Happy Birthday Mike!

Mike is now 29! For his birthday I made him his fav breakfast and gave him his gifts: A wallet and a PS3 game. His brother, Devin and family came to visit and see our new baby. It was perfect timing too because they were able to celebrate with us.

This is Devin's son, Jaxton. Tsadakah and him are the best of friends! He really loved his cake, but he didn't get to eat it for very long.

This was so funny because one minute he was playing and laughing and the next he was zonked out on his mommy's lap. We were laughing so hard. Becky said that the first thing that he said when he woke up the next morning was, "That was the best cake I ever had in my whole life!"
Tsadakah just loved the frosting...like always.

I never went to the store to get more candles so he only got one on his cake. oops! He picked out this cake because it had a rum flavored drizzle to make it moist and real whipped cream frosting. Then we put Heath candy on top. The filling in the middle was a dark chocolate. Because of the rum drizzle it ended up being lop-sided, but it still tasted good.

For all the things that he has done for us, and the way that he is always so good to us! Happy Birthday, Mike! I love you!

Oh ya one more thing that was a side splitting funny part of his birthday was that night when we watched a movie. Mike chose to lay on the floor where Xander, Devin's second son, was playing. Xander kept trying to sit on Mike's head. He would crawl around to his face turn his butt on him and then plunk down. Mike just lay there letting it happen. Then Xander started getting frustrated that he kept sliding off so he got more persistent and twice he fell forward onto his own head. It was all super hilarious!!

Our Little Miracle!

She is finally here!!! I am so glad too! Here is our lil' MiKaylah Cynthia Wilberg. She was born Tuesday, May 25th, 2010. She weighed 7lb 6 oz (which was one ounce from my guess of 7lb 5 oz) and 20 1/2 inches long. She has hair but not as much as the other girls. She looks completely unique! She has a long thin delicate face and dark navy blue eyes. She is precious and perfect!!!

We went into the hospital at 10 AM. I was at a 4. They decided to keep me on the conditions that I needed strep B antibiotics (2 doses 4 hours apart) and I have fast labors (at least in the past). So five hours go by and I have had the meds needed, but my contractions have stopped and I am not dilated more at all! So to speed things up I get some Pitocin. 2 hours go by and the contractions are a breeze. I can't feel them so I am telling the nurse to crank up the Pit. They check me and I am still at a 5!!! OK time to get aggressive. So I allow the Dr. to break my water. (Remember I still have the pit cranked to high!) So within fifteen minutes the contractions start to get difficult. I am breathing through them and Mike is fanning me like crazy!!! I am begging for ice chips and Popsicles and to be doused in ice water! I swear that I must be at a 9. They check, nope, 7! I want to cry!! Can I do this? I start to doubt! The nurse tells me that I am closer than I think. She tells me to listen to my body and push as needed. Fifteen minutes later MiKaylah is here! The Dr. just made it. The Dr. and the nurses said that she was a miracle. They don't know how she is alive because the cord was wrapped around her neck twice and there was a knot tied in it. She was purple and I had to rub her back for a while to keep her breathing until she turned pink. I am so so so so grateful that God love me and the He allowed me to keep her! My prayers have definitely been answered! I love this baby so much!
Tsadakah is a proud sister! She immediately started playing peek-A-Boo with her as she came into the room. She kept asking, "How did she come out of your tummy?" Wow! I am way more uncomfortable with those questions than I thought I would be. I think Mike handled it better than I did!

Eliannah is so loving! She says, "Ahh, Yes!" every time that she is asked if she would like to hold the baby. She does really well when she holds her, and now that I am home she is like a shadow, watching and observing everything I do with the baby and narrating her every move. "Baby crying," "Baby sleeping," "Baby eating!" She seems to think that the baby needs to have her Binky in her mouth at all times so she is always trying to force it on her even when she is sleeping.

Close up and cleaned! Aaa! A lil' stretch.

Taking baby home! Here she is in her car seat I imagine that she is saying, "Take me home, I trust you!

She is such a doll! I LOVE HER!

Happy Birthday Tsadakah!

Welcome to CANDY LAND! For Tsadakah's birthday party we decided to do the theme after this cake that I saw in a cookbook. I just had to make it for her because I was so excited about the idea. Then I planned all the games, activities, and treats around the game. It was as much fun to plan as it was to put on. Over all I felt that it was a huge success. Everyone who came loved it and so did she. She has been looking forward to her birthday since Christmas! She helped me decorate the cake and everything!This is the first game. It was a rainbow taste test. Each kid had to close their eyes and were given a skittle. They had to try to guess the flavor/color. My sister, Leah, was the one who is giving them out. She was dressed as "chocolate."

The funny thing was that some of the kids were scared to close their eyes. Even with the promise of a candy they were nervous about the idea.

The next part was decorating gingerbread boys and girls. This was next to a tree in my yard that I decorated like the gingerbread tree in the game.

The kids enjoyed making them and their creativity was fun too, but the cookies were too soft and they all broke when they picked them up.

The next game was the Mr. Mint's Peppermint forest. I wrapped red electrical tape around white plastic spoons and they were to take a mint candy through a obsticle course on it without dropping the candy. My nephew, Datan, was the oldest and he did a good job.

