Lexy

Here are a few pictures Missy and I took of Lexy today...

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We are excited to finally be home!! The labor and delivery couldn't have been any smoother. They started me about 8 am and it went pretty fast she was born at 2:46 pm. We feel so blessed to have her here and healthy. She nurses like a pro and has been a good and content baby.

This is one EXCITED sister!! We had to sneek her into the hospital since they said no one under 18 can visit. We put a mask on her and came in the back. She couldn't wait any longer!

Emry is excited but has no idea what is going on :)

When I saw her the first time this picture of Brynly came to mind...

Day before delivery


We have had so much love and support from everyone...Thank You!!

She's HERE!!

8 years in the making... our miracle baby Lexy Rose Dabell was born Today, October 13th at 2:46pm. She weighed 7lbs and 5oz. She has quite a bit of dark hair and possibly blue eyes. She looks a lot like Brynly!! Mom and Baby are doing great! Way to go SueAnn and Trent! She's beautiful!

~Missy

38 Weeks

My little photographer took this picture and it is a little fuzzy but you get the idea of my prego belly. I am 38 weeks and we are ready to meet our new little baby...hopefully sooner than later! :)

Aren't they cute!

It is certainly true of siblings, they are best friends and worst enemies!! This is how I found them the other morning while Bryn was trying to finish her breakfast. Emmy idolizes her sister!

We now interrupt this marriage...

My grandma had a magnet on her fridge that said "We now interrupt this marriage to bring you the NFL football season". I need that same one only instead of football it is hunting season!! :) This was the day dove season opened so Trent went across the street and shot himself some doves.
Then he went to Medicine Lodge and went sage hen hunting. This is only the beginning of a long hunting season...
Photos by Brynly Dabell :)

Labor Day Weekend

We went to my Grandpa Eddie's Ranch for the holiday weekend with the Gardner Family and had a great time!

Great Grandpa Eddie with some great grandkids and some great great grandkids! Mona Gardner (Todd & Tiffany's daughter) Brynly, Emry, Grandpa, Grace & Cameron Gardner (Scott & Mandi's kids). I wonder how many 93 year old Grandpa's are as amazing as this one-- he hooked up his camp trailer himself and loaded his own 4 wheeler and came camping with us!

Brynly and Mona

Brynly

Brynly and Emry

It was a fun weekend of playing!!

Big Yellow School Bus

I think riding the bus was as big of a deal to Bryn as starting school!! She LOVES to ride the bus. Emry and Brynly sit on the front steps together until the bus comes and then Em waves to Bryn as she gets on the bus then she comes inside-- it is their cute little routine.

First Day of Kindergarten

It finally came...the most exciting day of Brynly's life and a very sad day for the mommy!! She was disappointed that they didn't read and write on the first day, but she said that recess was her favorite part!

August Happenings...

I can't believe that summer is almost over!!! We have had a busy August. We went camping to Island Park the first weekend of the month for the Gardner Reunion and had a good time. A couple weeks ago Bryn read a book with her dad called Just Me and My Dad and after reading it she said I want to go camping just me and my dad. That request required no persuasion...Bryn and Trent went on an overnight camping trip just the two of them to Medicine Lodge. Bryn caught a fish that they ate for dinner but her favorite thing was making smores and sleeping in a tent!

This past weekend we went to my Grandpa Eddie's Ranch and camped. We helped my dad cut firewood..

we rode four wheelers, played baseball, and shot skeet. The girls wanted to try out shooting so they got to try the .22 and thought it was fun!


What a lively crowd!! :)

Today Andy and Missy had their baby! They named him Aiden Austin Boyd, he weighed 7 lbs. 10 oz. and is 21 inches long and was born around 4:20 pm. I wanted to be there when she had him but we missed by less than 10 minutes!! It was fast! I hope my Labor and Delivery can be like hers!!! He is a very cute baby, I think he looks a lot like Kyler. The girls are excited for another cousin!

Welcome to the family Aiden!!!

30 Weeks!!!!

OK, OK, I am finally posting another stunning picture of my belly. :) Brynly took this picture of me the other night...quite the photographer isn't she?? We are now just a little over thirty weeks and time is flying by!!

More Birthday Pictures

When we returned from Lake Powell we had a little birthday party for Brynly and invited those family members who weren't on vacations with us.

This was what she REALLY wanted for her birthday...a new bike!!!

Brynly's 5th Birthday at Lake Powell

My little Brynly turned 5!!! I can't believe it! It really seems like yesterday that she came so quickly into our home and it has been a joyful ride ever since!! We love her so much!!!!
She was worried that the balloon fairy wouldn't find her at Lake Powell, but she was so excited to find balloons around her bed when she woke up!! Her first comment was "Mom, I am bigger now because I am five. I think we are going to have to get me some new clothes because look at my arms and legs they are bigger!!"
Her birthday tiara that she so faithfully wore all day except in the water.
Her birthday party with all the kids
Bubbles and sand castles, what else could a kid want on her birthday??
Blowing out her candles in the birthday cobbler.
Birthday tiara thief!!! :) Brynly had a very fun birthday!!! We are so thankful for her and LOVE HER A TON!!!

Lake Powell 2009

We just returned from another fantastic trip to Lake Powell. We alternate years and this year it was with my family. It was smokin' hot, but we found a place that was shaded all day which is almost essential when you are on a houseboat with 35 people!! We didn't take Emry and missed her like crazy but we had so much fun!! Brynly had so much fun with her cousins, in the past Bryn has been the only small child on the boat so Macy and her hardly left each other's side...it was pretty much heaven for Bryn.
Brynly, Macy and Grandpa Smith

Brynly knee boarding...she was SO proud of herself!!!

Bryn trying to ski and getting SO close!

Going down the slide, a little reluctantly.

Making a sand castle

Playing on the rock...they would run down and jump in the water

Trying to ski again

Tubing...she spends most of her ride with her thumb up to go faster!!

Kayaking with Macy
Andrew put on as many life jackets as he possibly could and was unsinkable...

It was hilarious watching him try to go down the slide looking like this, it reminded me of the big red Powerball commercials!

Bryn and Trevan

What a pose!!! This is a picture that Bryn had Macy take of her. A week of good food, good company, hot weather, warm 80 degree water, and all the fun you can stand...what could be better???