Wilson Update

Family Vacation in San Clemente

2009-08-02T20:22:00.000-07:00

Beck on the Beach Corbin showing off his new crab shovel

Beck on It's a Small world

The boys taking time out for a pic

The girls

Corbin's first time on Splash Mountain

Posing with Pluto

The Boys hanging out on the Pier

Beck and Nat Cruiz'n the pier

9th Anniversary at Yosemite

2009-08-02T20:14:00.000-07:00

Hiking Half Dome.

Corbin's 5th Birthday

2009-06-26T19:27:00.001-07:00

Corbin had an army party this year. So we painted everything camo and turned the backyard into a boot camp. Jer turned Corb's car into a tank.

A Family friend is in the military so he came and helped us out.

The kids learned how to soldiers. They were so into it.

The kids at tug of war.
Water Ballon Fight

Corbin showing me how wet he got from the water fight.

Corbin blowing out the Candles. Happy Birthday Corb

Happy Anniversary!

2009-06-25T21:26:00.000-07:00

Jer and I celebrated our 9th Anniversary up in Yosemite. We decided to mark the event by climbing half dome. Our View from the top!

The mist trail on the way up.
We were exhasted at the end of the hike. We stayed at a darling bed and breakfast. The trip was a blast. High Five for 9 years babe.

Corbin's Preschool Graduation- Need I say more

2009-05-28T21:55:00.000-07:00

More January

2009-02-02T15:56:00.000-08:00

The boys spent one day last week dressing up in all there costumes. They were great cival servants.

We take the boys sledding every year. It was snowing hard so I only took the camera out once. I think we are going to wait til next year to start Corbin Skiing.
The highlight of the month has been the weather. We took the boys to the beach and the tidepools. It was a blast.

January

2009-02-01T20:01:00.000-08:00

Corbin started Basketball this month. Here are some highlights.

A Merry Little Christmas!

2009-01-02T20:34:00.000-08:00

Christmas is always busy, but my favorite time of year.

The boys had a lot of fun decorating the Christmas tree. Corbin had a conversation with Brit about it later. Brit told him that Grandma could use his help, he said back, why is she not super good at it like me, does she put the ornaments in the wrong place, to close together and is she not fast enough. I was a little embaressed that my training had worked so well. Then again the tree turned out beautiful and Corbin thinks he is a ninja in the tree decorating world. So its a win, win.

These are the boys putting up the ornaments from my mom. Beckam loved the tree a little to much, he broke at least a dozen ornaments and had lots of time outs as a result.

Every year we make a point to go to the city and enjoy the windows and all the decorations in Union Square. We always make our rounds checking out the windows at Macy's, the tree at Neimans, the gingerbread house at the St. Francis Hotel, a bowl of clam chowder and then on our way out of town a stop at Giradelli Square for a sweet treat.

Here is Beck at Macy's checking out the Santa waiting area. Beck loved all the stuffed animals. Beck is obsessed with dogs. The boys in Union Square.

Corbin and I composed a nice letter to Santa at Macy's.
This year my whole family on my dad's side (minus a few) took the polar Express train. It was a magical experience. We wore our pjs, drank hot chocolate, saw santa and recieved the first gift of Christmas. Santa gave each of the kids a bell. The whole clan watching Santa come into the train car. The train conductor reading the storybook to Corbin and Brit.
They told us we were the funnest group they had ever had. Beckam was scared to death of Santa the 1st and 2nd time we saw him, but the third time was a charm, because he loved him at our ward christmas party. He even went up to him later on when he was walking around and wanted Santa to hold him. He has walked around all month saying "Ho, Ho, Ho Merry Christmas!" Its pretty dang cute.

We had a blast at our friends, The Berg's Christmas party this year. The food and company were both excellent. It was a family sing along. I brought the karaoke machine for the event and all the kids got a huge kick out of that. The best was getting Jer to sing with me. We sang Baby its Cold outside. I owe him big for that one. He better get used to singing though, because he is now a memeber of our ward choir. I haven't mentioned yet, but Jer got called to the be the 2nd counsler in the Bishopric and the Bishopric always sing in the choir in my ward.