You can kind of see in the back there are two candy canes that they were to go around. Then they jumped crawled through the striped hoop and jumped over the pillow.

Here is my cute little Tsadakah coming through the hoop. She held the candy on with her other hand through the entire thing! ha ha

Next is Jolly from the Gumdrop mountains. For this game we did the parachute and bouncing balls game with a sheet. I think that the kids had a really great time with this one!

Just look at those smiles!

Then the villian, tricky Lord Licorice stops their way with the Licorice Limbo! Mike did a great job playing the part.

My friend, Denelle, made a great CD mix of all these songs that had to do with candy. The kids did their limboing to it.

Whoops! Some of them fell down, but mostly just the ones who did it the right way! ha ha. Most of the little ones just bent forward and crawled under. I was too pregnant to try to teach them the right way and to follow the rules.

Eliannah loves bouncy balls! Which was the treat that she had gotten from "Jolly"

This is the path that we made. My sister did a great job figuring out how to make it over the grass, which actually stayed better than that ones we tried to put on the sidewalk.

Next the kids did a Nutt walk through the Peanut Acre while Gramma Nutt sang. (The CD was too far at this point so we couldn't hear it.)

My mother played a wonderful Gramma Nutt. She went all out and dressed up just like her! She is such a fun grandma! The kids won baggies of nutterbutters and circus peanuts at this game.

Then there was the Lollipop woods where the kids did a ring toss for some suckers. I think only two kids actually ringed their own. Then we divided out the rest so everyone got a couple.

Tsadakah and some cousins, Moriella and Lara. Tsadakah is dressed as Princess Frosting, Moriella as Lollipop girl, and Lara is a peep! Isn't that cute?

For princess frosting who was played by my niece, Anna, she danced around blowing bubbles and the kids popped them with their wands that I made. These wands turned out super CUTE and I am pretty proud of them. I even found bubbles shaped like ice cream cones to give out to the kids, which I was really excited about.

Then for the Gloppy's chocolate swamp we let the kids finger paint in chocolate pudding. Then they got to lick their fingers and plates. Of course they got their own chocolate snack pack in their bags to take home.

To finish off the fun we had King Kandy crown Tsadakah the princess in candy land. Every gracious princess shares, so she passed out ring pop suckers to all of her friends.

My dad was going to be King Kandy, but he didn't make it in time, so Mike did it. See the gumball staff that I made.

Here is the cake again. This one is finished though cause it has the gingerbread man on it. This was the coolest cake I have ever made! But the cake above it was the best tasting cake I have ever made. It was a yellow cake with chocolate swirled in it and strawberry frosting! It was so moist and delicous!

A close up so you could see the details.

Tsadakah loved having everyone sing to her! Look at that smile on her face!! She loves the spot light! I think she is adorable!

To Tsadakah, a party is not a party without balloons! She was so disapointed last month when we didn't have balloons for Eliannah's birthday. My friend, Cori, made this poster and she did fantastic! In the back you can see the other tree that is the gingerbread tree!

I really couldn't have done this party without the help of so many family and friends. Thank you everyone who was involved. I guess I'm a pretty good Tom Sawyer cause I got my friends to come over a few times to help me with the decorations and the handouts. Not to mention the shopping!

This was a really crazy day! We were so worried that the forcast would be right and that it would rain, but thank goodness it didn't!! The other thing that made it crazy was that Tsadakah also had her final dance performance!

She did such a good job on her ballet dance! She looked so beautiful in her ballet tu tu too! The cutest part was that when everyone cheered she didn't want to get off the stage. As she was walking off she stopped right before the curtain to look back at the audience and gave the cutest smile ever!!!! The audience LOVED that, as did I.

We took the camcorder which is why I don't have any pictures of her. She also danced a jazz number. Afterward Mike had to take Eliannah to the car. She was a monster! But she really loved watching her sister on the stage! She laughed and said, "Dakah! Dakah!" So I got Tsadakah and we watched the rest of the dances together. It was one of the best one on one moments ever! She loved whooping and yelling for the other dancers. And she would tell me which things she loved the best out of their dance or their costumes. She was being so cute and fun, but she wasn't being quiet at all! lol Everyone around us could hear her and what she was saying. Thank goodness they thought that it was as cute as I did, because the people behind us leaned forward and told me how cute she was!

She is such a precious joy to have around. She is always such a good girl! I can tell that she really really wants to please me. She tries very hard! She is sensitive and kind. I love this little girl! It was a joy to work so hard to make the party special for her.

Good-bye Grandma!

Michael's grandmother passed away and we went to the funeral. It was a beautiful funeral full of the rejoicing of the lovely life that she lead. The focus was on the joyous reunion to her companion who died 65 years ago. I get all teary when I imagine him reaching out to pull her across the veil after all these years. Then to imagine the re-uniting of her and her daughter, Kay (Mike's mother).
This is Mike's whole family. This is not Grandma's grave just the one we happened to stand by.
Becky, Me, and Eliannah.

This is Mike's niece and I thought that it was a sweet picture.

