Another girl!!

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!

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...

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...

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

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!!!

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!!!

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!!