Bellah's New Bed. :o/

Well, I've been wanting to do this for a few months now - thinking, and waiting, thinking and waiting... and with our tax refund this year, decided that now was a good time for.....

A new big girl bed for Bellah! :o) ..... :o/ ........... :o( .........

Last weekend, we went to Rooms to Go Kids to look at some beds for Bellah (David heard they were having a really good sale)... so we went and looked and bought. :o)

This is Bellah right before she walks into her room to see her new bed... she has no idea!

The set we bought had a dresser with a mirror, a tall dresser and a night stand!! It was more than we needed, but cost the same as we were expecting to pay for a full bed. :) We got a full bed so that the guests who come to visit us won't have to sleep on an air mattress... ;o) Plus I was afraid that if we got a twin she might fall(roll) off. :o(

(Yes dad, that's her shiny baby cup on the dresser - decided to finally pull it out.)

So, Bellah was SOOOO excited about her new bed! :o)

Testing out the boards....

Climbing the bed......

Jumping on the bed - yes on her knees... I don't want her jumping on the bed so I compromised for bouncing on her knees.... :o/

Wrestling with daddy! >:o)

And finally.... sleeping her first night in her big girl bed.... =::::: o/

She's been sleeping the whole night through in her big girl bed ever since! :o) And, she hasn't fallen off once!! :o)

As for the other bed - it's going in the attic to collect dust while we wait for baby number two.... which won't be anytime soon. :o( We'll keep you posted.

Love ya!

JB, DB & BB

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