Lovin' my life as a mommy and wife...

hey....

2011-10-20T09:59:00.000-07:00

you lookin' at me?

My trip to.....

2011-10-18T12:23:00.000-07:00

HAWAII!!!

We thought that we would take a trip to Hawaii the end of September. My aunt needed help with painting her house and what a good excuse it was for a trip! I took Kalia and left Emily home. My sister Chistine came with her daughter Melanie and my brother came with Karen and thier two boys Corbin and Ryker... and lets not forget my parents of course!
Here we are on the airplane getting ready to take off. I am sooooo glad that I sat by Christine!! At first they had me separate from them cause they were flying on buddy passes and I was flying on an employee pass, but I asked the gate agent if he would sit us together and he did. I was worried what I would do with Kalia if it were just me sitting by stragers with a wild and crazy baby who will not hold still!!

Shon and Ryker sat right behind us and Karen and Corbin sat behind them. My parents sat in the far back. hehehehe Ryker fell asleep before we even took off!!

It took Kalia a while for her to fall asleep, but when she finally did zonk out she was sprawled accross our laps (mostly Christine's) thanks be to her... she and Melanie were a HUGE help with Kalia!!

I thought that this was funny! Kalia loves water. She loves to go swimming, she loves the bath, she loves the sprinklers,but she did not love the ocean! This is the first time I tried to put her in the water and she didn't want anything to do with it. She would lift her legs up and she had this permanent scowel on her face! It was so funny.

Of course one of the days we drove up to the north shore and went to Motsimoto's. If you ever go to Hawaii you have to come here. It is a total tourist attraction, but even so... you have to go here! They have the best shave ice ever! It's huge and yummy and has ice cream on the bottom. I always get the same flavors... lilikoi(passion fruit), almond and coconut. So good!

Kalia LOVED having tastes of everyones!

And this is how the days ended!!! We drug Kalia all over and she crashed every night!

So much fun! And my aunts house looks good too. Glad we went!

The Farm

2011-07-06T21:12:00.001-07:00

We went down to the farm (Michael's parents house) the other day because Michael's cousin that he hasn't seen for a long time was down there with her kids. Emily had the time of her life and Kalia was such a trooper... we had a LONG day!

I couldn't get Emily off of the tramp. I think that we need to get one!

We took Emiy out to see the horses and cows and Michael's dad was out there getting the food ready for the cows to eat. He pulled the tracker over and had Emily jump in with him. He let her drive it and she was just smiling sooo big every time they passes us to put food in the mixer. I got up on the mixer to see how it all worked. It's pretty cool.

I am glad that Emily get's the chance to see this kind of stuff. To drive a tractor, to ride and pet a horse, to feed cows, gather eggs from the chickens, and to have a 300 + acre playground!

The Princess Festival!!!

2011-06-16T14:51:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I went to the Princess Festival at Thanksgiving Point with Emily and her cousin Shaylee. I had been talking with Emily about this for a long time and she wasn't so sure about it until she found out that her cousin (her FAVORITE person in the whole world) was coming with us. Then she was really excited to go. She would call Shaylee on her pretend phone and hold full on conversations about what they were going to do and how much they were going to like all of the princesses.

Here we are in the car just before leaving for the festival!! Thanks to Shaylee for the dress, gloves and purse with lipstick (really chapstick) and bracelet. Emily would put some of the chapstick on and then say to me, "Mom, now do I look like a real princess?"

When we got out of the car and got to the gate to go in they had this carriage. They wanted a ride, it was just there for show! They look really cute sitting in it though!

When we got inside they gave me a map and we got to walk around to different stations and meet different princesses and all of the other "cast" members from that story. The first one that we came to was Alice in Wonderland. Here is the Queen of Hearts and Alice and the Mad Hatter.

Next was Beauty and the Beast. They had these books that they took around to get everyones autograph. They both practically thew thier books to Beauty, but when it came to the Beast they were pretty shy about it, but they did let him sign it! Then when I told the girls to stand close so I could get a picture, Emily ran right up to Beauty (Belle) but Shaylee wasn't so sure. I had to keep scooting her closer to him and that was as close as she would go. I was secretly laughing inside. hehehehe Silly girls!!

The Twelve Dancing Princesses... we went in a cave and saw the dancing princesses. They told thier story and then taught the girls a dance. This is them attempting that dance.

This is one of the Twelve Princesses. Her princess name is Opal, but her real name is Billie Anne. She is or should I say was one of my young women in my ward. (I just got released) She gave Emily a free ticket to go and I am soooo greatful because if not for her we would not have gone. It's crazy how expensive the tickets were!!! Thanks again Billie Anne!

Here they are just chilling waiting for Aurora's autograph. (Not sure if I spelled her name right)

This here is the Queen from the story of the Magic Flute. They had a little stage and did a short production of story. Really cute.

Cinderella!!! They did a little production of Cinderella too. It was really cute, they involved the girls with the Ball. They did a really good job, but personally I think that they could have got a better person to play Cinderella. I liked it though.

Here is a step sister... and the step mother. They did a really good job. I laughed almost the whole time that they did thier parts. Emily and Shaylee kept looking at my like I was crazy or something!!

