Well, I guess I"ll start with Christmas. From what I can remember it was fabulous!! I think the kids got too many presents, but I can't blame Santa for that one. I remember spending a lot of time in the kitchen. I swear I must have made 100 pounds of candy. My thighs are paying the price for it too. This year all of the Poyfair side of the family was able to spend time together. We had a great service project where we got to help a family in need.It's nice knowing that we were able to help out. If we had not, they most likely wouldn't have been able to have a Christmas. I wish I could say more about Christmas. It was a few months ago, so I'm having difficulty remembering particulars. I just remember an overall feeling of love for family and friends and sharing good times together. Thank you everyone who were a part of making the holiday season a good one for me and my family.
Elizabeth Adele:
I am so pleased to have a new baby girl. I forget how wonderful it is to hold and snuggle a new little baby. She is so sweet. I'm about to tell the labor and delivery story, so for all of you men out there who would rather not know, you can skip the next paragraph or two....
The roads were very icy and it was snowing outside. We dropped off Isabella and Luke with Brandon and Sharee the night before, so all we had to do was get up and go straight to the hospital. After getting induced into labor the nurse came in and was repeatedly adjusting the heart monitor that was strapped to my abdomen. Later we found out that the monitor was broken. I was having a lot of pain (you ladies who have done this before know what I mean). Anyway, it seemed like Josh and I were the only ones aware of this. Well,we were the only ones aware because the broken monitor wasn't showing the nurse that I was having contractions at all. Things went much better after fixing the monitor and getting an epidural. Epidurals are miracles from heaven. I always forget how wonderful they are until after I've had one administered. One moment you're crying because of the pain and the next, you're crying tears of gratitude.
at about 2pm my doctor showed up and said that I was ready, but that he had to run upstairs real quick to check up on another patient and would be back in about 15-20 minutes. Well, 45 minutes passed and no doctor showed up. The nurse came in to check the monitor for the baby again. Guess why? They were unable to get a reading for the baby's heart beat. The nurse checked my progress and her eyes went wide as she ran out of the room to get help. I laughed at her response. As I laughed I felt a really "funny" sensation down there (hard to know exactly with an epidural. I looked under my blanket and Elizabeth's head was completely out! At that point Josh and I started yelling, "The baby's out, the baby's out!!" I started laughing some more while an entourage of people entered the room. By this time, Elizabeth's shoulders were out. A doctor (not mine) started putting on gloves as she said, "give me one more laugh". I kept laughing and Elizabeth came right on out. Don't worry, my doctor showed up for all the clean-up work.
