Meet Sadie Jane Scott

Sadie Jane Scott

Born Tuesday, November 17, 2009
1:27 PM
Bossier City, Louisiana
7 pounds 11 ounces
20 1/2 inches

Sadie seems to already be smiling in her sleep.


Mother and child.
(Yes, you can see that Sadie has grown jaundiced)
We praise the Lord for His safe delivery of Sadie and for His care of Bethany during the birth.


Sadie's first look at her cousin Kyah.
Kyah is 10 weeks old and now weighs a little less than 14 pounds and Sadie has lost down to just a little over 7 pounds.
Acutally, Sadie is yawning, but it sure makes for a cute picture.

Life is Good

Life is good and sometimes it's better. Keegan and I are enjoying a special time in our life right now. Bryce and Erin live less than a mile from our house and we are getting to be a part of Kyah's life unlike what we experienced with our other grandchildren. What fun it is to see him change in only a week's time. We have even gotten to babysit several times and it such fun. We just wish our other grandchildren were as close.Bryce has loved water since he came out of the womb. When he was a toddler we lost to him to every puddle of water no matter how big or small it was. It seems Kyah has his love for water already and loves to kick and splash in his bath.

Oh, yes, Fritz thinks Kyah is his newest and "bestest" friend. He doesn't give us or Kyah much space when Kyah is visiting.

Bethany is now 37 weeks and Miss Sadie will soon be joining our gaggle of grandchildren making number 6. We are all getting excited to meet her and we ask that you pray for her and her mom during the birth process. Kyah's birth reminded us all that uncomplicated births are no guarantees.


Please remember to pray for QUEST. QUEST begins next Sunday the 26th and it will be one of our biggest groups yet. There are so many new people coming and such excitement already. I will be going for 3 of the days and will be sorry that I can't stay for all of it, but I am glad I can go for some.

Fun Photos

Bryce, Kylee and Connor spoofing for the camera.

Greg has always been a sucker for babies. He was no different with Kyah.

Fritz is still with us and is wonderful with the little ones. They can just about do anything they want with him and he loves it.

Alyssa has started ballet and has loved it since day one.

Changed My Mind

The Whole Crew

I came to the blog today to close it down. Life is so hectic and I have not posted in over a month. I was feeling the pressure to post or close it. I started not to even look at it and just hit the "hide" button, but then I opened it and scrolled over the posts. As I looked back over the past year and a half, I could see so much of our family's journey. Even though I also write in a personal journal, there are no pictures there and the writings are of a different nature. I have decided not to hit the "hide" button just yet because I want to write and I like having this area to write and post pictures for myself.
There is no way I can catch up on the last 6 weeks and I will not attempt to do so. Erin has written her story down beautifully on her blog. You can hit the link on the right hand side of this page if you would like to see what God has done in the life of Erin, Bryce and Kyah. I will just begin anew and pick up form the present.

Meet Kyah, our newest grandson. His entry into this world was little rough to say the least, but he is here whole and health, all 10 lbs. of him! He's beautiful and wonderful, and the best part is he lives less than a mile from me. I have so missed seeing my other grandchildren grow!

Sadie Jane Scott should be joining our family mid-November. According to Bethany she is feisty already. We look forward to meeting her too.
Connor has started kindergarten, Alyssa turned 4, and the twins Ashlynn and Kylee are busier than ever.
Keegan and I are so blessed and we give all glory to God for His tender care of our little family.

Erin's Baby Shower for Kyah

As I told you in my post last weekend, family came to town to celebrate the soon coming birth of Kyah Everett Williamson. It was a joyous time for all of us and such a girl event.

(Linda King, Holly, Bethany, and KalistaLiddell)
The shower was held at Erin's mom beautiful turn of the 20th century home (I think I got that right if it was built in 1902) in Terrell, Texas and her aunt was her hostess. Erin looked beautiful in her turquoise sundress and Kyah was in evidence if not seen!
(Erin and her mom Holly Stone)
There was all-girl delicious finger foods with chilled punch. The games were all about babies, what else?!!

(Brandy Travis, Erin and Holly)
There was a houseful of women, family and friends(new and old) laughing, enjoying great food and oohing over the gifts. It's amazing what they have developed since my children were babies!

Look at how creative people can be. A diaper cake, not edible, but so very useful!

(Rachael Thomas and Erin)

Family Comes a Calling

We have had a great weekend with family coming to town to attend Erin's baby shower.

Terry's brother John (known as Buddy in the family) and Linda have not been out to Texas since Bethany and Phillip's wedding. It was so good to have them with us.

These three girls gave us much to celebrate this weekend as we celebrated Kyah's shower, Bethany's finding out she is expecting a girl, and Kalista announcing she will be having her first baby in February. There will be 3 months between each celebrated event!

Here's the whole crew visitng, but we were missing quite a few who couldn't join us this weekend.

And of course, we were so glad Holly could come. We give great praise to Greg for staying home with the 4 munchkins. We hear he survived it and did very, very well. Thank you Greg.

And the doctor said....

Bethany and Phillip came to Dallas Friday for their monthly visit with their OB-GYN and to get a sonogram that would tell them the sex of their baby.
The doctor did the sonogram instead of the sonographer and the pictures aren't really good enough to scan, but his assessment was that everything was fine and it was a girl!

That mean it was time to hit Babies R Us and check out the pink section.

Phillip decided some some blue could be added to wardrobe. We are just glad their wasn't any purple and gold (LSU colors) available, though we know they will come!

We came home empty handed, but with lots of things to talk and dream about. And of course, there were plenty of folks to be notified.

Getting to Know Chris

Julie, our niece is getting married soon and moving to Illinois. Saturday was a beautiful day here in Dallas, but very hot. It seemed the perfect opportunity to spend some time with Julie and Chris.

Bethany and Phillip thought it was a great excuse to come home and meet the fiance.

Of course, it made it especially nice that Keegan's sister Pat and her husband Jim have a wonderful pool we could all enjoy.

Yes, no party is complete unless Fritz is in the middle!

Please pray for Julie and Chris as they make this commitment to each other, and then as they move so far away from family and friends.

Shopping for Kyah's stroller

It's not long before Kyah makes his arrival into this world, and as any boy would he needs to have "wheels"

We all headed off to the Babie's R Us and the boys (along with mom Erin) picked out the sharpest wheels for the next boy in the family line.

Of course, along the way the boys had to check out the other toys and see if they were worthy of Kyah. Erin and I were there to make sure we came home with only one set of wheels.

Shopping is always hard on everyone and we all took a break to check out the best rockers and to discuss the new wheels. Now we all look forward to Kyah taking his first stroll.

Purtis Creek 2

Here are the rest of the pictures from our trip to Purtis Creek State Park today.

Purtis Creek State Park Picnic

Today after church Keegan and I drove to Purtis Creek State Park for a picnic and just some time out of town. It was really too hot to do much walking but we managed to find a few cool things to look at and we want to share those with you.

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Vultures aren't my favorite bird, but when they are soaring on the hot air with their huge wing span, they can be a sight to behold.

There is only one very short nature trail there at the park, but we found it full of of life as you can see in the picture below and on the next blog. There's just not enough space here to put all of them in one blog. We both feel so much better after our brief break from the daily reality, but not it's back to work