December 2009

We were grateful that the roads were good enough for us to drive to Washington over Christmas break. We got to stay with Stephanie and Jay in Vancouver for a night. We enjoyed touring Jay's school (in the dark). Stephanie also took some great pictures of our family. Then we headed up to my parents' for the rest of our Christmas break. We enjoyed spending time with my side of the family. We took a few family pictures with Stephanie's camera. It had been a while since we had all been together.

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If I had let it go any longer...

...a year would have gone by without a blog post from me! My goodness, I can't believe I haven't written anything since October 2009. I'm sure my readers have all given up on me. (Sorry!) I guess it's time to play catch up.

Halloween 2009

It's been almost a month already! Sorry for being so late.

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, and it couldn't have come at a better time for me. This week we added another angel to our family. I was almost 8 weeks pregnant when I miscarried. So, today I am remembering our three angels in Heaven and celebrating our two amazing boys on Earth.

And to all the mothers and fathers who have experienced loss. Please know that I am thinking of you and your angels as well.

Torrin's 2nd Birthday

We celebrated Torrin's 2nd birthday this weekend. His cousin, Bailey, will also be turning two this month, so we celebrated hers as well. It was fun to celebrate with cousins. This was my first time really decorating with buttercream. I will say this much, it tasted a lot better than fondant.

Time to blog again.

Allen's brother, Jason, and his family are in town this weekend and we got to go to a fish farm & pumpkin patch. It's kind of an odd combination, but it was a lot of fun for everyone. They had some stocked ponds at this place, a corn maze, and a small pumpkin patch. Hayden's idea of catching fish was to put his line & hook in the water (without any bait) and hook the side of the fish. Suprisingly, he caught two fish this way and I caught one. LOL Tomorrow we will celebrate Torrin's 2nd Birthday (which was yesterday). His cousin, Bailey, will also be 2 this month, so we are celebrating hers also. Here are some pictures from this morning. The other little blonde boy in the pictures is our nephew, Braedon. He's 6 months younger than Hayden.

1st Annual Wilcox Family Reunion

Allen comes from a really big family (9 kids). Almost all of them are married with kids, so we decided to start having our own family reunions. This year we went up to Loman, Idaho, and went camping. Everyone was there, except Danny, who had National Guard for two weeks. But we did get to see Danny after the reunion when he blessed his new baby girl, Abigail. (We got a couple of family pics, but Hayden is hiding behind me).

I swear my kids were the dirtiest. Hayden had a runny nose and kept wiping it with his dirty hands, leaving a permanent dirty smear all the way up to his forehead. LOL I didn't get a lot of pictures, but here are a few. (Torrin was on the move too much to get any good shots of him. The only one I got of him was him throwing a tantrum in the tent).

Hayden and Braedon (6 months apart)

Our own little version of "Potter Puppet Pals".

Sorry, didn't get any good pictures. I made some puppets for it.