Kade has arrived!

Kade Colby Christensen

5/31/2009

7lbs and 10 oz

19 inches long

Sunday night I started getting contractions about 12:00am.... I thought for sure that I was just crying wolf again so I just kept getting up walking around and going back to sleep. That didn't last to long they got closer and closer together and I finally decided that this had to be it!! I woke Colby up around 4am and told him that it was time... he was so tired that it didn't really register what I was saying. "Time for what?" He asked:) I was like, " uh...time to have a baby!" I guess he really didn't believe me either cause he rolled over and asked me if I was sure!!! Ha ha I was completely sure by then! He started to get excited when he found out that I was serious. I started to get everything together as fast as I could.. Of course Colby had to shower : ) and I was freaking out telling him to hurry. After he finally got out he was asking me what he should wear to meet his son?! By this time I was dying with contractions and could have cared less what he wore to the hospital, but it was cute that he thought about it :)

When we finally arrived to the hospital they didn't have a room ready and then they didn't have a monitor in the room, everything was taking so freakin long. After they checked me they said that I was only at a 3 so they were going to monitor me. I was like, " no freakin way?! all I could think about was getting that epidural! and they didn't even know if they were going to admit me yet! I started to get so sick and ended up barfing in someone elses cup of water that was left in the room! ha ha it was so disgusting. After about a half an hr I told Colby to get the nurse so that she could check me and actually admit me into the hospital... I was in so much pain that I just knew that things had to be moving pretty fast. The nurse checked me and sure enough I had dilated to a 5 1/2. After that I was begging for the epidural and she told me that it was going to be another 1/2hr or so before I could have it. She said that the only Dr that could do it was in the room with someone else... Then some lady started screaming bloody murder and the nurse turned to me and said, "That lady is getting her epidural right now." me and Colby looked at each other and I could have died! If anyone knows how scared I am of needles they know that this is the last thing that I needed to hear. But honestly the pain was so bad I could have cared less. To make this long story a little shorter, I finally got the epidural which wasn't that bad at all. After that I thought things were gonna be cake... I got up to an 8 1/2 or so and wasn't feeling a thing. They finally had me start pushing at about 10am and I continued to push until 1:35 in the afternoon when Kade finally decided to come and join our family. He was stuck for quite a while and I almost had to have a C section but it all worked out:)

Honestly everyone says how amazing it is but until you actually experience it you can't understand! giving birth was the hardest thing in the world, but when Kade finally came out it was amazing... you just felt his little sweet spirit come into the room and into the world. it was so emotional and so amazing. I just looked and Colby and we both lost it... All the pain and everything melted away! I would do it over in a second! I am so lucky to have my sweet little boy here. Happy and healthy, and I am so lucky to have Colby by my side! We made a great team and I couldn't have gotten through it without him. He is the best, and having Kade has only made me love him more and more! I am one lucky girl!

1 great Year Down :)

On May 15th Colby and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary!! Wahooo... I can't believe that we have been married a whole year, time flies when you are having fun. Colby got me some beautiful flowers that smell and look amazing but he didn't stop there, he got me a gorgeous set of blue topaz earrings and a necklace to match! He really out did himself. I got him a nice watch that I had engraved and a shirt that he had wanted to buy last time we went shopping:) I sure hope he liked his gifts as much as I enjoyed mine. i also got the sweetest card... Colby is always so good at getting me cute cards and I love reading the things he writes.. :) I just love him to death!! After we opened our gifts we celebrated by going to the Anniversary Inn! ha ha it was so funny, that place is so weird:) We got the Romantic mountain Hideaway room and It felt more like The Chainsaw massacre!! It felt like a scary movie set and it smelt like moth balls :) We walked in and just started laughing our butts off! It sure made for a memorable experience and the service was really good. They brought breakfast to our room in the morning and we had cheesecake and sparkling cider in our room the night before:) We had forgot our wedding cake to eat that night so we ate it at our house the night after and I have to say... it wasn't that bad. The middle of the cake was pretty good. Colby didn't care for it to much but after all its a tradition to eat it so I made him at least try it!

All and all it was a great weekend celebration and I am so excited to have many many more anniversaries together. Love you so much Colby, my life would be empty without you:)

Maternity pics!

My sweet sister took my maternity pics this weekend, and my sweet husband was a good enough sport to do them with me:) After about 3 weeks of trying every weekent to take some pics of my big belly we finally did it. My sister did a great job and I am so glad that I will have these pics to remember being prego!

Thanks Ash for taking time from your family on a Saturday to take em for us :) love ya!

Kuddos to Moms

I have been blessed with the best Mother in the world, well most of the time:) My mom has been through alot raising us kids and has always found a way to make it through all of the crap and find a way to love us. Sometimes I don't know how she did... I give her credit for loving me through my ugly gangly annoying stage when I was in Jr High and for loving my sister through her coke bottle glasses! ha ha!!! No, but seriously we always knew no matter what that mom would have our backs and love us and that we could come to her for anything! Now that I am soon to be a mom I appreciate her so much more, I realize all the sacrafices that I know she had to make just to bring me into this world! Man mothers are amazing! That is all I have to say! thanks mom for being so good to all us kids even when we don't deserve it :)

Also Happy Mothers Day to my mother in law, I love her so much and I am so glad that I get along with her and love her as much as I do! I have been very lucky to marry into the family that I did, and I am grateful For Evelyn for raising the man that I love! she did a good job :) I have a lot to live up to between these 2 ladies... and I hope that I can be as good as mom as they are!

BabY ShoWeR

My mom, sisters and my good friend Ashlee Palmer threw me a great baby shower at my moms house on Saturday! Everything turned out great and came together as it always does. My mom had just got back from NYC and at like 2am that morning and managed to clean her house and make cupcakes and put everything together for the shower.... not that she didn't have help though. My sister helped out a lot with the food and Ashlee made these really cute cinnamon rolls for everyone to take home that said, "thanks for celebrating Amanda's bun in the oven!" it was so nice of them to go to so much work for me and I had a great time and got spoiled to death! It was so fun to go home and let Colby see all the stuff. He was so cute about it and wanted to look at every single thing and play with it! It is so fun to see him get excited about our baby boy and I know that he is gonna be a great dad! Now I just want the little nugget here already, I am dying to see him :) My mom took a lot of pics (after all she is the paparazzifor our family)! so I will have to put some of them up soon!

Thanks to everyone that came to the shower to support us and spoil us rotten! We really do appreciate all our friends and family... We are so lucky! Love you all:)

My LOVers B-DaY

So Colby turned 26 on May 7th!! He never likes to make a big deal out of things like Birthdays and never even mentions that he has a Birthday coming up... I don't think any of his friends even know when his Birthday is... He is such a weirdo! But I did remember and tried to make it a special Birthday WEEK for him. We got to go to lunch and then went shopping for clothes and actually found some (which is a shocker) cause he is so picky:) Then we went to dinner at Brick oven! After we came home we just relaxed and I made a carrot cake and sang Happy B-day solo!! ha ha it was not pretty :)

Although Colby doesn't like to make a fuss over Birthdays I was determined to change this and make him love Birthdays... It was funny cause anything he would ask to do I would say, " You decide its your Birthday week." He would look at me like I was crazy, but now he is the one using it to get what he wants, but he has even pushed it to his Birthday MONTH!! ha h, I think I created a monster:)

Anyway... Happy Birthday MONTH Colby Evan Christensen! I love you so much and am so grateful that you came into my life and chose me to be your wife! I look forward to all of the Birthdays that we get to celebrate together :) I hope you had a special day! LOve you more than life itself :) and more and more everyday!