Here Goes THE Update

Well, to start off, I miss you guys. I'm not depressed or even very lonely, but what a great group of friends we have!

We have been in Star Valley for almost two weeks. I really like it here. It gets COLD -- 24 below zero cold -- but as hard as it is to believe, it doesn't feel that cold. I sometimes get bummed when it starts snowing AGAIN, but all in all the weather has been fine. Not to mention it is beautiful here. So beautiful!

We're settled and doing well. Adam is working for his dad doing development, remodeling, accounting, etc; mostly whatever their newest idea is! I spend my time trying not to be bored. Luckily I landed upon boxes of books and have lots to read; Adam's mom also invited me over to make 12 Grain Bread (yummy!!); and Colt takes some attending to. :)



Colt is such a cutie. He's still not crawling, but that is good for now -- we haven't bought a gate for the stairs yet. He has been pretty sick for a few days. He slept a TON and wouldn't eat much. It is wonderful that he is feeling so much better now.

We have such a nice place to live in; we love it! And there is room for visitors if you want to make the 3.5 hour drive. Check out the great view from our front porch.





Well, this week has been awesome for news! We found out that three of my sisters-in-law are pregnant!! I guess Adam and I are on the "off" year, but that's okay.

It's kind of amazing that I can miss my family and friends so much more now... I guess I mentally understand that they are all further away. Good thing I have some wonderful family here to do us good.

Keep in touch and lots of love!

St. Louis, Missouri

My brother has finally left on his mission. We dropped him off yesterday; with a mother, a pregnant woman, and three sisters on their periods let me tell you how controlled our emotions were.

We are excited for him though, and hope the time flies!!!

Baby Shower!

Who: Laura Bird and baby Haylee

Where: Meg Miller's
1177 East 8600 South Sandy, UT 84094

When: Saturday, January 12th
11 am -1 pm
A light lunch will be served

Invitations will be in your mailboxes soon!

Please respond in the comments if you will be able to make it so Meg knows how much food to prepare. Also, if you'd like to help, talk to Meg! Thanks!

Funny Stuff!

Hey everyone!! I hope that you guys had a great Christmas. Hear is a very funny website that will have you rolling about mom stuff. http://inthemotherhood.msn.com/?GT1=10749 Watch episode one it is the funniest. I thought that everyone could use a good laugh!! Oh I cut my hair short for the first time in 23 years!?! It was fun! We will see how long it lasts! Take care!

Merry Christmas late,,,

Hello everyone! I just wanted to say Merry Christmas to everyone. I don't get as much time as I used to so I don't post much or check the blog. When Emily is sleeping I have to choose what must be done and then if there is time then what I want to get done. All you mothers know how this goes. It has been a very busy month for us but in between all the Christmas stuff we blessed our little baby on December 23rd. Scott and I had a lot of family in town that we wanted to be at the blessing so we decided to bless her really early. We did it at Scotts parents so we wouldn't have to take her to church. These area few more pictures of Emily. Our Christmas card picture we used and she has been a little sick and the only place that she would sleep was in her tub. Silly baby but it helped her sleep. Hope everyone had a great Christmas!! The Wilsons

THIS FRIDAY

Just a couple things.
I need to know a rough estimate of who is coming by Thursday so we can get the bread bowls; If you know someone who is coming that hasn't posted just list their name for me.

I think that we will just hang out after dinner, unless you are dying to play a game with everyone, then you can bring one.

I'm pretty sure that's all Oh wait if anyone is trying to decide on what to bring we're lacking in the goodies department!

Thanks for helping and I hope your week goes well! And I'll see you on Friday!

PREGNANCY AND BABIES

so everyone is pregnant or already has kids and i was feeling a bit left out. so i made something. damn i'm funny. but seriously... who has kids and who is pregnant.... and for those of you who are still confused, i'm not pregnant.

New edition

Hey there friends, I thought it was about time to post. It has been a really really long time.... So Things are great. We moved into a new house about 2 months ago. I really like it. The house is awesome and the neighborhood is perfect. There are alot of young couples that live around us, so we have prospects of future friends, it we get out to meet some people. Clint graduated on Friday!! HEYYYYY!! Finally!!! We were pretty excited! But our most exciting news is the birth of our newest edition, Miss Raini Pedersen! She was born on December 11, at 9:52 am. After a fun night at the hospital, and a quick delivery she was born. Everything went smooth. I thought life was going to be so hard with 2 kids. I never knew how I could love anyone as much as I love Bode, but it is amazing how much love you can have for your kids. She is beautiful in every way and I can't think of anything more amazing than bringing children into this world. Anyway, sorry for getting so sentimental. I just love all you guys and hope you are enjoying your Christmas season!

Merry Christmas

I thought that it would be fun to post our Christmas card online instead of sending a bunch out. I hope that everyone is having a great holiday season anis able to spend some time with the ones that they love! Merry Christmas! Love you all!

Car for Sale!

My nurse Sid is selling her gold 2005 Honda Accord if anyone is interested or knows someone who is. It has 36,000 miles on it and says its a gem!

Harp this Sunday

Hey everyone! I just thought I would let you all know I am playing my harp in my parents ward this Sunday, the 9th. A bunch of you asked me to tell you when my recital was and I forgot to post it. So I thought I would tell you about this. My parents ward is at 11:00. The address is 9150 south 1300 east. It is the cream church by the Kinder Care and Western Gardens on 13th.

