It's a...

It's a baby!! Boy? Girl? We don't know, but we were sure excited to get a peek at the new addition to our family. Can't you already see how cute it is going to be?! That's the most adorable profile we've ever seen. Baby is due to arrive April 26th, and we couldn't be more thrilled. Peter wants a boy, but Leslie has a sneaky suspicion that it's girl... Any votes? We can't wait to find out - which will be (hopefully) some time around Thanksgiving.

Go Cougars!!

We made the long drive down to Arizona last weekend to see the Cougars open their season against Arizona. As you can see from the picture, the stadium was quite the sea of red. We had our own BYU cheering section of about 30 people (we were pretty out numbered...), and the game turned out to be extremely close. Our poor cougars lost by a field goal in the last second of the game. We had a great time anyways, and we were glad to see that BYU beat Tulsa today. Go Cougars!


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It's about time!!

I did it!

I graduated from BYU!!

And it's about time too... There was a time out for a mission, and a little extra time to do an internship, but I'm finally finished. I graduated! Adam finally made it as well (Peter says it only took him a year shy of a decade :) - little does he know it only took Adam a year longer than me... shhhh... don't tell Peter)

Spencer arrived ready to celebrate the occasion in cap and gown as well. He was so cute! He made sure to wave at everyone that passed by, and clapped extra hard when his daddy walked. He was also sure to provide entertainment when the ceremonies got a little long.

We were so glad to have Dad Wride come all the way from Spain! He was gracious enough to provide the celebratory graduation lunch (thanks again! :) in between my 8 am graduation and Adam's 5 pm graduation. It was a long day... Grandma Wride was such a good sport and came to spend the whole day with us as well. We were so glad to have her support and cheers as we walked across the stage!

It was a great day. It felt good to officially graduate- cap, gown, tassel and all - even though I had to get a sub for two days to do it. Sigh... it's back to work on Monday.

Happy Easter!

We've got to get this thing going again! It's been a long time since we've updated...
















We made the long drive to Arizona to meet up with the Greenberg side of the family for a big Easter get-together. The Donohue group drove in from California, Rachel and Eric picked up Grandma from St. George, and the rest of the family was already there.



On Friday night we went to the Pageant on the temple grounds. And we all went through the Mesa Temple with Dallin and Rachel on Saturday - we got to be the witness couple :) The Mesa Temple was absolutely beautiful. It was so cool to have some many members of the family that were able to go inside.


We got to play with babies, play cards, enjoy family - we even had Rodizillo style meat for Easter dinner, compliments of Erik and Amy (it was DELICIOUS!). Of course there were lots of Easter eggs to dye...








Only two more weeks till Rachie's wedding, and we can't wait until everyone gets to come out here!

Christmas Wishlists

As requested, here are some Christmas wishes for 2008:


Harrison

Loves anything that has to do with balls, cars, trucks, planes, and trains. He's all boy, and would be thrilled to have anything that has anything to do with any of those items. Mommy thinks he would particularly get a kick out of this:


It's the Shelcore Shake 'N Bobble Hazard Highway. He would love it, not to mention the track is wide enough that his other cars can fit on it too. (click on it to see more pics)

He would also like...

some big fat building blocks

Any Leap Frog toys





Tonka cars (they make little and big ones - he would love either)



BOOKS. Cannot stress how much he loves any and all books. Board books with pages that can't rip are best! (both Mommy and Daddy are REALLY tired of reading the books we have now... this would be a good one!!)

He is wearing size 18 month clothes.

Puzzles, shape sorters, or anything that has to do with putting things in the right place. He's all about that kind of stuff.

DISNEY MOVIES! We hardly have any, and he's just getting old enough that he'll watch them.




Peter

Watch (would like a really nice self winding one, but needs a cool casual one too)

Brown belt

Suit (grey or green or dark blue pinstripe)

Play station 3 (with NCAA football)

BYU polo

BYU hat

Tennis racket

Gym membership

Season football tickets

Casual shoes

Work shirts

Slacks for work

Jeans

BYU golf head covers

GPS

Shaver

Digital picture frame

Scarf

Swimming suit

Golf shoes



Leslie

Rectangular crafting table (like a folding table)

Earrings

Cute necklaces

Winter coat

External hard drive

Cricut EXPRESSION machine

VACUUM (for reals)

Any TiVo or DVR that will record the shows we watch

Casual shoes

Jeans

Willow Tree figurine: “Our Gift” or “Angel of Mine”

More pieces to my nativity set (Peter can tell you what I'm missing)

Dishes

Bedding

Gift certificate to JoAnne’s

Firewire cable (or whatever you need to attach the video camera to the computer)

The fish have been replaced

There is yet another new addition to the Wride house...


Say goodbye to the Tercel and say hello to the new Ford Fusion!! Peter somehow managed to say goodbye to the Terk, (he missed it so bad that we drove by to visit it the next day in the nursing home.) and welcomed into the family the car of his dreams. It's black on black, really fast :) and exactly what we wanted. We absolutely love it!! Peter would sleep in it if Leslie let him. Since Peter only goes to Provo 3 times a week, that means Leslie gets to drive it to work every once in a while too and she even got to drive it home from the dealership. What a guy!!


Peter is trying hard not too think he is too cool in the Fusion :) Here are a few snapshots of our new baby...

Happy Halloween!!

To get ready for Halloween, we got together with Adam, Marie, and Spencer, and Lizzy, Andrew, and Jaxson to carve pumpkins!! It was so much fun! Our pumpkins didn't turn out quite as amazing as Amy and Erik's, but at least we had fun making them. Poor Lizzy, her house was a disaster when we finished! Halloween is so much more fun with little kids around.


Speaking of little kids, Halloween was a big hit at Midvale Elementary School.
Candy + costumes + kids = mass chaos in the second grade. I took my camera so I could take a picture with my kids, and as the bell rang and all my kids were leaving I realized that I forgot to use it... (too many other things to think about with 18 seven year olds running around). I had to go out and find some of my kids in the hall so that I could at least have some pictures of my first Halloween in the schools (aka proof that I survived).



I didn't want my kids whining all day about how their teacher didn't dress up for Halloween, so I had to dress up. The only thing Peter and I could think of it the wee hours of the morning before school started was this. Just call me coach! Believe it or not, my kids loved it. Seven year olds are so easy to please. We didn't get any trick or treaters that night, so it was nice to be a part of the Halloween excitement.

Hope you all had a good Halloween!!