Casper's First photo Shoot

Updates....

Holy crap… Almost a year, Man I am slacking. Since our wedding, Tazia married that August to Mr. Chad Prows. Chad and I went to high school together. I wish I could tell you that I know all about him etc, but I don’t . We were in completely different social circles and I didn’t know him at all. However, getting to know him, he is pretty cool.

 

Then we had my baby shower… I had one given to me by Miss Kat Gallegos, and one from my mom. So awesome and I got some amazing stuff.

Birth of Casper Elise Biesinger

I started my Maternity leave technically on Oct 15, however since I was working 4 10’s, I started it that prev Friday the 12^th. I went into my doctor appt and was told that they were wrong on my due date. I wasn’t due the 14^th, but really the 12^th! However since nothing had changed, she told me that IF I was still pregnant on Monday that they would take some tests to make sure tiny was ok, and strip my membranes to see if that would start the process of labor. (Wasn’t looking forward to that; I looked it up and it sounded painful).

I went through the weekend. The 13^th I tried to keep busy. As it was Nate’s birthday, I visited his grave for a minute, and then started what I hoped would be a busy day. I attended my friend Tamara’s wedding. She was stunning and I’m so grateful that I was there to be a part of it. From there I went to Karin’s Halloween party. That was way fun. Granted Dave was not happy with all my running around as I could pop any minute. But I had to keep busy so that I wouldn’t worry myself to death.

 

Sunday night I’m sitting there bored… Then around 0200-ish Monday morning (Oct 15^th), I started to have light contractions about every 20 minutes. By 0400 they were 15-20 minutes apart. I told Dave, but sent him to work anyways. I was pretty positive that we would be ok through the day, but had a feeling that we would be in the hospital by nightfall. I had been up all night so I went to bed.

 At 0815 I had a contraction so hard that it woke me up. They were coming every 15 minutes. Then at 0900 the back contractions started. OMG I’ve never felt anything like that. The pain started in my lower back and went around my sides and down my legs to my knees. I had another one at 0915, 0945, and 0955. I called my doctor who told me that even though my appt wasn’t until 1300 I could come in as soon as I wanted. As soon as I called them the contractions all but stopped. I almost cried… I wanted her to come so badly.

 So I kept a tally of when I had the contractions, got up and ready for the day and went to run my errands. As I was getting to the post office around 1146 the contractions started back up again. Oh I have never wanted to feel pain so much in my life. I called Dad and had him meet me at the doctor’s office instead of picking him up.

When we got to the doctor’s they hooked me up to a monitor. The contractions were coming about 10-15 min apart. The second one was off the charts. Dad waited in the lobby while the doctor checked me. She told me that I was different since Friday, and since labor could go on like this for days it would be better to just get it done. I was to go to the hospital and she would meet me in an hour to break my water. I got out to the lobby and Dad was talking to Dave on the phone. Told him we’re headed to the hospital. Dad and I dropped my car off at his house and we headed up the street. I called my mom and sisters.

Mom arrived just shortly before Dave did, who got there just after the doctor came in to break my water. Tiny did not like that at all. We had to hook the heartbeat monitor to her head. At that point the contractions were more grit your teeth and rock back and forth for a bit. Dave asked for the epidural for me. They checked me at 1530 when the Doctor Robinson arrived and the contractions were 2.5 minutes apart. Then again at 1830, I was only at a 6 I think. Cooper and Amanda came to visit me while we waited. Tazia was going to come up when I was at an 8. They checked again at 2030 and I was at a 9 and 90%. Tazia booked it up to the hospital and got there as Cooper was leaving. We were going to wait an hour, but when they laid me on my side tiny’s heart rate dropped, so we tried the other side and she didn’t like that either so the doctor decided I should just push.

I pushed for an hour. They tried 2 different vacuums and neither of them worked. Tiny was stuck but her heart was recovering after each push, so the doc told me to just keep at it. Tazia was making me laugh and trying to keep Dad from hyperventilating. He was behind the curtain with her and could only hear about 70% of what was said so he was filling in the rest. It was so hot in the room that Dave was sweating and Mom overheated and had to sit down. When tiny finally came out, Tazia had Karin on speaker phone; she grabbed Natalie and came up to the hospital. I ended up with a fever at some point so both Tiny and I had to go through a treatment of antibiotics.

 

Tiny had to be on the billie-ruben lights. We had to stay until Thursday due to her light treatment and antibiotics. Thursday morning though, the pediatrician came in and said that tiny had pooped her way out the hospital and was free to go home. I did have to make a call to my pediatrician though for the next day to get her levels checked. So Dave picked us up around two when he got off work.

 

All in all though, I didn’t remember being hungry or in pain. All I wanted to do was hold her. She’s amazing… Can’t get enough of her.

 

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Updates! - August

K its been over a month I am such a slacker. So updates on what we did and then update on the tiny.

Starting the month off my boss had a baby. So we all pitched in and made a diaper cake for him. Everyone at work gave me money and I went and bought a bunch of stuff and
Amanda helped me make it. I’m pretty damn proud of my craftiness. J  Bossman’s face was priceless too. His kids unwrapped it and thought it was a huge present.

