Gretchen And Elden

More Pictures of Elden's BMT Graduation (but not THAT many since I suck at taking pictures!)

2011-09-14T16:20:00.000-07:00

I'm terrible at taking pictures!!!! The whole time at Elden's graduation I was trying to take a picture and see him at the same time since they were so far away and hardly ever standing still-so not many of my pictures turned out and NONE of my videos turned out. Luckily I took so many pictures that a few were ok.

He's behind the tall guy in the front

This one-if you zoom in-you can see him towards the left side.

Mom & Dad Warner at the Alamo

Elden & I at the Alamo (I may regret posting this picture since i look like a cow-but it's a good one of Elden-I not only can't take pictures, I'm not very photogenic either!! UGH!)

Elden's BMT Graduation

2011-09-02T18:49:00.000-07:00

I'm not going to lie....my husband is such a stud!(when I get home I'll post more pictures) Elden graduated from Air Force Basic Training this week. AND he graduated with honors! I'm so proud of him!

Elden's parents and I flew to San Antonio on Wednesday morning and the graduation events started Thursday. They did the Airmans 1 1/2 mile run, then the Honor Graduate ceremony (that's what this picture is of-i didn't take very good pictures), after that, the coin ceremony, and then he was given base liberty so we could hang out on base until 8. It was REALLY hot and all of the graduation events were outside. I always felt bad for him knowing how hot it was because he was in his uniform all the time, but holy cow! It was terrible!! He has lost quite a bit of weight! Our first stop on base was for an extremly large pizza (Elden loves his pizza!), and then we went and shopped a bit and walked around the BX, and then went and saw Harry Potter (I slept through most of it however).

Today we went to the Graduation Parade, and then we went to the squadrons to see where he's been living the past 8 1/2 weeks, and then we were able to leave base. He gets off base tomorrow also, and then because his flight got warrior flight AND because he got honor grad he's able to get off base Sunday instead of base liberty whch is awesome since we ran out of things to do on Thursday after about an hour.

I've met a lot of the guys in his flight, they all call him Papa Warner or something like that because he was the oldest in the flight. When we were in the squadron someone passed by us and pointed at Elden, and said to his family "this is Papa Warner-this is who we come to for all our financial advice." It was funny. He said one night several of them came to him with pens and their notebooks, some with the top labeled "Papa Warner's financial advice". Apparently after their financial planning class they took and the comments he made, they all realized he may be older, but he's smart... :) They also said that he "won" BMT because he got 4 ribbons, and that's the most you can get here (the two extra he got were for Honor Grad and Expert Marksman). I think there were only 4 guys in his flight that did. Once again-I'm so proud of him!!

On Tuesday, he found out he is leaving for Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi on Monday for tech school for 70 days :( Luckily I can talk to him more and go visit periodically, but the military life will definately take some getting used to! I sure do miss him when he's gone! But i'm excited to see where we'll end up for our first adventure!

Did I Mention?

2011-04-06T15:54:00.000-07:00

No, we're not having a baby! (everyone asks me that whenever I say "guess what" or if I don't feel well, or if they haven't asked me in a few weeks)

Elden enlisted in the Air Force!

He met with a recruiter last August and has been waiting for one of the jobs he chose to open up, but it's definately official now. He's leaving for basic training July 5th-for 8 1/2 weeks. Then he has his technical school for a few months (we'll find out how long he has to do that once he gets to basic) and then we'll move to who knows where. So if anyone wants to come keep me company while he's gone, I would love it!

I've had mixed emotions about him joining-but mostly I'm excited-and he is too... I'm looking at it as an adventure.

New Business Venture

2011-04-06T15:33:00.000-07:00

I've decided to take on a new business venture (in my spare time! Ha yeah right) ....it's called AmeriScience.

When I was in Oregon last month, my brother-in-law Todd introduced it to me. It's a product that he sells to his patients (he's an optometrist) and has had GREAT success doing so. Not only do they have optical supplements, they have an entire array of products/supplements they sell from everyday multivitimans, weight loss, energy, joints & bones, Fish Oil....
Their biggest product is this "superfruit" drink called AS10 that is pretty incredible! It's made with Cupuacu (a Brazilian "super fruit"), Acai, Acerola, Prickley Pear & Yumberry-so it has lots of vitamins and antioxidants. And to top it all off-it's developed in conjunction with NASA/Johnson Space Center for their astronaut corps....so you know it's quality! And it tastes like a tart tootsie roll :)

I jumped into it not knowing much about it-other than I'd be one of the first few distributors in Colorado, but as I've been researching it the past few weeks, I'm super excited about it-for nothing else than the fact that I'm taking the stuff myself. I've only tried a few of the products, but what I have tried I LOVE! (Especially the energy stuff-it doesn't have caffine which i really like about it!)

