Ethan Philip John Drury

When the midwife examined  Gemma, it was noticed there was Meconium in the water, the baby had opened his bowels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meconium

Sorry Gemma you have to stay incase the baby goes into distress.

48 hrs later still waiting and still smiling

Now its action stations, arrangements were made for Ryan to stay at Gemmas, while daddy and grandaddy come to the hospital.

Eventually on Monday  July 11th 2011 at 4.37am, we were presented with a beautiful grandson weighing 7lb 14oz. 

and isn't he worth the wait

Ethan Philip John Drury

8 hours old

proud Mummy and even prouder
Grandad   :D

Big brother duties

you wanted balloons?

12 hours after the birth, home and his first bath :)
ready for his visitors the next day.

Thank you for such a beautiful grandson, we are so proud of you.
just a note, I won't put any photos of Jasmins arrival at the hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning, straight from a night out in Burnley lol :D but I will say Thank you to her for keeping me company for all them hours we sat in the waiting room, while Dad and Phil were with Gemma.

Our grandson born July 11th 2011

We arrived in England on Thursday July 7th, the baby's due date.  The last few weeks have been spent hoping the baby doesn't decide to make an early appearance :) 

So friday came and went, no signs.... Saturday arrived, lets try and move things along, nannie and grandad are only here for two weeks little man!!

Raspberry tea isn't doing anything, let's go for a walk into town, poor Gemma it was a pretty warm  day and she was obviously uncomfortable. 

She had been told to try pineapples, but as she doesn't like them it was going to be a last resort lol, before we headed for Asda for some grocery shopping, and the pineapples, well you never know ;),we had to find some nursery furniture. 

Four hours later furniture bought, shopping done we headed back to Gemmas,so lets have a curry, a hot one for Gemma, and a sympathy hot one for Dad, lol.  Curries ordered, pineapple smoothies made, I did add extra fruit to disguise the taste, and Gemma did say it was good, but after two pints she said enough was enough lol. 

It's now 11pm, on Saturday night and Gemma says "well Dad if you want some bump photos now might be a good time" :0

Bump photos done....

Gemma is obviously uncomfortable but no real signs of labour, until 30 minutes later when she stands up and says "oh I'm dribbling", after we had all finished laughing it was fairly clear, it was her amniotic fluid and yes she was dribbling :D
Yay, not long now... hmmm who said that?...

After getting cleaned up and changed, she is still 'dribbling' so we decide to phone the hospital, they asked us to attend the delivery suite for a quick check up but would probably be sent home while her contractions develop.
As Phils older son was in bed, Gemma and I went, no point disturbing Bradley we'll be home again in a couple of hours, or will we!

Christmas 2010

The family are here for Christmas

This year we were all together for our first family Christmas in Nova Scotia. :D

 Victoria park Truro, walking off the christmas food lol

 Hitting the slopes, what an awesome day, Jasmin decided to try skiing this year and took to it brilliantly, well done Jazzi.

Unfortunately Gemma didn't want to ski due to being in the first tri-mester of her pregnancy.

 Christmas day

What a great time we had over Christmas and New Year, these are times we cherish, we miss you guys all the time but more so at holiday times.

That phone call....

Early in November, Gemma phoned to tell us she was pregnant.... Although she is in a  long term relationship it still came as a shock.  After lots of tears, and mixed emotions we started to look forward to the birth of our first grandchild.

The first ultra sound scan picture of our grandson.

So whats been happening....

September 2010, Gemmas 21st Birthday :)

So we head back to england to celebrate our eldest daughters 21st birthday, surprisingly Mum and Dad spend the first few days running around helping Jasmin and Gemma to organise things and of course preparing the buffet ;)

Its nice to get back and see all the family again, although we never seem to have enough time to see everybody we would like to.

Gemma being Gemma is not happy with 1 party and arranges for close family to go for a meal the next day aswell lol.

Saying goodbye

September 2011 we decided to leave Clarke Road Transport... it was a hard decision to make but one we were both agreed on.
We spent three and a half mostly happy years there, but unfortunately in the last year didn't feel we were getting the same miles as other teams.  It didn't seem to matter how long we were away from home, we rarely managed to hit bonus.  We were also looking for more variety, ie we seemed to only do trips to Dalton Georgia and back to Truro Nova Scotia whereas we knew there were drivers going to Texas, Colorado etc.
There were many times where we would deliver to Montreal or Toronto, return with a pool car to Moncton, New Brunswick and then be sent home to wait for a trip to Dalton Georgia which didn't always materialise :(  So as team this meant a two day trip, return home for two days and if there wasn't any or enough Dalton loads we would do the same again or as Roger says rinse and repeat...

Having said this we did enjoy most of our time at Clarkes and met some great friends who we miss.

Update?

I have been asked if I would bring our blog up to date...

Well its going to take some time, so please be patient :)

This is the latest family photo, as you can see a lot has happened since the last post.

Birthday weekend :D

First I want to say thanks for all the birthday cards and wishes, they are always much appreciated.

Do your chores before you can go and play boys :D

Surfin the quebecan way??

who splashed me?

The sun was shining, the water was warm, we were lovin it..

I'm sure you're supposed to stay on the water,not sink Steff, lol


Just splashing around :)

After a long drive back from Memphis, Tennessee, only stopping for coffee breaks, we arrived home at approx 4am... the idea was to collect our pick up truck from home, and for me to follow Rod to halifax so the big truck could be serviced and some tyres (tires) changed. Well best laid plans don't always work, lol.


I started our little truck, brill, it starts but won't go into gear :( 15mins later, lets try plan B... lets drop the big truck in Halifax get some sleep and then decide what to do.


We both slept for about 4 hours, took Dee to the groomers and hired a car for the weekend, arriving home at approx 5.30pm... i hope there is a pizza in the freezer cos thats all your getting Rod.

Nothing was going to spoil our weekend, we had a brilliant few days off with Steff, a work colleaguefrom Quebec who had driven up to spend the weekend with us. Drinking lots of beer, playing in the lake and completing Motor storm on the PS3 as well, he's also a pretty keen golfer on the wii :)

Monday night took us to the Slayer/Megadeath concert in Halifax, we'd been waiting for this is for a few months and Rod was pretty hyped about it, especially when a guy in front of us has a "thrash off' to Dead skin Mask lol...

Altogether it was a damn good time, and after a long road trip I'd say we both enjoyed it immensley and can't wait for the next one :D

We've always said we work hard to play harder, and this was good proof, no 36 hour re-set, we returned to work fully refreshed after 5 days ready for the start of another session of work.
And this was after spending Monday afternoon, replacing the transmission pan and fluid on the little truck...