Tayven's Blessing

We have had quite the busy weekend!  Since it was Tayven's baby blessing on Sunday we had lots of family and friends come up to visit.  Friday evening my high school best friends (minus one who had to work) came up from Utah and stayed with us.  My brother, Brian also came in that night.  We watched a movie, played games, played at the splash park, rode the carousel, played at the park, Karianne got a really cute haircut while Bonnie and Makella took a nap and Hyrum, Brian and I (and the kids) went to part of a family reunion, and just had lots of exciting fun!  My Dad and grandparents came in Saturday night and it was the first time my dad was able to see Brian since he's returned from his mission so it was quite the exciting reunion for them especially.  Our friends the Smithson's were also able to come up from Utah so we were so excited to see them for a little bit.

 

Aren't they so photogenic?!

  

Kyla and Makella play so well together.  They are definitely best friends! :)

  

Sunday was Tayven's very special day....his blessing.  We had about 25 or so people in attendance at church and then they all came over afterwards for an informal dinner we had outside of our apartment.  It was so nice and Tayven was given such a beautiful blessing by Hyrum.

 

 

 This picture just makes me laugh because Kyla is soooo tired and Tayven's just had enough pictures.  I think this is how family pictures from now on will end up being....sorry, no smiles from the kiddos anymore! :)

 

Speaking of "family pictures", this is about the best shot we got of all the grandkids with grandma and grandpa.  I love the facial expressions!  Kyla is copying Grandpa and Kyler couldn't sit still for a second! haha.

Our family with Karianne, Bonnie and Makella

Our family with the Smithson Family

I just love this picture!  This is my Grandpa with Tayven.

One reason why we chose Boyd for Tayven's middle name is because it's Hyrum's side of the family tradition.  It's been a 6 generation middle name with all the first born boys.  Here is the 4 living generations with the middle name of Boyd! It's pretty neat.

Tayven is so easy to make smile.  He's such a smiley, happy baby!  These are my 2 favorite boys!

My friends left Sunday night, my grandparents left Monday morning, and Brian and my Dad left today.  As much as we enjoy having family and friends around all the time, we are glad to try to get back to normal schedules again (Kyla's been cranky from lack of sleep and Tayven's been pretty fussy from all the excitement going on so needless to say I'm happy they're almost back to normal today!)  My dad will be returning next week for a couple more days so are excited to be able to spend a little bit more time with him before he heads back to his home in Nebraska.

All in all, it was a wonderful weekend filled with friends and family and food.  It can't get too much better than that! :)

 

   

  

 

  

**Sorry for the HUGE amount of pictures...there was just too many good ones not to post!**