Wee Wilson Tales

I have said for sometime now that I was going to write this book. I finally wrote it and gave it to Mark and my mom this weekend. It is a story about a tree. We actually planted the tree the year Mark and Lisa got married. Daddy said that Mark was weed-eating to help get ready for the wedding (in our backyard) and weed-eated the bark off of the tree. According to Daddy, he chopped it down because he didn't think it would make it. But, a tiny spring came back up, and the tree survived. So, we have always referred to this as Lisa's tree. Coincidentally, the tree split right down the middle the night that we lost Adam. Thankfully, the tree survived. Mr. Ronnie Smith came and cut the really large limbs that were on the damaged side of the tree. He had no idea how special this tree was to me, but he saved it anyway! So, I am forever thankful to Mr. Ronnie! It is a beautiful site to see this tree turn green each spring and to see that it is still surviving. So, here is the story...

We had a wonderful rainy Easter celebration with our families. Ronin fell in the rain before we ever made it inside the church building. He sported a nice muddy sleeve on Easter Sunday. Jax apparently had one pants leg hiked up, and Gunnar twisted his tie to resemble some abstract art during bible class. Just a typical day in the Wilson house. :) We decided to hunt eggs on the patio and mom and dad's house. They had a blast!

We had a blast being together for Spring Break. I love being home with the kids. We mostly played in the yard, but I took them to Sardis one day to play at the lake. Then we went to Jackson with John one day and visited the Petrified Forest. I had gone as a kid, and I wanted to take the kids. It was the funniest thing, they had the exact rock collection in the gift shop that I got when I was a child!!! I couldn't talk any of my kids into wanting it...they each had picked out their own souvenirs.  Please stay on trail...ha!! They did pretty well...with constant reminding.  Jax is a people watcher! I watched him watching this group of kids. He just kind of kicked back and observed. I felt like I could see his mind working...once he decided he wanted to play with them, he inched his way closer...hoping someone would ask him to join. He wants to play with kids bigger than he is...and I so remember that feeling.  Gunnar did chin-u...

Well, when Jax blew out his candles last year...he wished that Grandaddy would take us to Wyoming. I love it when such fun wishes really can come true. Granddaddy did indeed take us to Wyoming. It was the first trip out west for my boys. We used to go every year after Christmas, but we haven't been since 2006 since I was pregnant with Jax. The highlight of the trip was showing our children places that they've heard so many stories about. Jax learned to ski, and did a great job! Gunnar was the most fascinated by the mountains. Ronin got to do a little sledding. However, it was bitterly cold. Our thermometer showed -13 in some of our traveling. The worst part of the trip was that my sweet Ronin got sick. He kept coughing which lead to gag/vomit almost every time. We went to the Beartooth Billings Clinic the first time (an amazing place!), and then to the emergency room the second time. He got the nebulizer treatment which helped tremendously. Watching your kid get...