Decorating the Tree

It seems the older Emery gets the more fun the Holidays are. She has just soaked in all of the holiday festivities and has had a blast. One of the things she loved doing was decorating the tree. It was nice that Tim was able to take a short break between school, work, and applications to help up decorate it (Thank goodness for little breaks every once in awhile). She loved pulling the ornaments out of the box as fast as she could and handing them to Daddy. It was also so cute when she put the star on. I think she felt so big. I love the Christmas season!

I can hardly wait for Tim to finish this semester/have his applications sent in, so we can spend some more time together as a family doing Christmas things. He has been working so hard that he deserves this little Christmas break coming up. I couldn't be more proud of him. I know all this hard work is going to pay off soon. I guess we just need to have patience and a lot of faith. What better time to have some stress in our life than this Christmas season to bring us so much joy and happiness. It helps keep us balanced out! Merry Christmas to you all, I hope you are all enjoying the holidays as much as I am! :)

Thanksgiving Adventures

We are Having a..........

Yesterday we went in for our Ultrasound. To my utter dismay and shock we are having a boy! We both just thought we were going to have a girl, so when we found out it was a boy we were a little bit in disbelief! I must admit I was a little confused at first, but now I am so excited! Thanks to family and friends for your support and kind words of excitement! It also helped so much when my friend from across the street showed up with a HUGE bag of boy clothes 0-6 months. They are ever so cute and some of them still had tags on them. Wow, I feel so blessed! I have such good family and friends! We are so excited for this new member of our family. It made it so much more real when I saw it moving inside of me. I just know he is a special spirit sent to me from my Heavenly Father.

Grateful for Cousins

On Saturday we went to St. George to spend some time with Tim's family. Sadie and Emery are finally able to play with each other better. Now that they are both walking/running, they can play a lot easier. Grandma and Grandpa bought them these cute matching outfits. Don't they look so adorable together? When we went to Sportsman's they were chasing each other down the isles just laughing and jabbering. It was very cute! While the guys and Jenny when shooting, we took them for a little walk around the neighborhood. Once again they were both running but then would stop and explore. After awhile we decided to get the strollers out so we could move on with our walk. It is fun to see their different personalities and looks, yet they still get along pretty well. We also look forward to Thanksgiving when Emery gets to see all her other cousins on my side of the family! Cousins make some of the best friends and we are very grateful for some really good ones!

Thankful for Grandparents!

We are so thankful for Grandmas and Grandpas! We were lucky enough to have Tim's parents come spend the night at our house last night and spend some great time with us. Emery adores her grandparents! They always spoil her and us rotten. But most of all they are are great support to us. We feel so loved and are lucky to have such great examples for follow. Sometimes when I am in a hard situation I think, "what would they do," or "how would they handle this." Thanks for all you do and who you are!

My little Blessing is 18 Months!

My sweet Emery girl has now been 18 months for a few weeks now. I guess she can actually go into the Nursery now, even though she has been going for awhile (sense I am in the Nursery). She is such a good little girl. It is amazing how she came into this world screaming, and didn't stop for about the first 4 months, and now she is very happy easy girl. Now I know that colic does end and that it is NOT the babies personality. It is amazing that she started out so little. Man they grow fast! Makes me wonder what the next few years are going to be like! :o Enjoy every minute is all I can say!

Anyway, I thought I would write a few things about my little pumpkin bug, and what she is doing right now.

~She loves to dance right now, and I must say she is pretty good at it. She has all kinds of different moves, consisting of the chicken dance, jumping/hoping while swinging her arms, spinning, bouncing, fast foot work, and more. It is so cute that I can't help but get up and dance with her, she actually keeps the beat pretty good too.

~She just learned how to jump, which is seems like she does half the day. If not in place, than while she is walking. She rarely just walks normal. She always has a little bounce, skip, or dance to her step. :)

~She is getting artistic and likes to do little projects. She just got a coloring book and crayons from grandma bub-a-boo awhile ago and she LOVES to color with anything and on anything (we are still working on that). So thank goodness for coloring books!

~What a great little talker she is. She can copy about anything we say, if not then she gives it a pretty good attempt. She also can put a few words together on her own sometimes. One of my favorite things she says right now is, "Will you help me?" in her cute Innocent little voice. How can you say no to that!

~She loves the T.V. I can not believe that attention span she has! It is kind of nice sometimes when I need a break or something. My challenge is not having watch too much T.V. or movies. Her favorite show right now is Barney.

~And I can't forget one of my favorite things she does right now. When we say prayers Tim and I have always given each other a kiss after we say, "Amen." Well, once Emery learned how to give good kisses she always has to give us a kiss after the prayer too, even when she is crying or ornery. Well, now when we kneel down to say prayers before bed, she folds her arms and everything, but if the prayers get longer than she thinks it should be, she stands up and gives the person who is saying the prayer a kiss. I guess she is letting us know she is done or it is time to say, "Amen." Either way, we try to keep our prayers short and sweet with her. Maybe we could learn something from that! :)

~Oh, and last one I promise. My mom said I needed to write this down. About a month ago, I was talking to Tim saying, "What are we going to do when this new baby comes? Emery is really clingy to me and likes to be held and cuddled a lot, and I can't hold them both all the time." I was expecting him to insisted both our arms are going to be full. But instead he said, "Emery is just going to have to learn to float her own boat." Which Emery promptly asked, "In wa-wa?" Which means, "In water?" We had a pretty good laugh about that one. She is so smart. It is amazing what she is listening to and what registers in her brain.

Well, I hope I didn't bore you all to death. But I figure this is as much for my own "journal" or records as much as anything. It sure is fun for me to think about my sweet little Emery girl, and share it all with you. What a great time of year to be thankful for her. She brings us so much joy and happiness!

A "Boo"-tiful Halloween!!

Fabulous Halloween this year! After it was all over I told Tim," I think it is the most fun Halloween I have had in many years!" I know that the difference was watching how excited and cute Emery was this year. She had so much fun with her cousins and the festivities.

It started off with dressing up, painting faces (Tim did my niece and nephew) and taking lots of pictures. We then went to my sisters family Ward Halloween party. They had a yummy dinner, pumpkin carving contest (which my brother in-law won two prizes) and a costume contest to start it off. We were so excited when Emery won a 0-3 year prize for best costume. I spent a lot of time making her costume so it made it all worth it. She won some cute books and other prizes.

Then it was off to trunk-or-treating. This was probably my favorite part because Emery was so cute. She is kind of a shy girl, so right after someone gave her some candy and we were walking away she would then say, "trick-or-treat" quietly or "thank you". It was kind of funny. Not only that but after we had hit a few trunks she started running from car to car. It made it so fun. She also had a BLAST with her cousins. They all play together so well. You can see in one of the pictures that they spent a lot of the weekend going through their candy. Brings back memories. They are also great at sharing, even though Emery had her own candy. We had an awesome Halloween and hope you all did too! Thanks Jodi and Chris for hosting all of us at your house!!!!