Funny Zachy

My kids love to play at their cousins house. It's almost a daily question to me if they can go play there. Yesterday morning on the way back home from driving Brooklyn to school the boys starting asking to go play at Lauri's house. I told them their cousins were at school and Lake was probably going down for a nap soon. The kept persisting that they wanted to play with Lauri's toys and could they PLEASE go to her house. I said "No, not today...Lauri has things she needs to do and I have things I need to do at our house." Zachy quickly responded " Well, I have things I need to do too...play with Lauri's toys!"

I laughed the rest of the way home!

Funny Zachy

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It's been so long I couldn't remember how to even get to this blog account! So this is just a test.

Happy New Year!

It's been awhile, but I'm happy to report that we are all adjusted here in our new place we call home and are loving it. The holidays have come and gone in a whirl and we had a blast spending every minute we could with our family who were visiting from Utah, Texas and Ashland. We love you all so much and miss you already!

Some of my own personal highlights of this holiday were... mine and Brooklyn's special date to see the Nutcracker ballet.

Spending time with my entire family together and seeing all 13 grandchildren playing together.

Finally seeing Twilight with my two sister-in-laws.

Making crafts with the girls.

Family photo shoot outing. Glad it's over!

Our trip to the beach...Dairy Queen, Honeyman playground, and the gorgeous beach!!!

The snow

putting up the Christmas tree and decorating the house with lights

Getting scared to death by our "Secret Santa" You just shouldn't knock loudly on someones door at night and run when that someones husband is out of town!!!


I'll try to post the pictures for all of this tomorrow when I'm not so tired!

Love to all!

We're moving

I thought I'd let everyone know that the Wilkinson's are taking the plunge and decided quite suddenly to make the move to Eugene. We have already started loading up the trailer and will take our first load over tomorrow.

These are difficult times, but exciting as well. We are putting full faith in our Heavenly Father and know he will guide us even when it is unexpected and hard.

I am leaving a wonderful ward in Bend with some incredible women whom I am so proud to call my friends. I will miss you all and hope to be back every now and again to say hi.

We feel the timing is right to just go for it and are taking the leap of faith into the unknown.

I think one of my biggest challenges will be moving from a big home to a very very and I mean very little one. I told Pete he's not allowed to take the sports section of the newspaper into the bathroom anymore since there is only one bathroom! :) But this will be a good transition point for us since I will get to be close to my family for a time anyway until something hopefully comes up.

I look forward to keeping in touch with everyone and will be checking in on your blogs as soon as I have computer access again after the move.

Here's to loading a moving van! Can I get a whooop whooop!?! Okay, maybe not.

First trip to the E.R.

I guess it's inevitable at some point to have to take at least one child to the emergency room at some point in their existence. I was hoping to not ever have to go through that trauma of an injury requiring stitches or casts or surgery etc...but Zachy broke our good record we had going up until Monday night. He fell out of my arms onto the kitchen floor and somehow ended up getting a pretty serious cut on his chin. I still don't know how it happened, but boy was it a bleeder! Thank goodness I was able to get a hold of Pete and he rushed home right away and whisked our little guy to the emergency room where he ended up getting six stitches to close up his gash.
Brooklyn and Ryan and I were all pretty worried and anxious for him and what he'd have to endure when he got the the hospital. We said a prayer together and I assured them their little brother would be just fine. It broke my heart to see Ryan crying for his brother and I realized really what a tight bond he and his twin brother share. I just don't think about the fact that they are together 24/7 . They don't get breaks from each other like Brooklyn does since she gets to go off to school or ballet, etc. but they do everything together, so it was a weird feeling to have him gone. I expected Zachy to get home crying for me and wanting me to hold and comfort him but that didn't happen. He walked in the house on his own happy as can be and just said "Hi Momma" as cheerful as could be. What a brave boy!


He got the stitches taken out on Friday and he's just happy it's all over with now!

A Rainy Duck Day with Daddy

Brooklyn and her Daddy braved the down pour of rain in Eugene and went to the Oregon game today. This was Brooklyn's first college game and she's a big fan now! She loved all of it and proudly blew her duck whistle and cheered loudly along side her Dad.

This is Pete....With Brooklyn's duck quacker, she tremendously distracted the opposing team, Stanford, as they would turn around to see where the loud quacks were coming from. LOL, I yelled back at them..."You're letting a 5 year old get in your head!!!" LOLOL! It was hilarious, as many of them were actually laughing. We got completely soaked! It was really dumping rain big time and we were drenched from head to toe. Brooklyn had an absolute blast even though she had NO idea what was going on on the field. It was so cute, even the guys behind us made it quite clear that they would behave with their language as everyone around seemed to be very sensitive to this sweetpea with the loud duck quacker. We made a quick trip over and headed right back to Bend. It was a total blast of a daddy/daughter date! Albeit, she's still a Beaver like her daddy when it comes right down to it. But, like I tell all my friends and my own family....Nobody on Kelli's side of the family would ever follow me to Reser...LOL! If you can't beat 'em,... join 'em. (of course till the Civil War, by the way which the Beavs will destroy the ducks this year...LOL).

Okay....Kelli here again. I had to push Pete off the computer before he went on and on about the Beavers...blah blah blah. Actually, I need to make a correction on something he said about Brooklyn being a Beaver fan...she's not! Ask her and she'll say GO COUGARS!!!!