SEE PICTURES OF JESSICA!

This is a picture that some Delta employees (thus the logo) took of us at the Pioneer Day parade on the 24th. Evelyn was too engrossed in the parade to pay attention to the camera. Oh well, at least Jess looks cute!

Hey, if you want to see how cutely pregnant Jessica is, click on the link for 'Is that a Tumor?' I decided to post her pictures there so that you could track the progress of her growing belly and my shrinking one (kind of)! Enjoy!

The Man Who Loved to Dance

Okay everyone, this is it... the long awaited Matt movie. If you have a hard time finding Matt, he's just to the right of the circle on the center court line, second from the back. Enjoy! Who knew Matt was such a funky little white boy?

i am bored

guys i am really bored because every day i cheak the blog and there always the same blogs. so then i look at the comments, and guess what there the same ones. so who ever writes the next blog dad will give 30$ to that wonderful person. yeah right i wish, but really i dont know about you guys but we need some of you to start writing again like you guys uset to.. well i am going to bed and remember 30$ dollars is waiting for one of you.

My Dog is Dead

So I went mission shopping today. I wouldn't recomend it to any of you, unless you like being bored and you want to be poor. I did how ever get some killer hiking boots.(There water proof). Well anyways we finally got a Jacuzzi, yeah it's pretty neat. It's really big, probably 10 feet deep. Wait never mind thats just the pool thats really really hot. But if you sit in the shallow part and close your eyes real tight and think real hard you can almost feel and hear the faint sound bubbles in the pool... And then you really can't tell that your in a pool.
So Nana is really getting old. The other day I went out side to frolic with her in the grass like I do every afternoon, but she was asleep, or so I thought. I called to her a couple of times, "Nana Nana come play with me." but she didn't get up so I peg her with a ball and she still didn't move. Could it be, is Nana really dead, I yelled in horror, "My Dog Is DEAD!". what happend after that I don't really remember because I fainted. When I woke up Nana was still alive. I think we should all take a guess what month and year she might die in. Winner gets to dig the hole. I guess April 2007. If I win I'll be on my mission so just put her in the freezer till I get home.

A Bun In The Oven

As you can see Jess is finally starting to show! She, of course feels like she is as big as an elephant, but you and I can tell that she is still cute as a button and only really growing in her mid-section, and even then it is a good kind of growing.

We will be tracking her progress each week so follow along! I will be posting my 'tumor' pictures on my other blog so be sure and check those pictures out each week too! Our new pictures will be posted late Sunday evening each week so don't miss out! Does anybody have some cute baby names they're willing to share?

Home alone

My dear children,

I am here all alone this morning and decided to check my email and the blog....I wish I had something incredibly interesting to say....I don't...just a lot of reflecting....these last few days have been eye opening to me.

Yesterday, Nellie left for EFY, Brad went to work and I went to the temple with Dad. The day sped by and Bryan and Jen came by with "Mr. Cute as a button", they even stayed for dinner. I had forced Brad to make dinner to see if he could survive on at least meal for his mission....he made biscuits and gravy with a tiny little bit of help from me...and it was good food. But soon Bry and Jen needed to get home and left with my fun entertainment (Carter), Brads friends called so the movie he was watching turned off and he was gone too, and Dad and I were left alone. No one to pick up or check on or help or encourage to do the dishes....it was 7:30.

Dad had to go to the hardware store and asked if I wanted to go....not really.....there was a list a mile long that could have been done and that needed to be done with Relief Society, cleaning, laundry, even the long list of projects I have wanted to do for the last 26 years. But I just sat on the Love Sac in a blanket....... thinking, remembering, realizing.

I realized that so much of what I enjoy doing the very most and who I am is so wrapped up in you my children. Each of you are what I enjoy the most. Each of you....are parts of what makes me feel whole. I love being with you....I love hearing how you are...talking to you...what I can do for you. Being your mother is truly where I find my happiest moments.

