Hepworth Family

On Thursday the 17th in the evening I began bleeding. I figured it wasn't a big deal and that I would probably start labor that night. On Friday morning I was still bleeding with no labor so Tyler called our doctor. He said to be at his office and 9AM. He checked me and said that he didn't know for sure where the bleeding was coming from but since I was over 39 weeks it would be best to induce. He sent me right over to the hospital. I sent Tyler home to get my bag and the camera. I got checked in about 9:30 and they had the IV in and the pitocin started by 10. I was anxious for Tyler to get back. I was also feeling nervous because I planned to go without an epidural. The nurse checked me shortly after starting the pitocin and I was a 5. I was glad because I only had 5 to go. Every 30 minutes the nurse would turn the pitocin up. The contractions were painful but I felt like I could manage them. With each contraction I would take a deep breath in making sure that my...

On Christmas Eve after I had put the kids to bed, Ethan came up to me and said "Mom, I know I am going to get a lump of coal." I said "Why, have you been naughty?" and he said "A little bit." We had been reading the book It's Christmas, David! And in the book he dreams that he gets a lump of coal...lol. I had been thinking about how I needed to write that down so that I don't forget it. On the 8th of January Brig turned 3! I can't believe that my baby is 3 years old now. He still seems like my baby but maybe that will change when I have the baby. He is talking so much now, it seems like his vocabulary is increasing every day. On his birthday I handed him a present and he ripped the paper off and then went for the next one...he forgot that there would be something in the box...lol. I took him to stokes to pick out his cake. He thought it was great and most people thought that I was expecting my second since he was the only one with me...

Christmas this year was probably the most relaxing one that I've had in a long time. Santa had all of the presents ready to go by 11:30. This year all the kids really got from Santa was what was in their stockings. I put a lot of time and effort into getting things that they really wanted and I didn't want Santa to get the credit for it....lol. Tyler had his last appointment with the neurosurgeon and he was given the all clear. He doesn't even have to go to physical therapy! Really his back healing so quickly without permanent damage is a miracle :) Brig didn't really want to get up on Christmas. We made the kids wait until 6:30 to get up. Spencer woke me up at 6:15 and asked if it was close enough and I said no. Santa didn't get to bed until midnight so I really wanted those extra 15 minutes. The way Brig acted reminded me of Ethan when he was 3 (Brig will be three this week). Austin's Birthday is the Day after Christmas. Sometimes I feel guilty that...

Time seems to pass by so quickly. My goal is to write in my journal every week but right now it seems like once a month. In the middle of October Spencer and Austin finished playing football for the year. Spencer grew to really love football and Austin not so much. Spencer's team came in first place and Austin's came in third. I wasn't able to go to Austin's last game since Tyler had just recently come home from the hospital. Ethan turned 5 on the 13th of October. He asks all of the time when he gets to go to kindergarten. I have to keep telling him that it will be awhile still. He is such a cute fun little boy. I love having him as part of our family! My sister Leslie was so kind and came up and helped me with the kids during the school carnival that we have. I don't know how I could have managed all of the kids without her. She also brought haunted houses for the kids to decorate. They love doing this every year with her. She makes a lot neater houses th...

Last Sunday the RS Presidency had to speak in church. I was hoping that it wouldn't include me since I'm just the secretary but it was including me. The topic I chose to speak on was Finding Nobility in Motherhood and Joy in Womanhood from the Relief Society Declaration. My BIL Shawn and my SIL Lindsey came to our sacrament meeting and I was glad because I need help with the kids (Tyler hasn't made it back to sacrament meeting yet, but he will since he gets to speak on the 14th). Before Sacrament meeting started I saw Spencer hanging out with one of his friends in the foyer. I told him he needed to come and sit down with the rest of the kids. For one thing I could have used his help since I was sitting on the stand. For another thing I told him he couldn't sit by this friend anymore during sacrament meeting because he isn't reverent when they sit together. As the meeting started I looked all around the chapel for my oldest son and I couldn't see him anywh...

On Thursday September 30th in the afternoon Tyler went to check the water on the field. Two pivots had gotten stuck together (pivots are giant sprinklers that go in a circle around the fields they are 15-20 feet tall). Tyler climbed up on the end of one pivot and had his dad go and move the other one. He didn't realize that there was tension on the one he was on, so when his dad moved the pivot the one he was on snapped like a rubber band and flipped him off. He fell 15 feet and landed on his back. He was in a tremendous amount of pain. Tyler's dad was on the phone with Tyler when it happened. When Tyler fell he tried to call him back to see if everything was okay. When Tyler didn't answer the phone he knew something was wrong. His dad came and found him. He asked Tyler what he wanted to do and Tyler said "Help me up on my 4 wheeler so I can drive myself home." It took Tyler a long time to drive himself home because he could feel every bump on the gravel road. Tyl...

This past weekend I went down to Utah to run the dirty dash with my mom, Leslie, Bridget, and Christine's husband Dan. I was a little bit apprehensive to run since I know it is harder to run in mud. I knew it wouldn't be a PR or anything but I decided to run just for the fun of it. The run had a series of obstacles along the way as well as a bunch of different mud pits. One of the obstacles was really big hay bales that you would have to jump over......well let me tell you being almost 19 weeks pregnant messes with my coordination I had to go around the hay bales. The next obstacle was walls that you would have to climb over. I had a terrible time hoisting myself over the first one and went around the rest...lol. One really fun obstacle towards the end is a giant slip and slide. I didn't really want to slide on my stomach so I slid on my butt but I didn't go very far. I then had to run part of the way down the slip and slide until I got where it was slippery ag...