Friday

The 3rd of July. Friday was my sister Jenica's birthday! My parents a had a BBQ at their house. Here is Wilson playing with the wrapping from Jen's presents!

Then we were off to Granite High School for fireworks! Here is Emaw and Wilson getting set up for fireworks!

Papa and Wilson dancing to the music!

By the time fireworks were ready to start Wilson was exhausted. It was more than an hour past his bedtime. So he took a quick 10 minute nap to make it through. (He actually slept through the first 5 minutes of fireworks which really surprised me!)

Here he is enjoying the fireworks with Daddy! He really liked them and the noise didn't bother him at all!

Saturday

Happy 4th of July!!! I started the day off by helping the Young Woman put out flags at 7:00 am! Then Ryan, Wilson and I went to a breakfast at my parents ward! (Sorry no pictures of that) Then we went home for a good nap some puzzling and lunch and then we were off to Ryan's parents house to celebrate Ryan's mom's birthday (yep the 4th of July) and for a day of fun and games. Well for Wilson and I it was a day of napping and some games.

*** Thanks mom for the cute 4th of July outfit!

This is Ryan, Wilson and Sarah watching everyone play Apple to Apples.

This is everyone playing a way fun game called Werewolf (similar to mafia). You point your finger when you have decided who you think is the werewolf.

Then all at one everyone points to who they think it is!

More pictures of Apples to Apples while Sadie (cute girl in the middle) told everyone what character they were from Annie. She told me I am Mrs. Hannigan (what? Am I really that mean?)

Is it really July already?

I can't believe today is the first day of July...time is such a funny thing to me now. I don't really have much in the way of time markers accept holidays how. Thinking about the upcoming festivities of the 4th of July reminds me so much of last year. Pregnancy was way hard and it seemed like there were few things that got me through it. Of course knowing I would have a beautiful baby in the end, my wonderful husband and family to name a few. But the Holidays were the markers to remind me the end was near. And the 4th of July was a big one!

I love love July. Not only because we get to celebrate so many birthdays, and spend time with family and see fireworks! But it is so nice to be able to reflect on the fact that we are sooooooo lucky to live in this country. Lucky to live in this promised land where we are free.

One of my all time favorite things to do (not just in July, but it seems like that is the only time it happens) is to stand in sacrament meeting and sing patriotic songs. I always feel the spirit so strong. I am so thankful to be an American.

GOD BLESS AMERICA my home sweet home!

Girls Camp

So as you know I am so lucky right now to be searving in Young Womans and yes it is that time of year. You guessed it Girls Camp. I am so lucky to be working with our camp leader on girls camp this year. I am super super excited for it. As of right now I don't really know how much I will actually be there (sad I know), but even working on it I can feel the spirit of camp. I am currently typing up all of the camp songs for their books and memories are flooding back from girls camp. What an amazing thing camp is! Heavenly Father knows that these girls need this time. So they can be our in nature and become not only closer to each other, but closer to Him.

Here are a few of my fav camp songs that I have typed up. I hope you get them stuck in your head!!!

Candle on the Water

Princess Pat

Ann Marie

Misty

Chicken

So am by no means as clever as Ryan when it comes to posts, but I did want to take a minute to post about how wonderful my husband is. Now only is he a wonderful husband, but he is a fantastic father. He cares and loves so much for Wilson. I love when he calls to talk to us during the day because he misses Wilson so much. I love that he sneaks into his room the morning before he leaves to give him a kiss. Ryan works so hard for our family and so that Wilson and I can stay home.

I have always known that Ryan would be a wonderful father and it has been so exciting to see him the last 7 months be a father. To hug and kiss Wilson and care so much for him and his growth and development. One of the coolest things I was able to experience was when Ryan was able to give Wilson a name and a blessing. I could truly feel his love for Wilson.

Thanks for being an amazing father.

We love you!

Happy Father's Day Daddy

I am the luckiest girl ever to have the wonderful dad that I have. He is so kind and gentle and not just to his children and grandchildren, but to anyone he meets. I admire so much how can makes friends with anyone he comes in contact with and that he would do almost anything he could to help them. I admire how smart he is. How he can pick on things so quickly. Also, how handy he is. I love that I can call him with a question about my house and he will automatically know the answer. I love how much my dad loves and takes care of not only his parents but my moms dad as well. I love so much watching him with his grand kids. It is so fun to watch him teach them things and play games and tease them. I love my dad so much. Anyone would be lucky to be his friend, but I am luckiest to be his daughter!

I love you dad. Happy Father's day.

Time for a change

After looking at Sarah's blog yesterday I feel in love with this new layout. It was time for a blog layout makeover. And while it was a lot of work getting it put together here it is and I love it!!!

Happy Birthday to me!!!!

Yep that's right. Yesterday was my bday! I am the big 26! I feel like I am at a turning point. I don't feel young anymore. I think it all started Tuesday night. Our relief society every months hosts a party for all people that have a birthday that month and it was June birthdays. As they were passing out the pie they would ask everyone how old they were going to be. First lady was 58 second 43 and then it was my turn and I said 26. Now normally it seems like have always been the young one and I always get comments about how young I am, but this time I didn't get anything.... I honestly was stunned. Nothing I got nothing. I guess I am no longer the young one. I guess it didn't help that the next person said she was turning 20! Oh well.

