Thursday, December 2, 2010
Mine?
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!
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..)!
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.
Happy (Late) Halloween!
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
Friday, October 1, 2010
Lattin's Pumpkin Patch
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
3 Years and Counting!





Thursday, September 2, 2010
Emma, Emma, Emma!
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... :)
