Slacker!

2010 Official Unoffical Chrstmas Picture

Well, where do I even begin! I am officially a slacker. My poor blog, I honestly only click on it when I feel the sudden urge to catch up with all you wonderful people, and actually, the last time I tried to remember the address I had to ask Mark...lol.

So here I am....I feel like I should catch up on what has been going on with us. We are doing well, Mark and I joke that everything is exactly the same with us as it was last year. We live in the same house, have the same great kids, have the same amount of kids (whew!), have the same jobs, same church callings, pretty much nothing is any different...:) I did think I would give a little update though, because I guarantee I am not going to get around to printing and sending a Chrismas letter!

I am enjoying my calling in the YW. It make me feel a little less old, and I just really love getting to know our girls and the other leaders. I love being in the kid's classrooms and volunteer once a week in their classes, it is so fun for me to see them interact with their friends, and so far I don't think I have embarrassed them YET! I am really loving this stage in life and feel like I need to cherish every single minute!

Mark is still working hard at Verizon, and likes it most of the time. He is, as always, loving his BYU sports. And luckily, it looks like Basketball season will be a lot more fun than football...;) He is busy being the adoring Dad of 4, and of course, providing the comic relief in our home. As they say on my favorite show, Modern Family, "ya can't have 2 fun parents." So Mark takes care of that in our home. He is also busy being the 'Winningest Man in America", and loves to win things for our family to do on the radio. Our friends keep telling us they want to take him to Vegas to pick some numbers!

Syd is a self-proclaimed Tween, but luckily shows little signs of the attitude that sometimes comes with that. She is an amazing girl and keeps up with dancing 3 nights a week, practicing piano daily, activity days, pulling straight A's , keeping up with an exhausting social schedule, and, moonlighting as my very own personal secretary. With very little nagging on my part! She is also BYU's #2 fan (after her Dad) and when asked to write what she was most grateful for listed, "Food, Football and Family" as her top 3. Mark has never been prouder. She also is the President of the BYU club at school....lol.

In the last year, Brook has changed her name and has a good majority of her school and primary classes calling her her old nickname, "Cookie". I love it. She is loving school and always has a sweet, smiley, mischevious look on her face. She has grown SO much this year, both intellectually and in stature. She is catching up with Syd quickly and they actually wear the same size shoes now! Brook has also become Cooper's favorite playmate (except Weston, he says) and I often find them laying on the floor laughing hysterically at each other. She is also loving dance and contributes to our nightly visits to the local dance studio.

What can I even write about Cooper....lol. He is just the sweetest little guy. He is growing up so quickly, and we are enjoying every minute of it. Mark and I are so grateful to be able to visit the boys section when we go to the toy store. His "Cars" obsession has slowed just enough to let him eat, drink, and sleep trains. But not Thomas, he drives me crazy. And don't even get me started on Percy...lol. His favorite thing to do now is to catch the trains that pass near us. We will sit right in front of the tracks and wave to the engineer and the engineer always waves back and blows his horn at us. Cooper also has great little friends and enjoys playing with them every chance he gets.

Her Majesty, Brynley, rules our roost in the best way possible. We all adore her and love to oooh and aahhh over all the cute little things she does. We also try not to laugh when she is naughty...;) Bryn is very into Pooh Bear and babies and anything Cooper likes. She is becoming quite an accomplished chef and will serve me meals cooked in her kitchen until I am bursting at the seams! She will also plop herself into my lap with several books and have me read each one before letting me get up. We are all quite enamored with our "Bryncess"!

It's been a great year for us and we were able to sneak away for a few getaways. In July, Mark and I got to stay at the very swanky St. Regis in Park City and enjoyed fine dining, sitting ON the stage during the OneRepublic concert, and our own personal butler! Enjoyed Bear Lake with both the Parry family and the Wilson family. In August, we took the kids back up to Park City and enjoyed the last few days of summer together. And in October, we hit up our beloved Disneyland and loved every minute. We were even able to cross off one item from my bucket list....staying at the Grand Californian hotel!