Here is Beck with Tatum (his friend from Music Makers.)

Corbin and all the kids at the party sang Rudolph I don't think Corbin sang a single word of the song, but he seems super interested in that watch. Maybe they asked him to be the time keeper even though he can't tell time.

Audrey and me at the Bergs party

We had a great Christmas eve with my family. We celebrate with them every Christmas eve with a huge party with my Dad's whole family. We show up early and exchange gifts with my immediate family. We were spoiled this year with lots of great gifts and of course the boys want for nothing. By the time we left we wondered if Santa needed to come.

We got my brother in Law, Joe a sled for Christmas. He is such a doll, and the sweetest guy ever. We are so glad Cortney married him. It was so fun to see them. They even came and stayed a couple of days at our house. I am looking forward to lots of memories like that with them. They are such a fun couple and completely in love. Beckam had a very Mickey themed Christmas. He is a little obsessed. He often calls Mickey by the name of Mickey club house. The show has confused him about Mickey's actual name.

Corbin got some cool Star Wars and Batman stuff and a marshmellow shooting gun.
Corbin with his second cousins, Rach and Kendel. Rachel is so sweet to all the kids she always makes extra special thing for the kids. This year she had a letter from santa to each of the kids.

Our first gift on Christmas morning was that the boys slept until 9am. Merry Christmas Nat and Jer.
Santa got Corbin a skateboard and Corbin is showing us his awesome moves.

Santa gave Beck a Mickey Mouse doll and Beck sat him up next to him while he opened all of his presents. I can assure you that since Christmas morning rare is the moment when Beck has been without Mickey. This year Santa was good to the boys and brought them a trampoline. They were so excited Corbin could not believe his eyes. Beck wants to go on it all the time. Corbin and I had a blast jumping on it and talking turn doing tricks. He said to me okay mom watch this one cause you are going to want to do it too. When i tried to do it he informed me it wasn't right. After a few tries and failures I gave up.

The day after Christmas we headed south for warmer weather and a visit with Jer's family.

Here is Corbin with his Cousin Lance.

We all went to the wild animal park one day. It was a lot of fun, but really crowded. Corbin got a camera from Jer's parents and took 200 pictures and ran through the entire battery in 24 hrs.

We had a wonderful Holiday. We hope you all had great ones too. We loved looking at your christmas card and hearing how your families our doing. Wishing you all a happy 2009!

Happy Fashion Days

2008-11-20T16:39:00.000-08:00

So my little sister started a blog called the Fashon Broker. The URL is http://brittany-claire.blogspot.com/. Definately worth checking out.
Also my girlfriend has a great blog called Have A Cute Day. The URL is http://haveacuteday.blogspot.com/
Wishing everyone very stylish Holidays!

2008-11-05T21:10:00.000-08:00

September was a blur and now October is over. Here are a few pics from the past events.

2008-11-05T20:55:00.000-08:00

Grandma with Batman and Robin on Halloween Night Here is a pic of the whoe crew moments before they start thier trick or treating

Beckam was a trick or treat pro instantly

Batman (aka Corbin) and Hulk (aka Jayden) taking off a moment from saving the world to take a picture together

Corbin's preschool class. You should have seen Corbin's solo dance routine

na,na , na, na ,na ,na, na, na Batman!

And Robin!! (Holy Halloween, Batman!)

Beck trying to shoot hoops and Corbin's flag tag game.

Jer coaching 4, 5, and 6 year old how to play a very strang version of football. (Corbin is the one with the red cap)

Beckam climbing on the hay maze at the pumpkin patch

Corbin emerging from the hay maze

Nat, Corbin and Beck looking for the perfect pumpkin.

2008-11-05T14:45:00.000-08:00

We drove to Utah to watch the BYU game, more importantly my cousin Ozzie play. It snowed while we were there so we had to wear our winter gear. Go Cougs!

We had a great time hanging with Blake and Aubrey. We went to my favorite restaurant while we were there. While we were there we went to the Dino Museum, it was pretty cool.

