The best gals in the world

The title of this blog is referring to my awesome AWESOME sister in laws! I really do have the best ones...ALL 3 of them. I have thanked my brothers on mulitple occasions for marrying Maurine and Rachel and then I just got totally lucky with Sydni...she was in the family before I was. So, here is my little tribute to the best sister in laws in the world.

I'll start with Maurine....she is Clay's wife. Maurine is responsible for the BEST thank you notes in the universe. We had designed a thank you note for the babies a while before they were born. After everything happened, the others weren't really going to work anymore. I wanted to include Jayde and Kanyon somehow without being over the top. So, I came up with this and Maurine worked so hard on these to make them perfect. These are their real footprints. She figured out a way to make them true to size on the card..AMAZING. She is so smart and computery (yes that is a word)! Kanyon's feet are bigger because they didn't do his print until he was a month old. So, if you got the thank yous you may or may not have seen the note on the back explaining it, but those are their feet. (If you live in Paris, you probably didn't get these thank you notes because I didn't have them ready yet at that shower.) Thank you Maurine for working so hard to get these just right. They really are so special to me.

And this is what else Maurine (and Clay too I guess) gave me..AVERY!! Talkative, soft, curious little Avery. And I already thank them for the new baby that is growing in her tummy.

Next comes Rachel (Clint's wife). She is also very computery and she made our "coming home" announcement. I didn't really want to do a birth announcement, but I wanted to do something. I sent her some pictures I liked and this verse and she had this done in no time. Click on it and read the verse...it seemed so perfect for the answered prayer of bringing Kanyon home..the mighty works that GOD did. The pictures kind of span Kanyon's time in the NICU, the first one has Kory's ring on his wrist. The second one is Kory's ring not fitting on Kanyons' fingers (that was probably at least a month before we went home, we should've taken another one). We did not send out a ton of these since it would cost a billion dollars to send one to everyone we wanted to, so click on this and enjoy it up close (and marvel at Rachel's handiwork). Thanks Rach! Of course an even bigger thank you for my little Roselyn. She's kind of a mini-me. She really does look just like I did when I was a baby. (FYI: Avery and Roselyn are really our family's first set of twins. They were born on the SAME day back in October about 5 hours apart...how funny is that?!)

Now for Sydni. I can't claim that I had anything to do with adding Sydni to my all star line up of sister in laws. Kory's brother Clint gets all the credit for her and I get to enjoy his excellent choice! Sydni is so creative and talented. She made Jayde and Kanyon the most absolutely UNBELIEVABLE quilts. They are perfectly done and so beautiful. The first picture is of Kanyon's cowboy quilt. Such beautiful colors and fabrics. Perfect for our little cowboy.

This is Jayde's. It is Olivia (if you read kids books, you know Olivia). She is a cute little pig with a funny, sassy personality. The books have the cutest expressions and this fabric has all of the different Olivia poses all over it. SO CUTE. It is funny because in my mind, Jayde would've had the same little spunky personality..so Sydni chose the perfect "theme" without even knowing it. These quilts really are incredible. She is a professional. Maybe one day she can teach me! Thanks Sydni...these are very very very special to me (and so are you).
And the oldest of my sweet nieces....Sayler. She has the sweetest little personality and she is such a smart little one. I miss her and can't wait to spend time with her at Christmas.

YEAH FOR MAURINE, RACHEL, and SYDNI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now just a few little pics of Kanyon before I end the post:

Kanyon's great aunt Nancye gave him this shirt so I was trying to get a picture of him in it...this face cracked me up.

Crazy things happen in a swing. Somehow his burp rag got over his head and ended up like this. He slept through the whole thing. These pictures make me laugh out loud.

Here he is all ready to go to church this morning. We went to our church for the first time. He was very excited to meet all of his Alpine friends that have prayed so much for him. One of the elders was making announcements at the beginning and he said, " and if you ever want to know if your prayers are working, look right over here to the right and you'll see that our "son" Kanyon Phillips is here!" I held him up Lion King style and everyone got to peek at him. It was so good to be there. We had several people bring their young children up to us to see Kanyon because they had been praying for Kanyon all this time. I was so glad they got to see him. We are so thankful that people taught their children to pray for our baby. I hope the people at Alpine know how much they've meant to us.