Free Stuff

Check out this website.  You can get free stuff, and they advertise a different free item every month.  You just have to pay $1 for shipping.  I am not sure of all the rules, but I do know that I've gotten a silicone muffin tin, silicone spatula set, and silicone cookie liner all for $1 each, so see what you think.  Just go to www.easybakeware.com and click on the "freebies" tab. 

Ella is 2!

This week we celebrated Ella's 2nd Birthday!  We didn't do too much, but we tried to make it a special day for our special little girl!  Ella got a kitchen for her birthday and has loved opening and closing all the cabinets and putting together all sorts of imaginary concoctions!  I see a chef in the making!  Here are a few pictures:

Ella enjoyed a scrumpcious Happy Meal from McDonald's.  They made the crown for her at school.

 

This little apron came with her play kitchen and looks so cute on her!  My very own little Betty Crocker!

Yummy birthday cake.  She was so nice to share with me!

It is hard to believe that two years ago we had the surprise of our lives when Ella decided to come 13 weeks early!  Every time I look at her I am reminded that she truly is a miracle.  We feel so blessed to have her part of our family!  Ella, we sure love you and enjoy watching you grow more and more every day.  I'm so proud to be your Mom!

Ella, 2 weeks old

Tag

I was tagged by Jamie Shepherd and since I've never done one before I thought I'd give it a try!

RULES

1- Post Rules on Your Blog

2-Answer the Six "8" Items

3-Let Each Person Know They Have Been Tagged by Leaving Them A Comment

8 Favorite Shows

1. That's So Raven 

2. So You Think You Can Dance

3. Amazing Race

4. American Idol

5. What Not To Where

6. The Mentalist

7. Jon and Kate Plus Eight

8. Flip This House

8 Things I did Yesterday

1. Took Brad and Ella to work and school

2. Went to school

3. Took a test

4. Removed calculus from my classmate's teeth (It was Awesome!)

5. Went to lunch with my cute husband

6. Took Ella to the Park

7. Made dinner (that was quite the accomplishment!)

8. Watched The Hulk

8 Thinks I look forward to

1. Graduating

2. Brad Graduating

3. Having an income

4. Getting out of Debt!

5. Seeing our Families for Christmas

6. The end of this semester!

7. Ella's Birthday

8. Hearing if Brad got into Dental School

8 Favorite Restaurants

1. Panera Bread

2. Paula's (mexican rest. in St. George)

3. Pizza Factory (in Cedar City)

4. Toast (in Ky, I highly recommend this place!)

5. Melting Pot (I've never been, but I've heard it's good and it could be a fav.)

6. Tucanos

7. Olive Garden

8. My Mom's house (she's a good cook!)

8 Things on My Wish List

1. Brad to get into dental School

2. Owning a home

3. Ella's nose to stop running!

4. Traveling, I want to go everywhere!

5. A shopping spree for Ella, Brad, and myself

6. For everyone to stop smoking!!!

7. Settle down somewhere I love with great neighbors and family closer than a 24 hour drive away

8. Getting an A on my next Head and Neck test (that's a long shot, but oh well.)

8 People to Tag

1. Jami Cowan

2. Hayley Kartchner

3. Angela Robinson

4. Tiffany Haggerty

5. Heather Mills

6. Erin Brown

7. Nichole Hiatt

8. Whoever wants to do this tag

8. 

Trick or Treat, Smell my Feet

I love the fall season!  The leaves are gorgeous, the air is crisp, and of course we get to go around to peoples homes and get candy just by saying "trick or treat."  It's fantastic!  This year was Ella's first experience trick-or-treating and she loved it!  It took her a while to get the hang of it, but after a few houses she was pointing to her "peet" (pink) princess dress, saying "trick-or-treat", "thank you" and "bye-bye" to anyone who handed her candy!  Needless to say, she was having the time of her life.  I was about to have a nervous breakdown watching her ingest so much sugar, but she was just so stinking cute and excited that I just let her have whatever she wanted.  That's what Halloween is for isn't it?

Our weekend started off with a party at Ella's school.  Brad and I were able to come and spend a couple of hours with Ella.  We got there a little early and were so impressed at how well the kids behave there!  They were just getting up from their naps and they all just sat there and waited as the teachers went around to all of them and changed their diapers.  Then when it was time, they all walked over to the table and sat down and enjoyed the yummy snacks that all the parents brought (we brought grapes and I don't think any of the kids touched them!  I guess grapes just can't compete with cookies and fruit snacks, oh well).  It was so cute to see them all sitting in their little chairs and eating so good!  Here's a few pics: 

Ella was So ExcIteD to see all the goodies on her plate for snack time!

All the kiddos being so well behaved sitting in their cute little seats!

Next, everyone got into their costumes and went trick-or-treating around the school.  They made little baggies for them and we made a loop around all the classrooms.

Princess Ella receiving her crown!

Trick-or-Treating

These are Ella's teachers Ms. Tristan and Ms. Megan.  Ella LoVed her teachers and they adored her.  It's hard for me to drop her off each day, but these girls made it so much easier!  This was Ella's last day at her school and we are sure going to miss it there!  If you ever need a great place to take your kids for daycare or preschool check out Providence!

Next are just a few pictures from a fun Halloween party that we went to on Saturday.  The Estrada's threw an awesome party with delicious food and amazing decorations.  It was so fun to be with good friends and enjoy the beautiful evening!

Since we are kind of party poopers we weren't going to dress up, but at the last minute we decided that we would be a family of kitty-cats.  Creative, I know :)  

Ella loves "cat-kitties" (that's what she calls the stray that lives by our apartment) and was so excited to pretend to be one.  She would lick her hand and say "neow neow".  Too cute.

