Slow Lil' Grandma with announcement of BJ - Welcome

Welcome to BJ Bateman. These are pictures of the happy family. BJ was born on October 14, 2011. We are extremely that he is here and doing so well. I'm a little slow at getting this up here. Very happy that Heidi is doing better too.

Baby BJ is in his isolette in Nicu and Sam and Grandma Zobell are looking on.

Heidi and son - beautiful picture.

On right Brad, Sam and BJ. Sam is very excited about the new lil' brother.

I love this picture of Brad and new baby BJ.

Here is Danielle, Audrey and Jessie (along with escort, Tony they went Trick or Treating)

On the right, the Great Pumpkin patch.

Ki, Tim and Leea as Pumpkin people.

On the left, Leea enjoying all her candy - she didn't want to come home, but keep going to get more.

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Tony went Trick or Treating

Cute Ladybug Leea

More glimpses of Halloween

Matthew - the professor of Pokemon, Josh of Robotech. Rapunzel (Sydney) and Fashion Diva (Ki)

The Williams kids at the corn maze and Josh with his newly carved Jackolantern.

Glimpses of Halloween

Here are some of the cute little people celebrating Halloween, Leea, Ki, Christine and Matthew.

Lil' Grandma and computer knowledge (or lack thereof)

As you can tell, I am still a bit computer challenged. I meant to say: My family has always got interesting poses and people trying to make people look ahead ( oh darn that was me), make people smile and generally goofing off for the camera. Not good to break any family traditions? Right?

Truly Amazing how Time Flies ....

We had family pictures taken. Wendy and Quinton took the pictures. The ones I've seen are sooo good. There are several, of course, (this is my family we are talking with 10 children included) there are some that are extremely funny. It felt so nice having us all together. Thank you, Wendy and Quinton.

How do we know if we are praying the right way? Father in Heaven would surely let us know if we prayed amiss. I love and trust Him so very much. I also trust His timing. Please help me to understand and accept your answers. You see the big picture. I will continue to trust you, Lord.

Heavenly Father, are you really there, and do you hear and answer every child's prayer? Some say that heaven is far away, but I feel your arms around me when I pray.

Welcome to our newest family member - Jordan Vyrl Bateman - born on Friday, February 18th, 2011 at 10:59 am. He is so cute. Congratulations to proud parents - Bob and Lindy!! Good job.

JORDAN VYRL BATEMAN

You can now find Tony on Facebook and at his blog insight-blindwisdom.blogspot.com I'm going to be interviewing him about his blindness and how he deals with it etc. We're doing this in an attempt to draw others in who have similar circumstances. And of course to his friends and family. If you have any great pictures of Tony - please send them our way - and we'll post them. Thanks!! :)

I love this picture of Audrey and Tony (Santa). All snuggled up at the end of a perfect Christmas Day. Christmas Day was so wonderful. We spent it at Tim and Christine's. Everyone seemed content with their new treasures - even Tim with his new sleeping bag. And we have a new chocloholic in the family - Maleea, a new skater - Kianna, a new skateboard rider - Matthew, Josh - with a new Spiderman game. Audrey - Petkin toy ( hope that is right) Sydney is a perfect replica of Repunzel and Savannah a blue ferry with sparkling wings. Logan got a lil' people farm set.

Brad, Heidi and Sam were sick so we took their presents to them and sang and Josh played trumpet. I'm not sure what Sam got for Christmas, but I know that he was very happy to see us that night. Tony got his books on cassette and Grandma got her snuggie, Carrie Underwood and beautiful plaque for the prayer wall. A lovely Christmas indeed.