blood transfusion and nickelodean live!

melanie, bella, and i at nickelodean live!

melanie and bella at the hospital before melanie's blood tranfusion

melanie sleeping through the blood transfusion

melanie and bella sleeping through melanie's blood transfusion

thank you blood donors!!!

bella wide awake at 3 a.m.

melanie and brandon roasting hot dogs

bella helping daddy trim his beard--bella was asleep but had a tight grip!

practicing hold her head up and working on a smile

happy birthday melanie! and more pics

the first pictures are from today, 4/24; we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows in the fire pit . . .

ethan picked me some "flowers"

brandon and ethan enjoying roasted hot dogs

it was windy out; bella laying under her pink "blanket tent"

the boys roasting their hot dogs

brandon roasting a hot dog
ethan giving his hot dog a thumbs up

bella snuggled up in ethan's bean bag chair

brandon admiring bella

brandon loves her so much!

bella 4/24--7 weeks old

bella 7 weeks old

bella 4/24brandon and ethan after their hair cuts

brandon likes to help get bella dressed--putting her jammies on here

holding hands

everyone wants to hold bella's hands!

melanie and bella on melanie's birthday

melanie's birthday

bella 4/18--6 weeks old

bella sleeping during melanie's birthday party

sleeping beauty bella

melanie with her birthday cake--thank you shari!!

grandpa finished building the swing set and the kids are LOVING it!

melanie by her locker at school--she loves to go visit her friends at school!

easter

melanie after her shower snuggling with bella

this site always posts the pictures in reverse order, so these pictures start with most recent.

the boys and i went on an "army adventure" today . . .we walked down the gravel road and back to the lake behind our house (maybe 3/4 mile away). this first picture is the boys after we got back home sitting on the ground under what will be our swing set. they were wiped out from our "long" walk.

a "crystal" brandon found along the road

the boys on the dock at the lake

posing by the lake--we were watching the geese

on our walk to the lake

me and ethan on our walk to the lake

bella with no feeding tube!!! (just a lot of tape residue on her face)

mommy and bella snuggle time

melanie and bella snuggle time

baby bella

bella and her adorable friend, zion. they are two weeks apart

sleeping through a bath . . .again

brandon and bella snuggle time

just hanging out

coloring eggs

brandon comforting bella when she had what we guess was belly pain

brandon, ethan, and melanie searching for eggs

getting ready to go on the egg hunt