Captain D Boyd

Helloooooo everyone! :) This last week was a very exciting (and busy) week! On Thursday, David finally had his promotion ceremony for Captain.

I took the morning off work to go and pin my hubby for his new rank. :o) They had an official welcome back ceremony for his company and another company that came back that came back at the beginning of February. It was out side and crazy windy! I swear I almost fell over a couple times!! lol

This is right before the ceremony - David was trying to get his pin off his hat so that I could put his Captain rank on the hat (b/c the Lt Col. was pinning his chest)- he was having some technical difficulties. :o/

That's Colonel Andresiak about to pin David's rank on him - he's a big guy! :o) I told the colonel to punch his rank on, but he said he'd let me do that. David was grateful - I'm sure! :o)

Here he is, Captain Boyd - no more "L-T" Boyd. Wahoooooo! Soooo happy!

Now, if we could just get him a civilian job - that would be awesome! We have 3 months left in the Army, so wish us luck! Thanks for the support you guys have given us - we LOVE our family and friends! :o)

Love,

DB, JB & BB

Happy Birthday To Me!! :o)

Well, better late than never! :o)

David and Bellah threw me a "surprise" birthday party on my birthday (Feb 10 - In case you didn 't know) :o) "Apparently" David made it a point not to wish me happy birthday all day so that I would be "surprised when I got home...... hmmmmmm..........

So I got a card from my coworkers and David sent me chocolate covered strawberries AND flowers on my birthday - the strawberries were yummie! :o) We went out to lunch at a place called Silver and Stone here in town and were VERY not impressed. We waited over 30 minutes for our appetizers (on my 1 hour lunch break) and another 30 minutes for our entrees... AND it took the guy forever to get us our bill. Not good when you are on an audit and you aren't supposed to take long lunches. :o(

When I got home from work, this is what I got:

Happy Birthday To Me!!!! Wahoooo.... another year closer to 30.... doh! :*(

Bellah and David spent all afternoon decorating the house! :o)

More birthday pix - I'm about to unwrap some gifts - wahooo! :o)

Trouser socks!! Just what I've always wanted!!!!!!! No - for serious! - I needed them.

Check it out people! The Melting Pot cookbook! Courtesy of my wonderful, amazing and the bestest sisters ever!!!! I even got some chocolate bars too! WAHOOOOO FONDUUUUUUE!!

Clean up, clean up, everybody, everywhere. Clean up, clean up, let the daddy do his share! :o)

More cleaning up the decorations. :o)


So, that's my birthday. :o) Other than that - no too much happeing in our world. It's very surreal to have David home. It's taken some getting used to having the help - it's been nice! :o) He's started going through his out processing stuff - oh yeah - he's now a Captain in the Army. :o) Sweeeeet!! We have no idea when he'll be pinned because his batallion commander is on "vacation" - punk! But, at least we get a nice raise! :o) I'll post some pix when/if we have the ceremony.

Love ya!

DB, JB & BB

David's Homecoming! :o)

I'm so glad when daddy comes home, glad as I can be!!!!!!! :o) Well, the wait is OVER!! David finally came home last week on Wednesday, February 4th. His flight came in just before 3pm and he finally got to the gym on Post a little before 5pm. It was the looooooooongest 2 hours of my life!!!


Bellah and I were walking around outside when the 5 buses pulled up to the gym. All the soldiers lined up on the other side of the street in formation and then they had them run into the gym, single file - it was kinda cheesy, but very energetic! It was like a rock concert with all the screaming! Too funny! There was even some a smoke machine!! LOL!

Bellah and I went into the gym - the General said a few words and then released the soldiers to their families! David was so jet lagged - but it was sooo wonderful to see him!!! <3



Bellah did sooooo well - she went to David almost immediately. On the way out she let him carry her. Then he went to get two of his three bags and met Bellah and me back at the car. But when he went back for the third bag, Bellah got so upset! She was like: "Daddy, where'd daddy go...". She was sooo upset! It was too funny.

Then, I went to drive up closer to where the bags were so that David wouldn't have to walk so far and Bellah freaked out! She was like: "No, mommy - daddy! No, daddy!!" She thought I was leaving him! LOL But we got him and headed back down to Georgetown. :o) It was sooooo great!!



Here we are, back home. My sexy soldier man and all his crap-o-lah!!












We got home around 7pm-ish - it was good to be home! Bellah enjoyed having daddy home! She kept staring at him in the car. It was so funny!





















Bellah thought that everything he did was hilarious! I forget what he was doing to make her giggle, but she was instantly addicted to daddy!

David has been home for 3 days now and it's been fantastic!!! :o) I've been working on Thursday and Friday to try and give David time to adjust and unpackand settle in. It's been hard because I just want to hang out with him all the time - but he needs to get settled in. It's been nice to have him here - Bellah hasn't started favoring him yet, but the've been having fun together.

