Happy Fourth of July!!!

I bet you thought I would never post again. It has been a few weeks. We have been busy playing with friends and enjoying summer.

This weeked was the 4th of July. My 2nd favorite holiday!! I love all the BBQ, fireworks and family fun. Our fun started on Thursday with the Riverton City Carnival. Jacob and Joshua rode the scrambler over and over. The kids had fun.





On Friday, it was the parade. We sat with some friends, the Allgaiers, and Hendricksons. We had fun. I love to sit and watch parades.



Saturday we stayed around the house and John got some odd jobs done. Then we set up the waterslide and it was soooo hot outside that John and I even joined in the fun. We had quite a few neighbors over as well.




After the waterslide we went to the Riverton Fireworks. We love their fireworks. They do a good job. This year, John got us an AWESOME!!! seat. We were right in front of where they shoot the fireworks off. In the video you can even see the caution tape. You could feel the vibration of the firworks blasts on your back as you laid on the ground. It was so awesome.




Today we woke up and we rode our bikes inthe neighborhood parade. My kids love this parade.

Then we went up to Timpanogos and hiked upto the caves and through the caves. It was fun. Wyatt did such a good job of walking. He made it almost to the top until we were almost there and then their came a huge rock slide and that scared him to death. There were like three rockslides right after each other. It was kind of scary. The caves were cool. We had a good time.





We then went to the Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner. They gave Gluten Free dishes and we had free kids meal coupons. It was fun.

We have had a great fourth of July.

Birthday Weekend

So this past weekend was John and Wyatt's birthday. We started our celebration on Saturday. John's parents showed up to give Wyatt and John their presents. On Sunday it was John's birthday. In our house the birthday person always gets to choose their favorite meal. So John chose carnitas and homemade new york Cheesecake. It was pretty good. Here is a picture of him pretending to blow out a candle because he didn'ty want to have 36 candles in his cake!!



Monday was Wyatt's birthday. He woke up and got to open his presents. He got a Thomas blanket for his bed and some water guns and darts for the dart gun. He was very excited.


He chose for dinner HOT DOGs. They are his very favorite meal ever. Then he wanted a Thomas cake. Can you tell he likes trains.




The highlight of Wyatt's day we went to the mall and rode the train. He loved it!




Happy birthday boys. I love you both very much!!

Randomness

The month of January has been a very slow, but crazy month. We haven't done anything interesting in paticular, but here are a few videos (thanks to my husband for the video camera for Christmas) and pictures.

Here is Abigail and Wyatt. Just being cute.


Abigail lost her first tooth! She was so excited. She has been waiting for this moment for about a year now. Everyday she would wiggle her tooth and ask is it ready? It finally happened.




Here is the family singing songs with the Karoke Machine

Abigail's singing performance - SANTA

Last night was Abigail's friends and family performance for her singing group. She has enjoyed singing this year and has done a great job. I took some video, but Wyatt kept bumping me so sorry it is bumpy. Then on the second video I had in the small stick and ran out of memory so you only got part of the song.







Then this morning was our ward Christmas breakfast. The primary did the nativity. Then Santa came and each of the kids got to sit on this lap. Wyatt has been so excited all month because he wants a train. So he went right up and sat on his lap and promptly asked for a train. Abigail wore a dress because she wanted to impress Santa (but she doesn't know what she wants). So Santa told her he would bring her a suprise.






Oh, we are soooo excited for Christmas!!!!

Joshua's Baptism

Well, this weekend Joshua got baptized!!! I can't believe I have two children old enough to be baptized. This is amazing. My children are growing faster than I can keep up with them.

This weekend was kind of a crazy weekend. My Mom and sister Sharolee came on Thursday afternoon. Wyatt woke up from his nap with a fever. Thursday night Wyatt didn't sleep very good and his fever rose to 105. So Friday morning I took him over to the doctor and our regular doctor wasn't in so I saw a different one. She freaked out when she saw his tonsils. She had another doctor come and look at them. They were not sure what he has. They tested for strep and flu and he didn't have either of those, so she said it was either mono or acute tonsilites. I was hoping for the tonsilitise. So we came home from the doctor and my mom and I had planned on going shopping but now we wouldn't be able to with Wyatt so sick. So John came home from work to watch Wyatt so we could shop. Thank you John, you are so awesome!!! My mom, Sharolee and I had a great time shopping and eating.

Then that night Wyatt's fever was high again. So on Saturday for Joshua's baptism a few of the Aunts and Uncles were too scared to come so they stayed home. We are thankful for the ones that did come and support Joshua. He had a great baptism day. The spirit was there so strongly and he was happy. It was a great day. We had Hawaiin Haystacks for the luncheon afterward as that is Joshua's most favorite dinner ever. It was a good day.

