It's A Girl!

I have a new little granddaughter!


Miss Marlee Blair Stewart was born on May 30, 2008 around 11:15 pm. She weighs 7 lbs 7 ozs and is 20 inches long. Congratulations Michelle and Josh. Josh was great to call to let us know that she had arrived a few minutes after she got here. Michelle was in labor for 4 hours and called me an hour later to let me know how they were going to spell Marlee's name. What a trooper. I can't wait to see what she looks like. I bet her sister's will be excited to see her in the morning.

Hang'um High

So, my little brother Mike always has a story to tell. He lives next to my sister and yesterday he was holding open the gate so that the big rig could back out. Now you can not just stand by the fence and hold the gate open because there is not enough room. You have to stand on the other side of the fence on a chair, the one he was standing on was plastic, and put your arm over the metal fence and hold the gate open. So, that's what mike was doing when the plastic chair collapsed and Mike fell. Now the fence as you can see, is metal with a grape stake top. They look like spears to me. When Mike fell one of the fence pieces went up his arm by his wrist and impaled him. He was hanging with his arm in the air. yuck! He had to climb up the fence to lift his arm up and off of the fence. Gross. He had to go to the emergency room and get 12 stitches. Of course all of the guys thought it was pretty cool. I'm just glad his didn't have his head over the fence.

Here is the injury. The spear went in were all the stitches are and the point was poking out were the red hole is, closer to the wrist. The whole thing is a bit swollen today.

Progress!

After 3 + years of remodeling we are starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel. My wonderful husband has been working hard doing most of the work himself with some help from family and friends.

This has been quit the daunting task and I'm sure he has thought, "what has I got myself into" from time to time. He is quite the handyman and what he hasn't known how to do he has learned as he goes. I have been a little irritable from time to time about the length of time it has taken. He is usually very patient with me.

So, we are almost finished with the bathroom. Wa Hoo!!!

And the family room just needs a few finishing touches. We got carpet and a couch in there this week!

Getting Started

My girls don't like that I always bug them to update their blogs because I like to keep up with what the grandchildren are doing. So they keep telling me to do my own. So even though I don't feel like I have much new going on all the time I will give it a try. I'm sure they will be suprised that I was able to do this with out asking them a million questions on how to do it. So, here goes!