Selfies

Brynlee discovered how to take pictures on our computer several months ago. Yesterday I was looking through all of them and some of them seriously made me laugh. I also discovered several old pictures of Brynlee and me and some with Anna so I thought I would just share some of my favorites with you. Be prepared for a lot of pictures. The first picture is taken around February 2011 so Brynlee is 8 months old. If there is no adult in the picture, I wasn't there when Brynlee took the picture. 

This one is of Brynlee with my brother Brian when he was babysitting for us one night.

With baby Annalyn

Here is one last one of me with baby Kyla. This one was taken today.

I sure do love my little family. My girls are really growing up and it is so fun to be their mom. 

QJS

HHHHBYJ   B

Kyla's Blessing Day

On Sunday July 6th we were able to take little Kyla to church and Joel got to give her a name and a blessing. 

It was an extra special day for us because my sister Heather took her baby, Remi to church and my dad gave her a name and a blessing as well. Both babies looked so beautiful in their little white dresses. (Remi is just 6 weeks older than Kyla.)

Kyla was given a beautiful blessing by her dad. She was blessed to be healthy and strong and to be an example to the people around her. We sure are lucky to have this sweet little girl around. She is one well loved little baby. We are so grateful for all of our family that came to church with us for her blessing. All of my brothers and sisters came along with my parents, my grandma, and my aunt Lisa and her girls were there. Joel's parents, his brother Jake and some of his family (the little kids were sick), his sister Janeen, and his sister Joanna came with all of her family (except Tara who was sick.) We are very grateful that they were all able to be there for this event. 

After church we went to my parent's house for dinner and we enjoyed some games and had fun spending time with my family.

I sure do feel so super blessed to have three beautiful little girls. I can already tell that Kyla has come with her own little looks and personality. We have all enjoyed having her around and we are so thankful for the love and support from all of our extended family. We can't wait to get to know this little baby better and to see what she will accomplish in her life.

The Fourth of July

This year for the fourth we started the morning by putting on all of our red white and blue clothes and heading out for the fourth of July parade in Melba. I took my camera but it hasn't been working that great so I only got a few pictures. Little Kyla officially turned 1 month old on this day. We took the double stroller with us to the parade and made Brynlee walk. We sat by Joel's family this year. My dad, Alesha, and my cousin Hailey stopped by to say hi but they didn't stay for very long. Uncle Jake, Joel's brother bought a plate of fries and ketchup before the parade started and Annalyn really enjoyed eating those. Kyla slept through the whole parade. Rachel held her at first and then she gave her to me. Once the parade started Annalyn got scared of the cannon and she would not move from my lap. I gave Janeen the baby and Kyla slept in Janeen's arms for the rest of the parade. Annalyn eventually got up to get some of the candy but Anna and Brynlee were both kind of timid about getting the candy at first. They still ended up with a good sized bag of candy and they enjoyed the parade.

After the parade we went and got two sno cones. The plan was to share them but in the end Joel and I only got a few bites of sno. The baby started to wake up and cry at this point as well so I ended up getting her out of the car seat and carrying her and we figured it was time to leave. Brynlee kept trying to eat her sno cone and walk at the same time and she ended up spilling part of her sno cone, running into several people, and walking so slow that we were forced to take the sno cone away until we got to our van. The air conditioning quit working in there again and it was a super hot day. Much to Joel's disappointment, I had him take us home so that I could feed the baby and make Annalyn take a nap. I wanted her to be able to stay up late. Joel ended up taking a nap in the middle of the living room floor while Brynlee slept and I wrote on the blog. As soon as Annalyn woke up we went over to my grandma's house and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows. It was kind of hot for it and in the end I stayed inside with the baby while Joel and my mom cooked my hot dog and marshmallow. My aunt and cousins were there from Texas and Brynlee had a lot of fun playing with Kennedy and Ryder. My grandma bought some poppers for the kids and my aunt Lora had some cool parachute fireworks that we lit off. It actually launched an army man that flew down with a parachute. The kids loved that. Then we went to visit Joel's parents until it was time for firework. This was the first time in a long time that we went and watched the fireworks from up close.

I was a little bit worried about how Annalyn would do with the fireworks, she is scared of loud noises. At first she was scared but once she realized they were not a threat, she seemed to enjoy them. It was a lot of fun to get to enjoy the fireworks up close. I fed the baby during most of the display so she did great and Brynlee loved them. We had a long walk back to the car but this time I put the baby in the moby wrap so that Brynlee and Annalyn could ride in the stroller. It took us a while to get home but we put the kids in their pajamas and they were asleep almost as soon as they were buckled in their car seats so it was a nice and quiet ride. I love this country where we live and I enjoyed celebrating Independence day with my family.