On our drive to Utah we stopped in Reno and stayed at Circus, Circus. It was a lot of fun mostly making fun of how ghetto it was. Corbin is posing in front of the game we spent all our money on.

Here is Brit posing in front of the spray paint shirt. Don't worry Brit I got it for you for Christmas.

Summertime and The Living is Easy!

2008-08-29T16:27:00.000-07:00

We had a great summer filled with lots of activities and wonderful memories. I am glad it is wrapping up though because I am exhasted. Here is an overview of some of the highlights.

Wilson Reunion

2008-08-29T15:50:00.000-07:00

We were so lucky this month to have everyone in Jer's famiy visit for a few days. We had a great time going to the city and doing a tour of Alcatraz. We took the boat up to a lake near Sonora and went wakeboarding and tubing with the whole fam. On Saturday we had the whole family over (Jer's Cousins and Aunt) for a BBQ.
Here is Beck with Aunt Kristen All of the cousins with their capes Grandma made for them. Go Super Hero Wilsons!

Corbin and Lance on the Boat.
Jer showing of his mad skills on the wakeboard.

Here Comes The Bride

2008-08-29T15:30:00.000-07:00

Cortney and Joe got married on August 8th in the Sacramento Temple. The looked amazing and are so in love. Cortney's dress was flawless. Even Brit said it was the pretties she had ever seen and if you know Brit you know it was awazing. The receptions was beautiful. My mom did a fabulous job. I can't remember a prettier wedding. We had a blast dancing and eating and greeting. Congrats Cort and Joe Joe!
Cortney and my new Brother in Law, Joe. Welcome to the family. We love ya! Corbin and his Monka (that is what he calls my dad)

1st day of school

2008-08-29T15:18:00.000-07:00

Back to school! School starts the begining of August here. It think it is a travesty to go to school when it is that hot outside. Luckily for now it is just preschool so it is only 3 days a week.

Blake's Wedding

2008-08-29T15:04:00.000-07:00

My awesome cousin Blake and his darling wife Aubry. We went to Salt Lake for thier beautiful wedding. My cousin Ashley and me. It is a creepy pic of me, but it is the only one we took together. Ash and I were best friends growing up. My beautiful sisters posing for the camera at the rehersal dinner.

Temple for Cortney

2008-08-29T14:58:00.000-07:00

My little sister, my mom, and I in front of the Sacramento Temple. My little sister had her endowments taken out. It was so neat sharing that with her. I love you Cort and am so proud of all your choices.

Cooling off in the pool

2008-08-29T14:53:00.000-07:00

Best Buds! Enjoying a day at the pool When They are not hurting eachother they get along nicely. Beckam calls Corbin Be Bo for big brother and Corbin calls him Beckers. Life doesn't get much better than watching your kids get along.

Clark's Visit

2008-08-29T14:32:00.000-07:00

One of Jer's buddies from school in Hawaii and his family came to visit. We had a great time going to the city, playing at the park and taking out the boat. Hopefully that will entice others to visit as well. We have an extra room. We ate at Bubba Gumps for lunch and had an amazing view of the bay.
Corbin had so much fun climbing and sliding and running at the park.

I love this pic of BEck. He is so thrilled with life.

Nat turns 28

2008-08-29T13:58:00.000-07:00

Yikes! look at those wrinkles.

Our Trip to Tahoe

2008-08-29T13:36:00.000-07:00

Beckam and Jer enjoying a snack on the beach Beckam ready to go for a swim in one of the icy lakes near Lake Tahoe
Corbin's hands are full of swords and sticks
Mommy and Corbin on one of our hikes.

Super Hero Training Camp

2008-06-26T10:10:00.000-07:00

For Corbin's birthday we decided it had to be a superhero theme, since that is all we live and breath at our house. We choose the perfect year to do it too. Because of all the superhero movies this summer, it was easy for me to find superhero supplies. I sent all of his friends an superhero CD (a compolation of superhero theme song and songs with superheros in them. IE Kryptonite by three doors down, and Superman by REM, etc.) There are a suprizing number of songs out there. I was able to find about 12 from my own music collections. Anyway on the CD there was an invitation for Superhero training camp. With my number to reserve thier spot.

