Grandmas and Gracie….what beauties!

Pictures of Gracie with Grandpa G

 

 

Here is Gracie enjoying her Grandpa G. We love him too! My family came by for our first big family night the next week. We took a stroll around the new Fort Douglas campus at the U.

Thank you everyone!!!!!!!!

 

Everyone including grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, and tons of friends have all given Gracie such nice gifts. We want to say a big THANKYOU! Gracie is so lucky to be surrounded by all of you. We are overwhelmed with gratitude for all you are to us. 

Pictures of Gracie with Grandpa B June 26

Left with two and came home with three!

Here we are entering our apartment with three now. Hope Gracie likes her new home. Here are some other shots of her getting adjusted to her bassinett.

Pictures of us going home from the hospital…

We had great care at the hospital. I would definitely recommend them. We loved our night nurse, Carrie especially. The aids walked us to the car. We are excited even to put baby Gracie in her carseat. Wow, new firsts for her for everything. This is going to be fun. We left on June 25 (my actual due date).   

First family shot in hospital bed on June 24

Here is our first family shot in hospital bed on June 24. We are sooo blessed to have baby Gracie! We’ve waited almost 8 years for her. We are so excited that she decided to come to our family. We are proud parents for sure!!!

 

Special delivery on June 23!

Here is Auntie Bev with her cute ballerina jamms and her first night picture in her daddy’s favorite jammies “Ladybugs”. We all love this cutie.

At the hospital (and home)

   Here’s a few pictures of Gracie with the family at the hospital.  How fun to see how proud and happy everyone was—especially the new grandparents.

Gracie and the Swine Flu?

Here is Gracie with all the family. Both my mom and dad's side and Alex's side of the family. Unfortunately everyone had to wear masks so you can't see their faces. It was pretty histerical to look back on it now but then I was pretty upset. They had to put Gracie on 8 antibiotic injections--all because they needed to be cautious of the Swine Flu. Of course all the cultures came back negative!

Mine Angels Round About Me!!

Here is our sweet gift from heaven, our little girl, Grace Marie. Born June 23 at 0835 am. Her little cry was a sweet coo. I know that there were so many relatives and friends that had passed on that were there to send Gracie through the veil. What a sweet and special day this was. Boy it just flew by too!

the eve and early morning of June 23....

So the story goes that I started pretty hard cramping pains at around 9:00pm when I was getting ready for bed. By now I've heard so many stories of women getting turned away at the hospital that I decided to just wait it out and go to bed. I could barely wash my face without hurting. Then I decided after 5 minutes in bed to go and watch tv or something to distract me. Alex (the stinker) was just sleeping in the recliner this whole time and didn't suspect anything. So when he woke at 11:00pm I told him he could go to bed and I would just wait it out. He was sweet and told me to call the hospital. By now I was contracting around every 2-3 minutes. Soon it was around 1:00 am and I thought we should go to the hospital. When I arrived I was at a "4" and 90% effaced. Unfortunately I had a little fever running. So immediately I was put on strict Swine Flu precautions. (Oh brother!!) The epidural ended up not being in the right place. My legs got so numb that they could not function fully until June 25 2 days later! I felt everything until around 10 cm when I demanded a bolus. The anesthesiologist finally arrived after being paged hours before that. At 7:30am he gave me a bolus. Then I waited for the doctor to finish his C-section. Gracie was "right there" and we waited.
When the doctor arrived, Alex was instructed to come deliver Gracie because he was a med student. (It was my idea.) So the nurses held my legs and I only pushed 4 times and out came Gracie June 23 at 0835 am!)
Here is Dearie and me hanging out in the Labor/Delivery room.