1- Where were you when you first found out you were pregnant? Standing in my living room in Cedar City, Utah
2- Who was with you? Mark
3- How did you find out that you were pregnant? The doctor's office called to tell us the blood test had returned positive.
4- What was your first reaction to finding out you were pregnant? Excited as we had been trying for 1 1/2 years - but we were both sick in bed with food poisoning at the time they called to confirm the pregnancy.
5- Who was the first person you told? Mark
6-Did you plan to get pregnant? Yes
7- Did you tell everyone else right away? Yes
8-Was everybody happy for you? Yes
9- Did you go out and celebrate? No, we were going to school and too poor to celebrate!
10- Did you want to find out the sex? It wasn't a possiblity back in the olden days!
11- What was the sex? Boy
12-Did anyone throw you a baby shower? Kind of - we were in a married student ward and 7 ladies were pregnant so we had a "ward baby shower for the 7 pregnant ladies."
13- If yes, who? SUU 2nd Married Ward
14- Did you get any outfits at the baby shower that you just knew you weren't going to put on your baby? No
15- How much weight did you gain? 62 lbs! He was born in June and it was so hot I just porked on the pounds!
16- Did you lose all of the weight that you gained? That time I did!
17- Did you get a lot of stretch marks? OHHHHH YEAAAAA! I have stretch marks that are scary!
18- What did you crave the most? Pizza.
19- Did you crave anything crazy? Cheese
20- Who or what got on your nerves the most? Other pregnant women!
21- Were you married at the time? Yes
22- Did you have any complications during your pregnancy? No
23- Where were you when you went into labor? IHome
24- Did your water break? Not on its own.
25- Who drove you to the hospital? Mark - twice. The first time they sent me home - how humiliating.
26- Did you go early or late? Three days late.
27- Who was in the room with you when you gave birth? Mark, the doctor and 110 year old nurse!
28- How long were you in labor for? Forever! Actually it was 19 1/2 hours.
29- Did you have any drugs for the pain? In my dreams - I wish.. I begged..no such luck.
30-Did you go Natural or have a c-section? I went "ah-natural" by default - I never lived any place that had epidurals - I begged for c-sections - no such luck!
31- Oh, yes, its over!
32- How big was the baby(s 8 lbs 3 1/2 oz ( I think, it was a LONG time ago)
33 - Did your Husband cry? No
34- What did you name the baby(s)? Jonathan Mark Christiansen
35- Does his name have any significant meaning? We both liked Jonathan - don't care for "John" and wanted to give him his daddy's name.
36- Did you have any visitors? Yes, grandmas and grandpas and aunts and uncles.
37- Did the baby(s) have any complications? No
38- How old is your baby today? 31 years old!.
39- When is the next one(s) coming? When *!##! freezes over!.
40-If you could, would you do it all over again? I had 7 and wouldn't trade a one - loved being a mom - but I would NEVER want to go through labor again - I would go through BIRTH again and again, it was a natural high - but NOT LABOR!!!!
41- Tag: TEENA, CINDY, SUMMER!!!

Fall Break - Monument Valley

8 Things Tag

So I'm pathetic, never been tagged. I read Jackie's blog and considered myself tagged. When you read my "things" you'll know how pathetic I am and why I don't get tagged!

8 Favorite TV Shows (Tough because I don't watch much TV)
1. Old British Comedies on PBS
2. Antique Roadshow also on PBS
3. Paula Deen's Home cooking
4. How It's Made
5. Hallmark Movies
6. On the Money (The ONLY program on at 3:00 am when I can't sleep which is not an INFOMERCIAL)
7. Private Practice (when it's nice)
8. 11th Hour (when it isn't gross)

8 Favorite Restaurants (Even Tougher because if all eat out places depended upon me - they would be out of business!) (So these are some of the best I have been to in my "travels.)
1. A little neighborhood pizza place in San Francisco - sun dried tomato pizza - absolutely the best pizza I have eaten in the world.
2. Irish Pub - Washington DC, BEST chowder and sour dough bread ever and ambiance is out of this world.
3. Muldoon's Pub - Washington DC - BEST peanut encrusted flounder I could imagine
4. Starbucks - sounds weird, but I love breakfast there - especially their Eggs Florentine on English Muffin.
5. Don't laugh, but the Campline, north of Monticello serves a mean steak!
Sorry, that's as far as I can go!

8 Things To Look Forward To (Something easy finally)
1. TWO new grand babies
2. Thanksgiving
3. Christmas
4. Retirement
5. Serving a Mission
6. Adding on to the house
7. Spring (that's terrible as winter hasn't even hit)
8. Losing my "baby" gut

8 Things I did Yesterday (Hard to narrow it down!)
1. Woke up at 3:00 a.m.
2. Baked a pumpkin/cream cheese cake roll
3. Typed medical dictations for 4 HOURS straight
4. Ripped molding off the bedroom wall
5. Talked to three of my children on the phone
6. I Voted
7. I was elected to the School Board
8. I attended Relief Society Visiting Teaching Workshop

You can be tagged too, especially if you are pathetic like me and have never been tagged.