Wonderul pianist

A lady from church told me about this wonderful pianist from Korea - Yiruma. Check out this song on youtube: (you may need to cut and paste, or just do a search for Yiruma on youtube.com)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mikudzy6Ddo&feature=PlayList&p=81C5A0CBA9AD1462&index=6&playnext=7&playnext_from=PL

I made a playlist of a bunch of his songs, so I can listen to him for about half an hour at a time. His music is very relaxing and beautiful. For "Twilight" fans, he wrote "Bella's Lullaby," at least I think that's what it is called.

New Year's Eve

We went to Matt and Raquel's for New Year's Eve. Raquel's brothers Miguel and Pepe and their families, along with Ryan's new girlfriend Whitney, and Lynn and his boys were there. I ended up coming home early because although I'm NEVER sick, I was sick. Just a cold, and feeling yucky. Tierra spent the night. Alisha was actually babysitting for another family, so she wasn't there. And Jason was at a party with a girl he's just started dating - good Mormon girl, Yeay!

Thanksgiving

We had Thanksgiving dinner at Matt and Raquel's new house. All the painting and floors are done! Matt still has the crown molding to finish, but the house looks so much better now that the turquoise, lime green and dark purple paint, and the horrid carpet are gone.

Ryan and Jason played Guitar hero while Tierra just laid around and watched, and Alisha stole the baby from me! Juliette is now 3 1/2 months and starting to really take notice of what is going on around her.

Conference memories

General Conference is always wonderful, but more so this time because Matt and Raquel brought my little granddaughter over! It's been 3 weeks since we'd seen her, and she doubled in size! She looks so much like Matt, (and toots just like him too!)

Sweet family

Matt and Raquel came over for a couple days the beginning of Sept., Juliette was only 2 1/2 weeks old. It was wonderful to see my beautiful granddaughter and get to spend some time with her mom and dad too! Matt and Raquel came over to look at a house, which they are in the process of buying. Other than needing new flooring and the walls painted it's in great shape, has a large back yard and is just 10-15 minutes away! We're thrilled they're going to be so close. Now if we could just convince Evan and Blaire to move out here!!

Happy aunties

Alisha and Tierra love their new niece! Raquel and Juliette came home this afternoon, and we won't be able to see them till later next week. It's amazing how much babies can change in just a week.

Fresh from Heaven

I'm a grandma! Juliette Lauren Paull made her debut into our family, and our hearts at 1:29 a.m. August 13. We raced over to Winnie Palmer Hospital (next to Arnold Palmer hospital) a little before midnight and were treated to a three-minute view of her after sitting in the waiting room for an hour. Matt brought her out for us to see and snap a couple of photos.

She weighed in at 5 lbx. 15 oz., was 18" long, and has a lot of black hair. In fact, she's pretty hairy all over!

After seeing her for a couple minutes we came home and got some sleep and then headed back over. We are all smitten by the cutest little baby we've ever seen, and grateful everything went well with the delivery (c-section). Juliette even managed to work her way into Jason's heart! He wasn't too enthused to begin with, especially when I "made" him hold her. But by the time we left he was telling Matt that he couldn't believe how attached he was to the little thing!

I've been told being a grandmother is even better than being a mom, so I'm looking forward to finding that out firsthand!