Anyway-I decided to write about it on my blog-so that if anyone that I know that reads my blog (all 2 of you)-might be interested-you should at least look into it. Like I said-i'm really excited about it. When I get excited about things-I generally have to tell everyone I know :)

So here are some links to get information on their products and if anyone has any questions or more information-let me know. I'm still learning, but we can all learn together!

http://www.amerisciencesrx.com/
http://www.amerisciences.com/?PageId=2012
http://www.amerisciences.com/?PageId=2031

Funny Kid!!!

2011-02-25T17:19:00.000-08:00

I'm in Oregon right now visiting my sister Penny. I came to watch the kids while Penny & Todd went to the Bahamas. Since I was going to have to come back a week after I went home, for my nephew Carson's birthday/baptism-I decided to stay for a few weeks and just work from here. Plus, I love spending time with my sister!!!

I may be the only one who thinks this is funny....but today-I was on the phone after the kids came back from School and Penny said to Carson that I was on the phone and that he needed to go upstairs and play...his response was "it's ok mom, i'm just going to be here in my box" (the pictures are a little bad-it was on my phone and kind of far away)

I love this kid!! He has quite the sense of humor!!!! While I was taking care of them last week, as I drove him to school he was trying to persuade me to take him out of school early because at 1 o'clock he had computers and then reading, and that he knows how to use a computer and he knows how to read.....I couldn't argue with that logic! So I got him out of school....I had to maintain my favorite Aunt status :)

Elden's new "toy"

2011-01-04T08:27:00.000-08:00

I think I did really good this year picking a Christmas gift for Elden!!! (of course-Elden's brother-in-law & Sister Julia are the ones that told me which one to buy-Thanks guys!)

He thought he wasn't getting anything else since he had already gotten an Xbox a few weeks before and so I told him THAT was his present-but really I have wanted him to have a gun for a while. He was pretty excited!!!!! (Though-in this picture-he's trying to act cool) :)

Visiting the Stettlers in Peoria Illinois....

2010-10-12T17:49:00.000-07:00

Today we went to Nauvoo to visit the church sites (really-there's not much else to do there)

Crossing over the Mississippi River

We went to all the old shops- And Carson learned how to use a newspaper press

Then we learned how to make our own hemp ropes & got to keep it. This is Emily chasing after Carson trying to get the end of the rope.....

The Nauvoo temple is very beautiful! Hopefully I can go back when I have time to be there longer!

Update

2010-09-16T13:23:00.000-07:00

I've been a slacker at updating our blog....nothing really exciting to post about I guess.

We went to Pompano Beach, Florida August 6th-13th with Elden's parents, Carrie & Michael. It was AWESOME-I wish we lived closer to a beach!!!! We went to the beach almost daily and ate a ton of Blue Bell ice cream (Thus-no pictures) :) Seriously-I personally only took 2 pictures while we were there and it was while we were waiting on a bridge to close in Key Largo.

It was a perfect vacation other than when the old guy ran into our rental car... we're still waiting for his insurance to pay us back since the rental company took our deductable from our credit card and then his insurance tried to stick us with a $300 bill. Luckily we have an attorney in the family who coached Elden on what he needed to say (Thanks Dave).

Exciting for us-we're ALMOST done with the big room in the basement. Over the past year Elden's been putting up new drywall and re-wiring down there (which is a lot of work and he did a great job! I'm lucky I married someone so handy!). We finished painting it last Friday night and now we're just waiting to put the floor in. I'm SUPER excited because I can move my office back home and try to re-organize everything since i'm running out of space for all the stuff i'm not really sure how i ended up with :) I've been trying to get rid of things every weekend but it doesn't seem to make any difference....how does that work?

I started "selling" Mary Kay....so if anyone wants to buy any from me you can go online to www.marykay.com/gretchwarner or just call me :)

Elden's Brother Dale & his wife Stephanie had their little girl Claire in July...she is SOOOOO cute!

