My daughter Stefanie gave birth to Bailey Ryan Monday evening at 8:15. She was 8.2oz and 20″. She is so beautiful. I am so proud of Stefanie. She labored 24 hours til she finally had a Cesarean birth. A lot of us know what that is like. She did a great job. Here is Bailey ~

Even though it’s September, I’m doing spring cleaning. I have never gotten rid of so much stuff. I didn’t realize I had so much. It feels airy and spaceous plus it’s nice to know that someone else may benefit from my donations.

I have discovered the wonders of paint in a can. With a can of spray paint, I can do anything! It really shapes up that tired wooden furniture. And these days there are so many choices in color, there is even a see through spray paint made by Krylon, and in addition to satin or shiny, there’s things like hammered and they look great. I used the hammered on my mailbox post and it looks brand new. Speaking of which I’d better get back to the spring, I mean fall cleaning. I’m going to get back here soon, hopefully, to create a family page. I want to post pictures of everyone, including some great ones I just got from my Aunt Betty and Uncle Dan that are super old of my grandparents. Have a great day!

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Isn’t this so cool! I don’t know if she would like it, ya never know from one day to the next at her age, but I think it’s darling. She’s even wearing her Hannah Montana hair piece she’d been wanting for ages. My sweet little cover girl.


Here is my favorite picture right now. Ayiana and I got into a photo booth at the mall in Cruces last week and it was great because it made duplicates of the pictures so we both got a set. What a beautiful face. She just automatically lifted up the pics next to her face like that. I’ll have to print this for her to have a copy too.

I don’t know what is going on with my computer. Suddenly I can’t get into my Photobucket website. I can see my pics but I can’t log in and my links aren’t working. I want to put a slideshow on the website so I guess I’m going to start all over with a picture upload site. Otherwise, it has been a long day. I’m continuing to clean my home. The den is being tackled (sometimes literally! lol). I’ll be cleaning the carpet tomorrow. I removed everything from the room and the walls, vaccuumed, and made plans to remove books from the shelving. I have a whole wall of built in shelving and I am planning to use some of those shelves to store and organize my scrapbooking supplies. At the same time, our multi-purpose game table is in there, and we still want to use that occasionally. I really don’t mind these kinds of challenges. I enjoy organizing and making things work.

That’s about all I know, it’s Thursday.  I drove 150 miles yesterday and Tuesday, so today I am taking it slow. One appointment – in town – this morning, and that’s the extent of my obligations.

My darling little Ayiana is so adorable with her new haircut. Let’s see if I have learned enough to put her picture into this post. Well, it looks like I have learned enough, but I don’t have the picture. Yes, more technical difficulties. I can’t find the transfer cable for my cell phone. :(   Well I’ll have to put a different one here for now.

So now I am off to search out the cable, as well as hang drapes and rest. Hopefully I’ll have some time to do some uploading this weekend and post some scrapbook layouts.

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