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Today, I am sharing our birth story! I can honestly say it was the wildest, most intense night of my life. But, gosh, was it worth it! Birth is incredible, and I found it helpful to read birth stories leading up to labor. Every birth is so different it was encouraging to read about all the different ways it could go down. I’m also writing this for myself, as I don’t want all these details to fade as mom brain takes over.
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WE ARE HAVING A BABY!! I can’t even believe I am typing that. If it wasn’t for all the pregnancy symptoms and my growing waistline, I wouldn’t believe it. Even though I’m 13 weeks now, it still doesn’t quite feel real. Today, I am so excited to share our story of how we found out we were pregnant!
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I had planned on sharing about our DIY vinyl plank floors this week, but the trim isn’t back up yet! So, I thought I’d share a little bit more about us. You have probably read About Us, and you have also probably read about How We Met. If not, go do that first! It’s a great story, if I do say so myself. But today, I want to share our proposal story!
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Going through photos of us in Rotorua the other day made me reminisce about our love story. We have quite the tale to tell, so I thought I’d share our story!
It started in January 2010. I was 17. I was ski instructing at the Otsego Club & Resort in Gaylord, Michigan, and the Vancouver Olympics were right around the corner. The whole club was buzzing with excitement because we had snowboarding teams from all over the world coming to train at OUR ski club! Â It was pretty exciting, and our parents even took us out of school (I was in my Senior year of High School) for a long weekend.
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to A Girl and a Kiwi! Thanks for swinging by. My name is Brooke, I’m a twenty something full time Speech Language Pathologist and full time wife to James.
It’s a long story for another post, but it is important part of who we are and what we do. James and I met at the Otsego Club in January of 2010. He was traveling with the New Zealand snowboarding team training for the Vancouver Olympics. I was working as a ski instructor.
The girl behind “A Girl and a Kiwi“. The kiwi is my husband, James. We’ll talk more about him later. For now, let’s just jump into the blog!
At dinner with my best friend several years ago, I admitted I wanted to start a blog about the things I’m passionate about, like DIY, traveling, and relationships. “You totally should!”, she said. But I didn’t. Â I kept it to myself, quietly researching, brainstorming blog ideas at a slow pace… and I mean a very. slow. pace.