We found Captin Hook as we were headed to our next princess. He was just wandering around. I saw him and told the girls to go have him sign thier books. They were very reluctant about it. Finally they did and then I asked them if they wanted to get thier picture taken with him. Emily starts backing up with kind of a scared face and flat out says, "NO." I laughed out loud at that!!! Then I made them stand by him. As you can see Emily didn't want to be by him as she is leaning towards Shaylee. None of them are smiling because Captain Hook told them that pirates don't say cheese they say AAARRRRR!! So that is what they did.

Ever since the new Tangled movie came out... of course she is her new FAVORITE princess. As you can see in her face... she is very excited to be sitting by Rapunzel!

Next was snow white. They did a short play also, but we missed half of it.

When we got to the frog prince I just had to get her picture with him. If you look close there is a camera to the left of Emily's shoulder where the frog prince can see. As Emily went to stand my him he started talking to her calling her by name and telling her to say cheese. Her face was priceless!!! She didn't know what to think about this frog that was taling to her. He asked her what her favorite color was and her answer was.... Rapuzel!! I don't think that she was thinking straight after just seeing her Rapunzel and then having a pretend frog call her by name!! Funny.

Ok, so this is Mila. She is the "new" princess this year that they introduced.

On our way out we passed the little mermaid and of course there were a TON of people around her. It was a really hot day and a bunch of kids were playing in the water by her. I asked Emily why she was giving the camera a funny face and she told me that it wasn't funny... she was winking at me!!

What a fun day!! The girls were really good sports as we walked around for almost 3 hours in the hot hot sun. The Princess Festival rocks!!! I can't wait for next year.

cat.... what?

2011-04-08T10:57:00.000-07:00

The other day I was feeding Kalia and I went to get something to wipe her off with and this is what I found when I came back... it's really funny,but also really gross!! Who knew cats would eat carrots!!

3 years old!!!

2011-04-08T10:31:00.000-07:00

Emily turned 3 years old on April 2nd. I can't believe that she is so big already! I have a 3 year old? Her birthday was simple, but fun. :) I had the house decorated with streamers and balloons and when she woke up she asked me, "mom why did you do that to the house?" I just laughed and said... because it's your birthday silly. She just gave me a HUGE smile and then said," I'm a big girl now cause I'm 3 huh?"

Emily's birthday always falls on the week of conference... in fact I watched conference in the hospital with both of my kids. (funny) Emily in April and Kalia in October.

My parents came up and they took us to dinner and after my dad and Michael went to the priesthood session.

When they got back Emily got to open her birthday presents and we ate cake. She got some books, clothes, a lava lamp and a pillow pet for her birthday. She was really excited to open all of her presents.

Yes I made this cake!! I know that it's not the greatest, but it's the first cake that I have ever decorated. I figure that she's only 3 now so I have a few years to practice right?

Happy birthday kiddo!! 3 going on 23!!

6 months... no way!!!

2011-04-01T10:37:00.000-07:00

I really can't believe how time flies!!

Today Kalia turns 6 months old!! She is getting so big... litterally. We have to buy her a new car seat that goes up to 33 pounds because she is 22 pounds right now and that is the weight limit on her car seat! We like to call her chunkers and the name fits her perfect. She is such a cute and sweet little girl. She is so patient and smiles all of the time. Just a happy little thing and a really good snuggley baby. Here's to you Kalia...

Mommy loves you !!!

New Year... New ME!!!

2011-01-26T11:37:00.000-08:00

Can I just start out by saying that having kids really screws up your body, SO... this year I have decided now that I am not working I could do something about the many many pounds of CRAP that I have excess on my body over the years of being prego!!

I have decided to do the P9oX work out and diet. I start Feb. 1st and I am not going to quit until I have lost down to my goal weight. I have 45 pounds to lose!! That is a lot and I really hope that I can get there!!

Wish me luck :)

Christmas Eve

2011-01-26T10:43:00.000-08:00

This year was probably one of my top 5 all time Christmas'. I am quessing because I wasn't working and Michael took work off so I got to spend time with my family for 11 days!! It seems like every year in the past Chirstmas just didn't feel like Chirstmas. We both only got Christmas day off of work and then had to go back the day after. It was really nice to just relax and enjoy the holiday season.

We spent Christmas Eve at my sister's house. She cooked prime rib and a turkey we all ate until we exploded and then about an hour later we all went back for more (of course!)

We had a lot of fun playing games and talking. It's really funny to compete with my family. They are so competetive!!

My mom really wanted to get some updated photos of the families. She made us all wear a color and then we took individual family pictures and a big group photo.

Here is my lovely mom and dad

My sister Christine and her husband Shane and thier 5 kids Candra, Janice, Melanie, Nathan and shaylee.

My brother Shon and his wife Karen and thier 2 boys, Corbin and Ryker.

For some reason I didn't take a picture of my brother Derek and his wife Carole and thier 2 girls Sadie and Sophie.

Then there is us. Me and my awesome husband Michael and our 2 girls, Emily and Kalia.

