WYNDER WEEK !!!

This week has been an interesting one for us, we had the inspection and appraisal. That was a new experiance for us but once step closer to getting our house. We are hoping the sign this Thursday (the 17th) and move in this comming weekend. We are so excited about owning our own home, being able to paint the walls how we want and doing what ever we want. The kids are excited about helping decorate their rooms and that just makes us more excited.

Today Rusty took his first steps walking. Not by himself but still this is a big deal for him and us. Abbey has been ddoing this for a little while but totally out of the blue Rusty is catching up and just might pass up Abbey.

New news but not suprisingly ..... We are HAVING A BABY !!! We are due July 29th ish. Through a lot of difficult and long disscussions we've come to an agreement that this will be our last and we'll get a dog next summer. This was VERY hard for me to do because I have ALWAYS wanted 6 kids : 3 boys, 3 girls and twins in the middle. I have said this exact saying since I was very young. Mike has always had the number of 5 children in mind. So through lots of prayer we have decided that this will be our last. Afterall we are incredible blessed that we have so many children and how easy it has been for us to get and carry the pregnancy's ( 5 for 5 : wanted yet not expected) We are very blessed to have our rapid fire, surprise timing family.
I am 11.5 weeks along and today, it sounds crazy but I felt the baby move 3 seperate times. I had the gas bubble feeling ... yet no feeling or gases excaping. So, I thought I was just thinking I was hoping or being stupid. But nope, I have felt it 2 more times since. In the exact same place.
I am hoping for a girl, but I'm not sure Mike wants the drama. If we are having a girl she will be named Hannah Ruby. If we are having a boy ... Not a clue and we will be in long discussion to try and figure that one out.

TO ALL OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS !!!!!!!

Since it has been SO long since I was blogging regularly I am in need of help. I have noticed that Many families have gone private and I want to keep updated - so PLEASE LET ME IN !!! Our email is wynderfamily@gmail.com I'd really like to keep intouch, please add us.

Better Late Than Not At All

Well I am SOOOOOOO sorry for not posting for so long, life has just been to busy. As a fast recap :
We are in the process of buying our first home YEAH !!!!!! What an experiance that has been. Very nerve racking in deed.
Christmas has been wonderful, I love our growing family. I love how big the kids are getting and how they are grasping onto every concept. I am truely in the happiest time of my life so far, I love watching Mike and the kids playing and teaching the kids new things - lately he's been teaching M1 and M2 the proper way of packing their toys. So that's their new trick is packing every toy they have.

In October we had a VERY bad experiance. Rusty stood up and supported his weight on the glass of the fireplace. He burned both of his hands very very badly. He had 3rd degree burns on 90% of his right hand palms and fingers. His left hand wasn't as much but still badly burned. I rushed him to Primary Childrens, I was very blessed that my mom was working at that time because she was able to have somebody take her shift and come down to help us. Mike met us at the hospital and gave Rusty a blessing. After the Dr. looked at his hands they sent us to the U of U burn unit, they had the head honcho director came and looked at Rusty, cut the blisters that had formed to see the severity while I was having to hold Rusty down. This was SOOO hard for me, not only this day but after this I had to change Rusty's bandages 3x's daily and stratch his hands which was extremely painful for the little man. It was a really hard experiance for us all emotional as well as a wonderful teaching oppertunity for the other kids. The teaching began with the blessing. Rusty's burns were bad enough that we went in to have his pre- op appointment to have both hands have skin grafts. When we went in to the appt. the Dr. said that the burns were "looking like they might be thinking about turning a cornor" and they wanted to wait for a few days. When we went back the Head Honcho came in again and said " this isn't right" WHAT you can't say that are you kidding me, I bet you could only imagine what was going through my mind. "His burns are healed !!!" Huh ?????? Rusty's burns were totally healed - BLESSINGS WORK THE GOSPEL IS AMAZING !!!!!!! Now he has a pressure glove for his right hand to help control the scaring and I stretch his hands about 3-5 times a day for about 10 minutes each hand. He is doing wonderfully.
We are so grateful for the gospel and the power of healing and love.
The babies are now 16 months old and I don't know how that happened. They are crawling all over.
As we are buying our home we are going to have a shift in jobs. Obviously I am not doing a sufficient job in keeping up our blog. Mike will be doing weekly updates ( while on his way to work) while I will be doing some as well the main responsibility will be his :) Well we'll see he might just help me and remind me to do it more often !!
We are very blessed to have friends and family like you who support us and THAT is my New Years Resolution to keep up our blog better so we may keep in touch. Because I love to read yours.

