Meet Dakota Ashlee Donaldson
Dakota was born to my brother and sister-in-law on Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 5:08PM. She weighed 5lbs. 10oz. and was 18.5 inches long. Cliff and I got the call at four that Aaron and Trish were heading to the hospital. Dakota's original due date was June 26th. We had thought she might be born early because she had really slowed on her growing. Patricia had an appointment with a specialist on Thursday afternoon at 2pm because of concerns with her placenta aging too quickly and not providing Dakota with enough nutrients. The specialist said to go to the hospital and have the baby! Patricia was prepped for a c-section and had Dakota at 5:08pm.
Cliff and I hurriedly finished up things at work and hopped in the car about 5:15pm. We were following a huge line of storms the whole way to Arlington. In Quanah, we were stuck for 45min at a stand still on the highway due to downed power lines across the highway. After we found a detour around that we got stuck again outside of Vernon for 3 hours! There were downed power lines there too all the way across the highway and detours were blocked by downed trees. We were stuck on the highway like it was a parking lot. Everyone was getting out of their vehicles and talking with the others around them. We finally were told about 45min in by a cop that we would be there for at least another 2 hours. And we were...they started detouring us around the downed lines and we started on our way again.
We didn't pull into my parent's driveway until 3:30AM. We were sooo glad to be home, but really tired. We went straight to sleep and got up around 7:00am to get to the hospital to meet our neice. Mom and Dad were in Hawaii celebrating Mimi and Bipaw's 50th anniversary. They will be back in town tomorrow, Monday. They went to see my cousin Tristan graduate from high school and Tori graduate from Junior high. They are enjoying spending time with family but sure have had a tough time missing out on being there for Aaron and Trish.
Leigh was so great for them this weekend! She rushed around with the girls getting Trish and Aaron their bags from the house since they hnadn't had a chance to prepare fully. Leigh and Robby represented the family in the waiting room. :)
Cliff and I spent Friday night at Leigh's house and enjoyed Lerin and Robbyn immensely!! They are such precious little girls! Leigh is an awesome Momma.
Here is a video of Friday morning.
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