...Now for the story

Tuesday the 25th, I found myself taking a call from Shannon on my cell phone while I was at dinner with some work folks wishing Ed Lamb, our CEO good luck on his new CEO position in Texas. It was about 6:45ish and Shannon had been feeling some contractions since 4:45 pm (each about 10 minutes apart). We thought, wow, this could be it, but decided to wait to see if the contrations would continue, get closer together or more painful (we were still a week and a half away from the due date). Well, Shannon called about an hour later saying that the contractions were continuing and we ought to go in. So, I ran home.

The contractions got a little more painful, by the time we had things gathered up and ready to head to the hospital. Long story short, we got the hospital at 10:30pm, the contractions grew more painful and closer together. By the time Shannon got the epidural, she had gone from a 3 cm dialation to a 9! The doctor arrived at the hospital and about 5 pushes later, out she came! We were so greatful that there were no complications.