lately

Wow, I'm a bad blogger. I can't keep up, so I just have to post a bunch of random pictures of what we've kind of been up to lately! Eliza is definitely keeping us on our toes! She talks like crazy. Everyone is so surprised she's only 2 1/2 and talks so well, and SO much!

Her latest thing she has learned is how to get sympathy, and she's good at it. So she hurt her finger a while ago (its completely healed now), and must have noticed that when she told people she hurt her finger, they felt really bad for her. So lately she started pulling that card on random people that we came in contact with. But mostly at Billy's work, where there's lots of ladies who just go goo-goo over her! And they get her band aids to make her feel better. Its pretty entertaining, and the ladies love it! Everyone at Billy's work just loves her!

She's definitely a singer. She even knows the songs I listen to. She likes to sing along to Adele. And a lot of the time she's making up her own songs to whatever she's doing. Its pretty cute!

We're all getting used to Billy having to work all day. Eliza asks where he is a lot, and gets really excited when he comes home. his schedule is 9-6. but he has that one last class at BYU-I that he goes to tues and thurs. So he misses some work for that, and has to make it up. It will be much better when he's totally done with school, and when its summer time we'll have more sunlight, and it won't feel like the day is already over by the time we have dinner and he gets a chance to unwind from the day.

Well, anyway, here's a few pictures as of lately.

Hanging with the coolest little brothers before they leave on their missions. Tav going to Mongolia, and Tate going to Africa. I'm going to miss them a Lot!!

Jammin' with Grannie Beard

Strange sleeper!

on our way to the Temple the day before we dropped Tav off at the MTC. It was fun to go with the siblings. we were missing Grant, Parley and Tate.

The cake I made Billy for his surprise Birthday Party (and he actually was surprised! yay!) He loves cookie dough, and its called cookie dough cake.

I was pretty proud of it, except that it really didn't taste that great. :(

heart hair

Helping me make the pizza dough

At the Dinosaur museum

Dad, Eliza and Sue the T-Rex

I love Billy's face in this one.

cute girl!

going for a ride

Jammin' with Ang and Bri!

Holidays

All the family!

the entire family, except Jason

Wow! As much fun as the holiday's are, I'm glad to be home in my own bed and not living out of a suit case. We were gone for about 2 1/2 weeks. The first week we spent with the Beards. We went to their house in Lake Havasu, AZ. It wasn't as warm there as we had hoped, but of course right after we left for Teton Valley again it got warm and nice. Oh well. We got to go on a tour around the Lake and learn more about it, which was neat. It was too chilly to do much else. We did get to go in the pool our last day there, which I was excited about! Eliza loooves swimming, so she had a blast! We also got to enjoy the hot tub! aaahhh! love hot tubs! We got to have our christmas from them a little early because we were leaving, and of course, we got totally spoiled! My favorite was my new Kitchen Aid! Eliza's big present was a doll house, which she loves! and Billy's was a new Suit! snazzy! We're so very blessed!

The morning we were leaving Lake Havasu, our plan was to be out by 5:30 am (its about a 13-14 hr drive) but I figured it would be closer to 6. So it was, and we say our goodbyes, and get in the car to leave, and the car won't turn on. :( hmmm.. So we go in, and realized that when Jim had pulled our car into the garage that morning, he forgot to turn the lights off! ( we'll get to tease him about that for a long time! :)) so we jumped it, and got on the road. We hadn't gone very far before Billy said the car wasn't shifting. So we turned around and went back! The guys figured it all out, but we had to wait a bit. So we said our second round of goodbye's, and finally got on the road at about 7:30. Good times!

