Reese turns 3!

The months of November and December flew by! The holidays were great, but it’s nice to be past all the stress that come with them. Our little Reese turned 3 on the 23rd of December. She wanted a Strawberry Shortcake cake and I couldn’t think of anything cute so we actually had angel food cake and strawberries for her cake. I got a little ‘Strawberry Shortcake’ swimming pool and stuck it on top of the cake. In my head it looked better then how it really turned out. It was kindof lame….

She didn’t seem to care. She was just excited to blow out her candles :) I had my parents over for dinner on the 22nd. We had baked potato soup and rolls. It was fun to visit and watch her open her gifts:

She got a Strawberry Shortcake blanket

New clothes

 

A fun coloring book

And…..A Strawberry Shortcake doll- Can you tell she is totally obsessed with Strawberry Shortcake? Haha!

The next night we had a christmas party with the Clayson Clan. I made some sugar cookie bars and we put candles on those to let her blow them out.

She also got some fun gifts from the Clayson side.

   

I remember very vividly the day she was born. I had had a doctor’s appointment the day before and I was dilated to a 4, but wasn’t feeling any contractions. Jeremy and I went to Walmart to buy our food for the Christmas festivities. The morning she was born my contractions started about 9:00. I was doing dishes getting ready to start my baking for the Clayson Christmas party we were supposed to go to that night. My contractions started getting harder and I called Jeremy at noon to tell him to get his work done because I thought I was in labor.
I never knew when to go to the hospital, but by 12:30 my contractions were close enough and hard enough that I called Jeremy and told him we needed to go. We got to the hospital about 1:30. and I had my IV and epidural by 1:50. They checked me when I got there and I was dilated to a 7 and 75% effaced. The anesthesiologist came in his snow boots because there had been a huge snow storm. Reese was born at 4:04 p.m. She was 6 lbs. 12 oz. and 20 1/2 in. long. I don’t think my labor and delivery could have gone better. I only pushed about 4 times and she was here.
Later that night someone smashed the window in the Yukon and stole our portable DVD player and Jeremy and Reese ended up being on the news. She is such a sweet little girl and we are so happy to have her in our family! The perfect and cutest little Christmas package we could ask for…