Karen and Mark's baby daughter, Hannah Marie Shelton, was born on Dec. 27, 2007 at St. Mary's Hospital in Richmond Va.
The proud new dadand momshortly after birth are extremely happy. Newborn pictures of those firstfew hours and days show a beautiful sweetlittle thing.What a great new dad (all smiles). Grandmom enjoys her time holding herand Granddad does too.So does Auntie Beth . Aunt Ngoy gets into the act.Grandmom Nancy was so kind and helpful to he daughter, Karen, that she spent all the time she could with her and the baby. Hannah, her mom Karen and Karen's mom Nancy are shown here. Mark's long time friend and ex-roommate, Chris visits but will let his wife Caroline hold the new born.
Jim Shelton was born in Memphis Tn while Gail (Conner) Shelton was born in Newport News Va and both were basicly raised in Tidewater Va. Jim graduated from Churchland High School when Gail graduated from Cradock High. They met in a carpool while attending Old Dominion College. He left college to enlist in the US Air Force in 1965 and served as an auto-pilot technician through 4 years of the Vietnam War, being honorably discharged. They married while he was still in the USAF but she still attended ODU while he was stationed in NC. After the service, he attended Old Dominion and graduated from Va Wesleyan College with a BA in Mathematics. Gail majored in Elementary Ed and taught school while he finished college. He taught high school mathematics at Peabody High School in Petersburg Virginia for 7 years and Gail taught in the Petersburg elementary schools as well. Their son, Mark, was born in Petersburg is married with two children. Daughter, Beth, was born 10 years later is married and was a YWAM missionary in Mx. Daughter, Ngoy from Cambodia, was adopted when she was about 12 and has 2 sons.
Gail and myself have taught English classes and The Purpose Driven Life since Fall 2004. In the spring of 2004 we only taught English. Pictured below are students from those classes.
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