Welcome Baby Ruby Noel

Our special Christmas present was born yesterday, December 22nd at 7:37am.
She weighs 7 lbs. 13 oz. and is 20 inches long.

Isn't she beautiful? We are very happy and feel very blessed. I will give you more detail when I have a chance to catch me breath.

Added later:

I woke up around 11:30pm to go to the bathroom and it felt like I was leaking. I wasn’t sure if my water had broke so I stayed up and cleaned the kitchen and put a few things away. About 12:15am I decided that my water had broke and it was just slowly leaking. I woke Randy up and we talked about who we should call to take care of the 3 kids. Randy called his brother Rick who drove out from the West Valley area. We left the house about 1:00am for the hospital and it was snowing; I was so glad it was the Christmas break and the kids didn’t have school in the morning.

After I was checked into the hospital and situated with my IV I asked for an epidural. I wanted to make sure I had the epidural before any major pain came my way. When I checked in I was a 4 so we had some time. Just as I was beginning to feel a little uncomfortable, the anesthesiologist gave me an epidural. About 4:00am I was still a 4 so the doctor instructed them to start me on pitocin to get me moving along. I dozed a little and finally at shift change I felt a lot of pressure and the new nurse checked me and I was a 10. She called the doctor who was there within about 20 minutes. I only pushed two or three times and Ruby was out.

Rick and Kayla kept the other kids for a few days, which was such a blessing. I didn’t worry about them and I knew they were having fun. I was able to go home December 23rd about 5:00pm and I was so happy to be home.