After we all had eaten and pictures were taken, we gathered together and sang some songs and my dad read Luke 2. Then all of the grandkids had something that they all had been working on and so we went to see what they had to show us and this is what we found.........

Oh I love it!!! What funny kids!!

I'm scared of Santa!

2010-12-22T13:46:00.000-08:00

We had a special guest at our ward Christmas pary. Santa was in one of the side rooms off of the gym and Michael took Emily and peeked in through the window and saw santa. She came running to me screaming that she saw Santa!! Michael picked her up to take her back and he said that she was shaking she was so excited.
Michael put her on his lap and she was fine... until he looked at her and started talking!! She jumped right off of him as fast as she could and didn't want to look at him, but Michael convinced her to.

So instead of Santa asking her what she wanted for Christmas on his lap, he ended up asking her what she wanted on "Daddy's" lap. Now whenever we mention Santa she says, " I don't like him... I don't want him to come." I think that what she see's what Santa brings her for Christmas then she will like him a bit more. We'll see.

Contruction... UGH!!!

2010-12-22T13:34:00.000-08:00

Now that Michael is out of school for Christmas break we thought it was a good time to continue all of the construction in the basement. Emily has to be right there helping. It's cute, but sometimes annoying when you step back and she is right there. The drill was her favorite. She helped Michael with almost all of the drilling.

We were mudding the walls and we kept telling Emily that she can't touch them because it was wet and we needed it to dry first. Well, Michael and I were mudding the cealing not really paying attention to Emily and next thing we know she is laughing. We turn to see and the wall is all messed up and this was her face. We got mad and her and what she thought was something funny quickly turned to this face...

Go Christmas house!

2010-12-18T10:45:00.000-08:00

So I went to costco last night and as I was driving there I notice the lack of Christmas spirit in all of the drivers. I only live 4 miles away from the costco, but I about died twice!! Why is everyone in such a hurry that they don't look or don't care? I think that it is really sad that when Christmas comes and people are supposed to be jolly and nice is when most of them are the most grumpy of all. There was a lady arguing with the checker in the line that I was in because she asked for cash back and he gave her a crumpled 20 dollar bill and not a new one. She wanted it for a Christmas gift, but told the guy checker that it wasn't going to be a very nice looking Christmas gift now. I just stood there staring at her probably with my mouth hanging open thinking...WHO CARES!! I am sure that the person reciving the money is not going to take it now just because it is not crisp!!!
I took a different way home to stop at another store and I passed this house and it was the most decorated house I have ever seen! There were lights on every part of that house in the front and back. On the trees, on the lawn... seriously EVERYWHERE! Thanks to that house my mood changed back to good. What a way to give people Christmas cheer!! Again I say Go Christmas House!!!

Just for laughs...

2010-12-11T09:44:00.000-08:00

Kalia is just starting to push up and hold her head up while she is on hsr belly. I crack up everytime I look at her face in this picture!!

Putting up the chirstmas tree...

2010-12-11T08:40:00.000-08:00

This year was really exciting for me to put the tree up. Last year Emily could have cared less about putting it up, but she loved to pull all of the bulbs off of the tree. So this year when I asked Emily if she wanted to help us put up the tree, she jumped up and down yelling, "Yes, it's Christmas!! Yes, it's Christmas!!" She helped her daddy spread all of the branches out so that they looked good. It was funny casue she is such a perfectionist that it took her forever just to do one branch and then when she was done with one she would stop, look at it for a minute and then change something that needed fixed in her eyes.

We were checking all the lights to make sure that they all worked and Emily wanted to put them on her. She called it her "light clothes."

She made Daddy put them on too!!!

Emily had a real good time decorating the tree. She held the lights while I strung them on the tree and she put all the bulbs that she could on the tree. The whole time that she was doing this she would say over and over... "This is so beautiful." Thank goodness for shatter proof bulbs.

I took this picture because this is how the bottom of the whole tree looks. There are clumps on bulbs all right by each other and then a little ways away there is another clump. I tried to tell her that they need to go all over and she said that she put them where they are supposed to be. I decided to leave them how she put them. It gives the tree character. :)

We hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year. I hope that you recive all the blessings of togetherness and love this season.

Emily's snowman...

2010-11-22T11:38:00.000-08:00

Yesterday it snowed 11 inches at our house and Emily was begging me to go outside and play in the snow, so I told her that we could, but not then cause it was sunday and that we would make a snowman and play outside today (monday). Here is the result...

A pretty good looking snowman if I may so myself!! And thankyou Kalia for sleeping so that we could play in the snow :)

A few thanks...

2010-11-17T10:22:00.001-08:00

I know that I should be thankful ALWAYS,,, and I am, but in the spirit of Thanksgiving this month I just wanted to share a few things that I am thankful for...

1. I am so thankful for sleeping babies so that I can get some things done around the house. I am so thankful for Kalia and what a good baby she is. She is getting so big. I am also thankful for binki's to plug babies mouths with when they are crying. :) It's like a drug or something. Kalia will be crying and then I put the binki in and it's instant calmness. 2. I am thankful for my house and everything in it. It is so nice to have a place to call my own and that it keeps me warm and safe. My bed so that I can sleep comfortable, my food to eat (even though I need not eat as much as I do!)

