Christmas @ the Wildes

So here is Christmas @ The Wilde's house it was a lot of fun this year. Normally I ruin all of my surprises because I know what my parents are getting me. This year I have been way to busy to make many trips to Twin so Ryan knew a lot of what we were getting since he went a lot more than I did I'm not use to being surprised lol. I'll have to say I loved it.

My little brother even came home for the holidays from Washington.

Here is Ryan getting his guitar hero he was so excited well so were the rest of us we love it.

I was totally floored when I opened this and saw it was a Thomas Kincaid I couldn't believe it. I got 3 of them...Peter Pan, Snow White, and Pinocchio they are awesome he is defiantly one of my favorite artists. Thanks mom and dad!!!

Another of my favorite is Marie Osmond porcelain dolls how shocked I was to get one of her dolls. Well not knowing while I was watching one of her shows on TV my mom was listening to my favorites and ordered them how awesome. All 4 of us girls got her dolls. I got a Halloween one (our family loves Halloween) and Vanessa got a mini blue dress one and Trista got a big one (can't remember names) and Natalia got a set of 4 minis so awesome I LOOOOOVE them.

Here is our traditional picture at my moms with all of my family and my little brother in front of the tree.

Well this picture is traditional also but it use to be Tyler on my lap until he decided to grow up and thinks its great he's bigger than me. We still take the picture of him on my lap but you can't see me lol.

What a great holiday season it was :)

Christmas @ the Gates House

Wow maybe I should update this more :) It has been a very busy last few months. Ryan invited his parents for Christmas awhile ago and well they now live in their trailer in our yard :) I wasn't to sure how it would go but it has been really nice so far :) Its great having them around for kids events and everything else. They are truly loving it here its great.

Heres some Christmas pictures....

Vanessa, Teresa and Lamar going through their stockings Christmas morning.

This was Christmas Eve I read some of my favorite Christmas stories.

Christmas morning Vanessa was so excited because she got her bow and arrow that she had been wanting. She loves it.

Trista asked Santa for earrings and a necklace that she had seen and really wanted what a girl lol. I love it.

These were the girls getting to see what Santa brought them. Natalia was in awww of all the fun stuff.

Natalia loves to stack and so Santa brought her some stacking toys which she loves.

Mommy & Daddy got Natalia a fun toy...Ryan has the songs memorized already.

Vanessa painted these letters for Ryan

Yes Vanessa is like her mom and loves Twilight. I still haven't told her Ryan and I went and saw New Moon :) She can't wait to see it.

Trista loves to draw so Vanessa got her a drawing book.

Can't believe Christmas is gone and done and we are almost into February where did the time go? Things just go way to fast. We had a great Christmas tough. We got up and saw what Santa brought then we all went to my parents for presents and back home to open our presents it was a lot of fun.

Alligator Experience

As I was going through my posts I realized I hadn't posted these pictures. While at the Filer Fair this year they had an alligator show that we all thought was a lot of fun to see. Then after Mima and Papa surprised the girls by letting them get to go hold a baby alligator all I could think was gorse.

Vanessa thought it was the neatest thing ever. She likes all the creepy crawly things though. Shes like her dad in that area.

Trista wasn't to sure about the whole thing but if her big sister was doing it there was no way she wasn't going to.

My mom decided we needed a picture of Natalia with the alligator. Well she was holding Natalia at the time and when we got to the gate she handed her to me so I got up there hoping that she'd like the creepy thing but she wouldn't touch it and my mom wanted a picture so guess who got to hold it...yep me it was so gorse I hate this picture. My family still laughs and can't believe I really did it. Me either!

Halloween 2009

Halloween is always big at our house. You wouldn't believe the decorations that we have been collecting. This is Ryan's favorite holiday and it is showing. Next year he wants to do a spook ally so we'll see how that works out. My brother stayed at our house and handed out candy this year and had a lot of fun scaring kids.

Vanessa loved being Bat Girl and Trista being Cleopatra daddy did a great job picking out their costumes this year since I was to busy to do much shopping.

Ryan figured Trista would love to dress up pretty and have a wig and of coarse she loved it

Natalia just got a hand me down costume that all the girls had worn. What a cute little witch she makes.

