Splishin And Splashin And Lovin' It!!

Wytten loves the water and my mom decided he needed a pool to swim in. They were gone for the weekend so we went over and got their pool set it up on our back patio and let him play in it. Funniest thing ever, the water was freezin cold, but it didn't even phase him. He just sat and splashed, crawled around, went down the slide, and tried to drink the water a couple of times. It was definitely a good purchase made by grandma and am sure he will use it often throughout the summer.

 

11 Months Old!

Not sure his weight and height and all that good stuff, we will go to the doctor next month and see how he is doing and makin sure he is growing. He is wearing size 4 diapers and still in size 12 month clothes and 18 month pjs. He is growing so much and changes everyday. It is so fun to watch his personality change each and every day. He has three teeth on the top along with his two on the bottom. Pretty soon he is going to have a mouth full, it seems as if he gets a couple at the same time, which makes it easier that means only an onery boy who doesn't feel good for a little while instead of quite often when he gets his teeth. He has started to stand a little on his own, but shows no sign of wanting to walk anytime soon, which i am okay with, he realizes he is standing so then he falls down and crawls speedy fast. We got rid of the bottle and are doing just an active sippy cup, he seems to love it so i am going to stick with it. He has learned to click his tongue, and loves to do it and then look at ya and smile like, yep i just did that! He hates the feeling of grass and cement on his knees so he spider crawls all over the place when we are outside. He has started this new fascination with doors, he loves to open and shut them, and bang them again the walls. :) He has also figured out the plug in the tub, i will turn around to dry my arms off to get him out and he will have turned the plug so the water isn't draining anymore. It is his way of saying he doesn't want to get out of the tub and wants to continue and play. Well i can't believe you are already almost one, time has flown by so fast, and pretty soon you aren't going to be my little boy anymore that likes to cuddle and rock a bye with mom. Love you so much Wytten Boy!



Mountain Saturday!

Ike has wanted to go and ride the ranger up to their farm in malad so we finally went on last Saturday. We were going to go camping as well and invited both of our families to go, but everyone bailed and no one wanted to go once it came down to it. We decided we would just go up for the day and take a picnic. It was just our little family, shaunie, and kamryn. We had lots of fun, and just rode around in the mountains for a couple of hours. We made our way to the top of one of the hills and drove all the way to the top and had our picnic. On our way up to the top we stopped cause we had to go to the bathroom and a very bad thing happened. I had taken my ring off, I know first mistake, to put some hand sanitizer on, I set my ring on the seat, well there was a bug on the diaper bag so I grabbed it and brushed it off. During this process I hit my ring off the seat, which I didn't know. I put sanitizer on my hands and then went to put my ring back on, I couldn't find it. Ike will take it sometimes joking with me, so I jokingly said where is my ring, he said for real carlie I don't know. Ike no really, where is my ring, I don't know he said, this is the part where we started looking in the dirt. Thank goodness I didn't move my feet very much and it was still sitting on top of the dirt and I hadn't buried it. After this all happened I didn't take it off the rest of the time, no matter what the circumstance. After we got done riding in the mountain we headed down to ride around all the fencing that they did the last couple of years and to see where they are going to need to do it again. We scared out a total of 7 deer from the trees and bushes and tried to scare more out by shooting Ikes new gun into the trees. We all shot it, Shaunie, Kamryn, and Me. Kamryn and I were both a little hesitant and scared, but we managed to shoot it and not hurt anything or anyone. After we had our shooting lessons, we headed back to the truck and got all loaded up and headed home.

(photo credit to shaunie)

 

 

 

 

Memorial Day!

