The End and the Beginning

Wilson Easter Picnic April 2011

Becca loves Grandma!

Love this man!

I think they were trying to break it in half with pure brute force.

The best part of the picnic, food!

How can you be mad at this girl?! I just had to laugh and capture the moment as she dumped her goldfish all over the floor.

Well, we've finished up the Winter semester. Kieran is working full-time during the summer while I continue to take classes. We had a joyous weekend of no homework or worrying about what was due this week. We enjoyed family time at the Wilson Easter Picnic and at Grandma Relia's for Easter dinner. This year my parents started our annual Wilson Easter Picnic here in Utah. We usually have a huge one with all of my dad's family in California but we have branched out and started one just for our little family. Although it was rainy it was still a fun time. We had our picnic lunch of sandwich rolls, went on our walk to find the Easter Bunny, and searched for eggs. I found the coveted Golden Egg this year stuffed in a overturned tree log. I'm so excited to start traditions that my children will remember and enjoy their whole lives.

For Easter dinner we went to Nana Relia's. She always makes the best meals with lots of delicious vegetables. After we ate our fill we watched a movie about Christ and shared our testimonies of how the atonement has touched our lives. The spirit was strong as we were prompted to tell of our feelings and I feel like we grew closer as a family by doing so. As Kieran, Becca, and I went home that night we discussed how often our family traditions around holidays tend to lose the true spirit of the holiday and we decided that from now on we would try harder to have Christ be the center of our festivities.

While this weekend has been wonderful I am already feeling anxious about the approaching spring/summer terms. I start all over again tomorrow and while I only go 2 days a week they will be full days. I will miss my sweet girl. I feel bad that she will be my only child that has to have a mommy in school but I am grateful that she is the best baby for the job. I love being in school and learning about how to better care for my family and I am so grateful that I can go to BYU and have the support of my family. It will all be over soon enough and then I can continue to raise my family.

Springtime!!!!

She giggles every time she swings. My favorite sound in the world!

Oh the anticipation...

Tate, such a brute, he seemed to like the swinging but hated the humiliation of being in anything pink.

My big girl can stand so well. We're still working on the crawling.

She really is "so kissable"!

It is finally the time of beautiful weather, taking walks outside, and enjoying the green grass and cool breeze. The semester is winding down and Becca and I have been able to focus more energy on playing outside with our friends. We have two neighbors who both have little kids and we love going out to play. There is also a swing in our front yard that offers some great recreation. Becca has started crying when I bring her inside. My crazy girl would rather put off naps and have cold hands than stop her budding social life. She has more play dates than I did as a teenager and she's not even a year! But we love it. She even figured out how to push a little bike with her feet today, she was so excited.

With the semester coming to a close we can start thinking about our summer plans and how to fit everything in. We are trying to go up to my uncle's river house in July for Becca's 1st birthday but it falls during summer term so it might be a short trip. I am taking classes in spring and summer to make up for not going last fall. I'm excited to take my floral design class, hopefully I'll come home with beautiful floral arrangements often.

Life is so good in the spring! Of course, my birthday always brings some fun and we're looking forward to Easter and starting traditions with Becca. Our family is happy, we love each other dearly and are excited for every adventure that lies in store for us.

Valentines, Anniversary, and Love

Kieran and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary on February 12th. Kieran had the whole thing planned out beautifully, we had Nana watch Becca and we went to the most amazing resturant ever called Tuscany. It was delicious, Kieran ordered me something extra fancy with shrimp. (I never order shrimp when we go out because its more expensive but we splurged). We just had such a nice evening and it feels like since then we have even more in love. I don't know if its because we've passed the first 2 years of getting to know each other or just that we remembered how nice it is to be with each other. Either way I love that man!

School has been keeping us so busy it is insane. We try to make time to relax and be a family and usually we get 15-20 minutes before the crazy starts again. Kieran watches Becca twice a week while I'm in classes late and as soon as I get home its dinner, bath, bed (for Becca), and homework. I love being in school again but am looking forward to being done next June and being able to focus on my real passion, being a mom.

