A Day In The Life Of A 3 Month Old

Hi. My name's Graysen. But my sister calls me "Man". My life is hard.....let me show you why.

I decided not to take a binky anymore

I get smothered by my sister....and why doesn't she have any clothes on?! Seriously...

I have to amuse my mom by wearing the silly blanket around me....doesn't she know I can sit up on my own?!?!

I slobber/drool......a LOT

I get to chill...

....with my silly sister too

I have to have tummy time

I get to sleep anywhere...

...and everywhere

I learned how to roll...

...over a few weeks ago

Yep, still sucking my thumb

but the best part is when I get to sleep with Daddy!

What a hard life!!

The Best 3 Years

Happy Anniversary!!

To the love of my life:

"Someone to hold you, and love you, and know that they're yours forever

Someone who wants you and needs you sharing your lives together

Love when it's true will make one out of two

and with all of my heart I want to be one with you

You are my sunrise, my blue skies, with plenty of sun to warm me

You are my shelter, my rainbow, whenever it's dark and stormy

All my dreams have come true since my love has found you

And when I look in your eyes, I know that you love me too

You're my best friend, and I want to spend the rest of our lives together

You're my best friend, my lover and there's nothing that could be better

than to

Hold you and love you, and give you all of of the joy you've lived for

When you're with me you lift me, you fill me, and you make me want to give more

And from inside of you so much beauty comes through

And it shines through your eyes, keeping our love oh so new

You're my best friend, and I want to spend the rest of our lives together

You're my best friend, my lover and there's nothing that could be better

You're my best friend, oh please can't we spend the rest of our lives together

'Cause when I hold you and look in your eyes

I know that there's nothing better...for me"

-Author Unknown...to me-

3 years ago I said that I wanted to be with you FOREVER!

3 years later and nothing has changed

The day we got married was the hottest day of the year....sweat running down from my armpits to my bellybutton....or was it to my toes?! Definitely a day I shall never forget

Good thing I made you wear your flip flops :)

Could we be any cuter?!

A favorite part of our favorite day

So Happy Together

3 years later, 2 kids later, and many memories later we are spending the day at the zoo. Looks as though Graysen is enjoying it far more than any other baby!

And the bear was tearing up a box....fascinating....to only you and me since Kyri was beyond tired...as always when we go anywhere!

We are both in dire need of a haircut and you can't see the animal in the cage behind us....what were we thinking taking a picture at such a time?!

We must have been thinking that it doesn't matter what we look like or what you can (or can't) see behind us, but that we are together...and that is truly the only thing that matters!!

Thank you for the sweetest gift: a message for me to open every day of the year from now until our next anniversary.

Gary, I LOVE LOVE LOVE you!!

I Kneel To Pray Every Day

Kyri used to always just sit when we would say prayers. Only recently has she started kneeling and we think it is just SO cute!

A Girl After My Own Heart

Tonight when Kyri was in the tub I heard, "need it...need it...I need that...chocolate...I need chocolate." Yep, that's my girl!!

Here she is, fast asleep with a toy on her arm

Kyri's pretty good at pronouncing most words. She even enunciates really well. But there's a few things she doesn't say quite right. One of my favorites recently is "stool". We have a couple of them and she loves standing on them so she can see anything and everything that's going on. Her pronunciation, "soofer". I have no clue where she came up with it, but it cracks me up every time!

What we've been up to:

Here's a few (ok, several) pictures to let you see what we've been up to lately. I totally skipped posting about our Allen Family Reunion which was the middle of June. I hope to one day (better late than never) get that posted, but decided to not get too far behind and catch up with what's been going on as of late.

seriously CUTE!! On July 1st Kyri's cousins got to come and play for the day. Thanks, Tam, for letting us borrow them! We had SO much fun! And Kyri still talks about them...I think she misses their crazy boy-ness. You guys can come play ANYtime!!

Here's Kyler, Kalen, and Cameron chillin' in the pool.

Kyri checkin on the boys

Gary and the kids settling down for a nice movie. Although, I think they were all slightly irritated with Kyri because she only sat still for about 2 minutes.

Kyri's new big girl bed. She LOVES it! And has only fallen out once :)

We had a fabulous 4th of July! Unfortunately, Gary had to work. So, I took the 2 kids to the parade by myself. (If you know much about my life with 2 kids you know this is quite an accomplishment for me....I don't take my 2 kids anywhere except on walks) Graysen slept through the whole parade and Kyri LOVED the horses the MOST! She even got a few candies! Then after Gary got home from work we walked over to the little carnival they have. I looked at jewelry in the booths while Kyri played on the FREE blow up toys. Then we got a snowcone to top things off. That night we went over to the high school (about a block away) to watch fireworks. We could have seen them from our house (obviously) but wanted to really experience them. They woke Graysen right up, but he watched them intently. Kyri loved them, even though she got distracted by her surroundings. All in all it was a great day had by all.

Here's Kyri sleeping with her glow stick bracelet and necklace the girl sitting by us gave her. She actually fell out of bed this night...she is a wild sleeper! But really loves her new bed.

Kyris 4th of July outfit she wore to church Sunday. Cutest girl in nursery!!

Here's Kyri with messy hair...and just being silly with some glasses we found in a box from her cousins.

they don't come any cuter than this!