3. My car!! Right now we only have one car, but even as old as it is... I am still so very thankful for it.

4. Emily. She keeps me busy and entertained all day. She is such a smart little girl and loves to learn. She goes around the house all day singing songs and dancing... she calls herself the princess. I can't believe that she will be 3 in a few months!!!

5. My calling in the church. I am the 1st councelor in the Young Women and I love to work with the girls in my ward. I would keep this calling all my life if I could.

6. Last, but definitley not least... My awesome husband Michael. He has such a crazy life right now with full time school, full time work and the 1st councelor in the Bishopric. We don't get to see him very much right now, but when we do he alway makes the most of it. Emily can't wait to have daddy time!! He is so paitient and understanding.... Thank you Michael.

I am excited for Thanksgiving this year. I can't wait to be with my family and just be together playing games and looking at all the adds planing our route for the next morning... BLACK FRIDAY!!! One of my favorite days of the year :)

Kalia's growing so big

2010-11-11T13:28:00.000-08:00

Kalia will be 6 weeks old tomorrow!!! I can't believe that it has gone by so fast. She is changing every day. She is just starting to smile at me and it is the funniest looking smile ever. What a sweet girl she is. She is such a good baby. She sleeps anywhere from 6-8 hours a night!! But in the day she makes up for the long gap of not eating... I swear that all I do is feed her, but that is what babies do... eat, sleep, poop and eat some more!

Making bread with daddy

2010-11-11T13:11:00.000-08:00

Michael is the one in our family that makes home made bread. I have tried and tried and it never turns out right. So he volunteered himself to be our bread maker. Emily wanted to make bread with daddy so here are some pictures on them. Emily looks pretty clean in these pictures. By the time they were done, she had bread dough all in her hair and on her face.

It's coming...

2010-11-08T16:20:00.000-08:00

I can feel it. Winter is almost here! I am not sure if I am excited about it or not, but today is awesome. I have waited for soooo long to be home on a day like today where it is chucking down a snow/rain mix and freezing cold outside and I am at home in my pajamas sipping hot chocolate and reading a book. Love it!!

Big sister

2010-10-20T10:40:00.001-07:00

Emily stayed with my sister while I was in the hospital. After I had Kalia, Christine brought Emily to see her new sister. Let me tell you... Emily was freaked out. She didn't understand why the baby was out! She didn't want anything to do with her. I would ask her if she wanted to hold her and she would give me a face of discust and say NO!! I would ask if she loved her sister and she would do the same!!

But as you now can see, that has all changed and she loves her sister!!! She always wants to hold her and give her binki to her. Most of all she loves to help me give her a bath. She is such a good helper.

2010-10-20T10:29:00.000-07:00

Kalia had really bad jaundice, so she had to be in a billy bed for the first week that she was home. It really sucked, cause all i wanted to do was hold her, but i could only take her out to feed her and bathe her, then she had to go right back in. I slept out on the couch so that i could keep an eye on her... poor thing. She hated it and I don't blame her. What new born wants to be sprawled out with no blanket or clothes?

I had to take her to the hospital every day and they would prick her foot and draw blood. She would scream and scream.... i hated it!

Here she is....

2010-10-20T10:18:00.000-07:00

Here is Kalia. She was born on October 1st at 9:00 pm. She weighed 9lbs 5 oz. Doesn't she look funny here? She has the chunky cheeks!!

I'm a balloon!!

2010-09-26T19:49:00.000-07:00

I officially only have 6 days left until my due date and let me tell you, I am so ready to have this kid!! My belly is so big that i can't hardly bend over to tie my shoes, my ankles (or should i say what ankles?) are so swolen it's worse that cankles. Michael calls it Elephantitis!! My hands go numb sometimes because they are so swolen fat! Man it kind of sucks what babies can do to you. Other than being uncomfortable can i just say that it is soooooo good to be home. I have missed so much time with Emily and i love to hear every funny little thing she has to say. In fact... as i am typing right now she just asked me... "Mommy, guess what?" and i said what, then she said back to me... "Chicken butt!!!" Yeah, she learned that at my sisters house... the first time she said it to me was in the car on the way home from a store and i could not stop laughing. What 2 year old knows that that is funny? Earlier today when i was cooking dinner i would bend over to give my back some relief and she asked me, "Mommy is the baby kicking you so hard and it hurts?" i said, not right now, just my back hurts, so she went and pulled over a chair from the kitchen table and stood up on it behind me and started rubbing my back saying i'm sorry that your back hurts mommy, oh i'm sorry. She can be sweet :)

Stress...