So the birthday celebration actually started Thursday because Ryan took both Thursday and Friday off! Hooray it was so nice to have him home! So Thursday morning we went to the best breakfast place ever.. George's well now it is called Roundhouse Cafe, but to me it will always be Georges.

Then Friday morning I got to start my day off with this happy face!

After feeding my little guy we decided to have some cuddle time on the floor!

Next it was time to get dressed. As I was looking through his drawers I started looking at hats that he had never warn and decided to try them on. He loved them!

Next we went to see Angels and Demon (worthy of a post on its own) which was so good. We thought we had timed it right so the Wilson would sleep through a good majority of the movie, but he didn't like our plan and only slept about an hour of it. Ryan was so sweet to take care of him so I could watch the movie! After all that he decided to get all tired in the car.

After that we decided to take a family picture. This is how good it went!

Then we headed to the Olive Garden for an early dinner. I was so excited I have been wanting to try the Lasagna Rolotini they have been advertising.

Were hoping so much that the baby would be good so we could have a good dinner!

While we waited for dinner Wilson enjoyed some water via a straw! That always keeps him happy at least for a little bit.

However the happiness was short lived and got mad pretty quick. But we were lucky enough to finish eating before the breakdown really happened. By the way the dinner was sooooooo good!

We ended the night with a nice walk around the neighborhood and a good game of Five Crowns were Ryan proceeded to not let me win on my birthday. All in all it was a wonderful day!!!

Give Away today

I have told you before, but I will tell you again. Give Away today is the awesome website that gives away free things everyday and today they are giving away things from 9 different companies including a hair salon and a day spa! Check it out! http://www.giveawaytoday.blogspot.com/

Naptime

Lately I have been taking naps with Wilson on our couch. Today we were getting ready for our nap and I put him down so I could hurry and eat lunch and he decided to start without me!

Has anyone seen my social skills????

I am pretty sure I left them at work. I hate to blame this on my poor little baby but honestly it feels like since I have started to stay home that my social skills have started to go downhill. I must have given them away at birth. I sure hope he uses them well! Before I had Wilson I felt pretty confident in myself in most situations that at least I wouldn't say anything dumb, but most of the time I would be confident and could handle myself pretty well. Well it seems like that has changed I feel like I say things now that I never would have said and I find myself in the awkward pauses and I don't know what to say. I guess I just need to get out more and talk to adults. I remember several people telling me something about this. It usually was someone talking about their friend and how they stayed home and they felt like they needed to talk to adults. I remember thinking that I wouldn't have that problem. I knew that I would at least talk to Ryan everyday and probably my mom and sisters, but it turns out that isn't enough. Well if you find yourself talking to me and I am awkward and weird please be patient with me....I am still trying to figure out where I left them.

Come back social skills I miss you!

What have we been up to?

So to be honest about a month ago our house got broken into. We weren't home or anything and we are okay it has just been hard trying to recover from it. So I have been taking a break from blogging well that and I had to get a new camera and I have been to lazy to download the software. So today I finally did it and have picture galore! So first set of pictures are Ryan and I celebrating our 4 anniversary! We had my parents watch the little guy and we went to the counter burger. Yum yum yummy yum. If you have gone please go. It is so good. Then after that we went and got in the hot tub at my parents. It was nice and relaxing. It was Wilson's first time in and he love it!

Wilson recently started drinking from a sippy cute. He loves it, but still hasn't figured out when to stop so he often if covered in water!

In other news Jeeves has decided that he wants to be an outside cat. A while ago he just started screaming at the door until finally we had enough and let him go outside. The first day was hard because he was gone for a good 8 hours and thought he wasn't coming home, but since then we have gotten him a collar with a bell and can find it pretty easily that and he come when we call him for the most part.

Well that is our update. It is nice to finally get back to this. I have missed it a lot!

6 Months

Well Wilson is actually 6 1/2 months old now, I am just a super super slacker on posting lately. We went to the doctor and he weighs an amazing almost 19 lbs. WOW!!! He is 75th percentile in both weight and head, but between 75-90 for height. You would not believe how many comments I get about his not missing any meals. Yep he is a big squishy adorable boy. He is healthy and doing well. He has been sitting up on his own for a good month now. We are still working on the rolling over from back to from. I think his weight has something to do with that. It is a lot of work trying to roll that over! So no crawling of anything yet. And thank heavens I just am not ready for that. I know it is going to come sooner than I want no matter what I do. So here cute boy is sitting up!

Also, in the last month and a half Wilson has started solids! As you can see here not always his favorite thing, but slowly he is starting to really like them!

No Tomatoes this year...

So thanks to my wonderful neighbor Laraine and adorable husband I decided to plant not only a flower garden, but a vegetable garden! Wow I sure had no idea how much work both kinds of gardens are. Not only am I trying to take care of my little guy, but trying to water and weed two gardens is hard work. Well needless to say Wilson comes first, then watering and if I have time I weed. Well I am sure you can guess what has happened to my gardens. Still I am trying.

