1 month

I can not believe its been a month already since Kasen joined our family. It seems like forever ago me being in the hospital but it seems like it's flown by to have him already be a month. What joy he has brought into our lives. I am so grateful that I finally get the chance to be a mother and it been the most amazing thing I have ever done. I never knew you could love some one so fast and so much but I do.. He is such an amazing little boy. He is just perfect

Happy Easter

We didn't do too much for Easter because everyone was gone for spring break. It was just Kasen, Tara and I. We just spent the weekend hanging out and loving on this bundle of Joy. And then on Sunday we just went to sacrament meeting and then came home and I made us an Easter Dinner.. I am so grateful for my Savior Jesus Christ and for his sacrifice. The power of the atonement is real and I am so grateful to have it in my life.

Going Home

We were able to leave the hospital on Friday February 25. I was so ready to be home with my little family. I had the nurses take Kasen all three nights that we were in the hospital so our first night home was our first night having Kasen while we slept. But he did so good, he must have known mom was in need of some sleep.. We sure love this little boy!!

Visitors

We have had a lot of visitors since Kasen joined our family and we have loved every minute of it. Family is everything to me and it means so much to me all the love and support we have received. And to know that Kasen has amazing family who loves him so much already makes my heart so full..

Kasen Kenneth Christiansen

Birth Story: February 23 at 2:30 in the morning I lost my mucus plug and started having contractions within 30 minutes. I didn't wake Todd because they were still about six to seven minutes apart. At about 7:30 they were starting to get pretty strong. Todd woke up and got showered and we got everything loaded into the car and decided to head into Burley. I had an appointment that day with my doctor at 10:15 but I called them and told them what was going on and they had me go in earlier. We dropped Abbey off with Lindsay and headed to the doctors office. When we got there they took we straight back and checked me and I was dialted to a 4.5.. So they sent me straight to Labor and delivery. I was over to labor and delivery by 9:45. As soon as I got in there they asked me if I wanted my epidural. By this time the contractions were getting pretty strong so I went ahead and got the epidural. All I can say is WOW!! An epidural is amazing I was feeling good. About and hour and a half after I had received my epidural I was starting to feel a lot of pain. I looked at Todd and told him something was wrong, that what I was feeling was not right. He finally got the nurse and come to find out my epidural had stopped working and just my luck the anesthesiologist was in a surgery for the next hour. He finally made it back in and had to redue my entire epidural. By this time I was exhausted from feeling the contractions that I just laid in Todd's arms while they did the second epidural. Things were finally starting to feel normal again haha. They started the pit and it made the babies heartbeat drop so they had to put me on oxygen and shut the pit off to get the baby stable. Finally things were all going good. Todd, my mom and Tara were in the delivery room with me and at about four they started making bets on when Kasen would make his debut. I was dilating very quickly. They had all guessed that he would be here before 7:00.. Well 7:00 came and went and they kept betting. I finally started pushing at 7:40 and I pushed for two and a half hours, finally doctor Jeppson asked me how I felt about a c-section. I looked at him and told him he was the doctor and he knew best so he said we needed to do a c-section. So we did they took me right back and Kasen Kenneth was born at 12:01 on February 24 and weighed 7lbs. 12oz. and was 20.5" long. I was puking the hole time I was in labor and during the c-section was no different. I remember leaning over puking and then the next thing I heard a baby crying and he was here already. I was so exhausted that I slept through a lot of it. I kept falling asleep and then I would wake up and they were still stitching me up. It was a very long labor but all worth it. Recovery seemed to take forever all I wanted to do was get to my room and hold my baby boy and see my family. Kasen has filled a void in my heart that has been longing to be filled for many many years now. I am so honored to be his mommy. 

Christmas Time

I love Christmas time and one of my favorite things to do is go look at Christmas lights. Lindsay, the girls, Tara, Todd and I all went to Rock Creek one night. I just look all the lights there.. Then while my family was in Vegas Todd and I went to Salt Lake to Temple Square to see the lights there. I could spend hours at Temple Square especially at Christmas time it's just so magical to me I love it!!