How Pumpkin Pies are made

My sister sent me this picture - freakin hilarous!! She obviously knows my sense of humor!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I guess you have determined by now, that we did not make it to the beach this year. Despite not being at the beach we had a wonderful Thanksgiving. My mom was nice enough to make a full Thanksgiving dinner even if it was just for the 4 of us. It was the perfect meal and I am stuffed.




Here is a picture of Bridger on his first Thanksgiving.


Here is our family Thanksgiving picture.

More Pictures to catch up . . .

Pictures . . . (finally!!)

Baby Bridger's first picture.

Proud Daddy

Bridger taking a nap after his entry into the world.

Bridger's first bath - He has some big feet!!

Finally some room to stretch out.

Burrito Baby

Bridger ready for the ride home.

Bridger David Jones

Most of you have heard by now that our little guy, Bridger David Jones finally made his appearance on Saturday November 21st at 6:50pm. He weighed 8lbs 1oz and is 20.5 inches long.

Saturday morning I woke up around 3am with a few contractions and despite how many times I have said I was ready for this kid to come out already, I will admit when I had those first few real contractions I thought to myself - I am NOT ready for this!!

After the 2 or 3 contractions at 3am, I fell back to sleep but was awake at 6:30am on a Saturday. I was annoyed that I was awake at that hour, but got up and watched a little TV. As I was laying on the couch I noticed the baby was not really moving. I got up and had some juice to try and stimulate the baby but no such luck.

Around 10am I went and woke Chad up and told him I wasn't feeling the baby and he said lets just go to the hospital and get checked out. So we got dressed and headed to the hospital. When we got there around 11am, it was really dead luckily and they got us right in and hooked up to the monitors. The baby's heart rate was perfect and he started moving around. Despite the baby looking great, my blood pressure was really high. The monitors were also showing that I was having contractions as well. I felt a few but they were pretty light, but in the hour or so we were there they were definetely picking up. When the nurse checked me I was dialated to a 4 and 90% effaced.

They ran some tests that all came back normal but for some reason my blood pressure was way too high. They called my dr and once again he was out of town and was not on call. The nurse contacted the on call dr and he said we were staying. The dr came in at 1:45pm to check me and he said he was going to break my water and he said I was already dialated to a 7. I went from a 4 to 7 in just 2 hours. Once my water was broke the contractions were kicked up a notch and there was about 30 min of misery and then the drug dr came and gave me a lovely epidural! ahhh I love that dr!!

The dr came back in at 6pm and started stretching me and I started pushing and the next thing I knew the baby was out.

It all happened so fast. I thought we would be at the hospital for an hour or so to get checked out and the next thing I knew the baby was in my arms.

False Alarm

We went for a long walk yesterday afternoon and I started having some light contractions. We came home and I had this uncontrollable desire to clean. I cleaned the kitchen from top to bottom, then I dusted the house, then I scrubed the floors in the bathroom.

Chad kept saying "Nick warned me about this". Chad's brother Nick, experienced the freak cleaning right before his wife had their baby.

After my cleaning spree, I was still having some contractions and some major back pain. I thought for sure things would progress now that the house was clean. But no such luck!

I went to bed with some tylenol and slept like a baby. Now I sit here still willing this kid to come out!

Watch out I am GRUMPY!!!

At my dr appt on Monday, the dr said I had high blood pressure and protein in my urine which are signs of preclampsia. I had to go back today to test my blood pressure and urine again. Blood pressure was way down however there was more protein in my urine. I thought they would say - lets just induce you and get this baby out. But NOOOOO, they said to come back on Thursday to test again! WTH? I am at 37 weeks why cant they just make my life easier and get this kid out of me??? Is that too much to ask for?

They took some blood today as well to test my liver enzymes and I am not sure when those test results will come back.

I prayed all night for high blood pressure and more protein in my urine so they would induce me - I only got one of the two.

So today I am back working and really grumpy! =(

Now what. . . .

Well the stitches are out now what? I guess it is just a waiting game. Have I mentioned I hate waiting?

I experienced my first contractions during church yesterday - they lasted about an hour and a half. Then I came home and layed down and they went away.

I am trying to figure out what I should do today so that I can induce labor. I am so ready for this kid to come out.

I'll keep you posted.

Happy Dance

If I could do a Happy Dance right now I would, but having such a large belly makes it a little hard.

I had my Dr appt yesterday and instead of wanting to kick the Dr in the shins I wanted to kiss him. Chad said that would have been awkward! LOL

The Dr checked the stitches yesterday to make sure he could take them out in his office next week. When he was checking me he was quite surprised because I was already dilated! YIPPPEEEEEEE!!!! insert happy dance now!

The stitches come out at 8am on Monday Nov 9th. The Dr said he would not be surprised if the baby decided to make his appearance shortly after!

So hopefully we should have a baby next week! Scary and very exciting all rolled up in one!!

Is it too late to sign up for a surrogate so she can go through the labor bit?

Rude

First off I want to say RUDE!!!

A lot of companies have struggled over the last 2 years during the economic crisis. The company I work for has been one of them. Last December they announced that we would be receiving a pay cut and lose our bonuses. They tried to sell it to us as - "well it is better than losing your job". There were several layoffs at the time as well and they cut us down to the bare minimum. So not only did we lose pay but we gained a lot of extra work from those whom were layed off.

We did lose about 40% of our business but were still holding our heads above water. Then about 6 months ago the company started doing all this hiring of Senior Management. They hired two new VP's and promoted someone to a VP. Talk about top heavy!

Well yesterday the new VP that is over my department started. She is a really nice lady and I think we will be able to work well with her.

Here comes the rude part. So yesterday my coworker comes into the office and says "someone is sporting a new BMW ride". The car did not even have plates yet - it still had the temporary plates and you could tell it was just purchased in the last week by the date. We do some investigating and sure enough it belongs to the new VP. Someone must be getting paid well to go get a new fully loaded BMW!

Yet us little peons still have our pay cut, no bonuses and have to do extra work!