Emma's 3rd Birthday

HOLY MOLY!! My baby is 3 years old! 

On September 30th we had a birthday party for our little Emma. It was balloon themed. We tried to pay some balloon games, but the wind wouldn't cooperate with all of the games.

Our big girl waiting to open her presents. And boy did she get a lot!

She was laughing at daddy, he was modeling her clothes

This card was from my Brother and Sister-in-law. It has Ariel on it and when you push a button Ariel's tail dances to "Under the Sea" Emma loved that thing.

When we lit her candles, and before we sang "Happy Birthday" she blew them out, so we had to re-light them so we could sing. Silly Girl!



 

This is how she shows us that she's 3! I love how she does it. I hope she never changes it.

Peach Days 2012

Ahhh, Peach days. It was this weekend 10 years ago that Brock and I were "spying" on each other at the car show because both of us were too shy to talk to the other. This year we went up on friday night, Brock had to work on Saturday :( , and watched the kids parade and honestly I may watch that one from now on it so much shorter. We go for the fire trucks and thats about it. But after that we walked to booths and waited for Tyler, Rebecca, Rod and Kris to show up and we had some dinner, then Rod bought Emma tickets to ride the rides and we did that for about and hour and a half. She LOVED it!

At the parade

Emma and Pappa on the Merry-go-round

On the Ferris Wheel

On a Dragon Ride

On the "Monster Trucks" *Sorry its a little fuzzy.

Summer 2012

*Warning Picture Overload*

We have had a fun summer.

Emma's water toys

Sitting like Daddy

*Northern Utah Parade of Homes. We were hoping to go and find some fun ideas for our house, and boy did we ever.

Silly Mirror

Emma taking pictures

Cute Bedroom paint idea

This is a Bathtub!!

Very fun chandelier

*Emma's first bee sting-On the 4th of July no less :(

Stinger from her finger :(

*This Girl LOVES the dirt. We get this at least once a week. A cute dirty face.

*CAMPING~~~FINALLY!

Brock and Emma on the 4wheeler, she wanted to ride it about 10 times a day

Digging with Uncle Jerry. She took to him right away. Everything she wanted to say, she would direct to him. "Uncle Jerry, that's the 4wheeler" "Uncle Jerry, you scoop(dig) with me?" etc.

Helping Pappa burn the trash.

*You might be a redneck if......*

.....you strap your child's carseat to the front of the 4wheeler so she is safe. And believe me that thing wasn't going anywhere. ~He only rode with her around the campground like this~
She loved it. She kept wanting to go again and again.

Emma's first haircut

At 2 years 10 months 2 weeks and 1 day Emma had her first haircut!! Oh my gosh she looks like she jumped from 2 years old to 6 in about 10 minutes. I still can't get over the change. She looks so dang cute. My friend Leslie cut it, she gave her some bangs, she evened out the back and tapered around her face.


Before, Front

Before, Back

She was so excited to get in the chair!

Cutting her bangs

The style artist :)

She did so good and sat so still

Cute, cute, cute! (I'm just a little biased)

After, Front

After, Back

An Update

Well we finally have the internet at home :) YAY!! So here are some pics of our new home. Its a little messy in some places but I like to look at is a lived in rather than messy ;)

Living Room

Kitchen/Dining room

Emma's play room

Storage Area

Master Bedroom-there is also a bathroom in there too

Emma's room

Spare Room (a.k.a. Grandma and Grandpa's room)

Backyard view 1

Backyard view 2

Our cute garden-we have corn, potatoes, and tomatoes

Patio

We absolutely LOVE our house. One day we are hoping to paint, recarpet, and decorate a little more, but that will come in time.

Lately

Wow!! So much to say about what has been going on lately! We finally moved into our new house on April 28-29th weekend. The first day/night we were there I didn't feel like it was a strange place, which was nice. It felt like home immediately! So that meant that we got to celebrate our 8th anniversary in our new house on May 1st. We have had some problems crop up here and there but, thankfully, nothing too severe. A couple sprinkler heads here and there and a couple of broken sprinkler pipes. (Luckily the dirt here in Roy is sand--no rocks like Brigham). One negative is that we don't have TV or Internet but that is ok, for now :) I have been just going to McDonalds to check up on things. Emma gets to play in the playplace while I surf the net for a little bit. Today we had a LOVELY water leak in our basement and we found out it is because the seal is broke somewhere where the tile and the shower pan meet so we have to re-caulk that and hopefully we can redo our shower this winter. Emma loves our huge yard. She has a fair amount of toys that she plays with but her favorite passtime is squishing bugs! YUCK!! My parents were able to come visit this last weekend. We felt so good that we were able to offer them a place to sleep rather than ask them to stay in a hotel. We went to the zoo and the city creek center. That was so much fun! Emma has been coming up with interesting thing to say, like if I am getting after her she will tell me "Ok, Ok, Calm down" in a soft voice. Then we were getting her into her carseat and that is kind of a game for her to see how long it takes us to get her in by asking nicely. Now Brock was getting her in and he doesn't lose his cool too often with her but even he was getting frustrated and once he got her it she was not happy and she says to us "This is TERRIBLE!" in a fussy voice. Oh boy. Well that is enough for now. Hopefully I can come back and blog again soon. Maybe with pictures this time