~The Wilsons~

October/November

2011-12-04T12:56:00.000-08:00

October and November have flown by, and now we are well on our way to Christmas. Well here is little bit of what we have been busy with around our house.This guy has been super busy the last few months with work, so in order for me and the girls to keep our sanity we have been busy doing lots of fun things.

Kate is three and sassy as can be. She is OBSESSED with pricesses, so she had a wonderful princess party. Since we had just moved here we didn't have many friends to come celebrate with us but our friends the Stoddards came and helped us party it up with a treasure hunt, decorating crowns and cupcakes.

Can believe this little bugaboo is 3. We headed to Logan for a week of fun. Starting with my cute little Grandmas 80'th Birthday

I have awesome cousins and we had not all be together in like 4 years so it was so fun to get together and to see our cute kids play together. Sure love these girls!!My favorite cousin from Vegas, Jessica stayed at my parents house with me, we had so much fun and had to do some Just Dance. Even Kate was getting in the groove.

I went to dinner with some friends from high school. So fun to see friends after so long.

My parents, sister and sister in-law took the kids to Hogle Zoo for the day. These two little monkeys LOVE to play.

Kate and Vince measuring up to the gorillas

It would not be October without a trip to the fabulous North Logan Pumpkin Walk.

Claire was a cute little Pumpkin for Halloween

And of course Kate was Cinderella. We are still cleaning up the sparkles from that dress. But she loved Halloween and still asks if we are having another Halloween tonight.We have been playing dress up with friends.....

There has been jumping........

and more jumping.......

some strolling.......

a lot of smiling.........and a bunch of laughing.

We have had a great couple of months and are excited to be getting our daddy back now that he is starting to slow down. We are getting so excited for Christmas and the new traditions that our family is starting. Kate is now at the age where it is so fun to see her experience the sights and sounds of the holidays. Hope you all have a wonderful Holiday season.

~MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE WILSONS~

Good, Better, Best

2011-10-05T14:58:00.000-07:00

This has been on my mind a lot lately, especially after watching conference. Now that I am a full time stay at home mom I am feeling a little bit of pressure to be the perfect little homemaker, and I am a hard time finding the time to fit it all in, and trying to decide what is THE GOOD, THE BETTER AND THE BEST. There are 3 main talks from this and past conferences that have really been sticking in my mind lately. The first is President Uchtdorfs talk from the Relief Society broadcast. What an inspired man, he honestly was talking straight to me and I am sure every women felt the same way. I loved when he talked about making sacrifices, it is a worthy sacrifice to stay awake with a sick child, it is not a good sacrifice to stay up late and make hair accessories for your daughters Sunday dress. To find the best things and spend your time doing those things. The forget-me-nots, what a great way to help us remember the important things in life, like that God loves us.
The second talk was by M. Russell Ballard in April 2008 conference talking to young mothers. He said that motherhood is the most important calling on earth (talk about pressure). He talks about living in the moment, enjoying and teaching your children while they are in your home. Not worrying about the dirty windows and getting on the floor and playing with your kids. Also taking time to enhance your own life, taking a class, learning something new that will make you a better person.
The last talk is called Good, Better, Best by Dallin H. Oaks given in 2007. He mentions the story of Mary and Martha, I am totally a Martha. ~ If Jesus were to come to dinner at my house I would be worried about a clean house, a perfect dinner and making sure everything was in order. I am sure I would complain that no one was helping and they were all sitting around Jesus' feet listening to him, while I did all the work. What Martha was doing was Good, but it was not the best thing that she could have been doing at the time.
There are so many things that we need to do during the day, but are we doing the best? Sure; scrapbooking, crocheting, making gourmet meals, facebooking and even blogging are all good things. But before we do those things are we making sure to spend quality time with each of our kids, telling them how much we love them, have we read our scriptures before reading facebook newsfeeds, are we magnifying our church callings or just doing the bare minimum? I am asking myself these questions too, I am far from perfect but after watching conference I am striving to be more perfect, not so others will look at my life and think I am perfect but to truly become perfect like my Heavenly Father wants and knows I can be.
Just some thoughts from my crazy brain, I hope these talks help you in your life like they have helped me.

Summer fun

2011-09-13T11:48:00.000-07:00

Where did August go? We have had such a great summer, but August was one crazy month. Lee started his new job by leaving for Kentucky for three weeks for training, and I was left home with a two and a half year old and a five week old baby. I would not have made it through those weeks with out my parents, Lee's sister staying with me for a few days and wonderful neighbors to help me out. Two days after he got home Lee was able to give Claire a beautiful blessing and had many family members come and support us.

