Merry Christmas!

Wow I am such a blogging slacker lately. Well I would like to blame it on my cute son who hasn't decided if he is going to one nap or not which has left me with savoring every moment of when he naps and I am sorry to say that blogging is lower on my priority list than say taking a nap myself.

I can't believe Christmas is only 10 days away. Christmas last year was so much fun of course because we had our little man to enjoy it with, but I am even more excited for this year. I know he probably wont care, but at least we will be awake and maybe he will want to open presents!

I was so excited when a couple of weeks ago we put up the Christmas tree. We did it while Wilson was sleeping because well I am sure you can guess that we would not have gotten very far without some help. When he woke up from his nap and I took him into the living room and there was the tree he could not have been more unimpressed. I wish I could have gotten a picture he look and then looked away. It was really funny. Since then he has learned that it is really fun to pull ornaments off try to pull lights off and most of all he has learned that cats like to sleep under there and they are so much fun to come and talk to. (He learned quickly that is you try to pet them (or in Wilson's case pull their hair) they move so he has taken to laying on his belly and talking them them.



One other big announcement for Christmas Wilson gave us this present (it was a little early, but we didn't mind at all.)

Happy Birthday Wilson!

Last Wednesday Wilson turned 1!!! Can you believe he is one. I still can't. Well this week has been a marathon of birthday celebrations! With the help of my dear sister I made 5 cakes. Yes count them 5 cakes. 3 were footballs (seen below) for Wilson. And two were for the parties that we had and they were football fields to go along with the footballs.





On Wednesday it was just Wilson, Ryan and I. Wilson and I went and picked Ryan up from work to have lunch! So fun. Then when Ryan got home from work. Wilson got his present from us. A walker!!! Which he cares more about the stuff on the front then to actually walk with it! We figure he will get it eventually! Than it was cake time!!!




To my surprise he dug right in! He had so much fun getting the frosting everywhere! He didn't actually like the cake part and didn't care to eat it...




On to birthday celebration number 2. My family came over for some soup and cake on Saturday night! By that time Wilson had a pretty long day and wasn't really interested in presents or cake. My dear mom made him the cutes Utah jacket, pants and blanket. I need to add a picture. Thanks so much to my family for coming and celebrating with us. Wilson loves all of his gits! Here is how the cake went on round number 2.



On to round 3 it was my mom's family's thanksgiving/birthday party. This is Wilson's cute cake. He was a little more into the cake this time!




And on to our last and final round 4. After having a yummy dinner at Ryan's parents house they came back to ours for more birthday fun! After a quick nap on the way home with was ready for some birthday fun! Here is is with his new #4 jersey which he is excited to wear for the big game on Saturday! And cake was a lot more exciting this time too! Thanks so much to Ryan's family for coming and sharing Wilson's birthday with us.





Thanks to everyone for the all the gift and birthday wishes. I can't believe my baby is one! He is growing so much everyday and I am so so so thankful that he is mine. I can't wait to see how much he grows this next year!

Kindness

Wilson and I took Ryan to work this morning and as we were driving home I witness an act of kindness that touched my heart. We were stopped at a light right next to pioneer park. And well I am a bit of a people watchers so I was looking out the window and the first thing I noticed was a man curled up next to a tree sleeping. Then I started to notice the other people around him several that looked homeless others waiting for the bus and then I noticed a woman walking down the street that didn't fit in at all. She was in her late 40's with a nice black and white dress on with really cute boots and she was carrying something. My first thought was that it was a bag and maybe she was taking the bus or walking to work. As I watched her walk a little more I saw her unfold what I could now see to be a blanket and lay it over the man sleeping beside the tree. I noticed that as she laid it over him she didn't say anything to him and he didn't say anything back and she walked away.

What an impact. As I drove home it made me think about if I would ever do something like that. I don't know that I would have, but now I hope that I will. I want to be the kind of person to cares so much for other people. I have so much and should share it. I hope that everyone can remember especially in this holiday season how fortunate you are and how many people are in need. And that this season shouldn't be about how much money you spend or how many gifts you get it should be about family and friends and be grateful for what you do have.

Wilson's First Halloween!

I can't believe Halloween has come and gone this whole year has gone by so fast and Wilson is almost one!!! This year for Halloween Ryan's mom grew pumpkins in her garden and there was one that was special for Wilson. Here we are carving it. Wilson is in the background helping us out!






The Young Woman and Young Men do our ward trunk or treat which this year was the Tuesday before Halloween. This is Wilson and his good friend Bryton!

This is my and all my Young Woman!

On Friday we went and visited Ryan and work and did some good trick or treating there!

This is Wilson and Willis. They were born the same day only about 2 hours apart!!!

And that is it. I still haven't actually taken pictures of Wilson in his costume so hopefully in the next couple of days I will post that! He was a cat if you couldn't tell. Well now we have a birthday party to plan!!!

