Yay Tom!

Yay, Tom graduated this week! It feels weird to us that he is done. This year kind of sputtered to an end. Tom finished his last classes and finals last semester and has been doing his student teaching for the past three and a half months. He has had his teacher work sample turned in for a while and his last week of teaching was the high school's spring break (a novelty to a BYU student). This combined with the fact that Tom really enjoys teaching has made his undergraduate experience just kind of cruise to stop and all of the sudden he is graduated.

We are so proud of Tom. He has worked hard and taken his education very seriosly.

Thanks to everyone for your support and love! Thanks especially to John and Jeni for giving us a place to live for a year and to Sandy and Richard for instilling in Tom the love and desire for an education. We have very blessed in many ways!

Dancing Queen

Chalyse's dancing has graduated from just waving her arms to bouncing up and down.

Now you see it...

So Chalyse has gotten into the habit of hiding her binkie when she doesn't want to go to sleep. We'll give it to her when we put her down, but she'll throw it across the room or hide it and start screaming if she doesn't want to go to sleep yet. One place she likes to hide it is in one of the corners of her crib. We didn't realize that she did this on purpose until one day Camille was putting her down for a nap and she immediately pulled her binkie out of her mouth and put it into one of the corners and put her hands up and said, "Where'd it go?"

Just barely we tried to put her down for a nap, but after 30 minutes of periodic screaming and quiet, we decided to get her out and let her wear herself out a little bit more out of her crib. Her binkie was gone when we got her out, and after searching for it briefly, we gave up. About 15 minutes later she went back into her room and came out with her blanket in her arms and...her binkie in her mouth. She knew exactly where it was.

Wilson Easter Party

Chalyse in her pretty Easter dress.


Picking wild flowers.











Chalyse and Aunt Bethany


Savannah and Bethany


Chalyse Brighton and Gavin eating bunny suckers

We didn't get any pictures of the egg hunt..really just a candy hunt. Chalyse was so grumpy and Tom and I just filled her basket for her while she tried to chew the foil off of some chocolate.

Coxson Easter Party

Hunting for eggs. It was too rainy to do the egg hunt outside.


All she needed was one for each hand.


Putting the eggs in the basket...and taking them back out...and putting them back in.


Eating fishies and teddies.


Grandmas worms and dirt. YUM!