update

Poor Em has had it rough this month. This last weekend Emily feel face first onto the concrete for the 3rd time! The first time we were out with some friends and a little boy knocked her stroller over. She got two or three scrapes around her eye. Then that was almost completely gone and she dove out of her stroller head first and got a nasty scrape on her forehead. That was finally all cleared up and now she fell off the curb at Piggly Wiggly and scraped her nose and just below her eye. On top of that this month she has been sick a lot. She got a temp and was uncontrollably crying, so I took her to the Doctor. Ear infection, but just barely so we tried to fight it without antibiotics. That was a rough week. I thought she was finally getting better when it got WAY worse. Took her in again and she had a really red throat. She just finished her antibiotic and is ALMOST back to normal. Poor girl. I know I can’t wait tell she’s completely healthy. You know the saying if momma ain’t happy ain’t no one happy? Well we decided at our house it’s if Emmy ain’t happy, ain’t no one happy! This is Ryan cuddling with Em on one of those days.




So a few weekends ago we had stake conference (where a group of our local congregations meet together). This doesn’t normally make for a whole weekend trip, but our stake building is in Madison which is 1 ½-2 hours away. Ryan had a meeting late Saturday afternoon, and we all were supposed to be there Sunday morning. So we spent Saturday night at the Price’s. They come to our branch on assignment. They live very close to the church (yay!) So we got there and while Ryan went to his meeting, the girls and I went shopping! I love shopping! So do the girls, in fact Kaitlyn loves it to much already. I had quite a few tantrums when I wouldn’t let her keep something she picked up. That was a rough shopping trip and I was glad to have Ryan back when we got back. Sunday morning we went to the meeting. It was POORING rain and we didn’t have umbrellas. We were SOAKED!!! Luckily we dried off about half way through. When we got there Ryan saw our friends the Midtoven’s, so we got to sit with them. They are the ones that were in Nauvoo the same time as us. I think Kaitlyn and Jaden have a little thing for each other. It’s very cute. After the conference we had planned to have picnic at the zoo and go see the animals (it’s a FREE zoo! I love it!) Luckily it stopped raining and we were able to go. Here are the kids getting ready to go in (minus Jake who was in the other stroller)



Mya, Emily, Kaitlyn, Jaden

There was a cute turtle the kids got a picture on. We kept adding children, Jake wasn’t too happy about the turtle!





The “monkey’s” (Kaitlyn called them all monkey’s) were the first that we looked at.



Mya and Kaitlyn checking them out



Ryan (being silly of coarse) and Emily checking them out



While we were there some one came into feed some of the monkeys! It was so cool. This was the best picture I could get.



We had a great time checking out all the animals and hanging out with our friends. It was a great weekend. It took a couple of weeks to get back on the swing of things though!

I just discovered that Em’s hair is long enough to put into pigtails! Well, they go in, but it definitely doesn’t last all day. She looks so much older and even more like a Wilson (my maiden name) baby this way! She wasn’t in the mood for pictures when I took these though, lol. Here’s her first time in pig tails! And some of Miss Kaitlyn too.







Ryan and I decided to have a nice family date before our family grows again. Friday night we went out to dinner, Chinese (yum!) and then we walked to the movie theatre. All four of us only cost $10! At least we will until November when Kaitlyn turns 3. Our town has one theatre and it is really cute it used to be a play house and I’m not sure but they might still hold plays there occasionally. It’s so pretty inside! They only play one movie a week and this week’s movie was Kung Fu Panda. This was Kaitlyn’s (and Emily’s) first time to go to a theatre to watch a movie. Ryan and I have been very nervous to try this. Kaitlyn has a very short attention span. Well the girls actually did VERY well. We got seats to the side that had an aisle in front, so Em had plenty of walking room and we brought suckers as an incentive to stay quiet. They did really well and Kaitlyn didn’t need the suckers until the end of the movie. Emily fell asleep (with some help from Mom) at the end of the movie. Kaitlyn didn’t and was too tired on the way home. We had our double stroller but she still cried the whole way home! It was just too late for her. All in all it was a good evening. I just wish they had an earlier showing then 7pm.

Kaitlyn is talking SO much now it’s crazy. She just asked me
Momma, I go Jaden Mya’s house in my red van? She is so cute and I love that she has friends now. There was a long while were she didn’t really have anyone to play with. It makes me so happy to know she has some friends here. Plus it’s nice for me cause I get a friend too!