Happy Birthday Vanessa

As I sit here I realize how busy our lives really have been the last few months. I haven't even had time to post updates on my blog. So my New Year goal is to get better at this. I can't believe that I haven't even posted Vanessa's birthday pictures...So here comes the update hope your ready lol...

October 17, 2009 was our last game for Wood River cheering. They had all the cheerleaders cheering it was a night game at the high school it was so much fun. The crowd was so loud it was awesome. Talk about cold though. They even announced on the loud speaker that it was Vanessa's birthday and got her all embarrassed it was great. Natalia loved being on the side lines with her sisters and I instead of with Daddy and Mima in the bleachers. It was a fun night.

The next day my mom was sick but still she was able to wrap Vanessa's presents and my brother helped her hide the gifts. They did a scavenger hunt. The girls love when Mima does this for them. They looked all over for their presents and reading clues it was so cute.

After she found them all it was time to open presents. Here is a picture of her holding one of her presents and if you look at Natalia she is choking a poor cat. The first couple of times I felt bad for the cat but it kept coming back to her to get tortured.

These were all her gifts from her scavenger hunt at Mima and Papa's house

Vanessa got a bead loom set from us she loves making jewelry so we figured she'd love it

While in Boise we found her this cute horse figure she loves horses so she was way excited about this.

Of all things for her birthday cake our 9 year old daughter wanted a hunting cake (I know Uncle Dustin is so proud :) ) She was so excited to see her cake. What kind of girl are we raising? lol that's ok her sisters make up for it with the girls stuff :)

Happy Birthday Vanessa!!!

Conference

We had so much fun for Conference this session. We made Conference boxes and gave them out to a few people around town. It was so much fun for our family to make them and deliver them and see the smiles on peoples faces. What a fun thing for our family to do :)

Our girls during Conference they were working on their Conference packets and coloring and word searches, etc...they loved them :)

What we are doing...

Gosh what a slacker I am I got looking and it has been forever since I have posted anything on here. Sorry guys. Its not like I'm busy or anything. Between coaching cheer leading and now coaching gymnastics and my own schooling and having 3 kids and 2 of them in school and Ryan having his own business and just every day things I am so busy. So I am sorry and I'll try more to get on here and post...

Today I have 3 sick girls it was an interesting night I don't know if Ryan and I slept much seems as one got done being sick the other started. I've had 2 sick at once but not 3 wow that was quite the challenge for us. They seem to be on the mend this morning so we'll see how tonight goes since they seem to always get sick at night :).

We had a wonderful weekend. Ryan's Uncle John was here for 4 days 3 nights it was so fun to see him since he lives in California we only see him once a year at least. Poor guy got a taste of how we are always going. Thursday he got here and I saw him a few hours and had to leave for cheerleading practice and gymnastics. Then Vanessa was able to go play with a friend that use to live here that was visiting from Texas for a couple of days. It was a great surprise to her she had no idea her friend was here :). Trista stayed at gymnastics with me and was a great helper. Then Friday Ryan and John went fishing yah I told them they'd have to ice fish lol. Then we all went to dinner in Twin and had a great time and showed him the new temple since he hadn't seen it yet. The girls were so excited to tell him all about the open house. So cute. Then Saturday we got ready to go to cheer lead for our foot ball boys and YAHHH they won!!! it was so cold though wow. Then we went to the Trailing of the Sheep (a big festival here) my dad is a part of it and has gotton me involved to a point and also the 4H is involved so it was fun to go see everything and have fun there for awhile. John left on Sunday we were so sad to see him go it was an amazing visit.

Uncle John bought Natalia her first baby doll and it goes everywhere with her she loves it so much its so cute. She always was playing with her sisters but is proud of her own.

Yep our first snow...I am not sure I think Ryan got more pictures but we got 8" out of the next storm which was about Oct. 4 :( way to early for snow. Thankfully here it has melted but the mountains are wayyy to white.

Natalia playing blocks waiting on her sisters to get home from school.

Natalia was out helping us put up horse fence across the road and her sisters were so kind to bring her an oreo cookie which she loves as you can see.

Daddy bought Natalia her first cheeseburger. I figured she was to young but he insisted and you know to my surprise she ate 3/4 of that thing wow what a big girl.