Mike and his brothers as they layed their flowers on the casket.

Tsadakah and some of her cousins sitting at the grave during the speaches that were given.

I felt that this woman was a wonderful person whose testimony of the gospel was unwavering throughout her life. She encouraged all she knew to live the gospel with exactness. She made gorgeous quilts and croched and embroidered many things. She was a woman of grace. I do feel that I am a better person for having known her. May she be a gardian angel over my children!

Happy Mother's Day!

To all of you who are mothers, I hope that you had as wonderful a Mother's Day as I did! This Mother's Day has been perfect!

First off I have to brag about my Tsadakah!!! She is so big and confident! Friday, she had a dentist appointment and while waiting in the lounge she noticed another girl who was there too. She came to me and told me that "the little girl was mean to her because she had a mean face on." I tried not to laugh and explained that that is just a serious face and the little girl must be shy. The next time that the girl passed by, Tsadakah perked up and loudly exclaimed, "Hi, my name is Tsadakah!" I must have been right about the girl being shy cause she hurried past and even her father couldn't persuade her to come back and be friends.
I am very proud of Tsadakah though, because I didn't even tell her to do that and she made her best attempt to make friends with the girl she first percieved as mean, and then later understood she was shy and tried to help by becoming friends.
Tsadakah also had her first time singing in sacrement meeting for Mother's Day. This is something I have looked forward to for 4 years! (They make you wait a long time for that!) Just her excitement about going up there made me boil over with tears. (And now again as I am writing this) She is such a treasure! I can't even describe the beautiful experience it is to have your child up there singing! It is pride and love and honor all rolled into one experience. She didn't know the words at all but she mouthed what she could. And she smiled at me and waved many times!
The icing on the cake was that she also gave her first talk in Primary. She wanted Mike to be the one that helped her so I was able to watch. Again she waved to me and was excited. She was also confident! She hopped up to the stand with courage and before Mike got to her she said into the microphone. "Its about repent!" Repent is not an easy topic for a four year old, especially when you try to draw pictures so that they can read it themselves. But she did great and I was of course so proud!
She is a lot like me in so many ways, which I will expound on another time, but in one way that she is going to obey the rules no matter who is there. For the Mother's Day gift, they colored on hot pads with permenant markers. Well at my house my kids don't even get to use croyola markers! She started crying when they brought them out and was like, "My mom wont let me use markers!" It made me laugh when the first counselor told me that story. She had been impressed that Tsadakah would follow our house rules even when she wasn't home and I wasn't around. That's my girl!
Ok so I didn't take this picture for Mother's Day, I took it for MiKaylah's baby book. But it does highlight the wonderful thing I got for Mother's Day! My new fence!!! I am so so so so excited to have it and Ithink that it makes our yard look super NICE!
I love my children dearly and I love being a mother! There is nothing more special than holding a child, hearing its laughter and watching as it grows and learns. Nothing is more worthy of my time, my attention, and my devotion.

Happy Mother's Day!

April Down, May to go.

SO like I said my goal for April was to do a lot of projects. I did some, but I didn't do all that I was hoping to do, so they (the important ones) will spill over into May. *sigh! I was working in the yard, which landscaping my front and back it my new passion...or I guess you could say distraction. lol!

I had to stop though because it was giving me contractions. It is torture cause I want to be out there doing stuff to make my vision come alive!!

My wonderful husband it doing a great job of that right now though! He is so awesome. He is the most dedicated, hard working man that I have met!! He hadn't even finished his finals before he was working away at putting in the fence that I asked for.So first he had to rip out the old fence, which was wire, and he just ripped it out with his bare hands! WOW!

Then he cut down this tree that would be in the way!

Cut it up and hauled it away. That was all in one afternoon! Then he has been working on buying the right stuff and the right amounts. He has planned so very carefully! He is of course doing a professional job, and it isn't easy at all! The winds here in Tooele are extreme, any of you Utah readers may know this because you hear that there are weather warning on the TV like all the time. So to ensure that the fence doesn't blow over he has to dig each fence post twice as deep and put two large rocks on either side before he compacts the dirt and grounds it. It takes him a long time to do each one, but he does it so well! He then has to use a level to make sure that it is straight otherwise the fence flats wont fit. If it is not he has to hit it and hammer at it until it is.

For my May goal I think I am going to focus on patience. I think just getting through this last month of pregnancy will be enough of a challenge to me. I think Heavenly Father made pregnancy just one month too long!! This last month is killer. I feel like my whole body is broken and my blood can't breathe. How can explain that feeling? I never will know how.

Hair cut

Perhaps I am just the pickiest person in the world. Or maybe I just don't know how to explain what I want correctly, but I haven't been saticefied with my hair cut for 4 years. For a long time I thought that it was because I was taking the cheap way and going to Great Clips, so this time I went to a really nice salon, and I still got crap. *sigh! I mean it is really not that bad, its just not what I asked for. I wanted more layers at the top to give volume and demention to my hair. It just feels shorter with long layers. URG! My shortest layer "framing my face" is literally past my chin. Not to my chin but past it!!!!

Anyway, here is the full effect. What do you think?