Happy Birthday Adrian!!

You are now 19 and not home anymore, that is very sad to me! I wish you could have been here to share your birthday with us but I know you are doing what you signed up for and I am very proud of you for it! You work everyday for all of us and that is very honorable of you to have chosen that type of work. I hope you had a wonderful day and spent it doing something fun for yourself! I love you very much baby boy! Happy Birthday!

I wrote this yesterday (12-30-09) but for some reason it did not post. Sorry and I love you!

Updates

K, so it has been a while for updates!

Dad has been putting in the floor in the dining area of the house and it is looking fabulous!! He has been working still and is starting to get some overtime back (not as much as he used to have by any means!) He got good gifts for Christmas like gift cards to Home Depot, the new Star Trek movie, money for a date night for him and mom, a picture in a frame of him and Kayleigh that made everyone cry, and a new suit! We gave him the suit but took him out to the store to pick it out and then have it tailored to fit! I will post pictures of Christmas later! Other than that he is doing good!

Mom has been here for a couple of weeks since going to Kentucky. She is doing good after all that has gone on this past year. She also got a picture of her and Kayleigh together and it also made everyone cry. She got a book that has a poem that David wrote in it, it was very good and again tears came! I cried first! She also got a new coat! We gave her that and I had her pick it out herself. She got other things that I will post when I do pictures. She is doing well.

Jonathan is working at newfield as a pumper still, still hating it as usual! He was a regular Scrooge this year, complaining he didn't want any gifts or anything. By the end he opened his gifts and the ones that needed to be put together was as soon as he was able to!! He got things like cloths and games. The game he liked the best I think was Hungry Hungry Hippos!!

Nathan enjoyed Christmas also. He got several things and he is enjoying watching them sit on the couch where he left them!! He did seem interested in the radio control car that he got from us, opened it as fast as he could and got it charging right away! He is still looking for work and doing odd jobs around here for Dad and Jonathan in the mean time. He also helps Dave Cozart a lot. Hopefully he can find a job soon and be able to pay some of his bills to allow dad to have more of his pay check for his own bills!

David is doing good. He goes out to the city every month to do a check in with the air force and while out there he sees Miranda. He only gets to see her twice a month so it is hard on him. She surprised him the day after Christmas by coming out here. i met her in town and she followed me back here to the house. Mom told David that Santa came and I had several packages from the post office in my hand, so at first he though that was what she was talking about and then he saw Miranda right behind me!! He was very surprised!!! His voice was shaking! It was awesome. He had a good Christmas also and again I will go into details about that later! He is still working at Als!

Samuel is still not working but continues to help most of the time when he is asked. He has perfect attendance and strait A's in school! Not much else with him!

Kevin is working still as a pumper at Berry Petroleum. He hates it or at least he makes it seem like that! He got a four wheeler for Christmas so that made him happy. It also made Jonathan happy since we are taking over payments for it from him! He is trying very hard to not say so many bad words and is doing good for the most part! He is still stubborn but even that I think he is trying to work at!

Adrian is in Germany and is going to be 19 on the 30th of this month! He is still waiting on his gifts that we sent him and has made some friends there. He spends most of his time with his friends and unfortunately none of them are LDS. He also unfortunately has not been going to church. I gave him a long talk about how important it is to attend but if not able to do that then he should make time every day to read his scriptures and pray! I hope he listened to me! He will soon be deployed to Afghanistan for a year! I am not excited or happy about it but that doesn't matter to the Army!! I am scared for him and I think he is also since he does not know what to expect. He is growing into a brave young man!!

Ashley is spoiled! She got more things for Christmas than she should have but oh well I guess! She is not doing so good in school so she has temporarily been grounded from the things that distracted her the most from her school work being the computer and the phone. When we get her grades next we will look at her progress and see if she needs to get those privileges back yet or what we need to do. I have made many suggestions on how she can get help and get her grades back up but she is a teenager and likes to do things her own way!! Hopefully her own way is the way it will work for her the best!

Rebecca is fabulous! Today she has a tummy ache since all she wanted to do yesterday is eat! She ate to much and is suffering the consequence of it! She was weighing it at 7lbs. 1oz a couple of weeks ago but we have not weighed her since or measured her length (I need to get on that!) She is out grown all of her preemie cloths but is still to small for the newborn size. We still put her in them and is so cute to see the pants hanging over her feet, she is just too cute!! She slept right through her first Christmas but was awake when she went and saw Santa a few days before! She is beautiful as ever and loves to give me lots of kisses and smiles!! I love it! She is going to be blessed on the 3rd of January!

