Labay Family: August 2012

Thursday, August 23, 2012

AdvoCare - Wellness - Energy - Nutrition

Wellness, Energy, Nutrition. Everyone in the world needs/wants these key life components. In case you don't already know, I LOVE AdvoCare! It has totally changed my life! Having 3 kids under 4 years old and being a busy stay at home Mom, I need all the wellness, energy and nutrition I can get! Plus, the added income is great, not to mention the very much needed "adult" interaction I get to have with my family, friends, and customers! Anyway, I just wanted to post a short blog about my AdvoCare business and share a this short video on the 24 Day Challenge and some resource links that you might like to check out. I'd love to hear from you if you are interested in the products or the business. Please "like" my Facebook page and see amazing results and lots, lots more! Thanks!

Here is the link to my Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Our-AdvoCare-24-Day-Challenge/213876302039555

And here is the link to my AdvoCare business page where you can research products and order at any time - www.advocare.com/120118300

Look what AdvoCare did for my best friend! These are real results from my real friend. Michelle is a mom of 4 kids and man, she is looking good! She ate great, exercised and did the 24 Day Challenge and look at her results!!!!

Thanks Friends!

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Livy's First Day of Dancing

My little Princess Ballerina is so ready to start school and start dancing! She asks every day if we are going today? Finally today I got to tell her YES! She doesn't start school until mid September, but she did start dancing class today! And she was totally prepared. She got new ballet shoes and tap shoes, a new dancing outfit and a new bag with her name on it to keep all her stuff. She is so excited to make new friends and also to see some old ones again. Here are her pics from this afternoon!

Cooper's 2nd Birthday!

We have a ton of Birthdays mid-late summer and Cooper is one of them! He turned 2 years old on August 5th! All he wanted for his Birthday was Strawberry Shortcake and that is just what he got! :) We had a small family party for him that Saturday evening and it was perfect!

Mommy made homemade Strawberry Shortcakes for everyone!

Coopie finally got his own "big boy" bicycle!

Mad that everyone was singing to him...

Kids love sidewalk chalk!

Telling scary stories with friends right before bedtime!

The next morning (on his actual BDay) we had Birthday Cake Pancakes for breakfast and we had a nice family day with Daddy all day long! Daddy was on call, but lucked out and got to be home for our babies special day! :)

Avie turned 4!!!

Cousin Avie turned 4 on July 11th and she had an awesome party at the Bowling Alley! This was the kids first time bowling and they had a lot of fun with it!

My Pregnancy

Feb. 22, 2008 - Positive Pregnancy!
Feb. 28, 2008 - TWINS!
14 Weeks - Cervical Cerclage
24 Weeks - Admitted to the hospital for 3 days -Pre-Term Labor. Sent home on fetal monitoring and terbutaline pump. I have to monitor for contractions once a day and send the readings in for review. The terbutaline pump in a cathater in my leg that sends a contiunous flow of "anti-contraction" medicine into me. Complete bed-rest!
28 Weeks - Admitted to the hospital for 90% effacement of cervix. Cerclage still in tact but pulling. If it broke I would have to deliver and this is too soon. The babies are measuring 2.8 and 2.11 pounds. Was in the hospital for 23 days this time.
31 Weeks - Was sent home. Babies were 3.9 and 3.10 pounds. Stay on bed-rest.
36 Weeks 3 Days - Scheduled C-Section
Babies Born October 3, 2008!!!

5 Years of Infertility

Brent and I had dated for years - since my senior year of High School and were finally married on September 27, 2003. We had been together so long that we decided we would start a family immediately. Things turned out to be a bit more difficult than we planned. After many years of trying and medical intervention I was finally diagnoised with Endometriosis in Feb. of 2007. My disease was severe - stage 4 and had spread to my liver. After having exploratory surgery Dr. Cook thought that my ovaries and tubes were capable of functioning properly enough to produce a pregnancy but with the hostile environment inside of me I would need lots of help. We began Lupron therapy that would last 6 months as a way to try to "kill" off some of the endo. When the 6 months was up we began rounds of Clomid with IUI (Intra-Uteran Insemination). We did 2 cycles of this with no result. Our only other option was IVF which we decided to begin in January of 2008. After carefully following the treatment schedule of meds. and shots we had 14 eggs retrieved on Feb. 5, 2008 and of the 14 eggs 6 fertilized and became embryos. On Feb. 8, 2008 Dr. Gill transfered 3 of the best of the embryos. Two weeks later (Feb. 22nd) MaryLou called with the good news that my pregnancy test was positive!!!