As the kids got to the house we let them play upstairs with Corbin's superhero action figures. When everyone arrived each kid recieved thier cape and mask and superhero name and super power.

The boys played silly string the villian. A new version of pin the tail on the Donkey. They had a hard time pushing the button down on their own.

Next we got the parachute out and played capture the villian.

The boys worked on their listening skills and played Yoda says.

Next we started our obstacale course.

First they had to drive the bat mobile across Gotham City.Next they had to walk across the hot lava pool.

Next they had to jump over buildings in a single bound.

Then they had to climb spider mans web and crawl thru batman's bat cave.

Then they lifted the hulks weight and down Mr. Freezes ice shoot.Next crawl like cat women thru the tunnel.

Superman Fly down the slip and slide and throw water ballons at the bad guys (target).Corbin loved his cupcakes and presents.

Beck was so excited to get a cupcake! Num Nums as Beck calls it.

June's festivities

2008-06-25T15:16:00.000-07:00

We had a great week. The 3rd week of June is as Crazy as Christmas for us. We celebrate father's day, Corbin's Birthday, Jer's Birthday, and our aniversary. Its a little chaotic, but lots of fun.
For Jer's B-day we went to Yosemite for the day. The boys (all three) were in heaven. I have to admit, I had a great time too. We can't wait to get back to there and stay for a few days. We would love to have some company if anyone is interested.

Beck loved playing by the lake and ran back and forth from the water back to me.

The whole fam hanging out by the lower waterfall at Yosemite.

Jer cooled the boys off with a dip in the stream

Beck kept walking over to the fence and looking over it. He looked like a little man. It was cracking me up.

Just like Monka. Beck sticking out his tounge to the side.

Jer loves to show off his unusually large tounge.

Corbin Hanging at the Lake

Jer and the Boys with his b-day presents

Corbin had a great 4th Birthday. We celebrated 3 times. Father's Day was his actual birthday, but we decided to keep things simple we would celebrate the next day. That being said we were at my parents house on Fathers Day so we did celebrate a little with the family. On his birthday we took him to Chucky Cheese. Which I think his love is equal to my loathing of the place. He had a great time and therefore it was worth it. He had his friend party two days ago. Pictures to come.

Corbin got a new bike from Grandma and Papa. He loved his power ranger gear from Lance and Mia. We of course gothim some great superhero toys and some other fun stuff.

Grandma and Monka got him his very own sports car. We are hoping they will trade it in for the real deal in 12 yrs.

We went to the pool with our friends.

It was hysterical trying to get the boys to put their arms around eachother. I am not sure if they have ever done that before.

Beck made his own fun and just hang out in the sandy water with his shovel.

May in June

2008-06-04T08:41:00.000-07:00

So, I haven't decided if I am a worse blogger or picture taker. I am pretty sure I haven't taken any pic of my kids in over a month. Why? Mostly because if I don't have pictures than I don't have to scrapbook them. Which is funny because it is not as though I have scrapbooked in the last year. Then again maybe that is why. The overwhelming idea that I have that much to catch up on. Anyways, the point is that I don't like to blog unless I have a picture to accompany it hence the lack of posts. I am going to be better though. Probably not with the blog, but with the pics.
So in May, Jeremy and I went to Arizona. We had a fabulous time. I laid by one of the 15 pools at the hotel, meet my girlfriend for a little shopping, read an entire book (moms know how exciting that is), ate really good food (I'm still working off a few pounds from those meals), went ski diving (AMAZING), visited an old ghost town, and saw 2 movies. Just writing about it makes me nostalgic. Jer's mom watched the boys for the week and I think they have an equally good time. At one point my mother in law said she had been pushing Beck on the swing for 2 hours. It doesn't get any better than that for a 1 year old.
Other than that we have just been living life.
We went a some family outings to the beach, Berkley (gotta love Zachary's pizza), took the boys to see Iron Man (Beck is not fun to take to the movies), and more less noteworthy activities.
I was released from primary last month and am back in YW's. I will miss the primary kids, but I do love working with the youth.
Jer is currently in N.Y. presenting at some conference, the cool part is that Steve Forbes is introducing him. I will let you know how the Forbes/ Wilson family vacation goes next year. I have very high hopes for the union.
We finally finished our porch. Jer and I (mostly Jer) slated our front porch. It was a Big project and took several days. We did finish it though and it looks amazing. Since I don't take pictures you will just have to come visit to see it.
Preschool ended last week for Corbin so we have the entire summer to get into trouble. Until then......

We're Tagging our Kids Now!?!?

2008-04-17T11:33:00.000-07:00

Corbin James Wilson. We picked the name Corbin, because it was the only name we both liked and didn’t associate with someone lame. James was the easy part. It has no significance, but just sounds good with most boy names. Try it.

When Corbin was a baby he was blessed at church. I wrote down some of the things that Corbin was blessed with: Sense of Humor, desire to learn about the gospel, ability to gain a strong testimony, and help to his family especially his mother.
If you know Corbin you know that he thrives on his sense of humor and the attention he gets from it. He would always say anything for a laugh. He would say words like Dag Nabbit, or when we would ask him to do something he would ask “Is that a joke”, the best was when he would negotiate by saying stuff like I will eat two bites of chicken if you get me a sucker, Deal. Everything was always followed with “Deal?” My sister took him to Bloomindales one day and he began to misbehave in the store. My sister took him to the car and said we can go back in when you are ready to be good. He replied with “Do you wish I could make good choices?” My sister said, “Yes”. Corbin said, “Do you wish upon a shooting star I could make good choices?” My sister said, “Yes.” Corbin replied, “Well I can’t!” At least he is honest.

At church his desire to learn the gospel is felt. His first day at primary the music teacher asked the kids what song they would like to sing and Corbin raised his hand and said Rudolph the Red nose Reindeer, the music teacher said that was not a church song, so Corbin decided he would just sing the song solo. There is nothing that makes a mother more proud then watching her child participate so fully at church.

He is also really trying to gain a testimony. One Sunday during testimony meeting he ran to the front of the church. I went to grab him and felt compelled to bare my testimony while I was up there. As I began Corbin pulled the microphone to him mouth and sang La, La, La, Laaaa. It was awesome. I really felt his spirit
All joking aside, Corbin loves learning about his Heavenly Father and Jesus. He asks to have Family Home Evening almost every night. He is learning all about the stories from the scriptures and asks to hear them over and over.
Corbin really tries to take care of his family. One day Corbin and Beck were playing upstairs and we asked Corbin not to leave his brother upstairs, meaning to stay up there and play with him. He decided he was done playing up stairs, but knew he wasn’t suppose to leave Beck, so he brought Beck down with him. There is nothing funnier/ scarier than watching your 3 year old carry your new born down the stairs. Corbin is always being kind to his mom. He brings me flowers and tells me he loves me all the time.
You can’t talk about Corbin and not talk about his obsession with sticks. He started collecting Sticks when he was little. It didn’t matter where we were; Corbin always had a stick in his hand. Often he had as many as 6 sticks in each hand. He would always share his stick collection with anyone else who was around. It was always awkward when the other kids parents wouldn’t let their kids play with the stick. We gave up long before that on telling Corbin that sticks were unsafe and could poke an eye out. I am proud to report that I cannot remember a single stick related injury. He has recently traded his sticks in for power rangers or another type of guy figure.

Corbin has always had an amazing imagination. He can play make believe for hours ranging from being a ninja, cowboy, pirate, or an animal. He is now most often a super hero and is constantly saving the family from the villainous bad guys.
Corbin can run circles around most kids his age and at times we are exhausted, but the truth is that I wouldn’t have it any other way. Every day with Corbin is an adventure, filled with humor and lots of affections of love.

