Fun Times With Wyatt

 I was writing about how much Wyatt has been climbing on stuff and just the next morning he was playing in our bed looking out the window like he always does (i know, our apartment has NASTY curtains), and he started climbing up the headboard. I didnt get a picture of it, but he was completely in the window at one point! This little rascal!!

 Wyatt loves dancing to music! He hates hats, but with the distraction of the music he kept it on!:)

 This picture was taken in pure darkness, we must have a good flash! We were getting ready to go hot tubbing for family night with andy and amy shinsel, so I went in to wake Wyatt up and this is what I found. He never sleeps like this! So funny. His feet totally chillin thru the bar things and on top of the crib bedding. You can't tell from the pictures, but his feet are elevated a little bit. He didn't even wake after we took these pictures; this nap was 2 1/2 hrs long, which he hasn't done in a while. His naps are all over the place these days. He always has 2 naps, they have been 1-1.5 hrs lately, where they justed to be 1.5-2.5hrs AND he hasn't been sleeping thru the night lately....must be growing, teething, something!

Valentines Day

I'm a little late with Vday stuff, but I wanted to write something real quick. We made heart shaped and pink pancakes for breakfast and then I made Pizza and Oreo shakes for lunch- yummy! Brock left for school about an hour early on vday, which is what he does every day. About 45mins later, I was cleaning and see wyatt head for the door yelling "da da da." Any time he hears noise at the door he thinks it's his dad...and he was right. Brock had my favorite flowers and the sweetest card! It totally surprised me and brightened my whole week! That's one thing I fell in love about with him when we were dating, he would always surprise me with different things. I'm so thankful for such a wonderful husband! I love you Brock!

Fun Times, Bumps, and Bruises

 They have an indoor pool here and tuesdays are family night, so we went with some friends on Feb 1st. Wyatt absolutely LOVES the water! We walked in and his face just lite up and he instantly wanted down. While in the pool, he tries to push away from me/brock and wants to go on his own. They also have a little slide (it was actually a really fun/big slide) and he LOVED it! He was too distracted for me to get very many pics.

 So this first picture is his 2nd accident ever (he's had a few small ones here and there, but they don't count unless they leave a lasting mark!) Wyatt very very very much enjoys going outside. So every time the door opens he pounds on the door crying to go out. So on 7th (i know the date because it was right before we went home for my grandma's funeral) I took Wyatt outside to let him run around. He didn't want to come back inside, so I started in the door hoping he would follow. He decided to go the other way and fell on the cement. OUCH! He wasn't too happy about it, but did it stop him from wanting to go outside 5 mins later? NOPE!

This little scrape on his nose was the first major battle wound. He was playin on a box in the living room and heard some noise by the door. Any time he hears noise by the door he runs to it saying "dad dad dad!" He must of forgotten he was on the box and took a head first little spill; it was only like 8 inches off the ground. He didn't even cry because he was more concerned about the door. I didn't realize anything until a few hours later it was super red, and then this picture was taken the next day when it had scabbed over.

I feel I will have many more posts about my son's injuries. In the last 2 weeks he has really started getting into everything and being that crazy little boy that you constantly have to watch! He figured out how to climb up the couch about 4-5days ago and then started climbing up the kitchen table chairs yesterday. He hasn't fallen yet, he can get off the couch by himself, but I don't let him stand on the chairs! He climbs on his toys, boxes, anything that has a place for him to put a foot on and then slide up, he's doing it!

He also LOVES the toilet! (did I mention he's not scared of ANYTHING?! He loves strangers, funny/scary noises, heights, other kids (even bigger and older ones), running away from mommy, the dark, the apartment ally way, small spaces, standing in the shopping cart (yes, the spot where kids are supposed to sit!), stuffed animals, puppets, old people(i thought kids were scared of glasses and white hair?! the list goes on and on!) He has been obssessed with flushing the toilet for a while now, but just the last couple of days he loves to flush the toilet and hurry to open the lid to see the water swirl down. He has tried touching the water a few times, he is fascinated by it swirling around!

