New Crib...

Great Grandma Mona and Grandma (that would be me) and Grandpa (Gary) went together to purchase this beautiful new crib for our little Brady.

Gary makes it look like it was hard work...it was fairly easy...but it made for a long night...we got back to the motel around 1:00am Sunday morning.

Okay...so some of the new Grandma and Grandpa

Aunt Desi with her new little nephew

Doesn't she look like a proud Auntie?

Brady's Birth

Brady on his way out of that warm cozy place!!
Hey....what's goin' on....put me back!!

Here is where he was happiest!

Isn't he a cutie...

Here are a few more...with Jacy holding him and Abbey...guess Desi hasn't officially held him yet! Will have to remedy that when we go to the hospital today. We thought Kelci might have gotten out of the hospital today, but they are saying tomorrow.

Brady Michael Nees

So, here we are in Grants Pass, Oregon with our new grandchild!

We came down yesterday to see the new addition to the family.
Here is Brady Michael Nees all of 6# 10 oz. and20 inches long, born at
4:23 yesterday!!....uhmm...July 26, 2007

Enjoy the pictures!

About to be a Grandma...

Well, we just last night got THE phone call from Brandon saying that they were in the hospital.
Kelci is not due for a couple more weeks, but she is having high blood pressure issues, and they are planning on inducing today! So we are making the trip down there to welcome our first Grandchild, Brady Michael. Will post pictures when we have some. Pray for their safety, as well as ours as we travel down.

This is a picture of the quilt that I made for the baby. And actually, this quilt is the first that I have ever made that I fully finished! I started and ended it in 2 days. I think it turned out pretty cute. I had so many colors going that it was hard to find a fabric to use for the border/back...but my sister Rhonda found this one with balls all over it, and it just seemed to work perfectly with the dotted pinwheels. I am happy with how it turned out.

Vietnam War Memorial in Bremerton

Jacy took this picture...she sure has a good eye for good shots!

We also attended the Vietnam War Memorial on July 15th, that traveled to Bremerton. It was great. The kids weren't real interested at first, but we drug them along, and they seemed to become more interested as we walked along the wall. They would take there piece of paper and run their pencil over last names that were the same as some of their friends. Mind you, we don't know anyone who died in Vietnam, at least to my knowledge, they were just finding Johnsons, Bells...any name that was familiar! We were there right before their closing ceremonies, and Jacy wanted to stay really bad, so Gary stayed, and I took the other two girls home. They had a long day. Jacy seemed to really enjoy the ceremony, they had speakers, Navy Band, candles...etc. Abbey had just gotten home from 4 days at camp and we drug her to Narrows and this!! She did well, though she really just wanted to be home!

Narrows Bridge 3 Grand Opening Party

Sunday the 15th of July the new Narrows Bridge opened. They threw a big party and let everyone walk across the bridge. Gary thought it would be great for the kids to have this 'once in a lifetime' experience' to walk on the new bridge, so we went. We got there about to the parking area about 3:30, waited for the shuttle bus, and then found out that we just missed the last run! The bus drivers told us there was plenty of parking closer down to the bridge, so we went on down and did get a spot right close, but when we walked down to get on the bridge, a policeman stopped us and said they were told to not let anyone else on the bridge starting at 3:45!! We just missed it! We begged, but he wouldn't let us pass. So as we disappointedly walked toward our car, one of the spectators told us we could climb down the beauty bark up by the honey buckets, so we went over there and stood there a while looking at the bridge...there was a cop below! Then Abbey had to go potty, so I took her down, no cops...so I tried to get the rest of the family down...then Abbey got afraid and decided she needed to go back up! Finally, Gary and Jacy came down and we walked onto the bridge while Desi and Abbey waited up top!
It was kinda disappointing to not get the full experience...we could have gotten passports and gotten a stamp at each end of the bridge, walking it, but at least we got on! Aren't we sneaky?!

Just learning this...

Desi, Abbey and friend Caleigh at Homeschool Wild Waves Day--a wet and wild time!!

So this is my first post to my new blog. Not sure if this is going to work for me, but thought I would try. I think this is a great way to keep family and friends connected to what is going on with our family. So I hope that I can keep up with keeping this updated!