2010-09-11T17:25:00.000-07:00

So I am officailly at that point where I am SSSSSOOOOOO done being pregnant!! I have 3 weeks to go, but every day I tell myself that this is the day... and then nothing happens. Any one have any ideas of what will enduce labor? i'm just kidding. :)
Life is just crazy right now. I am still working full time. Michael was put in as the 1st councelor in the bishopric, is going to school full time (noon to 8:30pm) to get his AMP licence so that he can work on the engine of the airplane and then works from 9pm to 6am thurs. night through sunday night. i'm really thankful for my mom right now... she is letting us borrow her car until the 17th (my official last day of work), but after that we will only have our one car and Michael has it pretty much all day. So I am kind of nervous about going into labor, because if Michael is in school he'll get in trouble for leaving... it's FAA regulated!!! Stress! Stress! Stress! I'm not supposed to have Stress!!
Other than all of that I'm really excited for fall. I love all of the color change and the smell of people starting to use thier fireplaces and I can't ever get enough of the crisp fresh air...mmm. What a year!!

ABC'S what more can i say...

2010-07-17T17:53:00.000-07:00

Too cute...

2010-07-17T17:40:00.000-07:00

Emily loves to sing. she takes her daddys head and sings to him.

St. George Temple

2010-07-17T17:26:00.000-07:00

We went to a family reunion in St. George last week and while we were there we went over to the temple to take some pictures. I am only posting one of me and it's very far away because pictures when you are pregnant are not flattering!!!!! But pictures of Michael and cute little Emily are very nice to look at.

Temple cont...

2010-07-17T17:18:00.000-07:00

Emily in some flowers Emily and Mikey posing on the stairs

Noah, Mikey and Emily

Hogle Zoo

2010-07-17T17:07:00.000-07:00

We took a trip to the Zoo and Emily loved all of the animals. We saw baby zuri the elephant... And we saw the giraffs. Emily kept saying that they were big and tall.

Corn on the cob BANDITS!!!!

2010-07-17T16:48:00.000-07:00

Once a month we have Michael's family come up to our house and we have a get together. Emily loves to play with her cousins- this particular time Michael's mom brought corn on the cob and while all of the adults we sitting in the living room and talking i noticed that Emily got really quiet. When i went to find her this is what I found... Emily and her cousin Gideon had taken the pot of corn from the table and they were finishing them off for us. :)

I guess that it is just a good thing that it was something healthy and not messy!!!

wow!!!

2010-07-17T16:37:00.000-07:00

Can i just say that i am soooo thankful for a cat that will let Emily wrap him up in a blanket (my kitchen towels!!!!) and haul him around like a baby. She totally chokes him and he just will sit there are let her do whatever. Sometimes (like these pictures) he falls asleep. wow!! She is going to have a rude awakening when she goes up to some cat and thinking that she can treat them like she does her cats. You have to learn sometime :)

Another girl!!

2010-05-20T19:44:00.001-07:00

Sorry that i havn't posted in so long. Working full time sitting in front of a computer all day (restricting what i can do on it) and having a kid makes me not want to get on the computer ever!!! but... just found out today that i am having another girl!! My due date is October 3rd. i think that is crazy... i don't know what i am going to do with two kids, i can't even keep up with the one that i have!!
i'll post more later and put some updated pictures of Emily up. She is getting so big. she is talking so much and thinks that she can do everything that her mommy does. She's my little monkey!

2009-12-12T20:16:00.000-08:00

Ok, so the other day i was watching a show and i noticed that i couldn't hear Emily and when that happens i know that she is probably doing something that she is going to get in trouble for... so i called her and she didn't come so i went looking for her. We have a gate on the top of our stairs, but it wasn't closed tight and i didn't even think to look down stairs so i was looking in the bathroom and her room and my room and i couldn't find her so i went to go down stairs and she was laying on the bottom stair.......

I asked her if she was ok and she peeked up and told me to shhh that the kitty and her were sleeping!! She was copying boots and laying down pretending that she was sleeping. i thought it was so funny!! Emily does some pretty crazy stuff.

Thanksgiving weekend...

2009-12-12T19:18:00.000-08:00

We went down to Michael's parents house in Levan for Thanksfgiving this year and it was a lot of fun, crazy, but fun. I used to think that i could handle craziness and lots of people, but after this weekend i think i change my mind!!!

Having Michael's parents and all 8 kids and their families squished into one house can be a little stressful!!

Well, lets talk about the fun stuff.... like eating thanksgiving dinner!! This is just one counter of food that we had... it was sooooo good. Michaels sister Marie (on the left) came from Indiana and the blond is Michaels other sister Julie.

Michael's mom had this really cute and REALLY HAIRY little kitten and Emily just loved it to peaces!! It would let her do whatever she wanted to it, just as long as she was giving it attention and some love.

Emily absolutley loved playing with her cousins!! Rachel would pick her up and cary her around and Emily would let her for the most part!

I guess the advatage of living on a farm is that you have sooo much land that you can do pretty much anything you want.

Michael's uncle has a clay pigeon shooter that hooks on the back of his truck and launches them out. We had a lot of fun shooting!! Michael bought me this gun last year and i love it!!

All of the grandkids begged and begged grandpa to get the horses and donkey out so that they could go on rides. Emily got on Pat and wouldn't get off. She loves rides!! I kept asking her what a donkey says and she would just say what a horse says... until she heard the donkey and then she got this huge grin on her face and started trying to make the sound of a donkey. i laughed so hard!!

