Stay Tuned . . .

I have decided that I am going to try to start blogging once again. I had wanted to really start blogging after Riley was born but it just seemed to overwhelming. But now after a year of blog stocking and not publishing I am going to give this ago again. So stay tuned for some new posts. But until then here is a recent pictures trying to get in the summer spirit!!!

Lots of updates and new posts . . .

I have been working like a mad woman to finally update my blog and I have done a ton of new posts on my blog but I did them in date order of when they happened. Here are some quick links below to help you out.  ENJOY.

our little fishy

newborn and announcement pictures

the day we met . . .

introducing

maternity pictures

baby shower no. 1

I still have a lot more post to catch up on so stay tuned.

Our Little Fishy . . .

On Sunday we took Riley to the pool for the first time and he loved it. He did not scream or even cry when we took him in the water. I wanted to get him acclimated to the water at a young age so that he would not have a fear of it and would want to swim. I think that I might have a little fishy on my hands. Here are some pictures from his first pool day.

Newborn and Announcement Pictures . . .

The same friend that did my beautiful maternity pictures came over to our house when Riley was 2 weeks old to do his newborn pictures. Once again they turned out amazing. Thanks Kristen you are awesome.

The day that we met . . .

For those of you who are interested here is my labor story. For those of you that don't want to know or don't care then you can just skip this post.

I was really surprised at the fact how easy my labor and deliver really was. When the Dr had told me the Friday before this little guy came that he was going to induce me all of these thoughts started to run through my mind. Mostly about how painful was this really going to be and how was I going to act. Well it really was not as bad as I thought it was going to be.

I woke up at about 1:30 a.m. with contractions that were about 10 mins apart. I knew that the contractions were not close enough together to call the hospital to go in. So I got up to go to the bathroom and noticed that I was bleeding. Well according to my labor instructions I was suppose to call right away if I had any bleeding. I called the hospital and within 10 mins the on call Dr called me back and told me to head into labor and delivery. I had already woken Kris up but I went back in and told him to get up and get ready. We arrived at the hospital at about 2 am and had to wait in the ER for about 10 mins or so for them to bring us up to labor and delivery.

When we got up to labor and delivery they hooked me up to the fetal monitoring machine and monitored the baby's heartbeat and my contractions. While we were there my contractions went from 10 mins apart to 6 mins apart. They gave me some juice to try to wake the baby up to see how he was handling the contractions. They checked me and I was still only 2 cm dilated at 90% effaced. So after being there about and hour to an hour and a half the Dr decided to give me a sleeping pill and send me home. They told me to come back if I was having trouble walking and talking through my contractions and if they were at least 5 mins apart. When we were walking back to the car to go home I was having trouble walking and talking through my contractions so I was a little scared to go home cause I was thinking that I would not be able to make it back in time.

We went home and I tried to get some sleep but that was not possible because of all the contractions. They were anywhere from 6 mins to 2 mins apart but they jumped around so I did not think that it was time to go back to the hospital. I tried to take a warm shower and even a bath but that did not work. So at about 6:00 am my contractions were constantly 2-3 mins apart, so I called the hospital again and they told me to come back. About 3o mins later we headed back out to the hospital. When we had gone earlier there was no traffic but this time we got stuck in the morning traffic so we did not get back to the hospital until about 7.

They checked me in and I was at 3 cm so they decided to admit me. By the time they got me to the room about an hour later I was at 4 closer to 5 and my Dr came in and broke my water and told me that I could have an epidural. Then the nurse informed me that it was going to be a little bit for the epidural cause there were a few people that were further along then I was but she could give me something to take the "edge" off. I ended up getting my epidural about an hour later and I was feeling no pain. I was a little scared about getting that since I HATE needle and the thought of putting something in my back was not a fun idea.

After about another hour I was at 6cm but my contractions were not consistent so they had to give me some potosin to make them more regular. I dilated from 6 to 10 over the next few hours. At about 2:30 pm I was really close to 10cm and they turned off my epidural so that I would feel the urge to start pushing. The entire day the baby was "sunny side up" and so the nurse was doing everything that she could to try to get him to turn around but he was being super stubborn. At about 3:30, the nurse kicked everyone out of the room cause it was time to start pushing. I started to do a few pushes and was thinking that I was never going to get this baby out but both Kris and the nurse were telling me what a good job that I was doing.

After a few practice pushes, the nurse called the Dr to come down cause this baby was on his way. She had to tell me to stop pushing cause if I keep pushing the baby would be here before the Dr. could make it down. The Dr finally got there and I pushed about 3 more times and he was out. I did not even know that his head was out and the Dr told me to stop pushing. It was totally an out of body experience. It was like my brain was not connecting to the fact that this was the baby that had been growing inside of my for the last 9 months. I had such a wonderful experience that I thought to myself after I had him that I could do this a few more times.

The first time that Daddy held Riley.

Introducing . . .

RILEY JAMES MEISNER

Born April 6, 2010 at 4:18 p.m.

7 lbs 2 oz, 18 inches long

Mommy and Daddy could not be more in love with this little man :)

Maternity Pictures . . .

When I was about 37 weeks my wonderful friend from high school, who I had recently reconnected with took some beautiful maternity pictures. I keep putting it off and putting it off cause I wanted to wait until my belly was bigger. Well we ended up timing it perfectly because little did we know that the little man would be showing up 10 days later.

Here are some of my favorite pictures that she took.

Thank you so much Kristen. They turned out better then I could have imagined.

Update

I have been such a blog slacker. I need to update with all of the stuff that has been going on the past few weeks so stay tuned. . .

Baby Shower No. 1

On March 6th we celebrated the upcoming birth of our little man with some family and friends from Kris side of the family. Kris mom and sister gave me an AMAZING shower that I almost missed. I had to spend 24 hours in the hospital the day prior because the little guy decided that he wanted to act up during some testing. So the Doctors wanted to make sure that it was not something that was happening all the time so they put me in for 24 hour observation. Because the day before I had gone in for my Non Stress Test and the little stinker decided to either grab or sit on the umbilical cord for about a four minute period. The doctors decided that they wanted to keep me overnight to make sure that was something that was not happening all the time. Which it turned out that it was not something that was happening. But after that they put me on bed rest for the rest of my pregnancy and I got to work from home up until my due date. Well everything turned out to be normal and I got released just in time to make it to my shower.

Here are some pictures for the day:

Kris’ Aunt Tracy made my favorite cup cakes for me that day. Funfetti cupcakes.

The cake looked exactly like my invitation.

Kris had to take me to the shower since I was not able to drive that day so he stopped in to say hi to everyone that was there. It was nice that he was able to come for a little bit.

My mom knitted this sweater and another one for Riley when he get bigger.