Another baby picture

I wanted to post this picture because its my favorite so far. This was taken the day Emily was born. Emily is officially 1 week old. When I was up with her this morning at 4:31 it was crazy to think that last week I was giving birth to her at 4:31. It has been a fun and tiring week! Now I know how all you moms feel.

HO HO HO!!

Hi Everyone!! I hope that everyone is having a great holiday season!! Every year my family and I adopt a family for Christmas instead of exchaning gifts for the adults. It has turned out to be one of my most favorite thins to look forward to and I get more excited picking out toys for the children than I do for my own. This year we have a family that has relocated here due to the Katrina disaster. There is a single mom who works 2 jobs, a 10 year old boy, a 6 year old girl and a 3 year old boy. My siblings and I have split the children up between us. We are asked that each child receive two articles of clothing, two toys and a book. Now that isn't alot to get them, however when I sat back and looked at it, I realized that this is probably all that these kids would be getting for Christmas, and that isn't alot. Especially considering that they probably lost and had to leave behind alot at their home back east, due to Katrina. Anyways I was just wondering in anyine wanted to pitch in with extra toys of clothes of even something nice for the home that a family would enjoy. Like I said, we are going to cover their main gifts, but I just feel bad that we personally can't give them more, which they need probably more than any of us do. If you have any ideas or would like to pitch in, email me at janessa.whatcott@hotmail.com or call me at 891.1372. Oh and everything has to be done by the 17th. Thanks, love you all Janessa

Advent Calendar

I was checking out my cousin's blog today and saw the cutest advent calendar ever that she made!! I try to be crafty, and sometimes succeed and sometimes don't, but I totally want to make this!! I don't have these stamps or anything, but I think I will just make some minor adjustments and make something work. I'll post a pic on my blog if I finish it and it looks decent! But here is the link to check out the tutorial:
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/advent_calendar/
See what you think!

Christmas "Party" Details

So the 21 does seem to work out well for most. This party will also be a farewell to Adam and Becky before they leave for the wild wild west!

I was thinking dinner around 6:30; I will make a tomato basil soup, bread bowls, and crackers and a cheese ball. If you guys could bring the odds and ends, fruit, vegetables, dessert, drinks you know what you like. If someone dares to make another soup that would be awesome. I will have plates, cups, etc... Just post what you will do on the blog so others can figure out what they will do.

Then theres the question of what to do after dinner, ideas are very welcome we could just mingle, or do a white elephant gift, or some kind of game???

THERE ARE NO INVITATIONS, STRICTLY WORD OF MOUTH SO INVITE WHO YOU TALK TO, EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

I'll post directions to my house later, if you have any other comments/questions, post 'em or
e-mail me at brobutton@gmail.com

p.s. this is my first planning/gathering event so there's bound to be some screw ups.

Emily Wilson

I just wanted to let everyone know that our sweet baby girl was born on November 28th at 4:31 AM. She weighed 6.9 lbs and was 18 inches long. She has tons of brown hair and two cute little dimples. We haven't decided who she looks like yet so as time goes on we will post more pictures.

This next week is slim pickins but these are the dates that we have available

Saturday December 15
Monday December 17
Friday December 21

I'm working on getting Wednesday 19 I'll let you know
just let me know if any of these days will work for you they'll all be at night
unless it works better for people to have it during the day?

Oh yeah! My brother got his mission call today and he's going to St. Louis, Missouri Nicole's hometown! He leaves January 23 we're way excited!

Halloween and Thanksgiving

I'm way behind but anyway this was our halloween! Hallie was the first to ring the bell and the last to leave, she figured out if she waited there long enough she'd get more. Blake screamed and cried until the first house, then he realized that when you hold your bucket and go to the door they give you candy. Then you couldn't get the bag away from him.





This was the day before Halloween

we went to Gardner Village to
see all the witches. We had a lot
of fun!

Ryan finally got a church calling he does mutual for the 14-15 year old boys which includes weekly mutual and 1 major all day event/or campout once a month. CRAZY!

Not much more to report, although I did feel the baby move for sure for the first time a few days ago!

I hope everyone's holidays have been great! We all need to get together and mingle before everyone's schedules get too crazy! So I was thinking maybe a "Party" except not really cuz those who know me know I'm not capable of such things. But if people were to come to my house one night it might be fun! I was thinking December 10-15 exept Tuesday. Let me know if its even possible for anybody.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

It has been forever since I've written anything on here and I thought it would be a great time to tell you all that I'm thankful for you!!

Life is good - Jeff and I are living in Provo while he finishes up his bachelor's degree in International Relations. He's in the process of applying to grad schools for an MPA. The schools are all over the country but I'm hoping for BYU or the U or a school in California. We'll find out next spring and I'm excited. I'm working at an accounting firm in Orem. I am also taking the GRE because I really want to go back to school, but I'm not applying anywhere yet. I'm going to wait until we figure out where we'll be and then maybe start some kind of program in the next couple of years.

I don't have much else to say other than have a fabulous Thanksgiving!! Eat lots!

Speaking for Karen and myself. . . ."Go UTES!"