Pink, Pink, Pink!

I'm in Provo, Utah and I'm having a wonderful time playing grandma to number six grandchild, and the first granddaughter. I love my five little all-boy grandsons, and I love sweet Keira Jacalynn. She looks beautiful in pink!

It is so gratifying to watch my child become a parent for the first time. I can tell this little girl has melted her daddy's heart. And Amy is already a loving and nurturing mom to her week old baby.

I remember very vividly the second the doctor told me Xela was a girl as he layed her on my stomach. I wept with joy and fear thinking of the responsibility that was now mine to be the mother of a daughter. I'm not sure about the kind of job I did mothering this strong female person, but I am very proud of the woman she is and the good Samaritan she has become. She truly cares for the down trodden, the broken individual, the "certain man from Jerusalem who fell among thieves." I love the talk given by Elder M. Russell Ballard at April 2010 General Conference "Mothers and Daugthers." The world needs righteous women who are strong and of good courage. Keira will be that kind of woman. Her mother, her aunts, and her grandmothers will teach her.