Not enough time! Small update.

Where has time gone? I feel like I only have time to post monthly...which is a lot less than I'd like too. So here is a little update on our little family for the past month!


Kymani is now 5 months...almost 6!!! Here are just little tid bits on what he is now doing!

Kymani rolls all OVER THE PLACE!!! He is getting so mobile, I turn around and he is on the other side of the room.

He squeals so loud and loves to make all those fun baby noises. He just started saying "daaadaadaa" (dad) and it's so stinkin cute!

He still eats like a piggy!

Loves to smile.

Favorite thing to do is look out our apartment window.

He loves his big sister Roxy dog.

He hates when we walk out of his view, he'll whimper.

As for Benson he is finishing up this semester at BYU. So far he has done really well! He will continue on for next semester. 

For me I've just remained busy with work and taking family pictures! Here are a few of the families I've taken pictures of.

Fit...to Pregnant..to Fit Again!!!

Woot Woot 10 more pounds down 15 to go!!! I am back into 2 pairs of pants (one of them skinny jeans!!!) Weight loss is going well. I am eating clean and it seems like change is happening quickly. It feels good to look at myself and see the "normal" me peeking through. It makes me feel really good! Hopefully at the end of the month I'll be in all my regular clothes. That's my goal lose the last 10-15 by the end of October. Wish me luck!!!!
Continue on!!!

7 years together...2 spent married...eternity to go!!!

Oh  my goodness yesterday and today (October 8th and 9th) it has been two years that Benson and I have been married!
Bense and I met in high school, and we just couldn't get away from each other. No matter what we always ended up back together. He truly is my better half and is so sweet and so good to me! Even though he has little quirks that can drive me nuts, it gives our marriage some character.
He works so hard at work and school and is the best daddy. I've seen a whole new side to him. I enjoy watching him make baby smile and baby talk to him. Kymani enjoys the comfort of his daddies arms. I think he might be a daddies boy!
Being together for 5 years before we got married, I thought I knew Benson very well. And I did, and I was grateful for the opportunity to be with him that long before we made the big decision to be married. (unlike most Utah couples) He is so smart, tender and very caring. Family means the world to him and he would do ANYTHING for Me Kymani and his other family members. I thank Heavenly Father for blessing me with such an amazing husband. I am so blessed to have him for the rest of my life, and eternity after that. It's a comfort knowing he is going to be my partner in crime forever!

HAPPY TWO YEARS MY BABY LOVE!!!!

4 months...

My little Kymani is 4 months now! Where has time gone! He is so sweet and has the sweetest spirit about him. I truly cannot find one little imperfection about him. He is perfect. I do not know how I was blessed with such an easy baby. Here are just a few things going on with Mr. Kymani this month.

He never cries, whines.
He is easily content with his little toys. Loves tummy time.
Doesn't mind who hold him or watches him while I work and Bense is at school.
He loves to play on the floor with his toys, sit in his walker, lay in the swing and watch the ceiling fan.
He constantly has his hands or clothes in his mouth.
Biggest drooler!
Doesn't take very long naps. (only for Grandma Gina)
I think he is now teething, but still a little angel.
We took him to the state fair for 9 HOURS! He did not make a peep, except for when he wanted his bottle (which was twice, and then stopped when he was fed)
Likes to get out of the house and go bumming with mom.
Loves his stroller rides.
He can lay out on a blanket in my parents yard for hours, and loves watching everything around him.
HE LOVES TO EAT! He eats sweet potatoes, rice and mixed grain cereal, squash, veggies, apples and pears! Oh otter pops and ice cream....hehehe oops!
He loves Roxy dog and she loves him!
He has started whimpering when I walk out of his view, he likes to be able to always see someone.
He has a deep voice, and a cute deep giggle. (only his auntie and uncles can make him laugh, Bense and I have a hard time to get him to giggle out loud)
His face in the morning when I go to get him out
of his crib is priceless, it is the biggest sweetest smile EVER!
He sleeps much better in his crib than with us. (Thank Goodness)
Truly he is our pride and joy and I do not know what I would do if I didn't have my little guy. I love him SO MUCH!

Here are some fun photo's I've been working on.

Fit to Pregnant to Fit again...

To be honest with working nights...I've been quite the slacker with my exercise. Eating has been pretty much the same.

I haven't gained weight...but I am very slowly losing.

So in order for me to get my butt in gear...I created a better motivation for myself.

Bense and I have been talking about visiting Hawaii again for the holidays. I fell in love with Laie when we went last August for Benson's Mama's funeral. So we decided that we would go again while baby is still free to fly...wahoo! Our tickets are purchased and we are going in December!