Cousins~ Vince, Charlie, Kate and Claire

4 generations

My cute family

Wilson family

After we got the blessing over our next project was packing, packing and more packing. We did take a weekend break and went to Park City for a reunion and also headed to the Cache County fair.

I love corn on the cob!

Claire is getting so big, she is three months old now and i love this stage. she is such a happy, good baby. She smiles all the time. At her last check up she was in the 95th percentile for her height and weight, She is a growing girl. And so stinking cute.

We are now pretty much settled in Pocatello and starting to get into a routine. Life is much different that it has been for the last few years, I retired from my job, and now am a stay at home mom and loving every minute of it(well to be honest there are some minutes that I do not love) and Lee is loving his new job. He gets to work out of the home which is quite the change from working 60 hours a week and sleeping very little. He is loving being home with his girls. Last week we went to the East Idaho State Fair and had so much fun, we spent a small fortune but had a great day.

I dont now who was having more fun feeding the baby goats: Lee or Kate

Check out those horns.

Claire loved the fair too.

The other day Kate upstairs and told me that I needed to come see her fish. I didnt pay too much attention to it, until I went downstairs and found this:

I may be partial but I think that is fascinating. She must be gifted:)

Kate loves her new house and is making friends with some of the neighbor kids. We also started potty training again~please pray for us.

Life is great here in Idaho.

Claires 1 month pics

2011-09-06T10:14:00.000-07:00

Claire is almost 3 months old now, but with moving I never got around to posting her pictures. One of the cute young women in my ward ( Kori Thompson) started a photography business, so I asked her to take Claires pictures. They turned out really cute, especially considering she has never taken newborn pics before, Kori did great!!!

Big changes

2011-07-06T19:38:00.000-07:00

On June 9th miss Claire Mckenzie was born. She was 8 pds 15 oz and 22 inches long, she is perfect and the labor and delivery were super smooth. She is eating great and sleeping good too. Now that she is 4 weeks old I figured it was time to update the blog.

I was a little worried how Kate was going to take having a new baby, but she has suprised me. She loves her baby sister and wants to hold and love on her. The week after Claire was born I celebrated my 26th birthday, we had dinner at my favorite restaurant The Coppermill and finished the night with some Village Inn Pie.

We are loving our sweet little family and enjoyed the holiday weekend.

In other news. I am happy to announce that Lee got a new job. He will be the area rep for Humana Healthcare. But here is the thing~ it is in Pocatello, Idaho. So that means that we are MOVING!!! This is a huge blessing for us but it will be hard at the same time. I have lived in Cache Valley my whole life. I love it here. I love my new house, my awesome nieghborhood, my great friends and having my family so close. But the Lord wants/needs us in Pocatello so that is where we are headed. The plan is to find a place to rent there and hopefully find renters for our home. We are hoping to be there by mid August. So those are the two big changes in our house, a new baby and a new job. Pretty exciting stuff.

It's a Girl!!!

2011-02-04T10:59:00.000-08:00

That's right we are expecting another little girl, June 12, 2011. Here is an interesting fact: My Grandma, mom, sister and I are all born in June, It is a busy birthday month, and we are excited to add another little girl to the list. I am 21 weeks and have felt great from the very beginning. We are trying to get some of the big changes over with for Kate before the baby comes. Wednesday I changed her crib into a toddler bed. Why can't they make cribs to fit kids until they are 5? We have not got a lot of sleep the last two nights. She sneaks out and plays in the living room or just in her room. If you have any advice on how to teach a 2 year old to stay in their bed, I would love to hear it. So that is the latest in our lives. Happy Valentines Day!!

What???

2010-11-01T19:00:00.000-07:00

I know, what am I doing updating my blog? It has only been a short 8 months since I have posted something. So hold on tight, you are in for a ride though Wilsonville.

Man, a lot has happened over the last few months, so here we go.

~The last thing that I left you with was that our little monkey broke her arm, after 6 long, smelly weeks the cast came off and Kate was good as new.

~Lee turned 30 this year and had a great birthday. We really enjoy birthdays in our family.

~Lee and I ran our first race together. The Smithfield 5K, and had a blast.

~ I had an awesome 25th birthday this summer and my freaking fantastic husband got me a much needed new camera,(that is why there are no pics for the first few things, but here come the pics.)

