Our New Addition...

Kiley and Brendan Enjoying
our Beautiful Weather!!!

Kiley in the Pool!

Brendan Going Down the Slide!

Having a Blast on a Beautiful Day!!!

Love at First Sight! :o)

All of us at the hospital, Bailey was
about 16 hours old...

They LOVE their New Little Brother!!!

Bailey Michael Leverett

7 Lbs. 9 Ozs. April 20th 9:55 pm

Our Beautiful Baby Boy!!!

Well as most of you already know we welcomed our Beautiful baby boy, Bailey Michael, into the world on Monday night, the 20th at 9:55. It was a Super Fast and Crazy night! I was having contractions pretty much all day, but nothing too bad. It was a Beautiful day! We had gone to the park and then came home and played outside for a little while. Then while Kiley and Brendan were taking their naps I set up the pool, YES the Pool, in the backyard to see if they would like to swim when they woke up from their naps. It was about 75 degrees and there was no wind, which is unheard of in Great Falls. So anyway, when they woke up they were SUPER excited to see the pool and they wanted their swimsuits on and they went for it! It was a BLAST! Never thought growing up in the South that a 75 degree day would mean going swimming, lol! But they swam for a little over an hour and then came inside for a warm bath. Korry came home while they were in the bath and we got them out and ate dinner. We had spaghetti for dinner, so another bath was in store after we ate. While they were taking their baths my contractions started getting a little more intense, but again, nothing horrible, just a little longerand stronger. So we got them dressed and ready for bed and I laid down on the couch in our computer room. It was about 8:30 and I Jump up and tell Korry I think my water had broken and sure enough...it had. So I call my next door neighbor and ask her if she would come over and stay here with Kiley and Brendan. So I started panicing a little bit and took a shower and by then the contractions were right on top of each other and CRAZY painful, lol! So I did the thing any crazy woman in labor would do, I started cleaning my bathrooms, lol! Yeah I am not quite sure WHAT I was thinking!? So Korry came and got me to stop cleaning and get me into the car and we headed to the hospital. We got there about 9:30 and had to wait for an escort up to labor and delivery because the main doors were closed. So about 9:45 they came down and got us and took me to my room. My Dr. got in there and I put on a gown and "politely" asked for my epidural, lol. She said she needed to check me and put my IV in and then they would do that. So she checks me and then the great news came, lol...I was ready to push...he was RIGHT there and coming fast! So I kinda panicked, my worst fear would EVER be doing this without any pain medication, and I didn't even have an IV yet...so I pushed about 4-5 times and he was here! He was born at 9:55. He was apparently in shock at how fast he came as well and had to be put on oxygen for a few minutes. SO then Korry got to hold him and then I got him for about an hour before Korry went with him to the nursery to get all checked out. So all in all it was an exciting adventure and he is here! Safe and Sound with some bruising, lol! But here are some pictures! I hope everyone is having a Great week! :o)

Our Easter Weekend...

Kiley Hunting Eggs in the
Backyard

Brendan Checking out all the Eggs he Found

Kiley Looking for More
Eggs...

Opening all the eggs they Found...Very Exciting!

Brendan Finding Eggs.

Kiley Showing me what she got from the
Easter Bunny

Kiley & Brendan Dying Easter
Eggs for the Easter Bunny!

Very Excited for the Easter Bunny to Come!

Hunting for Easter Eggs at a Friends House
on Friday before Easter.

Making masterpieces with chalk, lol!

