A Girl Named Gracie

We are IN LOVE with a tiny little girl named Gracie Mae McDonald.  My beautiful sister, Megan, gave birth to this little peanut on Monday, May 24th.  Meg and Ian decided not to find out the gender of the baby so we couldn’t wait for the little one to arrive to find out if we were shopping for Pink or Blue.

The Dolar children are very excited to have a new little cousin and Ms. Emma Jane is over the moon that she is a girl!

I can’t describe the feelings that I have now that my sister is a Mother.  I’m so excited to be a part of this journey with her.  She is going to be a great Mom!!!

Gracie was born at 11:30am and is a mere 5lbs 2oz, 18.5 inches long.  She was born only a week earlier than her due date, she’ll probably be a petite girl!

Gracie has long fingers, a cute little nose and likes to stick her tongue out.  She is a calm, sweet soul and I want to be around her all the time.  She has amazing parents that love her dearly.

Here are a few pictures.

I’m sure I will get in trouble for this last picture of Megan.  That tattered yellow blank by her head is her baby blanket that she brought to the hospital with her.  She was sleeping for a bit after the epidural kicked in.

Road Trip

This past week, I was in Baltimore for work. Kelly and the kids were in Denver the same days I was gone. Our Niece Mareia graduated from High School in Denver and Kelly decided to take all 3 kids and drive to Colorado to be there for her big day.

I’ll admit it, I was a little worried about Kelly driving such a long distance with all 3 kids by himself but he did great! I just grabbed the camera out of the car and found the following pictures (just a small sampling). Bet you can’t guess who the “ham” is in our family?! At least the camera kept them entertained for a bit.

Happy Mothers Day

I love being a Mom.  It really is a tough job but I look into the eyes of my kids and it makes it all worth it.

I have been very blessed to have amazing Moms to look up to!   My entire life I’ve been surrounded by beautiful, hard-working, loving and caring  mothers.  I am also glad that my kids have these same women to look up to as they grow up.

A friend of mine posted the following on facebook today and I really think this sums it up perfectly:  Here’s to good women: may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them.

This is a picture of me with my awesome Grandma Ann, my amazingly wonderful Mom, Kate (Ann’s daughter) and my beautiful daughter Emma Jane.