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.