Camille's Recital

She's up next and she looks a little nervous!
Having fun singing "Taylor, the latte boy"

Camille's voice teacher belting out her tune

The whole gang

Camille mistook Zoe as a guitar

Way to go Camille! You did a great job and the audience loved your performance. Remember us little people when you make it big!!

The End Is Here

(I totally stole these ideas from my friend's blog. I guess it's not really stealing if she gave me permission. Thanks for the great ideas Sarah!)

Maggie helped me make the "Thank You" tin for Mrs. Masters. We filled it with Jolly Ranchers and Starbursts. I ran over to school one day at lunch and had all the kids in her class sign a note to put in the tin.
We gave the Principal and the office staff the Rootbeers that say "north stars are AWesome", we made a special one just for the teacher...Thank you for such a great year Mrs. Masters! Maggie has made such huge improvements this year and we know you have helped her so much.Watch out second grade...here comes MAGGIE!!

NOOOOOO!

A tear rolled down my cheek as I opened the curtain this morning...
Since we had such a lovely night with Zoe I didn't want to wake her up to make the trek to school this morning. Luckily Lindsey was willing to pick Maggie up. I cannot believe that I had to send her to school in snow boots on the 24th of May. This is just wrong!!
A little note to the man in charge:
We are really tired of the snow!
Thanks,
Love Us

Our Weekend

Since Glenn had a scout camp out this weekend I took the kids to Mom and Dad's. The main reason for our escape was to get Maggie some help with her song she is writing for her school talent show. I made a desperate call the Tanaya asking if she and her Mom could help get it all together. On our way to see them we had the opportunity to go to lunch with Mom, Dad, Starr, Landon, Camille, Ladd, Dan and "Miss Daisy" on Saturday. It was Dan's birthday so we were glad to have the chance to see him and celebrate his birthday. "Miss Daisy" is a lady that Dan helps get places. He has said that the only job he has been able to get is driving Miss Daisy. Her name is really Jan and she was super nice. Wyatt loved her and kept smiling at her all through lunch.

This super "momarazzi" ended up losing her camera for a few days so I missed getting pictures of the lunch and of Maggie working on her song. Thank you Aunt Cheryl for helping Maggie and getting as much done as you did. I hope she can do really well during her talent show. We'll be so anxious for Friday to get here!

Sunday morning Mom turned on the "Music and the Spoken Word" so we could hear pretty music and messages about Jesus Christ. Wyatt was totally mesmerized! After we got home and spent a few minutes with Glenn we decided to go get some dinner. It was our anniversary after all! We got to have a yummy dinner at Don Pedro's and then went to get some doughnuts at Wal Mart. This awesome truck was in the parking lot...
The girls were apparently still a little hungry...
These were our "Happy-Anniversary-I-Love-You" doughnuts! They were delicious.
HOWEVER, they were not quite as appealing at 12:30 this morning while being washed out of Zoe's hair! Her pillow looked like a crime scene you would see on CSI. YUCK!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, GLENN!

Dear Aunt Kristie

I thought you might like to see some of my more recent pictures. My Mom gets a little lazy and forgetful sometimes so she hasn't done an update on me for a while. I just had to take matters into my own hands and get the job done!

Maggie loves to take pictures of me almost as much as Mom does. She likes to use props though. Here she has put her duck "Puddles" next to me. He was pretty funny and I couldn't stop talking to him and laughing at him.
This was taken at the end of a very long day at Grandma Brown's house. I really love chewing on my fingers and scratching my head. Even in my sleep!
I learned how to sit up in my chair. I loved playing with the toy, but for some reason I can't stop drooling! My clothes get so wet and yucky. Mom has to keep bibs on me or she ends up having to change my clothes a few times a day.
I know it's kind of hard to tell in this picture, but I have really pretty blue eyes. Everyone talks about how pretty they are. Whatever!
Mom put me in the chair again. Apparently it's kind of a big deal that I can sit up sort of by myself. I didn't like it so much this time. I got really tired and cranky!

We party pretty hard when we got to Grandma's house. This was after her birthday lunch with all my Mom's aunts, uncles, cousins and siblings. Well, not all of them, but it seemed like it. I was just too tired to care about my toy.
My cousin Kinley let me borrow her bouncy chair thing when I was at her house one day. It was awesome! I loved all the toys and tried so hard to get them, but my arms are just a bit too short.
Mom keeps trying really hard to get me to smile for the camera. I don't cooperate very well. I'm a bit shy!

I love bubbles!!
I'm just teasing Mom during yet another photo shoot.
She got me!
I hope you have enjoyed seeing all the pictures of me. Are you ready to come see me yet? I can't wait to meet you, Uncle Brent, Devon, Riley, Jake and Hannah. Every now and then I catch Mom reading your blog and she looks kind of sad. I think she misses you A LOT! It makes her sad that she can't see you and watch your kids grow up like she did before. Are you ready to visit us yet? :)

Lots of love,
Wyatt

It's Been a Long Time

Since we don't have a Lowe's near us we haven't been able to participate in the Build and Grow workshops. While we were at Mom and Dad's last weekend I picked up their Lowe's magazine and saw that there was a workshop scheduled for Saturday. I didn't actually decide to go until the last minute, but the girls really enjoyed working on their planters and were even more excited to give them to me the next day.

They look so cute in their goggles. It always cracks me up to see them with huge eyes and scrunched up cheeks.

A super fun day and you just can't beat a free Mother's Day gift!!

Really?

More snow?

Why can't we just see the sun?

It is May after all!

For some reason I decided to drive around the cemetary this morning. I saw this headstone with these pretty snow covered flowers and just felt I needed to take a picture. Then I drove around the corner and saw this cute bench. It didn't look very inviting this morning, but I think it has potential. Where is the sun? Even without Mr. Sun Zoe was having fun this morning with all the huge snow flakes falling on her tongue and sticking in her eyelashes.

We do love the snow, but we are ready for some sunshine!!

So Many Names

In just four months time our little man has been called many things. We all have so many nicknames for him. I'm not sure he's going to know his real name!

4 Month Stats:

16 pounds 11 ounces

24.5 inches

This would be why one of his nicknames is

CHUNKY MONKEY

BUBBAS

BUBS

BUDDY

LITTLE MAN

BIG MAN

WY

SUPER WY

WY MAN

MR. WY

BROTHER BEAR

BUDDY BEAR

WYWHAT (Kinley)

WYATT BURP (Grandma Brown)

BIG BOY (Grandpa Brown)

BABY QUIET (Zoe, Sadie & Hannah)

We all love our little man so much. He is a fun addition to our family and he gets about a million kisses from me and his sisters everyday. We can't even imagine what our lives would be like without our buddy! We are so glad that you are a healthy happy boy and we love making you smile and laugh!

Snow and Shadows

SNOW
We woke up this morning to more snow. REALLY? Why can't summer just make it's appearance already? Our pleas are not working so will someone else please beg for summer to make it to Wyoming?

SHADOWS
As we were walking up to our apartment this morning Zoe was behind me and she said, "Mom you stepping on my head!" I realized she was meaning that I was stepping on her shadow. We both laughed and then I asked her if it hurt. She giggled and said, "NO!" That's a pretty good way to start the day!!

Zoe's First Person Drawing

"a girl with curlies"