The day the earth stood still…

Happy Birthday on June 24 to my daughter (wow!) Faith Janna Lindquist! Crap, this might be tougher than I thought because I already have a tear in my eye after one sentence. This was quite the experience. I had two goals for last night: 1) don’t pass out and 2) don’t pass out.

I don’t want to go into all of the details (shocked?) about the day and evening leading up to the night of Faith’s birth, but I did want to mention how extremely blessed we are! As Nicole started what everybody knows as labor (PUSH!!BREATHE!!PUSH!!), I was lucky enough to be by her side. The nurses had asked me my goals (see above) and put me to Nic’s ride (ride, really Rob? I mean right) side. Before I knew it, I was holding a leg…

There was an instant where I thought I would be lucky enough to cut her cord, but there was a slight problem. As my daughter formerly known as Baby L came out, she had her cord around her neck and body (so two complete entanglements). Needless to say, I didn’t cut the cord. Nicole didn’t have any idea until well after the fact, which was good. So WHEW!

Anyway, she is the most precious girl ever – and I don’t think I’m being biased at all. I have pictures on Facebook, so if you haven’t seen them, just go there. I’m going to totally be “that guy” that posts anything and everything on Facebook, but I’ll keep it clean. It truly is amazing how fast you can fall in love with someone; and now I have the two most beautiful girls ever!

~Rob

Facebook album made public:
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(this link disables every time I update the album; if you want to see the pics, just comment and I will update them here)