Wyatt Turns ONE

 So today is Wyatt's real birthday. We had just a small get together with some friends. He was able to have ice cream at this birthday party.

 Sydney Shinsel, almost 2 yrs old. Wyatt just loves sydney. They do fight over toys a lot, but he always gets the biggest smile when he sees her...his first crush?? haha

He wasn't so sure about the ice cream. He had a few licks, but wasn't too thrilled.

Wyatt is such a great kid. He is a joy and has the best/prettiest (he's been called a "pretty boy" many times) little face. His smile can just melt your heart. His eyes tell his whole story. You can see a smile,frown, and angry face in them before the mood appears with his mouth.

Wyatt is in LOVE with trucks/cars. He has always loved anything with wheels, and now loves pushing around anything with wheels and makes this cute "vum vum" sound with his mouth. His trucks can go everywhere! He pushes them all over the walls, furniture, buckets, baskets, boxes, anything!

About one week ago Wyatt said his first word, other than mom and dad. It was "ba" which he's been saying for a long time, but now it means ball. Anything that has a circle shape is now "ba." I need to work with him on car or truck because although he likes playing with balls, his true love is wheels.

His blankie is another love! He completely melts when he is tired and sees his blankie. I am really lucky to have 3 that feel exactly the same and he loves them all. Around 10 months he went through a stage where he wouldn't leave his crib after naps without his blankie.

Lately, Wyatt and Brock have been playing a game. Brock holds Wyatt by the bed/couch and counts to 3. Wyatt loves this game, and by 2 he is laughing and at 3 he throws his head and arms back to land on the bed. It's amazing how much trust he has in his daddy. Brock said today, "he's like a little magnent" because he follows Brock all over the house!

Wyster, we love you more than words can explain. You light up our little home with your amazing smile. Your laughter is truly heaven sent and we know that you are a direct child of our Heavenly Father. We are thankful each day that He has trusted in ur to be your earthly parents.

You are our everything!

We'll love you forever, We'll like you for always. As long as you're living our baby you'll be:)

Return from Vacation

Does anyone else's house look like they just moved in, when really all we did was come back from Christmas Break?! haha. We were packed to the top on the way home. And we didn't even get it all in. Brock made me a cricut/craft organizer that is super cute and will be SO nice to have....someday when we have some room!

 Yes, our poor fridge! We cleaned it out before we left. We were gone to a wedding and then to Tri-Cities for Christmas break, so it was about 1 month in all. Wyatt spent the first few hours home exploring the place again. It was like a whole new play land for him. (ps the milk is new! thanks joni!)

After it was all put away, it felt so good to be home! We had a great break and wyatt loves all the new toys he has. It actually entertains him really well, so far:)

HAPPY NEW YEAR AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY WYATT

Happy New Year everyone! WOW 2011 is really here! We had such a great 2010, I'm sad to see it go. We had a lot of firsts in 2010, with the arrival of Wyatt Brock on January 5th at 12:07am. Such a joy this little guy has been in our home this past year. I feel he has changed me into a better person and I am extremely excited for each step of the road I get to take with this little man. Since we go back to La Grande before his birthday, we celebrated with family on January 1st. He had such a great fake birthday, thanks so much everyone!!!! He loves his relatives(we'll find out just how much he misses ya'll when we return to our little apartment with no grandma's or cousins:( Going to be interesting!) Brock did such a great job with wyatt's cake!!! I love all the detail he added!

I told brock it looks like he's stuck with every birthday cake from here on out!

Kinda blurry(our camera has issues!) sorry!

I LOVE this picture. Wyatt's cheesy face is so funny! He hardly ever smiles, let alone looks, at the camera. He is totally his own person, doesn't give smiles or laughs out unless they are earned! And when they are earned, he gives ya a simpathy smile most of the time. Such a funny kid!

The cousins! He has so much fun when everyone is here! He normally follows either brayden or chandler around, and then one of the jenks girls brings him back. I love it! So much fun when they are all together:)

So many toys! THANKS everyone!

He liked the happy birthday song!

Loved the balloons, but mostly, THE CAKE!

