Day 7 of 14---Let's Add a Petunia

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DISCLAIMER: Jay finished the last half of this post. I claim no responsibility for it.

Today I looked at Jay sitting on the stand, dressed in his beige suit, with his very sharp coordinating tie and I thought to myself what a lucky girl I am to be married to such a good man. As I have been going through our memories , each picture I look at takes me back to a specific time and place of happiness in my life. What a blessing it has been to have such an amazing person by my side through it all.

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No more of this one parent per child thing.

We really needed one more set of arms, I guess it's a good thing that Jay's are very large, It seems that at this point in our life he always had one child in each arm. 3 boys under the age of 4 was sometimes a large chore to handle. It was becoming quite a challenging task just to get out the door. but we seemed to manage.

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This picture depicts how we both felt after a long day of tag teaming 3 very energetic boys.I love this man so much, I never could have gotten through this life without him.

I got half way through this post and decided that I am running out of gas, my brain is over wrought

and it needs a short break so I am turning the rest of this post over to Jay to finish. I'll be back tomorrow...This ought to be interesting.

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The real story of the picture you see above is me resting after chasing that cute little wife of mine around the apartment trying to procreate our beautiful little girl.

And you can see by the look on my face in the picture below that I am very pleased with my self for the success I achieved. We were told by the doctor that the next baby was going to be a boy. Well I was perfectly fine with that with four boys I could at least form a basketball team with me as one of the players.

Then it happened in a flash. The doctor said

"It's a Girl"

I wasn't sure what to do or what to expect. There she was this perfect little angel and when I looked at my beautiful wife it made me love her in a new and different way, she had been such an amazing wife and mother to the boys. Already in the hospital I knew it was going to be a little different for all of us.

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As you can see from the very first sign of hair Allie couldn't wait to start doing Ashley's hair. A whole new relationship was forming. I never saw before how much different both a mother and a father relate to a daughter than to sons. I have to admit that I did wrestle with her, I had not yet been taught how to play with dolls or seen her play house.

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This is "The Lonely Little Petunia in The Onion Patch"!!

You can tell by the clothes that we were poor students Allie sewed about 50% of what the kids wore. It was about this time we figured out what was causing a baby every year, and decided we have our girl that's enough!!

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At this point in our lives we were starting to figure out that we did not know everything! I had no idea just what an amazing woman I married!! I had been so busy with football and school that when I finally stopped to look around I was married to this amazing woman who was every mans dream. She had carried more than her share of the burden of the family and done an amazing job. Our children were well behaved and were growing in the gospel and my wife was a loving supportive woman who was also the hottest girl I knew.

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And the Saga continues.......................

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