We had a Beautiful Easter weekend! The weather was perfect, a little windy on Easter day, but other than that it was Picture PERFECT! Kiley and Brendan got to do a lot of egg hunting this year. Some friends of ours from church had an easter egg hunt on Friday afternoon and they really loved that! They have a HUGE backyard and they hid TONS of eggs for all the kids from church, so that was lots of fun.
Then on base they have a childrens Easter carnival for all the little kids on Saturday. They have little booths, door prizes, lots of food and a jumper for kids to get worn out for naptime, lol! But it was exciting, both Kiley and Brendan won a door prize this year, they were so excited! Kiley won a leapster TV and Brendan won Lincoln Logs. They also got to meet the Easter Bunny and get lots of candy, so they had a blast! Then that night they had SO much fun dying Easter eggs, it was a pretty big mess by the end, but they had a blast. They each got to choose one package of dye to paint their eggs. Kiley chose Disney Princess and Brendan chose Star Wars. So they had a lot of fun putting all the stickers and things on the eggs and then dying them. They came out pretty dark. Brendan dyed most of his eggs every color, he didn't want to stop putting them in the different colors, lol!
Then on Sunday morning they woke up to find what the Easter Bunny brought them. Kiley got a Belle Doll and some littlest pet shops and a my little pony. Brendan got some spider man things, a "boy" littlest pet shop, a lightening mcqueen car and some candy and then they both got light swords, lol! They were very excited. Then we went to church and then came home and they hunted for Easter eggs with our friends from next door 2 kids. So all in all it was Beautiful Weather and just a great weekend spent as a family! I hope everyone also had a Great Easter weekend and a Great week this week! :o)

A little Overwhelmed...

So, we found out last week that Korry will be deploying this summer for 6 months and we're not sure how much training he will have, but it will probably add up to about 7 months. This information alone would have been enough for me, but in the last 2 weeks there have been many new "discoveries" I guess you can call it. We found out our little guy will be coming earlier than we thought. He is bigger than they thought he would be and we're having an ultrasound on the 14th to decide how soon we should induce and how big he will be. So anyway, it may not sound like a lot, but when you think you have so much time, when someone takes away some of that time, it gets kinda crazy! So anyway, we also found out that before Korry leaves he has to turn in his choices on where we want to move next year when he gets back from his deployment. Quite a few of our top choices are not available to us right now and the ones available are not my first choices for various resons...so anyway, I am getting frustrated with all these things we have to do and now we have minimal time to do them in since we are apparently having this baby early and then soon there after Korry will be leaving for his deployment. So this is a lot of information to digest and then figure out what to do with it all.
So this has not been the best week for me. If I only think about these things separetely, it isn't so bad and I don't really have a hard time, but when I think about the big picture of all the changes coming...Having a newborn, Korry leaving, Kiley starting school and making plans to move somewhere new and have choices to make in this area...this is SO SO SO Overwhelming to me!!! So I am trying very hard to take these one at a time, but as most of you know...this is not the easiest task to take on.
So anyway, I am sorry this all got dumped on here, but I am a little taken back and I guess this is kinda an outlet! So please just keep us and my sanity in your prayers, I could really use them! I hope everyone is having a good weekend and I will talk to you all soon! :o)

Our Funny Little Boy...

Ok, so last night we were trying to figure out what to do, so we drove around, took a movie back and ended up at Old Navy. They were having a big sale on their newborn clothes, so we went and looked around. Anyway, as we are leaving Brendan tells us he has to go to the bathroom. We're already all in the car and driving away, so I ask him if he can hold it until we get home. He tells me he can, but lets hurry, lol! So we are going home and we get to the gate to get on base. We are sitting there and they are taking a while. So we get up there and they are looking over our ID's "Throughly" and Brendan yells from the backseat, "Tell him I have to go Potty". LOL...It was HILARIOUS! The gate guard heard him and everyone just starts dying laughing. It was Really funny! So anyway, this was a random post and story, but I thought it was funny enough to share. Oh, and by the way he made it home and got some choc. kisses for it! YAY BRENDAN! I hope everyone has a Great Friday and weekend! :o)

Never Fails...

So Korry went on a TDY this week to a Public Affairs Conference in Washington DC. He left Monday and is going to be back Friday afternoon sometime. So I was actually a little excited to have a few days to myself, get some things done and just BE. BUT, last week I went to the Dr. and she said I had a misplaced disc in my back that is floating (my words, she was more technical, lol) due to all the fluids in my body because of the pregnancy. I have never had this before with Kiley or Brendan and my back was hurting REALLY bad. So she said all they could so was put my on some muscle relaxers to make sure I could at least sleep at night. So I can only take them at night because they knock me out...which is nice to get me to sleep, but not so nice when there is only you. SO ANYWAY, Korry has been helping me a lot the last week since I can't do much! So the thought of him being gone for the week was a little scary!