~We had a great summer filled with lots of friends~Spending time with family

~A Summer is not complete without a visit to the Cache County Fair~

~Lots of parades and candy~Bear Lake with cousins~Biggest part of the summer was spent putting in our sprinkling system and planting our lawn. Lee and I did it all ourselves and are so proud of what we accomplished.~Next big accomplishment, I ran the Top of Utah Half Marathon with my dad. Loved it. Finished in 2:09. Hope to do it again next year.~Kate got a kittin for her Birthday, She loved it. It later ran away. (Darn:)~And our little Kate bug turned 2 in October. Man we sure love her.~Took a trip to Hogle ZooSupported our Aggie Football, even in the pouring rain~And of course Halloween. Little Minnie Mouse ~Kate rocking this seasons newest fashion.

So we have had a busy summer and fall, but are loved every second of it. Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving. And while I'm at it I might as well just wish you a Merry Christmas because who knows when I will update this blog again. Thanks for visiting!!!

No more monkeys jumping on the bed!!

2010-03-15T15:51:00.000-07:00

One little monkey jumpin on the bed, she fell off and bumped her head~ this is one of Kates favorite books, in fact she likes it so much that she wanted to try it out for herself. On tuesday she had just woke up from a nap and was jumping in her crib just laughing and chattering away. I was on the phone with my sweet friend Lacey (who I am way excited for). I then heard a big THUD then crying, I ran in her room and found her face down on the floor. She cried for a few minutes then stopped, she started playing and I assumed that she was fine. Until I noticed that when she went to crawl or reach for something she would start crying and pull her arm back. I called the doctor and they told me to come in as soon as possible. We went in got x-rays and found out that she had a little fracture just above her left wrist. She was such a trooper. They put a splint on for a few days and she got a cute pink cast on Friday. She has not let this cast slow her down. She is such a good little girl. But April 12th can not come fast enough, it is already starting to stink.Bath time has been a bit challenging. I had to cover it with a towel then taped a walmart bag over it. It kind of ticked her off!!!
This weekend we went on a little get away. It was so nice to get out of the valley and the usual day to day stuff and just relax and hang out. Check out that cute cast.And look at that little cheese ball
My Grandma Potter makes the Best rolls, I can not remember a family party where we didn't have her rolls. She came to my house today and taught me how to make them. I sure love my Grandma and am so glad that she passed this family recipe on to me so I can carry on the legend of Grandma Potters rolls. Thanks again for teaching me. I also have to send a shout out to my Grandpa for hanging around for a few hours while we baked away. He was busy entertaining Kate by taking her on a walk and reading many books to her. He is just so cute with her and she is pretty fond of him too.

The finished product~ and boy were they good.

I hate thinking of a title!

2010-03-03T22:08:00.000-08:00

I am really lacking the motivation to update this so called blog. The first reason is that our computer has been having some issues, it will just randomly shut down while I am using it, so I didn't want to deal with that. The second reason is that by the time I can actually blog some of the things we have been up to the events were weeks ago and I figure that nobody cares by then. The last thing I posted was about Christmas so I need to do a little catch up. Kate and I have been passing the winter days outside playing in the snow. She can not get enough of the freezing weather. But she does took super cute in her snow outfit.We have also been to a few Basketball games and she is so good to just sit on our laps and watch the game and the people around her. She does HATE Big Blue. She freaks out any time we way his name.We had a great Valentines day. Lee and I got messages then went to Texas road house for lunch. It was so nice. Lee made me a candy bouquet because he knows how much I LOVE sweets.Mostly we have just been chilling at home praying for the snow to melt. Kate is growing up so fast, she knows all of the animal sounds and they are so cute. We just are loving this stage in life.

Until later. We are hopefully getting our computer fixed soon so I will be able to post more. Enjoy this weather, we sure are.

Christmas '09

2010-01-05T13:04:00.000-08:00

Oh my, where has the time gone? I know I have been a slacker when my dad says that I need to update my blog. So here is the update on the Wilson Fam. Lee is staying busy as always just work, work, work. We loved the holidays and the time off. It was awesome to just hang out as a family. There were a few days when we didn't leave the house at all. LOVED IT!!! I loved the Christmas season but I am sure glad to have my house back and not have to worry about Kate taking the ornaments off the tree. We had a great holiday season. Lots of family and friends and time off of work. Here are a few pictures because lets be honest people really only like to look at pictures, right?

Kate loving her Thanksgiving TurkeyAt the Hansen Family Christmas party, And no Kate does not smile for most, if any, pictures.