Corbin Tags: Mia Phelps, Elle Schurtz, Max Cobb, Shae Collie, Henry Salo

Excuses, Excuses

2008-04-05T10:32:00.000-07:00

So I was called out by one of my girlfriends on neglecting the blog. We have been really busy the last few months. We worked our butts off re-landscaping our front yard, putting in a garden, and planting new plants in the back yard. I can offically say we are done planting this year. Our next big project is tileing our front porch. That is a long story and I can not discuss it per our non disclousure agreement with our home builder.
Jer and I have picked up a few new hobbies. Our gym and an amazing climbing wall and raquet ball courts. So we are making the most of the free babysitting and invested in climbing shoes and raquet ball raquets. The shoes are unbarebly uncomfortable at times but it is a blast to climb.
The boys are growing up and we are just trying to keep up. Tell next time....

Spring Break

2008-04-05T10:04:00.000-07:00

We took the boys to Marine World last week while Corbin was on spring break. The park had changed a lot since I was a kid. Corbin was ticked that he didn't get picked at the whale show. I have never seen him pout like that. Beck loved the animals and being held by mom and dad. The highlight for Jer and I was the one roller coaster that we went on. I am proud to report that I kept my arms up the whole time. I am such a thrill seeker, what can I say . I ran into my cousin Dylan and rode the coaster with him and his buddies. It was a fun day.

I am pretty sure that Beck is scared of Corbin. He often squeal when Corbin gets to close. I wonder why?

Corbin on the other hand loves his little brother.

Daddy and Corbin riding the spinning hot air balloon. Don't throw up Jer.

Good old Bugs and Daffy.

Hippity Hoppity

2008-04-04T23:19:00.000-07:00

Our Easter pictures are few and far between. We exhasted the memory chip in our camera. We had a great time with the family. We went to a park in Sacramento and ate yummy ham and had a easter egg hunt. It was a wild time.

We hide the boys easter baskets and make them find them Easter morning. This was the first year that Corbin really got into it. Beckam was unphased by the whole event as usual. He did like the candy though!!

We made transformer and Bug easter eggs. The bugs were really cute, but I did miss making the swirly ones.

Happy Birthday Beck

2008-04-04T21:46:00.000-07:00

Beck Turned 1 on March 2nd. What a wonderful addition he has been to our home. Anyone who has met Beckam knows what an AMAZING baby he is. He takes napes when you put him down, drinks whatever you put in his bottle, eats whatever you give him, plays and entertains himself when I need him too. He has been one of those dream kids. Not only is he easy, but he takes after his brother and has lots of personality. Its just a little more mellow. He walks, sometimes runs around the house, laughs when ever anyone else is laughing like he just heard a funny joke, cuddles on our shoulders to show us love and blows kisses to perfect strangers. He is saying a few words: Mom, Dad, yes, no, baba (bottle), Baby, nana, and awh for pretty much everything else.

This next year should be exciting.

We had a great time celebrating with my parents, Manda, and Cort. Beck loved the Cake! He got wonderful presents. Lots of clothes since mom put a no more toy band on present buying. Thanks everyone for the thoughtful present.

Disney World

2008-02-19T12:34:00.000-08:00

We went to Florida for a week to do the whole Disney World thing. We had a great exhasting time. Here are some highlights.
Beck loved every bit of the trip

Watching Jedi Corbin
Corbin takes on Dark Vader
Corbin is victorious
Crazy Ape!
Corbin was so into the snake.

Corbin was so stoked to meet a real power ranger!
Beck is diggin Epcot. Or is it just being held?
Warriors!
The boys had both fallen asleep at this point
The pool at the hotel

My star performance in the Indiana Stunt show

Tiger, pooh, Darby, Jer, Corbin, and Beck

Snow Days

2008-02-19T12:02:00.000-08:00

Beck's first trip to the snow. We had a great day sledding with my parents and Cort. Corbin took turns ridding with mom, dad, grandma and monka.

I Got Tagged

2008-02-19T11:11:00.000-08:00

10 years ago I was...
In my senior year of Highschool. Getting pumped to graduate and for all the year end festivities.
At least that is what I assume I was doing, I don't remember that far back.

