Eliza, number 28

These pictures are of Eliza and related events surrounding her birth and blessing. Teri went to stay with and help Traci in Draper, Utah. Teri stayed with them for three weeks and I drove out for the last week.

We had a great visit with them and came to appreciate even more that part of Utah as a nice place to live. Maybe someday.

Naomi, our most recent grand child #29

Teri and I have wondered to each other that maybe we ought to stop using all our grand kids names and just refer to them by number. With that in mind Tassia would be 1 and Naomi would be 29. Then this June we will have 3o or if you rather have names he will be Ethan, son of Don and Lara Trenaman. Well not to worry we like their names even though we keep calling one by the others name far too often. For example after spending a few weeks in Utah with Emmie, grandma kept calling Abby Emmie. Abby on more than one occasion said, "Grandma, my name is not Emmie."

Whether we call them by their birth order number, a wrong name, or their correct name, what we know for sure is that we love every last one of them. We really think we ought to get a motor home and just make rounds, traveling constantly between their homes where we can stay for a couple of weeks and go on to the next family.

We recently went to the blessing of Naomi. She is a beautiful little doll. I need to get back to her and take more updated photos because she has grown so much since the first shots I took. Here are a few shots from the day of her blessing. Speaking of the blessing; it was wonderful and her dad Chris did a wonderful job, offering a great and spiritual blessing of his beautiful daughter.

Facebook

Reluctantly after much prompting from my brother-in-law, Rick Curry and others I finally delved into the world of Facebook. At first I wasn't very impressed and it just looked like a total time waster. Although it is easy to get caught up and waste time I have come to appreciate what it has to offer.

The best part of it is that it offers an easy way to stay in touch with friends and family in a casual easy way. I get to see family photos, know what is going on in their lives and allows me to post the same for them. On the most part it is snippets of life with no deep look that still takes a more real relationship. One nice thing is that through those snippets I want to spend real time with many of them.

I do feel that in our modern era we find it easy to cut short real relationships for the safe and easy online and texting facsimile. However, that is better than nothing so I am pleased with Facebook and I have to say I love texting because I have always hated talking on the phone.