We picked up my sister Jenna in Utah, and then decided to just stay the night at our new place in Idaho Falls. Oh ya, we moved to Idaho Falls!! It was like a week before we left. Quite hectic! We love our new place. Its a 2 bdrm townhouse. It has a more homey feeling than an apartment. And it was the best deal that wasn't a hole in the ground. So its great! I'll post pictures later. Anyway, so we made it to my house in Alta, Wyoming Christmas Eve, just in time to go caroling! Then we came home, had a yummy dinner, read the Christmas story, and Garrett gave his little own Christmas story, which was so cute! Eliza was excited for Santa to come! It was fun to see her get excited! And again we got even more spoiled!!! We got a second Crock-Pot, tools, toys, movies, gift cards and much more. We get double spoiled at Christmas. But I mostly love being with all the family. My family loves playing games, especially Rook. So we definitely had some games of that, and other fun games. I felt like I barely saw Eliza cuz she was having so much fun with her cousins! They all had a blast together!

New Years we had a ton of the Wilson cousins over, and had a big dinner, then hung out and played more games till the new year! It was a lot of fun! Tavner and Tate gave their farewell talks that Sunday, January 1st, and it was one of the most amazing meetings I've ever been too. Of course I'm biased towards them, but seriously, it was Awesome! Tate, as always, was just funny, but gave an amazing message on family, and got choked up at the end, which wasn't good, cuz all us sisters, sisters-in-law, and Mom all sang after he spoke. We sang "I'll go where you want me to go" with Aunt Karen on the piano, and Billy on the violin, and our cousin Adam on viola. Then Tavner spoke about how he gained his testimony, and the struggles he's gone through. I was crying like a baby. but he challenged everyone to read the Book of Mormon, and really find out if it's true or not. I'm soo proud of my little brothers. I'm so glad I had the chance to hang out with them so much this last semester while they were in college. They are so awesome, and even though they are younger than me, they are such great examples to me. They are going to be Great missionaries. I'm going to miss them a lot!

We had a wonderful holiday break, and now, back to normal life! Billy starts working full time at Melaleuca here in Idaho Falls at their corporate building next week, and I'm still trying to figure out where I want all my pictures to hang. Uh, I'm not good at this part! I always second guess where I put something. So if anyone likes doing this part, please come over and help me! And then we'll start our second round of potty training Eliza. Yay!

Hope everyone had a good holiday, and have a wonderful New Year!

start of fall update

hanging with her cousins at the pumpkin patch. They also

got to go on a cute little train ride! She loooves her cousins!

Eliza's masterpiece. I was painting a shelf, so I already

had the stuff layed out to protect the floor, so I figured

it would be a painting day for Eliza too. She loves it!

a little apron I made for Eliza! I found the pattern on pinterest.

I used to do this when I was her age. My mom has a picture of it, so

I'll have to put them next to each other. It made me

happy to see some of me in her! But maybe all kids do this. oh well!

farm girl pics

these are the pictures that for some reason won't show on my post below.

little farm girl

Working on the farm with Daddy.

I quite like this picture with the Tetons and the old truck in the back round.Some professional editing would probably make it look even better.

Driving the Combine with Grandpa

Eliza and I have the same conversation just about every day that goes something like this:
Eliza: Mom, I'll be right back.
Me: Where are you going?
Eliza: I'm goin' to work.
Me: Where are you going to work?
Eliza: I'm goin' to work on the farm!
then I usually ask her what she's going to do on the farm,
and she says she'll either Combine or Swath.
I think it's pretty cute that she loves the farm already.
like Father, like Daughter.
She really notices when you're dirty though, so whenever Billy comes home
and is all dirty she lets us know that "Dadda's all dirty!"
and is usually followed by "Dadda needs a shower!"
Lately though since Billy's been in school, when he comes home, he's clean.
and Eliza always informs us when he walks in the door that
"Dadda's all Clean!"
She gets very excited when he comes home, and I think it's so darling.
She loves her Daddy.
She'll hug our leg and say
"I love you So much!"
She's a very lovey child. and loves to pat everything that's cute.
(I wonder where that came from?) ;)
Today Billy and I were sitting on the couch and she comes up to us and said
" Two Friends"
I thought it was cute, and I love that she's sees us as friends. Billy definitely is my Best Friend. dirty or clean.

2 year pictures

my sweet little angel

These were taken a while ago, but I'm trying

to be a better blogger, so I've gotta

catch up a bit!

It is quite handy having my Mom able to take such

great pictures for me all the time!

Thanks Mom!