Meeting Evelyn Rose

We had the blessing and privilege of meeting our great-granddaughter yesterday.  What a special day!  

When we arrived our daughter-in-law, Samantha, and granddaughters, Isabella and Ellie, were there for their first meeting too.  Evie had just been feed, so she was awake and alert. We all happily took our turns holding her.

[Izzy, Samantha, and Ellie]

Ellie was so happy to hold Evie!

And great-nana and great-papa were too!

She was passed around a lot, but was still happy and contented. 

God has blessed our family with four generations.  What a perfect day!

Below are a couple of pictures that Tiffany took the day before we visited.

Ollie loves Evie too! 

I promise my blog will return to tea related material.  Tomorrow my girlfriend and I are going to one of Cristy Bennett's teas in East Lansing, so next week's posts will have tea content again. There's not a lot in life that preempts tea, but a new great-granddaughter is definitely one that does.  She's just too wonderful not to share!

Evelyn Rose is Here!

I'm interrupting my Mackinac Island posts to announce that great-granddaughter, Evelyn Rose [who will be called Evie] arrived while we were on Mackinac Island.  Her arrival was May 23, at 12:59 a.m. 

I awoke to the wonderful news yesterday morning, but didn't want to post it on my blog until Tiffany and John officially announced her arrival to everyone.  Below are the pictures our daughter sent us on her i-phone right after Evie's birth.  She weighed 7 lbs. 10 oz. and is 19 inches long.

It was a long day for Tiffany.   She went to the hospital around 10:00 a.m. on Monday, May 22nd and gave birth to Evie about 15 hours later.  Evie is healthy and beautiful, and mommy and daddy are happy and proud of their new daughter and blessing from God.

Our daughter, Lori, is now a Nana, and I'm a great-Nana!  She was with Tiffany and John during Evie's birth. 

Somehow it seems like it was only a couple of years ago when Tiffany was born.

 I can hardly wait to meet the new little bundle of joy in person!

Praise God from whom all blessings flow!  I love the saying, "Babies are God's way of saying the world should go on."  And for me, a new little great-granddarling to enjoy tea parties with!