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Wow, I'm really bad at this!!  Well lets see what we can update on here.  Need to change the layout for sure, since our soldier is back.....we are expecting baby #5 in june.  Brianna and Tommy are both doing really well in school. Paisley loves preschool.  Bella, well, Bella hangs out where she can.  She loves being able to play with Paisley and loves going to Grama and Grampas!  She is very technologically savvy.  Give her a smartphone, an Ipod, or an Ipad and she can crack into it and find any game, movie or take tons of pics! It will be interesting to see what she grows up to be.  We have added rabbits, horses, and a dog to our family and recently added a few more baby bunnies!  We lost a couple of rabbits to the neighbors dog and a few of the babies to the cold, but we still have 3 plus momma so we are still doing pretty good.  Tommy thinks he wants one of the babies......not sure about that!
Ryan and I are both going to school.  He online and I am finishing up my last semester at ISU....YAY!!!  I will have an AAS in Web Design.  Ryan is going for a Bachelors of Homeland Security. 
We're loving life and just trying to keep up with everything!!!

Yay for school!

School is in full swing now, we're almost done with our first week!  I havent gotten a decent nights sleep since we started either!!  The kids were way excited to start though, and so was I.  Brianna is in the upper pod now and tommy's in 1st grade!  Paisley is excited to go to Mrs Marilyn's preschool in a couple weeks!!  We just got Tommy signed up for soccer and will sign the girls up for cheer leading next week.  We gonna be busy, but it will be good to make the next 3 weeks go by fast till dad gets home!!!!!

Routine

Well, Ryan has come and gone. We had a wonderful week in San Diego. We walked on the beach which was just a block from our little bed and breakfast. We went deep sea fishing and saw sea lions and dolphins. We went to Sea World and saw more sea lions and dolphins...and whales!=) We were going to go horse back riding but got rained out. We stopped in Vegas and stayed the night there. Went to Fremont street and watched the spray painter guy, totally awesome!! You tube him some time, it's really cool! We had some good quality family time, went skating and other miscellaneous things. Got to visit friends in blackfoot. It was a good 15 days. Now we are getting back into our old routine. Two more months of school. If I can get through that I'll be doing just fine!! I'm ready for a break!

Quick Update

I really need to get better at posting on this, even though no one looks at it. It's an online diary almost! Online scrapbook for sure.
Anyhoo, our Daddy is deployed right not to Iraq but gets to come home soon for a visit. We're excited for that.
Brianna is doing well in school and is playing basket ball and really enjoying that. She's also taking piano and gym.
Tommy is smart as a whip and enjoys school and gymnastics.
Paisley is in preschool and turns 4 on saturday. She loves her teacher who she calls Miss Melon!(Marilyn)
Bella turned 2 a couple days ago and needs to go to gym, she's quite the tumbler. She loves music and sings all the time!
Mom is going to school and juggling life without dad. We are all doing pretty good. Cant wait for Dad to get home!

Princess Party & Ballet

The Crew

Posing with a princess.
This was the princess party and ballet that i helped put together. I took my 3 and a couple friends. It was a pretty fun time!

Princess Party & Ballet

Brianna, Tyra and Paisley posing with some of the cast.
Princess Brianna
Princess Paisley
Prince Tommy
My little Royalty

Ryan in Mississippi

I needed a pic to give to the school for their Veterans Day program and this is what I got!=)

Update on the Lloyd Family

Well I guess I better update this thing. Ryan ended up getting deployed so he is in Mississippi right now. He will be shipping off in about a week. He will be a liazon for the International Zone, the mouth piece of the Army......or something like that. I'm not real sure what he's doing.
I was going to apply for a secretary job at the elementary school but with Ryan being gone I decided to hold off. I am also still going to school, so hopefully in a bout a year and a half the job will be back open somewhere.
Brianna is in 3rd grade and doing very well. Tommy in in Kindergarten although might as well be in first. Paisley goes to preschool and is learning lots! Bella stays at home and terrorizes mom. We are dealing with having dad gone. We got a flat daddy and the kids were pretty excited for that.
Winter is coming and it's getting cold. I mostly stay inside and try to stay warm!
Hope all is well with you and yours!!

O here we are back home!

I really need to keep this thing updated. Oh well, no one reads it so I guess it doesnt matter. We're back home and tomorrow is the first day of school!! YAY! Tommy starts kindergarten on tuesday and paisley starts preschool in a couple weeks. I cant believe I technically have 3 kids in school!
I'm not going to be going back full time myself....it's a money thing...but I am taking an online psych class. I plan to keep up on all my WDM stuff though. I need to get good so I can take over the district web site cuz it SUCKS!
Ryan is at AT for 3 weeks. Eventually he might be home long enough to do some much needed house repair! Oh wait, hunting season starts in 3 weeks, nevermind. Well, here's my update, hope everyone that reads this is doing well!!
Ciao

O here we are in Oklahoma!

We are in OK with Ryan finally. It's great to be here. Grandma and Grandpa came with us and stayed the weekend. We've already seen some wonderful sites. We went to the top of Mount Scott, highest mountain(hill) in OK. We went to Medicine Creek, OK's first cobblestone community, it is absolutely the closest thing to heaven on earth I've seen, next to home of course. It's beautiful! We saw some buffalo up close and long horn steer. There's a cinnabon!! We spent the day today driving around lawton so I could learn my way around. Now to figure out dinner. No oven and no bathtub, but we'll manage!!

Christmas, for real???

Wow, i cant believe i havent changed this from christmas style, better get on that!!

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