Me! I love being a mom to a baby! It is fun at times to be a mom to teenagers but very stressful! Babies are funner because they cuddle with you and just need you! I am way behind on cleaning and laundry but am ok with it since the reason for it is because of Rebecca and I am enjoying that so much!! I am glad that Christmas is over so I can focus more attention where it needs it and get things back to normal!

Happy Birthday Cody!!

Happy birthday to you brother in law! I hope it is a good day and your kids give you more hugs and kisses than you can handle!!! I sent a card so if you have not gotten it yet then you should get it soon! I send the kids money but since you are old (ha, ha) you just get the card!!

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday Bentley!

Happy Birthday!! I saw pictures of your cake and some of the things that you got for your birthday, wow, I wish I could have been there!! I love the look on your face at all of the things that you got and the blowing out the candle picture is the best!!!

I hope you got the card i sent and I hope you have a wonderful birthday!!

Rebecca's Travels!!!

So these are mostly pictures of Rebecca!! I have many more but just put a few on here!!! To start with, the one that is above is of her next to the outfit that we were going to bring her home from the hospital in originally! It is a newborn size yet it would swallow her! This just gives an idea of how small she really was when bringing her home!

The one below is taken the same day as the one above, I just think that she is cute with her eyes open!

This is one taken of her and Lilly when they came out to celebrate Thanksgiving with us! Too cute!

We are on our way to go to her baby shower! She is special in that she actually got to attend her shower! Everyone loved her and wanted to hold her while we were there! I forgot my camera when we walked out of the house like a bonehead so I have no pictures of the shower itself!

Below is a picture of her in her car seat surrounded by all of the gifts that she got at her shower!! Can you see her in all of them??? She is a very spoiled girl with all of her stuff! Every bag is stuffed with things, I am glad that she is small, she will have the chance to wear all of the things that she got a few times!!!


I took her to church and had no dresses to put her in that would fit, this is the one that she wore her first Sunday! It is very big on her but she looks so cute in it!! I also love the flower on her tiny head! She is stretching but it almost looks like she is wanting to be picked up!

And of course it didn't take long before she figured out that I was taking her picture!

Her and I going to church! She is much cuter than I am!


She has been many places in her first month of life! She has been to Pinn Willies!

She stayed in her seat until it was time for her to eat!


We were waiting for her two week appointment and I noticed that she had pockets in her outfit! I had to put her hand in it and take the picture! So cute! On an off note, she will only get to wear this outfit maybe one more time before she has grown out of it!


The same day we went to Pinn Willies we also went bowling. I myself did not bowl having just had the c-section but it was fun to watch. The bowlers were Mom, Dad, Adrian, Kevin, and Jonathan. I was feeding Rebecca in the bathroom when they first started playing and I missed seeing Kevin fall and slide down the lane! That would have been a fun thing to get a picture of!!

This picture will update the top picture at some point. We wanted to have a picture taken of the entire family together since Adrian has gone to Germany. Of course getting Kevin to smile for a picture is impossible.

We went to the airport to say goodbye to Adrian. He is very attached to his baby sister and that made it that much harder for him to say goodbye. He is such a good big brother!


He is giving us a thumbs up right before passing through security! As soon as he passed through we were told that we could get a pass and go back since her was being sent away to Germany. Kevin, Rebecca, and myself got a second chance to say goodbye to him and watch him board the plane! I was crying as well as Adrian!


Most of you have seen Nathans dog Snow. If not, this is her and she is very protective of Rebecca. She always has to know what is going on with her and runs to her side if she hears her cry or make any kind of noise! This is a picture taken right before we left to go to Michigan and then Kentucky for Granddaddy's funeral. She knew something was going on!


While in Kentucky she had many admirers! Alison is one of them! She looks so little!!
Below is a couple of her cousins that wanted to hold her over and over again! It was very sweet to watch but a little bit nerve racking since they are small themselves and there was a lot of horse playing going on in the house.


She has been to her great granddaddies funeral. He saw a picture of her when she was born and so he knew what she looked like. I think he was pleased with her! She has another guardian angel watching out for her now! She is a special girl to have so many wonderful people watching out for her!


I got a picture of them walking the casket out to the hearse. A very good shot if I do say so myself!


When we got to the cemetery I got one of them taking it out as well! This one you can see Andrew in!!


So much honor was showed to him, it was awesome!!

Her is our gang outside the Baptist church after the service! We are a big group and I am amazed that we were able to all fit into the house of Granddaddy and Grandma Bloodworth!!


