Our week in Idaho

Daddy was pretty excited to see Chan after a whole week!

Chanley after her first airplane ride!

Luke was SO excited for the first snowfall he couldn't wait to go outside and build a snowman, even though there wasn't a whole lot of it yet. He had such a good time with dad.

Precious.

Chanley loved swinging in Aubrey's swing

I love all her different facial expressions :)

Chanley playin with uncle Ryan

I had a lot of fun taking this pictures of Aub. They turned out so cute!

Channy

Luke loved his halloween costume! He was still wearing it a few weeks later. :)

Taking a walk
She's such a cutie!

Grandpa and Chan-he was so good at putting her to sleep

Aunt Aubrey and Chanley with grandpa

So after Chanley's blessing Ryan had to drive back to CO for work, and Chan and I got to go back to ID with my family so we could spend some time with my family. We had a really good time, and it was fun for them to be able to spend some time with Chan. After our week was over Chan and I flew back to Denver and Ry picked us up at the airport. It was a little bit challenging getting through security on my own with a baby, but everything else went awesome! Chan was great during the flight, she just looked outside the window at the clouds and slept most of the way. Everyone kept talking about her and how cute she was. We did have a little blowout when we were decending into Denver, so I had to change her on my lap and ended up wrapping a blanket around her because I was out of clean pants. All in all it went pretty smoothly-we will take the hour and a half flight over eight + hrs in the car any day!

Chanley's Blessing

I love Chan's facial expression in this one. So cute!

I had to get a shot of her adorable shoes

Great-grandma Grace

Great-grandpa Bill




Grandma and grandpa Visser (with Luke)

Grandma Dianna, Mark and Chan

LOVE her eyes

I love this picture of her

Chanley with "Uncle Jimmy" as he prefers to be called. :)

A shot of her darling dress





AdOrAbLe

Grandpa Carl with Chan

Sleeping beauty. We interrupted her nap to take some pictures. :)
Sorry sweetie.

Uncle Keefe holding Chanley

Outside the church before the blessing

Ready to go!

Getting ready to go to the church! She seems pretty excited about it.

Aunt Tay holding Chanley- It was so fun to be able to spend the wk end with Ryan's family!

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We finally blessed Chan! Wahoo! It was quite the process trying to figure out the best time and place for all of our family to make it, we joked that by the time we finally blessed her that she would be able to walk up there by herself. :) We ended up traveling to Ryan's hometown in Wyoming and blessed her on November 8th. I was a little worried about how Chan would do with the long drive but she was an absolute ANGEL, which I am really grateful for. My family was able to travel from Idaho to be there and it was so wonderful to share this special day surrounded by loved ones.

The blessing was absolutely beautiful and the spirit was so strong, of course I cried during the entire thing. I am so grateful that I am married to such a wonderful husband who holds the priesthood and was able to hold our little girl in his arms and bless her. My heart is so full with gratitude to my Heavenly Father for the many many blessings He has given us. Ryan and I thank Him every day for sending Chanley to our family. She is a very special little girl and has the sweetest spirit. I feel very grateful and humbled that God has chosen me to be her mother.