We took family pictures (don't have the finished product yet), but all of the kids had fun playing while other families got thier pictures done. Emily played on the tramp most of the time and all of the big kids would get mad cause she kept falling down and crying.

And at the end of it all Emily just crashed!! Every night she was sooooo ready to go to bed. Grandma Kenison has this stuffed dog and she would just hug it so tight and fall asleep. what a cutie!!

canning...

2009-11-10T20:09:00.000-08:00

Ok, so this year i have decided that i was going to be the domestic kind of person and do some canning, well, it's been MEGA canning for me!! It all started in June when we did about 50 quarts of Apricot necter from our tree out back, then it was pears and peaches. When the tomatoes came on it was 30 jars of tomatoes and 45 jars of spaghetti sauce and about 30 jars of green beans. Then 4 big buckets of grapes for juice and now we just did 100 quarts of apple sauce!!! I need a break!!!!! Harvest time is a crazy time!! I just want a vacation from it all. The end result gives me a good feeling though. i was thinking about this while i was reading the Enzine. This october for conference no one really talked about food storage, they talked about being spiritually prepared and i think that a lot of people (like me) must have gotten the hint from last time... food storage... food storage... food storage. :)

My little helper

2009-08-14T22:34:00.000-07:00

The other day i was out mowing the lawn and Emily really wanted me to hold her, but obviously i couldn't so our mower has this bar that is the her hight and i pulled her over and had her help me push.

"i love to mow the lawn mommy!!! " i know she was thinking this :)

Run cat, RUN!!!

2009-08-14T22:26:00.000-07:00

This is Emily's cat, Boots and i don't understand why, but she loves to smother and pick him up and choke him. She puts him in a tight hold and won't let go, and the wierdest thing is... Boots won't run away!!

She tackles him to the ground and puts him in a death grip...

Can Boots breathe???

Giddeon, Emily's cousin saw her attacking the cat so he came over and layed on top of him!!!

Poor Boots, poor, poor Boots!!

My lover is 29!!!

2009-08-14T22:15:00.000-07:00

On August 8th (Michael's birthday) his family came up to our house for a get together/birthday party for him. I can't believe that he is 29!! Here is Emily helping her daddy blow his candles out.

Need i say more about this one...

Emily loved to wear the bows off of daddy's presents in her hair. She would put them on her head and then pull them off and then put them on again and pull them off...

This is Michael and Emily, Julie and Giddeon, John and Noah.These kids are pretty close in age and when they get a little bit bigger... watch out!!

Boating at Deer Creek

2009-08-14T21:50:00.001-07:00

We went up to Deer Creek with my parents and Derek and his family to tube and ski. It was a really nice day to go. It wasn't too hot, but not cold either. We had so much fun :)

Here is Michael and Sadie... Ya know, i have never seen my dad ski!! In all the years that we, well, my dad, has had a boat i don't think that i have ever seen him not driving. He would always be the one in the boat driving trying to fly you off of a tube or somthing. It's good to know that he can :)

Sophie and Sadie: Derek and Carole's cute girls!!

Derek and i went on the tube and it was so much fun :) We got thrown around so much that i bounced into the middle and he flew off, then as my dad was going around to pick him up i hit a huge wave (probably our own wake) and flew off myself.

This is Michael and Emily on the tube just chilling by my mom. We stopped and swam for a while.

Sadie and my mom

...And finally Emily fell asleep right as we were headed back to the dock to get out of the lake... go figure!!

Pioneer Day

2009-08-14T21:29:00.000-07:00

This year we went down to Levan for the 24th of July. They did a lot of fun things for the kids and had some blow up things to play on. So i invited my sister Christine and her kids to come down and play too, but most of all i wanted her to run the 5k with me so i didn't have to do it alone!! Boy was that a really stupid thing to do...let me explain. About 11 days before we went down i found out that they did a 5k (they call it a "fun run" ) so i thought to myself...i've been trying to loose some weight and i've been working out, so yeah i could do that no problem. Wow was i ever wrong. When they say that you need to train for a 5k they mean it!! So my goal was to not come in last place and at least i did that :) i was number 24 out of 30. Christine was number 10 and Candra (my neice) was number 11.I'm Pretty weak eh? Well next year will be diferent!!
Anyway, the kids got to be in a pig chase (small town, i know) this is Shaylee here in the brown shirt. She didn't really want to do it. Christine had to pull her out. This is Janice,Melenie and Audrey(my neice on Michael's side). They are on the far left (inside the fence) Audrey is in the green shirt, Janice in the pink and Melenie is right by her in the white.

They got to go on 4wheeler rides and we took them to the dairy to see all the cows and they sucked on thier fingers. Michael took them up deep canyon and caught a fish for them in the river with his bare hands.

Then at night there was a good dinner and some music.. and to end it all was a pretty good firework show. I was sooooo tired that night. :)

Mess??? What mess?

2009-08-14T21:04:00.000-07:00

Emily really enjoyed her spaghetti!! She is to the point where she doesn't want help when she is eating her food and she just wants to do it herself. Soooo... after trying for a few minuets to see if she would eat from my fork (and having no luck) i put it onto her tray so that she could do it herself... little miss independent :) Well, this is the result of self feeding with messy food. She went strait to the bath after this one.

wow it's hot in Arizona!!!