I have always heard people say, good babies = bad kids. I guess we'll see, but right now he's really starting to terrorize our house, and anywhere we go for that matter! :)

The Funeral

I kind of have these pictures all out of order, completely because I went around stealing these pictures from various family members' blogs today. I really wasn't prepared for this day, emotionally I just didn't want to face it. So I didn't even think about bringing a camera. Below is a picture of the Lane McGary family, minus brock and wyatt(brock went to get him from camille's house) and brayden (being babysat).

Grandma absolutely LOVED her family. There are so many of us! She kept this board of all our pictures up in her kitchen. She also too great delight in her posterity serving missions. She also had a mission board with a list of all the missionaries, the place they served, and the date.

I think this was the hardest part of the day. We know we will be with grandma again someday. I loved how my cousin, Tami Ottley, put it "We aren't saying good-bye, we are saying see you later." My poor grandpa; watching him just tore my heart in two.

The hallway of family going into the chapel. We were toward the back because dad is 2nd youngest in the family. As you can see, brock stands out in this little family! :)

The grandsons all sang "Ye Elders of Israel" which was a special request by grandma. The last verse they sang "Oh grandma, oh grandma we bid thee farewell. You're going to heaven to wait for us there."

Jande is the one to blame/give credit to for this last picture. I love how precious it is. A prayer of a little girl is truly heard by our Father in Heaven.

Grandma and Grandpa McGary

Last August (2010) we took a Sunday to go down and visit Grandma and Grandpa McGary. I am SO glad I took my camera! I had a few pictures of Wyatt with Grandma at the McGary Christmas party, but of course he was moving all over the place, so they were blurry. We had so much fun this day with them. Wyatt loved Grandma! Normally babies are a little spooked by white hair and glasses, but he wasn't! When we came home from La Grande to visit a few times, he would always love sitting with them during gospel doctrine. One time we came home and found candy in Wyatt's pants. I couldn't beleive it! I guess that's why they call him "The candy Grandpa!"

(back to these pictures) Wyatt was still learning to crawl, so grandpa was down on all fours trying to teach him. Grandma had made some raspberry icecream, which was really good. It was so funny because Grandpa told on Grandma that it wasn't their normal recipe; it was a "way easier" one with a pkg of jello in it. Grandma of course does her little, "DON! They didn't need to know that. They like it and that's all that matters." Grandma was eating her pretzel crackers (they were her new favorite thing), and grandpa was eating some kind of choc. covered cracker. He kept giving it to Wyatt and we kept kindly taking it away from him. Finally, Grandma did her thing, "DON! They don't want him to have it!" I can clearly hear her saying those words, with her tone of voice that just makes you laugh! They also got out the history book of the basin area and we read about their early days in their new home. Normally, there is a lot of family at Grandma's, but this day it was just us. It was always fun to go see them. Brock and I always left their house laughing about the various things each of them had said, it was always a comedy hour watching those two!

I am so lucky to have had such a wonderful Grandmother. I miss her so much already, thinking of her often. But I know she is so much better off now and I will be able to see her again.

