Welcome to the world Eva Louise Rose!!!!

What a miracle! It was the most perfect day ever! After a very fun, but tiring night at the ward Halloween party I woke up around 4 a.m. feeling some slightly painful contractions. They occurred every 15 minutes or so and then subsided. I had been feeling some strong contractions all week, so I ignored these and went back to sleep. I was just sure that this baby would wait until Friday Nov. 5th for our induction date. Then my mom would be here and all would go as planned. I forgot the small detail that babies come not on our time table, but the Lord's! So when I woke at 6:00 a.m. feeling STRONG contractions I was in denial. Matt woke up to me breathing through the contraction and he started to panic. I told him it was a false alarm. Soon he started to time the contractions and they were consistently about 7-9 minutes apart. Again I was in denial. I didn't want to wake my neighbor up at 6:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning. AND I didn't want to get to the hospital and tell them this was my 4th baby, only to have them check me to find I was being a wimp and was only dilated to 1. I didn't want to look like an idiot. Finally I gave in and finished packing my bag (luckily the kids were off school the day before so we could wash baby clothes, pack bags, etc.). Liz (my wonderful neighbor who is a Labor and Delivery nurse) came over and when she saw that I couldn't talk through the contractions and she saw how frequent they were she said "You better go to the hospital NOW or I will be delivering this baby and you will have to name her Liz"! So we were off. To my relief when they got me into triage I was dilated to 6!!!! Yea it wasn't a false alarm and I didn't look like an idiot! By the time they got me to the delivery room I was really in pain and I was dilated to 9!!!! Yikes! I REALLY wanted an epidural and was trying to make that clear to every nurse that passed by. By the time the anesthesiologist got there I was in a world of hurt but very glad to see her! The only problem is that she wanted me to sit up and I was in so much pain I couldn't move. So the nurses said that's ok we can do it without....NEVER mind that made me move :) I got the beloved epidural and then life started to become good again :)

I was pain free and able to start sending out texts that I was in the hospital and on my way to having this baby with no name. Yes we STILL didn't have a name for this poor little girl. We were still toying with Brooklyn, Riley, Addison, Molly, and the latest addition to our list Eva. I came up with it at the temple Tuesday night and both Matt and I liked it. We were laughing that since it was Halloween Eve we should name her something Halloweeny like Elvira, Halley, or Eva :) That really is not how she got her name, but it was fun to laugh about. So there we sat in the delivery room waiting for my water to break. The ironic thing is that I had a neighborhood party planned. I was in charge of it, sent out the invites, made the food assignments, etc. but it was in Liz's driveway and I didn't have MY food assignment ready prior to today! What kind of friend am I to invite everyone to Liz's house and then don't show up or do anything for it???? Ha ha! So there I am in the delivery room getting texts from neighbors about their assignments, etc. I was sending off texts to Liz about who was bringing buns, etc. She texted back "Will you just concentrate on pushing!!!!" :)

Shortly after my water broke and after 3 pushes Eva Louise Rose came into this world! It was such a beautiful miracle! I LOVED looking over at Matt with the nurses checking on his new baby girl. She weighs 8 lbs. and is 20 inches long. I thought I was in for another crying colic baby because she really made sure everyone knew she was here. All the nurses and doctors commented on "what great lungs" she had. I was having flashbacks of the Luke in the hospital as a newborn and they were saying the same thing about his "great lungs". Oh no am I in for 4 months of non-stop CRYING!??? But I am glad to say she has mellowed out and she is a sweet, sweet baby :)