Listening to Great Grandpa Hansen tell the Christmas story.Kate with her cousin Kennlyn, Aren't they the cutest girls ever???We of course had to get a picture with Santa. Didn't go over to well. Opening presents Christmas morning. She got her first baby doll.I just love this picture!!! Check out that toothy grin. there is a total of 12 pearly whites in there.It isn't Christmas unless you have a Christmas morning bedhead picture.Cuddling with Gramps on Christmas morning.I pulled out Kates Bumbo the other day so I could paint her toe nails, and Kate loves to sit in it. She is so proud of herself when she can get in, but yells for help to get out. The other day I caught her just chilling in her chair reading a book to herself. What a sweetie. And last but not least, my little cowgirl. Don't mind the squinty eyes, she does that because of the flash. Check out those boots.
I hope that you all had a great holiday season. And a Happy New Year!!!

Happy Birthday

2009-10-25T12:51:00.000-07:00

Little Miss Kate is now 1!!! Can you believe it? This has been the best year of our lives. She brings us so much joy, we really feel so blessed to have this little girl in our family. Here is the One year update: She is 20 pounds and 31.5 inches long, ( still in the 98% just how we like it). She is walking like crazy, she loves all food~especially treats-aka- num nums. She loves emptying all drawers/baskets, unrolling the toilet paper, being the center of attention, playing peekaboo and she loves reading. And she is obsessed with HORSES, it was the 3rd word she said. She is so stinking funny. I love playing with her all day. She is my little buddy.
Kate had a huge birthday weekend. On Sunday we had a party with 35 of our wonderful family members. Here is Kate with her cousins, playing with the Busy Ball Popper( huge hit)This was one of her favorites, She could have stayed on this horse all night. Look at the sheer joy on that face!!!We had to have a lady bug cake for our cute little Katie Bug~What a sweety, sharing her cake with us.She devoured the cake. I love the frosting in her bangsMy cute little family~On Monday we had some friends over, yep that's right Kate had her first boy/girl party. Kate with her buddys, Thad and Kaitlyn.Kate with all of her new toys. Man she hit the jackpotThis picture sums up the birthday festivities. She Loved It!!!!Since I am horrible at updating we will just make this one gigantic post.
Bath time= Fun for Kate and Mom. Check out this hair. Sexy huh? We took her to her first football game and she loved it. She would clap anytime the crowd cheered. Future Aggie~ Go Aggies!!!!

Here is the update on the house. We finally moved in the beginning of September. WE LOVE IT!! I will take some pictures some time when the house is semi clean.

Kate sure does love her new house, take a look at the smile on that face.

Thanks for enduring through this mass of a post. Hope you have a Happy Halloween. I know we will.

Little Cowgirl

2009-09-01T13:44:00.000-07:00

She is so FREAKIN CUTE!!!!

I am horrible at updating this thing, But here I am over a month later.

Kate has become a little cowgirl over the summer. My next door neighbor has horses and they are right in my backyard. Kate loves to see the horses and she actually says horse. Every time we go outside she gets all excited and says horse, horse. So my woderful neighbor put the saddle on the horse and let her get on. She loved it. But first I have to tell you that my mom pulled out our old rocking horse and Kate went nuts over it. So you will see on the video of her on the real horse she is trying to bounce up and down on it. So funny. We sure love our little Rodeo Queen. Here are the pictures and videos.

Kate and her two new best friends, Greg and Quiggley

Corn, Corn, Corn. We love corn. Kate is now experiencing corn for the first time and is loving it. Those big teeth are becoming quite useful.

Now I am sure some of you are wondering about our house. Well things are really behind. Our builder told us it would be done July 24th, well as you can tell, that date and come and long gone. The house was about two weeks behind, then the bank took about a week, then we had to send it to the Government Rural Housing to get approved and they were extremely behind, so that has taken over two weeks but we did hear from our mortgage lender and he said that rural housing was looking at our loan TODAY!!!!! So it will be soon maybe even this weekend. We are so ready to move in. Hopefully my next post will be from our new house.

The Sweet Summer Time

2009-07-19T19:21:00.000-07:00

Oh man this summer is flying by. We have been having so much fun, and have not had time to update, so here we go, hold on tight for a butt load of pictures.

Well first of all I had a great 24th birthday. I worked, went to dinner and came home to brownies and ice cream. Man Birthdays get lame when you get older. But oh well.

Kate has been crawling for the past month and a half. She is cruising along. She is also crawling up the stairs. I am loving all these stages of babyhood. It is so fun to see her learn new things and discover all that she can do. She is loving all food, when ever we sit down at the table she scampers on over to beg some food off of us.

We celebrated the 4th by just lounging around the house, Then watching the fireworks, Kate really liked the fireworks for about 5 minutes then got bored with them.

Last week we went to Lagoon with my family for Aggie Alumni Day. It was so fun. We could only take Kate on about 4 rides but she sure liked those 4 rides. I think that Lee really liked riding the little pony.

