Wyatt's Tree 2011

I received this beautiful butterfly in the mail for Wyatt's tree yesterday.  I love it!  It's perfect!  Thank you Michelle.  So grateful to everyone that has contributed to his tree.  It truly is a tree of love.  It's always an emotional event each year as we place each ornament lovingly on the tree and think of the amazing people in our lives.  We just feel so beyond blessed for all the kindnesses people have shown to us the past 3 1/2 years.  Thank you to everyone!  We love each and every ornament!

 The doll my uncle gave us and the sweet quilt we received from Kamber's grandmother.

 The hat Wyatt wore his first and only Christmas with us.  It always will be a top his tree.

Wyatt's Bench

It's finally in and absolutely perfect! Our hearts are full of deep amounts of gratitude to everyone that made this possible for us. Words truly can not describe our feelings right now. When we look at his bench we think of all those that sacrificed and donated all they did so we could have the perfect memorial for our little boy. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!
When I first saw this quote I knew I wanted it on his bench. It summed up our complete feelings and I wanted my children and future family to know of the testimony we have that yes we can be an eternal family and through our Savior Jesus Christ he has made that possible. I wanted this as a reminder of the hope we truly have that one day we will be together again.
Our 4 kids.
Forever ours...until we meet again. I added this because the song "God be with you until we meet again" has been a great tender mercy for me on countless occasions. I know Wyatt has been able to communicate his feelings to me through this song. It has been played at moments I've needed including a miracle day 1 year after he had died when miraculously Hay turned on the CD player and this song came on. It wasn't even number 1 on the cd but 11. Truly a miracle in my eyes and it was definitely something I needed to hear at that moment on that day. It was a message of hope from my youngest child.
These are his cute little foot imprints. I had stamped his foot at age 2 months to put into his scrapbook. They were able to copy them and engraven them on his headstone. I would have never thought that when I was stamping his feet that day that instead of them going into a scrap book they would be going on his headstone. Simply unbelievable!
The back again sums up our greatest goal. These are the words from his obituary. I hope that our posterity will look at this and realize what is important in this life and strive with all their might and strength to do those things that will qualify them for eternal life so that we will not have any empty chairs in heaven. Wyatt has filled his and it's our goal to fill ours as a family as well.

Wyatt's 4th birthday

Wyatt's 4th birthday...we ate breakfast at his grave and watched the sunrise. It was a perfect and beautiful morning. Couldn't ask for any better. After school we released balloons and went to dinner together. When we got home my sweet friend had dropped off some cupcakes so we did our "No Empty Chairs" box and ate cupcakes after singing happy birthday to Wyatt. It was a difficult day for reasons other than Wyatt's birthday but we survived and enjoyed some good family time. We know whats most important in this life and we are grateful to have each other. We truly look forward to the day when we get to see Wyatt blow out 4 candles and open up presents. It will be a wonderful day.

Picnic breakfast with breakfast cake.






The sunrise...simply beautiful!






Ty's message....I miss you!







A sweet friend brought by this vinyl for our wall... Forever a family. Love it!
We feel so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family in our lives. Thank you to all that remembered our little boy on his birthday.

Oh so amazing!

I received this in the mail for Wyatt's birthday. It's a drawing my niece drew. I had no idea she was such an artist. Truly amazing! What a tender mercy it was for me to open this package up and see this amazing butterfly. This is the exact type of butterfly the flew around in our backyard the day before Wyatt's birthday. This will be something we will always cherish. Thank you Sarah! Along with the drawing she shared the words to a song that reminded her of Wyatt. That is one of the greatest gifts I can receive is knowing that our little boy is still thought of and not forgotten. Another great gift is to hear that someone has become a better person because of Wyatt's influence on them or that their testimony has grown from Wyatt's story. Those are some of the greatest blessings I can receive.

Em's 12th birthday

Em had a great birthday. Started out with a few presents, breakfast cake and lunch at Kneaders. That evening I made her favorite dinner...cafe rio. She wanted to have orange and turquoise colors so that is what we did. She then went to a friends house and enjoyed the evening with them.
A sign Hay had made. She had saved up all her violin treats to put on the sign. She loves her Em!
Em has wanted to wear make up forever it seems like. She was given the permission to start wearing it. Needless to say she was waaaay excited!

Lunch at Kneaders.












She is now old enough to be in beehives. This is how we welcomed her in. I'm so excited that I get to be one of her leaders.