Kate Lynn Wilson

Yeah!!! Baby Kate finally came to join our family!!! We are so excited that she is here. Kate was born on June 14th (her due date) at 4:58 p.m. She weighed in at 8 lbs 9 oz and 21 inches long. She is healthy, happy and a great eater. Everything went really well with the labor and delivery, compaired to Austin it was a walk in the park. Everyone is home now and trying to adjust to our newest family memeber. Enjoy the pictures!

This is me, so happy to have an epidural!
Baby Kate, finally here!
Dad excited to have a little more pink in his life
At the hospital Austin wanted nothing to do with me. He wanted dad even if his hands were already full!

Austin is still trying to decide how he feels about Kate, mostly he is just curious.

Kitty is sad, he got the boot from the bedroom and is banished to the couch to sleep. Sorry Kitty.

Update

To update everyone on how things are going I just wanted to say that there is nothing to update. BLAH. Everyone who I knew was pregnant (some due before, some the same as, and some even after me) have all had their babies...and here I sit with my big baby belly still intact. But on the up side, I do know that if she doesn't come this weekend I am being enduced on Monday so at least I have an end in site. My mom is flying in this evening and will be a great help with Austin and all the craziness going on around here. So if all else fails, hopefully we'll be able to post some good news by Tuesday.

Moving

As many of you know, Devon and I have been looking to buy a house in the area and therefore have been planning to move for a couple of months now. Well we are happy to announce that we have finally made our decision and know when we are going to move. The surprise to us, as I am sure it will be to you, is that we are not only moving out of the ward but are movie to Boise, Idaho! As much as we love it here we have felt that it's time for us to move on and that our calling is somewhere else right now. We will be leaving at the end of June. Devon's last day of work is the 27th, then his father is coming down and will be helping him drive out to Boise. As for me, after I have the baby my mom will be coming down to stay with us and then I will go back with her and be staying at my parents for a month or so. This will give Devon some time to get to Idaho, find a place for us to live, and get things set up so that I don't have to deal with the hassle with Austin and the new baby. Although we are surprised where our lives are taking us we are excited and know that we will enjoy Idaho, although we will miss it here.

Baby one, Baby two

Yesterday Devon did the honors of taking pictures of me. I decided to have him take them yesterday because then they would be at about the exact same time as when we took pictures of me when I was pregnant with Austin. And just for comparison's sake, I decided to wear the same thing. I was really surprised that I could look so much the same a year and a half, and a whole pregnancy latter, but here they are. I hope you enjoy. The first one is of me Pregnant with Austin, the second is yesterday.

Father and Sons

Today Austin is officially a year and a half, and in celebration of our monster getting so big Devon took him last night to the Father and Sons camp out. That's right folks, Devon took Austin camping by himself and I got to spend my night however I wanted! It was fabulous. I ended up spending a wonderfully quite night at home chatting with my sister on MSN which was tons of fun because they finally got high speed Internet and we both got our web cams up and running. I didn't go anywhere, do anything...It was wonderful. I didn't even make dinner for myself. I was planning on grabbing some pizza or a burrito and this wonderful Mexican place down the street but I didn't feel like leaving so I didn't! Nobody ever asked me "when's dinner" "what's for dinner tonight" "can we go out" nothing! It was a nice break. As for Devon and Austin, they came back around 11:00 this morning and Devon said that it went great! Austin slept all night, he had fun running around getting dirty and exploring. Devon enjoyed it and said he would do it again...that's right, it went so well he won't hesitate doing it again! It's music to my ears. Austin really is such a good boy and it will be such a joy to see how he interacts with Kate. I really can't wait. So in closing I just want to give a shout out to my wonderful husband for being such a great dad and a brave father, taking an 18 month old camping by himself at a site an hour away.

Offers

We finally picked 6 houses that we wanted to put offers in on. So last night we signed all the paperwork and are now waiting to hear. It didn't take long for some of them, we are already down to 4 houses. One house has already accepted someones offer, and the other one is not taking offers under their asking price (which is more than we have). So, 2 down 4 to go. Hopefully we will have better luck with the rest. I am just glad we are on to the next step. I enjoyed looking at houses but I am ready to move in to one already! Not much going on other than houses right now. Everything else is pretty quite.

