Kiele's Blessing

So I'm sure you all think I have forgot about blogging... We have been busy with moving and the last couple of months have been crazy. I wanted to post theses pics from the blessing. The dress is over 100 years old. It was my Great Grandmothers... long story My dad just got 5 dresses and a baby doll that were his Grandmothers. He had know idea what had happened to them. My dad's uncle that had all of it past away when I was in high school then his wife about 4 years ago so we thought they got passed to her family along with all of our other family things. Come to find out my dads Aunt gave them to a friend/ neighbor that was a family friend. When my dad went over this summer to the house the neighbor asked about the doll and the dresses then gave them to my dad he was in shock. So when I was out looking for Kiele's dress my mom told me I should see if the doll dresses would fit her. well we got to play dress-up and I love this dress!!! It is very old and VERY fragile.

TWINS!?!

I took this picture the other night...I thought that she looked like me but this pic proves me wrong. What do you think??

our beautiful kids

WOW how time flies...takoa is going to be three in about a week my little guy isn't so little. We didn't get kiele pictures taken at the hospital because they never came to do it. We were planing on getting the kids pictures taken anyways so 3 days old this is what we did!! something that should have taken an hour maybe two took almost all day. TJ and him being so into fashion the kids not only had to match but also had to have new outfits. I just wanted them to match most of kiele stuff is new...but i was so tired and in pain I didn't care. We found the dress for her and then found takoas shirts!!! It worked out perfect. I'm glad my husband has fashion sense...

I think these turned out a lot better than hospital pictures!!! They are cute kids if I do say so myself.

kiele

This was when we left the hospital!!! Going back home where it all started!!
The missionaries came over to see her!! We love having them come to our house they are so great and always bring such a good spirit with them. We do miss Elder Parker he had been here since December. Elder Vainuku, Kiele and Elder Parker
First Sunday going to church

tattoo

TJ got a new tattoo....TJ got the first one takoas name and tribal while he was in school about a year and a half ago...I didn't know he was getting takoas name too. I think he did it so he could get more than one...I guess is worked cause now we have kiele and the gardenia ( that's was kiele means in Hawaiian). it wouldn't be fair just to have takoas name so now I have said I guess we should be done having kids. oh well I do like it

some of august

At the baseball game one week and one day yes we were crazy!! We wanted to go to ALT with mom my before she left back home to spend more time together... so we went to the Braves game it was alot of fun.
fighting over the cotton candy at the games silly boys

takoa and kiele
grandma and kiele
so I had to take a pic of this it was to precious this is how I sleep too.

takoa giving his sister a bath. I was helping too... so i didn't put it on the other post but she was 6lbs 13 oz and 19 in. She is really little compared to takoa but he got big sooo fast I'm sure most of you know how big of a chunck he was.

takoas football time

Takoa is pretty funny kid. He was playing football with his animals and bowling toys. I was watching him for like ten mins while he was doing this then I told my mom to watch him. it was like he was the only one around. he loves to play and ALWAYS has the energy to just keep going.
he has to much fun and if no one is around he will find friends or toys to play with.
tackels them all and then sets it up again...he is to smart I love this little guy.

4 Years!!!!

On the 13th Tj and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary!!! It has been crazy 4 years looking back . Going from Utah to Nevada now being in Georgia and moving to Alaska in a couple of months. That was never in the plan joining the Army wasn't even a thought in our heads but now it has turned out to be the best thing for us. We have our amazing little family two beautiful kids that we adore!!

My mom was here to help us so we were able to spend sometime together tj had the day off because of just having the baby so we went and got pedicures!!! It was so nice to have a relaxing time right after I had the baby. This is something we are doing every month just to have some time together. Then all of us went to a movie, not checking on what time it let out. Tj had to leave to go pick up his mom and sister from the airport in ATL so he had to leave the movie early. of course the movie we picked was almost 3 hours!!! We had a great day!! It has been a great 4 years with many more to come!!



I'm so luck to have Tj he is such great husband that has sacrificed a lot for our family. I have been so blessed to be able to stay home with Takoa and now with Kiele. He is a great husband also an amazing father. I look forward to spending eternity with him!!

Kiele Thalia Byrd

So we have our baby girl Kiele. She is such a blessing to our family. She had a grand entrance to the world!!! She was born at home in the bathroom we think around 3:25 on August 8 2008 (08/08/08 cool b-day) (we weren't really concered about the time!!) No this was not a planned home birth. I dont think I will do that again . So here is what happened. I went the doctors on the 7th for my normal appt. everything was great I was at a 2. Went home and did my normal day stuff. I was having contractions but really wasn't keeping track so when I went to get TJ from work I thought I would time them while I was waiting. This was at 6:00pm I was contracting every 3 mins. We had to go to the store and run erands so I just kept track. We ended up going to dinner with a friend I at this point couldn't eat cause it was making me sick. I told TJ when we were done we needed to go to the hospital. TJ was just rolling his eyes thinking I was crazy (for some reason he thought you dont go in until your water breaks). When we got home we had some friends come over to be with takoa. We got to the hospital at 11:11 (I just know that cause there was a clock right in the hall) We checked in got into the room and they hooked me up to the monitor I was now contracting every 1-2 mins....the resident came in about 11:45 checked me I was at a 3 so they told me I couldn't be admited until I was at a 4 so the sent me home and told me I would most likely come back the next day. I was shocked mind you I was still contracting every min. We headed home...once we were home I couldn't sleep I took a bath helped for a little bit. I woke up about 2:40 called the hospital because I was having some bleeding to see if i should come back in...the nurse and the doctor told me no I didn't need to cause they had checked me so that would make me bleed. well about 30 mins later I took a short bath I got out to go wake TJ up so we could just go in to the hospital I guess it was to late cause my water broke I put my hand down to feel and her head was right there I stared yelling for TJ to come help me. I had her in seconds thank goodness for the medical background I have I was able to stay calm and take care of her with TJ's help. Our friends that had stayed with takoa also were a big help to us as well. They were in shock as were we. We are just thanking our heavenly Father that nothing bad happened. We are healthy and now back home. As you can tell from the pics takoa loves his little sister.

4th of july!!!

takoa getting his face painted with stars and fireworks!!
the two prego girls nia and myself
takoa playing on the silde
on the boat ride he liked it at first but then he got scared when it started going faster.
our family we had a good 4th it just wasn't the same as home the fireworks weren't very long and it was really realy hot!