First Day of Preschool

Mia's first day of Preschool

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My Kids Preschool

She is sooo excited to go to school. We will see how her first day went!! I can't believe my baby girl is going to school. I almost cried :(

Santa Pictures

Ruston, Mia, Braxton and Santa

I don't have any clue how we got Mia to Smile. This one of the best pictures!!

this is how Mia was the whole time!

Kassidee, Mia, Santa, Mikelle, Adria



My Favorite of Braxton



My wonderful father-in-law Doug dresses up as Santa when he has new grandkids!! He is such a GREAT SANTA CLAUS. Now we need to get Grandma Sheri to dress up as Mrs. Claus!!!

WOW

Mia as a Watermellon Fairy(Halloween 2011)

Braxton as a Tiger(not Tigger)(Halloween 2011)

HOLY CRAP I HAVEN'T BEEN ON THIS FOR HALF A YEAR!!!!!! Well I can tell you this much.......... busy, busy, busy is what we have been up to. Life gets busy when you try to juggle family, work and everything else in between. Im not sure where to begin.

Braxton will be 9 months on the 29th. He is weighing in at about 18 lbs. He is started offically crawling this month. He loves his freedom. He actually started scooting about 6 months old then went to the army style crawling(not much though). Braxton loves material, especially the really soft kind(like minky material) He is constantly putting things in his mouth. He enjoys pounding on the piano at grandma and grandpa Graffs house.
So who does he look like the most????? Mostly me BUT there are days he looks like his dad. Especially when he wears a hat. Braxton has been saying the "da" sound alot. We have been trying to say "ma" sound.

Mia, Mia, Mia. Mia turned 4 in October(pictures to come later) and had a swim party up at her "boyfriend" Taylor Stout's house!! Oh and her boyfriend is on a mission right now in Argentina. Mia LOVES being a big sister. She is always making Braxton laugh. She helps her mom and dad out when we need her. Mia has her dad's personality. Always making people laugh with her comments, stories and funny faces. Just this month she started gymnastics and is loving every bit of it. And will be starting preschool in January.

As for Ruston and I:
Ruston is now an Assistant Manager and Sunrise Tire and keeps busy. He is also an Assistant Scoutmaster of our troop of about 12 boys and has been in that position for about a year. Ruston had his last year of the dedicated hunter and had no luck. Close but not close enough!(I was wanting deer jerky soooo bad!!!)
As for me, I did something this year that Im proud of..... I took piano lesson!!! And I hope to continue them!!!! I still work at the scout store!!! And Im still in scouts in my ward. Im actually 2nd counselor in the primary(love my calling) so I can tell ya that I live scouts 24/7 it seems like.

Well this is kind of a boring blog. I know there is more to write but when Im at work doing this, I don't have much time. I will soon have more pictures up and more stories to tell. I hope you enjoyed this.

The Wilcox Family

im going to eventually update!!

I have lost(misplaced) my camera cord and haven't been able to update, well atleast post pictures. And I truely need to!! But I will I promise!!!!!!!!!!!

BRAXTON RILEY WILCOX

On Tuesday March 29th, I gave birth to a healthy little boy!!! Braxton Riley was born at 7:34am. Weighing in at 6 lbs. 15 oz. and 19 inches long.

Monday night I was having hard contractions. So Ruston and I headed to the hospital. On the way I had called to tell them I was on my way. They suggested I go home and wait till the contractions got closer. (yea right!) All through the night I couldn't sleep. I kept a close count to how close they were. By 6am the contractions were closer than 5 minutes apart, so I woke Ruston up and we headed to the hospital.
By 6:30am I was all checked it and hooked up with the baby heart monitor and the contraction monitor. I was already dilated to a 7. Now mind you I was a 5 Monday afternoon at my Dr. appt.(minor detail, the Dr. stripped my membranes) So things really were kicking in that night!!! By 7 Dr. Brad Thompson finally showed up to check on me and see where things were at and to pop my water. At about 7:15 my delivery nurse Melinda gave me some pitocin for the contractions to get closer. At that time, Melinda had me lay on my side to help with the contractions (also doing a little pushing). Another nurse(Carolyn) had come in and told Melinda that Dr. Thompson is going to go home and shower and come right back. Both Melinda and I at the same time said "NO, get him back here now" she is going to deliver this baby any minute now.
Finally, Dr. Thompson showed back up, and Melinda wanted me to lay on my back. I told her to hold on (contraction) as soon as I moved back, I had a hard contraction with a push and the baby's head was out!!!! Contraction two came and with a HARD PUSH, the rest of the baby was out!!!
While Braxton's nurses were measuring him, the Dr. had me do one more push to get the placenta out. With Braxton coming out so fast I did tear a little and had a couple stitches put in me.
After getting weighed a nurse asked me if I wanted skin to skin, at that time I was shaking soooo bad (literally my teeth were chattering) (it was from all the adrenaline my body just went through) (NO EPIDURAL) I told the nurse "not until I calm down" It took me about 10 minutes to stop shaking!! After that I finally got to hold my precious Braxton. (sorry, we didn't get a picture of us together!)
So I was in the hospital ONLY 1 hour and had the baby!!! My nurse Melinda told me that there were a couple of ladies in there since Monday afternoon and still hadn't had their babies, and I come walking in that morning and have a baby. I told her not to tell the other ladies. (they would probably be mad!!!!)
Braxton was "Sunnyside up" so he did get bruised on his face, but other than that he was good!!!
I am very excited to be a NEW mom. Mia LOVES being a big sister and is always helping out her parents. There is definitely no jealousy!! Which is a really good thing. We involve her in everything we do with Braxton. Mia always has to ask to see his eyes!! Its to cute.