So on Monday is wasn't too bad, he brought up all the laundry Sunday night so I would be able to put it away and helped with whatever he could before he left. But Tuesday on the other hand was the Worst day ever...it wasn't like something big and awful happened, it was a bunch of little things all piled up! First our stupid dog pooped in her cage after I had just let her out, because it was cold and she wanted inside so I had tons of fun cleaning that up, then I was wiping Brendan after he went to the bathroom and was going for a baby wipe when he fell backwards and got poop all over the carpet, then the worst thing was I lit a candle that I had to make the dog poop smell go away and forgot about it and the "RED" wax over-flowed all over our "CREAM" carpet in the living room...and this all on top of my back KILLING me. SO this was just not the best day...poor Korry "loved" hearing about it on the phone that night, lol! We still have a nice redish tint to our carpet, I am going to have to have someone come out and clean it professionally, unless someone knows a really neat trick to get wax out of carpet.

I am hoping the rest of the week goes much smoother. Today was actually pretty good, I got caught up on all my laundry and my house is all clean and Kiley and Brendan were Super good, now the trick will be keeping it that way until Friday when Korry comes home, lol! So anywho, I am sorry for this long post, but I needed to vent a little and there is no one here...so this I guess is it for now. Hope everyone has a Great rest of your week and weekend! :o)

Our New Hobby...

Kiley and Brendan Looking at the Fish in the
Water! Waiting for one to Jump again!

Kiley looking at the Falls.

Brendan, excited to be outside...but still pretty

Cold!

Korry showing them the fish jumping out of

the water!

Walking together and Holding Hands! :o)

So a while back Korry got to use the camera they have in their office at work and he LOVED it! It's a Super nice camera, but we had a nice camera and I didn't think spending that much money on something we already had was a "necessity" at this point in time. So anyway, a few weeks ago the zoom button on our camera wasn't working and it was the Biggest pain...(I swear Korry rigged this somehow, lol ;o) so we had been saving up for a trip to Canada to see a hockey game and he started looking at tickets and they are CRAZY expensive...so anyway, he got to choose either the camera or the trip and he excitedly chose the camera, lol! So we got it in the mail and watched the DVD and read all about it and thought this will be our new hobby! And it's now our hobby turned OBSESSION, lol! We went out today and took pictures and it was SO much fun! We can do it as a family and then we take them home and are "attempting" photoshop...that stupid program is crazy complicated...lol! Anyway, here are some pictures we took today! I am so excited about this camera, it's so fun and cool! It takes Really good pictures!!!

No More Diapers!!!

So a week ago Brendan decided he wanted to wear his Big Boy Underwear! I honestly thought it would not last very long and he would be back in his diaper as soon as he realized he had to actually get on the toilet and go. We treid this about a month ago and went out and let him pick out underwear and all that fun stuff, and it lasted a day. So anyway, I thought this would be the same thing, but I wasn't even about to discourage him! My goal has always been to only have one child in diapers at a time. It worked with Kiley before Brendan was born, but from what I had heard from other people Boys are a completely different ball game. So anyway, Brendan has not had ONE accident as far as going potty in his underwear since he decided he wanted to wear them. We JUST got the pooping thing (sorry for those with no kids on this mental image, lol! ;o) down on Friday, so we're SUPER excited. He has been going on his own for a week now and I am THRILLED!!! No more Diapers, for at least a few more months! So anyway, I was Really excited and proud of our little man! He got to go to Target and pick out a new toy of his choice from Target yesterday, so YAY!!! He was so sweet too, we told him he could pick 2 and he said he would pick one and Kiley could pick the other...AHHHH! Now let's just hope #3 is as easy as his older siblings!!! :o) I hope you all have a Great rest of your week! :o)