oh by the way pictures and more surprises to come !!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTDAY ABBEY AND RUSTY !!!!!!!!!!

Well, it's not even 5am and I am awake and can't sleep, so I thought I'd make an update. I feel silly saying the over used excuse that life is just to busy to make post more often, but with an almost 4 kids the oldest not even four and 1 year old twins being the youngest. ..... it is just to busy to spend time to blog - maybe I can try to get in a weekly post on sundays. If you don't believe me come spend a day with us - YOU'LL LOVE IT!!!!

This past month has been good, we are starting to actually settle into a routine in our weird little set-up, but as right now things are ok.

Max starts preschool today, I am really excited for him hw going to have a great time and maybe, just maybe he'll start to take naps again on the days he goes to school. He's pretty much grown out of the nap stage and it's been really hard for me to realize that this is normal and just part of growing up.


Michaellla is still our little mommy more than ever. I wish I was able to have her help more but now with Max back in school I think it might be a little easier. She has been potty training lately and is doing a really good job! We are having the occassional accidents still but she is doing really well.


ABBEY AND RUSTY ARE 1 HOW DID THIS HAPPEN??????


1 year ago today Mike and I we just getting back to out room after recovering from surgery and spending time with our little babies together. For the full story please read http://wynderfamily.blogspot.com/2008/09/its-about-time.html . As I just re read this I am bawling like a baby. My babies are so healthy and strong, and I was SO tired while writing that. My life has never been busier or better. The babies are crawling now and they go EVERYWHERE!!! I am So glad they are crwling and growing and developing, but I really think the fun is about to begin. This last year has been really easy everything I do, I do twice. But now I think things are going to get even busier. it will be much harder to get anything done because I will be taking care of and trying to wrangle my kiddios and making sure they aren't getting into trouble. I am SO blessed for my little family and can't believe we are here today. I am so greatful to my Heavenly Father for my healthy family. Expecially my healthy babies. I just can't believe how big they are and how everything is so wonderful right now. I'll post some pictures of the party (tomorrow ) and a few throughout the last year - that's a blog entirely of it's own.
Here's to the Past , Present and the Future !!!

STILL HERE !!!!! WE ARE ALIVE !!!!!

Ok so first let me explaine why I am updating our blog at 3:30 am. I'm sick and can't sleep weird I know but what ever. I wish I were asleep but I'm here instead.

So in the past 3 months that I haven't bolgged we've moved to Saratoga Springs. We are almost totally unpacked just some things we usually don't use to unpack and someday that will be done, someday.

Abbey and Rusty are sitting up by themselves and almost crawling. They are to the point that you have to deal with in twins where they are taking wach other's toys away, and bottles and anything and everything the other one has. I can't believe they are almost 1 already, it makes me so sad how fast time flies by.

Max and Michaella are doing well they love playing outside in our "big backyard" as Max always says. It's a little hard because our neighborhood has somewhat of a community backyard and everybodies kids go from one house to the next so going from a fully fenced in backyard to this is different and they really like to push their limits - considering there aren't any fences and very few tree lines there are only "invisable limits"

A month back we went to visit our good friends Natalie and Jeremy Andrews and their kids in Cedar City. That was such a fun trip except Max got a bit of the stomach flu on the way down - not to fun there but it we had such a great time. Everyday Max and Michaella are asking when we get to see Dax and Riley

This is the day we were moving. I have a double jogging stroller as well, but this one is for quick trips and the babies do really well in it like this. When ever we go out using this stroller we surprise SO many people. They don't realize at first there's 2 in there.

