Monday, April 29, 2019

NEW GRANDBABY- #21 Born APRIL 27th

 Kari & Kirk Kinsey have another little boy baby to add to their family of 3 boys! Gabe (Gabriel) Crosby Kinsey was born April 27, 2019 at 10:24pm.  I came to Flagstaff early Friday morning. Kari and I made about 20+ freezer meals for her to have on hand when things get hectic around their house!
Saturday morning while Kari and Kirk headed to hospital, the boys and I went to baseball games. We hit DQ afterwards!
Waiting and Passing more time at the park.
 Leo loves to swing high!
 Elijah is big enough to 'pump' himself on the swing.
Rivers just likes to play with the swings.
 After the kids were in bed- BABY ARRIVED!


These little boys were so excited to see their new baby brother.
After church we went to see him!
 I think Leo is the most excited!

 Kari with both her baby boys. 
Leo has been the littlest one for 4 years. 
 Babies are so precious, so perfect, each one a miracle!
 
 Kari was my little thumb sucker!! Gabe might be too.

The biggest brother Rivers with the littlest brother, Gabe.
 Mommy and baby are doing fine. This morning they did find out that his bilirubin went up so they are keeping him under the lights for awhile.  Its because Kari has O positive blood and Gabe has A negative blood like Kirk.
 

Finally - coming home!
 
Gma getting to hold little baby Gabe!


On Thursday Gpa arrived!  Now things really started to get done! Kari had gotten new lights and fans for their house, waiting for her dad to come put them up! New kitchen lights! And a fan in their bedroom.
A new fan with a light that works!
Then LaVerl and Kirk laid new sod in their backyard! Kirk did all the prep work and got it all ready. They are having landscapers come and replace lots of rocks with pavers. Its going to look great!
 
After being there a week to help out, it was time to say goodbye to this sweet little boy! LaVerl & I are always glad to go help out our kids and spend time with grand kids!

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

WE DID IT ALL!! SUNDAY April 21st, 2019 DAY 3

EASTER SUNDAY! 
I made breakfast for everyone at Bret's house Sunday morning. 
Event 5
They have church at 11:30, so at 10am we had Kingston's ordination to the Aaronic Priesthood at home. Bret wanted ALL his brothers and brother-in-laws to be there, plus a neighbor and the Bishop's counselor. 
 
I only got a few Easter Sunday pictures-
Bret and his kids
 
Kari's boys
And adorable Lilly

I made a nice Easter dinner, but by the time we ate after church, Tami & Ryne had flown out and so did Reed and Natali.
Chad and Luann also left for Snowflake. 
It was a fast-paced, whirlwind of a weekend, but super great to be altogether again, and.....WE DID IT ALL!! 




WE DID IT ALL!! SATURDAY April 20, 2019 DAY 2 Part 2

 Event 3
From Mom & Dad's party we headed over to their Stake Center for Bolden's baptism! Mark baptized him and confirmed him. Bolden's Uncle (Kelly's husband) and his Uncle Bret gave the talks.
We had a little time before the baptism to take a few pictures while waiting for everyone to get there.


 Nanna & Pompa came straight from the party. Mom wanted to go home and change, but Dad didn't take her!


Bolden is our #8 grandchild to get baptized! We hopefully have a lot left to attend! 

Event 4
FAMILY PICTURES!
Getting all 7 of our children all together, with all of their kids, just doesn't happen very often. So when it does, we have to get family pictures taken.  We hired Jerrae Wilson to take our pictures and set 5:30pm at Nichols Park. Probably most of us arrived closer to 6pm because the baptism went over. We got some good ones that I will post when I get them!
Here's just some random pictures we took while waiting!

ALL 20 of our grandkids!!  Whoa!  #21 is coming Sat. April 27th!
(If you count only 19 it's because only Wembley's pigtail is showing next to London!) 
A picture of the picture takers!


Here's some of the professional ones! We are sure proud of our family, ALL of them! And we have lots!




THE ORIGINALS! 

My 3 girls!
Mark's family-
 Holly, Kaemon, Milea, Zallen, Bolden, Wembley & Daxxon
Chad & Luann
Bret's family- Kingston, London, Dempsey, & Ivory
 
Lisa's family- Barry, Lilly, Lucy & Landon
 Kari's family- Kirk, Rivers, Elijah, Leo &?
 Reed's family- Natali, Eliana & Royal
Tami's family- Ryne, Blake, Colter & Adlee
  Our daughters and daughters-in-law
Our sons and sons-in-law
Our  9 grand-daughters
Our 11 grandsons!
All 20 grandkids! WOW!!
This was quite a feat getting all these pictures, I'm so happy we did! However, it will soon be outdated once Kari's baby boy is here!!
IT WAS A GOOD DAY!