Wyatt's fever broke that afternoon and so far he has been fever free. I am pretty sure he was just having tonsilites. Hopefully his tonsils will go back down soon.

Birthday Weekend

This is our busy weekend of birthdays. First it was Johns. Happy Birthday! His Dad got a new gun, so John wanted to go to Kamas for his birthday to shoot guns. So after Abigail's last soccer game we headed to Kamas. Unfortunately it was very rainy and soggy. They only got to shoot for about 10 minutes. But had fun anyway. John's Mom made him a birthday dinner and I made him a coconut cream pie(his favorite).

Today was Wyatt's birthday. He is now two years old. I can't believe that my baby is already two. Wow! how time flies. He definately woke up with the two year old attitude. He had a good birthday. He got to go to nursery for his birthday. We had his favorite dinner tonight and he got to blow out his candles on his cake. He had fun. Of course he just LOVES everything Elmo, so he had to have an Elmo cake. I must say, this is the best birthday cake I have yet made.

Potty Training, Soccer and Life

Well, we have been doing a bit of everything lately. I decided to try potty training Wyatt last week, so on Tuesday we put him in underwear. The first time he went pee he was very shocked at getting all wet. Then when he went again, he started catching on. Finally after four try's he got it and has been mostly dry the past week. I am so excited to have this on its way. I really do hate potty training, but I hate changing diapers worse.

Abigail is in soccer this year and likes it alot. She has fun running and trying to kick the ball. Here is some pics of her.




Then we had some friends over Saturday night for a tinfoil dinner and started a fire in the firepit and had tinfoil dinners and smores. It was a lot of fun. Abigail got really messy. I just had to take a pic of her.



Then last night we went to the mini-park for a little gathering to say hello to some ward members who had moved out of our ward about a year ago and they had come back to visit. It was good to catch up with them, but I wonder if Wyatt ate something off of the ground because last night at 4:00 a.m. he started throwing up and threw up every 15 minutes until about 7:30. Then he fell asleep and he is still asleep. Hence why I have time to sit at the computer and update my blog at 9:30 in the morning! Well, the dryer just beeped, so I guess now I need to go fold clothes.

Random Things

We have been off-track this week, and so we have just been hanging out and having fun. Here is a picture of Wyatt all dressed up and ready to go ...


Jacob made us peanut butter chocolate chip cookies today pretty much all by himself. He is becoming quite the chef.

Stiches, stiches stiches ugh!

So today was a great day, until about 3:30 p.m. John's parents and his sister came to visit today. We just hung out and talked and got hair cuts and such. Then we went to Jumbo Burger. We no sooner had gotten home, than Wyatt decided to climb on the table (The little monkey that he is) and then he slipped and fell and hit his eye on the metal railing. Instantly his eye poofed up and bleeding. We were pretty sure he needed stiches so we went up to the insta care and as I was walking in a doctor was walking out and she saw Wyatt's eye and walked right back in with us. Then at the check-in counter we had five nurses all looking at him. He was pretty brave. They put his arms in a pillowcase and wrapped him up like a burrito and they stiched him up. He didn't much like getting the shot to deaden him, but everythig else was done. All while the doctor was stiching him he kept saying, Done, done, done. He wanted to be done.

He is doing great now. Running around like the wild child he is.

Christmas Week

One day last week, John, Abigail and Wyatt went outside to build a snowman. Their snowman was so tall, that I thought I would take a picture.



Then John buried Abigail in the snow.



They had a lot of fun playing in the snow.

Make a Smilebox greeting

Santa Clause is Coming to Town . . .

Today was our ward's annual Christmas Breakfast and Santa always comes. This year Wyatt could say Santa and new who he was, but when we took him up to Santa he just started to scream. Abigail also was afraid. So Jacob and Joshua were the only ones to sit on his lap.

Two down and one to go

Well, we have two weeks down and one to go of off track time. Last week was not the greatest of all weeks. Wyatt started not sleeping at night waking up. Then the fever started and then the goupy nose. I was sure that it was just his teeth coming in because his gums are red and swollen. Then after three nights of no sleep I finally took him to the doctor. He has a double ear infection. Poor guy. Every time he has gotten in new teeth he has gotten and ear infection. Good thing these are the last four teeth to come in.

Halloween!!!

Yah! Halloween came and it went. Everyone is tucked safely in bed so ready to sleep. We started the day at the library where Witch Matilda came and told stories. Then watched movies and then it was finally time to trick or treat. I think this year, I was more excited than the kids. Abigial was a witch, Wyatt was a cow, Joshua was Yoda, and Jacob was Harry Potter. We had fun trick or treating.