4 years ago......

This was me waiting for the nurses to come in and get me started on petocin. It was a crazy weekend that lead up to this moment.

This seemed to be only weekend in the whole winter that had a snow prediction. So with the fear of going into labor and not being able to get to Mankato...we spent the weekend at a hotel up there. It was a fun weekend. We just laid back, relaxed and had a great time with Morgan. Well Sunday of the weekend came and no baby. Dan was scheduled to go to work on Monday so we drove back home to St James. We did get snow! A TON it seemed, but roads were fine. So we got home....made sure everything was ready to go again just in case....and decided that we wanted to head to Madelia to watch the movie that was playing.

We watched the movie.....well some were having labor pains.....and they were quite consistent at about 5 minutes apart. Dan and I decided that we should probably go in and get checked out. Judy happened to be at the movie so we were going to leave Morgan with her, Morgan had OTHER ideas. Yep, she came with! Well we got to the hospital and after all the preliminary junk they decided that because of the time they wanted me to either sleep or go home and would start me in the morning right away. I opted for option 2.

So as they said right away in the morning they got me started and through out the rest of the day....well you know what goes on.....and if you don't......you don't want to! :~)

But a short 7 hours or so later, we were blessed by

Christopher Carl Nelson This is him taken by Morgan only 20 minutes after being born.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTOPHER!