On Nov. 25, 2010 at 1:40 a.m. (Thanksgiving morning) Carl and I became grandparents! Nana and Papa now have Eden Grace Jacquier (born to Andrew and Kate) to spoil, brag about and love forever. She weighed 7 lbs., 13 ozs. and was 20 1/2 inches long. We were in Provo, when she was born and in fact I was privleged to be in the room when she was actually born. Katie worked hard to bring this little girl into the world and my hat is off to her for her excellent attitude throughout the whole thing. (I know I wasn't that nice when I was giving birth!)
You may wonder why it has taken us so long to post on the blog. After coming home from her birth, we had a couple of weeks of scurried holiday preperations then the day after Christmas we left for Provo again to spend a week with the whole family there. Matthew and Sarah were in Springville, UT visiting Sarah's family, Becky came with us and Jim, Andrew, Kate and Eden live there so it was great to spend some time together with everyone. We all had dinner together a couple of times and the climax was Eden's blessing in church on Sunday, Jan. 2nd. She was blessed by her dad and assisted by Papa Carl, Uncles Jim and Matthew and good friend Travis Ellis. She was a good quiet baby throughout the whole meeting. Kate's mom Shirley was there but her dad was quit sick and could not come. We missed John!
Another exciting thing that happened one night while we were there was that we got stuck on ice while going to a resturant. All those back wheels did was spin, spin, spin. We finally got ove to the side and then had to back down the street to another street that wasn't icy before we could get on our way!
I also was able to surprise Carl, truely surprise him with a lunch for his birthday with everyone there. We went to Applebees and it is the first time in 30 years I have truely surprised him. On our way home to CA we had to spend an extra day and night in St. George, UT because I15 was closed at the Cajon Pass and in Victorville due to snow! A very interesting trip but fun to all be together and to see darling Eden!
