Presenting.....

Baby Alice Diane Dalton. Lizzie finally gave birth. Chase had to go back to D.C. for work and I decided to stay in case anything exciting happened. Well, it happened, just a week later than we thought it would. Lizzie finally went into labor on New Year's Day. Chad (although worried he would faint) was a champ in the delivery room and even cut the umbilical cord. What a beautiful little baby. I instantly fell in love with her. She looks a lot like her daddy and is an amazing baby. She is very mild tempered and a great little eater. Lucky parents!!

It's amazing how you feel like you're in the presence of an angel when a baby is born. She was named after Alice Evans, our elderly neighbor who was the neighborhood "cookie lady." She actually passed away about a week before baby Alice was born. I went to her funeral and it was quite an event. I knew she was a great lady but apparently she was pretty fantastic because President Monson, Elders Packer, Ballard, Scott, and Oaks were all there. She was married to an apostle who died several years ago but I know that's not the only reason all these great men attended her funeral. She was truly a Christ like woman who not only loved everyone but taught everyone else through her example. She gave us neighbor kids homemade cookies as we passed by on our way home from school. Lizzie and I would go down to her home and play the piano for her. We were pretty lousy but she made us feel like we were amazing always reminding us to keep practicing!! What an honor to be named after her. Baby Alice is such a little sweetheart, I know she will live up to the name Lizzie and Chad have given her. Welcome sweet, precious, little Alice!!!