My Delivery

Posted by: Kimmi

I thought I should document my delivery story somewhere for my sake, so here it is. Feel free to skip reading this post if you would like.

I started off the morning of the 11th thinking my water may have broken, but I wasn’t totally convinced (no big gush of water for me). So I finished my morning routine and headed off to work. I spent the work day concerned about my water, but I wasn’t having regular contractions and I still felt fine. I decided to wait for my non stress test appointment I had that afternoon and see what they had to say. But by 3:00 I was pretty sure that my water had indeed broken. The diagnostics center sent me straight to Labor and Delivery.

They quickly got me checked in, but I wasn’t seen until 4:30 because of how busy they were. Too many women tried to self induce to have their baby on 10-10-10 I guess. When I was finally seen, the midwife did a quick test to see if the liquid was amniotic fluid or not. It was! She also checked how dilated I was and I was actually at a two. During the check, she broke my already ruptured bag, and then I got that huge gush of water. Such a strange feeling! Luckily, I had called Mark minutes before the exam telling him that I was sure it was my water and to head up to the U. He was smart enough to be heading up anyway. He arrived a couple minutes later, and then we were then admitted and taken to our room.
The delivery room was really nice. Very homey and warm feeling. We both really liked the idea that we would stay in this room the duration of the delivery, and even better was the fact that Spencer would stay in the room as well. All his tests, stats and clean up would happen there within our sight.

Once settled, I received an IV and got pitocin going on a small drip. That was soon followed by an epidural (which is my new best friend). We tried to sleep though all the nurses, machines, monitors and noises, but not very successfully. At about 11:30 I was checked for the first time since admission. I was dilated to a 4 ½ and effacing steadily. The resident was happy with my progression, upped my pitocin, and asked that we try to get some rest.

I was checked again at 2:00 am and to everyone’s surprise I was fully dilated and fully effaced. The resident announced it was time to push! Talk about unexpected!! He went to update Dr. Sharp (who is my OB and thankfully was the doctor on call that night), then came back and got me started. After 2 ½ hours of pushing, Spencer joined our little world!
Spencer Neeley Dibb was born on October 12, 2010 at 4:52 am. He was measured at 20 ½ inches and weighed in at 7 lbs and 1 oz. He has those strong Dibb genes. He has big feet and big hands. He is long and lanky just like his dad. He even has Mark’s swirl cowlick on the crown of his head. Love it!

Thanks to all the friends and family who have visited us at the hospital and at home. Thanks to those who have brought meals and treats and of course, support and advice for the new parents!

We have loved having Spencer in our home. He is a wonderful baby and absolutely adorable to look at! Mark and I have decided that we will keep him!

A few more pictures of the little one

Spencer Neeley Dibb

He has arrived!

Spencer was born at 5:00am October 12th 2010. He weighs 7lbs 1oz and is 20.5 inches long. Baby and mother are both doing fantastic. More pictures and the story of last night's events will come in a later post but I wanted to put up a picture for all the world to see.

The chair

Posted by Mark:

So I don’t exactly know what it is about Kimmi and me but we seem to be drawn to the things that are old. Twice we have bought a house that most people would consider “too much work” but something inside of us can look past the shoddy old shells and somehow see exiting possibilities no matter how much work will be involved. Personally, I think it’s just because we’re cheap. We both love vintage stuff that is remodeled/refurbished, but just don’t like the high price tag to go along with it. Therefore we decide to do it ourselves...

Case and point? Our search for the perfect rocking chair.

When one prepares for an upcoming birth of a child you must own a few essentials. Call it nesting, but it becomes almost essential to have the perfect crib, car seat, cute little nursery, AND a good comfortable rocking chair. Kimmi and I knocked off the first few items on the list quite quickly but that rocking chair proved to be elusive. We saw and sat in a lot of chairs but either they were too low in stature or they possessed the biggest negative in my book of having too low of a back. Thus if I imagined myself dozing during the wee hours of the night whilst rocking my son to sleep, my head would inevitably flop over the back or off the side and in turn ruining any chance of ever being comfortable.

The few chairs we did find that met our criteria were either way too expensive or they weren’t rocking chairs at all. Either way we were left without a rocking chair and this was a problem. The child’s arrival grew closer and closer. Finally though after searching KSL classifieds on a daily basis I found this little Gem:


Obviously at first glance it is a tad repulsive. And upon closer examination it appeared to have a few hundred thousand miles of wear and tear. (My favorite being the indistinguishable sign of bite marks ingrained deep into the wood) However even with all its faults we took this little beauty home for three very important reasons. 1) It was super comfortable and had the really high back I was looking for. 2) It seemed like an easy enough job to fix all its imperfections. 3) It was only 40 bucks!

So upon getting it home I got right to work ripping out the old fabric and sanding out the years of imperfections.


Finally after re-staining, refinishing, and the hardest task of all (agreeing on new fabric) we took the chair to a family friend for the final process of reupholstering. So without further ado I give you our rocking chair.


In the end we are extremely pleased with the result and we look forward to many years of enjoyment and use in our new chair.

Maternity Pictures

Over Labor Day weekend, we had our good friends Dan and Carrie Bischoff take some maternity photos for us. We just got the CD back and I am excited to share their amazing photography skills with you! I am 35 weeks along in the pictures.








I think these pictures are pretty much amazing! We had photo session number two last night, so I can wait to see the results. Soon to come will be a newborn session as well! Under four weeks to go at this point!

Thanks again Dan and Carrie!

If you want to check out more of Dan and Carrie's photography, please take a look at their website at www.photographybydc.com

Liar!

Posted by Mark:

I was looking through my phone and found a few photos I had been meaning to write about. So yeah enjoy the following three quick posts corresponding to these pictures.

So does anyone REALLY know where these little white spots on your finger nails come from?


My wife has a theory..... She tells me as a kid her mom would inspect their finger nails and that the white spots represented the number of lies that they had told that week..... and the SIZE of a lie corresponded to how large the spot was.

That may sound like something fun to do to impressionable children but Kimmi still continues on with this tradition today! Typically while we sit in church she will take my hand and count the number of spots on my nails. She will then shake her head if she finds a particularly large spot and begin questioning me as to what the lie might have been.

We have a good laugh through all this but I fully anticipate continuing this tradition with our own kids no matter how flawed this theory might be.

I can only make out the fat players!

Posted by Mark:

This was my view last Saturday at the Utah vs. UNLV game.


There are 63 rows in Rice Eccles Stadium..... Our seats? Row 60!

Really, I'm not complaining. I enjoyed sitting here. My good friend Davis and his brother-in-law Nate got us these tickets from the U of U employee day and really going to Utah Football with the Davis family is about as normal for me as breathing. It was a great day......We won, I didn't get sunburned, and I got to eat my customary half time cup of Dippin Dots.

Thankfully, this won't be my last home game that I'll be attending this year. If you didn't hear the news (my joy caused me to yell it from the roof tops), I got a set of season tickets from a guy at my work for only $75! I was pretty excited to say the least. Not only were the seats pretty dang good (row 24), but after the sadness I went through in not getting season tickets a few months back I'm pretty happy with any season set that didn't set me back $400.

Anyway Go Utes!