What We Have Done In Ten Years-July 20, 2002-July 20, 2012

Next month Tim and I will celebrate ten years of being married. It has gone by pretty fast for the most part. It was been a great and very memoriable ten years. I am so grateful to have such a wonderful man as Tim is in my life. I hope that I have been as good of spouse to him as he has been to me. Tim is a wonderful husband, terrific father and my best friend. I appreciate all he does for our family. Raising a family had many joyful moments but it is no easy task, he has done it so well. Some of the things we have done in the last ten years: 1. Married in the Idaho Falls temple for time and eternally. 2. Both graduated from college. 3. Had three, handsome, health and active sons, Jacob, Noah and Adam. 4. Moved five times, one move we moved far, far from the homes we grew up in. 5. Secured a job and brought a house. 6. Served multiple callings in the Church. 7. Kept close touch to our families, even living far away. 8. Made many new and close friends here while keeping in touch with our old friends back home. 9. Enjoying a completely different weather, culture and climate than what we were raised in. 10. Learned to savor the rain when it comes. 11. Learning to be parents...on going process that never ends... 12. Loving each other more each day.

25th Anniversary Les Miserables

Tim and I will be celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary on Friday, July 20 this year. We celebrated our anniversary early this year by going to see a broadway performance of "Les Miserables". It was phenomenal!!! We both loved it and promised to see it again in the future. We hope to take our sons when they are much older. We got a babysitter for six hours, it was lovely just being with Tim. We seen and spoke to some friends of ours that were there too. I saw the play in the Capital thearter August 1996, 16 years ago, my parents took our family the day before I left for Rick's College. It was fun to see the changes they had made to the play since then and the amazing uses of technology. It was so thrilling and worth it! We went to dinner after the play, thanks to a friend we were able to find some fabulous, Greek Gyros and salad and ice cream. We enjoyed walking around the university campus here, something I haven't done and we have lived here four and a half years. I have driven through it on the way to the airport. It was a hot walk, but we just enjoyed being together. We are much better at taking pictures of our boys, hence we have no pictures of this date. But it won't be forgotten. Tim and I both love the story line of Les Miserables and listen to the music alot. We had such a lovely time together, a great way to celebrate ten years of marriage.

"If I Could Keep You Little..."

I found this children's book last night and just loved it. Enjoy! "If I Could Keep You Little..." Written and Illustrated By Marianne Richmond. If I could keep you little, I'd hum you lullabies. But then I'd miss you singing your concert's big surprise. If I could keep you little, I'd hold your hand everywhere. But then I'd miss you knowing, "I can go...you stay there." If I could keep you little, I'd kiss your cuts and scrapes. But then I'd miss you learning from your own mistakes. If I could keep you little, I'd strap you in real tight. But then I'd miss you swinging from your treetop height. If I could keep you little, I'd decide on matching clothes. But then I'd miss you choosing dots on top and stripes below. If I could keep you little, I'd cut your bread into shapes. But then I'd miss you finding, "Hey, I like ketchup with my grapes!" If I could keep you little, I'd tell you stories every night. But then I'd miss you reading the words you've learned by sight. If I could keep you little, I'd push you anywhere. But then I'd miss you feeling your speed form here to there. If I could keep you little, I'd pick for you a friend of two. But then I'd miss you finding friends you like who like you, too! If I could keep you little, We'd finger-paint our art. But then I'd miss you creating stories from your heart. If I could keep you little, I'd push you ducky float. But then I'd miss you feeling the wind behind summer's boat. If I could keep you little, We'd nap in our fort midday. But then I'd miss you sharing adventures from camp away. If I could keep you little, I'd fly you with my feet. But then I'd miss you seeing sky and clouds from your seat. If I could keep you little, I'd keep you close to me. But then I'd miss you growing into who you're meant to be!

Father's and Son's Outing

Each person in our family looks forward every year to our ward's Father's and Son's outing. Tim, Jacob and Noah went this year, had a great time and even had a campfire! They left here about four o'clock p.m. and got back this morning at 10:30 a.m. Jacob got to hold a wild lizard, "it was brown and yellow on it's back and had a blue belly with sparks" which he was thrilled about. The boys played with friends and had plenty of time to explore. They stayed up around the campfire until after dark. So it is tradition in our family that the boys don't go on Father's and Son's outing until they are fully toliet trained. This is nice for me because I get one-on-one with each of our youngest. Adam was really upset when he realized that his dad and brothers left. So we had some fun together and enjoyed the silence of the house!

Mom here is the picture I took for you of Adam sitting in his lawn chair.

HAPPY BROTHER'S DAY!

Did you know that May 24th is Brother's Day? We just found that out today. On Mother's Day Jacob asked a very good question, "Ok, so there is Mother's Day and Father's Day, why isn't there a Brother's and Sister's Day?" Hmmm. Rightly put Jacob. Mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters are all important and needed in our families. So we decided on this past Mother's Day to make a new tradition in our family, we were going to have a Happy Brother's Day. We planned it for this Sunday,May 27, just because it was in the middle of Mother Day's and Father's Day. As I was watching the weather on local news this morning, they informed us that today was Brother's Day, in which Jacob was thrilled! I asked them what they would like to do today for Brother's Day and they didn't know...so we will have to work on that.:)

The orignal seven members of Wheelwright family at Tammy's wedding.

Wheelwright brothers and sisters trying to get their children to smile and hold still for the picture with Grandma and Grandpa Wheelwright, not

Tim's brothers, Scott and Joshua just before high school graduation. One special day!

Jacob and Noah have a balloon bath on Noah's 2nd birthday, December 19.

I was blessed in my life to have great brothers, Will, Jon and Brad and brother-in-law Lorin, Eric, Jared, Scott and Joshua. They have and still have a very positive influence in my life. They are amazing husbands, fathers to their children and uncles to my boys. I love the fun memories we have made with them. I appreciate their goodness and strength in my life and am so grateful I have them. FYI: The first Sunday in August is Happy Sister's Day!

Update on Jay

It will be a month on the 27th that we found Jay (the parakette that we found perched on our backyard door). We have tried to find his owner, but have had no reply or responses, to our noticies that we put out. So we have decided to keep Jay as our pet. Jacob has done a great job taking care of him so far and he also named him Jay...after BlueJay (since he is blue). We enjoy his tweets in our home. We have his cage hung in our dining room and he has another hook outside on our porch in the backyard (his favorite place to be as he can communicate with the wild birds there). Yesterday, he was doing tricks for me, hanging upside down on his perch and moving through the branches of his cage. We are starting to see his personality and it is a shy, but fun one. We were having such a hard time choosing a pet, the boys, mainly Jacob really wanted one. But thankfully, it was decided for us. Jacob would still love a lizard, but for now Jay is doing the trick and we all love him. I was asked if the bird was a girl or a boy bird, I reply, "We only make hims here.".

Webb Family At The Solar Eclipse!!!

The pictures say it ALL! What I facebooked last night, "The solar eclipse was amazing, right up my scientist, husband's ally and my three little want-to-be scientists sons too. Great memories made tonight as a family!"