Comparison

I just think that my kids look so much alike when they were the same age so I thought I would try to get a picture of Braylie when she was Traetyn's age and we could compare. Here it is...

Braylie




Traetyn

1 Month Stats

Traetyn Turned 1 MONTH OLD TODAY!!! SO crazy! Here are his stats for all of you who like that kind of stuff like me and also just for my journal keeping sake.

Weight: 9lbs 4.5 oz 35.73 percentile

Hieght: 20.75in 21.63 percentile

Head 14.25in 13.68 percentile

Just for good measure... Braylie weighed 7.5 or 7.6 at 1 month old.... What a boy!!! He has definently chunked up since birth!!! :) Here are some recent pics of him:

Traetyn's Blessing

Yesterday we blessed Traetyn here in Rexburg at our home ward. We had my mom, dad, sister and her husband and son stay with us at our apartment the night before!! Count that... haha that's 6 adults and 3 children staying in our little apartment! It was really fun to have them here!! More then one night I think I would have started to become crazy but it was perfect just how it was!

Payden was at his football game in Logan Utah when my parents arrived but we had just bought a couch that morning and I really wanted to have it home.... soo... I roped my dad and Mike into helping go pick it up and moving our old couch into the suburban and our new couch into the house. It was a lot of work but I am so glad that we could surprise Payden with the couch and am so grateful for their willingness to help!!




Sunday morning was CRAZY! All of us were running around getting ready and the kids were having a ball playing. We made it to church though... and ON TIME! Although all of Payden's family minus Linzie and Payson beat us there. Good for you guys! You're awesome! Payden gave a wonderful blessing and was surronded by wonderful family in the circle. His mom used shorthand to record the blessing and I can't wait to read it again after it's all written out!

After the blessing the Toones went back to blackfoot to prepare for the dinner later that afternoon and everyone else including my aunt and uncle and grandma from bear river came back to our house. We took some very much unwanted pictures haha (payden thinks I take an overload of pictures. we had his blessing pictures taken last week by a family friend so he thought we didn't need anymore but of course! I thought we did!) and then we finished preparing the meat and fruit that we were bringing to the feed in Blackfoot.

It was such a wonderful day at the Toones and so nice of them to always allow us to have our big family parties there!! We just love them to pieces! OF COURSE!!! We missed out having Erin and Utahna and their kids at the feed because Utahna's brother was giving his farewell speech that same day in Juniper. I'm so so SO glad though that it worked out for them to come to the blessing that morning too and go to his farewell! It's so nice to have family around to show their love and support. We thank everyone who made the effort to come and join us on our special day of blessing our sweet little boy!! We are so in love with him and truly enjoy sharing this time in our lives with those who mean the most to us!

So after all of that... Here is what really matters... The PICTURES!! ;D

P.S. The pictures of Payden in a purple shirt are not accurate. He of course wore a while shirt and suit coat to bless Traetyn. After church he changed out of his clotes so fast that I had to have him change back and this is what I got. he still has his shorts on too haha - like I said... unwanted pictures! haha I'm so glad I got some though!!! :)

The pictures are in a REALLY random order so take it as it is...