Emily's 30th Birthday Week!!

Well a couple of week's ago I turned the big 30!!! It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I think I got myself prepared or hyped up a bit. 30 so far has been wonderful. I had such a fun birthday/birth week. It all started on Tuesday Feb. 1st. My best friend Hillary invited me to go out for ice cream which is a tradition of ours. We were going to a new ice cream place this time where you get your own ice cream and add any toppings you would like. When we got there, Hillary opened the door for me and when I walked in I heard a bunch of people yell "Suprise"!! To my suprise she had called all of my friends in the ward and had them meet us there for a suprise party!! It was so wonderful!! It was so fun to be truly suprised!! It was so great to have everyone there to help celebrate my birthday and we had a wonderful time together!! It was fun to see everyone!!

On my actual birthday, I went out to breakfast to Ihop with 2 of my good friends that I go walking with, then went to lunch at Olive Garden with my mom and sisters, and then went out to dinner to Texas Roadhouse with Doug and Wyatt!! I can't believe that I did that all in one day. It was so fun though. At lunch, my sister Brita thought it would be fun for everyone to bring 30 of something as a gift. So my mom gave me 30 cute fabric squares, batting and yarn, Jenni gave me a pack of 30 sheets of cute scrapbook paper, Kelleen gave me 20 cute thank you cards, some 5 stamps, and fun flower stickers, Brita gave me 30 cans of Dr. Pepper and a hat that had 30 blow pops on it with a sign that said 30 blows.

Later in the week we celebrated mine and my niece's birthday with Doug's side of the family, and then had a family dinner at my parents house on fast Sunday. We had my favorite, cheese lasagna. It was so yummy. I hadn't had it in a while.

I had a few phone calls that day, got some cute cards, had the Relief Society Presidency stop by with a treat, spent time with friends and family, etc. It was a wonderful day and week. Thank you to everyone who made it so special.

Wyatt Tubing!!

Here is one of the videos that I took today of Wyatt tubing for the first time. He had such a fun time and didn't want to quit. Luckily both Doug and Wyatt kept warm. It was a fun activity today.

Tubing!!

Doug and Wyatt had a blast playing out in the snow today so we decided to ge a tube for Wyatt to go tubing in our back yard. It was so much fun. Doug got a good work out running around the back yard pulling Wyatt in the tube. Wyatt had so much fun and kept telling Doug to go again and to go faster. It was fun to watch them.

More Christmas Photos!!

Here are a few more Christmas photos. Wyatt was so excited this year. Santa brought him a Lightening McQueen bike, an art set, new toys etc. I think he was very happy with his new bike. He has been riding it in the basement and is getting very good at it. His other favorite toy right now is his racing marble set that he got from Grammy and Papa. He loves to build a new track every day!! We had such a wonderful Christmas this year. We had a wonderful family dinner and party at both my parents house and Doug's parents house, we hung out at home Christmas day for a bit, we were able to talk to my brother Tyler who is on a mission in Georgia on Christmas day, spent time with family, etc.

Christmas Photos!!

Here are some pictures from Christmas this year!! Wyatt got the fun monster trucks from Nana and Bompa, he is wearing the pj's that we got him this year (they were red and green and had Mickey Mouse on them, he loved them, and we gave him Lightening McQueen slippers to wear). It was a very busy but great Christmas this year. We are very blessed.

Gingerbread House!!

This year my friend Lori invited us over to her house for some yummy soup and she helped Wyatt to make a ginger bread house!! It was so much fun. She had the ginger bread house ready to go and all of the treats to put on it. Wyatt had so much fun helping to choose the colors of frosting to use (red, green and orange)and putting on all of the fun treats. It was such a fun activity and he loved looking at his gingerbread house each day. I had fun watching him put everything on his house!! It was a great festive activity.

Halloween Photos!!

This year for Halloween Wyatt dressed up as Buzz Lightyear. He had such a fun time wearing his outfit!! Luckily I was able to borrow it from my sister this year!! (Thank you Brita!! Everyone loved the outfit and thought it was so cool!!) Wyatt's friend Justin dressed up as Woody. It was so fun to see them together in their cute outfits!! Wyatt had a fun time in preschool this last month learning halloween songs, making halloween decorations, going trick or treating, etc. Halloween is a fun holiday to celebrate.

