Long Overdue...

Below are a whole bunch of pictures that should have been posted forever ago I know.  Sorry!  It's just way too easy to get behind.

These are from August when Cameron's family came up for Raelynn's baby blessing:

 Karys got a new big girl bed back in August.
The bed is from Kassandra's parents.

Cameron made the canopy frame.

Cameron's parents painted it, made the canopy, and got the bed set.
It turned out awesome!

 New books :)

 

 Trying to smush Lacey

Here are some pics from end of August/September:

 

 

 My attempts at catching pics of Raelynn's first smiles.

Karys still loving her Big Sister sash.

We had a potty party to jump start potty training again.

Loved this chart! She was potty trained by about mid-September.... but remember we'd started back before Raelynn was born.

 

 Karys so excited that her Tinkerbell outfit from my Grammy fits.

 

 

 

These are from October:

 

 4 Generation Pic

 

 

 Karys was trying to carry her teddy bear around like a baby & take pictures with the toy camera. (she has baby dolls but wanted to carry the teddy)

 Cute little Minnie Mouse

 And our little pumpkins going to our Ward Halloween party

 

 

From the beginning of November:

I'll have finish up with Karys' birthday, the move, and Christmas in a new post I think.  I promise it won't be 7 more months this time though!

Raelynn Newborn Pictures

 Here are some pictures from just after Raelynn was born :)
My sister Amy took them for us amidst her own wedding prep chaos back at the end of July.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Playing Catch-up

Sorry for the lack of posting.  We've been a little busy lately between the new baby, every day life, and buying a house.  Yes we bought our first home!


Now that we're done buying/moving to our house I can start trying to catch-up on important posts that never happened...we're still trying to move in to the house so it might still be a little bit before we post all the pictures of the house, but we'll get there :)  Here are a few quick pics though:

Baby Blessing

Just a few pictures from Raelynn's baby blessing.  Thank you to all the family who were able to come.  It was nice to have you all there.

Grandma & Grandpa Mitchell

The Wilcox side: GG, Pops, CeCe, & JoyJoy

Grandma Renee & Grandpa Alan Mitchell

Amy's Wedding

So, just to make the wonderful crazy world of a new baby more fun we had to throw a wedding in too.  My sister Amy was sealed to her husband David in the Vancouver LDS Temple on August 10th.  It was a wonderful, beautiful wedding...and also a very looong day for the kids (and us).

Oh and David's middle name is Cameron and he is from California... we've already started warning Lisa to stay away from Cameron's from California! lol (for those who don't know already Cameron is actually his middle name too)

 

 Just coming out of the Temple

 

The Wedding Party

 The Mitchell Family

Our Little Family :)

 Babies sleep through anything...when they actually decide to sleep that is...

The Baits Family

This was actually right after David & Amy came out of the Temple.  Karys went running up to Amy and started dancing around her going "Big poofy dress! Big poofy princess dress! Why are you wearing that big poofy princess dress Amy!?"...I think she liked the dress

 Cameron finding a snack for Karys

 Little Cutie Pie

 And the other little cutie

Thank you Aunt Brenda!
Karys was ready to be done with pictures long before it was time to be done of course, and then she scratched her hand really well on Cameron's boutonniere.  It was even bleeding. And so we had a wonderful melt down on our hands.  She couldn't have Grandma or Lala or Maimy, so my Aunt Brenda stepped in and did a wonderful job distracting her and cheering her up.

Very interested in the bouquets

Karys was very not interested in anything at the reception until they started dancing at the end...then she wanted to dance all the time...with Amy & David.  Try explaining to a 2 yr old that she can't go and dance with her Aunt and Uncle because it's their "first dance"...here she is still dancing away with them even after most of the decorations are down.

Decorating the car.  There were also balloons inside and stuff tied to the back.

One picture I'm missing is of the very end of the evening.  Amy & David were opening their gifts (due to leaving town the day) and Karys laid down down on the gym floor behind them and was practically asleep.