After a long day at Lagoon, What a sweety!!
This weekend was the Wilson Family Reunion at Bear Lake. We spent 2 days at the Lake and had a blast. Kate LOVED the water. The water was perfect and the weather was warm.

This is kates new face that she does all the time, we call it "Blue Steel", She is so funny

And here is the update on the house. We Should be done this week. And hopefully we will be moved in this weekend or next. This has been such a fun process, and very scary wondering if all the colors will match and hoping it all comes together okay. But we are so excited about the house and just the fact that it will be ours (in 30 years).

Well hope you are still awake after all of that. We are loving summer and can't believe that july is almost over. Man were does the time go. Hope your summer is great.

Four Weeks Into Building!

2009-06-07T22:06:00.000-07:00

Just a month ago we broke ground and now we have something to show for it. We can't believe how fast it is going up. Our builder is amazing. If anyone is thinking about building let us hook you up with our guy. We really really like him.

You can't tell from these pics but there is electrical, some plumbing and ventilation already done. We like going by every few days to see the big changes that have happened. Only about another six weeks and it should be done. Wahoo!

Movin' Right Along

2009-06-03T22:26:00.000-07:00

Things are moving so fast. When we told people in April that we were building and that we were goingto start in May and be done the middle/end of July people looked at us like oh yeah, we shall see. Well I almost didn't believe it myself. But things are just cruising. These pictures were taken over the last 2 weeks and just today we went back and now there is a roof and a garage, but I didn't take any pics so they will have to wait. We are surviving at my parents house and just loving this wonderful weather. Enjoy the pictures.

May 23 ~ Just before the framing went up

May 27th~ basement framing

May 30th Crazy how things change

~Until Next Time~

Mission Accomplished

2009-05-19T22:04:00.000-07:00

Some big changes have happened with the Wilson Fam. For the last year we have been on a mission to find a house. We were somewhat obsessed with house hunting. We have seen too many houses in this small valley. We had actually put two offers on two houses and got rejected on both. We were getting so tired of this mission until we started tossing around the idea of building a house. We found a great builder and a beautiful lot and we were sold. So it is official we are building a house in Smithfield. We are so excited. So our mission is somewhat complete, I guess it will be official when we move in. But it feels so nice to not worry about the hunting part anymore. One other change is that my wonderful parents were willing to put us up for the next few months until our house is done. We love my parents and it has only been one week but it has been pretty good. I can not tell you how happy we were to get out of our apartment. It got to the point were it felt like the walls were starting to close in on us. What a relief to be done with that chapter of our lives. Here are some pictures of our soon to be casa~
Week One~ May 9th~ our beautiful hole

Week Two~ May 16th

~Update on Miss Kate~Kate is now 7 months old. She is getting very spoiled living with her grandparents, She has people playing with her and smiling at her and making her laugh all the time and she loves it. She has two cute little teeth and she says da da, I don't think that she knows what it means but it makes Lee feel good, so we just pretend. She is so close to crawling and loves standing and walking with help. She loves animals and is loving eating like a big girl. She just amazes us everyday. Lee is such a wonderful dad. He loves to play with his little bug. Happy belated Mothers Day, I was able to celebrate mothers day as an official mom. It was wonderful. I love being a mom, especially to a sweet baby girl. I love my own mom and my grandma and I am so glad that Kate will know her great grandparents.

My sister Maria and Kate. Kate loves to play with her favorite auntie. Thanks Ria for helping us out, you are the best!!!!

My cousin Natalie and her baby Paisley, Don't be confused, we did switch babies.

Life for the Wilson family is wonderful.

PS~ May 20th is our three year Anniversary, can you believe it. I love ya babe.

Vegas Baby

2009-04-26T20:14:00.000-07:00

For Lees birthday last week, I surprised him with a little weekend get away to Vegas. I got a great deal on Airfare, and hotel. This was our first time away from Kate. We left Kate with my parents( thanks again) and they were so excited to have her all weekend. It was so hard to leave her we both were crying (more me than Lee) when we handed her off, but she loves her grandparents and I knew she would have so much fun with them.
We left early on Friday morning, we checked into our hotel the Tropicana, then hit the strip. First of all here are the pictures of our classic Las Vegas room, mirrors and all, kind of kinky!!

