Halloween!

So I have not blogged in a while and I forgot that you have to download the the pics in reverse order of how you want them to show up! So look at the pics from bottom to top, because thats how they were supposed to be put on. Anyway sorry for anther long delay in blogging and hope you all had a great Halloween!!!!

did not have any time to get a costume so I was a witch again, kennilee was a witch too, her hat fell in her face right when we took the pic!
Emmy LOVED trick-or-treating as you can see! See figured it out quick too, any one that was holding a big bowl she went hauling over to! 
                          strike a pose!
 she thought she was pretty cute stuff with her costume on!

                  My cute little tiger! Rarrrrr!

great quotes taken from em's blog :)

Anger and Love have no limits;
choose the latter to have a beautiful, lovely life.....

Things are to be used and people are to be loved,
but the problem in today's world is people are used and things are loved...
During the day, be careful to keep this thought in mind:
Things are to be used, but People are to be loved ...Be yourself....
This is the only day we HAVE. Have a nice day..

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits they become character; Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

vegas baby!

Last Tuesday my mom had to take her state boards for Nursing school in Las Vegas. She didn't want to be down there stressed out all by herself, and it was also my dad's birthday Tue, so she thought it would be fun to take the family and spend a couple days down there in our trend west. Her and my dad drove down on sun and me, Emmy, my sis and her family drove down on tue. We had a blast swimming everyday, playing rock band and eating really yummy dinners!

One of the nights there we decided to catch the shuttle and take the kids to see the lights and the M&M factory. The shuttle picks you up at trend west and drops you off at Caesars palace. well we get off the shuttle and try to decided what way the M&M factory is. We finally decide to head north and after walking quite a ways and not running into it we go into one of the shoppes to ask, and sure enough its all the way in the other direction!!! So we take off that way and about 30 min later we finally get there YAHOO! But now all the kids have fallen asleep! (I cant blame them it is already by this time almost 11 pm.) So we wake them up, buy them some M&M's and show them all the cool things. Now we have to haul butt back to Caesars palace to catch the shuttle at 11:45 pm cause the next one does not get there till 12:30 am!
We take off at a fast pace but have multiple obstacles in our way like drunk people that cant even come close to walking in a straight line, traffic lights that we have to wait for to cross the street, stairs that we have to carry strollers up and down etc....
We are about a block and a half away from the pick up spot and only five min to get there! My dad tells me to run there and see if I can get the shuttle to wait for them, so I take off running in the hot humid air get to the shuttle stop sweaty and out of breath only to find out that I just missed it by a sec! :( After everyone else gets there I tell them and we all head into Caesars palace to wait an hour and 20 min for the next shuttle.
long story short the shuttle finally came, we remembered that we didn't like the strip and we were all really happy to be off our feet and in our beds! We did all have a really good time and the best news of all is that my mom passed her state boards! She is now officially a registered nurse! GOOD JOB MOM WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!!!! YOU HAVE WORKED SO SO SO SO HARD!!!! X O X O X O

Cascade springs

Over the 4th of July weekend my mom, dad, and little bro Sharrod came up to Salt Lake for a nursing seminar that my mom had to speak in. While they were hear they thought they my might as well get Sharrods school shopping taken care of so on Friday we headed up to Park City and were shopping ALL DAY LONG! It was a long day but I was so proud of Emmy she was such a champ and did not make one peep all day long! Seriously not a single peep she was soooo good! On Saturday I took my mom and dad up to a place Dave and I had happened upon a week ago, called Cascade Springs. Its a really beautiful place made up of cascading waterfalls and crystal clear pools of water that you can see straight to the bottom and see all the fish swimming. Anyway we had a great time and here are a few pics from it.

Zoo 2009

So about a month ago we took Emmy to the Zoo to see all the animals. We took her about this same time last year when she was only 3 months old, we thought (or at least I did) That it would be fun to take her again now that she kinda knows what animals are. She seemed to have a lot a more fun this time, she liked the Elephants and the monkeys but her favorite seemed to be the merry-go-round, she loved it! and she thought she was pretty cool when her dad got down to let her ride it all by herself! She also got randomly kissed by four different little girls and different times while we were there. I don't know I guess she must have looked extra kissable that day ;)

Emmys 1st birthday!!!

