Congratulations!!!

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!!!!

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

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!

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

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!

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

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

The Farm Animals

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!

Disneyland day 1

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.

Day 2 of Disneyland

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!

Day 3 of Disneyland!

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!!!

Christmas and lots of catch up blogs!

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!!!!

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!!!