Showing posts with label Miriam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miriam. Show all posts

Monday, October 14, 2013

Long Over-due Update

Gentle Reader,
Hello, it's been awhile. Life has been on fast forward here and the blog has been at the bottom of the "To Do" list. But things have settled for the moment so let me catch up a bit.

First, my camera went on a mission. Shayla has always liked my camera--mostly because it's red and we both love things that come in red. (I just realized that I regularly dressed her in red when she was a little girl--perhaps my color preference spilled over to her through her wardrobe. Hmmmm)
Case in point....

Anyway--she also likes its many features which are sorely underutilized by her mom.  So, I sent it with her to record her adventures on the mission. I haven't replaced it yet and in the meantime I have been using my phone to record the daily Gale Adventures. But, being technically challenged as I am, I haven't transferred the pictures from phone to laptop yet. So, reason number one for the lapse. 

Here are some pictures taken with that pretty red camera before it went off on a mission--
so I can do some catching up with those for now...

We said good-bye to Sam and sent him off to college.
(That event will get its own post--it's one of those half-finished ones hanging out in my archives) 

Mason!

Shanna came to visit and we went apple picking.




Mason was a dedicated apple picker

He worked hard to fill that bag

Sweet Miriam was her usual adorable self--she gets that from her Mama.


It was fun to hang out with Shayla before she left 

So there's a partial catch-up--
to be continued...









Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Good Friday

Meet the newest member of the Gale family:
Miriam JoAnn
8 lbs. 3 oz.

Born in a birthing center with the
gentle attendance of midwives.


When Shanna called to tell me she was in labor, I jumped in my car and started driving.
I drove through eight states and through the night and through some
snarly traffic jams until I got to the birthing center.
Just a few minutes after Miriam made her grand entrance into the world.
Which was just a few minutes after midnight.
Which was Good Friday.
A very good Friday. 
I hurried to wash my hands and held that sweet little granddaughter. 
She was calm and alert and quietly looked around.

After her inspection, she was pronounced perfect and she nursed and fell asleep.
So we all decided to take a little nap. The midwife pulled out a couch bed for me, and 
everyone else settled in for a snooze. That little baby slept for so long we all crashed until the sun came up.

We bundled up that little bundle of joy and took her home to meet her big brother.
Who had spent the night in the care of his Keaton grandparents.

He said "Hi baby sister!"

Miss Miriam showing us some graceful ballerina moves.
(Isn't a baby stretching just the cutest!?)


Getting to know Aunt Siara

On her blessing day, I dressed Miriam in the blessing gown that I made for 
her mama when she was my little baby girl.

Mother and Daughter


Mason wasn't pleased with all the picture taking...

...but he warmed up to it a little later!




Welcome to the family, little one.













Happy Birthday Scott!

 It has been awhile since I updated this little family scrapbook on the internet. I like to pop over here from time to time and look at our ...