I think that's it...

Busy June!

2010-06-27T13:22:00.000-07:00

June has been a busy month for me! Yesterday I realized I've been doing stuff non-stop and much to my relief, I don't have anything else planned for a while! Which I'm sure will make Elden happy so I can cook and clean the house every once in a while!

My mom and I flew to Oregon on the 8th to visit my sister Penny and her family. The trip to Redmond was HORRIBLE!!! Full of missed connections because of delayed flights, crappy customer service and ghetto hotels!

The first day we were in Oregon was Blake's last baseball game. Blake even got to pitch for the first time.

A few days later was Caylyn's dance recital. It was fun to see her dance-I hadn't seen her dance in several years and she's really getting good! (For some reason-I only took videos of her entire dances and didn't get ANY pictures of her) Her dances were really good, but there's nothing more entertaining than the little 4-6 year olds "dancing". A couple of them had the whole auditorium almost rolling on the floor with laughter!

The rest of the trip we mostly hung out at the house (I worked some), Penny I did our normal shopping excursions, I got an eye exam from my brother-in-law Todd and I got some new sunglasses :) Mostly though, it was nice spending time with the Sheldon's! I really miss them!

The Sunday I was there, Kiley, Caylyn and I made "Hamburgers" out of cupcakes, brownies and frosting. We tried to make french fries out of sugar cookies but they didn't turn out very good.

Our trip home was easy and un-eventful. I had one day to recover/catch up on work and then I had to go help at church with Cub Scout Day Camp Friday & Saturday. Friday was absolutely insane and unorganized because the lady who had planned it, hadn't really asked anyone to help her so she was trying to run the whole thing herself resulting in near chaos. Saturday was a TON better because I helped her delegate the activities and told her to just oversee everything so she didn't kill herself. Of course, it's always a near death experience when there are about 30some 8-11 year olds all together! :)

Then Monday at work, my dad, brother and I had a meeting, and Will informed me that I needed to start driving up to Monument again every day to work with him and so I could teach Brandi (his wife) to do my job and I would be his personal assistant basically. Anyone that knows Will and I, know that we don't work well together because we're too alike (not that he'll admit it-he thinks I'm just un-rational because I'm a girl or something). We both like to be in control and we both speak our mind (which can result in some nasty fights) and I knew that working in the same space again wouldn't be an ideal situation for us to continue to get along! The stress from that seemed to cause a near emotional breakdown :) I think I'm getting over it now though-or I guess I'm just half expecting to get a good system working with Will and I, and get Brandi trained, and then I'll get to move my office back home. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

Lastly-the past several weeks I've been planning a baby shower for my sister-in-law Stephanie who is due next month. I've never thrown a baby shower before and I was stressing out about it! I spent probably around 12 hours making 50 of the cutest invitations EVER! (Without my Cricut it might have taken even longer!)

Yesterday was the baby shower and it turned out great! There were like 14 people that came and I think everyone enjoyed it.

Now for the rest of the summer I've got nothing (hopefully other than work) to stress out about! Only things to look forward to! Trina and I are going to see Twilight next week (excited 1 because it's the new Twilight and 2 because I've not hung out with my good friend Trina in a few years!) and then in August, Elden and I are going to Florida for a week. Elden's parents, little sister Carrie and little brother Michael are coming with us also. My parents gave me a week to their time share-so I'm pretty stoked! A week on the beach...need i say more?

Coupons

2010-04-15T15:06:00.000-07:00

I'm not going to lie-I'm an excellent shopper! Yes-sometimes I spend WAY too much money on things I don't necessairly need, but when it comes down to it, I know how to save. Growing up in a big family, my mom used to shop with coupons for groceries (with 9 kids she kind of HAD to). My job was to cut out the coupons, organize them and ocassionally go through them and get rid of the expired ones. For some reason I always enjoyed it. About a year ago I decided to try couponing myself-even though it's just Elden and I. I had to make a game of it otherwise it can get kind of hard-so my goal was to see if I could save more than I spend- specifically more than 1/2 off (which i've been able to do plenty of times)
The purpose of this post is because I'm pretty impressed with myself today. Since it was slow at work (and since I work from home) I decided to go grocery shopping to get some pork chops for dinner and see if I could find any chicken on sale. I came home with 6 boxes of cereal (the good stuff too! Froot Loops, Cookie Crisp and Cheerios) 4 boxes of pop tarts, 2- 12 packs of Charmin TP, an 8pack of Bounty Paper Towels, 2 large bottles of Dawn Hand Renewal Dish Soap, 2 cartons of Bryers ice cream, 2 packs of porkchops, and a thing of sprinkles I found on the discount cart in the back of the store to add to my baking stash. Total Spent-$34.03 . Total Savings of $67.77 (between store sales and coupons)
Not bad huh?