This is the picture I took for an update of my hair cut fix. From the one Max gave me. It's a little grown out now. We took this at our ward party.

My other pictures are still on the camera which just happens to be in the car and I'm not about to get dressed and go outside to get it, so I will be posting them soon. This time I promise it will be soon. We are finally on a schedule again so nap time will be my posting time.

I feel bad it took me so long to post but we are finally settled in ..... I hope

Oh yeah, Mike and I spoke in church sunday so now the ward can actually remember who we are :)

DRUM ROLL PLEASE .........

Well it has been quite the month with SO much going on. The most important being

MIKE GRADUATED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday May 8th, 2009

He is such a champ. He's been told over and over again that he needs to change his degree, that with working full time and having 4 kids and with everything else that he does he won't succeed and he needs to not go to Medical School and get his degree in something else. Well he is proving all those DEAD WRONG. He has always wanted to be a Doctor and we are doing WHATEVER it takes for him to acheive his dream. I am SO proud of him and he thinks nothing of it ( sillyMike ) he says "well I am done for summer" and "this is only a stepping stone " but what a stepping stone!!! CONGRADULATIONS!!!!!

On Memorial Day weekend we are moving. We are going to Saratoga Springs. We have some friends from CEU that just bought a house there and a few months ago told us that they are moving back here from North Dakota and were wondering if we wanted to live in their basement. See our friends husband ( who we also knew at CEU ) still works in ND on the oil rigs and is gone anywhere from 50 - 70 days at a time and she is all alone and hates that fact. So we are moving in at a great rate for rent. I know it may sound wierd but it is a great situation for us as well as them, it's a great way for us to serve our friends. It's a bit of a commute for Mike but there is a charter bus that goes down there directly to the Church Office Bld. because there are so many employee's that live down there.

Max's 1st year in school is comming to an end. He has really grown and gained SO much by going to preschool this year. His teacher Miss Teresa is a wonderful teacher and helped him grow and learn this year.

Rusty and Abbey are starting to sit up together. It's so cute to watch, they will sit there together lokking at each other, playing with each other until they tumble each other over.

This past month Rusty had to go to PCMC ( Primary Childrens ) and have a sedated MRI on his hips. The Dr. noticed at his last visit that he had asymetrical gluteal folds. For those of you that don't understand that, it means his little bum crack isn't perfectly straight. So they wanted to check for hip dysplasia. He was SUCH a CHAMP!!!!! When they put the Iv in he didn't even cry! He only wimpered a little and then he gave a huge grin to the nurse. The results came back and he is totally fine. WHAT A RELIEF !!!

Our next post will be all the pictures we've been needing to post. Graduation, my hair cut, and a few others oh and the new house!

So keep checking back, hopefully it will be soon !!!!!!!

A Week To Remember!!!

We had a really fun experiance house this last week. I had just gotten the kids dressed and was sitting on the floor to do Michaella's hair, Max came up behind me and asked if he could do my hair. I said of course you can and handed hin the brush. Then he asked " Mommy can I cut your hair?" Sure Max I replied. Then I felt a little tugging and pulling, not thinking very much of it I continued to do Michaella's hair. Then I hear " UH OH" I turned around and Max was holding two HUGE hand fulls of my hair and there is a bunch of hair on the ground. The look on Max's face was enough to tell me he really didn't mean to do anything and he was really worried that I was going to freak out at him. I tried so hard not to. Then I had the thought it's only hair and this could be a learning experiance of a life time. So I just took a deep breath and had a good talk with Max. It was my fault anyways, I was the one that left the scissors down in his reach and I did tell him he could cut my hair. It was really funny actually. He took two really big chunks out of the back and it had to be cut really short. I kind of like it actually, it really doesn't need a lot of maintance, it's really easy to do and different. Mike thinks it looks cute, but he likes me with longer hair more. I think I'll keep it like this for a little while just because it works well considering I really don't take the time to do my hair. Most of the time I just put it in a pony tail - it's a really nice change. I would post a picture but I haven't had one taken yet and my hair isn't done yet so that will have to wait. I know I always say that, but this time I really mean it.