After the funeral and a short nap taken by Rebecca and myself while everyone else went to the playground we all loaded into vehicles and drove to the Diamond Caverns! She is so little that she won't remember it but I have pictures to prove that she has been to a cave!!

Above is her and I. She is so small!

Below is our group inside the cave!


Here her and I are again!

I had Samuel take a picture of her and I at the top of one of the sets of stairs! I am proud of myself for walking all of the stairs and not falling!!


I decided to just put this one in for kicks and giggles!! He is having a good time if you can't tell!!


While in Kentucky we went to church twice. This is the first dress that she wore. Still a little bit big but she is adorable non the less!!


For some reason the camera takes the pictures and wont allow them to be converted to right side up. I hope you can still see the cuteness that is Rebecca!!!

She almost looks like she is trying to run somewhere!!


She also got her first bath while in Kentucky!

She tried to block the picture but was not fast enough!!


She enjoyed the part where she got her hair washed!


So cute!!


The rest of the bath she did not much care for!! Poor baby!!


This is part of her fan club!! They loved her and when mom has talked to Dale since being gone from there, she has asked about Rebecca!! Cristy was a huge Rebecca fan!!


She is so cute when she is stretching!! This picture was taken when she was a month old! Very sweet!


The second dress that she wore to church while in Kentucky is below!! Again it is still a little big but very cute!! i love her hat also!!


A closer look at the hat on her! It makes her look like her head is super tiny! Andrew, if you can see at the bottom of the above picture you can see the tops of the booty's that came from Brazil!


She figured out that pictures were getting taken again!!

This was the morning we were leaving to go get on the train from Michigan! It was an early morning and she is not generally a morning person!


Here we are on the train from Battle Creek Michigan heading to Chicago! We were suppose to be on the train fro a couple of hours and then we would have a couple hour lay over in Chicago, that is not what happened! We were on a train that had major engine problems and so we were told that another train was going to hook on to us and tow us into Chicago. Something was wrong with the connections and so instead of towing us in, we were told to switch trains. We joined the other train and found ourselves extremely crowded with almost 40 to 50 people standing since all seats were full! We didn't make it very far before that train also had engine problems and they had to bring in a whole new engine to get us the rest of the way into Chicago. we arrived very late so we missed the train that was suppose to take us from Chicago to Helper Utah. We were put up in a Hyatt Regency hotel and given money to eat with as well as cab fair from the Amtrak people.


This is our room and Rebecca is just hanging out with mom on the bed!


We got back to the train station and I upgraded our coach seats to a sleeper room. that made us first class passengers so we were waiting in a nice room with free snacks and a fireplace! Very big difference in first class and coach waiting areas!

This picture below is for Adrian, I was on the phone with him at the time!!


This man below was a stranger and he came by and gave Rebecca a two dollar bill and a Susan B Anthony coin!


Mom wanted to wear her on the train for a minute!! I guess it has been a while since she has worn a baby on the snugli!

I wore her a lot on the train! The pictures would not upload for some reason though!

Here we are on the train, I just finished feeding her so I was trying to get her to burp!!


We ate in the dinning car that was upstairs. The food was free since I upgraded us so that was a nice thing!! We ate steaks!! At any rate, this is the stairs that we had to go up and down to get to the dinning car, very steep!!


Our first morning waking up. The bunk was close to the ceiling so I was given permission from the attendant for our car to take her and feed her in the family suit that was not occupied through the night! That was very nice of him!


She was having a good time on the train!! As you can see by her smile, she was in a good mood after waking up!!

Well that is what I have for you!! She has been in her car seat and going somewhere everyday since leaving the hospital except for 3, today being one of them!! She is 6 weeks old today and we weighed her with dad's postage scale last night. She is weighing in at 7lbs. 1oz. We will get the length done soon! I am excited that she is growing yet somewhat sad since she is not my tiny baby anymore! She is almost grown out of all of her preemie cloths but does not fit fully into the newborn one's yet! She is super cute and I am still a proud momma!!!

Belated Birthdays!

Happy birthday to Grant!! I sent a card for you for your first birthday and I wish I could have seen you on your day!! I can't believe it has already been a year since you were born! Where does the time go!!! You are so adorable and I wish that I would have been able to hold you when you were here for Thanksgiving dinner!! Next time I see you I will get to and I am looking forward to that!! I hope you have a great year!!


Happy Birthday Kendall!! So I gave you a card and I was actually there to hand it to you personally!!! I am amazed at how grown up you are getting every time I see you!! You are a wonderful boy and will continue to grow into a wonderful man!! You are a special kid, never forget that!!