My Granny

2010-02-09T09:23:00.000-08:00

I wish everyone had a Granny like I did! She passed away yesterday morning after battling cancer for several years. My whole life she's been close by and it's strange thinking about not having her around anymore-and now when I have children they won't know what "gimme some sugar" means :)

I know I'll see her again, but I sure will miss her until I do!

Thanksgiving

2009-11-28T14:59:00.000-08:00

This year for Thanksgiving, we spent it in Florence with my parents. My little brother Dan and his roommate Ben came from BYU, Will and his family came down, and my grandparents came over. After we ate, we went and shot a couple of Will's and my dad's guns.

Brandi

Daniel

Hailey-this little girl is WAY too cute!

Elden & Hailey

Wednesday night we went and spent it with Elden's family and had a pre-thanksgiving. All the Warner kids were at home, so we all just sat around talking and playing with the babies

Our Cruise to Mexico

2009-11-23T17:34:00.001-08:00

Last week Elden and I went on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera. It was wonderful! The weather was perfect, hardly ever a cloud in the sky.

We didn't take a lot of pictures-and the ones that we did they mostly look the same since it was just Elden and I and something in the backgroud, and elden taking the picture with his arm stretched out. We took a few pictures with an underwater camera when we were snorkeling-the coolest fish I saw that we took a picture of looked just like my swimsuit top. It was blue with white dots.... Maybe in 10 years when we take the rest of the pictures on the camera and develop it, I'll show you.

We left from LA on Saturday and were at sea on Sunday. Monday we stopped at Cabo San Lucas-which is probably one of my favorite stops we made. We tendered into the marina from the ship and took a water taxi for a 45min tour around lovers beach and then we snorkled for a few hours which was a lot of fun.

Tuesday we were at Mazatlan....we weren't very impressed (Kind of how I felt about Acapolco last time I was in Mexico). We got off the boat and got a map of the touristy places to go and so we thought we could go downtown where there was a market and a cathedral. So we took a taxi downtown and yes, the cathedral was probably the nicest building around, but wasn't really what we were expecting. So we could see the beach and we started walking towards it, and it wasn't very appealing so we kept walking to see if it got any nicer, so we kept walking...and walking...and walking. What felt like 7 miles later after I had blisters on my feet from my flip-flops, we took a taxi to the "golden zone" where they were supposed to have nicer beaches, after walking around there for a while we took another taxi back to the ship and swam in the pool.

Wednesday we went to Puerto Vallarta. I really enjoy Puerto Vallarta! We took a tour up in the Sierra Madre's and we stopped at a resort and snorkeled a bit and then went to see how they make tequilla (not by choice-everyone else on the tour with us wanted to go) Then we went back to the resort we had stopped at before and ate the best fajita's I've ever had and swam a little more.

Thursday and Friday we were at Sea...we slept a lot and spent time on deck in the sun...and eating. They had shows every night, so we went to those most evenings. They had musicals, comedians, magicians-and they were pretty good, but Elden was most excited to go to them so that when we came back we had towel animals on our bed with andes mints for eyes.

It was an awesome vacation and I think I'd like to make November Mexico trips a tradition!!!

Wedding

2009-08-19T09:55:00.001-07:00

Last Friday was Elden's brother Dale's wedding. A lot of Elden's family came to visit, and we were able to spend a lot of time with everyone. It was fun, since I've not really spent much time with any of them. So now I feel like I know the family a little better.

I don't think we got ANY pictures of Dale and Stephanie, but we got some of the rest of the family-but not that many-so here they are.

WOO HOO!!!

2009-08-19T09:20:00.000-07:00

I JUST PAID OFF MY CAR!!!!!!