I know its a little late posting this seeing as her birthday was 2 months ago! Sorry!
Emmy's 1st birthday turned out pretty good. There was not really a theme other then bright colors. We had some stinkin cute cupcakes thanks to my sister who insisted that we make them ourselves. I was all about going to the store and buying some but little sis said NO we can make some cute ones ourselves for way cheaper so I reluctantly agreed. We made the frosting with cool whip and neon food coloring so people would not get a sugar overload when they ate them. It was fun making them and everything was going great until the cake. The cake was originally supposed to look like a giant cup cake. We had the cool whip in the freezer to set up a bit so it would stay stiff enough to make the swirls, well we let sit a little too long so it had some parts that were frozen. Before we cut the tip of the bag to put the cool whip on the cake, we mushed it around a little first to soften up the chunks. When we were done and ready to put it on the cake I had Randi do it because she made better swirls then me while I went to work on the gift bags. Well she did a beautiful swirl job and it look like a cute giant cupcake. . . . for about two seconds, then it melted right before our eyes into a puddle on the cake!!! :(. I was very sad. There was not much we could do but put in the freezer to set again and make do with how it turned out, which was not to bad but the giant cupcake was much more cutter!
The next day we went to Ivins park for Emmy's party where we had cupcakes and played at the splash pad. Emmy made out like a bandit as far as gifts go thanks to Both her grandparents, her aunts and uncles, and my sweet friends Sarah, Emily and Val!
Thank you so much everyone for making Emmy's first birthday a great one!!!!

AMERICAN IDOL CONCERT

My dad got five free tickets to the American Idol concert at Tuacahn, so friday night was a girls night out!!! Me, Sarah and our little sisters Randi and Katie along with sarah's older sister Angie got all ready for the couple of hours of freedom!!!

The Idols who were on this tour were; Chikezie, Gina Glocksen, Melinda Doolittle, and Phil Stacy. They all did an amazing job, and we had a blast! Thanks for the tickets and the baby-sitting dad!!!

                                                           Off to the concert!

                                          Group photo; me, sarah, angie, katie, and randi
                                                            Say cheese!
                                                                   The little sisters :)
                                                                     Chikezie
                                                                     Gina Glocksen
                                                                  Melinda Doolittle
                                                                             Phil Stacey
                                                                      Phil & Chikezie
                                                                   All four of them

Easter and Family pictures

Easter was a blast! After church we all (my whole fam + my aunt and uncle and their kids + a few of their friends and Traci's whole family) went out to desert to hike, play, shoot guns, and ride various ATV's. Emmy absolutely loved to ride in the side by side Ranger, she would laugh and smile the whole time she was on it! We ate lots of food, had good company and played hard! 

Also a quick update on Emmy. She is now crawling everywhere and has two teeth on the bottom and is working on getting some more in. She loves to feed herself, her current favorite food is PBJ's and ice cream, She LOVES ice cream! (Its not pretty when it gets taken away from her!)

Other then that she is a very happy, healthy little girl.! 

just a couple of cute pics

These are just some cute pics I took while we were out playing in the yard the other day.

Emmy playing with her soccer ball
Brekken playing tractor boy on lunch break :)

Emmy riding around with papa on the tractor! She looks scared here but she was really having lots of fun before I came over with the camera.

St. Patrick's Day!

St.Patricks day 2009 Emmy and I spent in St.George hanging out with the fam and enjoying the warm warm weather! It was so nice to sit outside on the grass watch the kids play and get some fresh air! Later that evening we went over to Ben and Sarah's house (Some family friends) to have a St.Patty's Day dinner of corn beef and cabbage! It was great company and good food! By the way I don't know why this all went underlined, I could not get it off.

My beautiful girl!

I loved this pic of Emmys feet and our hands
Emmy and I saying cheese!
Aunt Randi and Kennilee relaxing on the grass
Kennilee and Emmy in their green
Emmy and I sporting our St. Patty's day attire! (Thanks again for my shirt babe!)
           At Ben and Sarah's house for a St. Patty's dinner of corn beef and cabbage

Father and daughter out at Utah Lake

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Emmy testing the water!

A few outings

So I have been a slacker on my blog again! Last month Dave's mom flew out here to see her kids and grand kids. It was nice to be able to spend some time with her and the rest of the family and to eat her great cooking! She made the best soup I have ever had! Thanks again Connie for all your help and yummy food! Other then that not a whole lot has been going on, just the regular boring stuff like laundry and dishes, yippee! A few hikes and our last outing, a cookout with some friends. It was pretty cold but we had fun. Dave, Amanda, and her kids waiting for the food

Dave watching his stew cooking

Emmy and I trying to keep warm!!!

Emmy sitting in tree all by herself like a big girl! (Don't worry Dave was standing by ready to catch her if she fell)

Emmy with her grandma Connie

Some Fresh Air!

After being couped up most of the winter, we decided to go for a little nature walk and to let coondog swim in the freezing cold river! It felt good to stretch our legs and the dogs loved it! Emmy and her dad, of course pulling a nerdy face :)

Emmy and I taking some shelter from the rain under a huge pine tree

Cooondog after his dip in the river with Dave and Emmy