The Wilson Family

Our Family

2010-07-12T19:13:00.000-07:00

Wow it seems like I was posting this same post like 10 posts ago..... Oh wait we were!

In this envelope that Addie is opening is the pictures of the newest member of our family with the gender writen on them, and it was her job to read/announce the gender to the rest of us.

B-O-Y

Yeah we get another brother!

Everything looked great (to me that's more important than the gender)

I was temped not to post because of these pictures. This is what our kids look like at the end of a fun filled summer day, so just laugh along with us!

"I Love To See The Temple"

2010-02-01T21:21:00.000-08:00

We are SO excited about the announcement made last Monday that there is going to be a temple built here in PAYSON! This is so neat. For Family Home Evening we went and had our picture taken by the temple site. It is going to look amazing!

View looking west (that's West Mountain behind us)

View looking East

On our way home Grayson said "we didn't even see the new temple" -- bless his heart.

It's going to be so fun to see the progress.

One Year Pictures

2010-01-30T15:17:00.001-08:00

I think it was just a couple posts ago we were announcing the birth of Gordon and now he turns ONE on the 7th!

Gordon is so much fun and keeps us all laughing. He is "officially" walking now and is mastering the stairs (I will be glad to have the gate put in the storage room again)

He is so cute. He has his two little bottom teeth and just ONE, only one top tooth, and it is pretty big so it makes for a super cute smile!

He absolutely loves Addie and Grayson and has to be wherever they are.

Again my friend Amy took his pictures and I love them! He did not want to cooperate so I left a little disappointed. Then she brought the CD and I couldn't believe it, they are so cute.

This horse was my Dad's when he was a little boy.

Love those blue eyes!

We love you so much Gordon!

Addie's First Day Of Preschool...again

2009-09-01T20:45:00.000-07:00

With an October birthday, Addie gets to go to preschool for one more year. This year she is going to the preschool at the school where Ryan teaches so they both think that is pretty neat. She loves absolutely everything about school and asks every morning if she goes to school that day.

I had to add this photo because I thought it was so cute. Addie and her cousin Eliza love to play together and I hope they stay good friends. They will love this picture years from now.

*Addie had a highlight for the summer. Last week at my parents ward party at the pool she wanted to go off the diving board! (Scary moment for mom) She walked out on the end, got nervous and walked back off. She said she wanted me to go first. I bravely walked out onto the diving board and jumped off. She did the same. It was amazing! We could not keep her off of it for the last half hour the pool was open.

3 Years

2009-09-01T20:31:00.000-07:00

Wow! What a cute boy. Grayson just celebrated his third birthday the prehistoric way. Again my friend Amy took his 3 year pictures and I love them. We tried to get some of him with his Dino's in them and they turned out really cute.
Grayson's Favorite things:
TEASING HIS SISTER
Anything sweet
Dinosaurs
Mom still (thank goodness)
Hot dogs
The Sandbox

Who doesn't like to like the beaters!The yummy cake.

Six Months Old

2009-09-01T20:17:00.000-07:00

Our little Gordon is almost seven months old. My friend Amy took these pictures of him a few weeks ago for his six month pictures. She does such a wonderful job!

He is such a calm baby and is always smiling.

His favorites include:
Food of course and lots of it.
THE POOL
The Bathtub
His MOM
His Sister and Brother
His Dad's "Rocket ship"
He is doing great at the army crawl and is getting rug burns on his elbows from scooting on them. We are not quite sure if we are ready for the crawling. It just means he is growing up way too quickly.

Oquirruh Mountain Temple

2009-08-03T20:49:00.000-07:00

Last Thursday we had the great opportunity to go to the Oquirruh Mountain Temple Open -house. It was so beautiful and our kids did amazing considering the lines.

Graysons favorite part was the "cows" or baptismal font. He didn't want to leave that area.

