Blessing Day

Well, yesterday, August 30th we had Rylan's blessing. Since he is going to be 3 months this week, we figured it was probably about time. :0) It was a great day. Jason's parents, along with his brother Trevor, his aunt and uncle, and cousin came down from Boise for the occasion. His sister Jessica and her fiance came up from Las Vegas, and he had and aunt and uncle and some cousins here that came as well. I had my family that lives in the area, and two of my cousins, Jeff and Marianne along with Marianne's husband Bradley came as well. It is so nice to have so much family around and to have them be part of such a special day. After the blessing we all came back to my parents house and ate and hung out. It was nice seeing everyone and getting to know some of them better. The house was packed!

The Payne Family

Me with my boy!

With Grandpa and Grandma Mullis

With Grandpa and Grandma Payne


My side that showed up

Jason's side that showed up

4 generations of Mullis'

As far as the blessing it self goes, it was a nice once and Rylan was such a good boy. He tends to have a temper at times, and loves to scream. He is getting better, but it can be hard to catch him in a good mood. So leading up to the event I was so worried that he was going to be screaming and I wasn't going to be able to hear a thing, but he was mostly quite. A couple of times he started to fuss and I thought, oh no, here it comes, but he calmed back down. His outfit was made by my Mom, Grandma Mullis. She is so talented and it looked so good on him. No one would have guessed that she got it done in like two days and was finishing putting the buttons on that morning :0)

4 Years!

Jason and I celebrated 4 Years of marriage on the 6th of August. I would have done this post earlier, but I kept trying to get an updated picture of Jason and I....I'm giving up.

Looking back over the last four years in some ways it seems longer and in other ways it seems like just yesterday. How lucky we are to be together! Jason is an amazing husband, I'm so blessed to have found a man that loves me the way he does. He is hardworking, caring, intelligent, and fun to be around. He is always willing to help out with dishes or go pick something up at the store. He even knows when I really need someone to talk to and will stay up late to talk to me even though he is tired and has work early the next day. He loves his family so much, and he is a great daddy. His kids love him so much. At church the other day Kiera was brought to us during sunday school for a diaper change. She saw Jason and yells out Daddy and starts trying to run to him, it was so cute! So four years and two kids later, here we are!

Two months and counting

Rylan is now two months old, or at least he was on the 4th. He is getting so big! we went to the doctor and he was already 13 lbs 6 oz. He is starting to smile and coo at us. Other than that he is either sleeping, eating, or crying. The little man already has such a temper. He gets so angry and his little face gets so red. The other day he was compared to a mandrake. For those of you who aren't Harry Potter fans, they are the little plants that in the second book they pull them out of the soil and their faces are really red and they are screaming at the top of their lungs. Yep, thats my Rylan!

An overveiw of the last few weeks...

Kiera just looked so cute in this beanie!
I looked over and she had stolen my scriptures and was "reading." Such good habits and such a young age...not sure who she takes after.....

While moving we had boxes out all over the place...Kiera enjoyed climbing into them. She would fill the boxes up with toys and books..and of course her blanket, then she would climb in after them. The boxes were just more toys to her.

The last night in Jasper was spent at the theatre play. My sister was in it, they did High School Musical and Kristyn was a cheerleader. She did such a good job, it was a joy to see her. Kiera did pretty good through the whole thing. She really liked the songs, she would dance around. Kristyn said at one point while the Basketball players were on stage with their basketballs she heard Kiera say "Ball" she thought it was cute, I felt bad though, I don't know how many other people thought it was cute... :0)


Then I reach my new home, at least until we can get into our own place. One of the first things I see is this dear while eating breakfast...

We are excited to be here in Utah, though the kids are taking a while to get use to it. The 2 hour time difference is not easy. We are mostly happy just to be back together as a family. The kids and I have missed Jason and Jason keeps telling me how much he missed us.