Nephew

Don't worry I have a Halloween post in the making, but today I had the opportunity to do a shoot with my nephew. I actually really got into photography when he was really small and have some fantastic photos of him. I haven't had the chance to take much since until today. It was just me and him and Wilson. Things turned out better than I thought and I wanted to share them. So here you go!!!

Photo Shoot

Well I don't know how many people know this, but I love photography. I try to hard to be one myself and well lets say it is a work in progress. I have a friend that lives across the street with a little boy a little younger than Wilson. Well today we decided to go do a photo shoot at a pumpkin patch. I honestly wasn't impressed with my work, but I did get some really cute photos!

My busy little man

Well needless to say now that Wilson has been mobile for a while he is now curious and likes to get into EVERYTHING!!! Here are a few examples.


The sad day came however yesterday that we had to childproof the house so no more getting into cupboards and man was he mad this morning.

Baby weight

Well if you have seen me lately then it is no secret that I need to loose some weight. Ryan and I decided that starting today we will try this together. And I thought that if I blogged about it then maybe it would help me to be more committed to it so I guess we will see. Here are my goals

- drink only water
- no eating after 8 pm
- exercise 3 times a week for at least 30 minutes
- make healthier food choices
- no dessert every night (I am really sad to loose this one)

So there you have it. I hope that by doing these small things I will not only loose weight, but get in the habit of all of this to stay healthy all the time not just now. I hope so much that I can stick with this.

Longest blog post ever....

This post is a long time in the making. Ryan had to go out of town last week for work and so about two weeks ago I decided to plan a project to surprise him! So this is a small recap of my week last week.

Starting with Sunday night when we dropped Ryan off at the airport. So sad. He was gone from Sunday night until Friday night. Needless to say I was getting ready for a hard week ahead of me. And little did Wilson know that he wouldn't be seeing daddy for a while.

So we got home I put the baby to bed and got to work. Here is our kitchen before! Sunday night I took all the door's off and started to take the hinges off. By the end my hand was killing me (I had to do it all by hand).

So here is no door and no drawers. Please don't mind the mess that it created and don't notice how messy our cupboards are with no doors.
Monday morning we took the door and drawers over to my dad (he was soooooo soooo kind and he sprayed them so they would look so nice!). Then I think it was Thursday by the time I got the primer from dad so I could prime everything left at home. Tammy was soo soo kind to take Wilson while I did it. Funny story. I told her I only needed an hour and I was surprised when I was done in a hour. I went and got him then came home to take this picture and when I looked at it I noticed something looked wrong. Can you find it?
Yep that is right I totally missed the entire bottom half. So that night after I put the baby to bed I had to paint some more.
Here is everything primed finally! And TADA!!!!! The final product. Dad was so kind to come out Friday and put on hinges and hang everything. And he did it all. By Friday Wilson was so stuck to me thinking I might leave him too, and having a week that was totally messed up with hardly any naps that I couldn't put him down.
If you ignore the dishes and random things in the room and image that they have nice knobs it looks 100 times better! THANKS DAD!

So my dad spent all week painting for me. Most of Friday at my house finishing and then took Wilson and mom and I to dinner. What a great dad!!!

Friday night we went and picked up Ryan and went home. It took Ryan from I think 9 until 11 before he even went in the kitchen to notice my surprise and I am so glad that he really likes it!

Saturday we got to relax for a little bit and then it was time to take the big boy to his first UTAH football game!



He did so much better than I thought he would. He spend most of the game just hanging out. My favorite part was when he stood in front of me holding on to the chairs in front of us and when the crowd would cheer he would start to scream oh and try to pull the hair of the guy in front of us. People around us were so kind and nice to him!

And last picture. Yesterday I decided that Wilson's hair was getting too long so I borrowed our friends clippers and clipped away. It went a little shorter than I wanted but it still looks good.

And since he got his dad's hair it will grow back in like two weeks.

ATTACK!

Wilson often enjoys putting his toys in his mouth. In fact that is pretty much what he always does. Well yesterday I was lucky enough to have the camera ready while he "played" with his cute money Rachel and Brandon gave him in the hospital! Precious isn't he?!?!?!

I feel like so much is going on in life, but at the same time nothing is. I know that doesn't make sense, but I feel like I often don't make sense so that is okay.

Wilson is growing so much. He now scoots everywhere around the house! He still hasn't figured out that crawling would be faster, but that is okay by me cause I can still keep up with him. He has also learned how to sit up from laying on his stomach and how to pull himself up on stuff. If feels like everyday he is doing something new! He is so much fun and exciting to have around!

Other than all of that I guess life is just the same. This last month has been really busy for Ryan at work and there have been many days he has had to work late. Young Woman's has been going well for me we have finally got more people called in to help which is a big weight off my shoulders! I am going to be tutoring some girls to help them pass their GED this week and next which I am so excited about. I miss math (weird I know, but I have always loved math).

