Baby Ryan

It snowed last night and all of the schools around here were closed. I had promised myself that the first snow day I would continue to organize some of my pictures. I found this picture of Ryan taken by the hospital when he was two days old. I scanned it but I didn't know how to crop just the picture. I thought you might enjoy seeing how beautiful he was even though he looks like they startled him to get his picture with his eyes open. I will send more later. Can you give me some cropping instructions?

Ok Ok Gloria, I'm posting

Hello from Melber. Everything is fine here. I thought I would add Cecil's Christmas picture even though I know you and Jess have both already seen it. I know he is not as cute as Mabry but maybe you'll enjoy seeing him again. By the way Jess, I love checking out your blogspot and seeing Mabry every chance I get!!!

David entertained everyone during the announcements last night when he announced that Gloria and Ryan were expecting. Kay came up to us right before class and asked us if we knew it before David's announcement, we laughed. After church several of the ladies wanted to know what I want to be called. Granny is out, that is my mother. MawMaw is out, never wanted that. Grandmother is all right, that is what I called my grandmother Benifield. Mama Bruce was my other grandmother, but if I'm Mama Mabry that is what Randy's grandmother was, I can't picture that. So here's my idea, what about Nay Nee, or Ne'Nee, not sure how to spell it, but it comes from my name Renee. What do you think ladies? Randy doesn't care what he's called, he says he'll let the baby decide, but let's face it, we are so far away and we'll see the child only after months of intervals our names and who we are will have to be reinforced by Gloria and Ryan. Granddaddy is a great name and I kinda lot Pop. What do you think Ryan? What fits your dad best? Randy says everyone at Coke has been teasing him and acting quite goofy about Randy finally becoming a grandfather. Same with me at school, after I sent a school wide email to all of my colleagues they have been emailing back with their best wishes. Lots of the ones I have taught with for years are already grandmothers so they are especially excited. They are worried too, they want to know how I'm going to stand living so far away from my first grandchild. I have told them, "who says I am going to live from away, I might move." That's the truth!

I saw a great piece on the Today show this morning. It showed a school that had challenged its students to cancel all their unwanted sales catalogs. It told of the countless trees that were sacrificed each year to supply these sales papers that end up mostly in the trash not even looked at. Go to www.catalogchoice.org and see the clip. Then sign up and have all your catalogs canceled. I even cancelled my beloved State Line Tack catalog. I thought that anytime I wanted something I could go to the website and place an order just as easy. It took me about 10 minutes to sign up and cancel several catalogs. On another note, I ordered something over the phone today. Gloria, I went ahead and ordered those insulated riding boots, I think I showed them to you over Christmas. Anyway, while I was talking to the sales person I asked her if I could have my name removed from the list that gets sold to other companies and she took care of that for me. Now I won't be inundated by a multitude of western supply catalogs just because I have placed an order with one. (If I were a true blogger, I might be able to figure out how to send that clip from the Today show on my blog. Since I am a novice, you'll just have to go to the website and see it from there.)

By the way ladies, I saw on the news yesterday about the dangers of putting too much personal information on blogs and my space type websites. It said it was not uncommon for employers and potential employers to check you out. I know you all would not post anything controversial but..... I'm a mother, so sue me!

I hope this short message satisfies you two but seriously I will try to do better about sending messages more often.