Cabbage Patch

So I dug out my Cabbage Patch dolls the other day at my Mom and Dad's. Do any of you remember the craze??? I remember the Christmas I got my first one. Camilla Frieda is her name. I know my Mom went nuts trying to track down 4 that year. I think she ended up with 6 and ended up having to sell 2. Anyway, I've been wanting to do this because Emmalyn is in love with her little premie doll she got last year for Christmas and I thought she would like mine.

I guess you could say I was right. She loves them!!! She carried all 3 around until bedtime. She watched T.V. with them and even tucked all 3 into bed. But then Monday I insisted they have a bath. They were dirty and dusty, so we bathed them in a bucket and the picture below is how we dried them. I thought it was kinda funny. Emma is so obessed with the dolls that we had to go check on them a few times yesterday and again today to see if they were dry yet. Well, they are officially dry but now I am holding them hostage until Emma can get her act together and go to the toilet. She doesn't know they're dry yet so I am expecting a bit of a melt down tomorrow when she sees them up on the shelf and can't have them. So sad:( But I gotta hold something over her, right?

The Pigtails!

Here they are...the pigtails. Well, actually we call them firecrackers. It's not much but we're still pretty excited about them:)

August 2008

August started with a trip to New York with Jeff's family. We left the kids with my parents and took off for a busy weekend. We had so much fun in spite of missing flights and running from terminal to terminal trying to catch any flight we could. Seriously! Well it's because we fly standby. We went to LAX on a Thursday night and missed 2 flights so we crashed at a nearby hotel and got up early the next morning to try again. We were going to try one flight and at the last second changed our minds and tried a different one and thank goodness we made it. Our flight was long especially since we didn't even get to sit next to each other. So all there really was to do was play the in flight trivia game which as you can see by the pictures I was the ultimate winner for the day!!! I am very proud that I know a lot of random junk. Just kidding, I don't really know anything, it's all about the guessing. Anyway, it was a lot of fun. What was not fun was sitting on the plane for an hour and a half or so after we landed. Ugh! Like sitting on the plane for 5 hours while in the air isn't bad enough, we had to sit there and wait for a people mover to come get us because they didn't have a gate for us to go to. We were stuck on board with a bunch of stressed out people that had to make connecting flights. Any way, we made it and saw Mary Poppins that night. Then Saturday we went to the Angels game at Yankee Stadium. This was really the purpose of the trip, to go to Yankee Stadium before it is demolished. Boy did we ever get the full Yankee experience with the constant badgering from the fans and the foul language. Oh and on the subway too, we almost saw a brawl between a girl who wouldn't let this guy cut her off in line. It was hilarious. We did a lot of walking around Saturday and just tried to see all that we could in our short visit. We came home on Sunday and actually spent many hours at JFK trying to make flights. Oh and then we finally make one and sit on the plane for like 2 hours before taking off. Just a tip, don't fly into and out of JFK it's awful. I'm sure LaGuardia is way better. It just has to be.
Cameron turned the big 1 on the 9th. We spent the day at the beach, which he mostly slept through. He got 2 parties this year. One at my parents house and one at Jeff's parents house the following weekend. Jeff's cousin got married up in Salt Lake so he and Cameron went for the weekend. He's walking all over and starting to run now. He's a lot of fun.
We had another big weekend toward the end of the month with my family. My niece Ashlen was baptized on Saturday the 20th and then Sunday my nephew Zachary was blessed. It was a fun weekend and Emmalyn loved playing with her cousins.

July 2008

July started our busy fun summer. As you already know it started with Jeff passing his final exam and achieving the designation of Fellow. We finished swim lessons. We are soooo glad we paid the bucks for lessons this year. Emma has so much more fun in the water and is way more comfortable which was very handy for our annual trip to Lake Powell. We had a great time! Emma skiid on the u-board by herself for the first time and Cameron skiid with Jeff for his first time. They wake boarded too. Of course you can't really tell by the looks on their faces but they really do like it. I forgot to add a picture of Emma's pigtails (if you can really call them that) in the slide show so I'll post a separate one. We are pretty excited to finally have enough hair to put a rubberband or clip in. We also hit a Dodger game with fireworks and an Angel game. Our kids love baseball! I'm sure I'm leaving stuff out but we did have a great summer!

June 2008

So things are settling down and I'm almost organized:) I think I'm just going to give you a quick overview of each of the last few months starting with June. June started our days at the pool and at the beach. Emmalyn started swim lessons at the end of the month and loved going to her pool at Ms. Debbie's house. She did great and learned how to float on her back, big arms and big kickers. We spent a week oh I mean a weekend at the Huffmire's with their 5 kids. Needless to say when there are 7 kids around that it was a busy weekend but we had a great time.