First Friends...

Here are some pictures of Kristin and her first friends.... Bo the Dog loves to cuddle up to her whenever we let him!

And of course, her favorite "baby-sitter", Miss Danae...

Kristin Grace

We are proud to introduce the newest member of our family,

Kristin Grace Geissinger born on
Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 4:06AM
7lb, 9 oz
20.5 inches

Here are some pictures of Kristin's first hours and days:

Here's a link to some more pictures:

http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=0ActmTds5cNmLiQ

A Labor Story

So, I started to have contractions on Wednesday, March 26 at about 4 in the morning. They weren't that strong, but they were about every five minutes or so, so I started getting hopeful that it could be the day that we'd have a baby... I had plans to go to breakfast with my friend Liz, so after the contractions had started to slow, I decided to go (I mean, what else was I gonna do??) So, at breakfast, Liz was timing my contractions- which were much stronger, but 7 or 8 minutes apart- it was so funny to see Liz's face everytime that I would have a contraction... she kept saying "OH MY GOSH! We better call Justin!".... Anyhow, by lunch I decided to call my doctor who wanted me to come in for a labor check. So, I called Justin and told him to finish up stuff at work because we might be heading for the hospital after the doctor's office. At about 2:30, the doctor checked to see how far dialated I was, and she found that I was about 3 centimeters, which is enough to get admitted to the hospital. So, after making a quick run to the grocery store (at that point I hadn't eaten since breakfast, and I knew as soon as we checked into the hospital all I would be allowed to have was Jello and water... I needed to get some calories!) So, we got ourselves admitted by 4:00pm or so, and then the waiting began. Everytime the nurse would hook me up to the monitor that shows the babies' heartrate and my contractions, the contractions would all but stop! After a while, the nurse and the midwife just looked at me and said "What are you doing here??" My contractions were inconsistently 15 minutes apart! So, we walked and walked and walked- a few miles around Women's and Babies Hospital (Justin felt like a caged animal) and as we walked, I had contractions about 3-4 minutes apart! But still, everytime I would get hooked up to that monitor, the contractions would stop... so, they kept checking to see how dialated I was, and I kept progressing... so we kept walking! By 11:00pm, my water still hadn't broken, so the midwife broke my water, and then the contractions were coming one on top of the other! After a few more hours it was time to push- I pushed for 26 minutes, and then, at 4:06am on March 27, Kristin Grace was born! We were so surprised- we really thought that she was going to be a boy, and so many others thought so too.... but, she is a beautiful, healthy, baby girl! Praise God!

Not Kevin's Birthday anymore....

Ok, so after long last I'm going to try to take up this blogging thing again... now that I have friends and family members around the country giving me a hard time about Kevin having a four month birthday, I'm turning over a new blogging leaf... Particularly since we now have a new addition to our family to write about...

Brother Kevin's Birthday!

Today is my little brother Kevin's Birthday! He's 24 today- all grown. Kevin is an Assistant Golf Pro at Old Marsh Golf Club in Florida. (we're so proud...) Here's a picture of me and Kevin when we were little!

Birthday Girl!

So, I'm 26 now. Time sure does fly! It seems that birthday's just start becoming less important as I get older- I actually had to try to remember how old I was- that's sad! I had the day before my birthday off from school, so Liz and I went out to breakfast and then my mom came out and we had "high tea" at the English Tea Shoppe in Intercourse. It was really fun to have a little tea party! On my actual birthday I had class until 8pm, so that made celebrating on my birthday a bit challenging. Justin got me a little cake and sang happy birthday to me, and our friend Steve stopped by for some cake. AND- I got a whole new set of dishes for my birthday! WOOHOO!

Oh my applesauce....

Liz, Julie and Bess on the front porch turning the cooked apples into sauce- we felt like frontier women cooking outside!

Bess and Bobbi canning away....for the record, Bobbi is standing on a stool to be able to reach the bucket!

There's me with some of our mountains of apples!

So, 300 pounds of apples later, we currently have more applesauce than you could imagine- I only wish that I had gotten a picture of the mountains of apples at the beginning and the rows of jars at the end! We decided to have this great apple adventure- Julie, Beth, Liz, Bobbi and I, as well as other people that we recruited throughout the day (like Jen, Jenna, Steve, and Chris). It was a long day of mostly fun, and all in all, the apples were turned to sauce, so I'd say it was successful! Now its time to start gearing up for next year!