What? Too Big?

Thanks to my mom Syd has headbands and the interchangable flowers and things. Most of the flowers are really big and don't quite look right on her head. The flower in this pic. is so cute and I keep putting it on her hoping it won't be too big. These pic's were taken one day while Syd was sitting on her changing table and I thought I would try the flower on her. Now, I know the flower is too big but I thought she still looked so cute I had to snap these pic's. I loved these pic's so much I thought they needed to be shared.

Hooray for Manda!

So my sister Manda has been living in Southern Virginia playing basketball at SVU since August. Boy has she been missed! When we both lived in Cedar she lived at my house. We did everything together. If I needed to run errands, and I didn't want to take the kids by myself she would come along. I can't tell you how much help she was when I had Sydnee. Toward the end of the pregnancy I was put on bed rest and she slept over at our apartment and took care of Wyatt till I finally had Sydnee. Now to go from being together all the time to not seeing her for 4 months is hard. I know 4 months really isn't that long, but I have sure missed her. And what makes it worse is Wyatt cries over missing Aunt Manda at least twice a week. He tells us she's his girlfriend. It's cute! Anyway, the whole point of this post is to announce that Aunt Manda is coming home!!!!!!! Yay! I can't tell you how excited we are to see her. She flies in tomorrow night and we will all be at the airport to pick her up. She was sad not to be home for Wyatt's birthday so she has a gift for him that he gets to open at the airport. He told Manda exactly what he wanted from her. So no pressure Manda but you better come through. He keeps saying that Manda is giving him Bumblebee. Now she is only here for like 10 days, so we don't get her for very long. There's a lot to fit in while she is here. Let's just say we will be busy. We love you Manda and we will see you tomorrow.

Birthday Fun

Friday night we took Wyatt out to eat at the Mayan for his birthday. Jer and Wyatt had never eaten there before. I just thought Wyatt would love the atmosphere. My parents, Matt, Emilee and my Grandpa Miner met us there. It was a fun evening and both Wyatt and Sydnee loved watching the divers, water and fire.

This face says it all!

Opening presents

Wyatt with Ma's and Grandpa

Monday evening on Wyatt's birthday we had my fam over again for cake and ice cream. Wyatt was spoiled once again and got a lot of fun toys and money from the great grandparents. I think his favorite is this animal planet thing that Jer and I gave him. He has been begging for it for months.

Wyatt liked helping me make his birthday cake. Or eating the batter.

Blowing out the candles

Wyatt got everything from a picnic table to a dragon, dinosaur and octopus.

Grandma and Grandpa Barlow gave him this picnic table. He was so excited when he woke up first thing this morning, he had to eat his breakfast on it. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

Overall Wyatt had a great brithday!

Happy Birthday Wyatt!! (Our little dinosaur)

Today is Wyatt's 4 year birthday. I can't believe I have a 4 year old! He got to celebrate his birthday at pre-school today. I sent a special birthday snack and then I came the last 10 min. of class and showed pictures of Wyatt. He is such a good boy. Anyone who knows Wyatt knows he has a ton of energy and is so intelligent. He is always acting like an animal or dinosaur. He brings such a special spirit into our home. He is such a good older brother to Sydnee. We love you Wyatt and are glad you are in our family!

Wyatt was born at 10:59 p.m.

He weighed 6 lbs. 13 oz.

He was 19 1/2 '' long

Wyatt was born 9 days before his due date and we were glad because he was due Christmas Eve. I really didn't want to be in labor on Christmas Eve. I developed preeclampsia later in the pregnancy and so they decided to induce me. Before they could induce me Wyatt started coming on his own. I think he was ready. It really was a quick easy labor. Ok not an easy labor, is any labor ever really easy? But compared to some stories I've heard, I can't complain.

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It really works!

