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Hey Everybody!

Mya is looking forward to her Baptism with great anticipation. We are all excited for her special day. What a wonderful, important decision she is making. Mike and I are very proud of her.
In preparation for this day, we had some pictures taken of beautiful Mya. We are at the Salt Lake Temple, although a few are taken at the Bountiful Temple.
Please enjoy all these shots of her. She wanted to share them with her family and friends, even though she is a little shy about doing so.
She will be baptized on September 5th, 2009 at 1:00 in the afternoon at the Woods Cross Stake Center. All are welcome!

To view, download or order pictures, please visit the web album here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/mblyman/MyaSBaptismPictures#

I was sitting in sacrament meeting today and was really missing Carrie.

It wasn’t because I had my hands full with 4 hungry girls trying to escape to home and I was feeling a little outnumbered ) … but simply church without her is never the same.  How wonderful the gospel is to focus and build the family. Sigh….

So before I get all mushy on ya I want to share a quick picture I came across tonight. It’s kind of funny because as I was in sacrament meeting and we were sitting behind the Laing family. It just so happens that they have 4 girls as well and then the next row up was the Robertson family who, you guessed it, has 4 girls as well. I think we are the only three families in the ward with 4 girls. So when I saw this picture I decided God was trying to tell me something about having so many great girls.  So enough with words, lets get to the good stuff… the picture.

I feel really blessed to have such a wonderful family. All girls might seem to be a little overwhelming to some but trust me when I say it’s heaven on earth! I’m not to sure what I did to get so lucky but I’m very grateful.

Carrie’s been in Las Vegas the last few days so I spent some great quality time with all 4 girls! You are the best and I love you all. See ya tomorrow Carrie!

Family and Friends,

This year has been a wonderful year. We have truly enjoyed life with our family and friends. I’ll give you a quick recap of the year, our kids and what the Lyman family has accomplished this year. Pictures are included at the end of the newsletter.

Last year we moved to Woods Cross, Utah and have settled nicely into the new schools, ward and neighborhood. I (mike) started a job with Two Little Hands Productions (Home of Signing Time) and am really enjoying working with them as their technology and marketing director. Carrie is a stay at home mom but has picked up numerous side projects along the way this year. (more…)

Here’s some great photos from this summer. We’ve had a lot of fun with a couple family reunions, camping and visits from family and friends.

This summer is a litter shorter then normal as our kids are in year round school. Mya, Olivia and maybe Maddie will start school tomorrow so I guess summer is officially over…

Enjoy the pictures. We’ve sure had a great summer and hope all you did as well!
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For Christmas this year Carrie and I packed up the kids and headed to Chico, CA. We are spending the Christmas to New Year’s Holiday with the Wests, Boulants, Ross, and Jones families in Chico. It was a surprising short drive for us (10 hours) compared to the almost 12 hours from Logan that we have usually done over the last 5 years.

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Carrie has been a little under the weather with Strep throat today and yesterday. I stayed home most of the day today with the girls (I took Mya, Olivia, and Madalynn to work for a few hours) and had the chance to take them hiking down the Logan River trail. Hiking is one of our favorite activities to do and we have been planning a hiking activity for the last couple of weeks.

We had a wonderful time walking the trail. The river was expremely high so we stayed away from the water on this trip. The girls (I have Olivia, Mya, and Kennedy with me) loved the bridges, large trees, and animals that we say on the trail. First was the old trees that created a growing house that they could climb and hide and roam through. After spending a few minutes exploring the giant trees we continued on our way.

To our great luck we came across Arial White (this is the name Mya gave to a white butterfly). Mya has been intensely focused over the last few weeks with catching a butterfly to have as a pet. To our surprise and luck Mya say a white butterfly and started chasing it. I joined in the chase and to my surprise with a swoop of the hand I caught the butterfly. We soon transfered it to Mya’s hand and she was so happy to finally have a pet butterfly. The butterfly’s name was officially Arial White (not to be confused with White Arial) and was very soft and beautiful. After carefully carrying the butterfly down the trail we decided that we would let her go so that she didn’t die. When Mya opened her hands the butterfly paused for a few moments, seemed to look at Mya, and then flew away. We decided that the butterfly really loved Mya and she was so happy to have a pet butterfly that loved her even though she couldn’t keep it.

We also saw baby mice, blue hatched eggs, robins, and a couple of garden snakes. Mya has a real knack for spotting snakes. As we went down the trail we were looking at a tree with mushrooms and Mya said, “There’s a snake dad.” Sure enough over on a low hanging branch to the side of the trail was a garden snake. We watched him sun himself on the branch and then to my surprise Mya said, Dad, There’s another snake.” And so there was. She really had an eye to spot the sunning snakes in the twigs, grass, and branches.

It was a wonderful hike on the trail. I’m grateful to have the time to spend moments like these with my beautiful daughters.

Thanks girls!