Oh, Tessa and Ella.  These two are so funny together.  They had a blast running around!

You could definitely tell that all the sugar from the past couple of days had really begun to kick in.  These girls were dancing like crazy to the music that was playing at the party.  Ella would get so dizzy from running around in circles she could hardly stay on her feet.  I was really starting to wonder if someone had spiked the punch!  She had so much fun and was sad to leave!

Holy Moly

The other day I was doing a little cleaning up around the house.  Ella, who is normally tagging along right beside me, had run off to find something else to occupy her time.  After a while I noticed that she hadn't checked back in with me or called my name or anything like she usually does so I began to wonder what she was up to.  As I walked down the hallway towards the bedrooms I could hear her playing and talking to herself.  I thought, "Oh, how sweet.  She's playing so good by herself and talking so sweet."  When I found her this is where she was.  All I could say was Holy Moly!

I guess this is just another good reason to stay caught up on your laundry!

The Park

Last Friday, after we picked Ella up from school (where she got bit again for the third time, but that's a whole other story......sigh), we decided it would be fun to go to the park.  Ella has recently discovered that she is a big girl now and loves playing on the toys and going down the slides all by herself.  I'll admit that it makes going to the park a lot more fun for all of us since now she can play on the toys by herself and I'm not AS worried about her falling and breaking her neck as I have been in the past.  Anyway, she really loves it and we have been trying to take advantage of the nice and cool weather while we can. 

This is Ella checking out the slide deciding if she was going to go down it or not

Still deciding....

Noticing an airplane that flew by (a stalling tactic she's picked up and uses frequently)

Saying "hi" to the "eh-pane" ---as she calls it

Checking it out one more time

Finally going down the slide!  She actually didn't mean to but ended up slipping down before she could climb back up after she sat down.

SPRINTING (she's surprisingly fast, even in her crocks) to the stairs to do it again!

Lounging with Dad at the playground.  She looks so cool, don't you think ;)

This is some video of Ella going down the Big Kid slides.  Her little jogging suit allowed her to pick up some speed going down the slide.  I think it surprised her a little bit, but she had a blast!  Enjoy

Belle on the Ball and The Ryder Cup

This last Saturday Brad and I went to the Belle on the Ball (It's actually Ball on the Belle, but I kept getting it mixed up so now I just call it Belle on the Ball).  This is basically dental school prom.  It's a big dance on the Belle of Louisville, this really old steamboat.  Everyone loads onto the boat and they go up and down the Ohio River.  At first I didn't want to go (I hated going to dances in high school so why would I like them now), but the girls in my ward talked me into it and it ended up being so much fun.  Everyone got all dolled up and danced the night away.

This is some of the gang that went to "Prom".  

Lt to Rt: Wyatts, Mills, Courtrights, Bakers, Youngs

Kim and I trying to do our sexy model faces.  

Some of the girls in my class

Lt to Rt: Lauren, Mary-Kate, Me, Rachel, Liz and Jill

Natalie and I had to get a shot of our sweet shoes.  Mine are on the left, hers on the right.  I have to say that I LOVED her pointy-toed shoes!  And the best part is we have the same shoe size......  ;)

Mike and Kimmy getting their groove on.  Can I just say Par-Tay Animals!!!  These two made me laugh so hard.  They were AweSomE dancers and totally made the dance so much fun.  Thanks guys for a Fabulous night!  You have to check out the Courtright's blog for even more pictures, especially the one where Mike is pretending to be a pole.  My cheeks hurt from laughing so hard!

This last week the Ryder Cup was in Louisville.  They played at Valhalla, which isn't too far away from where we live.  Our Bishop called Brad one night and asked him if he wanted to ditch school and go to the Ryder Cup with him.  He got some tickets through a friend.  Brad was stoked and would have gone no matter what, but was nice enough to ask my permission (like I could have stopped him).  I MaDe him take the camera so he could take pictures, for blogging purposes of course.  Thanks Bishop for asking Brad to go.  He loved it and had a great time.  Here are just a few that he took.

This is the little pass that they wore around their necks

This is Phil something or other (I'm not really into golf).  I guess he plays for the U.S.  Brad thinks that he was giving HIM the thumbs up, but really I think it was to the guy next to him.  

  I don't know who this guy is but I posted this picture because I thought he had sweet hair for a golfer.  

Lately.....

Since it seems like I have been out of touch with everyone the past couple of weeks, I thought I would post about what has been going on with the Wyatt's lately!

First, we survived the windstorm that Hurricane Ike sent our way!  A week ago from Sunday the wind was blowing when we left for church in the morning and by the time we left it was blowing like crazy!  We got home and around 2pm our power went out.  We thought, "oh it will be back on later tonight."  Nope!  Not us anyway.  We didn't get power back until Friday evening!  And one of my teachers at school still doesn't have any power.  I can't complain too much because we were totally taken care of by our amazing friends.  We were well fed and even had many offers from friends to let us use their warm showers and do our laundry at their house.  Thank you everyone! I would have not been able to make it through the week sane if we didn't have so much help.

Let's see, what else.  Oh, Brad and I ran a 5k last Tuesday.  Of course I hadn't done any running leading up to the race so I didn't do good or anything, but it was fun.  The course was great and it is a race that I will definitely do again.  

School is going.....well it's going, we'll just leave it at that!  I really do like the program.  It really keeps me busy.  We've had a ton of tests lately and I just finished my third and final test for the week today (we had three tests and a quiz) .   And I only have one test and one quiz next week so I feel sooo relieved!  I feel like I've just made it through finals week, but really it's not even midterm!  Anyway, I'm just glad this week of testing is over!

This is just a picture I had of Brad and Ella just lounging around.  Too cute!