Dave , Robin & Emmy

halloween 2011

2011-11-12T20:22:00.000-08:00

AF canyon outing

2011-08-22T14:31:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday after church Dave, Emmy and I went up American Fork Canyon to fish, swim, kayak and ride a dirt bike for Dave's last weekend before school. We bought Emmy her own little fishing pole which she was super excited about! She informed me she was going to catch Fido for Kennilee. Fido is what we named our Beta fish that we left for Kennilee to take care when moved, who came to an unfortunate end after being fed a little too much! (the entire tank was full of food you could not even see the fish! He died the next day and kennilee was very very upset!) So Emmy was determined to catch Fido and bring him back to Kenni :-).
It was a really nice day and we had a lot of fun even though we did not catch Fido.

Emmy getting a fishing lesson

ready to fish

on a kayak ride with dad

swimming in the lake

on a kayak ride with mom

my little fisher woman

The Zoo 2011

2011-08-22T13:48:00.000-07:00

So I have taken Emmy to the zoo every July since she was born. This year we did not not make it until August. We had a lot a fun and Emmy really loved the dinosaurs they put up around the zoo that move and make noise, It was pretty cool.

on the train

watching the monkeys

T-Rex

2011-05-01T17:12:00.001-07:00

To see the bridals hit older posts at bottom of page

The Wedding

2011-05-01T12:47:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures from the wedding. There were lots more that I wanted to put on but felt like I was already getting carried away :-). Thank you everyone for all your love and support and help with everything. It turned out beautiful!

The Reception Room

The Flowers

Flowers

The Cake

The Rings

The Bouquet

The Flower girls helping each other get ready :)

Rusty my little ring man!

The Flower Girls!

My Dad walking me down the isle

The Ceremony

The Kiss

With my parents

With Dave's parents

The Whitmer's (all but Grant, Clark, little Clark and Penny)

Jack, Emmy & Kenny

Me and my grandpa Rainey & Emmy

Daddy's Girl

My brothers ( all but sharrod)

My sister the maid of honor

Something was pretty funny!

All my siblings (except sharrod)

Sending a message to Sharrod on the recorder

Me and my little Rusty Roo

Randi & Kenneth

Rem & Traci

Tonya & Dre

The little pregos

Me and all of my sisters!

Good family friends the Beers

Me and Anna

Jenny, Me and Shera

Me and my favorite cousin Ashley

Dave and I with my Grandma & Grandpa

Grandma Rainey

The best of friends

Emmy

Strike a pose!

cutting the cake

Very tasty and beautiful cake! Thank you Sheri Bodell!!!

2011-05-01T11:14:00.001-07:00

Bride & Groom

2011-04-29T14:27:00.000-07:00

So With Dave having work and school he did not really have time to come for pictures. So we only had a half hour to take these real quick!

2011-04-29T14:22:00.001-07:00

Bridals

2011-04-29T13:47:00.000-07:00

2011-04-29T13:33:00.001-07:00

Photo session

2011-03-13T23:15:00.000-07:00

My mom took us out last weekend to shoot some family and engagement photos, here are a few of them.

she is too cute!

strike a pose!

2011-03-13T23:09:00.001-07:00

quick catch up of January

2011-02-04T15:07:00.000-08:00

January was lots of fun Emmy and I got to go to the zoo with my dad which was kinda cool cause there is hardly any people there and the animals were a lot more active. I don't think i have ever seen the wolves out at the zoo until I went this time, also all the cats were more active. Anyway we had fun and Emmy got to try her first icicle which she loved !!!! We also celebrated Ken's 25th Birthday on the 15th and my 29th (Yikes!!!) birthday on the 21st. My good friend Emily took me out to dinner and a movie for my birthday on Friday and on Saturday My family took me out to dinner at Applesbees :-) Dave and my family all chipped in to get me a nook color which I LOVE!!!! Thank you !!!! I love you guys!

We also had a week and half of warm weather which we took full advantage of ....the kids loved it and so did we!!!

at the zoo with papa

emmy's first icicle

lookin good!

Kenneths birthday
Happy Birthday!!!

Ahhhhh the sunshine!

Makin some dinner

workin on the car

Emily and I after a girls night out for my b-day

Back to normal again

with my fam and my yummy ice cream cake!

