Li'l Ashley Grace arrived at 6:13 pm on Monday, July 3, 2006. 6 pounds, 5 ounces, and 19 inches long.

She arrived in the world just an hour after her mum and I arrived at the hospital.











Both mum and baby were handled beautifully at the RockyView Hospital in Calgary. Mum was a rock-star. Hardly broke a sweat ( she'll kill me when she reads this ).

This is within 20 minutes of the big event.









Angela, Jason, Alyssa, and Paige were the first to come visit.

Here's Paige with baby.



















Here's Alyssa, a total natural with the baby. I see a babysitter in Ashley's future.









....and here's the whole McLarty family fawning over the wee one.

Next over was Gramma and Papa Keith.

Papa K has his own camera going during all of this and isn't in any of our pictures. We'll have to get some of him with Ashley to add in. I'm sure they'll see each other soon enough.

The Sady's were over next. I wasn't in charge of our camera at the time so I'm not to blame for the fact that these are the best representations of Traci, Sam, Samantha and Brandon that we have on file.

I know some pictures were taken of Sam and Traci but only one really blurry one was on my disk. Maybe Sam can send us over his shots to put some good ones up.




Samantha...takin' a break out from slingin' drinks.


Brandon......( an Oilers fan in a Flames jersey. What's this world coming to? )

Happy Birthday Brandon!!

Brandon now shares his birthday, July 3, with Ashley.









Nanny's got flu so Papa Mick, Nan, and Wendy haven't been able to come down yet. We'll put put up some of their pictures after they visit. In the meantime, here's a couple of Mickey, Lucy, and Ashley.