Thursday, December 2, 2010

Mine?

We went Christmas shopping last night. We took Emma with us because we thought it would give us a better idea of what she wants for her christmas...

it did...

she wants one of everything...



I think if I hear "I want that one" or "mine please?" one more time I just might have a breakdown...

Next year Emma stays home...

Have a Good Holiday Season Everyone! and remember the REAL reason for the season!

Friday, November 26, 2010

Giving Thanks!

Oh man! There are just so many great holidays this time of year! I am already so excited to decorate for Christmas and start wrapping presents! However, lets not get ahead of ourselves! First, we need to talk about Thanksgiving!

This year Ryan and I decided to do Thanksgiving ourselves. We could not make it home to be with our families and we decided that we would rather not spend our Thanksgiving with the bishop and his family. They are wonderful people and we are grateful that they thought about us, but we just wanted to do it ourselves this year!

When we went to the store to get all of our Thanksgiving goodies they were having a "Turkey Bowl". They had pringles cans set up like pins and rolls of toilet paper to throw at them. If you knocked them all down you won a turkey. Well, Ryan and I both tried and failed. Then it was Emma's turn. They let her stand halfway down the lane so that she was closer to the pins and she threw her two rolls.... and she missed.... but I guess they just thought that she deserved to try again... and again... and again... lol She ended up throwing 6 rolls. But she not only threw them she rolled, threw and even kicked some but could not even get them to the pins. lol I guess they either felt bad for her or they just could not resist how excited she was! lol Anyways, I told her good job and we got up to go finish our shopping and the lady said "Here, she gets one for effort!" and handed us a 12lb turkey! lol It was pretty funny!

Anyways, Thanksgiving morning we had a light breakfast and then played some games together. We had bought some new ones so it was pretty fun. Emma had a blast (after Ryan ran and got the batteries that I forgot... whoops..)!
Helping Daddy put together the game.

Waiting for it to start!

Here come the butterflies!

She caught one!!!
After we played games we made paper snowflakes to decorate our house with for Christmas and then it was time for Emma's nap and some serious cooking.

Emma was not too thrilled with the idea of me cooking her prized turkey! She thought it would be a better idea just to keep it in the fridge and look at it! So we had to wait till after she was down for her nap to go ahead and prepare it! lol Neither Ryan or I had any idea what we were doing so we got on the internet and did some research. We ended up buttering it inside and out and between the skin and meat. After which we stuffed it with apples, oranges and an onion.

 Ready to be cooked!

 4 hours later!

 Carving our Turkey!
 Our feast! Needless to say there were plenty of leftovers!
(pic. won't rotate for some reason... sorry!)


 Emma ready for the blessing!

 Ryan is ready to eat!

Even Bella had a feast. Turkey heart, liver and gizzard! (Eeewww!!)
Our dinner turned out wonderfully and we really enjoyed the day together as a family!

Happy (Late) Halloween!

Ok Ok! I know that I am a slacker! I should have posted these at least before Thanksgiving but I didn't so here they are!

Every year as far back as I can remember on Halloween my Mom always made soup or chili or something like it for dinner before we went out Trick-Or-Treating! I always loved it so this year we had tomato soup with popcorn. Emma really liked it! :)

For Halloween this year we bought Emma a cute little fairy costume and a little wand. However, every time I tried to get her to try it on she would scream and run away. Well one of her friends had a little costume party and so we took it with us thinking that if she saw all the other kids dressing up in their costumes she would want to also. No such luck. However, her little friend Maddie also had a costume that she hated because she wanted to be a fairy like her sister. As soon as Emma saw Maddie's costume she fell in love! So, in a n effort to make the children happy we offered them a solution. This year Maddie went as a fairy and Emma got to be an...

Elephant!





We went to the Trunk-Or-Treat at the church and Emma loved it! Once she realized that all she had to do was say "Trick-or-treat" and people put candy in her bucket it became the greatest holiday EVER! She still says it every now and again hoping i'll cave and giver her a piece of candy!

Even though Ryan and I did not dress up Emma was not alone! Bella went as a Mummy! lol


After we got home from the Trunk-or-treat we watched a movie and handed out candy, which Emma did not think was quite as fun as getting it but she did really like seeing all the kids in costumes coming to the door! (She still gets excited every time someone knocks on the door!) It turned out to be a great Halloween and a lot of fun!

Friday, October 1, 2010

Lattin's Pumpkin Patch

Last year we took Emma to a pumpkin patch and it was a ton of fun so we decided that we would make it a tradition in our family! Today Emma and I went with some friends to a place called Lattin's Pumpkin Patch. Ryan could not make it so we will probably go again as a family but we did have a lot of fun!

