I'm a Grandma!

This morning at 3:05 a.m., Ava Skye Tanner came into the world! She is beautiful!!(even though I have only seen pictures of her, I am leaving tomorrow morning to see her in person). Amy was totally amazing with a 3 hour labor, start to finish! She was only in the hospital about 10 minutes before she delivered. I still can't believe it! Just totally amazing, amazing, amazing!!!! I just can't wait to hold my own little granddaugher in my arms. She weighed 8#4 0z., 21 inches long, and looks like she has almost auburn hair. She is so adorable!

Rain, rain go away!

It's unbelievable the amount of rain we continue to get. With all the flooding in Minot and Bismarck...and the rain continues. Just yesterday we got almost 3 inches and another inch during the night. I just returned from a walk and it looks like the reservoir is up at least a foot from last week.
No Ava Skye yet but if she doesn't go into labor today they will induce her tomorrow if Amy wants to. Lots of flooding down in Iowa also. Had to take 77 south of Sioux City when I went down last week due to part of I-29 being closed. Even though I went down with the hopes of seeing my new granddaughter, I enjoyed spending time with Amy and Angela. Also got to go out to eat at Famous Dave's on Father's Day with Tim, Amy, Angela, Ben and Ashley. Went down to Lincoln on Weds. to pick up Angela and went out to Chipotles with Ben and Angela. Ran over a tarp strap on the way to Lincoln, the hook punctured the tire so ended up getting a new tire.
Will be heading down again on Weds.

Walking Log

Last week when we went to Fargo, I bought a podometer so I can monitor my walks and try and increase my speed. Today was the test trial and I walked 2.12 miles in 38 minutes. I think that is a little faster than most times but since I have nothing to compare it to I'm not sure. The lilacs are in full bloom and they smell so good! It was 80 degrees out and a little breezy but a good day for a walk. Now off to the showers and then back to work.

Progress

Yesterday we made a little more progress on our landscaping. Curt had worked on putting in the landscaping blocks the day before and told me the planting of flowers was up to me. So we went hunting for flowers. I picked out 4 "Strawberry candy" daylilies for the middle layer and a "sorbet" peony plant. For the bottom layer I got some "garden pinks" dianthus. It says they make good ground cover, and they are perennials so hopefully they will come back every year. I still have to decide what to do with the larger area. I got some "wave" petunias for the flower boxes. I've never gotten them before but they spread out a lot so hopefully they will look beautiful. When we get the little waterfall up I'll have to post some pictures. We had to get some topsoil for fill so getting it all filled in and getting the flowers planted was hard and dirty work but I felt good after it was done. Last night we had a really good thunderstorm come through around 2 a.m. and I was a little worried about my plants because it was really windy but they all survived and got a really good drink of water. I also got my little vegetable garden planted yesterday so now we will see what happens.
My friend Julie and I went for a 5 mile walk yesterday and I am going again with her this morning. Then it's back to work for my 4 day week-end and then next week I am going to start doing as much decorating in the classrooms as I can for VBS since I can't get in to decorate the sanctuary until after 5 p.m. on Sunday,I need to get as much of the rest of the church decorated before that.
I just keep praying that the Lord will help me stay calm and not get too stressed out about VBS.