Now I can only imagine what you are thinking..Mom is obsessed, she needs to move on. Let me assure you that I know you are all independent, wonderful people....some of you have grown into some of the very finest adults I know, despite me. I know that children grow up and go on missions, and/or get married and begin such incredible chapters in their own lives. And that is as it should be. I am truly happy for that, but there are times I still miss having right here....I shall always look back at that time when you were all home with great fondness and amazement that we all lived through it all. I also know that it is not all over yet, that the "three little girls" are still home with us for a short time...thank goodness. That my "mothering of children at home" chapter is not over yet. But, I do know that it speeding to an end. And the chapter of "loving of children grown and gone...the 'other' mother of extraordinary people joining our family through marriage...and grandmothering of the most beautiful and wonderful of little second generation Wyeths" has begun. I want to do it well, I want this chapter to be as sweet and wonderful and as full of happy memories as the past chapter. It is a learning process, a growing experience, I am learning alot about myself. Be patient with me.

Thank you for being who you are...you are each so remarkable.

Lots of love,
Mom

Is that a Tumor?

Well, the truth is out. No amount of sucking in or camouflaging myself in vertical striped clothing can stop the world from knowing my secret: I need to lose weight.

Now before I go any farther, let me state categorically that this is not about how much I weigh. This is about me being unhealthy and having a gut that puts me at greater risk for things like diabetes, heart disease, and various forms of cancer.

I have tried to become healthier on my own several times and each time I failed miserably. I believe that I failed because there was not a system of accountability in place.

Teachers send home report cards so that parents can track the academic success or failure of their child and then provide the appropriate motivation and encouragement to improve their performance.

In like manner, I have created a blog called “Is that a Tumor” that will act as my “health report card” to you. It will track my progress at losing weight and becoming healthier.

Now, the only way that this will be successful is if you all visit the blog and post comments. I have added a link to the blog on the right hand side of the screen called “Is that a Tumor.” If you click on the link, it will take you directly to the new blog. I hope you all get a few laughs out of it. Thanks!
-Ben

poms poms

matt backus pro cheerleader

I thought I would just tell everyone that I just saw Matt in a little mini cheerleader skirt on a video that I just saw. Matt's friend, Devin Ashby, lives up here in Utah and knows Jess and Ben. He's the one who brought over the movie where Matt is in a cheer outfit, doing a routine. It was so funny to see Matt doing kart wheels and back hand springs in a skirt. We are trying to get the movie on the blog, but its a video. We're trying to make it into a DVD. Well Matt, I hope you're okay with me telling our family. Anyways, I have to go, talk to you guys later.

A Word from Dad

I am Posting this on behalf of Pappy.

Dad Wyeth -
I've never been good at guessing or winning games and contest. In fact the only prize I ever won was from a free raffle ticket I got when my dad took us kids to the grand opening ceremony of a new bottling co. in Corpus Christi TX, I think I was 11 at the time. The guy next to me won a new car and I got the consolation prize of a case of diet Dr. Pepper, how sad is that.

The thought has also crossed my mind that there are only two possible guesses in this game: boy or girl. Since there are a bunch of entries, the odds are good that whoever wins the lottery so to speak will have to share the prize with multiple winners. Oh well in the spirit of it all I'm going to guess "healthy baby boy", and just too prove I'm not greedy, I promise to share my spoils (favorite candy bar) with Maureen and the Wyeth kids who still live under the grey roof, if I win. Of course, if I loose, I'll contemplate sueing the winners like most of the liberal left does when they loose. That's better than King Henry the 8th who had his wife's head cut off when she failed to produce male offspring on her first try. Just kidding! I'm excited for Ben and Jess and whatever gender the child is, it will have a great home where love rules and that is the best prize.

Dad Wyeth

It's the Baybee

I guess that I'll write a little blog as well. Well, what do I say, I guess I have a fifty-fifty chance of guessing right, so I'll leave it in the hand's of the all-mighty quarter... Boy.
If the all-mighty quarter has spoken truthfully, then I will be requiring a Violet Crumble candybar. Good luck trying to find that one.
Jon

It's the Baybee II

I Guess that the baby will be a girl. Butterfinger is my fav. candy bar.
Naomi