Annual Santa Pic

 

So we had our Annual Ward Christmas party last Saturday and of course the visit from Santa. Emma was very excited this year to see him. Cameron on the other had well the picture says it all. I love this picture. So a week or so ago Emma asked me what Santa was going to bring her. So I asked her what she wanted and she couldn't come up with anything so of course Jeff and I had already decided what she would want I began to train her what to ask Santa for.
Me, "Would you like your own kitchen to cook in?"
Emma, "Ya!"
Me, "Would you like some food for your kitchen and an apron?"
Emma, "YA!!! and maybe some chairs for me and Cameron to sit in and dishes"

I think the list got longer. Obviously she got the point and will likely be very please Christmas morning:) She has also been watching The Polar Express and now is asking for Jingle Bells from Santa's Sleigh. We'll see what we can do.

Highlights!

Here are some highlights from the last couple of months. Christmas started really early for us this year because we decided we wanted to take our parents to see Wicked and we had to make sure his parents could travel here, etc. We love that show! I've seen it 3 times now and Jeff twice. We had the kids in a tumbling class this fall which was fun. They seemed to like it. Conference of course was great. Emmalyn didn't seem to be able to stay seated a focused though. Tell me a 2 year old that can. She was crackin us up with the dolls, the la la's(blankets) and the fact that she had to park it right on top of us. The whole reason I took a picture of the flip flops was because my sister-in-law had just blogged about breaking her favorite pair just days before mine broke so I was going to blog about mine when it happened but well you know how up to date I am with the blogging. Anyway, that one is for you Kylie. I'm going to keep you all posted on Emmalyn's hair. Why? you may ask. Well, just because it kills me that my almost 3 year old has less hair than many 6 month olds and I am very excited to see it growing. Even though she hates to have me comb it or do pigtails or anything to it. I took Emma to the open house at the Fire Station because she LOVES fire trucks. We had a good time. Jeff and Cameron were off to St. George for his cousin's wedding. Like many of you we also spent some time campaigning for Prop 8 and I just had to share with you the vandalism we received. I'm pretty sure I know who did it and while at first I was kinda mad, now I just laugh. Of course there was Halloween. We had a good time this year dressing up as Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. We had a lot of parties and activities so we dressed up a lot and got good use of our costumes. Jeff and I got to stow away to Seattle for 4 days in November without the kids. We had a good time when Jeff wasn't in meetings. It was his annual conference and he was recognized for receiving his FCAS (Fellow of the Casualty Acturial Society) designation. Kids got to go to Grandma and Grandpa Wenny's(Farr) for the week in Utah. We had a great Thanksgiving at my sister Kelly's. We missed Mom and Dad and Maw-Maw and Pa-Pa as they were off to Arizona at my brother's. I have no pictures to show for it but my brother-in-law Dustin or Emeril as we like to call him now made a great turkey. His first one! Then the Saturday after Thanksgiving Jeff and I finally made it around to having our house painted. The picture of him is taking down the shelf above the washer and dryer. It was on there pretty good. Anyway, since then we have been doing home improvements. Just little things here and there. I've decided after almost 4 years of marriage and 2 kids it is time to make my house my own and take pride in ownership:) Well, now done blabbing. I wonder if anyone is still reading or just skipped to the slideshow??? Hmmm...I probably would have just skipped to the slideshow.

Minnie Mouse or Daisy Duck???

Okay so I know I have been terrible with blogging but as always I am re-committing to doing better:) This little story happened a few days ago now but I still chuckle when I think about it so I'll share it with you all.

I was getting Emmalyn dressed one day and this is a conversation we had...

Me, "Come here skinny Minnie"
Emma, "I'm not skinny Minnie"
Me, "You're not? Well who are you then?"
Emma, "I'm skinny Daisy"

She was wearing her Daisy Duck undies after all. I thought it was pretty cute. I guess she prefers Daisy over Minnie:)

YES on Prop 8!

Here's a little video clip from preservingmarriage.com that I thought summed up pretty effectively the reasons to vote YES on Proposition 8.

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.