Preschool Halloween Program Pictures!!

This year Wyatt had 2 Halloween preschool programs. It was so much fun and they sang a bunch of fun halloween songs. Wyatt was a little shy and wouldn't sing but it was fun to see all of the kids in his classes dressed up.

Field Trip!!

Today Wyatt went on his first school field trip. He went to the fire station. It was really fun to go with him. I think he had a great time!! Here are some pictures of his class at the fire station.

More 1 Year Anniversary Photos!!

Here are a few more photos of our outing to celebrate our 1 year anniversary of being sealed as a family. Wyatt's favorite part of being up in the canyon was being by the water. He was having fun throwing pine cones in the water and walking over rocks to get from side to side. He thought that he was so big!! We also found this really cool fuzzy orange and black caterpiller. I haven't seen one of those before!! We had such a great time that afternoon. It was fun to get out and go for a hike together as a family. We love seeing the leaves change color and it is always a great spot to get family photos. We like to go up to American Fork Canyon this time of year to see the leaves change. It was fun to go walking by the creek this year. We haven't done that before.

1 Year Anniversary!!

On Saturday Sept. 25th we celebrated our 1 year anniversary of being sealed in the temple as a family!! We went up American Fork Canyon to check out the leaves changing colors and to go on a little hike. We found a creek as we were walking and got some great photos. We also went out to dinner and picked up some yummy treats from Dippidee. It was fun to go out and celebrate as a family!! It is so exciting that it has been a year and the time has just flown by.

Walking home from preschool!!

Here are a couple of pictures of us walking home after the first day of preschool. Wyatt made a crown, had snacks, played outside, had story time, etc. on his first day of school. Wyatt had a great day on his first day and told me all about it.

First Day of Preschool!!

It's offical. Wyatt had his first day of preschool today. Wyatt was really excited to go. We got him a new outfit to wear and he was really excited to wear his backpack too. We walked over to his school this morning, he found his name to hang up his backpack and sat on the carpet to wait for his teacher and I told him goodbye. It was really hard on me to leave him there but I know he is going to have fun. It will be so great to hear what he did for his first day of school.

Wiggles Concert!!

For one of Wyatt's birthday presents this year we bought tickets to go to the Wiggle's Concert. Wyatt loves watching the Wiggle's on TV. He knows all of the people's names and all of the songs. He loves to sing and dance to the songs. Wyatt was pretty tired when we went to the concert because we had gone on a hike earlier in the day but I think he had a great time. He got to wave at Jeff who walked by our row, and would yell during certain songs. It was really fun to take him to the concert!! We had a good time too!!

Wyatt's New Train Set!!

Wyatt is now potty trained!! We are so excited. We had a potty chart for him and if he went to the bathroom 24 times we told him that we would get him a train set!! He loves playing with his trains and dressing up like the conductor. It is so fun!!

Thanksgiving Point Activities!!

We went to Thanksgiving Point as part of our 24th of July vacation too. We went to the Farm Country and Wyatt went on a pony ride twice, we saw some of the animals, we also went to the Dinosuar Museum where Wyatt sat on a dinosuar, played in the sand, saw a big shark, saw some goldfish in a pond/stream, saw a bunch of dinosuar bones, and had lunch. It was so much fun.

My dad also took Wyatt fishing as part of the vacation. Wyatt wouldn't hold on to the fishing pole. All he wanted to do was through the fish food in. My dad and Wyatt caught 5 fish. They also went out to lunch. It was a great time.

We stayed at a hotel up in Layton and went swimming too. We did so many fun activities. I can't wait until we go again next year.

Children's Treehouse Museum!!

Another activity we did as part of our family vacation was go to the Children's Treehouse Museum in Ogden. It was awesome. We were there for about an hour and a half and didn't get to do everything. Wyatt loved being on the fire truck and playing with the train sets the most. He also got to make a barn and animals out of paper cut outs, he could play life size chess, he went in a teepee and dressed up like an indian, they have a space where you can sit behind the desk like the one in the oval office, you can make so many crafts, etc. There was so much there to do. It was a fun activity!!