So this is a picture of my sad flower garden. Never in my life have I cared about flowers, but for some reason now I do. No thanks to our clay like dirt I am still trying to a nice garden. With the help of my wonderful neighbors including one who gave me starter plants this is what it looks like so far. Next year I am thinking of digging up all my clay and replacing it with real dirt, but we will see what happens.

These are probably my favorites at the moment. They are called flax and they are so simple and sweet and oh yes purple!

Now as for my vegetable garden. I am sure you can see all of the weeds from the picture, what what you can't see are the snails. Well I can't see them either, but they are all four well five of my tomato plants. Ryan loves tomatoes and is so sad that our garden will not have any. Sad I know, but I don't want to keep replacing them for the snails to eat.

Here is a picture of one of my eaten tomato plants.


Now this is a lovely picture of some of my spinach!

And even better this is my lettuce. I also have peas and carrots!

So You Think You Can Dance

Well I love love love this show and I can't tell you how happy I am that it is finally back on! It is kinda weird since I have never danced, but for some reason I love it! I can't wait to post blogs about contestants and dances that I love. Here is looking to the future!

Where have I been?

It seems like I go in stages with blogging. Like for a while I will be really good and blog a lot and then I will have some dry spells. I am in one of those right now. I got a new camera and haven't loaded the software so that is part of my problem and the other is that I read on someones blog about people posting pictures of their kids and then someone tries to take them. And if you know anything about me I am super paranoid and so now I am scared to post pictures. And I really really don't want to make my blog private. So there is my dilemma. What should I do?

Well as for all we have been up... not much. We went and saw Star Trek on Monday. It was awesome. Ryan isn't a Star Trek fan but still liked it. I on the other had love Star Trek so I thought it was pretty cool! We haven't really been seeing movies lately because of the little one, but are glad to announce that he did well at the movies so now we can stay on top of all the new ones coming out and man are there a lot of good ones. We are super exicited! Next on our list is Angels and Demons (I am super excited for that one!).

Happy Anniversary!

Ryan and I have now been married for 4 years! It is crazy how time flies, but at the same time I can't believe it has only been 4 years. It feels like I have known Ryan for forever! The last four years have been filled with so much. We have been on vacations (New York, Disneyland, Las Vegas, Cruise) we have both graduated from College (Ryan did twice!), we have been blessed with a beautiful baby boy, we bought a house, we have two kitties. I couldn't imagine a better person to spend the rest of eternity with! I am so thankful that Ryan picked me to marry. I love him more and more each day and eternity doesn't feel like long enough to be with him. I love you Ryan and here is to many more years of happiness!

A Wonderful Mother!

Hi folks, Ryan here. I just wanted to take a moment to talk about what a wonderful wife I have on this Mother's Day. But since I ain't done no good at no writin' no how, I'm gonna up 'n have my boy do the composin' fer me.

Wilson: )woienthwelsadiuabl ll...,wlei oe ;nn ;aewoin.iodsgoutesoiln,klk13# ooajwie438t. Excuse me, I just fell on the keyboard. I just wanted to say that I have the best mommy in the whole wide world. She is so sweet to me and patient and wonderful. She feeds me, she plays with me, she makes me happy when I'm sad and she makes me feel so safe when I'm scared. She keeps my belly full and makes sure I sleep well and makes me laugh and smile. I love her so much and I am so grateful that she is my mommy. I know many of you that read this are wonderful mothers, have wonderful mothers and will be wonderful mothers, but I definitely got the best one! Back to you, pop.

Thanks, boy. Well put. I just wanted to add that I think Mindi J. Hettinger is just a wonderful, special woman. She is a great friend, mother and wife and I am so glad I get the rest of eternity with her. She was put on this earth to help me raise our family and she is just a natural at motherhood. Here's to a special, kind, wonderful, beautiful, fun, smart, selfless, amazing woman on this Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!

If I close my eyes and try to imagine what kind of mother I really want to be this is the image that comes to my mind. My mother. Wow she is amazing!!! It is sad to me that I never really understood just how amazing she is and always has been until almost 6 months ago. Through countless examples of kindness and motherly love that she shows so many people I have learned the kind of mother I want to be and it is just like her. My mother is the most caring, selfless and kind person I know. She would do anything for anyone if it would help not caring if they returned the kindness and many times they don't, but she always tells me she helped them because it was the right thing. It was what Heavenly Father wanted her to do.

There are so many things that I love about my mother. I love that she loves me unconditionally. I love how beautiful she is inside and out. I love her zest for life and everything it has to offer. I love her thirst for knowledge. I love how much she loves her grandchildren. I love how she sees the good in everyone. I love how much she loves cats! I love that I can call her anytime of day and she is so happy to talk to me. I love how she loves my dad. I love that she just gets me. I love that she cries when she sings her favorite songs. I love that you are my mom!

Happy Mother's Day Mom! Thank you for being that amazing mother that you are!

Missing in action

I'm sorry I haven't been blogging. Lets just say things haven't been going they way I would like them too. I promise to get back into it soon.