Visitors!

We are so lucky to have so many family members that love us so much. This past week was filled with lots of visitors!!!

Ok…So, last post, we had just gone to the doctor....Tristan weighed 11lbs 13oz and we found out breastfeeding alone wasn't enough....that was last Wednesday...so the doctor asked us to come in for a weight check on Monday....just 5 days later he weighed 12lbs 12oz....that’s almost 1 full pound in 5 days!! WOW! :-O

On Thursday Grandpa Michael and Grandma Mary came down from Auburn for lunch. Tristan got to snuggle and fall asleep with Grandma and he got to play with Grandpa. He really enjoyed sharing his smiles with them.

On Saturday Grandma Teresa and Auntie Kylie came over to baby-sit Tristan. Jimmy and I went out to dinner at Spice Thai Kitchen to celebrate my coming 29th Birthday! Dinner was great....but we missed our movie (Inglorious Bastards) so we went to Starz and played pool instead. I WON all 4 games!!! It was great to get out and enjoy each other for a few hours. Thanks Grandma Teresa and Auntie Kylie.

On Monday Tristan's Great Grandma Erma, Grandma Teresa, Great Aunt's Debi & Lisa, Aunties Tera & Kylie and Second Cousin Breeann all came up to Vacaville to go to lunch with us to celebrate my birthday. We also celebrated my Aunt Lisa's birthday. It was great seeing everyone!

My actual birthday was Tuesday (Sept 1st). Even though we went out on Saturday, Jimmy still wanted to cook me a special dinner...so I asked for, shrimp skewers, potatoes and asparagus. It came out GREAT and was Yum-O!

The upcoming holiday weekend is separating our little family for 3 days. Jimmy is gong to Lake Shasta for a houseboat-bachelor party weekend for his best friend Jason. Tristan and I, joined by my mom, will be heading to Reno/Sparks, NV for the Annual Nugget Rib Cook Off!

Well that’s all folks....Here's what you all come here for....PICTURES!!!


swinging in the big baby swing at the park

playing with Grandapa Michael
this is fun

I got big muscles!

after a bath

Auntie Kylie sleeping on the job! lol

me and mommie on her birthday

birthday mommie...29!
mommies birthday dinner. Seasoned potatoes (broiled), BBQ'd shrimp with Garlic Parmesan Basil butter, Asparagus and fresh Sourdough bread! Yum-O!!!!!!!

good morning

just hanging out in the swing

SMILEY TIME!!!!

Our Bundle of Joy is HERE!

After 8 weeks of bed rest, followed by 9 days off of the meds...Tristan Michael has joined us.
Here is our birth story....

So.....Its Wednesday, June 10th. Jimmy and I decide to go for a short walk around the block. We get 3/4 around the block and I feel a little gush of liquid. I was like...."babe, I think I pee'd myself", all the while laughing...and he was like "you pee'd yourself?!" and I was like, "I don't know. I think so. Just a little." So we finish our walk and when we get home, I go to the bathroom and change my clothes, and I almost immediately leak a little again. But I am not really sure that I have broken my water, so we just continue to wait and see. So Jimmy and I go out to the car and he installs the car seat base. He gets it installed and he's trying to put enough weight on it to get it in tight. So I was like "how about we put my 180 lbs on it" haha. So I get up and I go to get on top of it, and 3 larger gushes come out...I am cracking up and I am like "Babe, its coming out, more liquid." and he says, "I think we need to call Dr. B".


So I go inside and he finishes installing the car seat. I call and then Dr. B calls back. It sounds like my water has broken so she tells us to head to Labor and Delivery to confirm it. So I go change my clothes again, and we gather my hospital bag and all the other things I think we need in case this is the real thing. And we are off to Walnut Creek.....


We check into the hospital at 9:30pm on Wednesday, June 10th. They confirm that I have definitely broken my water, and that we weren't going anywhere. So Jimmy headed down to the car to get our stuff and make a few phone calls. The nurse estimated we would have a June 11th Baby. She said by noon probably. So we hunker down for the night. I get an IV for fluids. At 11:15pm we started Pitocin, because I had no contractions or anything trying to start the labor process. Jimmy & the nurse tell me to get some sleep, that I will need it in order to deliver the baby the next day. YEAH RIGHT...SLEEP? How do they expect me to do that.....so at 2am I call the nurse in to see if its too early to get the epidural. Its not...so I decide I should get it, because otherwise I don't think I will ever fall asleep.


I am 2cm and I get the epidural at about 2:30 am and then I am able to sleep until about 4:30ish. Then it was just off and on rest/sleep. I am progressing, and by 6am I am 5 cm dilated. I was able to get some more rest for about 45 minutes around 8am. Then at 11am I was 10cm. BUT WAIT...don't start pushing yet. They want to wait 45min-1hour and let my contractions do most of the work for me, saving my energy.


At 12:05 I started pushing. It took me about 10 minutes to get the hang of how to push correctly. It happened all too quickly......I started pushing with the nurse, then Dr. B got there, and with Jimmy on one side, holding one leg and the nurse on the other, and Dr. B and her crazy antics gets me going and I push and push and at 1:23pm about an hour later, Tristan was born.