When we first moved into our apartment I thought our dishwasher was broken. I thought that maybe the rinse wasn't working or something because our dishes were coming out all white and foggy. I absolutely hated this I thought it was gross. So after management came to look at what I thought was a broken dishwasher they told me my dishes looked like that because of the hard water up here. My dishwasher wasn't broken. Man did I feel stupid!! We had hard water when we lived in Cedar but it didn't do this to our dishes. So up here they must have really hard water. So anyway I had been buying jet dry and all these rinse agents. Now they worked ok, but you have to use a lot of it, and they are expensive. So this was getting old fast. When we were down in Enterprise for Thanksgiving we got on the topic and my sis-in-law mentioned that all we needed to do was pour a little bit of vinegar in the bottom of our dishwasher before we started it and this would solve the problem. So I thought "what the heck". I just tried it and oh my goodness, It works!! I am so excited because vinegar is a lot cheaper than the rinsing agents and it seems to work a little better. I was also worried at first that my dishes might smell like vinegar, but they don't. It's wonderful, so anyone else out there having this problem, hope this helps! Thanks Lindsey!!

I Tag

I now have to apologize to my friend Jen. Who also tagged me forever ago and it has taken me a while to notice and get around to it. This kind of seems like a fun one!

I AM TAGGED
I am: A Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
I think: I am always right
I know: The Book of Mormon is true
I want: A house instead of an apartment
I dislike: Arrogant people
I miss: Cedar City
I fear: Spiders and my children choking on something
I feel: Lucky and grateful
I hear: The clothes dryer
I smell: Lemonade (cause I just made some)
I crave: Coke Slushes
I cry: When I am happy, sad, or scared
I search: For a new teaching job for Jeremy
I wonder: What the future holds
I regret: Things I say sometimes
I love: My whole family
I care: About my husband and children
I always: Tell Jer I love him before hanging up the phone
I worry: About everything
I am not: Good at exercising like I should
I remember: Being skinny at one time (what happened?)
I believe: The gospel is true
I dance: Horribly!
I sing: Even worse than when I dance!
I don’t always: Play with my kids like I should
I argue: About things that are important to me
I write: Thank you cards as often as I can
I win: Jer when we play ticket to ride
I lose: Jer when we play monopoly
I wish: I had a million dollars
I listen: To President Monson
I don't understand: Most people
I can usually be found: At home, trying to clean
I am scared: Of spiders
I need: Jer
I forget: more than I remember
I am happy: When I am with my family
I tag: Marissa, Candace, Shelly, & Pam

Our Thanksgiving Weekend

This year we went to Enterprise for Thanksgiving. Did I take pictures you ask? Why of course not. But my camera did sit in my purse the whole time. Anyway, for journaling purposes I still wanted to write about our weekend. We headed down to Enterprise Wed. It was nice to have a full day of driving. And believe me, we needed it. Anyone who can drive straight from North Salt Lake to Enterprise should be able to do it in about 4 hours give or take. But it usually takes us like 7. Mostly because once we get to Cedar we feel like we are home again and have to sit and reminisce.

Any who, so we volunteered to stay with Jer's grandparents because we knew it would be a full house at his parents. It ended up being really nice. We had our very own bedroom and bathroom and they had a pullout couch for Wyatt. Our Thanksgiving day was really nice. We all ate a lot of food and pie and then watched some football and played games. Ok well the men watched football while the women sat around and looked at ads. Wyatt had a blast playing with cousins as usual.

The Friday after of course, the women woke at 5 am and headed to St. George to shop and left the kids with the men. I wasn't sure if I wanted to go shop at first, but I am so glad I did. I was exhausted, but it really was a blast and I found some good things. We all had lunch and then headed home. And then of course all the men got to have their fun when us women got back. They took off and went skeet (I don't know how to spell this word.) shooting. On Sat. our niece Shelbie was baptized. It was really special. And we are glad it worked out so that we were there for the baptism. Sunday we woke up and headed home. It was a really fun weekend and we are thankful for all that we have and are blessed with. Note to self: Next time, TAKE PICTURES!!