Elayna's Blessing/Shower

Michelle and Elayna! Michelle is one proud grandma and loves every minute of it!

Steve and Bryant-this picture just sums it up!

The extended family.  I would attempt to name everybody in the picture, but I am still getting names down.  But this is all of Elishia's family that was able to come to the blessing and lunch. 

Steve with Elayna- he is a proud grandpa.

Me and Elayna

Bryant and Elayna-I love this picture!

David posing for the camera!

This weekend we had the opportunity to go down to Utah for Elayna's blessing.  Bryant's parents were in town and we were able to spend some time with them.  On Sunday, we went to the blessing and then after the blessing we had a little lunch at the park.  There were lots of people from Kai's family and Elishia's family.  It was so fun to see how big Elayna had gotten since the last time that we saw her.  It was so cute to see Bryant with Elayna and made me excited to think of how he is going to be with our little one. While we were in Utah, Michelle surprised me and threw a little baby shower for me.  We met at Kneaders and people bought their dessert and then we just talked.  I was so grateful for the generosity and support that was given from both my side of the family and Bryant's side of the family.  There were cousins, Aunts, and Sister-in-laws their to support us.  There was family that I haven't seen in a long time and it was great to see them.  It is such a small world in the church-my Aunt LaRae and Michelle were in the same ward when Bryant was much younger.  This was the first time that they had seen each other since each went their separate way.  

Kristen, Shaelynn, and I

Me and Amy- I was so happy that she could make it-she came straight from work and I don't think she had been home all day! She is such a trooper!!

Emily, Laura, Aurale (sorry if spelling is wrong), and Erica enjoying visiting with each other.

Hoku and L.C.

Aunt Cathy and Aunt Sherry

Michelle and Aunt LaRae

This is me opening the gift from Kristen and Shaelynn-Shaelynn was excited for me to see what she had made for me.

This is what Shaelynn had made! Some princess pictures! These will go in the baby book for sure!

I was so surprised to see this.  I couldn't figure out how I didn't notice it in the restaurant before this but I didn't.  A group of people did a group gift and gave us a stroller and car seat! 

Cute shirt!

Cute little leggings!

I was trying to be very careful not to ruin the beautiful wrapping and ribbon.

Some cute blankets:)

A little dress:)

Some adorable little newborn outfits.

Burp cloths and diapers-apparently both will be a necessity. I am sure I will find that out in due time. 

 

 

 

Overall we were able to do a lot of fun things while we went to Utah.  We were able to stay a little longer than just the weekend which made it so that we could take more time to visit family! Bryant was able to go fishing with Dustin and caught a fish!!! I wish I had a picture of it, but still need to get it from Dustin.  We were also able to get dinner with them.  It is always a treat to be with Dustin and Amy-we wish we lived closer and could see them more.  We were also able to go and visit Perry, Kristen, and the girls! It is so fun to see how big the girls have gotten each time we see them.  It is also fun to visit and catch up with Perry and Kristen!

Grace, Shaelynn, Caroline, Kendra, and Bryant

Kara's Graduation!!!

On Friday July 22, 2011 Kara graduated from BYU-Idaho!! I won't lie I was kind of jealous because I would love to be graduating, but my time will come.  Gavin, Terri (Gavin's mom), Mariah, Bryant, and I all met up before graduation at Kara's house.  When we got there we were told that the zipper on Kara's graduation gown was broken-so before we left Gavin grabbed some duck tape and a stapler so he could do surgery on Kara's gown. Luckily, when Kara got there and told them they just gave her a new gown.  So it all worked out!! We were kind of far back and so when the graduates started marching in it was hard to see which one was her.  But we will just pretend that we see her in the video.  The music that they marched to made me think of a circus on the Merry-Go-Round. 

After the first part of graduation we met up with Kara.  She looks so excited as she comes down the stairs and smiles are all around!!

I forgot to add these earlier-but this was me taking pictures of Gavin and Terri taking picture of Kara and Bryant taking picture of us.  We were waiting very patiently for the program to start. 

For the second part of graduation we got to see Kara receive her diploma case-her diploma will actually be mailed to her-but hey it still looks cool!

After the second part of graduation we went out and took more pictures.

Overall the evening was really fun! After graduation we went back to Kara's apartment and had pizza and a delicious cake that had oreos on top of it!! Bryant and I are both so proud of Kara!!!

4th of July!

This year for the 4th of July we had a slam packed day! We got up kind of early-especially when we had the option to sleep in.  Our day started out going to the parade.  We weren't sure what to expect, but it was actually a really nice little parade.  I was really excited because I heard they gave out candy-what I didn't realize is that they are bias towards the children and I couldn't bring myself to fight some of the kids for the candy.  We decided to pack a little lunch and go to the park after-wards.  We met up with some families from our ward and played a game of kickball.  I had decided beforehand that I wouldn't play-but it looked so fun that I couldn't sit and watch-so I played and then payed for it the rest of the day :(  Once the game was over we decided to have hot dogs and chips with the families that were there.  So we all met up in our apartment clubhouse and spent about 2 hours eating and watching espn.  By this time I was exhausted and burnt. Ouch! We came home and waited for our friends to get into down so we could meet up with them for a cookout.  Once they got into town we packed up some food and fireworks and headed out to their place.  We had such a fun night with Talon and Celina.  Bryant and Talon had lots of fun with the fireworks! They liked trying to spell out their name with the sparklers.  They also liked to throw fireworks into the bon fire and see what would happen.