My Nook Color!

christmas day 2010

2011-01-11T14:09:00.000-08:00

Christmas eve after the kids had went to bed we hung up sheets to block the living room so the kids could not see inside or get to the presents until after we had our traditional Christmas breakfast! So after a yummy breakfast of delicious omelets and cleaning it all up, we had the kids line up at the sheet until we took it down. Then they all sat on the ground while papa came out in his musical Santa hat and did a little jig for them :) the kids thought it was great and all wanted to have a turn wearing the hat and imitating papa's dance, it was fun to watch. We usually have some order to opening presents but this year there was just way too many little kids for that to be possible! After all that mess was cleaned up, well most of it, we went down stairs to play the new xbox kinetics. It was really fun to do and gave you a workout and quite funny to watch! The rest of the day was spent playing games, chatting, and of course eating :)
It was a great Christmas and so fun to have just about everybody there.

2011-01-11T13:54:00.001-08:00

Christmas Eve 2010

2011-01-11T13:30:00.000-08:00

Christmas eve we had lots of fun playing bingo and eating a very yummy stake dinner and opening our christmas eve pj's

2011-01-11T12:49:00.001-08:00

New Years Eve

2011-01-03T14:57:00.000-08:00

I know this is a little backwards posting new years before christmas but im still waiting for some christmas photos to get loaded on the computer and did not want to get to far behind. So here it is New Years Eve.
For New Years we all went over to Shelly's house for some really really really yummy dinner! Seriously I hurt myself I ate so much! Thank you Shelly for having us over and feeding us. After that (As sad as it is) we all went home and just watched a movie. I dont think any of us made it to the New Year! Im pretty sure we all fell asleep until I got a text from one of my friends that woke me up at 12:06, I then woke up Dave and said Happy New Year and then fell back asleep. :) Sad Im getting so old! I still thought it was a pretty good New Year spent with the ones I love.

2011-01-03T14:45:00.001-08:00

All the Rain!!!

2010-12-31T15:18:00.000-08:00

Some pictures of all the crazy rain in St. George!

Waterfalls coming off the Red Mountain

Normally bone dry

Kennilee's 2nd Birthday party!

2010-12-19T19:48:00.000-08:00

A birthday full of pink, purple and lots of frill! Kenni had a Hello Kitty themed birthday party which was very fun. We had pizza, cake and ice cream and played pin the tail on the donkey. Kenni got a lot of fun gifts and loved being the center of attention :) She is such a cutie but definitely knows how to hold her own! Happy Birthday Kenni!

The Birthday Girl

Very excited!

Emmy waiting for the party to start

After playing pin the tail on the donkey

Eating yummy pizza!

Rusy is loving the food

Kenni with some of her gifts

Sharrod's farewell !

2010-12-14T12:25:00.000-08:00

November was a busy month for all of us we had 2 birthdays to celebrate (Brekken and Sawyer turned 3!) then thanksgiving which I forgot to take pictures of but it was really really yummy!!! And then my little brothers farewell... A sad and happy day! Im so excited for him and so proud of him but at the same time sad we wont get to see him for two years, not to mention Randi and I lost our best babysitter ever!
Sharrod got called to the Sao Paulo Brazil mission. We had his farewell on the 28th of November and dropped him off at the MTC on Dec 1st. He has been in the MTC for 14 days already and he says its been a lot harder then he thought it was going to be but he loves it and likes both of his comps. he has 2 right now. He says he is picking up the language really well but is not to fond of the food :)
Here are some pictures of his farewell.

the gathering

all the yummy food

Cafe rio style salads!

Emmy with her uncle Sharrod

last whole family pic for two years!

The siblings

The brothers

us being dorky doing our impression of a slow motion run, lol wow we are special!

siblings again

Sharrod excited for Brazil!

Me, Dave & Emmy

Emmy and Santa!

Halloween!!!!

2010-11-05T21:25:00.000-07:00

Okay I have lots to catch up on but I thought I should at least hurry and get the Halloween pics up before it was way to late for that. :) For Halloween Emmy was a fairy but if you ask her she says she was a butterfly :). We missed the trunk or treat because we were up north so we just made our rounds in the mall. By the time we were done Emmy had plenty of candy so we called it good, what can I say we were kinda burn outs this year for Halloween!

beautiful girl

trick or treat with dad

ooooh scary ghosts!

on a mission

discussing strategy

my little fairy

best buds

brekken and emmy

zoo 2010!

2010-10-03T18:19:00.000-07:00

I have enjoyed taking emmy to the zoo since she was a baby, this is our third trip to the zoo. Her first she was only 3 months then again at about a year and now at 2 1/2. It has been fun to watch her get more interactive and interested with all the animals.

3 months

about 1yr

almost 2 1/2

then

now

I think her favorite things were to chase the peacocks and turkeys, the carousel and of course ice cream! She did also like the monkeys, there was one monkey that kept posing for me and always made sure he had his lip up against the fence when he would get into a new pose, it was very entertaining!

2010-10-03T17:29:00.001-07:00

The Circus!