Bring on the motivation! Now I have something I truly need to work towards. I'm down 36 lbs since giving birth, and have another 20 to go! I can do this.

Here we go, no more starting over and no more disappointing posts.


Here's to Hawaii in December!

Three months old

My little guy keeps getting bigger and bigger. It kills me, but yet I love it! Here are some of the little things he is up to now days:) Enjoy!!!

Kymani was put in his own crib on August 12th to sleep in there for his first time. I eventually broke down crying because he was in the other room. I was so sad and was sobbing so Benson and I went into his room to sleep on the floor...well that didn't last long due to me not being able to sleep well on the floor. Benson told me that baby and I could sleep in our king bed while Bense slept on the floor. What a good daddy :)

Kymani is a little giggler, it's still hard to find things that make him laugh out loud but when he laughed for the first time it made my heart melt. He is a silly boy. Uncle Soli, and Aunty Abish are the ones who can get him to laugh out loud. As for daddy and I we have to work pretty darn hard. 

Kymani is for real sleeping in his crib, and sleeps MUCH better now. He will sleep from 10 or 11pm until 9 or 10am the next day. SOOO nice! Sometimes we miss him and he'll sleep in our room, but he always moves around and is a light sleeper...so mommy has a rule of no baby in bed because no one gets any rest except daddy who sleeps like a bear. So he is in the crib full time now.

Look at my little paco. Kymani is still loving bath time :)

He is a monster eater. 5-8 oz bottles a day...we are going through formula like CRAZY! So the other night I decided to see if he would like baby food. He DID!!! He loved it. Sweet potato's and he ate the entire jar. So looks like my 3 month old is ready for food, he ate like a champ and would get so frustrated when I didn't get it to him fast enough. 

I love this little boy so much. He keeps us on our toes and I can't wait for what he has in store for us in the future.

Blessing day...late post

Kymani Mosese Powelson Purcell

We blessed our little man on August 5th. Oh what an amazing day!!! We had an ie faitage made for him and he looked SO handsome in it. We blessed him in our Samoan ward and man was it a full house that day. 2 baby blessings and a missionary homecoming.
The whole week leading up to Kymani's blessing I was kind of nervous for Benson. I didn't see him going over the material or semi reciting what he should be saying in the blessing. Obviously after the beginning of the blessing it all comes from the spirit, but to tell you the truth I thought my husband might freeze up. (I'm awful I know!) So when Sunday rolled around I had never seen my husband so nervous, I kept asking him if he was okay, and if he was mad at me. He just kept saying no I'm just nervous! We then were asked by the Bishop if we could come talk to him. That made me semi nervous because I know this is awful too but I thought he may ask us to speak in sacrament ( I don't do well with public speaking). When we arrived to the chapel we met with Bishop and he just wanted to welcome us to the ward....whew!!! We weren't asked to speak...not yet anyway!
Alot of my side of the family came to the sacrament meeting and Benson's immediate family attended as well. I sat there just feeding Kymani so he wouldn't squack during the blessing and kept saying little prayers so that he would sit nice and quiet for his daddy. When Benson and Kymani's time came, I also said a little prayer to comfort my husband. As the men all gathered in the circle I took little notes so I could write down in his baby book of what his daddy would be blessing him with. To my surprise my husband did not stutter, flub or pause. He gave such and amazing blessing!!! Kymani was such an angel and didn't make a peep!!! Once he was done and raised baby so the ward could see him, I had never seen Bense so relieved!!! I was so proud of him, he did a million times better than I thought he would. I was then told later by the men in the circle that he was smiling the entire time, and that melted my heart knowing he with the veil being so thin that he felt the spirit and it made Kymani happy :)
After sacrament meeting we then had a family eating. My family kept coming over to me and saying thank you for inviting them, and that they really enjoyed attending the Samoan ward. They wanted to make it their regular ward hahaha.
All in all I have a testimony of this gospel and I know it's true with all of my being. People wonder how do I know? I know because I feel it, it is so overwhelming to me. I can just feel that it is so right with in my heart. I've seen things happen that I know that could not have been possible with out my Heavenly Father. I am so grateful for those men who honor their priesthood, and cherish it. I am grateful that I grew up with such a strong priesthood holder in my home (my father), and having a brother who served a full-time mission. I now have an amazing husband that keeps himself worthy of his priesthood and I'm grateful he was able to bless our son. I would definitely not be the individual I am today with out the guidance and direction from the gospel. I know that if you are ever in doubt..ask...ask your Heavenly Father and he will answer you. Maybe not right when you want him to, and it may not be right away, but you will get an answer.  I know my prayers are heard and answered, my son is living proof of a prayer answered.

I now say these things in the name of thy son Jesus Christ Amen.