He is a month old already!

I can't believe grandma's little guy is already a month old as of yesterday. He is growing and changing every day. I just can't believe how fast this first month has gone by. I am so thankful that they live here in town and I get to see him often.

He is 1 week old!

You have to know that this blog is going to be all about Brayden for awhile! He is already a week old and adjusting to live. He gets to go in for his first Dr. visit on Monday and hopefully he is gaining weight. He doesn't like to suck on anything, he is really lazy and thinks someone else should do it for him or something.

More on Brayden

Baby Brayden is hopefully being released from the hospital today. He wasn't sucking well enough yesterday to be released. Today he is sucking the bottle well enough to hopefully go home. He was born with a heart murmur, but Dr. is hoping that closes up by the time he is released or they will have to head to Miles City for an ultrasound to check the murmur.

Full details on Brayden Michael,
Born at 2:29 pm, weight 8# 14 oz., 21 1/2 inches long, 14 1/2 inche head. Amanada is doing good and getting excited to get released today.

He is here!!

Brayden Michael Burley made his way into the world today. He was born at 2:29 pm weighing in at 8# 14 oz. He is just perfect and looks like his dad. Mom and baby are doing great!!

What a great day! It is very hard to watch your child go through the pain of labor, but it was so worth it in the end.

Baby Showers

I am throwing a baby shower for Amanda next Saturday, January 31st. I did a lot of the prep work this weekend to get stuff ready since I work all week and than the party will be on Saturday afternoon. We are having it at the motel where she works so that will be great. I decided to make a diaper cake for her as a table decoration and than she will have diapers afterwards. I still have to get a little stuffed animal to sit on the top of it, but I think it turned out pretty dang cute. I also made these cute labels to go on top of bags of microwave popcorn. I mounted the labels on some colored cardstock and wrapped the popcorn with some scrapbook paper and some ribbon. I will take a picture of them completed next week when I post some shower pictures.

I am done!!

I am so excited to finally be finished with the new quilt I made for our bed. The colors aren't really something I would have picked out normally, but when I walked into the quilting store these red and black colors just looked so cool together. Now that it is all together, I really love it. I am going to give my bedroom a paint makeover this summer, so wanted to have a new quilt to go with it.

This is the first time I have made a king size quilt and quilted it on my machine. Boy would it be nice to own a long arm sewing machine at times.

The other picture is yagger, he is Amanda's puppy she got for Christmas. He can't live in their apartment and has come to live with us until they are able to find a house to buy or rent. He is just a ball of fur and so fun with all his energy.

Well I am off to work on two more rag baby quilts today. Hopefully I will get at least one of them all finished and done today.

Quilting up a Storm.

Well I am trying to finish up all the unfinished quilts I started years ago and never finished. I have several quilt tops and quilt kits that I purchased years ago and never finished so my goal is to work on them over the coming months.

I did start a new quilt for my bedroom. I went out on a limb and choose colors that weren't really my style but now that the top is together. I love it. The colors are red, black and silver. Very romantic. I love my quilt now that it is together. I am working on quilting it now and than I will take a picture of it once it is on my bed and post a picture.

Megan heads back to college tomorrow. It is hard to believe she has been home a whole month already. She probably won't be back home now till next month when Amanda has the baby. It is hard to believe that Amanda will be having her baby in just a few short weeks now.

New Year

It is the beginning of a new year. New Years bring with it the new resolutions and goals that I would like to see come in the new year. My goal this year is to really work at getting fit. That goal includes loosing weight, which I hope comes a long with getting fit. My goal is to devote 45 minutes a day to exercising on my treadmill, glidder or just taking a long walk.

The Wii is in the house and Sam is addicted. We got the Wii fit and have been having fun trying to beat each others scores. Sam took the top skiing score and I just can't seem to beat him, but I have him on so many of the other balance games. I would have never guessed my husband would be addicted to a video game or even want to play one, but he has been having fun with the wii.

The new year will bring about a new stage in our lives as we will be welcoming in our first grandchild in just 4 short weeks. It has been different watching my own child go through the challenges of pregnancy. Her and Greg are getting ready for the baby at home. But to prepare they decided to welcome a new baby puppy into their home that Amanda got for Christmas from Greg. Yager (hummm Greg picked the name) is a brichon frise and is just a little tiny white fur ball. I think he looks like a snowball running around the house. He has been coming over and we house sit when they are at work.

It is hard to believe my two week vacation from work is over and I need to go back to work on Monday. I was just getting used to sleeping in and getting so many things done around the house. On this vacation I got these projects done and several others started. I finished the dark leaf quilt I had started about 10 years ago. I am so excited to FINALLY get it done. I also made a rag quilt for our living room and I made one for my neighbor who just had a baby.

Merry Christmas

Hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas and the coming new year is filled with glad tidings. Christmas day here was laid way back this year. It was our first Christmas without all the children home as Amanda is in Great Falls with Greg's family. Hopefully next year they will be here for the baby's first Christmas. We ate turkey dinner, opened gifts and just hung out as a family today. It is still really cold and snowy outside.

Merry Christmas everyone.

GRRRRRR...................

I am tired of getting sick just when I am suppose to have time off. The week before Thanksgiving I came down with a heck of sinus infection and spent the entire holiday and days off from school sleeping and coughing. Well low and behold we get out of school for 2 full weeks on Friday and I have come down with another sinus infection. I am so plugged and coughing again. I am so sick of being sick.


Christmas is next week and I could care less. I really need to find some mojo to get my shopping down. My tree is looking pretty bare right now because I just haven't gotten much stuff. I really need to figure out some shopping time. Maybe on Saturday, I will head to Dickenson for the day to do some shopping.