My sweet Presleigh

Here's Presleigh on her first day of Joy school. She was so excited to go to school. She packed her backpack full of her baby doll and blanket. Her cousins Gavin and Hadley (both live with us) go to school so she was feeling pretty cool being able to tell everyone that she got to go to school too.

This little girl has been such a sweetie lately. She is so funny and full of personality. I've realized how much she really does listen to what I say, she loves to copy me. Like when she says to her cousins, "ask me nicely." I love when she tells me "thank you for opening the door mommy." She has good manners. She told me yesterday after school that she learned about apples. She said "a-a apple" and when I said apple she said "no, a-a apple." She loves her little brother and is starting to call him her brother which is so cute. She also thinks that she is the boss of him. When I tell Noah something she says to me "Mommy I am the boss" it's funny because I am constantly telling her that I am the boss and to worry about herself. She is also learning about boys and girls. She says daddy and Noah are boys and Presleigh and Mommy are pretty girls.

Last week we found a dead squirrel in our backyard, which was a little scary since we have rattlesnakes in our area. She talked about the squirrel for days. About how uncle darren killed it (he really just disposed of it, but that's the part she saw so apparently she got confused).

She likes to pick out her own clothes and always wants to wear dresses. She's very girly.

The other day after she went potty she got off gave me a big hug and said, "mommy I soooooo happy." I love that she is a happy girl these days. We are enjoying eachother a lot more when she is:)

P or F????

We did it!!!!!! Wayne passed his first section of the CPA exam. What an amazing feeling to have one of them passed. He's been studying for so long and didn't think that he had passed. I tell him to have more confidence, I knew he could do it. I'm so proud of him and am so grateful to have such a hardworking husband.


1 down 3 more sections to go!!!!

List of fun!!!

*Went to summerfest
*Rode the Zipper
*Darren's family moved in with us
*Sharing a car with sister
*Projects
*Decorating my besties bedroom
*Painting walls, dresser, cabinets
*Got rid of our TV (finally)
*Obsessed with Pandora
*Getting over Pneumonia
*Went to apple hill
*Dead squirrel in the backyard
*Cloth diapering
*Called to primary presidency
*1st CPA test taken (hopefully passed)
*Started a joy school for Pres
*Noah is saying words (ball, tutu(thank you), darren, haddy, sissy, dad, momma)
*Running at night
*Thrift store shopping
*Noah climbing the brick wall out back
*Presleigh showing quite a special personality (aka: attitude)
*Foodstoring
*Homemade yogurt
*Noah plays basketball with anything round (garbage can, toilet, and bathtub)
*Our new diet:) Rice and Beans Brazilian style
*7 gallons of milk filling our fridge
*Mariocart
*Got Presleigh her own lipstick
*Trips all over the Sac Valley
*Grandma comes in 1.5 weeks!!!! YAY!!!!
*Enjoying life like crazy!!!!

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!!!