Day 1

Here we go.

Shelby arrived just after 3 pm on December 1, 2007. She weighed 8 lbs. 1 oz. and was 20 1/2 inches.

That's Lindsay's sister Sarah weighing and measuring her. One of the reasons we chose American Fork Hospital is that Sarah is an L&D nurse there. She happened to be scheduled to work at 6 am on Dec. 1st, 3 hours after Lindsay got to the hospital--one of several coincidences that day. Shelby's birthday also happens to be 35 years to the day that my parents were married.

When she came out she had the craziest cone head I'd ever seen. She had spent about 10 minutes with the crown of her head sticking out before the rest of her finally came, and here's the result.

But cone head or not we were both taken with her as evidenced by these shots.