Grandma McGary

I don't have any pictures to post right now, but I wanted to get some special feelings down about my Grandma McGary. Today was her funeral and it was such a great day to remember and honor her. Unless you knew grandma, I don't think you'll ever be able to know how great she really was. She was constantly making us laugh; whether what she was saying was a joke, a yell at grandpa, an argument with grandpa, or some kind of aggressive comment. She had her opinions and wasn't scared to let you know what she thought. So many fun memories with this lady makes it so hard to say goodbye. Today was such a hard day as I replayed countless memories and realized there won't be those summer tomatoes, fresh cinnamon rolls, yummy rolls, funny jellos, waffles, saved paper goods, little candies, and so much more. I remember changing water by grandma's house and dad saying on the way down, "now don't let grandma take you in for waffles, we have to hurry and get this done to go rake/swath/change more water." But of course, grandma would summon us inside and we told dad she "made" us. :) Grandma loved to visit, whether stopping to by our house, or us going to theirs! After I was married, Brock and I would try to make it down to see them on some sundays. Our schedule would sometimes only allow an hour or so and brock would always say, "there's no way we'll be leaving in an hour." And it's true....no matter how many times we told grandma we had to go, there was always something to make us stay a little longer. Most of the time it was something to eat that was the convincing factor! Oh how I wish I could have those moments back and have her plead with me to stay a little longer. One time we went down there Wyatt was just learning to crawl and grandpa got down and was trying to teach him. It was such a great day. Grandma, of course, had homemade ice cream that was great. Grandpa was trying to give Wyatt some, and Grandma was yelling at him, "DON! she doesn't want him to have any. Just leave him alone." But of course Grandpa never listened til about the 3rd time. A few years ago Grandma had on a very pretty necklace. I commented on it and told her how much I really liked it. Normally she is always joking, but in a serious manner she told me how much my comment meant to her and how even though she's old she still likes to feel pretty. She was always saying how much she hated her diabetes shoes. She used to tell me they never matched anything and were "just old things."
I have so many more memories with this amazing lady (they are in my personal journal). She made me want to enjoy life. To laugh and love. Her family was her everything. Like my dad said at the funeral today, she truly made each of her 39 grandchildren and 97 great grandchildren feel like they were the most special. With so many loved ones, you would think she wouldn't be able to remember our names, but she always did. She knew exactly where we were, what we were doing, and always made me feel like I was her favorite. I think I really was though:)
I don't know what our family is going to do without Grandma spreading all the news/gossip about various family members. She kept this family together, demanding we get to know our cousins by making us sit by other families at our McGary Christmas parties. I still feel like that phone will ring telling us that another baby has been born.....we are all waiting to see who is going to have the 100th great grandchild. I know she would be so proud and would love to spread the news to anyone who would listen!
I love you so much Grandma. We will miss you more than I can explain. You're testimony was evident and I pray I can keep my life in order to return to our Heavenly Father and You, because I know you will be waiting for each and every one of us!

Saving Some Money

 The transaction above was from Rite Aid. ALL THIS COST ME .18, yep just 18 cents!! 1pkg diapers, 2 trail mix, 2 PB, 4 chex bags, 1 dish soap, 1 razor, and 1 M&M pkg. I could have done a ton more chex bags, but we don't eat them too often, so just got what I thought we'd eat.

I got all this PB for FREE! (I actually made 1cent per container)

I do get every day stuff on coupon too. I didn't take a picture of it, but I was able to get: 2 grapefruits, 2 gallons milk, and 4boxes frosted mini wheats for $4.58. That is good for me. Milk here at Walmart is $2.60-$3.20 a gallon!!! So expensive!

I have been doing couponing for close to a year now and I still can't believe how great of deals I get sometimes. These 2 deals don't happen that often for me, but I get super excited when they do! I am not REALLY big into it, because I don't subscribe to a newspaper (which is where most of the coupons come from). I just do what I can with the coupons I can get. I really love living in OR right now for 2 reasons. 1-there aren't CRAZY couponers here like there are in tri-cities that clear the shelf and 2-safeway doubles my coupons up to .50...so each transaction saves me another $2. Doesn't seem like a lot, but in couponing, $2 is big!

Climbing Around

 If wyatt could stay like this and go everywhere with brock, he would be in heaven! He just cries and cries when brock leaves, so he thought it was pretty fun being in his carhart bibs!

 Trying to brush his own teeth. He doesn't like me doing it.

 I was talking on the phone and peeped in wyatts room (a couple weeks ago) and found this. He won't sit on his motorcycle, the thing he's supposed to be sitting on, but thought it was fun to sit on this tiny truck. So funny!

 Our house has become a jungle gym for wyatt in the past 2 weeks. He is climbing on everything! Brock left this in the house for a couple of days, and at first he thought it was fun to just sit on the tool box. But the next day he found it was was better to stand on it, which ended in a few falls. I blocked it off with chairs and he just moved the chairs aside and climbed back up.

 Brock was playing with Wyatt. He loved this. We'd push him around and he'd have this little smirk on his face.

 He looks so grown up to me! We buzzed his hair and now he looks so old! He was climbing on a box the other day and fell. He is such a tough boy, didn't hardly cry at all. I noticed later his nose was super red, and then it scabbed over the next day. Poor guy, first little battle wound.

 And this is the reason for the hair cut!!! He would wake up with some serious bed head! It was so funny, one day I went and got wyatt from his crib and was laughing when I came out and saw he matched his daddy. They both got a cut a few days later!