What a weekend!

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So our weekend was pretty eventful.  Let me backtrack for just a minute.  We own two purebred german shorthair pointers; (Princess)Leia and (Han)Solo.  I bet you can't tell that our kids named them after one of their favorite shows:)  Anyway, on Friday night Leia went into labor.  This is one thing I can honestly say I never thought that I would ever do in my life.  She was in labor all day.  The first puppy came at 11:30 PM (a boy!)  Dogs can go up to four hours before giving birth to the next puppy, so as you can probably tell this was a LOOOOONG night! The second puppy didn't come until about 3:00 AM (another boy!)  Nate ran to Walmart to grab a few things, thinking he had time before the next one came, but the third one decided to come at 3:30 AM (a girl!)  Around five Nate and I were exhausted to say the least so we thought we would try and rest for a minute.  We checked on Leia and she was ready to give birth again (another boy!)  By 6:00 AM we decided we should probably try to at least get a little bit of a nap before the kids decided to wake up.  Well, the kids let us rest until 7:00 AM until they decided to wake up for the day.  They were so excited to see the little puppies!! Well, we checked on Leia and she was ready to go again.... so around 8:00 AM she had another little girl!  The kids had a primary activity/party that they had to get ready for at 10:00 AM.  I drove them over to the church, came home, and around 10:05 Leia gave birth to another girl!!  We knew that she was probably close to being done, so we let her rest.  I just have to say that it was kind of a cool thing to experience.  Now we have six little purebred german shorthair puppies to take care of.  The kids LOVE them!!!  and of course they too all have Star Wars names:)  The boys are: Chewy(chewbaca), Luke(Skywalker), and Vader(Darth) & the girls are:  Amidala(Padme), Ahsoka(Tano), and Aayla(Secura).