Happy New Year! 2009 in review!

We hope our letter this year finds you all healthy and happy. A lot has happened this year for our family and we are so grateful to have received the blessings we did. Much has changed and a lot more will change coming up. Here is what we have all been up to this past year.

Justin: recently promoted to Senior Airman in June and is preparing to take the Staff Sergeant test in May of 2010. He’s been hard at work and also enjoyed their softball season, in which his squadron team made it to the Championship! Go Rattlers!! His youngest sister got married at the end of May so we got to take our family vacation with him to that and got to go to Disneyland afterwards! He also had surgery on Nov. 19 to have his patella tendon cleaned up. They think come February he’ll be able to run again. We are so proud of how hard he works.

Tiffany: completed her fitness training program at CNM and has enjoyed her time as being a stay at home mom. She does keep busy though. She took a trip in August with her mom to Pennsylvania and they had a lot of fun driving there. They stopped in Nauvoo along the way. Tiffany also got to go to Washington D.C. with her mom and Holly to see our Nation’s capitol. Upon her return we had discovered that she was going to be expecting our second child. She recently received a call to be the Assistant Base Activities Coordinator for the LDS families in our ward that live on base. Tiffany also keeps busy with the Squadron Spouses’ Group and helps boost the morale of our squadron.

Holly: is learning to read and is preparing herself for Kindergarten next year. She cannot wait to start school and works very hard on her lessons with her mom. She certainly enjoyed all her trips this year between Disneyland and Pennsylvania. We figured out that she’s been to 22 states and she’s only 5! Wow! She is very excited to be a big sister next year and practices on our friends’ babies. Holly has enjoyed being in our new home as well. We moved across the base and she loves her new room and loves being closer to the playgrounds and her future school.

We are looking forward to the next year and to the arrival of our little girl! May the Lord continue to bless you all and have a great holiday season.

Love,
The Mittons—Justin, Tiffany, Holly, & Rylie

Merry Christmas & welcome Rylie Noel to the family!

We had our 18 week ultrasound on Dec. 23, 2009. So far everything is going well with the baby and it is officially a girl!

Rylie Noel--we try to keep names that are from family origins. Rylie is English and because I have a Christmas deal with girls, we went with Noel for the middle name.

We are so thrilled to welcome Rylie to our family. The next few months will fly by and we'll get to hold our little angel. Holly can't wait to meet her little sister and teach her all about being a girl.

13 week utlrasound, but now we are 18 weeks!

This is our 13 week ultrasound that took place on November 12, 2009. We are so excited to welcome this new angel into our family. Our next ultrasound will be on Dec. 23, 2009! What a great Christmas present to find out whether it's a boy or girl. We got a stocking for the baby and have it filled with stuff for the baby, but also a t-shirt we got Holly that says, "Big Sister 2010," on it.
We plan to let her open it on Christmas morning to find out if she is having a brother or sister. We'll make the announcement on here that same day, as well as on Facebook, and via text message.

Holidays over the last year

So I've been a super lame updater. I haven't posted the pictures from our amazingly fun trip to Disneyworld at Thanksgiving last year and our trip to Disneyland this past summer. SO here you go! Please enjoy some of our favorites.

It's Official!

It's official! We are expecting our second child. I am 8 weeks today. We cannot wait to meet him/her. We find out on Dec. 23,2009 what we are having and can't wait for that special Christmas present. Holly is very excited to be a big sister and can't wait to help Mommy with the baby. The doctor even gave her her own ultrasound copy that says, "I'm the big sister." Our doctor is super nice and we are thrilled to have someone very attentive.

The doctor doesn't want me to lose any more weight however she is allowing me to go past the 1st trimester if I do. She said that if it doesn't stop then it's ice cream everyday for me. I won't complain on that one. But of course we hope that it won't come to that. So far the baby and mommy are doing great and the baby has a good strong heartbeat.

We should get to hear it at our next appointment in November.