We were also fortunate to shake hands with Elder Russell M. Nelson. As we were walking through the Chapel the usher stoped the group behind us and we were the last ones in our group and I heard the Usher say to the other usher that they need to hold up the line because Elder Nelson was bringing his family into the chapel and when I turned around I saw him a couple people back so I stopped Ryan and we were able to shake his hand. It was the highlight of my night.

That temple is amazing and I am so glad I had the chance to take my children to see inside.

Lost Child

2009-07-10T21:07:00.001-07:00

Wow it's been so long I forgot how to blog.

I've got a funny story.

Ryan had a softball game tonight and at the complex they have what they call a playground for the kids but I like to refer to it as a kidnappers paridise. Anyway I have learned to dress my kids in clothes that are easy to identify so I can keep track of them while they play and I watch the game.

Well tonight I had gotten 2 otter pops and told Addie to take one to Grayson, well a few minutes latter she comes back still carring Grayson's otter pop and so I ask where Gray is. She said she wasn't sure so I instantly start looking. I have her go to the playground one more time and I start walking around the building in the center when I hear this....

"ATTENTION EVERYONE WE HAVE A LOST CHILD. HE IS WEARING A YELLOW SHIRT WITH BLACK STRIPES. IF THIS IS YOUR CHILD PLEASE COME UPSTAIRS AND GET HIM"

Holy embarrasing. So I go up stairs and there is Grayson standing on the table looking out the big window watching Ryan's game!

They might as well given me a big orange flag that said "warning bad mom" everyone was giving me some good looks the rest of the evening. Next week he's wearing a white shirt.

Pictures of Gordon

2009-03-05T09:27:00.000-08:00

For a gift my sister set me up with a sitting with her photographer to take some newborn pictures of Gordon and she just posted them on her photography blog today. They are so cute. To check them out go to www.amandasimages.blogspot.com
This girl is amazing!
Thanks Julie and Amanda

Any other ideas?

2009-02-20T12:13:00.001-08:00

Today as I was trying to get lunch together Grayson thought he needed to yell everything he wanted to say and I kept asking him nicely to please stop yelling. After the nice wore off I told him if he didn't stop we were going to wash his mouth out with soap. He left the room and when I went to go find him he was in the bathroom like this...........

If I wouldn't have taken the soap away I think he would have kept licking it.

Gordon Scott Wilson

2009-02-10T16:00:00.000-08:00

He's Here!!!

Gordon was born at noon on Saturday. He weighed in at 8lbs 13oz and 21 inches tall. It was so much fun to have the gender be a surprise and I would recommend it to anyone.

Mom, Gordon and Dad after delivery.

Addie and Grayson were able to see him before they took him to give him a bath and clean him up. It was so fun to see their faces as they saw him for the first time. Addie loves to hold Gordon and said yesterday "I'm glad we had a little brother."

Grayson and Gordon.

Whenever he hears him cry Grayson runs to him and says "It ok little buddy" over and over and over.

This is Gordon in his car seat ready to go home!

We are glad to be home and we are all doing well, and we are so thankful for the safe arrival of this new addition.

We did it!!!

2009-01-30T16:13:00.000-08:00

Three weeks ago I made the decision to try potty training Grayson. I had planned to dedicate three days to it. This means no leaving the house, no pull-up's, no diapers. I set the timer for 30 min and we would go try. He loves books so we Incorporated reading while he sat on the potty. By day #3 he had a whole 3 stickers on his potty chart and I had wondered what I had started. Then day #4 (Thursday) came and we had nothing planned so I thought one more day. Two accidents in the morning and then something must have clicked, he went from noon on Thursday to Sunday morning with no accidents! And now three weeks later I can't even remember how many days we have gone. And he has stayed dry at night for over a week and a half.

I let him pick out a new package of underwear at the store and he chose dinosaurs. The day we bought them he had put on a new pair each time he went potty and would carry all the other ones all over with him.

Good Job Grayson

What do you do....