People make fun of us, but we don't allow Wyatt to have much sugar. He was in heaven when he was allowed a piece of cake!!

We love our little WYSTER!!! He is the biggest blessing in our home. Thanks for all the PRECIOUS MOMENTS you give us wyatt. We love you!!

Christmas 2010

MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone! It has been so long since I have posted on my blog! With the New Year I have made some goals: 1st make my blog private and 2nd post weekly so I can put it into a book at the end of the year and have it forever...this will be very hard considering I post about once every other month!!
We had a GREAT christmas! Wyatt got his first 4-wheeler(no motor!) from Grandma McGary. He loves this thing! He is still IN LOVE with wheels, so he mainly pushes it around and watches the wheels go round!

We played some really fun games at Gibbons' house Christmas day. Wyatt even got to enjoy the aftermath of the balloon game! My little guy will be ONE in exactly a week. Wow has the time flown by!

Shutterfly = CUTE cards

Have you checked out shutterfly.com yet? They don't only have cute photo books, but TONS of very cute and unique photo cards/christmas cards/birthday cards...etc. I am absolutely in love with some of their christmas cards. You can go to www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationary to see some of the adorable cards! We haven't ever sent out christmas cards, but I have my eyes set on a few super cute ones, so I'm hoping to be able to order some! The site for the christmas cards is www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationary/christmas-photo-cards . Like I said, they have a ton of occasions! I really wish I would have done a cute baby announcement when Wyatt was born! They have such adorable announcements for babies. I love going to friends' house and seeing infant announcements on their fridge! www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationary/birth-announcements has a great variety of cards!

I couldn't decide which card was my favorite....so i picked a few I really like! I like the first one because there is a choice of mulitple photoes. I always really like the up close pictures of each person in the family, and then the big picture to the left of the whole family. The 2nd card I LOVE the red boarder! It really adds to the card! The last one is probably my favorite! I really love the saying and how positive it is, not your normal, Merry Christmas....something a little different. But I am really in love with the blue and red combo!

What do you do during nap time?

Since we now have the internet it has been great! But one thing I have noticed is nap time just isn't long enough! Wyatt is great and still takes 3 naps a day, but they just aren't long enough to get everything I want done: dishes, shower and get ready, clean, laundry, look at coupon blogs, figure out my coupon deals, look at craft blogs, figure out my next craft, make lunch/dinner, etc. I see all these other blogs and most of them are stay at home mothers, how do they do it?! Do their children nap all day or what?!

We have been having so much fun in our new location. We have gained some really good friends so far. I love being in the city, so far! We get to have play dates, go to the park, run to the store for a good coupon deal, go to the indoor play park, hang out with friends even if it's 7:00 at night....it's just so much nicer being 2-5mins from everything!!!! I thought I'd be kinda bored down here since I dont have family around, but I really have been busy. Every day there's something to do or people to play with!

Wyatt is growing and growing! This poor little guy looks like he's about 12-16 months old! Everywhere we go I get the "wow, he's only 9 months?!" He started building some courage about 2 weeks ago and is now standing on his own for a few minutes here and there. He absolutely LOVES his daddy! Since we live so close to campus brock walks to school and is able to come home when he has a break in classes. Wyatt loves this time (and so do I!!). Brock plays with him a ton, but Wyatt also loves cuddling with his daddy. There's been a few times I can't get him to sleep, but brock can!! I love it, they are so cute together!

Updates on US-with more to come

Wyatt loves his daddy! We picked some apples before we moved and wyatt loved it!
He loves making out with himself in the mirror!!! Is this abnormal for kids? I have no idea but he does it all the time. Kinda cute though:)

All ready for a walk

Wyatt LOVES LOVES LOVES wheels. Any toy that has any kind of wheel on it is his favorite. I find him everywhere playing with wheels: his crib, this bag, the toy bikes,cars,trucks, laundry keeper, walker, everywhere!

Brock has a new hobby. He got this 1953 GMC in June and has been working hard to get it fixed up (the cheap way to please me:)) He has really enjoyed researching about it and I'm sure we'll love riding in it when he's done:)