2009-08-13T19:17:00.000-07:00

Michael, Emily and I went to visit Michael's sister Camille and her family in Arizona and boy it was HOT!! We were sitting in the airport waiting for our flight and the screen that had all the flight info said that the temp in Arizona was 109 and it was only 8 in the morning!!! I don't think that i will ever take for granted the temp here in Utah ever again. At least the air is not hot on the really hot days here. :)
Camille and David have this big watering trough that they fill up for thier kids to swim in as a swimming pool. it's really cool. Michael and Emily had lots of fun with the kids. Bryce was very concerned that Emily didn't have a diaper on for part of the time and he wouldn't get in the pool while she was in it.

We were lucky enogh to have Camille keep Emily for 2 days while Michael and i went to one of our resorts. Wow, it was the first time that i had ever left her over night somewhere before and let me tell you.... i LOVED it!! We would go to the pool at night and they had to cool it instead of heat it and it felt really good. I swear that you would walk out of the condo at 10 pm and the heat would just hit you like a brick wall!!

Freemont Indian State Park

2009-06-19T16:32:00.000-07:00

First of all... i have no clue how to flip this picture so that it looks normal, but any way we went to Freemont Indian state Park for Emily first camping trip!!

We hiked all over and saw some cool indian carvings and paintings. There was this one that was a painting of a blanket and it was 16 feet by 4 feet. the story of it was that this Piute indain lady
lost her baby and she couldn't stand that fact that her baby was burried and all alone so she came back and painted a blanket to keep "it" warm.

this is Emily and dad before taking a nap in the tent

Hiking all over kind of reminded me of goblin valley. it was so cool all of the different formations of the sand a stuff.

On sunday we had a little mini church and sang hymns and my mom gave a lesson. I helped Shaylee draw hearts all over a paper plate and then she would color them. It was lots of fun.

Memorial Day

2009-06-19T16:23:00.000-07:00

This year (as always) we went to Brigham City cemetary to put flowers on my grandparents grave. It was soooo cold this year! The girls (Aunt Silvia, mom and christine) put the flower arangements together. We always bring the flowers from our house and make the arangements there. it's a tradition that was started back when my grandparents were alive. it's nice.

Emily had lots of fun playing with all of the cousins and chasing everyone around. We played "who can see?" a game i made up for all of the little kids. i would say... who can see a... flag or who can see balloons and whoever saw them first would run to them and try to beat everone there and then we would do it again. it sure kept the kids entertained :)

Las Vegas

2009-06-19T16:09:00.000-07:00

I went to LV with Emily and my sister and her kids in April so that we could see our cousins from Hawaii that were there doing stuff for Miss USA. We got to see the fountains and do lots of fun things. Christine and i went to a circ show and that was AWESOME!!!

Easter Sunday

2009-04-14T20:18:00.001-07:00

On Easter sunday morning when Emily got out of the bath she had a surprize waiting for her!The easter bunny came and brought her eggs that had some flavored marshmellows in them! Boy did she love them!! She shared lots of them with her daddy. :)

It took her a minuet to figure out what the eggs were and that there was something in them.

On Easter Michael and I had to speak in church. It's kind of a funny story how this all came about. Let me tell you... So when we were watching conference i was talking to my dad and asking him how these people can get up and speak to thousands of people and they don't even seem nervous. He said that they probably were nervous, but the more you do it the less scared you become. Michael said that it's cause it is dark and they can't see anyone in the audience. So i went on to say that I get sooo freaked out when i have to speak in front of people and thank goodness that I haven't had to speak in church for almost a year and a half. Then Michael joked that he should call the bishop and tell him that we need to speak.

Well, we went on to watch the rest of confrence and that was that. The next monday (the 6th) i got a phone call and when i answered it, it was the first councelor in the bishopric. He asked me if Michael was home and if he could come and visit us for a minute. Right then i knew i was hosed!! I told him that he could and the second i got off the phone, i ran downstairs and told Michael that he jinxed us and that we were probably speaking in church... sure enough, that is what he wanted!! It's kind of funny how things happen, ya know?

Emily is 1!!!

2009-04-06T15:19:00.000-07:00

Wow!! I have a 1 year old!! it's hard to think that it has been that long. We had a fun little birthday party. We did a BBQ and then we sang Happy Birthday to Emily. She wasn't so sure about it all.

After we sang i just let her dive into her cake. At first she didn't really like that she had sticky stuff on her hands, but...

she did like the taste of the frosting!!!

Then she found that there was cake too and likes it as well

Grandma Scoville gave her 2 outfits and some books.

She was showing us all of the things that she got.. she would hold one thing up and then grab another and hold it up.

And her Aunt Christine gave her a little car that she can sit on and drive around. She loooooves it. If you press the flower on the front it sings this little fairy song and she will just sit and press that button over and over and over!! We have only had the toy for one day and i am sooo ready to rip the batteries out so that i don't have to hear that song any more!!