2010-10-01T20:34:00.000-07:00

On the 10th of September Dave, Emmy & I took off to Vermont to visit his parents and grandma. I unfortunately left the dang camera in the car that we drove to Salt Lake! I was so mad at myself! So the only pictures we have from Vermont are on our phones which I still have to down load to the computer. So you will hear more about the Vermont trip when I post those pictures. Anyway on our way back from Vermont we stayed in Salt Lake for about a week and were lucky enough to go and see the elephant parade and the circus all thanks to my lovely Aunt Roslyn :) Thanks again Aunt Roslyn!

waiting for the elephants

Me Emmy & Grandma Rainey

Emmy's clown nose!

The elephants are here!

The Circus

The elephants

motorcycle on a high wire with lady on trapeze underneath

Elephant caring a dog in a basket in its mouth

Say Cheese!

7 people on motorcycles in this cage! It was crazy!

Dave, Emmy, me, Aunt Roslyn & Morgan

Amazingly strong and flexible brothers

Crazy super bendy chicks that later all 3 fit into a small box!

Zion hike "Three Ponds"

2010-08-10T13:50:00.000-07:00

A couple of Saturdays ago me Dave and Emmy headed up to Zion national park to go on hike and get some fresh air! After parking the car we jumped on the shuttle to the trail head, about half way there it starts raining. I was like yahoo! I love the rain and was glad it was going to be nice and cool. Dave on the other hand was not thrilled at all seeing as he hates the rain and was seriously reconsidering the hike. It took a min but i finally talked him into it, after he made me renegotiate to a shorter hike. It was beautiful! All the colors were more vibrant it smelled great and there was some really cool thunder to go along with it all! Emmy did awesome for her first bigger hike and did not get tuckered out till halfway down on the way back! I don't know if you can tell from the pics but we got pretty wet, it was so worth it though! Dave even admitted that it was actually pretty nice to have the rain to cool you off and that it was not as bad as he thought
it was going to be.

While you were out!

2010-07-04T14:30:00.000-07:00

My parents have always put our kids needs before any of their own, also the remodeling of all the rooms in the house except their own! Needless to say their room was in desperate need of remodeling, a place they could come home from work and relax in, somewhere where they could escape from all the ciaos in their house caused by a few of their darling grand kids :). So when my parents decided to be chaperons for my little brothers graduation Cruise, where they would be gone for a week. It was the perfect time to do a little while you were out of our own. So all of siblings decided to pitch in some money and redo their bedroom while they were gone and surprise them with a nice birthday/anniversary gift.
The second they left on Sunday morning we all got to work emptying out their bedroom and scraping the ugly cottage cheese texture off the ceiling! The next couple of days were filled with sanding furniture, painting it, ripping up carpet and tack board, painting painting and more painting, organizing their closet, doing all their laundry, cleaning and shopping for the things we needed to complete the room. All while trying to keep tabs on the kids, keeping them fed, happy and out of messes, okay so we were not so good at keeping them out of messes seeing as one day they decided to get in the pantry and dump flour all over them selves and the entire upstairs! That was a fun one to clean up! Not to mention the air conditioner decided to freeze up on the second day and only worked about 40% of the time so we were all roasting!

We were still finishing up the final touches, getting the rest of the house in order and dinner ready when we got the call that they were in Vegas! Needless to say we finished with everything about 15 to 20 min before they got home. All of us but Randi and Rusty hid in our parents bedroom to take pictures and video them while we all yelled surprise when they opened the door. Randi was there to ensure they came into the bedroom at the same time by telling them that Brekken had fallen asleep on their bed waiting for them to get home, and they had to go peek in on him and see how cute he looked :).

They came in and we all yelled surprise and Happy Birthday! My dad started laughing and my mom started to cry. Then we had my oldest brother Andre read them the poem that we had him write for them and then framed it to hang in their room.This is how the poem went.

Love of a Parent
As a parent you gave your love, you give your heart
You give everything you have from the very start...
As our parents you showed kindness by lovingly serving others
You showed patience with every forgiving kiss
Remember who you are and what you represent
This is what you taught
As your kids, even though sometimes it may not show
We take your wisdom with us no matter where we go
So today we celebrate you, our parents
Today we give our love, today we say thank you!
For all the love and support, for all that you do
WE LOVE YOU MOM and DAD
This is the best family a kid ever had.

All of our hard work was so worth it just to see the look on our parents faces :) sorry there are not really any before pictures, my mom forbade me to put any up :)

Congratulations!!!

2010-06-17T11:55:00.000-07:00

My smart, handsome, and talented little brother Sharrod graduated from snow canyon high school!!! Wahoooooo! Congratulations! Unfortunately an hour before we were supposed to leave for his graduation I got a migraine and spent the rest of the day throwing up and missed the whole thing! Sorry sharrod but im so proud of you! Love U!

