Happy Birthday!

In celebration of her birthday, Hyrum's mom wanted to take whoever could come to the splash park and have a picnic.  It was a lot of fun and such a nice, warm day out.  Kyla wore herself out and took a nice long nap afterwards.  We all got some sun so it's nice to see a little more color (whether red or tan) around here.  Here's what we did:

Had a picnic in the park (Nathan is laying down in the grass and Heidi is taking the picture but they were there too!)

 

Played at the Splash Park

 

  

Rode on the Carousel (Kyla's absolute favorite part of the day!)....

 

....while Grandpa held Tayven during his lunch break! (Can you believe they charge $1.00 for newborns to be on the carousel too?! That's absolutely crazy!)

We also played on the toys at the park (sorry, no picture for that one.) We had such a fun day and hope that Grandma had a fun birthday!  Happy Birthday Grandma/Mom!

Just Some Ordinary News

So believe it or not I honestly think Tayven is teething...already! He's only 5 1/2 weeks old!  It may take months before the tooth actually comes through but I can totally feel it in his mouth.  I know...crazy huh?  I guess some babies come out of the womb having teeth though so I guess it is possible!  Another new thing for Tayven is that he can play with his toys while sitting in the bouncer.  He'll totally bat at them and get so excited.  The other day he discovered his hands and just looked at them for a bit.  I don't know if he knew they actually belonged to him because he hasn't done it since but it was still cute nonetheless.  How come HE has to grow up just as fast as Kyla is?  Can't they just slow down a little?!

Yesterday Kyla managed to find time in the literally 1 minute I was in the bathroom to completly knock Tayven over and out of his bouncer onto the floor.  Luckily, he didn't get hurt and was fine for the most part, but let me just say that Kyla and I had a pretty long talk. :)  Between Kyla's constant poking at Tayven's eyes and pushing him over, I'm hoping he won't end up blind or battered.  hehe.  It'll be interesting to see what poor child #7 has to put up with.  I guess I'll start praying for him/her now!

Camping

We decided to be daring and attend our ward camping trip this weekend.  It was such much fun!  Since it's been raining for the last 3 weeks we were very blessed to have a beautiful day and night on Friday and Saturday with no rain at all!  With Tayven being so little we weren't sure how he was going to do but he was so perfect!  He slept pretty much the whole time we were camping waking up only to eat. 

Kyla of course had a lot of fun being outside for so long and showing off to everyone in the ward.  She hasn't been as shy around strangers lately and she will go up to anyone, take their hand, and show them her room, her toys or whatever she loves most about where she is at the time.  While camping, she had to show multiple people where her tent and sleeping bag bed was, as well as wanting them to take her for a walk.  We're so glad that the people in our ward that she "made friends with" played along and were so willing to follow her wherever she wanted.  All in all, it was a short yet fun camping trip.  Since Hyrum and I both absolutely love camping, we will be planning at least 3 or 4 more campouts this summer so we are quite excited!  Stay tuned for pictures and posts of our other camping adventures this summer.  If anyone wants to join us just let us know!

Special

There's always something very special about a new baby and one of those things I have enjoyed about my children is when I look at them when they are so new and innocent and they seem so familiar like I've seen and known them before.  They always have felt like they've been with us forever...like we've met them before we came down to this earthly life.  Maybe we have or maybe we haven't but it is still so amazing to think and wonder about the possible person this little being will become.  How strong and valiant they are to be living in this time and how strong they're going to have to still be to survive the temptations of this world.  It is truley amazing.  What a wonderful gift we have been given to raise up Heavenly Fathers children in the Gospel.  I sure hope I can do a good job with all the trust that has been given to me!  It seems like the more children I have the more children I want, which I'm sure means with more children brings even more joy and happiness. I sure can't wait to see what Heavenly Father holds in store for us and our family in the years to come!  Families are definitely forever..and I wouldn't want it any other way!

1 Month Old

 

Tayven turned 1 month old today!  I seriously can not believe it!  Time has just flown by.  He currently smiles all the time when he's happy and gets so excited when we're playing with him.  As of last week he weighed 8lbs 9 oz and was 20 1/2 in long which puts him in the 25% for weight and 10% for height.  He's growing like a weed and is still such a great baby!  Happy 1 Month Birthday Tayven! We sure love you!

Our Favorites

Here are a few more of our favorite pictures from the photo session with the Rognon's.  There are so many more that we like but we'll have to post those a different time!  They certainly turned out beautiful!

 

  

  

Sneak Peak!

The Rognon's are just regular college students and as a hobby are awesome photographers as well.  Since they are trying to build their photography portfolio and hadn't ever done many newborn baby pictures they advertised to do some newborn shots for free and we totally jumped on the opportunity!  Here is a sneak peak of just a few they took of Tayven and our family.  Once I pick up the CD they have ready of all the rest, we'll post some of our favorites. They did amazing and we couldn't be happier. Thanks so much Rognon's!