Life

I can't believe April has already come and gone! I swear the last month has flown by. It seems like every day there are 100 different things that have to get done and time is just flying by. All in all things are going well and nothing new is going on. Austin is running around everywhere. He is so content to just walk around the house, play with his toys and chase the kitty. He thinks my big belly is funny. When I am laying on the couch he loves to come over and lift up my shirt and touch my tummy. Then he always runs away laughing. I am so excited to see how he interacts with Kate once she gets here. As for Kate, the doctor says that everything is looking good. We are still set for June 14th to be the due date which is good and bad. Schools around here don't get out until June 13th...so it's good that if she comes when she is suppose to then school and finals will be over...but it's too close for comfort. I am trying to get my students to start prepairing early for finals so if Kate decides to come early I don't leave anyone out to dry.

Devon is doing really well. Work is officially in the full swing of things. He has a lot of projects he is working on and right now he is trying to sell, sell, sell. With the market being in the slump that it's in, landscape isn't the first thing people but their finances toward but Devon has been really blessed and has been able to sell some good jobs. He is getting really excited for me to have Kate. He told me the other day that "If all our kids turn out like Austin I want to have a lot of them...not that I think you can handle it...but I would be okay with it" I was like - thanks - I think I can handle it ...but we will take it one at a time thank you very much.LOL Devon is also the scoutmaster in our ward now so he is gearing up for the summer. They are starting to plan camp outs and different hikes and activities. Over Memorial Day weekend our ward is having a Father and Sons campout and he is going to take Austin and go. I'm really excited, I'm not sure what I will do all by myself but I am sure it won't be that hard to figure out. Devon also was able to get 10 permits to climb Mount Whitney. So the second week of July they are going to take 3 days and hike it. He has been talking about it forever and is really excited for it. As part of his Christmas money he bought a new hiking pack and for our Anniversary I bought him a new mummy bag. It just fuled the fire, he talks about the hike to any and everyone. I am excited that he is getting the change to do it...even though it's like 3 weeks after I have the baby - and over my 25th Birthday - but I am sure he will make it up to me (yeah right)

As for me I am doing good. I feel good although I can tell I am more tired. Some of it is due to me being in my third trimester but most of it is because I can't sleep at night. I am usually awake for at least 2 hours in the middle of the night - just laying there going crazy. I need to find something to do when I wake up but I don't know what. If anyone has any suggestions I would love it. We don't have t.v. which is what I would do before I had Austin. Good mindless t.v. is always a nice distraction in the wee hours. But that option is out and movies never appeal to me. Books don't last because I start them in the middle of the night but then spend all the next day reading it then have nothing left for the next night. I don't know. Tutoring is going well. It was slow this week because everyone had the STAR testing. I know that final project and tests are going to be comming up quickly so I am bracing for that. I finished my first big vinyl project! I finally cut the vinyl for my father in laws truck. They put it up and say that it looks great. I'll post pictures when I get them. I am also inches away from opening my etsy store. I have a few more things to get in order but I am seriously hoping by the end of the weekend it will be up.

As for the family. Right now house hunting is our #1 thing. We finally got our preapproval and have looked at tons of homes - at least 30. There are some that we really like - one that I love and others that would work. I believe we are going to look at some one last time this weekend and then put in several offers. Along with house hunting this past week we were also doing a show with PBS. They are doing a piece on affordable housing options - and the company we are getting our loan through is one of the companies that they were working with so we were chosen to be one of the couples that they taped. We went in on Monday and they taped us in the office with the loan counsler talking about our preapproval and the steps we took to get our loan through them, then yesterday we went "house hunting" with the main guy from PBS interviewing us as we walked through the houses. It was kind of fun. It will be interesting to see how it turns out. I believe they are going to air it on PBS on Friday June 27th. It's like at 9:30 at night. I guess it will be on their show "NOW on PBS" - I think that's what it's called. It will be fun for us to watch at least. Austin was really well behaved during both taping even though he was with strangers and weird cameras he did really well. I think that is about it for now. sorry the post was forever long.