2009-01-26T08:22:00.000-08:00

So yesterday morning we were getting ready for church and Addie and I had already had a disagreement on the dress she should wear. She loves her polka-dot easter dress (from two years ago) that is a bit on the short side now, but I let her wear it one more time. That's not the worst part. I was in our bathroom doing my hair and when I walked out I saw that the door to the other bathroom was closed. I immediately knew why... she opened the door and had the biggest, proudest smile on her face. Yes, she had done her own hair. She sprayed it with the squirt bottle and then brushed it out. With her curly hair you can only imagine what it looked like brushed out. "I did my own hair mom"..... What do you do? Ryan and I looked at each other and we were not sure what to do.

Well I let her go to church that way and I grit my teeth the whole day. And I had forgotten that in Primary they were going to spotlight Addie Wilson's Family!!! So you can imagine what her hair looked like the last 15 minutes of a 3 hour block of church when they did the spotlight and we both got to stand up in front of everybody. But all in all the sun still came up this morning. So let them be little...I guess.

This picture was taken after the water had dried but the whole top of her hair was soaked.

Tubing at Soldier Hollow

2009-01-06T14:11:00.000-08:00

We had the opportunity to go experience the tube runs at Soldier Hollow near Heber on Saturday. If any of you have ever wondered about trying this... you NEED to. It's the coolest thing.

So if you look to the left of the picture you can see the row of tubes being pulled up the hill. Yes you sit in your tube and get pulled up. No walking up the hill involved. And then you choose the run of your choice to go down and away you go. Okay, so I did not get to try it. I gave up my pass to Grayson who was "too young." But it looked so fun and it is defiantly on my list of things to do next winter.

This girl did not want to stop. When we left it was dark and the slope was lit up by lights and Addie said "I want to go six more times." She loved it so much. and did not want to stop.

This was a picture of Ryan after the first ride down. He is pulling Grayson in one of the tubes. Ryan wanted to quit after 1 time but then we got a hat on him and his face covered up a little he was good for the next two hours. Grayson went twice and had a bit of a scare the second time down so we ended up watching from the nice warm car.

Dinosaur Museum

2009-01-06T12:23:00.000-08:00

On New Year's Eve we ventured up to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point. The kids loved it!

It's a good thing we had Grayson with us. He would let us know which ones were mean and which ones were the nice ones.

And who doesn't love a family picture when your pregnant?

Riding the Stegosaurus.

David (Ryan's dad), Ryan, Grayson, Addie, Colleen (Ryan's mom) in front of the giant shark mouth.
This is Grayson playing in the Erosion display area, where they get to build dams and lakes and see how erosion works. They thought it was pretty neat.

Happy Birthday Ryan and Christmas Eve

2009-01-02T15:29:00.000-08:00

Ryan's birthday is the 24th so we had a fun day celebrating him. The kids and I decorated the living room with streamers and balloons while he got to stay in bed late. Then we had birthday pancakes (Ryan even got a candle in his) We got to go to lunch together without the kids. Then we hit the slopes again for some sledding fun and returned home just in time to have family over for cake and ice cream.

Happy Birthday Dad, we love you.

After the celebration the kids opened the traditional Christmas Eve present... pajamas.
This year my mom helped me make them and they turned out so so so cute. We made top and bottom for both kids and pajama pants for Ryan and I. My mom even surprised us with a present for the new baby and inside it she had made a pair of p.j's for the baby.

I took a whole bunch of these two crazy kids and sadly this is the best one.

This picture was actually taken on Christmas day but we will say it was Christmas Eve.

First Snow

2009-01-02T15:15:00.000-08:00

This post is rathher late but when you have a husband home 24 hours a day for two weeks and the Holiday spirit the last place I want to be is sitting in front of the computer. A couple of weeks ago we got the first real snow fall (the one that really puts down the snow) So we HAD to hit the local sledding hill.

It was around 8:00 at night when we finally got home and got all dressed up. It was perfect, and the kids loved every minute of it.

What would playing in the snow be with out eating a whole bunch.

