Newborn Pictures

We had these taken when he was 9 days old, he was refusing to sleep, and was crying, so it was hard to get him to cooperate. But I think we were still able to get a few cute ones.

Picture were taken by Becky Lutz https://www.facebook.com/PhotographyByBeckyLutz

Little Guy's First Days

His favorite place to sleep...on dad's chest!

Coming Home

We came home from the hospital on Friday, September 26th, Alan's birthday. My mom had went and bought us this little outfit to bring him home in since I really didn't pack any hospital bags.

Griffin was crying when we pulled in the driveway, but I wanted to get a first pic of him in in carseat. It was so cute he stopped crying and gave us these gem.

Our first night at home went well, the little guy slept well and only woke up to eat.

Griffin's Birth Story

I was due on October 6th. On September 24th I woke up at 3:20 am with cramping, didn't think much of it and got up and went to the bathroom, where I noticed some water leaking. The cramping kept coming so I decided to load a contraction app. I kept track of them and they were coming about every 5-7 minutes and lasting about a minute. I didn't want to be turned away at the hospital so decided to stick it out at home for as long as I could. Alan woke up and was looking at me like I was crazy and should go back to bed. I ended up taking a bath and pacing the floor until about 6:30 am. We made the short trip over to Mountain West Medical Center.

38 Weeks 2 Days - Right before we left for the hospital-needed a selfie

We were greeted by the nicest nurse Shauna. She hooked me up to the monitors and checked to see if my water had broken. The amnio test came back positive so I was able to be admitted for labor. I was only dilated to a 3 though. I labored for a little while then asked for an epidural. After an hour I was still feeling the contractions, the nurse knew that wasn't right so she called the anesthiologist back in to give me a bolus. However, the anesthiologist noticed that it was going into my blood vessels so that is why it wasn't working at all. By then it was around 11:30 am and I was dilated to a 7. I couldn't decide if I wanted to get another epidural or just keep going natural. I debated in mind for awhile then came to the conclusion that the worse was yet to come so bring on the drugs. It worked like a dream the second time. It was perfect I couldn't feel the contractions but yet still had control over my legs. So glad that I got it! Alan was making fun of me cause I was so chill!

Well I continued to progress the Dr. came in and broke my water and I pushed for about an hour and a half.

My doctor happened to be out of town that week so a doctor from St. Marks delivered him. It all worked out fine! 

Griffin Alan Hansen was born at 7:04 pm and weighed 6 lbs and 8 oz and 20.5 inches long.

They set him directly on my chest for skin to skin contact for about 10 minutes. Then took him to weigh and measure him. I love that the baby never leaves he room, they do all of that in the room.

Alan was such a great support as well as my mom. So encouraging and compassionate throughout it all.

What a sweet little miracle we are so blessed to have.

The nursing staff were amazing.

Alan helped me out together these thank yous for them.

5th Anniversary

We celebrated our 5th Wedding Anniversary this past weekend, since we both had a few days off. We had made reservations for the Anniversary Inn in Logan, but since the weather was bad I didn't want to drive up there. We seen a car crash right in front of us, and it stressed me out. So I asked Alan to call and see if we could change our reservations to a SLC Anniversary Inn. They were able to do it no problem. They only had one room left for the night, so we really didn't have a choice. We stayed in the Swiss Family Robinson Suite.

It was a fun room. There was a spiral staircase that went up to the bed that was in the tree.

The jacuzzi tub was sweet with a waterfall shower.


The next afternoon we went to Color Me Mine. We painted a ceramic plate. It was quite fun although neither of us are artistic as you can tell!

We then went ice skating at the Maverik center. I have never been ice skating, and stayed by the wall the whole time! Alan said it was only his second time, but he skated like a pro!



It was a fun getaway to celebrate our anniversary!

Alan's Birthday

It was Alan's Birthday on the 26th. He unfortunately had to work but I filled the car with balloons and wrote all over it while it was parked at his work. I attempted to make a cake. Which could be featured on Cake Wrecks! The cake didn't come out of the pan, so I had pieces everywhere!

I should have just gave him a donut!

Last night I booked a room at the local hotel. So he could watch Monday Night football and we could enjoy relaxing in the hot tub. It was a nice night interrupted this morning by him getting called to go in to work for overtime. Bummer deal!

Colors

On September 11th we were able to go see Colors at the Sandy Amphitheater. It was amazing! I love colors!

Yesterday Alan surprised me with an ice cream cake and some flowers for my birthday!

We didn't have enough candles for the big 2-6! Thank goodness though! So Alan put two candles on one row, and then six on another. I can live with that!