Introducing. . .

Jackson Lewis Bjarnson
Born December 30, 2010 09:00am
8lb. 2 oz. 21 1/2 in.























December 29th was a stormy day. I was supposed to call the hospital if I hadn't heard from them by 6:00pm. I called and because of the storm they told me to come in at about 7:30. We decided to go to the grocery store first so that we'd have something in our fridge when we came home. After the store we went home and ate Subway for dinner, then we headed to the hospital. We got there at 8:00pm, got checked in, admitted and set up to go. My first dose of cytotech was administered at 9:00pm, I was dilated to a 1+ and long meaning the baby was still really high. I started having contractions minutes later and at that point I knew this time was going to be different. Mike and I watched some TV while we were waiting for time to pass. 12:00am I was given a second dose of the cytotech, my contractions were beginning to get more intense. I was dilated to a 1+ but my cervix was ripening so the medicine was doing its job, baby was still high. Mike got some sleep and I tried to do the same. 03:00am I got a third dose and my contractions were pretty definite at this point and becoming painful, I was dilated to a 1+ but baby was moving on down. My inductions are a big fat waiting game. At about 06:45, the nurse checked me again and I was still just a 1+ but baby was still moving down. Because my dilation wasn't changing I asked for and was given an epidural. Don't get me wrong I wanted to do this labor naturally and that was the plan but I guess I'm a wimp and with the labor lasting so long I had no idea how much longer my labor would be. At 7:22am my doctor came in to see how I was doing, the baby was engaging and I was dilated to a 3 and he broke my water. He told us the fluid was clear meaning the baby had not pooped in the womb. I was a little excited and he said we could have a baby by about noon. We were really excited because Josh took the whole day and most of the evening. The photo of me holding up my fingers was 12 hours after I was admitted. We called our families and let them know about when they should come. At about 08:40 I suddenly was feeling great pressure in my bottom and asked for the nurse to come check me. I was completely dilated and she hurriedly got the room ready and called the doctor down from his office. Because I was feeling so much they also asked the anesthesiologist to come in and give me a stronger dose of the epidural. I was told by Dr. Matthews (anesthesiologist) that I would feel the pressure for 4 or 5 more contractions. Dr. Kaelberer came in and checked me definitely complete and ready to push on the next contraction. 4 painful contractions after the booster dose of the epidural I was ready to push without the pain. The epidural was working and I pushed through 4 or 5 contractions and Jackson Lewis was born. His cord was cut by Mike and he was placed on my chest. We were both overjoyed and of course crying. None of our family had time to get to the hospital because everything happened so fast. We love little Jack as Joshy calls him and are happy to have him in our family.

Just Dance

For Christmas Amber got "Just Dance" a Wii game for Christmas. I was trying to go into labor so we thought any physical excercise might do it. So we all got together to play at our place. The whole family participated even my mom and dad. It was really fun and they might kill me for posting the photos but lets face it I blog for my personal family history so the pictures were important. Love you all and we had a great time! Addi and Josh were playing together and decided they were going to go to bed. (yeah right!!) Jaiden just followed them around and had a good time doing so. We found her binkie a week later in the toy room. Days before I was induce we get to see an awesome pregnancy photo, enjoy!

Merry Christmas

This year for Christmas we were happy to be living in Salt Lake. We were also excited to have a 2 year old. We were hoping to have a new baby but that didn't happen we were still waiting. Joshy decided to stay up late on Christmas eve. When we woke him up to open presents he was not happy and had a fit at the bottom of the stairs. We showed him his stocking and all he cared about was the banana. He was later excited about the cars slippers. We had a fun Christmas morning and the Condie grandparents were there to share the morning with us. Josh loved playing with the track and car that his great uncle Steve got for him. After presents Michael, Amber and their family came over and we had a yummy breakfast. It's so fun to have traditions and breakfast is one of them. Later we went over to Bjarnsons and hung out there for a while and opened the gifts from them. We shared Christmas dinner back at the Condiesn YUM. It was a fun day.

Christmas Eve 2010

Every year on Christmas day we would do the Tour de Grandmas (as I call it). We love to go visit them especially at this time of year. It's all Mike's family because mine are deceased or live out of state. Since I was still pregnant we decided to go on Christmas Eve. I loved this because it was less stressful and we could spend a little more time with them. We started the morning exchanging family gifts. Once all the gifts were opened and the grandchildren could take no more excitement they went into Ma-Mah and Papa's room to watch "Choo-Choo" (The Polar Express). Mike walked in and the first picture is how they were all lined up on the bed. No more than a few minutes later the second picture depicts what was going on. The kids love getting together and it's fun for us parents to see them interact with one another. After our brunch, presents and a little bit of time Me Mike and Josh, Jim and Dawn, and Tristan headed down south to visit with Great Grandma Lila, and Grandma BJ. It was so fun to visit with them and the only thing that would have made it better would be to have a new baby to show off. It was getting late when we left Grandma BJ's so we missed Grandma LaRille but we had just seen her on Sunday. We headed back to Salt Lake and dropped Tristan off to his parents and went to Applebee's for dinner, YUM.

All aboard the train!!!

Josh has been obsessed with trains lately. Not Thomas the tank engine, but just, trains. He asks to watch Polar Express everyday and gets to watch it if he's a good boy. He got trains for his birthday and played with them all day yesterday, I mean all day. We had to put the trains up for nap time and had to put them to bed at bedtime. He also wanted to wear his choo train jammies all day yesterday. We compromised and he wore one of his train shirts that he got. Yesterday was a train day for us. He was so cute and such a little boy. Because he's been watching The Polar Express he's also been saying "all aboard the train", and yesterday it became, "Stop the train!". He's so cute and has no idea what's coming to him when this baby is born, if he ever gets here.

Bingo and a birthday Dec. 19

Every year Grandma LaRille hosts bingo at her house. This year was a little different, smaller scale, each family had a bingo party with Grandma. Joshy wanted to help pick the numbers. Grandma got each family a waterpik!! We were so excited and have already used it, we love it. She also got us lanterns for our emergency preparedness kits. Bingo was so fun. We also celebrated Josh's birthday with the Bjarnsons at bingo. He got lots of fun stuff, train jammies, trains, a train shirt from Heidi and the Nageli's, and a fire truck that makes really fun sounds and a jump rope from the Despains. The Despains also attached an Elmo balloon which Josh loves. Mike made Josh's cake freehand, he is so artistic and I'm glad because I couldn't do it. I love my family and am grateful they were willing to share bingo with Josh's birthday.

Joshy turns 2 Dec. 18

This year Josh turned 2 years old. We had a weekend long celebration. On Saturday we took Josh to get his pictures taken and then went to Applebee's with my parents and had a mini birthday party. Josh got a free kids meal, they sang to him and gave him a free dessert. He didn't eat his sundae because he doesn't like ice cream. While we waited for our meals to come Josh opened his presents. From Grandma and Grandpa Condie he got clothes, and RC with Woody inside from Toy Story. From Mom and Dad he got a Bobcat. It's not a bobcat brand but Caterpillar. He loved his little night out.