Yep that's right on the ceiling

Friday was so nice we checked out all the Casinos , came back to our hotel after a while and took a long nap (times like this we were not missing our Katie Bug). After nap time we decided to head to the stratosphere to ride the rides. My dad sold the rides on top so I had been there and rode them many times but this was Lees first time, and he sure did scream like a little girl. But it was so fun. A piece of advice for those going to vegas in their lifetimes, DON'T WALK ALL THE WAY TO THE STRATOSPHERE!!! We thought, oh it is not that far, we can walk it, well an hour and a half later we finally made it and we were exhausted. So just pay the money and ride the bus.

Ya gotta love the M&M Factory

Yes I did gamble, but it was only $1.00

At the Bilogio. My fav casino

On Saturday we slept in until 10am and then hit up the pool. This was one of the highlights of the trip, it was so wonderful to sit in the sun with my headphones in and just relax, not a care in the world. So so nice. Later that night we went to the Excalibur for the mid-evil dinner and show, it was pretty darn fun. Below is a picture of dinner, I had no idea that we would not have any utensils, It was kind of gross tearing into the chicken and eating like a heathen, but it was tasty.By Sunday we were ready to be home and were more than ready to see our baby girl. Over all we had such a great time. It was so wonderful to spend time with just the two of us, sleeping in, playing cards in our room, just walking the strip holding hands. I loved it all.

Happy Birthday Lee. I love you.

I had to add this picture. I gave Kate her first pedicure. It turned our pretty cute. Man I just love my little girl.

Easter and 6 months

2009-04-14T09:28:00.000-07:00

I hope that everyone had a Happy Easter. The Wilson Family had a great one. My brother came up from Salt Lake and we spend all weekend together. Lee and Jon went golfing, Lee was so excited he had been waiting for the snow to melt. We ate so much food over the weekend. Sunday we had the Hansen Family egg hunt, Kate was not to fast at gathering the eggs but I helped her and I also helped her eat the candy!! I love my family, I am so greatful that I am so close with my cousins, aunts and uncles, and that we get together often. Here are some pictures: Kate in her new Easter dress with her basket and eggs

My cousin Amie, her baby Kennlyn, Kate and I. I love that Amie and I are the same age and grew up together and now we both have girls that can play together also. They both are just so adorable. They are just 6 weeks apart.

(Kate experiencing her first popcicle, LOVED IT)

Not only was Sunday Easter but it was Kates 6 month mark. It blows my mind that she is that old and she is so big. Where does the time go. She is now sitting up like a champ, rolling over, slobbering up a storm, and melting our hearts every day. She is a good eater and a great sleeper. We are so greatful for her and thank our Father in Heaven every day for her. We love our little Monkey!!

A New Toy and a New Boy!

2009-03-24T09:11:00.000-07:00

Little miss Kate is has become a little mexican jumping bean. We were getting so tired of her jumping on our laps, so we got her a Jumperoo. This has been the best toy ever. She could sit in it for a half an hour and be content as can be. She loves to jump and then stop and take a breather, play with the toys, then start jumping again. So so cute.

(sorry it is sideways, it is still cute)

~New little Boy~

Kate has a new little cousin. My older Brother Jon and his wife Brianne had a little boy last Monday. He was 7lbs 5oz. Named Vincent Jonathan Potter. We went down on Sunday to see them. He was so cute and so little, after carrying around our five month old chuncky monkey, he felt like a little feather. Both mom and baby are doing wonderful.

Cookies and Giggles

2009-03-01T18:55:00.000-08:00

Saturday morning Kate and I were a little bored, so we made some cookies while Lee slept. Kate was a big help, sucking on all the measuring cups and knocking anything she could reach on the floor. But we sure did have a good time.

I love this picture of my Grandpa Potter and Kate. He just adores her and she sure loves him.

Kate is becoming quite the little giggler. I just love it. I often find myself dancing like a retard in stores trying to make her laugh. I am sure people think: " that poor child, she has a Special Mom," but I don't care, there is nothing better than to hear her laugh.

4 month check-up

2009-02-19T21:51:00.000-08:00

Kate went to her 4 month Doc. appointment on Friday. She weighs 14 lbs 10 oz which is 73rd percentile, and her length was 26 3/4 inchs which is in the 99th percentile. So she is pretty darn long. She handled the shots much better this time, and the doctor says that she is doing great. Her big accomplishment this week was that she started to eat rice cereal. As you can tell from the pictures she was not a big fan. We are still working on it and more is starting to end up in her mouth instead of on her bib.
Kate loves bath time, look at that cute little face.