We are so grateful to have each of you in our lives....even you crazy internet stalkers....;) We just feel so extremely blessed and lucky for each of your friendships!

So now that I have a letter that probably won't get sent, let me show you the cards that I have been looking at. Just in case they don't get sent. I love when friends come over and see Bryn and Cooper's birth announcements and throw in snide little remarks about not getting one, and I just assure them that no one did!

I really love PhotoShop and enjoy making cards and invitations, but we just got a new laptop and I haven't had the time to load it onto this computer. So honestly, I have decided to make things easy on myself and order them from Shutterfly. Their Christmas Cards this year are gorgeous! I love this Christmas Photo Card! We are huge shutterfly fans and litterally have every photo taken in our 11 years together uploaded to our shutterfly account.

We have at least one Photobook for every year we have been married, one for every vacation, and have given several as gifts. We love the Desktop Calendars as gifts also! Hopefully I have made it easy enough that you will each get a card from me. Also, if you would like one, please leave me a message with your address!! As much as I despise getting Christmas cards ready they are one of my favorite parts of Christmas!

Merry Christmas!
Love, Us!

p.s. I am a lifelong Shutterfly fan, but am writing to tell you about them to receive 50 free cards! If you are interested, check out their website. But hurry, I think it ends soon!!

She's here!!!

Well after much anticipation, our sweet little girly is here! Brynley Jeanne Wilson was born April 29, 2009 at 5:00 pm. She weighed 8 lbs 2 oz and was 19 1/2 inches long.

So far, Miss Brynley has been such a good baby! She loves to sleep and is rarely up during the day. She is pretty good at night also, but definately hasn't figured out her days and nights quite yet. She loves her binkie and is such a great little eater. I am still a little shocked when I see her full head of dark hair, but it has been so fun for me to have a baby girl that looks like what I imagined my little girls would look like!

It is so fun having a newborn around again and we are loving the sweet spirit that she has brought to our home. Syd and Brook are such sweet big sisters and are so good at holding her and Coop is hilarious with her. He calls her "Sis" or sometimes even "babysis" He loves to feel her hair and make cute noises, he also loves to try to poke her eyes and give her big huge hugs. ;) Yesterday morning I found him in playing cars with Bryn while she was in her bassinet and found the end of her bassinet filled with cars while she slept away. I think we are going to have our hands full for a while, but it has already been such a fun adventure!

Coop catching a ride while visiting at the hospital!

Bryn loving her first bath at home!

Catching a nap with her Daddy

P.S. Thanks to all of you that have ever so gently suggested that I update this blog...:) Hopefully I can get caught up now that I am feeling back to normal! Love ya!

We're bbbbbaaaaaccccckkkkk.....

After our computer died, I went back to start posts on a few different days, so I have been updating those. Sorry it's confusing, but there are new posts!

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas everyone! We are so grateful to have each of you in our lives and hope you have a fantastic day filled with love and laughter!

Live from the cell phone!

So we are all still alive here....unfortunately our laptop isn't in doing quite so well! Of course this comes just as i decide to get the blog all caught up! Hopefully we'll be back soon!

29 AGAIN....

Mark celebrated his 29th Birthday for the 4th year in a row...I think it might have been his best 29th yet! In honor of his big day I thought I would share 29 of my favorite things about him....the pictures are from his birthday, where he did his very best to hide from the camera!
1. He's super hot stuff (what can I say, I'm shallow...lol)

