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.

Living Life!

So I know you haven't heard from me in a while but I've been busy living life instead of blogging about it:) (Thanks to Deneal for helping me not feel bad about not blogging and to Stevan, please your wife does all your blogging what do you know?). I will catch you all up on our fun summer soon. I have to get organized (story of my life)!

For He's a Jolly Good FELLOW!!!

That's right all, I am married to a Fellow. Jeff passed his final exam of 9 to reach his final designation as a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society. This is HUGE!!! I have to give this shout out to my most brilliant husband. This is no easy task. 9 exams in all. He studied hundreds and hundreds of hours. We're talking 6 months of studying for each one. We just found out that he passed his last one this afternoon. In case you're wondering what in the world Jeff chose as an occupation, he is an actuary. Basically, he is a numbers guy. He sets the prices and rates for auto and homeowners insurance. His degree is in Actuarial Science aka Statistics.
Anyway, I am so very proud of him and selfishly so glad that he will never have to study again. Because that means I will have more time with him at home. Great job Jeffrey!!!

This is a picture of his candidate number 00118. Maybe our new lucky number:)

Of course a photo of him with his number.

Roly Poly Hadalulah

Okay so Emmalyn has always been a huge fan of the Hymn book from a very young age and loves to sing in church. Today we sang the Battle Hymn of the Republic for our opening song in Sacrament meeting and she sang it the entire day. We meet at 9am. Only her version of the chorus goes...roly poly hadalulah instead of glory, glory hallelujah. It's been such great entertainment all day! We've been having her perform for everyone.
She is at that age where she actually will get songs stuck in her head. Usually, they are songs from Backyardigans but every once in while something else will get stuck. Oh, last week she came home from church singing Mary had a little Lamb. We've never even sung that with her. She must have learned it in nursery.

Potty Training

So I've heard that potty training can happen when the parents are ready and willing to do it. So, I decided about 2 weeks ago that it was time. Emmalyn is 2 years 4 months and a smart one so I decided I was ready and therefore she was too. We did a 5 day count down. I told her in 5 days she was going to get to wear "undies"(that's what we've decided to call them) and put her you know in the toilet. She was very excited and caught on to the count down. Then last Monday came and we went for it. I had prepared for this by purchasing play dresses. I figured if she were to have an accident at least I would have to change her clothes if she just had a dress on. Well let me just tell you that the first day we went through all 6 pairs of undies and 3 dresses. At the end of the day I was wondering what in the world was I thinking but told myself give it a week. The 2nd day was a little better. I think we managed to keep it down to 2 dresses but still all 6 pairs of undies. By the end of day 2 I was ready to give up but just kept telling myself only 5 more days. I was determined to give it an entire week. Thank goodness! Each day got a little better and by day 5 she was on the right track. We have just finished day 9 and are doing pretty good. She of course still has accidents but she's catching on.
We're not done yet, I'll keep you posted but so far this has been quite the experience. I think I could have waited a few more weeks but now that I've started, I can't stop. It is nice only changing one diaper even if I do have to clean up an accident here or there.

Blogging

Okay so I have not been the greatest blogger. Honestly, I feel like my life is too boring and that I have nothing to blog about, until recently. We've actually done a few things worth mentioning. Really our lives are not that boring, I guess I'm just not used to sharing our adventures and milestones yet. I'm getting there. Anyway, as you can see I was very busy tonight and posted some stuff for y'all to look at. Jeff was busy watching the Lakers lose:( Bummer!!! Glad I didn't waste my time on that game and blogged instead:)