Highlights from 2008, 2009 & 2010

Added this info to our family book and thought I would include it here.

2008

June 29, 2008 Kiora Lillie Bliss was born!

Blessed Kiora Lillie Bliss in our home on September 14, 2008

Fall -  Kiora - newborn
Logan -  2 yrs old
Julaine & Jaren - 2nd grade Delta Elementary (7 yrs)
Kylie - 4th grade (10 yrs)

Sept - Loreen's sisters weekend and family vacation to Logan UT

Thanksgiving with the Muhlesteins in Washington.  Celebrated Loreen's mom's 70th birthday early!

Dec 28, 2008 Big family gift exchange at the Bliss house!

New Years Eve - Big New Years eve party at Bliss house celebrating Nate's birthday.  With games and Rob lit fireworks.

2009

Kylie played Little Red Riding Hood in her 4th grade play

Purchased The Sno Barn - a shaved ice business. 

June 9, 2009 Oquirrh Mountain temple open house

June 29th big family party at our house to celebrate Kiora's 1st bday! 

July 11th Julaine and Jaren turn 8!!

Aug 1st - Julaine Leda Bliss & Jaren Timothy Bliss are baptized members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.   Their cousin Oliver came to Delta too and was baptized that same day with them!

August - Loreen attends her 20 yr Richland High School reunion in Richland Washington.

Kylie starts playing the violin

Fall - Kiora at home. (1 yr)
Logan - Private Preschool (3 yrs)
Julaine & Jaren - 3rd. grade, Delta Elementary. (8 yrs old)
Kylie - 5th grade. First year 5th grade is at Delta Middle School. (11 yrs old)

October - Family vacation to Oceanside CA & Disneyland (with David & Brooke Baker's family)

October 22, 2009 Copper, our Golden Retriever is born.

Christmas 2009 the kids got a puppy for Christmas!

2010

Kylie (fiddle & voice) and Loreen (guitar and voice) start performing with Old Time Fiddlers (Tim joins later on his hound dog lap steel guitar)

January  26, 2010. Tim speaks to his birth son Josh Nix for the first time.

Feb 9, 2010. Tim drives to Red Oak Iowa to meet his birth son Josh Nix for the first time

Feb- Kylie's original musical composition Blue Blue Skies won first place in the school's reflection contest

March - Drove to Red Oak Iowa to meet Josh Nix and his parents Dee and Wilson Nix

March - Julaine participated in the Little Miss Millard pageant

April 7, 2010 Loreen's mother Leda Marie Law Muhlestein at the age of 71

May - Idaho Falls trip to Loreen's sister Melanie's for Joshuah's baptism

June - the Nix family, Wilson, Dee, Josh and Meaghan, visit Delta!

June 16th - purchased 22 acres of waterfront property on Gunnison Bend reservoir

August - DJ summer musical production of Brigadoon, Loreen playing the lead of Fiona.  Kylie, Julaine and Jaren were in it too!

Fall - Kiora at home (2 yrs)
Logan - Preschool Early Childhood center (4 yrs)
Julaine & Jaren - 4th Delta Elementary (9 yrs)
Kylie - 6th grade. Delta Middle School (12 yrs in Nov)

Jaren and Julaine auditioned and sang with the elementary choir.  The last year they did it.

October - Attended the premiere of Speed of Life, the movie Loreen starred in

Visited Loreen's family in Washington.   Went to the fun town of Leavenworth.

Kylie entered Young Womans at 12 yrs old

December - cut our own Christmas tree

Loreen performed with Charley Jenkins New Years Eve