Little Cerridwen Louise Brinton was born at 10:45pm on March 20, 2008. She weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces & was 20 inches long. She’s a very pretty little girl and her mommy & daddy are very proud. We went up to the hospital yesterday afternoon to see her & visit with Mark & Sarah. I was a long and tiring labor, but Sarah was recovering nicely. She was very tired and sore, but she seemed to be in good spirits and thrilled to be a new mommy. We’ll get to see her again this afternoon, as will the rest of our group who didn’t make it up to the hospital yesterday.

I’ve been thinking about getting one of those vehicle tracking systems for the XTerra, so that we can play GeoCaching and that sort of thing. I think it would be a lot of fun, and it might make it easier to find our way around when we want to get out & about on the weekends this spring and summer. We plan to do about as much camping and getting away as we can afford this year, just because Troy needs to get as far away from his job as he can at times.

We will be taking an actual trip out of the state at the end of August, but we’ll be in the HHR for that one. We’re going to Iowa to Troy’s family reunion. I’m pretty nervous about it already, because I haven’t met so many people in his family. I’ll be ok, because I’ll have him by my side & I do so much better when I have his moral support. I’m also pretty excited, because I like seeing new places and doing new things. I think we’re going to have fun.