The big graduate!

Sharrod with both of his mom's and his dad!

Emmy turns TWO!!!!

2010-05-19T19:24:00.001-07:00

For Emmy's 2nd birthday we invited a couple of friends and went to the park for a bug themed party. Emmy has really been into bugs lately and so I thought it would be a fun party for both boys and girls.
I had Emmy in a yellow and black dress with a anntenna headband to make her a little bumble bee :)
I filled two casserole dishes with rice and hid some fake bugs in them and gave each kid a pair of tweezers to find the bugs with. Instead of cake and ice cream we had the cup of dirt dessert with gummy worms in it, yum! And for the party favors each kid got their own little bug collector kit filled with bug stickers, gummy worms and other fun bug stuff!
I cant believe I have a two year old already! Crazy how fast time flys!!! And she is definitely acting two!!!
Emmy loved all her gifts she got, thank you everyone for coming and thanks for all the gifts. Thank you grandma Connie for all the stuff you sent also! We love you everyone and hope you had fun!

A little spruce up for Emmy's room

2010-04-28T17:01:00.000-07:00

Emmy's room was pretty plain and boring and I did not have a ton of money to spruce it up, but thanks to the help of my good friend Val I was able to make it look a little better and only spent about 30$
Thanks Val for all your help1 ; )

Emmy's room before

couch, chair, pictures

bed, dresser,pictures

Emmy's room after

new wall deco, shelf

this was cheap and easy to make.

wood frames spray painted black with scrapbook paper inside

wood framed mirror I modge podged

shelf with pic

emmys favorite thing her butterfly hook and the hooks with her bows and necklaces

bed, dresser, and wire pic holders

Big bottle of baby powder + Kids = big white mess!

2010-04-21T16:00:00.000-07:00

So the other day I have Randi help me hang a couple of pictures in Emmys room real quick. The kids we have left sitting on the couch in her room watching a movie. A few min later Brekken comes into Emmy's room with suspicious looking white stuff all over him. Randi smells it and says oh shoot I think they got into the bottle of baby powder I just bought! I walk on down to Randi's room, open the door, and walk into a big white cloud of dust!!! I see Emmy jumping up and down on a once maroon couch that is now white, laughing as it makes big poofs of powder come up. Kennilee is also laughing as she continues to pour out more baby powder onto the couch to continue the neat effect!
Needless to say it took a while to clean up but Randi and Kenneths room still smells baby fresh!

You can still see some of the powder in the air in this pic

the informant

Mess maker #1

Mess maker #2

The air has cleared and the kids are upset their fun time is over!

quick family snap shot

2010-04-16T09:48:00.000-07:00

Since everyone was down for easter we thought we would get a quick family pic. The only day we could do it on turned out to be very windy and the kids were not up for it but at least we got everyone in :)

The whole Family!

one of the only pics emmy was smiling in :)

our fam ( with the windy hair look)

Emmy and I

Easter & Emmy's first big ouch!

2010-04-15T14:19:00.000-07:00

I love Easter! It is my favorite holiday! I love the colors, love the candy, love that time of year, and also love the meaning of easter!
This easter we went out saturday for a picnic some 4-wheeling and an easter egg hunt. The kids had a blast and I was surprised at how quick emmy caught on to the easter egg hunt. I showed her how to find the first one after that she was cruzin around picking up easter eggs, she made out with quite the loot!
On sunday we had a nice breakfast then let the kids out in the back yard to find their easter baskets and then listed to conference.
The following week Rem, Traci, and Traci's family came down from logan to hang out and play. One of the days we went out to a favorite spot of ours to paint ball ride 4-wheelers and shoot clay pigeons. We had been there for about a half hour when emmy started screaming over by the 4-wheeler, that someone had just got done ridding. I went over to see what was wrong, and she kept trying to brush her hand off so I looked at it to see if I could find what was wrong and sure enough her hand was red, white and starting to blister! The poor thing had touched the exhaust and burned the crap out of her poor little hand!
She screamed pretty good for the first hour and a half till we got it all bandaged up, then she was back to playing! All in all it was really good easter! Late Happy Easter everyone!

Saturday easter egg hunt

4-wheeling with dad and Annika

Brekken and Emmy trying to take figure out how to work the 4-wheeler

Sunday morning Emmy searching for her easter basket

Emmy & Dave with her easter basket

Emmy's first big boo boo, burns and blisters on her poor little hand : (

Walkin off the boo boo

Back to playin in the dirt! It takes more then that to stop this girl :)

Emmy Faces

2010-03-08T16:49:00.000-08:00

These are just some of the many faces Emmy has. These all happened with in a five min period, she cracks me up.