Oh and of course Football season is here! Ryan and I went to the first UTAH game last week. It was so much fun! The stadium was packed and of course we won!!! GO UTES!!!

A day in the life

I read a friends blog the other day and she decided to document one full day of her life as a mom of twins. Well I don't have twins, but I liked the idea. So one day when I am a really old grandmother I can look back and remember my simple days with just Wilson. So all week I have been thinking about doing this, but everyday seemed to be a little out of the ordinary so I kept waiting and waiting, until I realized no day is going to be the same so I should just do it.

So this was yesterday for us. The night before was a bad one. Wilson is teething so he woke up about 6 times in the night. Finally at 6:30 am I put him in bed with me hoping to get a little sleep.

7:10 We get up because he is just kicking me. Time to nurse. While that is going on Ryan leaves for work.

7:30 time for a little breakfast. Cereal and banana's!

And about this time the cat wakes up and screams at the door until I let him out.


7:50 time to change diaper and get dressed.

9:20 time for first nap cause we are tired.

10:05 wake early from nap crying.


10:15 after crying for 10 minutes go back to sleep

10:20 I go down stair and do my hair and get dressed. Meanwhile the cat now wants in so he can take a nap and the other cat is hungry.


11:00 baby wake up and time to nurse and have lunch. Green beans and more banana's yum!

11:30 time to play!

12:00 go visit neighbor

12:30 snack time graham crackers and juice and more playing!

1:20 time for nap 2

3:00 time to nurse

5:00 nap 3

5:10 Daddy surprises us with visit before he goes to Fantasy football picks!

5:35 baby wakes up to see daddy!

5:45 daddy leaves to go do fantasy football picks

6:00 make a quick visit to the store for a good deal on soda!

7:00 dinner time. Cereal chicken and sweet potatoes and peaches!

8:00 daddy comes home!

9:00 nurse and bed!

Okay so while I was pretty good at taking pictures of our day I wasn't so good about keeping track of time. That is pretty close but we could be off a few times, but you get the idea.

Since Wilson was born I have always wrapped him in his blanket to go to sleep. And well for the last I don't know 5 months he would fall asleep, but wake up later because he got his arms out of his wrap. Most of the time I can wrap him back up and he will go to sleep, but sometimes he wont. So it was time that he learned to go to sleep without being wrapped. Yesterday was the day. I put him in his bed on his back and left the room. He cried and cried for a good 10 minutes and then fell asleep. Here is nap number 1. On the other side of the crib on his stomach.


Nap 2 put him in his bed he cried maybe 7 minutes this time and fell asleep. Here he is again on the other side of the crib on his stomach.


Nap 3 - always a hard one. He doesn't seem to think that he needs to sleep, but he is so tired. Needless to say that it was a hard one. He cried I don't know maybe about 15 minutes and then I came in to find him sleeping on his bumper!

Nap 1 today - I was so sure we would be crying today too, but I put him down he started talking to himself and I don't know about 5 minutes later he was asleep on the original side of the crib and just on his side!


Naps might just be easy yet!

On another note, I have decide this baby weight has got to go! So yesterday I started to work out on the treadmill and to watch what I eat. It didn't go as well as planned seeing as how I had a shake at 9 pm last night, but I tried. That counts right? Well wish me luck. I have a lot to loose.

Nine month doctor visit

My big boy went to the doctor's today. He is now 20.2 Lbs. and 28 1/2 inches long! Still in the 75th percentile and growing strong! No shots today hooray!

Big Day!

Today was a big day for Wilson. I was sitting on the couch watching and I look over and decided to pull himself up on the coffee table. He did it all by himself and even stood there for a minute too before I made him sit back down before he fell. Well little did I know I would be spending the rest of the day doing that. Well that and consoling him when he fell and bonked his head. And later that afternoon I put my finger in his mouth to check on his tooth and what do you know I found another one! Whew he was busy and I am exhausted. I think I can pinpoint today as the day that my life has officially changed to having a baby on the move.

On another note is everyone I know on a hiatus from blogging?

First haircut!

Cute boy got a haircut on Saturday. Thanks mom it looks great!

You paid how much for that?

The other day of got a coupon in the mail from JCPenny's for $10 off a purchase of $10 or more. So Wilson and I took a trip over there today and look what we got for yes that is right exactly $10 so we paid 0.00! Keep those coupons coming!

Seriously how cute is this?

Facebook Addiction

It is true I am addicted to facebook. But I am not sure what it is I am addicted too. I guess finding new people maybe. I am still trying to figure everything out. I hear you can play games on it, but I have no idea how you do that. Help....anyone....

Facebook

So I finally did it. I broke down and joined facebook. Ryan and I have been avoiding it. Come to think of it I really don't know why, but today I was bored and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. So I have to say. I have no idea what on earth I am doing. I just tried to upload pictures and it didn't work.... oh well I guess I will figure it out eventually. So please if you are on facebook send me a friend request!