Random Sampler

There have been so many events and thoughts that I have wanted to write about over the last little while, but I simply could not pull things together enough to make the time to sit down and do it. So I will attempt to give a brief summary and throw some random pictures in the mix too.
Some of my thoughts have included the passing of a dear prophet President Gordon B Hinkley, the passing of our sweet Grandma Stratford, and the birth of my sister's little baby boy Kevin Tyler Wangsgard. Each one of these events has created such a wide spectrum of emotions from sadness of loss to the happiness of a reunion to complete joy because of the miracle of life. Its amazing see how life goes full circle. I have sure enjoyed reading so many wonderful thoughts from our family and friends. Blogs are sure wonderful in helping us all keep in touch on a fun yet personal level. Thank you blogging world.

So... yes, we are still alive (barely) and finally healthy. We have been quite ill for what seems like forever. I think we have had something, at least a nasty cough since the beginning of January, but the month of February, especially the last 3 weeks have really rocked our world. We are now happy to report that our home is no longer quaratined and hopefully we can get back to normal life (whatever that is). I think we have all had a bit of the "cabin fever" and are so looking forward to spring. Here are a few pictures of what you do when you are quaratined:

A LITTLE DANCE DANCE?

LOTS OF MOVIES!

AS TYLER SAYS: I THINK I NEED A SHORT NAP.

JUST HANG OUT!

AND JUST CRY...

One event I hesitate to even write about, because then it officially confesses to the world that we truly are bad parents. So all infant toys, seats, beds, anything for your child, has a WARNING LABEL on it that cautions all parents to be sure to do this or don't EVER do that etc.... So we made the horrible mistake of not "following all instructions carefully" and we put Tate in his bouncer seat and placed him up on the island counter top. We have been doing this since, well, always under the theory that he is safer up there out of the way of getting trampled by his older brothers. I was always standing right by him, and never left the room while he was up there, BUT... this time we placed him up there and we all sat down to eat dinner at the table. Unfortunately, Dan and I had our backs turned when we heard a horrible thud on the floor. We turned to find Tate had got his bouncer bouncing so much that he had bounced himself right off the counter and onto the floor. Luckily the bouncer took the brunt of the fall, but our poor little guy did hit his face on the floor. We think his chin hit and then his forehead. He screamed for over an hour. We took him to the Insta Care in Layton where they said he was fine. He ended up with a very sad purple bruise on his chin and a fat lip. I cannot begin to express how horrible Dan and I felt. I'm sure any parent can imagine the sinking, paniky feeling as you see your baby face down on the floor. Such a bad parenting moment. Needles to say, Tate has been grounded to floor at all times and his parents will follow all instructions, cautions, and warnings from here on out.

SOOOOO SAD!

Our boys have had some good times hanging out with their cousins lately. Christy and I, as we often do, got together on Thursday for the boys to play. They had a lot of fun building traps, riding their bikes, making hot chocolate out of the mud and then creating a masterpiece or "special Valentine" for their mommies on our fence. They were covered in mud and our fence... well, look at the picture. They had so much fun. Then Friday night, we got together with Bruce, Christy, Leah and Joel for a fun evening of cards and yummy cookies and the boys got to have a sleep over. On Saturday morning, Tracen and Sammy went to a Primary activity where they "got to make really big snow turtles and then spray them green and blue and then we got hot chocolate and it was so much fun... thanks mom for letting me do that!" (all in one breath) Then Saturday afternoon the clan of boys came to our house for the day and night while Bruce and Christy headed to Provo for the BYU basketball game. The boys are so crazy together and it is definately wild, but they have so much fun. We are so grateful to have cousin living so close so our boys can know them and develop such great relationship with them.





Speaking of cousins and family, we are so excited to head to Bear Lake with my family next week for lots of fun in the snow. We hope to take many pictures so our next blog will actually be cool. Well, that is it for a few of my random thoughts and events. Hopefully we can be more on top of life now. Love to all.