Christmas Shoot

We did a little photo shoot with Emmy for Christmas. These are the best smiles I've ever seen on this girl. She usually is not looking at the camera and smiling or looking at the camera with  goofy eyebrows. Even still, always an angel in my eyes!

10 months

Emmy says a lot of things. Things that are very hilarious. Some not so understandable, some completely brilliant and mind boggling. And most of them , I forget. I also forget  how fast she (we) grow up. And then it's gone. So I return to my blog. I can definitely type up a blog post faster then writing in a journal. Yesterday Emmy said, " Mom if uncle Jake gets any taller I won't be able to marry him..." (for a while she wanted to just marry her cuz Gage. But then he was into the whole 'I'm marrying my mom' and Emmy would have none of that. So who's next in line but uncle Jake.)
It's things like these that can bring a smile. Though not very significant now, it will be in 10 years when she might actually really think getting married, (heaven help us!)
And so I update the blog....
FEBRUARY

                                                           Dance stretches on the stairs

                                   At the 'fancy' hotel in Rexburg to see Heidi's Opera Scenes

                                                             Heidi was phenomenal!

Took these cute kids (Emmy, Liv, Gav) to Mary Poppins at a local High School.

                                             Then to YOGURTZ for serve yourself fro yo
MARCH

               Emmy is almost always in a dress up clothes. Here she is stirring  vegetable soup!

                                                          Princesses Lucy, Emmy and Jenna

                                                            Scooter riding with Grandpa

                                                    Practicing her smiles for the camera

                                           Secret Garden rehearsals! ( I was the music director for the Boise Music Week musical this year. These people became family. We spent a lot of time together and had SOOO much fun. If you haven't heard SG music, it is FABULOUS!

Just a cross walk away from the greenbelt. We went on many an adventure finding sticks, animals and brought home loads of rocks!

MAY

                                                                Chelsea is pregnant

                                          Fakir (Johnny) and the Ayah from Secret Garden

                             Albert (Uncle Carl) and some girl who looks really quite awkward

                               I went to my LAST year of training for Let's Play Music. Emmy and I stayed with cousin April. Emmy still talks about playing with 'those other cousins'. We made an impromptu stop when  Emmy asked, " Doesn't Linz live in Utah?" I replied "She did before she went to heaven." Emmy sweetly replies, " Well her SPIRIT is in heaven but her body is still in Utah so let's go visit her" So we did.

                                                           Baby Milo!

                                            Wedding planner Livia spruces up Emmy and slicks Gage's hair back for their 'wedding'. Remember, before the big fall out Emmy was going to marry Gage. Here they are walking down the isle.

            I probably should have stopped it but I was too busy laughing,  taking hilarious pictures. Sorry if kissing cousins offends you.

                                                                Post ceremony dance.

                                                    Emmy, Riley (the dog) and June Thomas. Our dear friend who Emmy and I used to take to church every Sunday before she went to assisted living. 94 and still kickin'!

JUNE

 

 



                                     Emmy LOVES to dance! Thanks to Mrs. Sherri! Best dance teacher EVER!!!!

                               I ALWAYS look for deals. $1.47 for cute zipper Old Navy pants!

                                                     Waiting for the recital to start

                                                               Grandma Great

                                                              Our new home!!

                                                   Riley RARELY let me take pictures of him. Here we are at Luciano's, a local Italian restaurant that is DELICIOUS! We then drove up to Garden Valley and saw Starlight Mountain's theater Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

                                 Happy Father's Day! A dutch oven and a special note from Emmy

               Driving Emmy to swim lessons and a bird poops right on my arm! Sadly this is not the first, second or third time this has happened. Go figure.

                                                   Meridian Dairy Days on a SUPER hot day!

  From a weird little estate sale store out of someone's 10,000 sq ft house in meridian.

A screamin' deal from the DI. Jake received this beauty for his birthday. You're welcome

 

JULY

.....to be continued

 

Llama

So, it's really been a while sine I've blogged.
Reason being I  couldn't remember the password to sign on to the blogger.
I asked Riley.
We always have pretty much the same password for EVERYTHING.
Riley knows intricate facts about the 49ers, Joe Montana bla bla.
I tried all our various ways of our beloved password.
I figured I just would start a new blog.
Then
Today
I was looking at some college picture of me and my bosom cousin.
She loved llamas.
I'm not really sure why.
Maybe her sister knows.
I looked at a certain picture I have of her gently stroking a llama figurine one of her sisters gave her.
Then I remembered my password.
Thanks, Linz.
Couldn't have done it without you.
END

9 to 5

For the entirety for our married life, (6 years!!!) Riley has not had a normal 9-5 job. When we met he worked at an in between house for juvenile offenders, from then on he has been in the medical field, of sorts, which of course have always been open 24/7. We've always had to worry about whether he was going to work on Thanksgiving or Christmas. He ALWAYS worked Saturdays.

 I am not complaining. We are grateful for the jobs he has had. But we are SSSOOOO grateful that he only has 2 more days in a job like that!!! On Thursday he starts a 9-5 job, getting to basically pick his own hours and can sometimes work from home! What?! 

Here's to Thanksgiving AND Christmas with my husband for the first time EVER!!! 

I suspect there will be a lot more of this going on.

Remember

As the battle for getting a brother or sister to Emmy wages on, I think..." will the taking over your brain calendaring, crying, 'wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin', plannin' dreamn' ever end?
Then I blow my nose and just watch Emmy for while.
We started to eat lunch today, ( fast Sunday) and she reminded us to pray.
A little sunbeam tried saying the prayer last Sunday and was scared and started to cry. When she sat back down, Emmy put her arm around her, rubbed her cheek and said, " It'll be okay. You must be very tired"
She helps me do hard things.
While making bread with me today she said, Mom this is fun! Like a mommy daughter date! Let's do it again next Sunday.
The list goes on.
I am thankful I have her.
I need to remember, that is good enough!

Alive and Well: Lava Hot Springs, Easter, AT

 Loving the 'cow with horns' checking into our hotel.

 Emmy couldn't wait to go to sleep in the big bed. The hotel was having it's 99th birthday, I assumed the bed shared the same birth year. Blah.

 camo doo rag

 THE BEST EVER pizza place!!! Homemade sauce, mozzarella, pepparoni, dough...ah! So delicious!

 Riley and Emmy walking down to our mineral pool we had all to our selves. Quite nice.

                                                 

 Then, in the middle of now where there was a piece of a WWI submarine.

 We were really excited to go to the Shoshone Ice Caves. When we got there we found a locked gate...

 and this... (that is an indian riding a dinosaur by the way).

 angry

here comes Easter 

Church easter egg hunt with cousin Jake

 These eggs were really hidden well

 At grandma greats

 Dying eggs at Grandma and Grandpa Spjutes

 The loot

Mini Legos

Tasting mashed potat for Eater Dinner

SIMPLOT HILL

We went to simplot hill for family night. 

 

AT ( annual training=Riley leaves for two weeks to go train in the desert)

We got to go visit for Family Day

 best buds

 HUM V's galore

 This is where Daddy spend 90% of his time at AT, in the medic vehicle

 The LOUD 50 cal. practicing their range shooting

 Where he sleeps.

 Hangin out on the hummer waiting for the bus to come

 Those things do not look comfy

 That is the shower blowing in the wind:)

 Love that blue sky!

 The is the road you take to get to the middle of no where

 Lovin' the 'stache! its coming off the second he gets home.

 Climbing into a  BIG 'ol truck.

 Emmy was everyone's favorite.

At Least they have porta potties!

                                                  

I have moved up in the world and have the ability to upload pics to our laptop!