Some people we sent our family to newsletter couldn't open it so we thought we would post it on the blog. Sorry if it is a repeat for some of you!!
Heitmann Family 2008
We hope this letter finds everyone well this year. This past year has been full of many memories. This year we’ll start from the bottom and work up.
Wyatt Andrew (3 mo) is the newest and most likely last addition to the Heitmann clan. He graced us with his presence on Aug 15, 2008 at 0157, weighing in at 7lbs 15 oz and 20.5 inches long. In the last 3 months he has only gotten bigger (almost doubled his birth weight now)!!! He looks a lot like Ayden and is very mild mannered, that is until he thinks he is starving and wasting away to nothing.
Lauryn Colleen (2 ½) continues to solidify her place as the family clown. She is enthralled with Disney Princesses and on most days will inform us that she is Ariel or Belle and not Lauryn. I’m not sure she can get any more feminine if she tried. She loves spending time with mom while the older two are at school. She loves nursery at church and learning about Jesus. She woos all the ladies at church with her personality, not to mention the blonde hair and blue eyes!
Meysa Lynn (5) finally started pre-school this fall and absolutely loves it. She is sad when Friday comes around and her school week is over. She still absolutely loves horses. I don’t know if there is going to be a way to not own a horse in the future. Her love for the gospel is growing and she is the first to tell her older brother, mom or dad when they are straying off course. However, each week she says their lesson in CTR 5 is about choosing the right and being nice. Obviously she is getting the point somewhere.
Ayden Tyler (7) is definitely a little man already. It is amazing to watch him act so old already. If he could live in the year 3000 with all the Star Wars characters he would. Stars Wars and Legos continue to be the interests in his life. Ayden played his first year of organized baseball and did an outstanding job. He is doing very well in second grade and loves to read. He is excited to be able to be baptized in 6 short months!!
Ryan and I are truly just trying to keep up with the kids and life itself. Ryan is busy delivering babies and serving in the church as one of the ward clerks. I am busy keeping the kids happy and healthy and trying to do some things that I likes to do for myself. Life is really good and we are so blessed.
(We had some pics with it but they didn't copy over)!!
26 December 2008
25 December 2008
Merry Christmas
Well Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you all had a great time with family. We spent a quiet Christmas at home this year with just our little family and it was wonderful. Don't get me wrong, I like being with extended family, but it is nice every once in a while to be with just you and yours!! We did have a white Christmas this year and it was nice. Here are some pics of the kids with their snowmen!! 
With all the snow we got the kids were actually able to make a few snowmen. They have thoroughly enjoyed playing out in the snow. Unfortunately now it is all ice covered and not that much fun!!
This snowman was more like a frog. The kids had so much fun, and it is nice to have a fenced in yard to let them play to their little hearts content and not have to worry!!
With all the snow we got the kids were actually able to make a few snowmen. They have thoroughly enjoyed playing out in the snow. Unfortunately now it is all ice covered and not that much fun!!
This snowman was more like a frog. The kids had so much fun, and it is nice to have a fenced in yard to let them play to their little hearts content and not have to worry!!Well our Christmas Eve was a quiet one. Ryan had to work on L&D all day so it was just the kids and I. We had big plans though and they started with making our traditional sugar cookies to leave for Santa. We love these cookies, making and eating them!! I put the frosting on them and then the kids applied the decorations. They had a lot of fun!!
During the afternoon we watched a good movie together. Kit Kitteridge, an America Girl. So cute, a must see!! We played and cleaned up the house to get ready for Santa!! Then we made our homemade pizza for dinner and it was delicious!!!
Pizza 1 of 2. Our family now has to make two pizzas to satisfy everyone, plus to have a little leftover for the next day!! I am just afraid when the kids are older and are actually eating more. How many will we have to make then?!!
The kids got Christmas pajamas that they got to open after dinner. They were so excited to get something new and to actually open something up. We don't put any presents under the tree until after the kids are in bed Christmas Eve night. When they saw the gifts under the tree in the early afternoon they drove me nuts about opening them up. I am now even more firm in my decision to wait until they are asleep to put any presents out!!
Next up was dessert. This is a tradition that I wanted to start and the kids enjoyed it. Chocolate fondue!! Ryan bought us the fondue pot to enjoy this delicious stuff in.
I gave the kids wooden kabob sticks because I thought they were safer than the fondue forks. They had fun dipping and eating. Next year we might actually try the cheese fondue too!!
Poor Wyatt he didn't get any chocolate, his sad face tells you how he feels about that!! He didn't think all those toys were a good substitute for chocolate!!
Christmas morning was a whirlwind of paper flying and screams of delight. We tried to slow the kids down with opening the gifts, but were not too successful. This year we also started a tradition that I had in my family growing up and that was to draw names and make gifts for one another. It was a lot of fun this year and I think the tradition will stay with us.
Lauryn had Daddy and she made him a frame for his office at work. She helped me decopauge it and paint the letters!! Dad loved it!
Ayden had my name and he decided that I needed a center piece for my table for next Christmas. He picked out the wreath, the flowers and did the wooden ornaments all by himself. I guess Dad helped by driving him to Michael's and paying for it. What a creative kid I have!!
Ayden and Meysa got the Wii game MarioKart and they were excited!!
Meysa had Ayden's name and she and I made him his own Jedi cape, complete with belt to hold his lightsaber. Meysa had fun sewing on the machine!! Ayden of course loved it!!
Meysa got a doll that goes with her horse that she got for her Birthday. She was pretty excited!!
Wyatt had Meysa and he (with mom's hlep of course) planned on making her some bracelets that had horse charms on them. The only problem was the stretchy string wouldn't tie and the ribbon was too big to go through the beads, so we are still working on it. But she was excited to see the horse stuff anyways!!
