Friday, July 6, 2012


Let's Do THIS!

So here we go......I have been wanting to start a blog since I was....hmmmm...pregnant and now my daughter is 6 months old.....I figure it's time to get the ball rolling.  The hardest part is just getting started right?  I decided to start off with a photo montage of my pregnancy.  I think being pregnant was probably one of the most amazing things a woman can go through.  I loved every second of it.  As soon as we found out we were expecting, my husband proposed to not find out the gender of our little one.  He was pretty convincing...talking about how great it would be to announce the sex when he or she was born, anticipating the biggest surprise of our lives, and the fact that all we really cared about was having a healthy baby.....so I agreed (and so happy that I did!)



 6 weeks
Lindsey due with Addy and me at 18 weeks
20 weeks on "Babymoon" road trip out to Colorado
24 weeks...bathroom remodel!
29 weeks
30 weeks with our little pumpkin
Happy Halloween!
31 week belly
34 weeks and Ag's won the Golden Horseshoe!
34 weeks painting the nursery


 36 weeks....our own little maternity photo shoot.

Love this little one already!

37 weeks

11/29/11 trying to turn Baby J from a transverse position, to head down! It worked!

12/4/11
                  
12/11/11

12/13/11

12/15/11 DUE DATE

3 days post due date

5 days post due date   

Decide to go get induced!  12/22/2011
Let's do this!
Last pic as a family of 2
Quick outline of labor....
Thursday (12/22):  Misoprostol to start induction process (put up "there"), wait....
Friday (12/23):  More Miso, start Pitocin, walk, wait, eat, sleep, walk, wait, eat, sleep, etc...Contractions start getting stronger at night and into early morning...
Saturday (12/24):  4:45am, 5cm dilated, start Epidural=Relief!  10:13am start pushing, 30 minutes later....Charley announces "It's a GIRL!", crying, kisses, eternal love! 

She finally arrived on the morning of Christmas Eve! 



 Elsie Joy Johnston
December 24, 2011
9lbs. 15oz. and 20.5in.

 That seriously took me forever to put together...a lot of pics for my first post!  Coming up next....a photo montage of Elsie's first 6 months....