Oh so little....
Our baby is officially the BIG 3. Wyman has been talking about his birthday for the last few weeks and everytime we would ask him how old he was going to be, he would infatically say..."THE BIG 3". Only he has a slight lisp, that I think is incredibly cute and so it would come out more like, "THE BIG FREE"!! It is kinda hard to believe our little guy is this big. Where have the last three years gone?
Wyatt is such a blessing in our family. He has us laughing all the time and he reminds me to just slow down and enjoy life. Little boys are so needed in a family.
He is so proud of the fact that he can make the number three with this fingers. I love how he concentrates so hard and then proudly shows me how old he is. 
The BIG THREE!!
We are having the epitome of a lazy summer. We wake up when we want to, we play in the sprinkler, eat popsicles everyday, catch up on our netflix, we get dressed IF we want to. Basically we are being bums and I love it. I know in the real near future we are going back to a routine, which I will be craving once it is upon us but for now we are loving the fly by the seat of our pants kind of schedule.
We have read Treasure Island, Hatchet, Black Beauty and are going to start Call of the Wild. My kids love when I read to them and I love reading books that I loved as a kid.
Ayden has gotten to new levels on Mario Cart Wii and he has built some pretty cool Star Wars lego bases and spaceships (more on that later). Lauryn is starting to sound out words and she is reluctantly practicing tying her shoes. Meysa is learning how to do her own hair and being a good big sister to Wyatt. Speaking of Wyatt, he is getting big. Seriously he is eating me out of house and home right now and he is only almost three. The other morning for breakfast he had a bowl of cereal and plate of eggs. He is also sleeping more so I think a growth spurt is upon us.
We are t-minus 20 days until school starts and we have to shop for school clothes and school supplies, camp at least one time in the back yard, celebrate Wyatt's birthday, and maybe even go downtown one more time. I hope to post more often if and when we stop our lazy summer ways!!! 
Each and every year our Church celebrates Pioneer Day on July 24th. It happens to be the day in 1847 that the Saints arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. After years of persecution and hardships they had finally made it to a place that they could live in peace and worship God how they saw fit. This year July 24th was on a Sunday. We are blessed to live close to a temple here in Maryland. For the first time in Ryan and I's married life we are closer than the usual 1.5-2 hour trip it would take to get to a temple. Another blessing is having a visitors center right by the temple. The visitor center is for people who come wanting to know more about our beliefs and people who come to enjoy the spirit on the temple grounds. For our family on Sunday we got to go watch the movie Legacy, which chronicles the experiences of the Saints from the organization of the Church in 1830 until they made it to Salt Lake. The kids loved it and then once the movie was over we were able to go walk around the temple grounds for a little while (it was still too hot to hang out for long). It was a perfect way to spend a Sabbath day and celebrate those long ago Saints and the sacrifices they made so I can enjoy the blessings of the gospel today. 
When we found a place to live out here in Maryland back in April we told our kids that they could get a trampoline because the yard was big enough. It was suppose to get them excited about moving clear across the country and to give them something to look forward too. So the day after we arrived here in Maryland we headed to the closest Sears. We thought we could get a tramp and that would give the kids something to do while we waited five days for our household goods to arrive. Unbeknownst to us Sears doesn't stock trampolines so we had to but in an order. The kids were bummed, we were bummed but what could ya do. 
