Josiah's darling kids Oct 2008

Caedence Ineclipse McCarty 1 month

Aspen Bree McCarty 5 years old

Brindley Sage McCarty 2 yrs

My Cutie Grandson- Ethan Adam Hawks 9 Months

Caedence is here!! 9/17/08

Caedence *Ineclipse McCarty is here!
Number 7 grandchild for us!

From Josiah:
Just a quick email to let you all know that CAEDENCE INECLIPSE McCARTY was born yesterday on 09/17/2008 at 2:04 pm. She weighed in at 7 lbs 6 ounces and was 20" long. Hopefully you all can see the attached photos of her. Sharla and Caedence are doing great. We will be in the hospital until Friday at noonish.
If you would like to call our direct phone number in our room is 801-714-3113.
Thank you so much for all of your love and support.
Hope all is well with you and yours.
Josiah and Sharla McCarty

Calley (aunt) and Gramma went over to the hospital with Aspen (big sister) to see our new little gal.
She was very alert and so darling...

Sharla (mom) looked beautiful and happy!
We got to watch her get her first bath and hairdo. Josiah (Dad) picked out the bow for her hair.
Here is a video of the event!

* A little about her middle name...

Josiah's middle name is Firsteen which is his grampa's (Becky's dad's) name first name. He was born during a full eclipse of the moon and his darling momma decided to name him Firsteen (first seen) Ineclipse Lane. It has been a great story ever since and no one ever forgot his name once they learned it.

Now another generation carries a part of that unique name and the story will go on and on... Thanks, Josiah & Sharla!

Caedence's great-grampa Lane was as unique an individual as his name. We miss and love him very much!

A few more pictures:

Last camping trip of 2008? Labor Day

Labor day 2008 weekend we went camping with Aspen & Brindley to Squaw Peak!



They were only up with us for Friday night and part of Saturday but we had lots of fun. We made a fort in the trees and ate breakfast there, found a furry catapillar, went for a hike, Aspen rode the moptorcycle with "crampa", watched a movie in the camper and burried each other in stuffed animals!



After that Glen and I rode our motorcycles up the road a ways and had a yummy BBQ. Sunday was getting stormy so we came back early. Just in time as Monday morning there was hail coming down and snow in the mountains!

Sister Trip to Palmyra New York - my birthday!

JJ's sweet husband, Agenor, offered to get standby tickets for all 5 of us to go out to see Elizabethe in New York over the week 0f my birthday this year. All 6 sisters got together for 5 days to relax, visit and tour Palmyra and Rochester.

She moved out there last year and we all missed her so much and we wanted to see her new (old) house.

I flew out by myself from Utah and caught every flight in my itinerary. They came together from California. Besides so LONG layovers and me being alone, it was not too bad. I did homework and read. When we got there we rented a car and Elizabethe came to pick up some of us. She took us home and showed us her lovely old house with all its neat features.

On my birthday (Saturday) we took a tour of the outer buildings and the beautiful yard. Then we went garage sailing together and I found a bunch f balloons at one of the sales that were birthday balloon so I had them take a picture. After that we went to Rochester to the Dino Grill that we had been told was the best restaurant in town. They all treated me! We had grilled catfish, ribs, other meats and the most delicious cornbread. The atmosphere was pretty cool! There was a bike race through downtown so we had to walk a long way to get there. We got to see a little of downtown Rochester. Then we went to the Susan B Anthony house and took a tour.

On Sunday we went to Elizabethe's ward. She taught Relief Society and introduced all of us. It was lots of fun to show off. We told people that we had two brother's too but they didn't come. After church we went to all the church history sites and took tours of the Joseph Smith farm and visiting center and walked through the sacred grove. It was very special to be there with all my sisters. We also went to the hill Cumorah and the visiting center there.

Monday Dori and Sarah needed to go home, but the lightening and thunder storms had delayed flights and made it so there was no standby room. They drove to Buffalo looking for flights but stilll none. They decided to drive up to Niagra Falls because they were so close. They went in on the Canada side. It ended up being a very good, fun day for them. Brenda and I went shopping in Rochester while Elizabethe worked a part day.

Tuesday we all got on the same flights despite the long and big standby rosters and made it home by very late Tuesday night.

Camping with JJ

When we went camping this time, JJ called to say she and the three little girls were in town. We invited her to come up and camp one night with us. We had the tent set up with the double mattress Brandon had given his dad for his birthday. We sure had fun with them.

Brandon came too and brought up his jeep and took us for a ride. Some of us went along on the motorcycles. Talise tried ridding the motorcycle by herself and did a pretty good job. Nelma Lee want to but Glen said she had to be able to ride a two wheeler (bike) first, so she just sat on it while it was on the kickstands. Geneya got covered with soot and had a lot of fun. Kyler came up to and delighted us with his guitar around the campfire. It was beautiful weather and we had a wonderful time!