IT'S MOTHER'S DAY and WE HAVE A NEW BABY GRANDDAUGHTER!!!!

At 1.20 am (New Zealand time) our son Russell rang to let us know that he was the father of  a brand new baby girl... Sienna Amelia H.   No other details as yet except all went well, Mother and Baby are fine and dandy.   What a lovely reason to be woken up in the middle of the night for!   *smiles*... I am now hanging out for some photos to be sent to us.  I can't wait!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to every Mum out there.

If you are lucky you are still in bed.... having your breakfast brought to you on a tray.  Or not.

As I never have breakfast I'm not expecting that.

But I do hope to have a nice day.  Amanda, Andrew and Emily are coming to visit today as far as I know.  So lots of cuddles with wee Emily is on the cards.

I have started a new exercise regime... using our Treadmil, Exercycle and Cross Trainer.  Trying to increase time on each of them over the next few weeks until I am doing about an hour of cardio.  And I want to go to the pool at least three times a week too... I hope to get fitter if not slimmer over the next few months.

ONWARD... ..

ABOVE:  Sienna Amelia H, 7 pound 1 ounce... the BEST MOTHER'S DAY Present ever.

ABOVE: The first photos of Sienna and her Dad, our son Russell.  


I got breakfast in bed!  And I ate it... with a little help from Teddy and Coco... photos later as ... I'm STILL in bed!   lol

I'm up.... and busy 'yakking' on the net. 
BALANCE:   we now have 4 grandsons and 4 granddaughters! 

Amanda, Andrew and Emily have arrived bearing gifts.... a really lovely vase and blue 'things' and a handy plastic container from Kelly... and a HUGE gift Basket and CHEESE CAKE from Amanda, Andrew and family!

I have taken photos, but me blasted camera battery died... so am charging it up right now.
BACK LATER...

ABOVE:  Tess and Sienna.  Tess had a bit of a hard time having baby, had a C-Section after hours of non-productive labour.  Still... both are well and happy I'm sure.

ABOVE:  my breakfast!  And the dogs waiting patiently for scraps.... they got the toast.  *smiles*

 ABOVE:  the gorgeous Gift Basket and Chocolate cake from Amanda and Andrew!!!

 ABOVE: the very pretty blue vase, blue 'thingee's' and plastic container from Kelly...

ABOVE: the contents of the Gift Basket!  OMG...  There was a bottle of my favourite tipple, two metres of lovely fabrics, a blingy photo frame, novelty buttons and lots of yummy stuff!  They gave me some Lotto tickets too.. and Stew went and checked them and one of them won me $37.50!  SCORE!!!

ABOVE: I couldn't resist putting Emily in the basket!  She wasn't that amused really.  lol

It has been an incredible Mother's Day so far... a new baby, family visiting, lovely gifts.  How could I not be happy!

We just finished talking to Russell and Tess over Skype... live video call so we got to see Sienna... she is just so adorable.  Looks a lot like a few of our other family members... and Tess said she looks like her sister too.  So she's gunna be a beautiful kid.  *smiles*

End of Day:  what a day!  So awesome, so very happy.
DIET:  bugger me it involved a lot of chocolate!
nite nite.