Idaho Trip

We spent a whole month in Idaho (well the kids n I did, Lance went back and forth between us and work). It was so fun! We had missionary homecoming, Kaylee's blessing and Brian's homecoming talk in church. We got there the day my brother Brian got back from his mission! Our whole family was together again.

Sleeping Beauty

My bro Steve and me at the airport

The Bros Brian, Kyle and Steve

First time holding his nephew Beckham, well first time holding a baby in the last two years - I think the last baby he held was actually Kiya before he left :)

This was so cute, my sis Shelly and I would kiss Beckham and he would get this HUGE grin on his face. He is seriously the cutest little guy - definitely a ladies man already!

I love my random child. We discovered that along with her Grandma and uncle Kyle, Kiya loves V8. And when I say love I mean LOVE - she had SIX cans of these in one day. Girl's getting her veggies in that's for sure!

Smile Kiya, uh ok?

Love the face, I was slowing her down from playing outside with aunt Shelly lol.

Everyone now and again Kiya will ask to hold baby Kaylee, she's actually pretty dang good with her. These girls are going to be such good friends.

Oh my goodness we had sooo much junk food! We basically had one big event after the other and all the good food to come with! This girl was in heaven!

I thought this was cute, Kiya and her papa.

Yep seventh heaven, you can't see but she has ice cream in her hands.

I love this picture, my brother is such a good daddy.

My birthday was while we were there and so was Steve's! Steve's was the weekend of Brian's homecoming so it was a PaRtY! It was fun to be home in Idaho for my Birthday!

My uncle Cory and cousins

Grandma and Grandpa set up their beds every night in the front room, and Kiya stole them every night. She thinks she's so funny :)

I missed the shot but Kiya and baby "baka" were playing so cute and Beckham was smiling and talking to her.

Great Grandpa and Grandma - we LOVE when they come to visit. They got to come twice while we were there!

Kiya, Beckham, and Lindsay playing! Lindsay has this cute yellow bug she drives and Kiya still says Lindsay's car whenever we drive past one.

Uncle Kiya and Beckham

I was giving Kiya a bath when aunt Katie called, she got so excited and had to talk to Katie so we all talked to her on speaker phone.

Brian definitely bonded with this baby. While Lance was gone Brian and my daddy took turns taking the night shift with Miss Kaylee. I have the best family.

My sister Shelly used to love getting stuffed animals. Well, Kiya does too and she found the collection, all of which ended up having to go night night with her.

This girl grew out of her preemie clothes and started getting some good chubbies!

Kiya found grandma's purple eyeliner and got "pretty" At first I thought it was marker, but was grateful to learn otherwise.

Kiya spent a lot of time playing the piano, I think here she was actually letting Katie play :)

First time holding Kaylee

Kaylee's Homecoming!

Kaylee came home from the NICU a day short of one month old. The little sweetheart had the toughest time with the eating thing. She recieved the sweetest priesthood blessing from her daddy and a brother from the bishopric on Sunday 1/17, by the following Tuesday her feeding tube was out. And she came home that Saturday the 23rd of January! The next day we did absolutely nothing but be a family and enjoy being all together, it was the best day.

She had been doing consistently well for a couple days and the nurses were telling us they thought the doctor would give the order for the feeding tube to come out that day. Well Kaylee beat them to the punch, she yanked the thing out before the doc did his rounds. So they just kept it out, and it never went back in!!! This is her first pic without annoying tube thing :)

This was the day before, she had just had a bath and the nurses found this adorable outfit for her. I didn't bring any of her clothes to wear til the day she was discharged, if you bring in your own you run the risk of never seeing them again. They had some really cute clothes though, cuter than I remember them having when Kiya was there.

Little buddies Laena and Kiya. We had so many good friends bring food and watch Kiya and just be there for support. I'm so grateful for the love and kindness of so many people. I hope someday I can return such generosity as was shown us during this time in our lives.

Cuddling with daddy

We recieved the prettiest flowers from Lance's work.

Kiya holding Jemma - Justin and Kendra's baby girl. I got mastitis a couple times :( The sweetheart brought me this whole bag of get better things to help it go away.

Waiting to meet her new baby sister.

Hmmm not sure . . .

Daddy and his girls that night, our little family together finally! That was my favorite - seeing Lance hold our girls, he's such a good daddy.

The NICU tells you not to use those head things that keep their heads from floppin around because they haven't been studied with carseats for crashes. So they showed us how to do the blanket thing, it looks really funny though lol.

Ok, this baby sister thing isn't so bad . . . she's sorta cute!

Christmas!

Wow is it April already! I want to eventually get all this printed so here's catch up! We stayed in Arizona this year with just our little family. It was really fun, we kept it low key - presents and then ate junk food and watched movies all day. Then three days later we had my parents and three youngest siblings come into town (right in time for me to have a baby lol)! It was a fun and crazy holiday season!

Great grandma and grandpa got her this adorable horse. It neighs and shakes its tail when you press its ear. Kiya wasn't so sure about riding at first and had to hold on to grandpa - she got the hang of it though and hauls the thing all over the house saying watch me mommy.

Tutu! Grandma got her the best dress up box!

HUGS!

Favorite gift, baby and all the accessories to go with! I love the look on her face, I love you so much baby - eat this bottle now!

You can't see it but these are her new kitty jammies which were another hit - as you can see in the above picture of her wearing it around her waist!

Mommy and daddy got bites of the baby's food as well, such a nice girl!

Boots yea!

Unfortunately Kiya and I were feeling a little under the weather for Christmas :( I don't know what the heck she's doing in this pic, but I can imagine she's thinking "I just woke up and don't feel good please just leave me alone!"