Daddy had Lauryn. He made her a church bag just like the big kids. It has all of her princess doll and Dora stuff in it right now, so she loves it!!
She also got a treasure chest FULL of dress up clothes for which she is very thankful for. She hasn't put a stitch of normal clothes on since!! Thanks Grandma Margaret!
Wyatt's first Christmas was wonderful. He had some fun opening his gifts. He did get a hold of the paper a few times. He found his hands this last week so he has been figuring out how to grab for things.
Mom had Wyatt's name and I made him his very own race cars. They are good chew toys for now, but I am sure soon enough he will be racing around the house with them.
That was our Christmas in a nut shell (sorry for the long post). We feel very blessed and are looking forward to next year and all the adventure that comes with it.
During the afternoon we watched a good movie together. Kit Kitteridge, an America Girl. So cute, a must see!! We played and cleaned up the house to get ready for Santa!! Then we made our homemade pizza for dinner and it was delicious!!!
Pizza 1 of 2. Our family now has to make two pizzas to satisfy everyone, plus to have a little leftover for the next day!! I am just afraid when the kids are older and are actually eating more. How many will we have to make then?!!
The kids got Christmas pajamas that they got to open after dinner. They were so excited to get something new and to actually open something up. We don't put any presents under the tree until after the kids are in bed Christmas Eve night. When they saw the gifts under the tree in the early afternoon they drove me nuts about opening them up. I am now even more firm in my decision to wait until they are asleep to put any presents out!!
Next up was dessert. This is a tradition that I wanted to start and the kids enjoyed it. Chocolate fondue!! Ryan bought us the fondue pot to enjoy this delicious stuff in. 
I gave the kids wooden kabob sticks because I thought they were safer than the fondue forks. They had fun dipping and eating. Next year we might actually try the cheese fondue too!!
Poor Wyatt he didn't get any chocolate, his sad face tells you how he feels about that!! He didn't think all those toys were a good substitute for chocolate!!Christmas morning was a whirlwind of paper flying and screams of delight. We tried to slow the kids down with opening the gifts, but were not too successful. This year we also started a tradition that I had in my family growing up and that was to draw names and make gifts for one another. It was a lot of fun this year and I think the tradition will stay with us.
Lauryn had Daddy and she made him a frame for his office at work. She helped me decopauge it and paint the letters!! Dad loved it!
Ayden had my name and he decided that I needed a center piece for my table for next Christmas. He picked out the wreath, the flowers and did the wooden ornaments all by himself. I guess Dad helped by driving him to Michael's and paying for it. What a creative kid I have!!
Ayden and Meysa got the Wii game MarioKart and they were excited!!
Meysa had Ayden's name and she and I made him his own Jedi cape, complete with belt to hold his lightsaber. Meysa had fun sewing on the machine!! Ayden of course loved it!!
Meysa got a doll that goes with her horse that she got for her Birthday. She was pretty excited!!
Wyatt had Meysa and he (with mom's hlep of course) planned on making her some bracelets that had horse charms on them. The only problem was the stretchy string wouldn't tie and the ribbon was too big to go through the beads, so we are still working on it. But she was excited to see the horse stuff anyways!!
Daddy had Lauryn. He made her a church bag just like the big kids. It has all of her princess doll and Dora stuff in it right now, so she loves it!!
She also got a treasure chest FULL of dress up clothes for which she is very thankful for. She hasn't put a stitch of normal clothes on since!! Thanks Grandma Margaret!
Wyatt's first Christmas was wonderful. He had some fun opening his gifts. He did get a hold of the paper a few times. He found his hands this last week so he has been figuring out how to grab for things. 
Mom had Wyatt's name and I made him his very own race cars. They are good chew toys for now, but I am sure soon enough he will be racing around the house with them.
That was our Christmas in a nut shell (sorry for the long post). We feel very blessed and are looking forward to next year and all the adventure that comes with it. 22 December 2008
Winter Wonderland
Well here is our winter wonderland. The kids have been in heaven with all this snow. We got the last three days of last week off as snow days and we had church cancelled yesterday. So I am feeling a bit of cabin fever. We did make it out Saturday morning before the snow started flying again to get some food, and what a bunch of craziness that was. Walmart was a nightmare and Costco wasn't any better. We did need to clear our drive and dig out the cars yesterday because Ryan thought he was going to go and pick up a friend at the airport, but ended up not having to. As we were finishing up our drive way we looked across the road to one of our neighbors trying to shovel his drive with a pointed metal garden shovel. He was getting no where fast so we trudged over there and in no time had him dug out too. We thought since it was the Sabbath we could at least help another right!! Last night we had some guys on snowmobiles running in the back. That would have been a lot of fun. Ryan made it into work this morning fine and the kids and I are holed up for another "snow day". The kids dug out the Marty Stouffer "Wild America" dvds and are watching them intently. Oh the memories of watching that show as a kid. Ayden asked me if my parents just "pushed play for all the episodes". I told him no, I was a kid when the show was on TV and we didn't have dvds. He gave me the look like are you serious?!!! That made me feel really old!!! And Mr. Wyatt thinks he is old enough to eat steak and potatoes now. We found tooth #1 the other day. Ayden was only four months when he got his first teeth as well. I can see the competition beginning with these boys already. Wyatt beat Ayden in the 4 month weight department by 5 oz. Lots of fun!!! 
17 December 2008
Tripple the Fun
My sister Airica finally started a blog. Yeah, now all we have to do it get my last brother to start one and we will have corrupted the whole family!! Anyways, check it out!!
www.tripplethefun.blogspot.com
Chow!!
www.tripplethefun.blogspot.com
Chow!!
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