babies and homecomings

The past few days have literally been about babies and homecomings. 

On 11.19. 14 little Roman was born. His awesome mom is my cousin and best friend since forever. I just wish I could be up in Utah to see them! There were so many complications during the birth, but I guess he was really meant to be here with such a loving family. Thankfully I'll get to see Nellie, Justin, and Roman for Christmas! 

The next day 11.20.14  another sweet boy, Shane, was born and he is my first nephew! Kristen went into the hospital as scheduled and it was so exciting to get that text that said he was born! Tyler and I were able to go the hospital on Saturday and sit and talk to Mike and Kristin, while I just held Shane. Babies are just so perfect I could just stare at them all day. 

When we saw pictures of Shane, Tyler thought he had a ninja turtle shaped head so of course we bought a newborn ninja turtle onesie for him. Tyler cracks me up! Mike and Kristin just laughed and said, "he's so big it might not even fit him!" 

You gotta love chunky babes right? 

The thought of starting a family seems daunting and scary but so beautiful at the same time. I'm so grateful for the miracles I'll be able to be apart of someday. And honestly, I feel so lucky to have two brave women to look up to and give me advice when I'm in their shoes. 

As for the homecomings, I had a really good friend come home from Washington DC after serving an LDS mission for a year and a half and I got to listen to her speak. She had that sister missionary glow and I loved hearing about her experiences. I really missed her and am happy that she's stuck here for the holidays! After her talk, Tyler and I sped back to our ward to accept callings and be sustained (he's a ward missionary and I'm a primary teacher!) and then we raced to the singles ward to hear two more sister missionaries speak. One came home from serving in Spain and the other in El Salvador. There's seriously nothing better to hear during church meetings than conversion stories. 

We came back to our ward to teach our Sunday school class for the last time. The funny thing is that we only teach two girls but I absolutely love watching Tyler teach them and give them a hard time. It's the cutest thing and ill miss that the most. I really enjoyed having the same calling as my husband especially right after we got married, but I'm sure my new calling will be tons of fun and Tyler seems like the perfect fit for his calling too. Change is good! 

Also, not related to babies and homecomings, I was driving down the road and a quote from a friend came to mind.