A Quote

"Stop spending time with the wrong people. – Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you. If someone wants you in their life, they’ll make room for you. You shouldn’t have to fight for a spot. Never, ever insist yourself to someone who continuously overlooks your worth. And remember, it’s not the people that stand by your side when you’re at your best, but the ones who stand beside you when you’re at your worst that are your true friends." ~Unknown

Read this quote on a friend's Facebook status and it was just what I needed to read after griping about Christmas Day to my sis about our family. I'm sure you will find this useful to you too Jolie. Love you and all your great wisdom :). And for anyone else that reads this, I'm sure you will see how this applies in your life as well. Take it to heart, cause it could prevent a lot of foolish stress and unnecessary heartache.

Christmas Card time!

I've been so lazy in making up my mind on a Christmas Card for us.  After all, it IS Trevor's 1ST Christmas!  I want it to be cute and of course reflect his adorable personality.  I lost out of the 2 awesome discounts at Shutterfly.... so I'm thinking I might do one from Etsy.  Who knows.  There's still time, lol!  For those who won't get a Christmas Card...

Here's our newsletter:

The Wilson Family 

Markus, Jennifer, and Trevor 

Our Top 10 moments of 2011

#1: Birth of our first born, Trevor Christian on King’s Day, January 6th 

2: Taking (4) Generation pictures when Trevor was 3 weeks old (Papa, Pete, Markus & Trevor) 

3: Purchase of a newer more reliable car for Markus. I named her Candy, cause she’s red 

4: Blessing of our son, on the anniversary of Markus’ proposal 6 years ago to Jenn 

5: The morning we discovered Trevor slept through the night and has ever since at 3 ½ months old 

6: Watching our son pick his head up, smile, coo, roll over, laugh, sit up, crawl, cut teeth, pull up on things, and all the other things in between 

7: When Trevor got a new babysitter! 

8: Celebrating 6 years of marriage 

9: One more semester of Markus’ school after the fall semester 

10: The day Markus said we could try for baby #2! 

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Merry Christmas!

We are so looking forward to celebrating Christmas this year with our son Trevor.  I just love this time of year and it will be that much better with a kiddo around.  Start new family traditions.  Oh it's going to be great.  What are some of your family traditions?

11 Months! {1 Month 'til 1 Year!}

Yall!  My baby is 11 Months!  Seriously I'm in denial.  I can hardly believe in just one short (because of the holiday craziness) he will be 1.  1 year old that is:)!!!!  Ok I'll have write about this little man later.  'Cause I wanna cry!

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Oh Christmas tree! Oh Christmas tree!

Also on the day after Thanksgiving (after the game, as you can tell) we hopped on over to the big box retailer to pick us out a tree. We opted for a smaller one which is unusual, but it works and is still pretty ;).

I sort of dragged my feet on picking out a color scheme for my tree. Markus wanted blue of course! But last year was the blue tree as we awaited for the arrival of our son. And trust me for someone who doesn't really care for blue, I've had plenty of it this year! So I opted for red and silver. Why those colors? Well a couple of years ago (the year my tree fell over) Markus' sweet Papa gave me some of his wife's (Grandma Clara) ornaments. Do you remember the 80s soft stringy ornaments? Where if you had a hang nail it would ruin them. Well as I was looking through my ornaments and got the feeling like kids get on Christmas morning while opening presents when I saw them. Bright red in all their glory and memories of those who once so enjoyed them... And I knew that the tree would have red on it this year. I hadn't done red since 2009. I lost so Many of my favorite ornaments that year. Anyways so here's the tree less the topper cause idk about that yet. The one I have is too skinny to fit one the tree.

Black Friday shopping

I ventured out with Trevor about 8am to catch some deals at Old Navy for "Black Friday". It wasn't as crazy as I thought it would be. Until we got to the check out line. Lol! But that's another story. Managed to try on a fleece hat for Trevor and even snapped a pic cause it was so darn cute! (we had to buy it after trying it on)

That's how I roll

Trevor chillin' in the walmart cart