Bowling

2008-12-03T18:12:00.000-08:00

Addie has been wanting to go bowling for quite some time, so fianlly we went. The kids had such a fun time.

Yeah, I really do not like this pitcture, but the shoes look great.

Grayson had to carry his ball with him all the time, even when it was not his turn. After each roll they would run back to the ball return and wait for it to come back. It was super cute.

This is Ryan showing Grayson the proper way to use the ramp.

Addie and her pink 8lb ball (it was mine too)

Talk about form!

Not to toot my own horn or anything but I did end up winning the game with 5 yes 5 strikes (this is pretty much for you Billi) and a whomping score of 140! Ryan was next with 112, Addie with 76 and Grayson 75. --We won't mention that the side bumbpers were up.

One Cute Little Guy

2008-10-27T18:27:00.001-07:00

So this morning while Addie was at school I was straighting up the house and Grayson had gone into Addie's room with me to put laundry away and had not followed me out. It was super quiet for a few minutes so I decided to go make sure there were no markers or lipgloss on his level and I peeked around the corner to see this....

He had put his blanket on the table for a table cloth and gotten dishes out to play with. He was playing so cute and it kept him entertained for quite a while.

--No I am not worried about my little boy playing with dishes.

Addie's Birthday Party

2008-10-17T09:29:00.000-07:00

We had Addie's Addie's Birthday Party for her friends yesterday morning. Holy cow...chaos! It was something else. When the friends arrived we made ghosts out of white material and suckers, then played the game where you tie a balloon around your ankle and try to be the last one without you balloon popped. It was a fun idea, but Addie hates popping balloons, and threw quite a fit.

Then we had cake and ice cream. Again I let my daughter pick her cake out of a book with lots of fun cakes, and which one did she choose..... a spider web! Who wants a cute pink cake anyways. The cake was super cute. For once I was proud of my cake.

Then we had a sawdust dig in place of a pinata. It was such a fun party. She has been playing in her room for hours with her fun gifts.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADDIE!

Happy Birthday ADDIE!

2008-10-17T09:00:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, October 16 was Addie's fourth Birthday. Wow how time fly's. She is such a sweet little girl to have in our family. Her favorite foods are "corn on the cob, and Hot Chocolate" Yes, she has hot chocolate about every other day (even in the middle of the summer). Her favorite things to do are: Play with her friends outside riding bikes, Paint, Go to school, and go to her cousins to play.

^This is Addie at four weeks in her blessing dress!

Our cute little Four year old.

Our Trip To The Pumpkin Patch

2008-10-06T19:28:00.000-07:00

For Family Night we ventured out to the "Big Red Barn" in Santaquin, where they take you on a tractor-pulled wagon ride to a big pumpkin patch so that you can choose your very own pumpkin. We had so much fun. It is interesting to see and hear what the kids determined to be their "perfect" pumpkin. I think we choose just the right ones for us!

Ryan and Grayson

Addie in the Pumpkin Patch
Ryan hauling our big "Family" pumpkin

And The Gender Is......

2008-10-01T19:13:00.000-07:00

So we went in today for the 20-week ultrasound, this is always a exciting time of the pregnancy. Everything looked great: Two arms, two legs, 10 fingers 10 toes, you get the idea. It's right on track for a February 13 birthday.

Oh yeah, and we chose to let it be a delivery room surprise!

Our Trip To The Zoo!

2008-09-24T18:45:00.000-07:00

A friend and I took our kids to the Zoo today and boy did we have a great time! I don't know what to type besides letting the pictures do the talking (and there are a lot of them).Tyler, Grayson, Addie and Sydni.

Me and the kids by the bronze gorilla.

Addie, Sydni and Grayson by the Zebras. (yes all two of them)

We got there early enough that it was feeding time for some of the animals and that is always fun for everyone.

So when we got home I asked Addie what her favorite part of the zoo was. Don't even try to guess. She said "the bats" are you kidding, the whole time we were looking at the bats I had the willies, and that was her favorite! She also loves the big spiders and the massive snakes that I really could pass up at visits to the zoo. I sure hope she grows out of this before she realizes you can buy those for pets at pet stores.