This is a bib from great grandmom Neubert. We enjoyed Becca's first V-day celebration at Grandma Wilson's house. We had our traditional heart shaped meatloaf, mashed potatoes, peas, asparagus, and rolls, with strawberry cake for dessert and a present under our chair. All dinner was made by our wonderful aunt Sarah. Becca received her first sing along songs!

I thought she looked like a mushroom from super mario brothers

Doesn't she look like an egyptian? Kieran thinks I have a crazy need to put everything on her head. I just think its funny and she always laughs!

This girl is just so cute! BYU won because she was wearing her cougar shirt!

You can see her first 2 teeth at the bottom there. Beware, they're quite sharp!

New Year Changes

We've resolved to just let her play with food in the hopes that some of it will make it in her mouth

Ninja baby

Well well, we've had an eventful year so far. We moved into our own apartment, we absolutely love it but miss being so close to family. I started school again. I'm taking 12 credits and although it makes for a long day and lots of relying on family to watch Becca I love being back at school. Kieran is having a fantastic semester so far and we are all excited to see him excited about school and succeeding. Becca is over 6 months now and she thinks she's a big girl. Right now the fight is to get her to eat baby food. She would rather hold something in her hand and eat it herself. She doesn't understand why we keep forcing it on her. Kieran and my 2 year anniversary is in just a couple weeks and my wonderful husband has already made extravagent plans. I can't wait to see what we're doing.

I have such a wonderful husband. He works so hard to keep his girls happy even when we're being completely ridiculous. How did I get so lucky?

I am so happy with life right now. I have a wonderful family and we are so blessed to have the opportunity to attend BYU, be close enough to family to help with Becca, and have a beautiful home to call our own.

We're looking forward to seeing what this year brings us. It's a good feeling to know that whatever comes we'll be together.

Santa Clause is coming to town!

I love that the end of the year goes by so fast but this year I wish it would slow down. Becca is growing so fast and pretty soon she's not going to be my little baby anymore. She turned 5 months on December 2nd, she can roll over, talk, laugh like no one's business, and make anyone happy (Grandma calls it Becca therapy). I can't wait for her first Christmas, she already has more presents under the tree than any baby needs and she humors me so well with all my pictures and silly-ness. In fact she knows exactly what to do when she sees a camera now...

This was pretty much Becca's favorite part of Thanksgiving, leaving floaties in my cup. (Why didn't I just get her her own drink?!) She enjoyed mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, rolls, and jello salads.

I love waking up to this face in the morning. The other morning I opened my eyes after having my lips tickled for quite some time to this adorable face smiling at me.

Aunt Sarah taking Becca outside in her first real experience of snow.

And of course Uncle Jake's favorite person in the world is Becca. They both light up when they see each other.

As fall semester comes to a close winter semester is fast approaching. Becca and I will start school again in less than a month and we're both a little nervous. Becca seems to think that she's to old for naps and baby food, she's only allowed me to feed her from my plate. I'm hopeful that Kieran will be up for the challenge of dealing with a stubborn princess all those hours I'm in class. Fortunately, until then, we have a wonderful Christmas to look forward to and the last couple weeks of no homework and mommy and Becca time to enjoy.

The snow is coming. She wasn't very happy to be all bundled up but she enjoyed the walk.

"Can't this stupid picture wait, I'm playing a game!"

"Oh, if you must, but if I die..."

Look at those beautiful eyes

I just like nakey babies!!

Becca is getting so big! She is eating solid foods and is sleeping better (except that she's in our bed). She is becoming quite the mamma's girl but if someone else entertains her she can be distracted. She loves to be front and center of everything and of course everyone in our house can't get enough of her!

Trick-or-Treat?

I was so excited to take Becca Trick or Treating on Halloween, but alas the weather spoiled our plans. I wouldn't be a good mother if I took my 4-month old outside just to get candy that she wouldn't even eat. However, we did dress up and she got lots of compliments from all the people that came to the door. I can't believe the holidays are here. Did you know that Christmas is only 7 weeks away. I love the holidays and I'm so excited for Becca to experience them for the first time.

This is our sweet pumpkin...

...and we are her pumpkin patch.

Our big girl is now eating solid food. She was actually pulling Kieran's hand towards her face.