Hill AFB Museum

We took Holly and my grandma to the Hill Air Force Base Museum in Roy, UT. Justin's sister, Ashley, and her fiancee', now husband Jason, met up with us there. We had so much fun looking at all the aircraft. We even got a private tour of my grandfather's plane that he use to fly, the P-38 Lockheed Lightning. Holly thought it was so neat to see Grandpa Thomas' airplane. She loves seeing the planes fly because she knows her Daddy helps them to fly. Justin told us all about the HH-53 Pave Low helicopter. He missed working on it by 3 months when they retired the it from the Air Force. The Marines still use them today. Holly also got to see the C-130 up close with her dad as you can see. That's the major aircraft Justin works on. She loves to learn about his job and she couldn't be more proud of what Justin does. Thank you honey for your service to our country and the sacrifices you make. Thank you to all our armed services men and women for the sacrifice you and your family make!

Silly Silly String

Holly had never experienced Silly String until her Daddy decided that it was time. He bought her a yellow can, being as that's her favorite color. As you can see, she didn't have the control he did, but nonetheless she had a blast. It was so much fun. And at Grandma Thomas' house there's always room to run and have fun.

Memorial Day Weekend

Over Memorial Day weekend we made a 650 mile trip to Utah from New Mexico. It was certainly long, but we endured it well. We saw some neat rock formations between New Mexico and Colorado around the border. Then in the Canyonlands area we saw a neat round rock. We also saw the Hole in the Rock museum as we were passing into Moab. We then went up to my Grandpa Nicholls' gravesite to place flowers on. As a neat surprise we saw that they had the Vietnam Memorial Moving Wall on display. We took Holly to see it and taught her about the sacrifices made during Vietnam and that her Grandpa Nicholls fought that war. She enjoyed helping do flowers and couldn't help be her divaself and pose.

Rockstar in Training

Holly loves that we have Guitar Hero. She begs to play it everyday, but not in the whining sense. She loves to play the game with Justin and all of his friends. She's pretty good and singing to some of the songs. So we've decided she can be our ballerina-rockstar child.

She'll keep right on track with beat to most of the songs and is trying to figure out how to use the guitar. She's pretty good on the drums though.
This her preparing for her favorite song, "What I've Done" by Linkin Park.

This was Holly waiting for her dad to start Guitar Hero.

Holly, Flower Girl-to-be

 

Here's Holly in her new flower girl dresses for Ashley's wedding. Isn't she absolutely adorable? My friend Jamie did an amazing job on the pictures. The one with the little fairy on it really touched Holly and made her cry. Mostly because she loves Tinkerbell and fairies now.

Justin and Tiffany's Christmas 2008

Justin and I certainly spoiled each other this year. It was a lot of fun to get things for each other that we had been wanting for some time.

Justin's Loot:
Kenmore Gas Grill
A Life of Integrity: Hyrum Smith--it's a biography about his grandfather
I Am Legend
Propane tank
New church pants
Aeropostale shirt
Book of Mormon 1830 Replica

Tiffany's Loot:
Reflections of Christ dvd
JCPenney gift card
Toss the Guilt and Catch the Joy by Merrilee Boyack
Family necklace
CTR Spinner ring
Aeropostale lounge sweats
Love Letters of Joseph and Emma
Fleece throw blanket

Christmas for Holly 2008

Holly certainly had a great Christmas this year. We didn't think we'd do a Christmas this year after our vacation, but knowing Holly she wouldn't let that slide. She fully expected to follow the traditions of a Christmas story each night, making yummy goodies, making cookies for Santa, writing him a letter, and seeing how sneaky Santa would be this year.

Holly's Loot:
Princess Jasmine
Prince Eric
Beast
Princess Memory--thanks Grandpa Nicholls
Princess Yahtzee--thanks Grandpa Nicholls
Purple velour outfit--thanks Grandma Nicholls
Boots--thanks GMA Mitton
Tinkerbell Jammies & Movie--thanks GMA & GPA Mitton
Tinkerbell toothbrush holder
Charlotte's Web--thanks GMA Nicholls
Mariposa--thanks GMA & GPA Mitton
Baseball w/glove
Pooh Bear
The Infamous Yellow Train--thanks GPA Nicholls