SICK!

Grayson measuring up to the Gorilla.

Addie hatching out of the egg at the playground.

Of course you have to take a ride on the train!

So this picture....... yeah don't know what to think. I did not take this picture so I am guessing that Addie did. I am hoping it is an empty exhibit and that is a stuffed animal monkey because it does not look too lively.

Family Photos

2008-09-15T12:48:00.000-07:00

Yesterday my sister took some fun family pictures for us. She did a great job, I wanted to post some of my favorites. I did the touch-up on them just playing around, so if you don't like it, then it's my fault, not hers.

-Thanks Julie

Two cute kids.

^ I love the look on Grayson's face in this one. It fits him perfetly!

Can you believe how much they look a like.

Addie, so cute.

First Day Of School!

2008-09-15T12:18:00.000-07:00

Addie had her first day of preschool today and she absolutely loved it.

She has two little girls from our neighborhood that go to the same preschool.

Samantha, Adelaida (also Addie), and AddieOn the way home I asked her what she did on her first day and some of the highlights were...

Playing red light, green light

Going outside

Coloring and making a fireman headband

Music time

and of course the Snacks.

She can't wait to go again on Wednesday!

Titleless

2008-09-08T13:16:00.000-07:00

So some of you mom's might be familiar with these little beads. They come with these plastic pattern shapes, and kids put the beads on the little posts in the pattern and then when they are done you have your mom iron it into a cute little useless image. Addie loves these and it is one of her favorite things to do while little brother is sleeping.

This morning I was on the phone (witch usually attracts my children to come want my attention) when Addie was saying "help, help, help, mom help".........

I turn around to this. Addie had one of those little beads all the way on her tooth. All the way! What are you suppose to say. Thanks again to my sister Julie for starting this blog for me because my thoughts turned from "why in the heck did you have that in your mouth" to "Oh crap, hold on while I get the camera." It took us a while to get the bead off but luckily she still had a tooth when we got it off.

My Playlist

2008-08-31T15:20:00.000-07:00

So thanks to Natalie, I (the not so smart blogger) was able to place a playlist on our blog.
If there are any "Twilight" fans out there, I want you to listen to the first song. It's called CHASING CARS by Snow Patrol and it has nothing to do with the books, but I first heard it when I had completed the first book last fall and it has been my favorite song since. Just close your eyes and listen and think of Edward and Bella. Don't think about the "chasing cars" part to close, just think about the book. Let me know what you think. Maybe I'm just a little coo-coo.

No, Not the Blanket

2008-08-27T13:44:00.000-07:00

I came across this picture and thought it was so cute. Grayson has a favorite green fuzzy blanket with elephants on it that he has loved since birth. He sleeps with it and usually has it somewhere in sight as he plays. Well as you all know favorite blankets do have to be washed from time to time. I try really hard to sneak it away and get it in the washer without him noticing. One day I forgot to put it in the dryer right when it was done washing, and sadly it was still drying when he wanted to take a nap. He walked all over the house looking for "banety". It was so funny in a sad sort of way. I finally told him that it was in the dryer because it needed to be washed. So he headed to the dryer and sobbed. He would try to open the dryer but couldn't quite get it. After a few minutes I got his blanket out, still a wee damp and he went to sleep.

Training Wheels.... Who needs them

2008-08-27T13:30:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago I was visiting with a neighbor and Addie had came with me to play with some friends. All the sudden she was riding someone elses' bike and it was then I noticed it did not have training wheels. I was so amazed. I first told her to be careful, then I ran and got Ryan and the camera.

Ever since that she always wants to go to their house and ride their bike, wicth they were fine with. I would ask her if she wanted her training wheels off and she would say "not until I am four." The other day her training wheel kinda fell apart. It was still usable but made an awful sound when she leaned to that side. I finally convinced her to take them off so she could show everybody at Graysons birthday. She thought that was a wonderful idea and even helped take them off herself. She did great. After a few minutes she was coming down the sidewalk with her feet off the pedals, straight out to the side saying "I don't even need my feet." Crazy girl.

