Catching up

My little guy!

Ty Stephen


I need to do a little catching up, since the last post was over a year ago! Ty is now 13 months and has been walking for a few months now, he's actually running every chance he gets. He is so cute! I am so in love with my little boy.

He has been the sweetest baby. Even though he was sick a lot, he was still fairly pleasant. Last October we all got the swine flu :( The girls didn't even go trick or treating cause we were all so sick. Ty got it too and I think it weakened his immune system. He had six ear infections and finally got tubes, he had a couple of yucky viruses, a sinus infections, thrush and croup about five different times. Finally, after several steroid shots and medications, we got a chest x-ray (not fun) in July and the x-ray was clear, so they put him on a nebulizer which he used for a couple of weeks. He seems to be doing great now and is such a joy to us, as always. We celebrated his 1st birthday in July!


My girls are such good friends, it fun to watch them play together. It seems like this past year they have both really grown up, especially over the summer months!

Emma will be four in October. Last year she had the funnest birthday party ever, it was a pony party with real ponies, all the kids loved it! She is getting ready for preschool and loves gymnastics.


We had a fun Christmas and New Years was spent with our girls. Our biggest thing for 2010 was Lance moving his office from Orem to Spanish Fork. It has been so nice having him so close, plus not to worry about commuting, traffic and construction.


Abby turned five in January and wanted to have a "work out" themed party, it turned out to be really fun!


For Valentines Day, I gave Lance a quilt that I had been working on made of all his old t-shirts. It turned out really cute!


In April we took our family on a cruise to Mexico, we went to Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas. On the last day of our trip we surprised the girls and took them to Disneyland!

In May, Emma had her tonsils out (ouch!!!) but she was so very brave! We bought lots of ice-cream and popsicle, none of which she really wanted after the surgery :( She was a tough cookie and got through those rough few weeks though.


In June, Lance and I went to San Francisco for business, Ty came too and is such a good little traveler.


The girls have gone to the farm a lot with Lance and love riding the horses.

Abby had her year end dance recital in June. We also had swim lessons the end of this month. The girls loved it, cause aunt Tasha comes to help. Ty did pretty good too!

July was one of our busiest months, We had our exchange student Ainhoa, from Spain, stay with us, we had lots of family reunions, and Ty's birthday. We also went to Europe for eleven days! It was wonderful. We went to Vienna, Salzburg, Melk, Linz, we had a dinner cruise on the Danube River. We visited a concentration camp on our last day in Austria then the next day caught the train to Prague and spent three days there. It was really magical.

The rest of August I wanted to spend with my munchkins before school started so we had picnics at the park, went swimming, went to ballgames, library, had backyard BBQ's and just played. The girls love to sing and dance to "Taylor Swift," they practically know all the words to her songs, it's cute. The girls also love being read to, especially by daddy :)

Ty Stephen Wilson

Baby Ty was born on July 22nd, 2009. He was a scheduled C-section and good thing because he was breech, the cord was around his neck and he was 8lbs, 12oz and 20 1/2inches long. It was a lot of work getting him out of that little incision. This C-section was harder than the last. But he is here, healthy and perfect and I'm recovering, getting better each day. It's easier to walk now and even though I'm still a little sore... it's all worth it! Ty is such a good baby, he is so sweet and hardly ever cries. We are so blessed to have him apart of our family! Ty Stephen Wilson


Ready to pop!
At the hospital Wednesday morning before the surgery,
we would meet Ty in about a hour from now.


(before) (after)

Abby and Emma absolutely adore him, they are so cute and gentle with him! It's sweet to watch Abby and Emma absolutely adore him! It's so cute sto see them hold him and fuss over him. They love him so much and have waited so long to have him here.

They are wonderful big sisters!

Can you tell how excited they are to take him home?

Having a new baby is so fun but soooo much work, you forget how much they want to eat, how sore it is to nurse, how many times you have to change thier diapers, wake up in the night, and really devote everything to them because they are so helpless and depend on you so much. BUT it is so worth it! The love for my little ones balances out all the chaos. AND I'm so grateful for all the help we've had, the dinners from friends, family and neighbors, and the help with the girls. We've been so blessed to have such wonderful family and friends!

