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!

Billy Beard? or Billy Mustache?

Today is Billy's LAST first day of school at BYU-I!!! I can't believe it's finally here! And as always after the 7 week break he has to shave off the handsome goatee. tear. :( So when he was shaving it off, I asked him to leave the mustache so we could see what he looks like. He actually has a pretty good looking one! Even he said he was surprised that he actually liked it a bit. A lot of the guys who grow mustache's at BYU look bad, and creepy. But I convinced him to keep it for just one day. I think he looks way older! I definitely think the whole goatee looks the best. It looks so sharp. I just LOVE it! I can't wait till he can grow it back! Only 3 more months!!!

The last picture is a picture of Brandon Flowers. He's the singer in the band The Killers. It surprises me how much he and Billy look alike! He could be his double if he was sick and couldn't sing or something! haha!

blog diary/journal?

So I know a lot of people use their blogs as their diary kind of thing. Which is really great, and I'm all about diaries. I have probably 15 journals starting from when I was 8. I've noticed since I got married that I've gotten worse at writing in it, which is bad, because I feel my marriage and what is happening now is way more important that what guy I had a crush on in middle school! Don't get me wrong, reading through some of that stuff is pretty comical! but petty, and I'm not sure I want my kids reading all that! Anyway, So I want to be better at blogging, cuz I can type much faster than I can write, so maybe I can document my life a little better....hopefully. I can't make any promises, cuz I'm not known for being a good blogger, or even a good writer. My Mother is a great writer. I struggle with making my writing creative, its more like 'See Spot Run' kinda stuff! So, ya.

Today I just felt like I was running back and forth from at&t to wal-mart asking about their phones. Earlier this summer Eliza and I were in the hot tub, and I brought my phone so I could see the time, cuz I needed to be somewhere, and we couldn't stay too long. Eliza grabbed it without me noticing till she was in the water with it. It was barely in the water, but it crashed, So I had to get a new one, and while Billy and I were in Utah a couple weeks ago he filled up my water bottle, and sometimes you think you closed the lid, but it isn't. That's what happened. He gave it to me, and I put it in my purse. I noticed it felt wet, I looked in and the whole bottom was all wet. And of course my phone was on the bottom, I put it in rice, and when I took it out it survived! It struggled a little bit with a few things, but I could deal with them. But last week it started just shutting off, and trying to turn on, and did that over and over, but wouldn't turn on. It did once and a while, and I could make a call or two or write a couple texts, but then would turn off. So I hoped it would get better, but didn't seem to be and I really needed a phone. so I was going back and forth seeing prices and stuff. turns out they're really expensive! So I ended up with a $15 phone from walmart. it doesn't have a camera which is a bummer cuz I like to send lots of picture texts of Eliza to people, and its just nice to be able to send a pic for whatever reason. So no more of that I guess. I'm not sure why I just told that entire story, but whatever, this is my journalish thing right?

Onto a cuter part of my day! I took Eliza to the park. The one we were at has a stream that goes through it, so there's 2 bridges. For some reason Eliza must have thought they were much more narrow (they're quite wide though), cuz she acted like she was walking on a balance beam. I couldn't stop laughing as she took tiny little steps and kept losing her balance, not falling, but really wobbly. Finally she just got down on her hands and knee's and crawled the rest of the way! And right then I was wishing I had a camera on my phone so I could video her, but no. Anyway, it was so cute!

I also took Eliza to the doctor. She got her finger shut in a car door on sunday. It seemed fine, got a little swollen, but this morning she then shut it in the cabinet door and it swelled more and was oozing a bit. So I figured we should have it looked at. Also I was cleaning some of her toys in the tub last night, and had some bleach in with the water. I was cooking dinner and noticed she left the kitchen, and wasn't in the living room, so I ran to the bathroom and she was holding one of her tea cups and had a little drip of water on her chin, I instantly freaked out and asked her if she drank it, she said yes. oh no! So I called Poison Control (this was before I got the new phone, so I was very lucky that my phone even turned on to call) and she said give her lots of water, and to watch if she gets any rashes or anything, or foaming. She said she should be fine where it was diluted with water, and we drink chlorinated water living in America anyway. So she said just to watch her. She seemed fine. I don't know how much she drank, I just hope it wasn't a lot. So I asked about that at the dr. too. He asked if she had been eating just fine, and not acting like it hurt. Which she was eating fine. She ate her quesadilla last night, and this morning ate like 2 or 3 blueberry banana muffins I made (which were very yummy by the way, if I do say so myself!) and her fruit smoothie. he looked in her mouth and said it looked good. He didn't seem worried, thankfully! but he prescribed us some antibiotics for her finger so it doesn't get infected, and he said her nail might fall off. but that's better than a finger, right?!

Anyway, so that's about the extent of my day. Wow, this is long, and probably really boring. but no one has to read it if they don't want I guess. Oh, and Eliza called me Sweetie today. I thought it was cute! I love her! and that's my day.