2010-03-08T16:48:00.001-08:00

The Farm Animals

2010-03-08T16:16:00.000-08:00

Just some pictures we took of the kids when we took them over to see the 4H club animals. Emmy absolutely loved it! She has no fear when it comes to animals and loves to be around them, which I love!

2010-03-08T16:15:00.001-08:00

Disneyland day 1

2010-02-24T12:26:00.000-08:00

The first day of Disneyland was the best. It was great to see all the kids reactions to the rides for the first time. Emmy loved any ride that went up into the air like the Dumbo ride and the spaceship ride. She also the loved the one kids roller coaster that we managed to sneak her on, (she was about an inch to short to ride.) She also loved Jasmine! she ran up to her, hugged her and would not let go! Which is weird because she has never even seen the movie Aladdin!?
We did mostly kids rides that day but did manage to get in space mountain, another one I wish I could have bought the picture for because of Dave's face, it was great! We ate a lot food that I'm sure is terrible for you but I justified it with all the walking we were doing :) And avoided all spinning rides! It was a great day and everyone was beat and ready for bed by the time we got back.

2010-02-23T16:27:00.001-08:00

Day 2 of Disneyland

2010-02-23T15:45:00.000-08:00

Day 2 of Disneyland was spent on the California Adventure side. We went on the Monsters Inc. ride then the Tower of Terror! Which was awesome! I think that was my favorite ride and Dave's face on that was priceless! I wish i could have gotten the picture! Then we went and saw the Aladdin show and did lots of other little rides in the bugs life side. Later that night we went to the bugs life little 3D show which was way cool, I recommend it if anyone is planning on going to Disneyland any time soon. Around ten everyone decided to catch the shuttle back to the hotel but me Emmy, Tonya, Sydnee and Anikka decided to head over to the Disneyland side and catch a few more rides. We left around 11:40pm our feet and backs were kill us and the kids were out cold!

2010-02-23T15:43:00.001-08:00

Day 3 of Disneyland!

2010-02-23T15:06:00.000-08:00

Day three of disneyland was just as fun as the first two. We ran over to California Adventure side to finish up a few rides over there like the buzz light year and a couple other smaller ones.Then off to Disneyland for It a Small World and toontown to see Mickey and Minnie's house and to race some cars and splash mountain. By the time we got done its about 8 pm and after three days everyone was beat and ready for the hot tub, hotel, and no more walking!!!

2010-02-23T15:05:00.001-08:00

Christmas and lots of catch up blogs!

2010-01-10T21:26:00.000-08:00

Wow I can't believe another Christmas and new year has already come and gone! Christmas was a blast this year! It was so fun to see the kids get excited and tear into their presents and stockings. Emmy loved the big huge bear that papa bought for all the grand kids to play with. She also loved her baby doll with its own diaper bag and car seat, she is quite the little mommy! New year we had a little fondue party at Shelly's house and played games. Believe it or not the kids stayed up the whole time and at midnight banged on pots and pans to bring the new year in, they thought it was pretty neat!
The rest of the blogs below are all my catch ups because I slacked again! So everything down to Halloween is all new posts. I hope everyone had a merry Christmas and a happy new year!!!!

2010-01-10T21:24:00.001-08:00

A night at temple square

2010-01-10T20:35:00.000-08:00

On a quick trip to salt lake, me, Dave, Emmy, and my mom, dad, and Sharrod stopped by temple square to see the christmas lights. It was beautiful as always and one of my favorite things at christmas time.

Lake Havasu

2010-01-10T20:12:00.001-08:00

On way back from Arizona we decided to stop at Lake Havasu to stretch our legs and eat some lunch. We had a blast and got to see some neat things too!

All of us stretching our legs at lake Havasu

The London Bridge

Walking across the London Bridge

A sinking gondola

Cheese!!!

Thanksgiving/Family Reunion in Arizona

2010-01-10T19:22:00.000-08:00

For thanksgiving we headed down to Arizona for a Hancock Family Reunion, that's my mom's mom's family. My Great grandma is an amazing woman who delivered and raised 14 children!!!! Any woman who can live through that should be given a Nobel prize along with a couple million dollars if you ask me! Needless to say the reunions are always very large even when everyone cant make it. It always amazes me how organized and smooth everything goes even with all those people! It was great to be able to visit and catch up with my grandma, aunts, uncles, and cousins I have not seen in a couple of years. The food is always amazing and there is always fun activity's going on every day. It was a great Thanksgiving full of food and tons of family!

