WE WERE OUT AT THE BALL GAME

Man this has been the most hectic week ever. It has been back to work for me and trying to get into a routine. I must be the only person in the world that can forget everything I ever knew in two and a half months. Sometimes I think I would be better off to work year round, but when the summer comes and I have the opportunity to have the summer off, I just can't resist. Anyway. we are trying to incorporate a new system at work for ordering, inventory and all the bookkeeping stuff. I know after we figure it all out it will probably be easier than what we have been doing, but I hate change. I like the idea of learning something and not having to then learn it another way. Oh well, we will see how it goes.

I took off work at twelve today because John and I had to take a trailer load of things to the antique booth. Then we had to hurry home so we could take Emily to her softball practice. When Tracy got to the practice we left and headed up to the high school for John Pearson's football game. He is playing on the junior varsity team. He is one of the smaller players at about 110 pounds. I was really proud of him tonight. He played the whole game except about two plays. He got to play on the kick off team, offence and defence. Now I know absolutely nothing about football, so I just try to keep my eye on which ever grandchild is playing and tonight it was JP. He played on the line and the boy from LCHS who he was up against was huge. I swear he must have weighed 275 lbs.. So JP's only option was to take him out at the knees. He did a great job and the other team actually double teamed him a couple of times.

It was fun to watch him, but my heart was in my throat most of the game. I was afraid he was going to get hurt. I told him after the game that I didn't ever want to hear him whining about Emily hitting him again. He has so many bruises right now that he looks like he has been in a train wreck.

I want to get up to Memphis to see Andrew play. This is his first year to play football and I hear that he is doing really well. With all the grandsons I have I may be going to the football field when I am a hundred. That is not even mentioning the grand daughters who I am sure are going to be great softball players.

I forgot to take my camera with me, so I will have to post pictures from another game.

COLORADO IS BEAUTIFUL

Now while I am perfectly happy with our little acre of land here in the north west corner of Alabama, I still get a little wistful when we travel to other parts of the US and see that God sprinkled a little beauty all over the place. I always think to myself, "Now I think I could be happy living here".

While we were in Colorado we took a few side trips. We took the train ride into the Royal Gorge. The scenery was just breathtaking. The water was so clear. It made me want to take the rafting trip. The people that we past going down the rapids looked like they were having a great experience. Maybe another trip, at a later date, we may try it.

We took the ride through the Garden of the Gods. It is like stepping out on another planet. All the red rocks that just seem to pop up from nowhere, they really fascinate me. We took a walk through some of the trails that just seem to go on forever. It would have taken us much more time than we had that day to began to see all the sights.

We also took the cog railroad up to Pike's Peak. I was a little uncomfortable about going because I have a fear of heights and was afraid I would get about half way up and have a panic attack. It was a silly fear. We loved the ride up and the sights were just amazing. I was so engrossed in looking at all the beauty around me that we were at the top before I thought about being nervous. The air is very thin at the top and I could not have done a lot of exercise there, but it was completely different than what I had worried about.

Colorado is one of the most beautiful places we have visited, but I still have to say "My home's in Alabama".

HERE'S DANIEL

DAVID'S FIRST VISIT WITH DANIEL

MAWMAW AND GRANDADDY WITH DAVID, LUKE, CHARLOTTE AND DANIEL.

MAWMAW AND BABY

AWWW PEACE AND QUIET.

MOMMY AND THE BOYS

DADDY AND THE BOYS

CAN'T A GUY GET A LITTLE SLEEP AROUND HERE?

FIRST TUB BATH AND I'M NOT HAPPY

SOUND ASLEEP

GRANDADDY AND DANIEL

We got in from Colorado on Friday night. We have spent most of the weekend catching up on our rest and getting ready to go back to work on Monday and trying to get back in the swing of things here at home.

I have spent the last few hours trying to make this blasted computer work. Seems if we are every gone for a few days, we have a dickens of a time getting the thing to work again. So after a few choice words and rebooting a couple of time, I have finally been able to get to the posting segment of my blog.

I wanted to get a few of Daniel's pictures posted. He is such a cutie. By the time we left CO.. he had already changed in his looks and was starting to look more and more like David. David seems to be taking Daniel in stride. I'm sure he will push a few buttons for mommy and daddy for a while. He has been use to getting all the attention and now he will have to share the time.

We had a wonderful time while we were there. It was not all taking care of baby. We took a few side trips and I will get around to posting pictures of those during the next week or so. In the mean time I have to be up at five in the morning and be to work at 6:00. I hope I still have the get and go to get up and go.

