A crazy wonderful weekend!!

Friday I got off work at 4:30 and immediately raced home to meet my mom. We were headed to Crestview (near Ft. Walton) to make it to my little brother Paul's baby shower at 6:00 pm. It's a little over 2 hours to get there and they are an hour behind us. We were planning on spending the weekend at the beach, but a certain someone had a different plan...

We got info that my sister in law Meredith may, or may not, be in labor!! Her due date wasn't until February 10th so everyone was on alert! My mom and I both really wanted to be there for the birth, but also really wanted to be there for Paul and Alyssa at their shower. We made it to Crestview right on time for the shower, getting text updates from Joel the whole way there on Meredith's status.

The shower was a ton of fun and all of their friends were so nice. They had a great game where they drew a giant picture of Paul as a baby and it was pin the diaper on the Paul! It was a great time and the parents to be (in April)were glowing the whole time! We left the shower about 8:30 and raced toward Tallahassee! The baby hadn't come yet!

Somehow we avoided a speeding ticket and made it back to Tallahassee about 11:30pm. We were do happy to be at the hospital since all of our family happened to be out of town this weekend! We anxiously sat in the waiting room with other family members. Josh met us there when he got off work as well. Then the announcement came, Kaisley Reese Geddings was here!!! Born at 12:07am on February 4th. She weighed in at 5lbs 13oz and 19".

We waited for what seemed like forever for Joel to come out! I think it was after 1:00am we saw him walk through the door smiling from ear to ear!! My mom and I immediately ran and gave him big hugs!! He let us be two of the first ones in the room. It was such a special moment when I saw my sweet new niece. Meredith looked amazing and was chatting up a storm! Wasn't even like she had just given birth and she was just glowing. We spent a good amount of time in the room and Josh came in. He looked at Kaisley in amazement and was even a little nervous to touch her. It was so cute. We didn't get to hold her since she still needed her bath and there was still a lot of family to come in so we left around 2:00am and headed to Waffle House.

Back in the day Waffle House at 2:00am was delicious after a night of drinking. When you're pregnant and sober, not so much!! Lol!

Saturday was another waiting day to go see Miss Kaisley. I headed to the hospital and could hardly contain my excitement!! I spent about 2 hours with Joel, Meredithand Kaisley and is was the best ever. Just cuddling her and staring at her perfect place. Joel slept while Meredith and I gabbed about well just about everything!

I'm going to be heading up today as well. Just can't get enough of her!! All in all this was the craziest, best weekend ever!!

**pictures to follow!!