2010-01-10T19:21:00.001-08:00

Brekken and Sawyers Birthday

2010-01-10T17:50:00.000-08:00

Brekken and Swayers birthday party at the park! There was cake, presents, lots of candy and of course all the cousins!Birthday boys and cousins
Emmy and Dave playing on the playground
Dave helping Emmy on the slider
Me and my cute sister-in-laws
Emmy taking a swing at the pinata
Grandpa with Emmy, Brekken, Swayer, and Kennilee

Hunting

2010-01-10T16:56:00.000-08:00

In October Dave's dad flew out to salt lake to go hunting with his boys. They assured him that that they would have the greatest hunting spot ever and that camp would be all set up before he even got there. Of course this did not happen. Instead he got loaded down with camping and hunting gear, dragged up the side of a very steep mountain with that slippery shell rock all over it at 2:30 in the A.M.! luckily they all made it up alive and had a good time and made some great memories.
Dave's dad loaded down with gear
The three mighty hunters (Dave with his dad and brother)
Dave sporting his hunting and camping gear
Mighty hunter with his kill (poor Bambi!)
Dave and his dad with another deer

buffalo & elk in springdale

2010-01-10T16:26:00.000-08:00

This is a Saturday in September that we all decided to hop in the car and drive up to Springdale (that little town right before you get into Zion National Park) for lunch at Oscars Cafe, they have really really good food! After lunch we walked down the street to show Emmy the elk and buffalo they have there. She thought they were pretty neat but lost interest as soon as she saw the cat. It was pretty cool though cause they have little bags full of pellets that you can donate a couple bucks for and feed them. I was surprised at how long the buffalo's tongues were!!!
Catching a bit to eat at yummy Oscars cafe Emmy really wanted to play with that cat!
Petting and feeding the elk
Me feeding the buffalo, who have really long tongues!

Halloween!

2009-11-02T19:43:00.000-08:00

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 :)

2009-08-21T11:05:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-07-25T20:53:00.000-07:00

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

2009-07-25T20:50:00.001-07:00

2009-07-25T20:49:00.001-07:00

Cascade springs

2009-07-08T19:36:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-07-08T19:35:00.001-07:00

Zoo 2009

2009-07-08T17:47:00.002-07:00

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 ;)

2009-07-08T17:47:00.001-07:00

Emmys 1st birthday!!!

2009-07-08T16:21:00.000-07:00

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!!!!

2009-07-08T16:19:00.001-07:00

AMERICAN IDOL CONCERT

2009-05-03T12:25:00.000-07:00

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

2009-04-20T10:37:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-22T13:09:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-03-22T12:36:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-14T09:28:00.000-07:00

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Emmy testing the water!

A few outings

2009-03-09T14:56:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-01-25T19:32:00.001-08:00

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

Stinkin cute pics

2009-01-25T19:13:00.000-08:00

These are just some cute pictures of Emmy that my mom took while we were sitting around visiting down in St. George for New Years

Brekken Giving Emmy kisses :P

MMMM I don't know about that outfit mom

This is my Happy face :-)

Cheese!!!

This is just a really pretty sunset we saw on our way to St. George

A little bit of christmas

2009-01-25T18:34:00.000-08:00

This year was Emmy's first Christmas! I would have to say so far her favorite things about Christmas are all the pretty lights and of course the wrapping paper. She was always more interested in playing with the paper then with her gifts :) Emmy playing in the ribbon

Emmy's cousins helping her unwrap her present

Dave and Emmy at the family Christmas party

A very excited Emmy after opening one of her gifts from Grandma Connie

sporting her Christmas eve pj's ( they say Naughty across the bum)

Emmy opening her Christmas eve p.j.'s

New Cousin!

2008-12-18T20:38:00.000-08:00

Monday Afternoon my little sister had her second baby, A little girl they named Kennilee. I tried to make it for the birth but she came to quick! I did not even make it Nephi before she arrived. She is beautiful and so little. We are glad she is finally here.

   Kennilee

   Kennilee as a gift
   Emmy gift wrapped
   Emmy and her cousin Brekken

a little jig

2008-12-12T14:56:00.001-08:00

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Dickens, Cabelas, wheeler farm

2008-12-12T12:39:00.000-08:00

Last week I went to St. George to help my sister in her booth at the Dickens Festival, it was pretty fun but lots of work. I also got to hang out with some of my friends who live down there. Then this week Dave and I have been finding stuff to do that does not cost any money but gets us out of the house. So far we have come up with going to Cabelas to look at the fish and other animals, and wheeler farm so that the dogs could also get out and run around for a bit. We had a great time and it was also fun to see all the lights.

Emmy meeting the fish at cabelas

Emmy trying on some antlers

Me and my two best friends Emily and Sarah at the Dickens Festival. (I don't usually dress like that, you had to be in costume when you worked at your booth. )

Thanksgiving!!!