HERE

A LITTLE CATCHING UP

It is about 7:30 on Monday morning and David is watching TV, Sondra and Daniel are resting and John is still asleep.  I have a load of clothes in the washer and one in the dryer, one folded on the couch and then there are the two loads on the laundry room floor waiting to be put into the washer.  I had forgotten how much laundry you have to do when you have so many people in one house.  Brought back lots of memories of never ending laundry chores:)

We are starting to wind down our last week here in CO. so I thought I would take a minute to remember some of the highlights.  As I said in a earlier post we left on  the 1st of Aug. leaving out of Muscle Shoals Al..  Just as we were leaving there was a torrential  rain storm.  This made for a 30 minute delay in our flight.  We got into Atlanta and were way literally  2 minutes late.  They had already pulled the walkway from the plane and wouldn't allow us to get on the plane even though it sat there for 15 minutes before taxing away.  The lady at the desk told us we would have to make other arrangements.  John got on the customer service phone and explained that we had missed our flight to Colorado Springs.  She told him that it would be Monday before we could get another flight.  He explained that our daughter was expecting a baby any minute and needed to get there sooner.   She looked for a while and then said that she could get us on a flight to LA..  Now here we are in Atlanta and we are trying to get to Colorado but we are going to have to fly all the way across the US.  Hummmm.   Then she says wait a minute, I can get you into Phoenix AZ.  OK.  Then to Salt Lake City Utah.  OK.  Then to Denver. OK  

After spending the biggest part of the night trying to sleep on a row of airport chairs, in Phoenix AZ, looking like a couple of winos on a park bench, we left for Salt Lake City  at 6:00 AM.  Flying over Salt Lake City I saw some of the most beautiful scenery I have ever scene in my life.  This is a place on my To Visit List.  We had just enough time to reach our flight to Denver.  Then we had to rent a car to drive to Colorado Springs.  We were finally on the ground and heading to Sondra's. We made it in around 2:00 PM.  So after twenty four hours we had arrived. 

All in all the trip was not bad.  We got upgraded to first class most of the way.  It is amazing how much a bigger seat can make a trip more relaxing.

We have taken a trip out to Cheyenne Mountain park.  We saw deer and prairie dogs. Luckily no snakes, bear or mountain lions.  We took the train ride out at Royal Gorge.  It was beautiful and the kids loved it.  I forgot my camera and left it in the car, but John and Jonathan had taken the trip with David a few days before so I have the pictures they had taken.

I want to take a drive out to the Garden of the Gods again before we leave and possibly take the train up Pike's Peak.  I am a little leery of the altitude and how it will affect John with his asthma and me with my fear of height.  Oh well we are 65 years old the worst it can do is kill us.

I probably will not post again until we get back to AL.  on Friday.  Then there will be lots of pictures I promise. 

A wonderful exciting trip.  Baby number 9 is here and we will be counting down until Feb. when number 10 will be arriving.   

  

WEEK THREE IN COLORADO

We are already working on week three in Colorado.   Sondra is feeling pretty good at this time and the baby is settling in to a bit of a routine, you know the old eat, sleep, cry, eat, sleep, cry:)  I can't wait to be able to post some pictures.  

Sarah and the kids have been here since Monday and just left around noon today going 

back to Nebraska.  It was great having them here to play with David and to just see them again.  Cody was getting back home from his Guard trip and they were excited to get home and see daddy.

Jonathan and David have left for a overnight camp out and right now the house is really quite.  Wait a minute Daniel is crying again.  Must be feeding time.  They will probably be in early tomorrow.  He was excited to have the one on one time with Daddy.

We have found a little thrift store just about a ten minute walk from here so we have gone there a few times.  Now we just have to figure how to get it home on the plane.  I guess where there is a will there is a way.  

We will be heading home next Friday and the summer will officially be over for me.  I will be starting back to work the following Monday and the race is on.   I guess it is true that time flies when your having fun.

NUMBER 9 HAS ARRIVED

Daniel arrived this morning at 8:48.  He weighed 7 lbs and 13 oz. and is 20 inches long.  He has a head full of dark brown hair and is just beautiful.  Of course he has slept most of the day, but I'm sure that will change when Sondra gets him home from the hospital.  

Sondra is doing great.  This was a much better delivery experience than she had with David.  The first time was an emergency situation and this time everything was calm and relaxed and the c-section went very smoothly.  She can't believe she is feeling as well as she does.

I have lots of pictures but will have to post them later.  I can't figure how to download them onto Sondra's computer. 

David came to the hospital to visit this evening.  He was so excited and had smile from ear to ear.   He was very gentle with the baby and told Sondra that he was so happy that Daniel was his brother.  Looks as tough he will adjust to having a sibling quickly.  

Leaving for the hospital

It is 5:30 Wednesday morning and we are heading for the hospital.  Daniel will be here around 7:00 this morning.  Wish us good luck.

After a long trip getting here we arrived Sunday morning.  We missed our flight from Atlanta and was rerouted through Phoenix Az, Salt Lake City Utah and Denver Co.  where we rented a car and drove south to Colorado Springs.  The good thing was that we were upgraded to first class and had smooth flights all the way here.  We were a little beat when we arrived but are recuperating.

 

I  will post more about our trip and the birth of Daniel a little later.