SO Cute!

This is Captain Awesome! One Week Old.

A Foggy day..... and more

It is foggy today which makes the trees gorgeous, the driving hazardous, and the inversion still bad....no snow. Where is the promised snow?

The Happy Family

Our little Ry guy is still the most beautiful baby in the world...you can tell I am the grandma...all grandmothers have the most beautiful, smart, etc...grandchildren. they are home and happy, very tired, but happy. I told J & L that they wouldn't have a good nights sleep for another 20 years..... J stayed up and watched him sleep last night. Gary says he remembers doing that. I remember even when you stop staying up regularly you still have nights when you stay up and watch them sleep. Ahhh to be new parents all over again.

Hayden in All Shook Up

Jayne, Jenna & Hayden after the Show
All Shook Up is almost over.....Hayden has been awesome in his role of Dennis. Cousin Jenna has also been fabo as Natalie. This show is fun, the audiences love it, people are telling their friends, the kids are have figured out how fun and funny it really is....they should trust Angela more. Anyway everyone has now discovered that the hubbub over content was just that hubbub..... overall I think we all have a great appreciation for the songs of Elvis, and the fun of the 1950's.

I finished up the Christmas presents this week. We wanted to take the family to see 110 in the Shade with Audra McDonald and Will Swenson when they come to Utah this summer for a fundraiser at the Hale Theatre Orem.... well, I scored us our tickets yesterday.... I had to wait until Utah residents could buy them....at first the phone was busy, but when I got through it was so easy to get tickets....I guess it pays to have previously purchased form the theatre. They had all my info and it was slick. We are all so excited!

The Weekend is here and there is still lots do do...just not as much as last week, yeah!

I am thinking let the New Year begin......I know it is mid January, but now I have the time to focus on 2010.

MCC

Just Call me Grandma.....and Baby Call

Daddy Jordan, Baby Call (40 minutes old) and Grandma marcie

He is here.... Baby Call was born January 12, 2010 at 10:19 AM. He weighs 8 lbs. 10 oz., is 19 1/2 inches and has lots of dark hair. He looks like his dad and his mom..... in fact his weight and height are the same as his dads. He is healthy. His heart beat was so strong during delivery that they only monitored him from the outside. His lungs are good. he hollered for the first 25 minutes of his life.....you would too if you were naked, naked, cold, prodded, poked and had bright lights shinning on you..... his Grandma Karen said that he would come out singing...i guess he did.

We are all so excited...he is my new crush.
Laurie is doing well, she is tired as is expected, and Jordan can't stop grinning.
He is so handsome!!!!

.....so what is his name? As of now we don't have a first name only a middle and last....so his name is (something) Jordan Call.
Jordan and Laurie had a list of 15 names they liked this morning and just knew when they saw him that they would know want too name him....I told them that they had too many choices.....after he was born the were down to 3 names.... (they would tell anyone what they were thinking of for names because they didn't want any input or preconceived ideas about him) ....privately they called the baby the three different names and now they are down to her choice and his choice....they are both stubborn and won't give in. i told Jordan to let his sweetheart name him and save you the grief....you can name the next one. No one has budged. they can't leave the hospital with out a name on the birth certificate.....

....did I tell you that he is so beautiful and handsome!
MCC

Wrappin' it Up

Good Week!
We had a fun baby shower for Laurie last night at our house. Good Food, Good Friends, Good Fun and Great Gifts for the new little one and his mommy.
We are on the final count down until the little Call Prince arrives....
I am hardly excited for his birth, Gary keeps telling me to let his parents have the joy of purchasing for him....but hey, I am the Grandma to be.
We are all giving the parents name choices and predicting his arrival day and time.....I am being positive and hoping that he comes early not late. I remember being pregnant up to my eyeballs, feeling like a giant freak, with nothing cute to wear, being tired and clumsy...not fun.
As I was decorating the house for Christmas, I kept telling myself ...I will have to decorate differently next year since we will have an 11 moth old under foot, on the book shelves and probably hiding baby Jesus....just like his daddy used to. It will be so much fun to have a baby at Christmas next year.

Yeah it is finally here, the weekend...but with it comes the end of the first week of December, time doesn't stand still...I just look at the count down clock in the family room and can see my life slipping away...... 21 Days 'till Christmas and I not only haven't shopped, I don't know what I will be shopping for, when I will have time to shop or for that matter what I will use to pay for it all.....I bet I can figure it all though.
However through it all I need to remember that It is the Christmas Season, a time when we should all be happy regardless of our financial situation, time limitations and our gift list, after all it is the season when we should reflect upon the life of the Savior and recommit ourselves to serving and loving our brothers and sisters....

Where Does the Time Go?

This week has just slipped past.......where does the time go?

I guess with school officially starting on Monday I have been busy getting things ready for Hayden. He tells me he doesn't want and or need anything new for school,but let's just say all this nothing has added up to over $200.00 in clothing and the odd supplies.....and I am always on the lookout for a bargain so most of it was purchased at a discount.
Speaking of bargains for the first time in my life I purchased for clothing for our soon to be grandchild.......Very cute things for next spring and summer at 70% off..........I bet Gary wishes I didn't know the babies gender.
The baby due to Jordan and Laurie on January 7th 2010, will be a Boy.....according to the ultrasound....and if what the tech pointed out to all of us in attendance to the ultrasound is real, then there is no doubt it is a Boy!
We are all so excited. We teased Jordan that he was having a girl. He reacts so well, especially when he is pretty sure the outcome is different than the rest of us are saying....When we discovered the babies gender Jordan just looked at the two grandmothers and said "told ya so."
The fun thing about ultrasounds these days is that you can see so much more than I saw 16 years ago. From the pictures, and DVD they have of the event, you can tell that this kid already has long arms and legs, a barrel chest and a cute face....not a real clear face, but when he yawned it seemed so full of personality.....and the face is shaped just like all my Call babies with that cute little chin.
AHHHHHH...I'm going to be a grandmother, where does the time go? My next phase of life is beginning!?!?!?!?!?

With the week slipping by I didn't even post my weight loss for the week....1lb.....yes, I am continuing to loose the weight. No stopping now...... no new clothes either, I spent my clothing money on baby things! If I keep this up Baby Call will look darling and grandma will be lost in her big clothes.

It is now late Friday afternoon, I am so behind this week, I have been working on things that should have been done earlier.....oh well, tomorrow is another day. I guess it is time to figure out our evening and weekend plans........
MCC

Baby and Momma are doing very well. Baby is right sized and healthy as far as the Doctors can tell.