2008-12-09T13:23:00.001-08:00

Thanksgiving at my parents house in St. George. It was great to be with family, almost everyone in my family was there except for my brother Andre and his family. I would have to say the best entertainment there was the kids! It was great to watch them interact with each other, and to see their expressions when they tried out new food. Emmy did not like the mashed potato's she would gag every time I tried to give her some, She did however love the jello salad :) Emmy eating Jello salad

Emmy and I waiting for dinner to start

Dave giving Emmy a carrot to suck on
Sawyer helped himself to the marshmallows he found in the pantry, he was going to town on them!
Papa entering the grand kids, Brekken thought this was pretty fun!
Uncle Rem showing Emmy and brekken how to make LOTS of noise on the keyboard
Finally everyone sitting down to eat at a very yummy thanksgiving dinner! Thanks mom and Kenneth!

2008-12-03T22:58:00.001-08:00

You Are Jasmine!

Independent and adventurous. You don't want much; just to break out of the guilded cage society has put you in and experience life to the fullest. Following orders isn't really one of your strong points, and you would rather live a life of poverty than being forced into something that you hate.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

CrAzY pIcS

2008-11-28T22:17:00.000-08:00

This is what can happen to you if you get too bored!!! So you better be careful :)

Not too bad just looking a little discolored
Now its starting to get a little crazy!
THAT IS JUST PLAIN SCARY!!!!!!
Ahhh back to normal again :)

Better late then never

2008-11-28T15:21:00.000-08:00

So I know its a little late to post Halloween pictures but I finally got them from my mom and I figured better late then never! We had lots of fun doing a trunk or treat. Dave had to work so he was not able to make it :( . Everyone in the fam decided to dress up last min.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Emmy the little lady bug, and I was a quick thrown together witch.

The fam from left to right. Jordan the fairy, tonya lady cop, Dre wanna be gangster, Dad A werewolf, emmy ladybug, me a witch, annika a witch sydnee a cat, sharrod spider man, kenneth a pirate, brekken a pirate, and randi a witch.
The three witches!!! Randi, me, my mom.
papa and grandma with brekken and emmy.

What do you get for $160,140?

2008-11-24T13:10:00.000-08:00

The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140 for a middle income family. Talk about sticker shock! That doesn't even touch college tuition. But $160,140 isn't so bad if you break it down. It translates into $8,896.66 a year, $741.38 a month, or $171.08 a week. That's a mere $24.24 a day. Just over a dollar an hour. Still, you might think the best financial advice is don't have children if you want to be "Rich".

Actually, it is just the opposite. What do you get for $160,140?
Naming rights. First, Middle and Last
Glimpses of God every day.
Giggles under the covers every night.
More love than your heart can hold
Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.
Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds and warm cookies
A hand to hold, usually covered with jelly or chocolate.
A partner for blowing bubbles, flying kites, building sandcastles and skipping down the sidewalk in the pouring rain.
Someone to laugh yourself silly with, no matter what the boss said or how your stocks performed that day.
For $160,140 you never have to grown up.
You get to finger-paint, carvepumpkins, play hide-and-seek, catch lightning bugs, and never stopbelieving in Santa Claus.
You have an excuse to keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh,watching Saturday morning cartoons, going to Disney movies, and wishingon stars.
You get to frame rainbows, hearts and flowers under refigerator magnet
sand collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas, hand prints set inclay for Mothers Day and cards with backward letters for Father's Day.
For $160,140 there is no greater bang for your buck,
You get to be a hero just for retrieving the frisbee off the garage roof, taking the trainingwheels off a bike, removing a splinter, filling a wading pool, coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs and coaching a baseball team that never wins but always gets treated to ice cream regardless.
You get a front row seat of history to witness the first steps, first word, first bra, first date and first time behind the wheel.
You get the be immortal.
You get another branch added to your family tree, and if you're lucky, along list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
You get an education in psychology, nursing, criminal justice,communications, and human sexuality that no college can match.
In the eyes of a child, your right up there under God.You have the power to heal a boo-boo, scare away the mosters under the bed, patch a broken heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever, and love them without limits, so... one day they will, like you,
love without counting the cost.
Enjoy your kids and grandkids!

-Author Unknown-

Thanksgiving with friends

2008-11-24T08:10:00.000-08:00

Every year we get together to have thanksgiving dinner. This year there were little ones there which made it pretty fun too. It was great to see everyone and get caught up. And I missed those who could not make it, hopefully next year!!!! Unfortunately I forgot to take any pictures until the end and some people had already left

Emmy getting acquainted with Austin and Carson

picture time with the kids, it was pretty entertaining :)

Slacker!

