It's official

Emma is officially crawling. She took her first real crawl on the 26th. Almost my birthday. Darn it!! She's now discovering that she can really get around and it taking advantage of it. So far she hasn't gotten into anything she shouldn't. Although with the boys home she doesn't have a chance to do much of anything. We'll see how it goes when they go back to school. It won't be soon enough. I'm sick of the constant bickering. my nephews are coming in for a few days on the 2nd to visit my sis-in-law. The boys (esp Erik) are excited to see them. They haven't seen each other in over 2 years. I hope everyone has a Happy New Year. I'm debating staying up or going to bed. I worked last night and didn't get much sleep today.

Emma's 1st Christmas

Just a few pictures to show you of Emma in her Christmas dress her Aunt Karie got her. She also really liked the bows on the presents. She didn't care much for the presents themselves. Glad i didn't spend alot of money on her or I would have been disapointed. I'll post more later. I hope everyone is having a good day.

Merry Christmas

Just wanted to tell everyone Merry Christmas. This is in leiu of a card this year since I wasn't organized. I hope everyone has a wonderful day. Our love and best wishes go out to everyone.

8 month birthday

Yesterday was Emma's 8 month birthday. What a fun and exciting 8 month's it has been. How did I ever live without her? She brings such joy to me and everyone around her. She's learning so much and is getting quite the personality. She doesn't really care for the big bows I put on her head (as you can see above) but I'm more stubborn than her. I hope she always stays this sweet. But of course she's going to be a teenager someday and most likely will not bring such joy anymore. :0) So that's why I'm going to enjoy every moment I have now. God has taught me so much since bringing her into my life. I wish I could go back and do things different with my boys. But I can't so I have to move on and make each day count. So I challenge everone to live like there is no tomorrow, laugh often and love unconditionally.

UGH Christmas!!!!

UGHHHHH I'm so frustrated. Why did I take a vacation at the beginning of December? I wanted to do a family picture postcard thing for this year. We'll it's the 11th of December and I can't seem to getthe family together long enough and presentable enough to get a picture done. Emma has no Christmas presents, Colin and Erik each have one. I work the next 2 days,off a couple and back again for 3 more. That only leaves a few days before Christmas. I still have to get bills paid, go to doctors appt, make cookies with the kids, and if I have time to shop still wrap presents. Emma's sick, Vern's sick (need I say more) so I'm doing all of Emma's care while trying to do all this with a crabby baby. So instead I'm sitting here at my computer and venting on my blog instaed of doing what I can before going to work.

vacation

Well we've been on vacation for the last week. We are staying with Vern's parents in Sheridan. It's rained everyday we've been here. We went to Washington to see my dad Monday and I-5 got shut down about 20 min. after we passed due to flooding. We got some pictures but they're on the other camera so we have to wait till we get home to post them since we didn't bring the cable with us. They also had flooding in Sheridan and had to evacuate part of the town. Luckily my inlaws weren't affected. We had dinner with my dad, his wife Virginia, my aunt,uncle, cousin, her baby and hubby and a few others. It was nice to be able to see them and show of Emma. Of course she was a hit. My cousins boy, Ethan, is about 5 months older than her and she's almost as big as him. Trying to get pictures of the two of them together was exciting. It was like the paparrazzi hounding them. Ethan was covering his hand over his eyes and Emma spent most of the time just staring. Later that night we met with Vern's ex-wife and met his daughter for the first time. He hadn't seen her since she was 2 yrs old. It was exciting. Poor girl was overwhelmed. She's an only child so it was alot for her to process brothers and a sister. We hope that we'll be able to participate in her life. She wants to be a photographer and is hoping to go to a school in Montana in June. Well I better go....we're going to some friends house for dinner. Ciao to all......