Once upon a time (in 2006), I decided I wanted a new car. I was SURE I wanted a Honda, so I went and test drove some Accords and the place I was at, had a cute little Volvo. My dad used to have a Volvo that he had for like 30 years, and I thought I should test drive some of those. So I convinced my little brother Dan to go with me to look at the Volvo dealership, and we test drove 2 cars. An S40 (which Dan loved) and an S60...that I loved! I decided THAT was the car I wanted. I was close to buying the one from the dealership, but it was a little more than I had anticipated spending. So...one of my roommates from college had just bought her car on Ebay, so I decided just to look. I did...and I found this little 2004 turbo engine beauty with hardly any miles on it for CHEAP (considering it's a volvo)!

So I showed my dad, he said looks good....and I bought it. So I flew down to Phoenix to pick it up from the dealer, and drove it home. And have loved it ever since!

My husband is the BEST!!!!

2009-07-22T20:28:00.000-07:00

I have to say that I'm pretty sure I have one of the best husband's EVER!!! (not JUST because he's incredably good looking!)

As of yesterday, we've been married for 2 years. We celebrated by eating dinner at home and then going to Manitou Springs to a fondue restaurant called The Mona Lisa and had chocolate fondue....because he knows how much I love chocolate. I remember when we were dating and talking about dessert for some reason, he was shocked when I said that it wasn't dessert unless it had chocolate in it-I don't think he believed me until after we were married and he realized how much I really really love chocolate! I would eat it all day if it didn't make me fat!

ANYWAY, he's a pretty awesome guy for many reasons (but i'm only going to list a few)! He's handy around the house-example-tonight he had me come downstairs and showed me the new lights he had wired and put in the basement in our attempt to finish one of the rooms. So hopefully in the next month or so, we'll have added another few hundred feet to our living space and the upstairs living room won't be wall to wall furniture anymore!!!!

Next...last week we were both home during the day. I'm always home because I run my family's flooring company out of my home (well...the office part of it anyway), and he was home because he was done with school for the day. He told me to bring my laptop in the living room and sit in our rocking chair while I worked...so I did, and he puts on a movie and brings out my little foot spa and all of my nail stuff and starts giving me a pedicure. Talk about the life!! Working while getting a pedicure....I told him I could get used to the idea!

Anyway, I was just thinking about how lucky I am and decided to make everyone that reads my blog jealous... :)

Family Fun & Travels

2009-06-09T15:28:00.000-07:00

Emily and brother Carson

Last week I flew out to LA to help my sister Mary and her family move to Valdosta Georgia since Corban just graduated from USC to be a dentist in the Air Force. I hadn't seen little Emily since right after she was born, and now she's 4 months old...and SOOOO CUTE!!! I pretty much didn't put her down the entire time (of course, I had to hold her while we were driving across the country otherwise she cried). Not that I don't love all my other nieces and nephews...but little babies are so cute! Emily has big brown eyes and hair that stands up in a little mohawk sort of thing. She likes to talk, sing, blow spit bubbles, and put anything in her mouth including her toes (which is actually kind of funny), but other than not enjoying long road trips, she's a very sweet and happy baby.
The Mohawk

Those big brown eyes

It took us all week to drive across the country since we had to consider that Carson & Emily could only take so much driving. We stopped in a place called Oro Valley, right outside of Tucson AZ, Fort Stockton TX, when we stopped in Houston I got to see my friend Stefanie which was really fun and then our last stop was Mobile Alabama. I really love the south! It's so green and I love the trees that line the highways-you don't get that much out here in Colorado. Plus the people out there are generally really friendly and they call you "baby", "sugar", "babydoll", "honey"....and there's always the accents.

It was a lot of fun spending time with Mary, Corban, Carson and Emily. I was sad I had to leave the day after we got to Valdosta-especially because on the flight home I spent like 6 hours at the Chicago airport and I would have rather been spending time with Mary. Elden luckily had been hanging out at his Brother David's in Denver and so he slept there until I finally made it and we made it home at like 2am and then had to get up early for church the next morning...don't ask me what I learned, just be surprised I stayed awake!!

Don't Get Too Excited!-Pictures of our house

2009-03-11T15:29:00.001-07:00

Since we bought our house in December, I've had several friends and family members that haven't seen it, want me to post pictures. Why!?!?!? Because they haven't seen it.
Once you do, you'll understand why it's not that big of a deal. It needs a lot of work and in a few years I'll be glad to show everyone pictures! For now....not that exciting.