In the pictures above is also his 1 month pictures( in the yellow outfit) And his Uncle Nate holding him for the first time!!!

New Cabinets

Here's the start to my new kitchen!!!!!!!!!!!!!Before this is what my counter space looked like(well it was covered in appliances) The shelves(shoe shelves) is what I had my plates, bowls and cups stored on!!
This is the counter that was next to the fridge. Ruston is strippen them and repainting all of the lower cabinets. Color...... Red Mahgonny(sp?)


This was the color but the tungoil Ruston put on was old and made it alot darker on the lower cabinets than the upper.

Ruston, Doug and Grandpa Bud putting in the cabinets!!

The cabinets are PUT IN

Now Ruston will be painting them and then we will be putting the lower doors back on and putting new doors on the upper!!

I truely am looking forward to putting all of my WEDDING gifts(aka tupperware, china, dishes) in cabinets.

Gender of Baby

I had my ultrasound today!!!! Ruston and I were both excited to see what we are going to have. We were in there an hour because the kid didn't want to move.

When we got home Mia could care less on what sibling she was getting!!!

ENJOY!!!

We are looking forward to having a boy in the family!

Halloween 2010

Back in March Uncle Alex bought this Princess Tiana Dress in Disneyland so for Halloween that's what she was with an addition, the sunglasses. So we called her the "Blonde Retro Princess Tiana" Mia loved it!!! BUT it was a fiasco getting her hair done and getting dressed. Ruston and I had to act like dad was going to wear it!!! It took us like 20 minutes. She didn't even want to get candy!!!!

Well here we are all dressed up for Halloween! Princess Tiana, Hot Pink Witch, and the Rock Climber!!!!

We hope you all had an enjoyable Halloween!!

Mia's Smurf 3rd B-day Cake

The little present with a present inside(piece of candy)

Dacia and I asked Mia what kind of cake she wanted and this is what she asked for!!! My sister-in-law and her WONDERFUL artistic ability made this AWESOME cake!! She(Dacia) even made a little present that had a present in it. Look above!!! Mia loved her cake as well as everyone else!! It also tasted good!!

Enjoy

Mia's 3rd Birthday Friend Party

Conner Hafen
Best of Cousins Gracie Schley & Ava Jones

Left to Right: Mia, Cutter Schley & Logan Bergeson

All cousins playin in the water.

I wish I would have gotten a picture from the other side!!!!

London Bridges Falling Down

Present Time. Mia was so excited.

Playdough from the Hafen Boys!

One of her many faces!!

Clothes from Aunt Susie, Uncle Alan and cousins Cody, Caden, Cailee & C n' J!!!!

Mia celebrated her birthday at the Washington City Community Center!! We had pizza and cake. By the way Im posting Mia's cake next.

All that came: Hafen Boys(Carsen, Cameron, Dillion, Luke and Conner!!); Bergeson Family(Matt, Dacia, Mikelle, Kassidee, & Logan); Brittney, Gracie & Cutter Schley, Ava Jones; Fife Family(David, Cassie, Skyler, & Conner);Hall Family(Alan, Susie, & Cody); Skylar & Jake Armstrong; Tanner Yates; Aunt Sheeshe(Alecia) And we can't forget the grandparents- Grandpa/Grandma Wilcox; Grandpa/Grandma Graff

Thanks everyone for coming!!

Mia's 3rd Birthday

Over General Conference was also Mia's birthday. We had the opportunity to go to Grandpa & Grandma Wards cabin in Mount Pleasant!
As we were gathering everybody, Mia kept asking if she could open her presents. I had to keep telling her we were waiting for Great Grandpa Ward to come in the cabin!! Lets just say she was a very IMPATIENT 3 year old!!! When everybody was gathered we started singing to her and she was ALL smiles!!! She knew she was the center of attention! She loved it!

She recieved the Tote 'n Go Laptop from Grandpa, Grandma Graff, Uncle Alex and Aunt Sheeshe(Alecia). The card game from us. And the Letter Fun Lotto from Grandpa and Grandma Wilcox.(Whom by the way came up with us!!)

Okay so I didn't get the best pictures of Mia! What can I do!! But Mia also got to help me make her cake. She picked out the Betty Crocker Confetti white cake mix, with vanilla frosting and sprinkles then the balloon candles!! She was really excited about her cake!

She also recieved a digital camera, books, and coloring books from mom and dad(us). And Tinkerbell pajamas from Great Aunt Tamie and family(who couldn't make it up)!

All in all conference and Mia's birthday was very good! And might I had RELAXING!!!!!!!!

Muzzleloader 2010

Ruston will post later with the details!!!