2008-11-15T11:53:00.000-08:00

I know I have been a slacker lately but here are a few post sorry they are out of order! I am also still waiting for my Halloween pictures. I left my camera at home so they were all taken with my moms. As soon as she e-mails them to me I will have them up :)

Third times the charm!

2008-11-15T11:17:00.000-08:00

Finally! The elusive (for Dave and I anyway) Fifth water hot springs! After three attempts we make it. After testing out the water, I take Emmy out of the backpack to change her into her swimming suite. As I am pulling her out I realize that she has very runny poop smeared all the way up her back!!! I mean all the way! It was disgusting! It took Dave and I a while to get her all cleaned up, but her onesie was a lost cause! There was no way that thing was ever going to be clean! Then there was the issue about how to pack it out of there, neither of us wanted to carry that nasty thing all the way back with us, so we berried it.
Now that we had that all taken care of we are finally able to relax and enjoy ourselves. The pools have varying degrees of temperatures. One is way too hot to even think about going into, a couple are hot tub hot, and then there is one that's like bath water hot. That is the one we sat in because we had Emmy with us, who loved it!
After about a half hour of relaxation another guy comes along with his dog to get in the pool just above ours. He says hi to us as he takes off his pack and shoes, then his shorts, and then everything else!!!! Yeah I guess a lot of nudist like to hike up there as well. luckily we had had our feel of the hot springs and were ready to take off!.
Aside from the nudist it was a beautiful and well worth the hike.

second attempt!

2008-11-15T10:56:00.000-08:00

So this was our second attempt to find the fifth water hot springs up Spanish Fork canyon. We don't have any pictures of our first attempt but it was about a year earlier, we tried to take a short cut and ended up hiking for 2 1/2 hours and never finding anything!
This time we decided to just go the long way and thought for sure we would make it! No we didn't. Again we hiked and hiked forever and still found nothing! Finally we saw some bikers on the trail and they told us we took the wrong fork way back at the beginning!
Although we did not reach our destination it was still a beautiful hike.

utah state fair, daves family

2008-11-15T10:33:00.000-08:00

Dave's mom brought out a beautiful old blessing dress, that came over from England and has been in their family for many many generations

Emmy and her sweet cousin penny in the old blessing dresses.

Dave and Emmy at Utah state fair

Emmy with her grandpa whitmer

Whitmer Look-alike Meter

2008-11-10T20:33:00.001-08:00

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Family name history - Pedigree

just a day at the river

2008-08-21T09:08:00.000-07:00

park city

2008-08-13T14:13:00.000-07:00

Make a Smilebox slideshow

highland fling and wheeler farm

2008-08-02T19:37:00.001-07:00

2008-07-31T10:47:00.001-07:00

Santa Claira water park

2008-07-28T14:38:00.007-07:00

emmy and brekken
The water at this park was a little to cold for Emmy's tast
So she just played with mom insted
Annika and Brekken playing in the water
Emmy's first sand bucket, although the only thing that got in it was water :)

Biker Babe

2008-07-28T14:38:00.006-07:00

Posing on daddy's cool bike!
Someday when I'm big Ill get to go on rides with dad and papa :)
Makin the tough biker chick face, lol

Emmys first hair cut!

2008-07-28T14:38:00.004-07:00

Sorry but the Grandpa Bruce look had to go! Before Shot
the noise of the clipers freaked her out a little but over all she did very well
front shot after
Back shot after. Thanks Aunt Randi your the best!

A day at the st. george water park

2008-07-28T14:38:00.003-07:00

Brekken was having a blast! He loves the water!
Emmy enjoyed it too!
Everyone just relaxing in the shade trying to keep cool in 105 degree weather!

Emmy with her papa
and uncal Sharrod
And of course with her mom :) Playing in the water fall

first time in a pool!

2008-07-28T14:38:00.002-07:00

At first emmy was not to sure she liked the water
after a while though she relaxed and just enjoyed herself :)
emmys sexy little ponytail

Check up day

2008-07-15T16:45:00.002-07:00

Emmy had her 2 month check up today, She now is just shy of 11 pounds and is 23 inches long. Doc said she is in the 50th percentile for weight, height, and head circumference. He was also very pleased at how well she could hold her head up.
She is starting to coo and smile a lot now and we are just so happy to have her lives! :)

2008-07-15T16:45:00.001-07:00

Before. Im pretty happy just waiting for the doc to finish checkin me out :)
After. Not so happy the nurse came in and give me 3 shots :(

A shoe show

2008-07-15T16:45:00.000-07:00

Annika, Sydnee, and Jordan had fun parading around the house in Aunt Robin's shoes :)

4th of july at the zoo

2008-07-08T14:23:00.001-07:00