Birthday and presidents day pictures

I still haven't found the charger for my camera but my dad had some pictures on his camera.

These pictures are from the day Chloie was born. My parents showed up at the hospital right on cue and came in to the room about 5 minutes after she arrived.

I had woken up at about 2:00am with horrible contractions, but I had been in early labor for the past two weeks so it was nothing new. I had been taking baths every time they would start to slow them down, which is exactly what I did that morning. Only difference this time was that the contractions got stronger. By 5:00am I could barely walk, and I finally decided to wake Ben up around 6:00am. We headed to the hospital and they stuck me in triage for an hour to see if i was progressing, and they finally admitted me around 8:00am. I got my epidural which made me the happiest woman in the world but slowed my labor a little. At about 3:30 my doctor came in and told me that the baby was way to big for me to get her out on my own. He wanted to try a few different things to help and if nothing worked we were lookin' at a C-section. LUCKILY it worked and she was born at 4:02pm.

And the reason for the labor story is to justify the way I look in these pictures, no make up and my hair's a mess. It was a LONG day!

And here are a couple pictures from presidents day with my family.

Paisley and Chloie.

Uncle Jordy, Paisley, and Chloie.

Chloie's First month

Chloie is a month old TODAY! I cannot believe how fast its gone by!

Here are some picures of her throughout her first month!

Day 1-

One week old

Two weeks old

Three weeks old -

I absolutely LOVE this little girl! She is more then I dreamed she would be.

She has brought a beautiful spirit into our home and has brought Ben and I so much closer.

I have a bunch of pictures of her with family and some more recent pictures on my camera but it decided to die today. So I'll get it charged and post them! :)

Lucky

So Two things:

• My Grandma Christensen came over and met Chloie for the first time at my parents house last sunday. She said Chloie looks like My Uncle Shane. Uncle Shane passed away from heart problems when he was 5 so I never met him and I have never seen any pictures of him And now I can't stop wondering what exactly he looked like and what my grandma saw in my daughter that reminded her of him.

• Today while I was trying to calm Chloie down I was listening to Rascal Flatts: Bless The Broken Road, and it got me thinking about how I got to be here with my amazing husband and our baby, Chloie, and how lucky I am.

Two years ago I was 18, working on turning my life around and planning on being independent a while. I had given up all my friends and was focusing on being a better sister to Jordy, Whit, Bay, and Jayce and a better daughter to my parents. I was refusing to date and had successfully gone 9 months without going out with anyone (which was a pretty big deal for me).

I had plans to get into a salon and have a few years to build a clientele and move out on my own. I NEVER though I would be married or be a mother before I was at least 22.

Then I met Ben and my entire life changed.

And now here we are two years later, married and proud parents to a Beautiful baby girl.

I am so happy that all my plans for myself failed miserably, I wouldn't change anything about my life now.