matt came over to keep an eye on olivia while she was sleeping so we could take sarah to the birthing center. we arrived about 4am, sarah's water broke around 4:55am and she started pushing at 4:59am. 9 minutes later we got to meet little jonah ryan, born in the tub at 5:08am on october 21, 2007. he weighed in at a whopping 8 lbs and 6.5 oz and was 22 inches long! mom and baby both did great and checked out healthy. both sets of grandparents and uncle jared were among the first to meet little jonah and everyone else got phone calls as soon as we thought they might be awake. liv got to meet her new little brother about 7am, when uncle matt brought her to the birthing center (after letting her get her full night of sleep) and the whole family got to go home around 10:30am to rest, recover and enjoy their new little miracle!
thank you to my friends at work who let me leave in the middle of my shift so i could be there for my sister, brother-in-law, and jonah.
and thank you sarah, for being such a wonderfully strong woman, to have her children without medication or intervention, and being an example and inspiration to all!
welcome to the world, baby jonah!

weekend life

this weekend has been very busy so far! friday night i got a call from my sister sarah and her husband ray saying that sarah was having fairly frequent contractions, but they weren't regular yet. i kept my phone next to me and stayed up a good part of the night thinking we'd get to meet our newest family member before my shift on saturday, but unfortunately it didn't happen. i'm sure we'll be meeting our newest family member sometime this weekend, though. it was okay the birth didn't happen, since saturday morning i had a wedding shower hosted by my church congregation. the food was great and we got a lot of really nice things that i know we will enjoy! the pictures i included from the shower are of me and both my sisters, and of me with my mother and sisters. the other pictures are of what goes on in an ER when there are no patients. that's right...no patients! on tuesday night when i worked we actually cleared out the ER for just a couple hours. in one picture i am with my friend, heather, next to the medication area. in the other, well, that's a bunch of us on a powered scooter-device used for pushing hospital beds. it's a great ride ;) ER nurses have to have a sense of humor, right?

fall fun

with the weather getting cooler, everyone has been in the mood for fall activities. matt and i continue to go to my brother's high school football games on friday nights and cheer on the plano east senior high (PESH) panthers and watch jared march during the half-time show. we also held our annual pumpkin carving party at my parent's house on sunday where the kids got to carve pumpkins and decorate sugar cookies. eveyone had a great time, other than the fact that the cowboys lost their undefeated record to the patriots...nothing a sugar cookie and some hot chocolate didn't cure, though!

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time to celebrate

another busy week! on october 9, lexi finally got to go to her "graduation ceremony" for her puppy training class. thank goodness her daddy was able to take her while i went to work. we missed her actual graduation date because it was at the same time as our co-ed shower, so we are excited we finally got to make it! this week was also a very special week for matt and myself, on friday the 12th we will celebrate the 1st anniversary of our first date. matt took me out to fogo de chao (an all-you-can-eat meat and salad restaurant...yummy!). the service was great and the food was delicious, but the dessert was by far, unanimously the best part of the meal (which is why it gets it's own picture!). there are no pictures of me because we went out on the 10th instead of the 12th so i could go out with my hair & makeup done from my trial run for the wedding. after some debate, i decided that i didn't want anyone to see me with my hair and makeup done until the wedding...sorry! but don't worry, less than 2 months to go!

sheffield wedding

on saturday, september 29, we got the chance to see two of our good friends get married in dallas. the wedding was beautiful and we had a great time. crystal was a friend of mine in nursing school and matt helped rich coach my soccer team a few times. the wedding gave us a chance to catch up with friends we haven't been able to see all summer and to remind us that in a few months it will be US at the altar! the first pic is nearly inexplainable: somehow all the guys (significant others of girls from nursing school) dressed the same! we don't know when they sent out the memo, but we were all impressed! the second pic you see is of the happy couple seconds after being pronounced man and wife. the next pics are of matt and myself at the table and then dancing the night away! (we both had sore feet the next day)! and what did we keep hearing all night? "you're next!"