Wilder Blog

My sis-in-law just started a blog and her first post is about her conversion story which she gave in sacrament meeting yesterday. If you're interested you should go check it out. She did an amazing job giving her very first talk. It was probably the best meeting that i've been to ever. My cousin spoke, my sis-in-law, and my brother. All of them gave their conversion stories. My family is awesome!!!!!!!!!!

A special evening

Finally a picture of these two very amazing women!!! Jen and Lizzy

Friday night was so special. I was able to go to the temple with my newly converted family memebers to do baptisms for the dead. I also got to be baptized and confirmed for my dad's mother. I can not even describe how awesome it was to see these two couples enter the temple to do work for the dead. There was a special spirit there, and I am so grateful that my grandmother's work is starting to get done. I love the temple and am so grateful that we have one so close, that we get to visit often. I can not wait to see these families sealed together for eternity.

Such a boy

Everytime I take this kid outside he goes straight for this slide. He climbs the stairs all by himself and sits or stands at the top. He is always climbing. I don't remember dealing with this with little Pres so I'm assuming that it's a boy thing. The little face he makes when I tell him no and that he's going to fall off is so stinking cute. He's starting to understand so much and use words. He makes a noise that sounds like thank you and the other day he brought me a toy and said what sounded like "look." He is such a sweet boy but I can tell this little one is going to be a handful

Bodega Bay

A couple weeks ago we took a quick trip to Bodega Bay. We went with my brother Darren and his family. We were going to have a long weekend trip but it turned into a one night stay due to over booking. It was so nice to finally get away as a family though. We went up on a thursday night and came back friday afternoon. We spent that Friday morning at the beach exploring. Noah was making me so nervous, everytime we would put him down in the sand he would take off full speed towards the ocean. He was so wobbly on the sand that he even fell and cut open his lip on a big rock. It healed pretty quick, thank goodness. We live in the perfect location. Close to the mountains and the ocean, I love it!!!

Lipstick battle

A couple weeks ago Presleigh and I were having lots of battles over my lipstick. She seemed to not be able to get enough of smearing my lipstick all over her face. I was trying to keep my bag off the floor and in places that she couldn't reach so that she wouldn't get into my make-up. But it's like she could not resist. One day I think I caught her like three times putting my lipstick on and basically ruining it. I was not too happy but these pictures are kind of cute.
She even put it on Delaney

Tahoe!!!!!

Last summer we didn't get the chance to go to Tahoe because Noah was a brand new baby. So I was very excited when my cousin asked me to come up with her family for a couple days, last month. Wayne wasn't able to come because of CPA stuff, so I took the kids and went up with Christy. It was so nice to spend two days just relaxing on the beach. Presleigh had so much fun. She liked the kiddie pool at the hotel the most. Noah sat on the blanket and wouldn't get off because the sand was super hot, so he just played. I'm hoping to make it there every summer while we live so close.

Vacuum Craze

I love to vacuum. I'm not sure why but it relaxes me. I remember when I was a young girl I begged my parents to buy a Kirby vacuum. I promised my mother that I would vacuum all of the time if she bought one. She didn't ever end up getting one, but now I seem to vacuum all of the time with my whimppy bissell. Since moving here I've made a friend who, like me, loves to vacuum. I was always amazed at the vacuum lines in her carpet everytime I went to her house. I was wondering why the heck I wasn't getting the fresh vacuum lines in my carpet and decided that it was because I needed a new one. So I started searching online for a nice vacuum. So my sweet friend comes over one day and starts trying to vacuum with my vacuum. It wasn't working very well so she started cleaning it out. this is a picture of some things that she got out of the hose.
I know it's nasty and yes that is the lid to deodorant. I was so excited when she got it all cleaned out cause I thought it was going to be like a new vacuum. Then we discovered that the brush wasn't spinning, the belt had broke. So with a clean hose and a new belt we got the vacuum working like new. And finally i'm getting the lines in my carpet.

So silly I know, but this was a great day!!!!!

Way Back

These pictures go way back. Yeah they are from pioneer day which is July 24th for those of you who read our blog and didn't know. I thought that I should probably update what we've been up to the last month or so. It's been really crazy busy and very exciting. Pioneer Day we spent at the park. The stake put something together and we got to eat yummy food and play.

Darren and Lizzy

Cousins Jen and Christy

Sacramento Temple

While my sister's family was in town we took a little trip over to the temple. It was the first time I had taken my kids to walk around the grounds of the temple. Presleigh loves the temple and was very excited to go. These are just a few of the pictures that we took.