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!!!!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
A night at temple square
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
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!!!
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
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!
Brekken and Sawyers Birthday
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
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
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
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
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!
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!
Monday, November 2, 2009
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!Friday, August 21, 2009
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.
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.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
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
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
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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!!!!
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!!!!
Sunday, May 3, 2009
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
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
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