 

Then on August 4 my Godbaby Kiya LaRae Moulton was born. She is the cutest little thing I just love her.

4 hours old

couple weeks.. getting so big!

 

Then Cera Foo was in town, so Dave got his rampant lion touched up. We were hesitant to put the orange on because she is concerned the colors will bleed. So a test corner was done and we’ll see what it does. I love seeing Foo... Always makes me feel better. I also got to meet a very awesome girl that travels around the country and educates people on the importance of choosing a tattoo artist wisely. Doing your research, and making sure its in a clean safe environment. Love it.

Felipe came into town as well. So that of course means party. We had a dinner at Amelia’s then the boys went out to play bar hopping. It was good to see him.

the blanket monica made for me :)

 

 

And of course we have Dave’s birthday J. Started the day off actually with Tazia’s bridal shower, which was way fun. James came out and hung out with us. Now every year I insist on having a birthday party for Dave. He always has the best time with all his friends. Its one of the few times of the year we can get them all together. And this year the kids got to be there to celebrate with their Dad. So now they can’t stop talking about how we need to throw more parties cause Dad’s parties are the best.

brad snuck in and got a boys shot. :)

 

 The end of August came in with both a lot of joy and a lot of sadness. My friend David Jones passed away. He grew up kitty corner from me in Woods Cross. He had helped a man out, and that man ended up shooting him. It’s a crazy tragedy that still really doesn’t feel real. His funeral was the morning of August 30.

Then we had Tazia's wedding... That's a whole other insert lol... And still to come baby updates!

Updates on Casper Elise :)

Oh goodness where have the months gone! Now with the wedding over, my attention turns to my soon to be born tiny mighter :). So much to do! I'm thankful for it though.

I freaked myself out this last week. She was being particularly quite and I couldn't feel her move. Ended up at the Doc's monday morning after working all night, only to find out she's fine. (Thankfully) I'm such a worry wart. Its only going to get worse when she gets here too.. Oi.

After I calmed myself, the week went by smoothly. Friday was my 28 week visit. Not my favorite day. I drank the glucose stuff, thankful I got the lemon-lime it tasted like flat sprite. An hour later I got my finger stuck to test for that. Those both came back fine. Then we listened to tiny's heart. She was way easy to find this time and still strong as ever. I had to have a vial of blood drawn and then got the Rh shot. Not gonna lie I freaked myself out and it wasn't that bad. The needle was sharp but little, I hardly felt it. I did feel the liquid but it wasn't that bad either... The only after effect I had was a slight discomfort in my butt cheek that I may have imagined. Dang B negative blood. Oh well, could have been worse. The important things is tiny is healthy and so am I.

My feet are feeling the difference. I think the only reason I'm making it through the summer is because I'm sleeping during the day. I got up early on the 24th to go see a friend and ended up spending the morning at my sisters. After all my walking around and work when I got home... oh wow... my poor feet. My right side seems to swell a lot more than my left. Doc says that's normal though.

So now, I'm just taking things one day at a time. I'm writing a to do list of things I want to do before the end of Sept. Getting addresses put together for baby showers and trying to keep busy. I've got Dave's birthday coming up, then after that is Tazia's wedding. That weekend plus the two weekends following will be baby showers (SOOOOO excited) and then starts the doctor visits every week til Casper gets here. We're wanting to go crazy on the house and really get it all nice and clean. Gives us an excuse to go through all our crap and see what we can do to consolidate our stuff. Plus bringing her home to a nice clean house will be nice for all of us.

Week 27

Week 28

July 13 2012 - the Reception

It was awesome to see so many faces. These are going to be a bit out of order.. Here are the Cake cutting and the Garter throw.

Cake that Karin made us :)

Cake with the Ring Pillow. (Gift from Kyle)

Cutting the cake

Giving Dave his piece

Thinking about it....

BLAM! LMAO....

Good thing I love him...

He's in trouble later...

Getting ready for the Garter (My ankles were toast)

Had to put it in his mouth lol.

James caught the Garter (Excellent reflexes)

I suck at throwing just saying...

Kat dove for it.

Some group pictures we took :)

Cooper!

Mom and Dad Biesinger

Uncle Bob, Aunt Heidi, Brittany

Aunt Tammy, Lexi, Natalie, Ashley

Grandma Casper

Aunt Heidi, Dad, Grandma, and Aunt Tammy

Aunt Heidi

Gabby, Brad, and Aspen

Ben, Karin, and my Baby Bear! (Blake) - one of my favorite pictures

Mom, Dad, and the kids :)

Summer

Adam Kerbs

Casey and Trish

I want that baby... so so bad she is a DOLL!

Kat, and Daniel

Kyle :)

Haley and James

Tamara

Amanda

Karin, Curtis, Cody, Tazia, James, Mom, and Dad

Grandma and Grandpa McNeill and Mom

Grandma Casper, Grandma and Grandpa McNeill

And random pics of the reception. :)