Don't get me wrong! I love our house, because it's ours. We get to do whatever we want with it, we got an AWESOME deal on it, and it's close to the college and the interstate. It's exactly what we wanted for our first house (ok-the rooms could be a little bigger!)....but it's a fixer-upper!!! (luckily Elden's pretty good at that sort of stuff and I get the hookups since my family owns a flooring company!)

Our front yard needs A LOT of work!!!

This is our front room. It's really crowded right

now until we finish the basement so we can

put the TV and stuff down there.

We have a little wall separating the

kitchen and the front room.

Tiny Kitchen

Narrow Hallway
One of the bedrooms that is now the office/craft room

Another bedroom that we've made into our walk-in-closet
since our bedroom can only fit a bed, cedar chest & 2 night stands. (I didn't take
a picture of our bedroom because elden is asleep).

Standing in one room, across the hall from the

EXTREMLY small bathroom.

The bathroom that has a BIG window right in the shower so I have to be sure I either shower at night or
make sure i turn the water hot enough to steam up the windows.

Stairwell down to the basement

This is the first room we're fixing up in our basement. Right now it's got food storage, and my treadmill and the tv I watch while on the treadmill, but soon it will be our office/craft room so the upstairs bedroom will be our guest bedroom.

I HATE this room! Generally, I enjoy doing laundry. But not in here!! It's disgusting and annoying that the washer and dryer can't be turned the same direction. Also, the furnice and water heater are in here as well as....

A giant hole we had to cover up. My dad gave us some teak decking to put over it. Elden made the board that covers the hole up. But before that, it was just a hole, and one day I was doing laundry and fell in it. Bruised half of my leg!

A room in the basement. Right now it is storage for pad, but eventually our plan is to make that the laundry/food storage room.

This is the room we're going to re-finish to make into the living room. I can't wait. Right now...just a bunch of stuff in it.

This is our garage. Right now, it's US Floors storage-which is fine because we have to put a new door on it before i start parking in it. It's probably the original door from when the house was built. It's really heavy, and doesn't stay open without a board holding it up.

Our back yard has potential. It has a pretty nice slab of concrete for a basketball court. It needs a privacy fence (the back neigbor has 2 dogs that bark at me all the time!!!) and a really crappy boat trailer that needs a tire (anyone need a boat trailer???) that we need to get rid of. But it's perfect for our garden (you can see the frame of the square foot gardens Elden is building for me).

I love my job!

2009-02-24T19:05:00.000-08:00

I have 2 of the cutest assistants!!! They only come help for like 5 minutes at a time and all they do is shred paper, color and sometimes play with Mr. Potato Head, but they're tons of fun and make my work day 100 times better!

Sadie

Hailey (with crazy hair-she pulled out her pigtails)

Hard at work

Since we moved the office to Will's basement temporarily, it's been fun seeing the kids more often. Plus, now Hailey doesn't run away crying when she sees me. Now she runs up to me and hits me or throws something at me and then runs away laughing. When we first moved the office, we had an extra desk and Will set up a computer monitor, and keyboard and mouse, and it was Sadie's "puter", but her dad would never fix it, so she lost interest. She would sit at her desk and write letters to the sales agents and tell them to work harder. She would also write checks for Grandpa, and draw pictures for Elden for me to bring home. She would also have conversations on the pretend phone about someone firing her and she would yell and say "you're firing me? You can't fire me!"

I love my job! Always entertaining!

Trip to Oregon

2009-02-10T19:10:00.000-08:00

3 days after I got back from LA my mom, dad, little brother Dan & niece Lauren drove to Oregon for my nephew Blake's baptism. It was a long drive and too short of a trip-but it was fun seeing Penny's family.

Caylyn & Carson

Cousins

Penny, Todd & Blake

Todd & Blake

New Niece/Birthday Buddy

2009-02-10T18:22:00.000-08:00

My sister Mary had her baby-Emily Eden Stettler on January 29th (Which is also my birthday). She was 9lbs 8oz and 22" long.

I got to be in LA to help Mary & Corban with Carson (their 2 year old) while they were at the hospital. Which also meant I got to be one of the first in the family to see her. She's soooooooooooooooooooooo cute!!!