Ayden in a Basket

Ayden was fascinated with the basket we keep in the family room for pillows.  She made good use of it.

At first its exciting, then not so much so

Ayden Happy First Birthday

Ayden turns one this Thursday, so Charity hosted the first of three parties.  She and her folks flew back to Seattle Monday.  It was going great, until Ayden reached for the candle, and was more scared by our reaction to keep her safe than the actual candles.  She had a good cry, and eventually enjoyed her cupcake.  I don't think she burned herself.

waiting

what is that?

singing, Happy birthday Baby Ayden (her mom said sweet)

that looks pretty

Too close to the flame and scared by everyone's reaction

As I mentioned, she calmed down and enjoyed the cupcake in the end.  No lasting damage.

Grandbaby Number Nine

Ayden Nicole Elizabeth Moore was born December 29.  She is the daughter of my oldest daughter, Natalia.  She is a beautiful granddaughter.  She is our third granddaughter.  In our family our sons have  boys and our daughters have girls.  Weird!  I have not seen her yet, but Sheri is flying up this week to spend a week.  We are so excited for this addition to our family.

coming home from the hospital

In the nursery

newborn

newborn

As I have not yet seen Ayden , these pictures are from Facebook.

Picking up Caleb at the Mission Home in Des Moines August 13.

We arrived just at 9 p.m. as Caleb had told us.  We were invited into the family room as the missionaries were still meeting; I think having a testimony meeting.  We first met Sister Jensen, and then also President Jensen.  They had a short film of photographs put to music which showed the experiences of the group of missionaries going home (about 12).  There was one other family picking up their missionary.  One of the adult missionaries prepared Caleb a batch of cookies.  They also had cake and brownies and ice cream after the short film.

We were then on our way to the hotel room where we were staying for the night.  No doubt we stayed up late and talked considerably.

Pictures inside the mission home