Update on Life

Well, things are going good. I have one final left and then be out for winter break. Brianna will be out for just as long!
Ryan is going to 4 months of Warrant officer school home for a couple weeks, boise for a month then deployed in Sept. We've been through the rounds with all this. Sucks a lot!
Everything else is going good. Bella is walking, has teeth and is all sorts of fun. Paisley is finally learning her colors. I asked her what a color was and she told me dark blue, which it was. I was a little surprised. Tommy plays alot of wii. Cant wait to get him back in to school!!
Baking a pie and it's beeping.
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Brianna in her dust bunny costume for the Princess and the Pea. This was from the workshop from the Missoula Children's Theatre. She did it last year and was a bat in Snow White. They dont really follow the script for these plays but they're cute. Brianna is the one holding her ears out on the end down in the bottom picture of the whole group.

Bella at the Fair

This is Bella dudded up for the Cutest Baby contest down at the downey fair. She took 1st place in the 0-6 mo group. Of course!! And the bows that we had made special just for this...today...like 3 hours before we had to go! Thanks Jill!! It was fun and there was lots of cute kids! Just none as cute as mine!

Mid Summer Activities

Well we've been busy busy the last few weeks. Camp Taylor with the Morris clan, Alturus with the Lloyd clan, and now tomorrow we're headed to boise for a couple days to pick up my Mom. Ryan will also be starting his 3 week AT. See ya in 18 days babe!! I'm probably going to start potty training Paisley when we get back from Boise on Monday. Oh yey, cant wait.......or maybe I can. Guess we'll see how motivated I am. She is only 2 1/2, not quite even at that, the other 2 were over 3. She's been ready for a while, just need to get it done. Bells is getting so big. She can roll just about anywhere but cant sit up for anything, just plops right over. Oh well, she'll get there. I'm not in any hurry for her to be moving around yet. Even though it is fun to watch her accomplishments. She's a chunk-a-butt as I call her. Love her to death. Well, i better be off to bed. Headed out early tomorrow.
nighty night

More Pics...

Couldnt fit them all in one post for some reason so here are the rest.......

Family Pics

Suzanne has done it again!! Here are our latest family pics...

Angel Baby

Here is a picture of Bella on her blessing afghan. It is a guardian angel, she is laying on the body of the angel with the wings out to her sides. There is a really cool story behind it. I dont tell it very well but I'll try.
I have been given blankets for all my other kids but hadnt received one for Bella. So I told my "other mother", Jo, and she mentioned it to one of her niece's. So Gloria, her niece, searched for a pattern and couldnt find one. Then she had this book and it just fell open to this pattern. This was just before my brother died. She was able to finish the blanket the day he died, which was also the week we blessed her. So she had her guardian angel there. I sent her up with the blanket in remembrance of Kirk, sort of a stand in for him. Him and Angie had planned on coming up to the blessing but he decided to go on an eternal flight instead.=) So there it is, not as good as when I was told the story but it really means alot to me. I will post more pics of the blanket and Bella another time.

It's almost spring!!

Well, not a whole lot of new stuff going on. The rock chucks are out, I hear tell there are meadowlarks a singin', though I havent heard any yet myself. I am so happy. I dont like to be cold. I think I am finally caught up on my school work from the funeral. Spring break is next week. Hopefully I'll be able to relax for a couple days, and maybe get ahead a little. The kids are growing like weeds, especially the babe. She is smiling now and it's so fun to watch her. Ryan will be able to process his orders next week so we'll be able to start getting our move to Oklahoma all figured out here soon. Brianna's birthday is in less than 2 weeks. She is going to be 7!! Wow, I can believe how time flies. Anyhoo, that's about all for now. I need to post some pics of the kids. Next week, next week........=)
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In remembrance.....

I dont really have a lot to say on this, I just want to post this link for anyone that might read it and be willing to help out in any way. My brother, Kirk Babbitt, died in a plane crash on Antelope Island in Utah on March 3, 2009. He died doing what he loved so that is always a plus I guess. Anyways, my cousin put together a website, it is very nice. There is a link for donations. So anyone that reads this and is able to help it would be greatly appreciated. He left behind a wife and 3 children. Take a minute to read the obituary, it is beautiful.
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www.kirkbabbittmemorial.com

Bella Blessing

Announcing belatedly the birth of Isabella Grace......see attachment!
And here is info for her blessing....

When: March 8th, 2009
Time: 9am
Where: Mccammon Stake center
Lunch to follow at our house, if you need directions let me know.

If you can come, great, if not, we'll pretend you are!!=)
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Twins???

Check out these pics. If it weren't for the date at the bottom of one, I wouldnt know who was who. I finally have kids I will have to write names on the photo's. Havent had to worry about that yet!
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Isabella Grace Lloyd

Was born on jan 31 at 5:23p. 6.7lb, 19 in. Lots of dark hair, looks just like her sisters. More like paisley, keep trying to call her that. I will try and post pics later!
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Finally got 2 sec. to post some pics. Enjoy...........look, that's my baby!! She's soooo cute!

Baby update

Obviously babies will do what they want when they want but I am tentatively scheduled to be started on sat the 31 of jan. Depending on how things are going at my next appointment i'll either go in friday night or sat morning. So crazy crazy, we're having a baby next week!!! Hopefully that will give me enough recoop time to go back to school tuesday night and it will be before Grama leaves for Canada the next week. Paisley wont have to share her bday and if she comes on the 31st we'll still basically have our bdays all in a row.....31, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8....i know we're missing a few in between, but they wont ever get filled in so, we'll just make do with what we have.
Also, we'll probably have her blessed the first weekend in march. so that's what we know, if anythign changes i'll post again!!
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Quick Update

Havent been on here in forever so i thought I would get on and update real quick. We still dont have a baby or a name for her. Hopefully she'll be coming soon.
Ryan and I are both going to school. Ryan is just part time I am full. He is finishing his associates in law enforcement and i am going in to web design management. Hopefully I will be able to take a couple classes online while we are in oklahoma.
Which dont know what I've said about all that but we are still going to oklahoma in july.
Brianna is doing well in school, she's learning to read very well and does good with her spelling and math.
Tommy likes preschool and is doing well, he knows his letters very well and is learning to write and even read a little. The kindergarten isnt going to know what to do with him. He still has one year of preschool because he misses the deadline. I hope there is a good preschool in OK.
Paisley is ........well, Paisley. She's been on a bully rampage lately. Hopefully that passes before baby gets here. She's a handful, definitely our tom boy. We love her though, she keeps us busy.
I think that's about all that is going on for now. We'll try to keep ya'll updated as we have more news!!
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Baby name poll

Ok, we cant come up with another name. The idea was for each to pick out two names and then mutually agree on one, ha ha. Anyhoo, here are the names we have so far so start putting in ideas!!
The middle name is pretty well picked......Grace. the only other option I forsee is Rae.

Isabella
Oakley
Brooklie.........spellings will probably be different i.e. brookleigh, brookly, same goes for all names.
Shylie

Have to tell the story on this last one. Brianna got a book for Christmas and was reading it and asked what a word was. It just happened to be shyly. We both kinda looked at each other and Ryan said, huh, we could use that as a name...I was thinking the same thing.
So yes after Paisley we all know that we come up with odd names, I think this list boots them all. Hadley is another name i came up with but ryan does like it so it hasnt made the list, yet. Anyhoo, there they are, let us know what you think!!
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