Jack with all his Grandparents and Aunts and Uncles..Oh My!

Mimi and Grams right after Jack was born.


Mimi and Baby Jack at the hospital.


Mimi with her little man!


Grandpa Ron loving on our latest addition.


Papa Gary admiring Jack.


Sweet Judy!


Great Granny


Aunt Bitney


Grams and Gramps


Gramps with his buddy.


Jack loves when Grams rocks him!


Uncle Mike

Aunt Rachel

Jack's 2 week check up!

Alex and I took Jack to his two week check up and he is a very healthy boy! He has been nursing and has already gained a pound, he now weighs 9lbs and 2oz. Jack is weighing and measuring in the 75th percentile. Our next visit is in a month and he will be getting a round of shots..I am not looking forward to this visit and I bet Jack isn't either.

On Wednesday Jack's umbilical cord feel off- I wasn't expecting it to come off as soon as it did but I am happy that it did. We can now give Jack his first bath.

More pictures of Jack in the hospital......

Jack is Born!

Jack Henry Briele
born Feburary 4, 2oo9 at 6:23 p.m.
8lbs 2oz
21 1/2 inches

Well Feb.3rd came and went and no Jack, so Alex suggested we go eat at Jack's to get our mind off of him not coming. The next morning I woke up around 6:30 am with what I thought was either cotractions or gas. So I decided to time the "contractions" and they were about 7 minutes apart. I woke Alex up and then they started to get more intese and about 5 minutes apart. I had a doctors appointment at 10 am so I called my doctor to see if I should go in to her office or to the hospital. At this point it was about 9:30 and I knew at this point that this was the real thing, the contractions were now unbearable and less than two minutes apart. Alex packed our bags and off we went to the hospital. When we arrived I was at 4cm dialated so they wheeled me up to labor and delivery...I pleaded and begged for an epidural. I had been nervous about getting an epidural...the needle in my spine frightened me but I didn't even think twice about it by that time. After the epidural was in I thought I can do this, this is easy...needless to say I was feeling good! I started to progress faster than normal for a first time baby. Within two hours I had dialated 3 more cm, so they thought this was going to be a fast and easy delivery. Not so much... The doctors were noticing everytime I would have a cotraction the baby's heart rate would drop from the 120's to 80's. Jack was having a hard time recovering from the contraction. By now I was ready to push so I pushed and pushed with all my might. Jack's heart rate still would drop so the doctors said one more push and if things don't change we are taking this baby out with forceps (he was crowning so it was too late for a c-section) No go..he was caught on my pelvic bone. So they said o.k were taking him out now and wooosh there was about twenty people in the room. The next thing I know there was twisting, turning, tugging and pulling and then our beautiful baby was here. They rushed him to the side to check him out and to get him stimulated. The delivery was pretty hard on my body as you could imagine so it took them about an hour to stitch me up. Jack actually came out with one arm, something the doctors never had seen before. Alex went by our new baby's side to be with him. I loved seeing Jack's daddy watch after him. it was such a precious sight. About 20 minutes later they brought him over to me. He was beautiful...he was pretty beat up but just beautiful to me.

39 weeks update

On Friday, I went to the doctor and I am now at 3.5 cm. She didn't have any guesses on when the baby would come. She said it could be anywhere within the next 7-14 days. My due date is on Tuesday but she wants me to come in Wednesday morning (if I haven't had Jack by then) so they can monitor the baby. She said by the information they receive we could possibly talk about inducing. We're ready to meet our little boy, so stay on alert!!

36 weeks

We are in the home stretch...Yippee!! I've started weekly visits with the doctor and this past Saturday was our first one. Alex and I found out that our little guy is measuring a little bigger than average. I wasn't too suprised because for weeks I have felt like he was 20lbs. My body has defintely felt it as well as my feet they look like Fred Flinstones.


I was very impressed with Alex this weekend! He has done so much to help me get the house ready for the baby. The baby furniture arrived and the crib needed to be put together so Alex got out his tools and away he went. He did a great job, and I love him for all that he has done.

Texas Baby Shower

Cowboy Up...There's a new sheriff coming to town!! My good friend Shannon, my sister Britt and my three aunts, Alicia, Beth and Lisa all hosted my baby shower in Texas. My aunt Lisa was so gracious to host it at her house and all the ladies did a wonderful job making this such a special day for me.

The food was delicious and they each item was labeled with a cute cowboy name. Everyone knows that I when I come into town, I have to make a special stop at Chick-fil-a so they made sure to have plenty of nuggets there for me...good call! Another favorite of mine is cupcakes, and my Aunt Alicia made homemade lemon cowboy cupcakes for everyone including little Jack - they were so tasty.




Shannon was in charge of games and we had such a fun time playing them. For example, she had a spool of twine and made everyone guess how big around I was. They then had to cut a piece of twine that they thought would measure all around me and my big ol' belly. Everyone thought I was much bigger than I was which cracked me up. Tunrs out the big winner was Mrs. Gresham as she was the closest. Shannon knows that I know a lot fo TV trivia so she made a list of different t.v. shows and you had to fill in the names of each child in the TV family. Fun, Fun, Fun!!





I was blown away with all the great gifts that Jack received! It's funny because my mom got a little nervous because I didn't know what some of the things did - I guess I need to start reading up some more in the baby books :)




The bassinet that Jack will be sleeping in is a family heirloom dating back to 1925 when my grandmother first used it. Her dad made it from an old laundry basket and then made a base for it. My grandmother, great aunt, my mom and her brothers and sisters, my cousins, me, my sister and my cousin's kids have all used this bassinet. We recently embroidered each baby's name in the bassinet that has used it with their birth dates.




This was such a great day to be with my family and close friends and I truly felt blessed!!