David is still adjusting to life back in the states: he hasn't been talking in his sleep and I haven't woken up to him in some wierd military position in the middle of the nights - so, so far so good! :o) He goes back to work next week and should start the first half of his block in a month or so.

We are so grateful that this 15 month deployment is finally over!! It has been a huge blessing for us to have the opportunity to grow as individuals in the gospel, especially for me, though it sucked big time to be a single mom. I'm so excited to finally be able to get on with the rest of our lives. Thanks for all the support and prayers you guys have given to us. We appreciate the love that we've been given and look forward to the rest of our journey here on Earth! :o)

Love,

DB, JB & BB - together again! :o)

One Day Closer!! :o)

Well, as most of you know, David will be home next week! We are hoping by Friday, but it could be as early as Tuesday (3rd) and as late as the following Sunday (8th). This was moved up 3 days from the previous window. We are soooooo excited for this to be over and done with! The fifteen month anniversary is February 6th, that's a long time!

David and his company are currently in Kuwait waiting for all the paperwork to go through so that they can head home. He is finally getting some down time over there now that they are in the last stretch - thank goodness!! I will update this blog with pictures when he gets home! :o)

This will be the first Birthday and Valentine's Day that he's been home for in 2 years - crazy! I'm a little worried about the transation from single mom to married mom, I hope I don't stress him out too bad when he comes home. :o)

Thanks for all the prayers and support that you have given to our family - all our prayers are about to be answered! :o) I've told Bellah daddy's coming home next week, but she doesn't understand yet. This week was dragging, but Bellah was sick today and now time is dragging!! Go figure! :o)

Love ya!!

JB & B

Our Very First Car Accident! Wa-hoo :o(

Well, I guess I should blog about this since not everyone knows. Bellah and I were in a car accident yesterday morning. (Jan 7th). We were rear ended at the stop sign in our neighborhood. It was 7:55am, I was on my way to take Bellah to school and head off to work and we were about to turn right out of our neighborhood, but there were cars coming to the left so we stopped. The lady behind us saw us inch forward, but assumed we had gone and looked down at her wallet and hit us square in the back of my Passat. :o(

Bellah freaked out a little because of the impact and wanted to get out of her seat, but the smoothie that was in my hand (I was about to take a drink!) was all over me and the seats and I didn't want Bellah to get dirty. She calmed down after a little bit and entertained herself while I called the insurance company and got this lady's insurance information.

This is my very first accident (as well as Bellah's too) and it was not a fun experience! The first thing that went through my head was "Are you kidding me?!? Do I really have to deal with this? Did this just happen? Maybe it was my imagination!" And then I looked down and my cup that was once half full was now empty-literally! :o( It took me a minute to realize that someone actually hit me from the back and that my drink was everywhere.

The first thing I tried to do was find some napkins and clean up what I could. Go figure that I only had two in the car!!! I actually used one of Bellah's shirts in her backpack to clean some of it up!!

So, there's the damage. Not bad considering it was a Ford Expedition that hit us. I love my VW - it's totally a tank!! You can see some scratches on the bumper, the dent in the top of the bumper and the truck a little buckled.

This is one of the major areas that was damaged - nice little opening, huh? Maybe no one will notice. :o)

Here are some views of my trunk. It didn't buckle as much as it felt like it could have, so tha car is still drivable - unless it rains! :o(

The lady was very nice and said that she thought I had gone and looked down at her wallet and then hit me. If there weren't two cars coming from the left, I would have gone, but when there are cars coming - I think it better to stop! I didn't know what to do so I called my insurance company, USAA, to figure out what I needed to do and they were very helpful. I got all the info I needed from the other driver and USAA got all the info they needed from me. I love USAA!!

I've already filed the claim with the other insurance company and so far they have been very nice and cooperative. Hopefully I'll get the car into a shop by the weekend and be in a rental as well until my car is fixed!

Bellah and I went to the doctor's today to get checked out and we both are fine. I've got some serious stiffness in my neck and shoulder and lower back, but the doctor said that might go away in a week and keep and eye on it. If it doesn't, I'll go back in and we'll try to schedule some therapy or something. Bellah seems to be doing fine and hasn't acted like she has any paid or discomfort from the wreck.

Anyways, so Bellah and I had a wonderful Wednesday! :o( It would be much easier if David was here because he does all that phone call stuff. I HATE making phone calls! It's one of those things I will procrastinate until the very last second, if possible. It's a bad habit. Oh, well. I will keep you posted of any developments, but hopefully we won't have any.

David comes home in less than 30 days and we are anxiously trying to keep ourselves busy so that the time flies!! The military has pushed back his "window" to come home to the middle of February, but I'm hoping it'll be earlier - these guys keep getting screwed with this Unit they are with. America may "support" the soldiers, but the Military sure doesn't! The political world of the Military is a very frustrating beast. Thankfully, David won't be fighting it much longer!

Love ya!

JB & B