Sea World

We went to Sea World for 2 days and had a great time. The girls especially loved the pets show and enjoyed seeing a dog that looked just like Macie Mae. It made us miss her.
Pet show

I love Hay's face here....sure terror. I don't think she knew that big drop was coming. She actually went on it again which I was surprised.
Em with the dolphins. The dophin show was the best show there. We saw it twice.

My Wyatt moment that came at the perfect time. We had just sat through the dolphins show and sat right behind a little boy that was about the same age as Wyatt before he died. I sat and held back the tears as I looked at his cute and precious hands. Oh, how I miss Wyatt's hands. As we were walking out of the show the flower garden was right in front of us. I went over to it and this butterfly was there. I know Wyatt was letting me know that he is aware of my feelings for him and that he loves and misses us.Such a cool flower I just had to take a picture of it.
Feeding the seals was probably one of the funnest things the girls did at Sea World.

Ty was such a good sport and went on all the kiddie rides.

Lawrence Welk resort

This is the awesome place that we got to stay while on our San Diego trip. We spent most of our days by the pool while the boys golfed. There was 5 different pool complexes with water slides and splash pads. It was so much fun. Along with the pools there were rec rooms with pool, ping pong, chess, wii's, movies, fire pits and lots of games. We spent a lot of days and evenings enjoying the amenities. It was so much fun!

One of the many fire pits.

One of the 2 slides.

Splash pad

Wyatt's bench

Since I've decided to start blogging again I thought I would give a quick update on Wyatt's bench. It's suppose to arrival today and then we can start getting it engraved and the pictures made. It takes quite a few weeks for the pictures to be made and installed and the engraving to be done. So, we are hoping it will be done by his birthday in September. Here is our preliminary sketch of what we want. The front and top are pretty much how we want it. The back on the other hand is totally different than what we have drawn here. It will be great. We continue to feel deep amounts of gratitude to everyone that has made this possible for us. Again....THANK YOU!
They are going to be able to copy the foot prints I made of Wyatt's feet when he was 3 months old and put on the front. Also, there will be a picture of Wyatt on the front and then our family picture on the back. The total cost was the exact amount we received. What a great blessing to us!

San Diego Trip March 2011

I'm going to attempt to start catching up on the last 5 months. I've taken a break from blogging and it's been good but I really want to print up the book each year so I'm going to start again. It's kind of overwhelming but I know I will be glad when I have it all done. I've decided that I love to take pictures but I really do not enjoy writing so having a break from that has been a good thing for me. I have spent the past 5 months just enjoying my kids and living. It's been good. I've done a lot of reading which has fulfilled one of my goals this year. It's been great! We have had a very busy summer and continue to have many things planned before school starts again.

We continue to miss Wyatt and there isn't a day that goes by that we don't think about him and wish he was physically with us. We have been blessed with many, many Wyatt moments and are grateful each time for those tender mercies. We are also learning to live again and enjoy those wonderful things in our lives. Which for me is a miracle. I never thought that would ever happen. There are still moments of grief and the ache of wanting to hold him again will NEVER leave but we do have a hope of that glorious day when he is in our arms again. His bench will be coming in tomorrow so we can now start the process of getting it engraven on and get the pictures done to put on it. I'm hoping it will be done before his birthday.

Here is the start of many posts from our spring break trip where we went to San Diego....the trip my parents gave to the girls that I explained about here. Here are a collection of random pictures I took on different days while on our trip.

We had lunch one day on the pier at "Ruby's." It was delish and fun to eat by the ocean. Building a sand castle at the beach.


Running from the waves on one of our days at the beach.
I can't even describe how much I love the beach and the ocean. I need it in my life. So glad we have had so many opportunites to enjoy it. I love it!


Seal beach where their were lots of mom's with their newborn pups. Fun to see!

What an awesome tree! I just had to take a picture of it!

Flowers by the ocean...2 of my most favorite things. Love it!

Tyler showing off his jumping skills.

Coming out of Sea World he tried this with a different pole and it didn't work out as good. We are just glad he didn't get hurt too bad. Just a couple of scrapes and bruises. We now laugh about it.

I just couldn't resist not taking pictures of some of the beautiful flowers there.

" Are you kidding me? Another picture?"....those were Hay's exact words.

Such different and amazing trees there.

We spent some time at Old Town looking at the shops and then had an ice cream...delish!

Swinging on the beach...can it get any better? Hay thinks not!

Happy 4th

I have so much to catch up on it's overwhelming but I wanted to wish everyone out there a happy 4th of July. This is one of my most favorite holidays. So grateful for the freedoms we enjoy and for all those that have sacrificed so much so we can have all that we do. Here is our table all set for a fun BBQ dinner with some friends. I love the colors red, white and blue. I especially love the flag. Happy 4th!!!

Quote

My kindred spirit gave me this block for my birthday a few weeks ago. I LOVE it! So true...oh, so true. Can't wait for those blessings to come. Though it seems like an eternity until I get to hold my little boy again it will come and it will be the most wonderful moment of my existence.

Butterflies

I have been so busy with so many things which has made blogging at the bottom of the list. It also doesn't help that I'm having a time where I just don't feel like blogging either. Do any of you feel like that at times? I guess I kind of go in cycles. I'm sure soon I will have a "wanting to blog" cycle so I can catch up on all the things I want to have in our book. In the past couple of weeks I've got to spend time with some dear friends and with an angel mom that is in the thick of grief. It's always a blessing when I get to visit with dear friends. I've also been enjoying spring and very busy with this to name a few things. But I wanted to quickly write down a couple of things my girls have said about butterflies the past week before I forget about them.

First one is from Em. Last Sunday for sharing time our amazing primary president did a sharing time about reverence and butterflies. She told a story about how to catch a butterfly. To catch a butterfly you have to be quiet and still. You also have let it come to you. Just like reverence. At dinner that night I was asking the kids about what they had learned. Em said that they had talked about butterflies and how to catch a butterfly. She then said..."I don't have to be quiet or still to catch a butterfly because butterflies just come to me and land on me." She really has had many Wyatt moments where they will come and land on her while she is walking. She says it happens all the time...and she knows it's her little brother saying hi.


The second Wyatt moment that I want to record is from Hay. In her class at school the past few weeks they have been learning about the cycle of butterflies. They ordered the same caterpillars we do each year for Wyatt's angel day and watch as they progress to a butterfly. Hay was excited to tell the teacher about how we do that every year for Wyatt's angel day and that we get to have Wyatt moments with butterflies. This past week they got to release a couple of the butterflies as a class. I asked Hay what the butterflies did..I figured they would just fly away quickly but she said they didn't. Instead they came and landed on her. I asked her if they went to anyone else and she said no...just me. She let everyone know she was having a "Wyatt moment." What a tender mercy. There have been so many butterflies around lately and I love it. So grateful for each and every "Wyatt moment" we get to experience. Wyatt sure likes to let us know he is aware of us and loves us.

As far as Wyatt's bench goes we have gotten it approved with the cemetery. The next step is to order the bench. Which we plan on doing next week. They said it could take up to 2 months to get the bench here and then they have to engraven on it. So, I'm thinking we will have it in June or July sometime.