5 things on my to do list today..
1. Climbing certification at club
2. Plan Beck's B-Day party and figure out what to get him
3. laundry
4. get fabric to recover chairs
5. research vegetable garden

Things I would do if I became a billionare
1. Go on an amazing vacation ( I would even bring the kids because I could afford to bring a babysitter too)
2. Buy a new house closer to the city
3. Go shopping and take my sisters and mom

My bad habbits
1. over commiting myself
2. zonen when I watch TV

5 places I have lived
1. Discovery Bay, CA
2. Beverly Hills, CA
3. El Dorado Hills, CA
4. Laie, HI
5. Renton, WA

5 Jobs Ive had
1. janitor
2. teacher
3. life guard
4. costume swim suit sales
5. Mom

things most people don't know about me...
I would love to be a party planner in my next life.

I Cry the Day I take the Christmas Tree Down

2008-01-14T11:01:00.000-08:00

What a wonderful Christmas season we had. It was busy as usual but the truth is that I wouldn't have it any other way.

We made it into the city on Saturday to do a little shopping, check out the windows and admire the huge ginger bread castle (you can see it in the background).

We even made it over to see the temple lights at the Oakland Temple. The picture does not do them justice.

The boys opening presents from Monka, Grandma and their Aunts.

Christmas Eve!!! Beck with my Cousin Zac and his daughter Shae. Cortney, Dylan, Corbin and Blake posing in the middle of the Candy Bar game. Grandma and Beck.

Santa Came! Corbin had a super hero Christmas and Beck was completely unphased.

We headed off to San Diego to enjoy yet a 3rd Christmas celebration with the Wilson crew. Corbin loves his race track and Beck will get lots of use from the swing. Nat and Jer love the clock, it looks great over the fireplace.

This Christmas was a special one for me. I was asked to play Mary at church and spent hours reading about her and working on a script. Jer and I also wrote the ward's narrative for our Christmas party. It was a lot of work, but a wonderful treat to have a reason to focus, read, and ponder so much about the saviors birth and the true gift of the season. How grateful I was to have a celebration that involved much more than Santa Clause.

We are looking forward to a wonderful New Year and hope the same for all our friends and family.

Boys will Be Boys

2007-12-10T14:30:00.001-08:00

A Day in the life at out house. Just a little glimps at what it is like to have two little boys and one big one.

It all began with Corbin removing all the cushions of the couch and making a fort.

The fort soon became a pile of pillows. Where the wrestle match begans.

It didn't take long before mom had to lay the smack down.

Hope your lifes are all filled with this much crazyness. What fun would it be if they weren't.

It the Most wonderful Time of the Year

2007-11-28T08:22:00.000-08:00

Hopefully everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We had a great day playing football and basketball, watching the parade, eating lots of turkey and mashed potatoes, and then going to the movie. What a fun day it was. The next morning as tradition my mom and I woke up early to do some shopping (we got some good deals) and that afternoon Jer and my dad went golfing. As if the weekend couldn't have been better all ready we watched BYU beat Utah on Saturday with a winning play by Oz (my cousin Austin Collie).

I really love Thanksgiving, but even more I love that when it's over it means it's Christmas time. The house is all decorated and the tree is up and we are half way done with the outside lights. How exciting is that I can put up outside lights. This is the first year I have had a house of my own to do that. I tried to get Jer to put lights on the top roof line last night. He got to the top of the ladder and told me that his life was worth more. So this year we will be going low with the lights.

Beck is getting so big. How big I am not sure because I still have not been to the Doctor for a well check. I called yesterday and gave them hell and they got me in on the 4th. Anyways, he is crawling and climbing and even stands for a whole two seconds on his own. He says mamama and dadadad and bababa, but mostly ahhh and eeeehhh in a squealing sort of way.