For my April Fools joke this year I had a really hard time deciding what to do. The only thing I could come up with was to tell everyone we were pregnant. I figured most people would believe it considering how close the kids are already. I had so many people congratulate us tell us they were excited for us. But when we told everybody it was only a joke, I had 25 people telling us we were crazy and they were totally shocked. Nobody even realized it was a joke. It was kind of fun, but on the other hand I get really sick of people saying that we are crazy because they wouldn't be able to handle the kids so close and more no less. I really wish I could say just because you couldn't handle it doesn't mean we can't. we have actually started to think it's kind of funny to see how many comments we get saying "Wow, you sure are busy" or " you really have your hands full", "You've got the whole clan together today" we are trying to change our attitudes and remember people will always have their comments on how we live our lives, but they are ours to live and choose how to live them.
Ok so there was my rampage - now I'm done.

General Conference was great what little of it we were able to hear, luckly we can read everything later. I really love conference time, because we are able to go to church in our PJ's in our living room. I'm just glad that in October Max will be able to watch more of it with us and actually have the patience and attention span to pay attention and play little games with it.
Like Mike's dad always says,

The Church is TRUE and Don't do bad stuff!

I wanted to take a quick second and make a shout out to someone.
This past week we were visited by St. Patrick who found the leprechauns pot of gold and left it on our front door step, we have ABSOLUTELY no idea who it is or if they will ever read this, but thank you vary much.
Today Michaella, Abbey and Rusty had their Dr. Appts
Michaella's stats:
wt. 24.2 lbs. 25th %
ht. 34.5 in. 50th%
hc. 46 cm 25th %
meaning : tall, skinny and in perfect health

Abbey's stats:
wt. 14.3 lbs. 25th%
ht. 24.5 in. 10th%
hc. 41cm. 25%
meaning : on the shorter side, just like her mommy


Rusty's stats:
wt. 14.5lbs. 3rd%
ht. 25 in. 10th%
hc 41 cm. 10th%
meaning : Rusty is officially bigger than siser (that's how we say it here, it's not a typo)
but he is our little bean. I do have to get an ultrasound of his hips because he has asymmetric folds ( the folds in his thighs and his butt crack don't line up evenly) they just want to check for hip dysplasia. The Dr. said that if there are any problems we did catch it early enough we can fix it with no problems at all. Good news! So we'll see, I'll keep ya posted.

Tonight I made another milestone ...... I BATHED BOTH THE TWINS TOGETHER BY MYSELF !!!!!!! Yeah for me, I haven't done this yet just because I was nervous, but everything went well.

BIG NEWS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!




I found somebody whom I am ABSOLUTELY in love with to do my hair :)
It's Mike's cousin that did such a great job. I went to another place ( that I have never done before - I've stayed with the same person for ever ( and now is to busy to see me ) and I don't trust people to do my hair) and that place didn't do it right so a week later I went back to have them fix it and they messed it up again GRRRRR. I really don't have the time to mess with this crap from stupid incompetent people. So I was just going to deal with it, but I saw her again a few days ago and she said she'd help me and ...... SHE FIXED IT !!!!! I think it looks great and it feels great I'M SOLD !!!!!!!! If anybody needs a great stylist for a great price CALL ME!!
Seriously, I am so excited and relieved AAAAAHHHHHHH

Other than that everything is the same here, I can't wait for spring so we can go play outside with the kids. I LOVE BEING A MOM!!!!!