I Think About Life, and Oh How It Changes So Fast...

Welcome to the world, Amanda Marie!
She was born at 4:56pm September 25th, 2009 and weighed in at a healthy 7 lbs and 14 oz!

This is how it all went down, Jenn started having some mild contractions and at 3:30pm decided it was time to head to the Cynthia's. She called me at 3:49pm right after arriving a Cynthia's. I essentially dropped everything I was doing at work, ran to my truck, came to the house for my camera and then drove like a crazy person to Rose Lodge. As I pulled into the driveway at Cynthia's my clock read 4:57pm and as I get out of the truck and walk to the door I hear a baby crying. The thought that goes through my head is, "Wow, they must have two going on or something..." WRONG! As I walk toward the door, and in the entry way Bill comes out and says, "You just missed it." I go in the room, and sure enough, Jenn is lying there as they position her newborn daughter on her chest, and Jenn is still shaking. I was like, "Wow...."

This is what happened before I got there: Jenn, as I said, started having some mild contractions early afternoon. At 3:30 she decided it was time for Dad to take her and Bill to Cynthia's, where she then called me at 3:49 to let me know it was time (I told her before hanging up to keep the baby in until I got there, lol.). At 4:50 her water officially broke, and six minutes later at 4:56 Amanda Marie came screaming into the world. It was crazy fast.

I stayed over there with her until about 8:30ish and then headed home to Salem. I got some really cute pictures, the first ones are all blurry because I was afraid to use the flash (I didn't want to be the one to blind my niece!), but the midwives gave me the okay to use the flash on the later pictures after it got dark out. The picture at the top of this post is my favorite of Amanda, and the one below here is one of my favorites of Jenn and Amanda.
At this point Jenn was getting a little tired of me blinding her with the camera flash.

All the pics from yesterday are up on my MySpace, they are the first for the Fall 2009 album. What a great way to start Fall....