Photo shoot~ 4 months

2009-02-09T13:55:00.000-08:00

I have been a slacker and have finally gotten her blessing pictures taken. Also Kate is now four months old, Crazy Crazy, she is getting so big. But I love how she smiles and laughs now. She is so fun to play with. Any who back to the pics. I have two friends who are both starting a photography business. I asked them to take some pics of Kate. They were so great to work with, and the pictures turned out awesome, although I am her mother and I think that she is adorable all the time, these pics were so great. They also gave me a cd with all the pics and the copyrights. So check out their websites: http://www.ashhiltonphotography.com/, and http://www.peramorephotography.com/. Thanks again Ash and Meg!!!

~~If you need pics taken, definately give these girls a call~~

Bobs Boot Camp

2009-01-29T21:58:00.000-08:00

Oh my~

So to meet one my new years resolutions (the dreaded weightloss) I bought "The Biggest Loser; Bobs boot camp." Lee and I are big fans of the show. We enjoy watching it while we sit on our butts and eat doughnuts and ice cream. Any who I love trainer Bob Harper, so that is why I got the workout video. Now that I have Kate it is much harder for me to make it to the gym, i figured that I could workout at home and still be with her. Well this little video is quite the workout. It works everything. I am glad that I do it in the privacy of my own home, because I look extremely nappy by the end of the video. The way the workout is set up. You do one workout for 2 weeks then add a second section for 2 more weeks, then add a third section for the last 2 weeks. I just started the second section and boy oh boy is it a butt kicker. I like it because it works my problem areas, also because it is not a long workout, about 45 minutes for a total body workout. If you are in need of a butt whooping get this video, only $10.00 at walmart.

~this kind of sounds like an infomercial. Sorry~

Blessing day

2009-01-09T18:43:00.000-08:00

On Sunday Kate was blessed. Lee gave her a beautiful blessing and she didn't make a peep! We had a lot of family come to support us and we are so thankful for all of you that came. WE LOVE YOU!!! After, we had lunch at the Alumni House on campus. We loved seeing our family and spending time with them. It was a very special day. I am so grateful for Lee and that he was able to give our daughter a special blessing. He is a wonderful husband and the cutest dad. Here are some photos of the day.
My two favorite people!
Kate and her two grandmas

Great Grandma Potter, Grandma Potter, Me and Kate4 Generations, Kate was kind of tired of taking pictures

Christmas fun!!

2008-12-28T17:54:00.000-08:00

Christmas at the Wilson home was so great. It was so fun to see family and for them to meet Kate. Lee and I had a great Christmas and kind of spoiled ourselves, and didn't get much for Kate because she would not know the difference. We loved waking up Christmas morning in our own home and starting our own traditions with our little family. With Lee working two jobs and me working part time, it seems as if we never see each other, so we really enjoyed just being together over the break. Here are some pics from the week~

Kates first encounter with Santa~ she has been a very good girl this year!
Kates present, a bumbo~ She loves it! Also notice her new Christmas pjs
Christmas morning at Grandma Potters

Every girl needs a new Christmas dress.

Shots ahhhh!!

2008-12-14T16:56:00.000-08:00

I took Kate to her two month check up. Here is the update: she is now 11 pounds 8 ounces and is now 24 inches long. The doctor said that she is doing great and will definitely going to be tall ( which Lee and I are very happy about). Kate was born with a little mark on one of her fingers on her left hand, the doctor says it is a strawberry mimanginoma ( I know I totally butchered the spelling) but it is just a spot where the red blood cells have raised to the skin surface and it will gradually fade over time.
The worst part was that she had to get three shots. I was so nervous, no parent wants to see their child in pain, but I believe in immunizations. As expected she screamed, the kind of cry where her face turns red and she doesn't breath. I hated it. I took her a good few minutes to calm down. She was a little crabby the rest of the day, thank goodness for children's Tylenol. But she is growing like a weed. And getting cuter by the minute.
PS. can you believe this is the second post in two weeks. I know! I am getting better at this.

2 Months old? WHAT??

2008-12-08T19:08:00.000-08:00

I just can not believe how big Kate is getting. These last two months have gone by so fast and it seems like she was a newborn for about a minute. But Lee and I are both loving how she can smile and coo at us. She is so fun to watch, who needs t.v. I thought that after she was born I would be better at blogging but it turns out that I was wrong. But I really at going to try to do better. Here are a few cute pictures of Kate:

Kate with her cousin McKenna
Our cute little family at the USU-BYU game. Kate is a die-hard Aggie fan!

So dang cute!!!!

2008-11-05T17:22:00.000-08:00

Lee and I are loving being parents. Kate is such a good baby, she sleeps pretty well at night and we just love honding her and laughing at all the cute things that she does.

So my mom has a teddy bear that wears an Aggie cheerleading outfit, we decided to try it on Kate; and it fit. We already know which school she is going to,she is already an Aggie Fan. Don't you love the nasty umbilical cord!