Memorial Day weekend we generally will pull the trailer up to Plymouth Mountain and camp and then go with Ikes family Sunday moring and Monday. Ike ended up having to work, so we figured it wouldn't be worth it to pull the trailer up, so we went up Saturday for the day, had breakfast, ate lunch and played minute to win it, our family won by the way!!! Then later that night they were celebrating Ozzie's birthday so we came home and headed there to have dinner, cake, and ice cream. This day also marked 5 years since my Grandpa Lynn Died. It is crazy to think it has been that long ago since it he was so sick and passed away. I am not the best granddaughter and go and visit his grave as often as I should, but I think about him often and am looking forward to the day when we are reunited as a family. Love you so much Grandpa, Lucy Jo!!  

 

Sunday I had to teach Young Womens so Ike took Wytten with him and they headed with his famliy

out to Rupert, Idaho to visit Grandma Williams Parents graves and then they always go out to eat somewhere (generally it is wendys cause grandpa williams is a picky eater). When they got home we headed down to the Newman party at Hansen Park, we ate, took some family pictures, and then headed to the graves in bothwell and let balloons go. Then headed to Robbie's birthday party where we ate some cake and ice cream again. (May is just filled with birthdays...love all the cake and ice cream we get to eat!)

 

Monday we headed to Malad to go see grandpa williams parents graves and little Randy Jays as well as some of his siblings that have passed away. After we visit the graves we go out to Samaria to a little store called The Blue Goose. It is the cutest little store that has the oldest man working in there. Everyone loads up a baggie of treats and then we head on out to Aunt Bonnie's for some lunch. When the Williams' party they like to go big, so we are usually all crammed in a small house and if it is nice we end up eating outside to get some fresh air. This year Ike thought it would be fun for his family and Sandy and Marcs family to go up to the weer (not sure how to spell it) and go swimming and let them see what it is since how all the girls have never been up there. It is for sure a redneck of a good time. They have a plastic slide that goes into the creek and then the weer where they jump off cement into the water. It is freezing cold water and was even colder where it was the first part of summer. we even talked halee, kamryn, and kass to go down the slide. Pretty good entertainement.

 

Memorial Day is always a crazy and hectic weekend, sometimes so crazy it is hard to enjoy it. But we managed to spend time with both sides of the family so we will call it an accomplished weekend. :)

 

Not Sure How I Feel About It!!

Those who read my blog, have already called and asked my what this post was all about so I really shouldn't have to write it, but I will for my sake to remember. We were headed to Tawnies house to celebrate a birthday and the bishopric called Ike and asked if we could come by the church. We were already running late, but we said that we could. Ike told me he was pretty sure it was for me since how he was most likely not going to be getting a new calling cause of his work schedule. I was just barely starting to feel comfortable in Activity Days which I had only been in for about 6 months, and was getting to know the girls. Well, Ike was right, it was for me. They asked me if I would accept the calling of Laurels Advisor in the Young Womens. First that came to my mind was I am not old enough to teach these girls, and I am only 5 years older than them. It was kind of nerve wracking and I wasn't really sure how I felt about it, like the title of the post says! I accepted the calling and was hoping all would go well and that not only me, but my family would be blessed from it as well.

 

It has been about a month since the new presidency has been in, I have only had to teach once so far, and it wasn't too bad. definitely will have to work on that and build up the confidence to not have it be such a scary thing for me to do. We have had lots of fun so far and I am hoping it will only continue to get better. Quite a few of the girls are not far in Personal Progress, so we are going to put an extra focus on that, after stake camp is over with that is. So if anyone has any suggestions on ways to encourage them and get them excited about it let me know.

 

I am grateful that I accepted the calling and I can tell how it has blessed my life already. It has helped me to grow in the gospel and be a better church member and still could be better. It has helped me get to know more people in my ward and let it feel more like a family ward now. I am grateful for Ike and for the priesthood which he holds and for the opportunity I have to have blessings when life gets hard. God always give me comfort through blessings and lets me know that it will be okay and everything will work out how it is suppose to. Though they don't always answer the things I want them to, he provides me with guidance in the things he knows are the most important for me in my life. I have loved being able to read through my patriarchal blessing and see the things that are mentioned and how many of them have happened already in my life and am excited for the many more things that have been promised to me, if I can live righteously.