She had had her first cousin "fight" over this toy... and lost!! it was a big hit with all of the kids.

When she is not on top of it, she is pushing it around all over the house and if she gets into a corner and can't move she just starts screaming cause she is mad that it won't move. In this picture she had already gotten mad and then she was trying to lift it up and move it.

what a crazy kid!!

What a mess!!!

2009-03-28T14:26:00.000-07:00

So Emily loves to eat!! Anything that you put in her mouth, she will just gobble up in seconds. So, the other day i was trying to pick up my house and she was all over the place... pulling pans and cans out of my cupboards and pulling things off shelves. I decided to put her in her chair and i gave her one of those gerber biter biscuts. I had never given her anything big like that to chew on and i wanted to see if she would use her "2" teeth that she has to bite it or scrape it off and eat it. Well... no biting, but she did gum the thing to death!! This is the result!! IT WAS CAKED TO HER FACE!!! She loved it :)

2009-03-26T20:51:00.000-07:00

long awaited update...

So as i am sure that everyone knows, Twilight came out this past weekend and yes I bought it! I actually bought the two disk special edition. I think that I have watched that stinkin movie everyday since i got it on Saturday!!! When i saw it in theaters i wasn't too keen on Edward, but he has totally grown on me and yes, he is my new boyfriend!! (Along with Carlisle) I had to double check and ok this with Michael... and ya know what? he's ok with it. What a good guy! :)

I have been fighting a cold for the past 2 weeks now and i passed it onto Emily and Michael. Poor little Emily's nose! It just keeps running. It is totally better to be sick myself than to have a sick baby who can't breathe and is teething!!! I don't sleep much at night. Between clearing her nose and giving her a bottle (she stopped nursing...yeah!!!) and then trying to go back to sleep and just as i do... she wakes up again or Michael gets home from work and wants to talk or my freaking cat comes and lays on my face. oh man, i think some days i am going insane!! I feel like a walking zombie, the days just slip by and i don't remember much!! It kind of sucks. How do people have more than one kid?

We bought a new bed!! It was a much needed thing in my life. Ever since we got married we have been sleeping on this old bed that i got from my grandparents house when they passed away. I think that it is seriously 35 years old!!!! Every time that Michael moved it felt like an earth quake and i would always wake up. So i went and bought a new orthopedic bed and ya know what... the first 3 nights that i slept on it, when i woke up my back hurt!!! what the crap i thought that this was supposed to be a good bed. Well, i am used to it now and i looooove it!!! i think that my old bed was just so crapy that it took some time to get used to it. what a good investment!

I am sooo ready for spring!! i know that it is officially spring, but this 30 degree wheather is not doing any good for me!! it was nice for a week and i got so ready for it, then this...come on good wheather!!!

2009-01-05T14:11:00.000-08:00

So for a while now, one of my friends has been trying to get me to go and cut my hair with her and this last weekend i finally agreed. i was only going to cut a few inches off, but they talked me into donating it... needless to say this is what became of it!!!!!!!

2009-01-03T17:24:00.000-08:00

We had a ward christmas party on the 12th of december and Santa came. We thought that it would be fun to let Emily sit on his lap for her first Christmas... well as you can see, she hated it!!!

2009-01-03T17:18:00.000-08:00

We had a really good christmas. We spent the weekend at Grandma and Grandpa Scoville's house. Emily got her new stocking (thanks to Auntie Jory) :) We weren't sure if she would know what was going on, but she got the hang of it really fast. She would just grab a present and bite off the paper, then finish pulling the rest off. She got a new doll, some clothes and pajamas and a few toys. She loved it!! it was really nice to see all of the family and spend some time away from

2008-07-15T17:57:00.000-07:00

Emily's blessing day

2008-07-15T17:50:00.000-07:00

Michael blessed Emily on July 13 in our ward here in Magna. She is a little over 3 months.Lots of people came to see her on her big day. Grandma and Grandpa (both sides) and all of her aunts and uncles and cousins. We loved having everyone here at the house.

Emily is home

2008-05-01T16:40:00.000-07:00

Emily is a butt and she was born on April 2, 2008. We love her so much. she seams to keep us up all night long. we sure can't wait for her to grow up a little and smile at me.

2008-05-01T16:31:00.000-07:00

2007-12-22T11:43:00.000-08:00

Marry Christmas to everyone. Maegan and I are doing very good. I am working hard at Delta Airlines keeping the cabins of the plains in good working condition. Maegan was able to transfer to a branch of Mountain America credit union in West Valley. She likes it here but says that she is on her feet a lot more. Maegan and our baby Girl are doing as good as can be expected, she dosen't like it when the baby kicks her in the blader. Life is good and Socks our cat loves his new home as well. I hope you all have a Merry Christmas. Love you all

Michael and Maegan

2007-12-09T11:32:00.000-08:00

We just moved into our first house the first part of November and love it. We moved to Magna and are getting used to the adjustment. Michael is working for Delta Airlines and Maegan transfered up to a Mountain America Branch up here too. We just found out that we are going to have a baby girl in April and are very excited about that :)