For the first ten days of Arianna's life we have been very fortunate to have some much appreciated assistance from Katie's grandparents Bruma and Brupa (Joyce and Chuck Carlisle) and her parents Russ and Gail. We also had a visit from my father, John, who was in town for a groundbreaking ceremony at the college. John only got to see his newest granddaughter from a far (thus no pictures of him as we had with the other grand parents and great grand parents) as he had a cold and as a result ended up staying at another place. He ended up only stopping by briefly to minimize the chances he might pass on what he had to Arianna. Yesterday we put John, Russ and Gail on their flights home and for the first time were a family of three and just the three of us in the house. We have about three weeks before my Mom comes and are both excited to have it be just us and at the same time a little scared. There is a comfort level of having others around to help and to call on with questions as new parents. We want to pass on our sincerest thanks to the great grand parents and grand parents who helped us these past ten days and wish Gail a very speedy recovery from her hip surgery that she goes into later today in Dallas, she will be in our thoughts.