Kyri playing in her pool....fully clothed

and I don't know how blog appropriate this is, but I couldn't resist! I took Kyri's sopping wet clothes off and before I could get her into the house she was back into the pool with nothing on but her flip flops and hat! I love this girl!

Another day in the sun...well, shade...Graysen loves being outside!

splashin' in the pool

no words necessary...

Kyri: sneeze ("achoooey") still Kyri: "bless you, Kyri!!"

A favorite Kyri phrase, "oopsy doopsy!"

I love that Kyri is starting to use her imagination. Lately when she eats strawberries they turn into frogs! "Ribbit!"

Last night we were just finishing up dinner. Kyri was still sitting at the table with just a tiny bit left on her plate. I was standing at the sink, with my back turned to her. I hear from Kyri, "hoppertopper...hoppertopper (in case you missed it from a previous post that translates into 'helicopter')...higher...higher!!" Then I hear, "oooohhh gross!!!" At this point I decide I should turn around and see what's going on. Sure enough, it was gross. Mushrooms all over in her hair!

My 2 Best Kids

There is much to catch up on and yet I am not taking the time to do so. Instead I am just posting a few photos of our precious little ones....and maybe one day I will catch up....or Gary will do it for me...???

at Graysen's 2 month appointment he weighed 12 lbs 7 oz and was 23 in long...growing "like a weed", but no worries, we won't pull him and throw him out any time soon.

(note the cute little mole on his leg)

sleeping...like a baby, of course

he doesn't just sleep all day (just most of it). In fact, he is very smiley when he is awake. He especially loves to smile at his big sister. But isn't he precious when he's asleep?


Kyri's getting big too...and mean. She loves to do things to Graysen she knows will hurt him. Just today she said, "Sorry, Gaysen" right before she smacked him with something!

But how can she stay in trouble for long when she is SO stinkin cute?!

Kyri now likes to say "here a go, Kyri" when we are giving her something...it makes me laugh.

The other day Kyri was repeatedly throwing hot glue gun glue sticks at Graysen and every time she threw one she would say, "sorry, G man, (throw), sorry G man...."

Kyri loves to help with the dishes. And since this is one of my dreaded household chores (we don't have a dishwasher), then I gladly accept her help. She stands on a chair next to me. I wash, she rinses and puts (throws) the dishes in the "drainer". She does pretty good until she gets distracted and starts drinking the hot water from the clean dishes, she ends up sopping wet, the dishes get done, and everyone is happy!

Don't we have the 2 best (and cutest, mind you) kids ever?!?!

serious sun, shades, and smiles

We finally got Kyri some new sunglasses, and, of course, I couldn't resist a new hat! So here she is sporting her new stuff!

You didn't think we'd leave our little man out, did you?


Going on walks is about as far as I go with these two, but we all LOVE it!! And, of course, I have the cutest kids in the neighborhood, so it makes it that much more enjoyable to show them off! :)

Graysen loves to smile, but it's hard to snap the camera at just the right time...this time we got lucky! Cutest little man I know!!

Some of our favorite things Kyri says: "hoppertopper" (helicopter)

"here a go, mamma" or "here a go, daddy"

"bless you, Graysen....maaaaaannn"

She tells us that at church she learns about "Monson, Jesus, and Temples" and lately when we ask her what she had dreams about it's usually "birdies" and "Jesus"

Her friends in nursery are "Mawy (Molly)....2 Mawies"

When she sees Graysen she will get right up in his face and say, "Hey, man! Hey, maaaannnn!!"

And, of course, our favorite: "lub you"

Oh Blessed Day

On Sunday we blessed Graysen. It was the most perfect day! It rained a lot in the morning and we had the opportunity to go to Logan (to our old ward) for baby Rylee's baby blessing. She is SO precious and born only a few days before Graysen. We then all made our way back to Kaysville for Graysen's blessing. By the afternoon the rain was gone and we even saw some sun! Gary gave Graysen the most beautiful blessing from our Father in Heaven. How grateful I am to be married to a man worthy to hold the priesthood and give such blessings to our children! Afterwards we all gathered at our tiny little place to enjoy a bit of food before everyone made the long trek back to their homes. Thank you SO much to everyone who came and made this such a special day for our special little family! I have decided that the only thing that would have made this day more perfect would have been to have all of Gary's and my siblings there...we missed you!

All of us. Picture is courtesy of my nephew Karson...I might have to see if my parent's pictures turned out better :)

Graysen in his blessing tux that Grandma Allen made for him. We are SO lucky to have Gary's mom so willing to make such amazing outfits! He is clearly not happy in this photo, but he really was good all day. We just didn't have time to take pictures before and he was a little hungry by this time. Hopefully when we go to our family reunion next week Amber can take some "real" pictures of him in this cute tux, just like she did Kyri in her blessing dress. (?) Again, how did I get so lucky to have so many talented people in my "new" family?!

This picture makes me smile. It was quite the barbeque!! Thanks Pops and Brad!

Rylee on her special blessing day too! I didn't get a picture of her in the dress Grandma Allen made because we didn't have time to go over to Dustin and Cassidy's house before coming back for Graysen's blessing...but she was absolutely beautiful!!