 While we were waiting for the tour to start Emma and her friends rode the carousel and other things. 



 



(Ali Explaining to Emma that she needs to hold on tight!) 

The first thing they do is take the kids in and show them where they grind and squeeze the apples and they all get fresh apple cider and an apple cider doughnut. 

After this they take the kids out to see the animals! They give each kid a little paper bag of oats to give to feed to the goats, chickens and sheep. 
                            





After all of the kids are done feeding the animals they take them all into a little maze! It was so cute to see all of these little kids running around! 



Next comes the tractor ride out to the pumpkin patch!!!






Emma was so excited when she saw all of the "Punkins"! At first she wanted them all and it took some explaining for her to understand that she could only choose one to take home






 But she did eventually find one and she sang  about it all the way home! It was so cute!


Wednesday, September 8, 2010

3 Years and Counting!



Our 3rd Wedding Anniversary


Our really good friend Jessy watched Emma all day so we could spend time together and not have to worry about her! We do not get to spend time alone very often anymore so it was a very welcome relief! Thanks Jessy!!!

The very first thing we did in the morning was to go and pick up our new toy! A Kawasaki Vulcan 900 Limited Classic! We love it! We spent most of the day just riding around! We had lunch at a cute little '50's diner and then went for a ride and later that evening we had dinner at Shari's! It was so good! We planned to go black light miniature golfing but they were closed by the time we got there! But we still had an amazing time just being together!

I am so lucky to have a man like Ryan as my husband! I love him more and more each day! We have our ups and downs just like anyone but luckily the ups outweigh the downs dramatically! We cannot wait to see what the future holds for us and are very excited to be able to grow old together!
I Love You Ryan!!



I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickn


A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. ~Anne Taylor Fleming

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Emma, Emma, Emma!


These are a few of my favorite things!

Yesterday I was sitting at the computer with Emma on my lap and she saw that my fingernails were painted and she was talking to me about it. All of a sudden she gets down off my lap and grabs my finger to lead me over to the closet. I opened it so she could show me what she wanted and she pointed to the box of fingernail polish. I grabbed it and she ran over and sat down on the floor and tried to take her socks off meanwhile saying "Purple!" over and over again. So I painted her toes and when we were done she chose a pink bottle and proceeded to tell me "more". Ryan and I were laughing the whole time! She is such a girly girl!

Anyways this got me thinking that I should write down some of the funny/cute things that she does. So here goes! hopefully it wont get too long! ;)......

1.) When I gave her the new bike Ryan and I bought her and she sat on it for the first time and looked straight up at me with a huge grin and said “Thank You!” Priceless….

"While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about." ~Angela Schwin

2.) She will walk over to the dogs water dish and lean over it with her tongue out to try and drink like them... (We are just glad we always catch her in time!)

"A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often." ~Author Unknown

3.) She comes into the bathroom when I am doing my hair and asks to have her hair done too!

A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap. ~Author Unknown

4.) I gave her one of my old purses and she will get it out and put her pretend cell phone (thanks Aunt Liz) in it and carry it around the house… (Guess she watches me more than I realized! Lol)

"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next." ~Franklin P. Jones

5.) She tries to help Mommy feed the dogs and when dog food gets EVERYWHERE she looks at me with a grin and says “Uh-Oh, The doggy!” (makes it a little less frustrating!)

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing." ~Phyllis Diller

6.) She will follow Bella around the house saying “Lella” until she stops and looks at her. (Bear is still just “doggy”)

7.) The other day I was doing yoga and she was trying to do it with me! J

"If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded." ~Robert Brault

8.) She loves her daddy! She recognizes his truck and will say “Daddy, truck” and if she sees his uniforms while I am doing laundry she points and says “Daddy” and when we saw a man in Fred Meyer wearing an Army uniform she insisted that it was Daddy and then cried when we didn’t go with him…

9.) When we are driving in the car and a motorcycle is passing us she yells “bike!”! When it is a semi she yells “Truck!”

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million." ~Walt Streightiff

10.) The wind blew the bedroom door closed and she says *gasp* "Daddy!"

11.) If the dog gets one of her toys she will take it from them and bring it to me to tell on them saying "The doggy..." with a little scowl on her face!

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." ~Franklin P. Jones

12.) My parents came to stay for a few days and the day after they left she went into the room where they stayed and pointed at the deflated air mattress and just said "Nana"...

13.)

"A Picture is worth a thousand words!" (2 pictures?.... well you decide!)

There are about a million other things that she does regularly or has done recently but I think that is probably enough for now... :)