2008-08-24T19:55:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Grayson

We celebrated Grayson's 2nd birthday yesterday with family and friends. I can't believe he is already 2. He is the funnest little boy.

He is into cars at this time so we went with a little car theme. I made 18 cardboard cars for all his cousins and friends so that when they showed up they could pick a car and decorate it with paint and stickers. The kids (and some adults) really enjoyed it. We let the paint dry while we had his wonderfully decorated race track cake. One of those ideas that is really cute in your head but doesn't turn out nearly as cute. He loved it! After the cake we fitted everyones cars with shoulder straps and they had a parade up and down the street.

Ryan, Addie and Grayson with the cake.

Grayson painting his blue sports car.

Cousins Alyse, Eliza and sister Addie.

The parade.

Isabelle and Halle. These two little ones were so cute and great sports about the whole thing.

The big group picture.
Happy Birhtday big guy.

Our Summer Fun

2008-08-15T15:18:00.000-07:00

I thought I would start off this blog by summarizing some of the highlights of our summer. This summer has gone by quickly but we sure crammed a lot of fun events into it. And when we are not out having fun we are working on some sort of project in our home or yard.

We hiked to the top of "P" mountain in Payson. From the top you can see the whole valley and the kids thought it was pretty neat trying to find different places and buildings from way up there.

We went for a family bike ride to watch Grandpa Hansen shear sheep and on the way home one of Addies training wheels got too close to the edge of the road and she crashed. Sadly it was the buckle of the helmet that cut her chin. She received 7 stitches..... And she still rides her bike.

We had been telling the kids that when we move into our new home we can get a kitten. Addie named the stripped one Diego and we asked Grayson what we should name the black and white one and he said "boo" so Boo it is. They are growing rapidly and know that when Grayson comes toward them they need to get out of the way.

Ryan's brother graduated basic training in Missouri in June and we thought we would take a road trip out there. We took a Northern route and went to Nauvoo on the way. We planned to camp a few nights and that actually turned into two nights. We got rerouted due to the flooding and we were right in the middle of it during it's peak. It was neat for us to see but sad to know people were loosing so much due to it. The whole trip was about 3500 miles in 10 days. The kids did really well considering the long days in the car.

Our family at the Nauvoo Temple. Ryan's parent's and sister-in-law flew into St. Louis and met us in Nauvoo for a few days, so we were able to do a session in the Temple. That was really neat.

Then we all made the journey to St. Louis to take the tour though the Gateway arch. I was worried Addie and Grayson would be so scared on the ride up and at the top, but they loved it. Addie was laying on her belly and could not get close enough to the little window. They thought it was so neat.

All in all we had a great trip and it was fun to see Jared in Fort Lenordwood MO. The day after graduation he was bussed to Texas until October when he completed the rest of his training.

-So does this mean we get to go to Texas in October!!!-

Another highlight of the summer was the grand opening of the new pool here in Payson. They both fell in love with it right away. Addie now loves to practice "swimming under water" and she is amazing.

There is no summer without a few trips to Salem pond to feed the ducks.

Popsicle anyone!

Lizard lake 5 mile hike.

We went on numerous camping and fishing trips this summer and the kids loved everyone of them. They love to sleep in the tent.

Addie and her friend Anna wanted to have a lemonade stand last week. They made the signs and went door to door telling people they were selling Lemonade. This neighborhood is the best Lemonade stand location. The both made about $3.00

Last week we decided to go to Timpanogos Cave. To get to the cave it is a mile and a half. I thought "oh that's nothing" but it is more than uphill the whole way. They give you an hour and a half to make it to the cave and we did indeed take an hour and a half. Addie hiked the whole way, I was so proud of her.

Addie, Grandma Wilson, Mom, and Grayson