YUP, YOU KNEW IT WAS COMING...

More pictures of little Grace. She is home from the hospital--her first car ride....errrrr, truck ride. And apparently she is not the least bit impressed with the hoopla awaiting her arrival home. Grace is a Daddy's girl already. She just settles right down with him. He has this swaddling thing down! Grace's Miracle Blanket arrived today and makes Grace a very contented little girl.

Oh yeah, she has her Daddy's dimple on her right cheek....and here is proof!

Oh my....look at that face....I think she is really tired of the paparazzi routine already. But that won't stop me....I'm her Memaw and there is no deterring me.

DRUM ROLL PLEASE...

Introducing Grace Brooke.....While A & K wrestled with agreeing on the perfect name for their little angel baby...Miss Grace had some good awake time and I was able to snap a few pictures with my phone before she nursed and went back to sleep (for a short time).

CALL ME MEMAW

Our beautiful grand-daughter was born at 6:10 pm, January 10, 2008 and weighed 8 pounds 5 ounces and was 21 inches long. This was just about the only pic I was able to get where she was not exercising her lungs! Apparently Mama and Daddy did not get much sleep last night.A went into labor early in the morning, called me at 8:10 San Diego time to let me know that they were at the hospital and in labor. I got online, booked a flight and arrived at 3:45 pm Utah time. K's mom, Janeen picked me up and we zipped up to the hospital. When I got there A was pushing and I was able to assist K for the next hour and a half until "baby girl" popped out!

She does not have a name yet....We're all hoping that mama and daddy can decide so we can stop calling her baby girl.

I'll be here in Utah with them for the week, and will be posting as much as I can

ON MY LIST OF THINGS TO SEE

I bookmarked this Tennessee vacation website some time back and then completely forgot about it until I stumbled on it again this morning. I plan on exploring some of the links and read more about things to do when we move there.

GETTING INTO MOVE MODE

Whoa...2009 is here. Finally.

What I want to know is this...where the heck did the week between Christmas and New Year's go?

My son, T was here for that week and left this morning to drive back to OR with his dad and on Sunday, he flies back to Jacksonville and will get back to studying for his Flight Engineer classes. It was really good to see him and the week seriously flew.

Today we went to the San Diego Auto Show and we specfically looked at trucks (for Bruce) and Jeeps (for me). Oh, and we drooled over a few others that are out of our financial reach (our dream cars) -- unless we win Lotto.

Well, we can dream, right? It is always fun to check out the new models and colors and features. I got a kick out of the Raptor simulator and the Ford Robot, too.

Tomorrow, I will take the Christmas tree down and put away all of the decorations (in the new Rubbermaid storage boxes we got today on sale at Walmart!) We put our decorations up in early December and I am more than ready to take everything down and put them away. I'm actually getting into "move mode".

So that means that my next task is to begin packing boxes with the knick-knacks, pictures, extra linens, towels and other household items that are not needed, but that we are taking with us. The items we are not taking and do not need right now will be sorted to give to the kids, sell or donate. We still have more of our garage to do the same with and we will probably use bigger chunks of weekend time to do that.

We're looking into using ABF U-pack to move our things across country. We'd prefer to pack everything in the trailer ourselves anyways and it will save us a lot of money this way. Always a good thing.