Corbin is hysterical. I am absolutely loving sharing all the Christmas traditions with him. He is especially fond of the Santa bringing toys tradition. He is very into his list for Santa and lets me know in every store which things he wants on his list. I made the mistake the first time putting some of those items in the cart and telling him that we were going to give them to lady and have here put them on his list and deliver the list to Santa. Now he thinks that every toy needs to be brought to the cashier to be put on his list. All I can say it that It was a rookie move and I am a rookie mom, so I have learned my lesson. The whole coal in the stocking thing is working wonderfully though. I have ended many temper tantrums with just the mere mention of Santa watching or just humming "Santa Claus is coming to town". I would say I can't wait for Christmas, but as always I am enjoying the build up to the day so much that I don't want to speed up. Hope everyone is enjoying the season too. Can't wait to see your cards and family pics.

Halloween

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I can not believe it is already November. October was a fun month. We did all the traditional Halloween stuff to keep us busy. Corbin and Beck went to the pumpkin patch 3 times this year. Once with mom and dad, once with Monka (thats grandpa) and Grandma, and once with Corbin's preschool class. We had a lot of fun choosing Corbin's costume this year. Every day we had the great fortune of him chosing a new thing to be. We settled on choosing a dragon for him. He mixed it up though by telling people he was a monster dragon or a dinasaur. We had a blast trick or treating last night. Corbin was really good at getting a little more candy at each house by helping him self. We were so impressed by our neighbors decorating skills. There were all sorts of scary scenes and haunted houses.

I started music makers this month. I was missing LA so I decieded I would start the mom and me class here. I am a little overwhelmed right now, but I am sure once we get going I will be glad I started it. Primary was in charge of our church Halloween party so I was really busy planning and setting the party up. The best part of this month was joining the gym. Jer and I will get to work out together again. They have great babysitting and the boys love it.

Now I am looking forward to eating some Turkey this month!

Summer is Over and Fall is in the air

2007-10-11T11:59:00.000-07:00

We had a BUSY summer. We had fun vacationing in Tahoe, San Diego, LA, and Santa Cruz. By the end of the summer we were happy to just be home for the next couple of months. Work has been really busy for Jer, but it is going really well. He is enjoying the opportunity to build a great ethics program from the ground up. He is going in about half the time which is about 2 1/2 hours round trip. The upside is that he is been able to listen to lots of books on tape. He has been able to listen to the scriptures several time. He informed me last night that he used the word Ye verily in a meeting yesterday and the lady he was talking to said I love it when you say that. Is there such thing as reading too much scripture? Beck and Corbin are great. Beck and Corbin are starting to play together a little. It mostly consists of Corbin getting in his face saying "you are so cute arent you little baby" in a very mimicing way. Beck is covering some distance in the house, but still mostly in the form of a backward scoot. He loves to eat and is happy to eat anything we put in front of him even if it isn't food. Corbin is still going strong collecting sticks. He is as clever as always. Last week he taught me a new word. A Bagabooster n: a type of rocket that flies really really high in the sky. We are trying to get it put into the 2008 edition of webster.

Sun Valley Vacation

2007-07-03T09:03:00.000-07:00

Jeremy, Corbin, Beck, and I just spent a week in Sun Valley. We met my whole family there. We did a lot of celebrating while we were there since it was Corbin and Jer's birthday, Fathers day, and Jer and I's 7th anniversary. On Monday Jer's brother, Ryan and his boys Asher and Tate came and spent the day with us. The boys had a fun time cheering Jer on as we went off roading. My comments were less on the chearing side more on the worried for our car side. We made it back to tell the tale though. The next day was the highlight when we spent the day at red fish lake. We took an amazing hike and Corbin went fishing for his first time. It is the last time we will see that pole since we lost it the next day, who knows were. We did lots of other fun things on the trip too. We went swiming at the pool alot. Everytime it was an unpleasant battle trying to get Corbin out of the water. One day we even swam in some natural hotsprings. My parents, Jer (with the boys in the trailer) and I went for a 25 mile bike ride. Beck was ticked at about 18 miles so we had my sister Manda come pick him up. We had great meals, went to the movies, did a little bowling (I almost beat Jer), rented a lot of DVD's, and I even found an amazing home store that I am still drowling over. It was a blast and sad to leave (that may be because we had a 12 hour drive ahead of us).