Halloween was fun, we went to my parents house and my mom was more than happy to watch Kate while Lee and I had some alone time and watched a movie. We didn't get her a costume but we thought this outfit was stinkin cute. We are just loving every minute, we still can't believe that she is here and that she is really ours, and we think that she is so stinking adorable. We just love her.

Introducing Kate Elizabeth Wilson

2008-10-15T21:16:00.000-07:00

Kate was born Sunday October 12th ( her due date) at 2:19 pm. She is 8 lbs and 11 ounces and 20 and 1/2 inches long. We came to the hospital at 3:30am on Sunday and the labor and delivery went well. Once the epidural kicked in it was great. They had to do the Epidural twice, because it didn't work the first time, so that was the worst part but I made it through.
Kate is so wonderful and sweet. She is a very well-mannered and calm baby, she is so beautiful. We feel so blessed to have her in our family and that we get to have her for eternity. Here are some of our favorite pictures of her. Enjoy!!!!!

~ Any day now~

2008-10-06T17:15:00.000-07:00

So here is the update, We went to the doctor day and I am dialated to a 2, which sounds great to me. The doc said most likely this week but who knows. I am still feeling great, but I am getting kind of tired of the swollen hands and feet, and I am not sure how many more stretch marks I can get, before my skin will explode. But Lee and I are just so ready and so excited to see and hold our little girl. The house is as clean as it will get and the hospital bag is packed. We feel like we are ready but we are first timers so any advice or suggestions would be great.

So here is the latest picture and look how cute her room is, it is as cute as it can be living in an apartment. Well I hope that the next post will have a cute baby girl in it. Everyone cross your fingers, and wish us luck!!!!!!!

~Tag~

2008-10-06T16:24:00.000-07:00

What's your husbands name? Lee Kimball Wilson

How long have you guys been married? 2 1/2 years

How long did you date? 4 months and engaged for 5 months

How old is he? 28

Who eats more sweets? Probably me, but he likes his treats too.

Who said I Love You first? He did

Who is taller? Lee for sure, it's one of the reasons I love him.

Who is the better singer? He is much better than me

Who is smarter? I'd say Lee is a little bit more book smart but I think I have the street smarts.

Who does the laundry? I pretty much do it all.

Who pays the bills? I do the bills, I am more organized, so it works out better if I do it.

Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Me!

Does he snore? Only when he is sick, but I have been the snorer recently (thanks to pregnancy)

What does he do in hes spare time? Be with his best friend (me), and golf.

Who mows the lawn? We don't have a lawn.

What is his favorite candy bar? Milky Way
Who cooks dinner? Both of us together.
Who drives? Lee drives most of the time
Who is the first to say they are wrong? I think we are about equal.
Who kissed who first? Lee kissed me first and it was very sweet.
Who asked who out first? Lee asked me out first.
Who wears the pants? We both do, we work better together.
Does he say I Love You everyday? Yes, yes and yes. Every time I see him or talk to him on the phone.

I am so grateful for Lee and that I get to be with my best friend for ETERNITY!!!!!

5 weeks left!!!

2008-09-10T21:47:00.000-07:00

So this is not my most favorite picture but I am sure that all pregnant women say that, even thought everyone else says that we have a glow and that we look so cute,I personally don't feel so cute. So here is the most updated picture. At our last doctors appointment he said that I was measuring a little small, so we made an appointment for an ultrasound. We were super excited to see our little girl again. The tech said that everything was great and that she is actually 6 pounds 4 ounces, she even has some hair. She said that by my due date she will be around 8 pounds, crazy huh!!! We feel great that everything is is going well and that she is healthy and growing.
We also graduated from our preparing for childbirth class tonight, but I am not sure if we really are ready, I guess we will see in about 5 weeks.

"That is supposted to fit through where?"

2008-08-21T12:13:00.000-07:00

Lee and I went to our first preparing for childbirth class last night. We were very excited about going, it is making it all seem so real. But when they showed the stages of labor video, I really wanted to rethink this whole having a baby thing. Lee and I both had the funniest/disturbed look on our face during the entire video. After seeing that I don't know how women can have so many kids. I also am questioning myself, if I can really do that. But I look at all the mothers I know and say "well if they can do it I for sure can" I guess we will see, 7 WEEKS FROM NOW. AHAHAH!!!

New Bloggers

2008-08-06T11:55:00.000-07:00

~Well we are finally becoming a part of the in crowd and now have a blog. We figured it would be fun when we have our baby so that family and friends can see our new bundle of joy. We will see how well it works~