Go, Wyatt, GO!

Well, it's happened. Wyatt is now fully mobile, and he's completely set on exploring every nook and cranny of our home. Yeah, he's more of a handful, now, but I have to admit - I get a big kick out of seeing his little face appear in the hall when I go into the kitchen and he decides to follow me, and when I'm doing something and suddenly feel his little hands on my legs. He likes it when I'm attempting to do Yoga and am upside down and in weird poses. He thinks..."cool! let's see if I can knock her over!"

being a mom just gets better and better.

Once he learns to open cupbords, however...

Swing low!

Megan plays with Wyatt at Mom's house.

4th of JULY! cont...

Wyatt's story, continued...

After the parade, we went home and made FLAG SUGAR COOKIES with Aunt Lizzie, which we took to the neighbors. We made a HUGE one to take to Great Grandma's PICNIC! Mostly, I liked playing with Aunt Lizzie (she's fun!).

At Great Grandma's, Dad held my new cousin Kale and showed off by putting him to sleep.


My Mikkelson cousins were definitely in the spirit...


Hadley let me play with her neclace. She's always so nice to me!


After the picnic, we went into Great Grandma's front yard. I though the grass was very interesting,



but then bright lights and new sounds started happening in the street! And my dad and all my cousins started dancing around like they were crazy! I LOVED IT!

Everyone was glowing!

Grandpa Rusty and Grandma...


Aunt Megan...


Uncle Shawn and my cousins...


and Mom and Dad and Aunt Lizzie!


I even got a glowing bracelet! But I kept eating it.

PHEW! It was a VERY interesting day, and I slept in the next morning!

4th of JULY!

The 4th of July was so fun this year! Bill got up early to help the YM in our ward put up flags, then Wyatt and Bill and I went to the FREEDOM FESTIVAL PARADE!

Here's what Wyatt thought about it (told in his babel, interpreted by his parents):


I went to the parade with mom and dad. There was so much to look at!


There were LOTS of people (and everyone thought I was cute)!


It was very loud! (The firetrucks were so cool!)


...and very bright!


I got very tired.

Let Freedom Ring!

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!

I love this country. I really do. I think as a nation, we are forgetting that our forefathers established this as ONE NATION UNDER GOD. Politics have vered dramatically from their originally simple mission of protecting the rights and freedoms of our people and have become a complicated game of popularity - a game with no rules and really, no winner. The men and women who lead our great nation are, for the most part, not the "voice of the people" but the voice of those people who talk the loudest and the most impressively. But I think that America is still good at the core - that we as a nation are incredibly blessed, and there ain't no doubt, I love this land.

God Bless the USA!

George Washington's prayer for our country:

“Almighty God, who has given us this good land for our heritage, we humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.

“Bless our land with honorable industry, sound learning and pure manners.

“Save us from violence, discord and confusion; from pride and arrogancy, and from every evil way.

“Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought out of many kindreds and tongues.

“Endue with the spirit of wisdom those whom in Thy name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be peace and justice at home, and that through obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth.

“In the time of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in Thee to fail.

“All of which we ask through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.”