This week in the garden

This picture of Miss Jamie is a year old now, and she's changed so much, but I have no current digital pics of Jamie or her brother Travis, mainly because we forget our camera most of the time. All are regular prints (people are nice about giving us copies), and scanning, saving and downloading are a pain, and I only have about 5 minutes before I'm on the run, so this will have to do for right now.

The real reason I'm mentioning Jamie and Travis is that they are going to have a new brother - Austin - this Friday, which is the day Amy will be induced. This makes #9 for us, and for now, we have more boys than girls. This will change on Thanksgiving when Todd and Aubrey have Ava. It'll be 5 girls and 5 boys. And after that, who knows???? Ages right now are: 16, 14, 11, 9, 9, 7, 5 and 3.

I'm a little surprised that we only have one set of twins - the wonderful Jessica and Jared - as there are twins everywhere in the family. The oldest set that have been uncovered are Fred and Florida, who are something like great, great, great aunt and uncle. Cousin Mary Ann has been working hard on the geneology, and she herself has sisters who are twins, Nancy and Sallie. I think we ~ well, Scott & Jackie ~ hold the record for the biggest twins; Jared and Jessica weighed almost 7 pounds each. I think Jessica weighed 6 lb 12 oz, which is what her dad weighed when he was born. Jackie was very large, to put it politely. Both were heads down, delivered naturally. The operating room (standard procedure for twins) had quite a few doctors and nurses that just came to watch, as they have never seen a non C-section birth of twins and no complications.

I guess I just wanted to say today that we have been blessed by such healthy, beautiful, and fun grandkids; we're looking forward to the 2 new ones, and life is wonderful. Amen

Grandma Barb