2. He is an awesome husband

3. He is such a fun Dad

4. He is the most sarcastic person I know

5. He puts up with me

6. He knows more about sports than anyone I know

7. He knows more about most things than anyone I know

8. All of the kids in our neighborhood think he was a clown before we met

9. He loves to make me listen to crappy 80's music on You Tube

10. He thinks he is an awesome hip hop dancer

11. His pop-a-wheelies are AWESOME....ask him to show you

12. He loves that I blog and when I slack off he will leave the page up as a hint

13. He loves Mandy Moore's "Candy" song

14. He can almost always get me to crack a smile, no matter what the situation

15. He is a rockin' game player

16. He wears short sleeve shirts year round
17. He has awesome green eyes

18. He totally steps up to help me out when I am prego, and takes such good care of the kids

19. We have fun no matter what we're doing

20. He is a "diva" on the Hannah Montana Wii game

21. He looks cute in his BYU jersey, even though I hate jerseys

22. He teases the girls relentlessly....and they love it....

23. Cooper had 60 "Cars" cars by the time he was 6 months old

24. He puts up with my need to shop

25. He LOVES Disneyland and is so fun to go with

26. He has an amazing testimony and is an awesome priesthood holder

27. He is the most kind-hearted person I know

28. His family is his #1 priority and loves to spend time with us
29. He is an amazing provider for our family and works so hard

Love You Babe!

Pumpkin Patch!

Anyone that knows me know that I LOVE Halloween and all thing fall! I have been so sad that in the past we have had to go to Walmart and buy our pumpkins, but this year we heard about this cute little pumpkin patch!The kids got to search for the perfect pumpkin and then cut it right off the vine. It was awesome!

They also had cornstalks for my front porch, which made me very happy because I couldn't find them anywhere! I had even been out stalking the local corn fields and was ready to commit a crime to get my corn stalks...:). Mark doesn't quite understand my love of cornstalks, but was a good sport about stuffing them in the car. The girls loved the ride home!

Details, details...

So did we suprise you all?! Guess what? You weren't the first to be suprised...lol! We really thought that our family was complete, but I guess The Big Guy knew something we didn't! To say we were instantly thrilled would be a lie, I was scared to death! Not to have another baby, (although, that certainly hadn't been in the plan) but the thought of being pregnant after JUST being pregnant FREAKED me out! I still have some days that I get a little freaked out! I just have to keep thinking that Heavenly Father knows I can handle this, it wouldn't have happened if he didn't! Also, I keep telling myself that He must not think I am the worst mother in the world if He trusts me with another sweet little spirit.


We are getting very excited for this new little person in our family. I have always wanted 4 kids and have always thought it was the perfect number. In fact, just a few weeks before we found out I was telling my Sister-in-law, Becky, that just had her 4th this week that I thought it was so cool she was going to have 4 because it is the perfect number. (I think I also followed that up with, "I'm just glad I don't have to do it." LOL) I am so excited that Coop is going to have a buddy to grow up with also! There are 4 1/2 years between Brook and Cooper and it will be fun for him to have someone close in age.


So the details....I am almost 12 weeks along and am due May 10th! Have I been sick? Well up until this week I have been doing really well compared to my other pregnancies. I am eating all the time instead of not being able to eat at all, so that is a welcome change, but I am afraid I am going to be the size of an elephant by the time I am done! We went to Disneyland last week which was amazing I was able to do that and I felt great. It was such a blessing!! However, I either wore myself out, or Heavenly Father knew we needed this trip and blessed me with feeling better until we got back because this week has been a trial. I am hoping I bounce back quickly!


Thank you all for your well wishes! We weren't sure the kind of reactions we would get at first...lol! Your comments all meant so much to me! We feel so blessed to be surrounded by such loving and supportive family and friends!


I am also so grateful for my sweet Markie, I couldn't do this with out him. He is so willing to help me out when I am not feeling up to something and is just such a constant support to me. I think I might be wearing a straight jacket right now, if it had not been for the sweet, comforting, powerful blessing he gave me when we found out. He has been unwavering and although we often look at each other, laugh, and ask, "How did we get ourselves into this" he hasn't doubted for a minute the blessing this baby is to us. I love you Sweetie!


P.S. I forgot to add a funny story....When we were at Disneyland, we were with some friends and the guys had gone off to do a big ride and left my friend and I to take the kids on the carousel. When I went to get Cooper out of the stroller I realized that he had fallen asleep and asked my friend if she would mind taking Brook and Syd with her along with her two boys. When she was getting off the ride, a lady asked in amazement, "Are these ALL your kids?" My friend laughed and told her no. When they came back to find me she told me the story and we both started laughing hysterically when we realized that soon I WOULD have that many kids. We were dying.

P.P.S. So what do you think? Boy or Girl!?