Happy Day!

Lance and Ty

Our healthy baby BOY!

Long time, no blog... I guess I just fell off the face of blogging, but thought it was finally time to update since I haven't added a post for almost a year! Plus, we are expecting a new little one in about a week! It's been a long pregnancy but he's almost here. Yes, I said, "he!" We are having a BOY! It will be a change, that's for sure but we are so excited and I just can't wait to see his cute little face. I've been busy nesting this last month, which drives Lance crazy, but I think we are ready for baby. Well, as ready as you could be for the THIRD! I get a little nervous thinking about how I am going to handle three kids, they say it's the most challenging but hopefully the girls will be helpful :)

I don't think my belly can stretch anymore. Yesterday I was out and about and I think I got the "basketball" comment a few times, someone asked if I was having twins (yikes) and finally a guy walked up to me at Wal-Mart and said, "they might not let you smuggle that watermelon out of the store!" HA,HA... very funny. The best is when total stranger's hands are suddenly on your tummy, it's like a giant free for all magnet or something. When I was prego with Abby it was really wierd, you think I'd be used to it by now but it's still wierd.

So the girls are growing up soooo fast. They are getting really big, and with more attitude. They are still super cute and sweet but sometimes I wonder if Abby is four or fourteen! Abby and Emma are both so excited to have a little brother, they can't wait. They've asked the entire pregnancy, "when is he coming!" I kept telling them after swim lessons are over. Well, I made it through swim, camping, softball, family reunions, and Lance on the trek. Now it's time! His due date is July 23rd and we have the C-section scheduled for the 22nd. But he is wanting to bust out, he won't stop kicking, punching, moving all over the place. Whatever he's doing it's making me a little queezy. It will be nice to have him out. So wish me luck! I hope that all goes well and the C-section will go just as smoothly as Emma's did. As long as it's not a repeat of Abby's emergency C-section it will be fine.

Well, to accomadate out growing family, Lance got me a Honda Odyssey. I love it! I can't believe I was able to live without it. We found a used one in great condition and I feel really spoiled. Thanks, babe! Lance has put up with my obsessive behavior with nesting. I am a Nester, big time. I think every pregnant woman is but I take it to the extreme. I dream about it, write up plans, print them neatly, make lists, it is all I can think about. Once I have my plan in place... nothing will stop me from making the room how I invision it. I then do the leg work, buy the necessary items, or better yet get creative and do the projects myself, unless it's painting then I hire my sisters. But the nursery is done! . And I have to brag, it is soooo cute. All the hard work paid off! We did a "sports" theme and of course incorporated BYU. Now we are down to scrubbing, sanitizing and cleaning every corner of the house. It's like I can't have peace until everything is done on my list. We are almost there. My bag is packed, freezer is stocked, toenails painted, baby clothes washed & hung and diapers stacked.

Well, I thought about going through the year and catching up, but it's just too much to think about right now, so I'll just put up some pics and you'll get the "picture."

Fall 2008 - after Abby got home from her first day of preschool, Emma cried almost the entire time she was gone. She missed her so much!

Lake Powell - September 2008
Fun on the tube!

Grandpa Tanner's funeral

Abby's first day of pre-school - fall 2008Halloween - 2008... We were all "Tinkerbell" :)

Going to the pumpkin patch - Fall 2008

fall day at Grandma Lybberts house

Emma's 2nd b-day party - October 2008. It was a Dora theme and she still talks about today.

Abby's 4th B-day party - January 2009. A unicorn theme.

Building a snow-woman

Christmas dresses from Grandma Beers

Easter Sunday 2009

Hawaii - April 2009

We brought these back from Hawaii for the girls

Mother's Day 2009

Family reunion

Swimming lessons

The next time I blog we'll have our little one, and hopefully it will be before he's a year old :)