Picture Overload...Baby Boy coming soon...

We had a great 5 months in Texas, but it feels soooo good to be back in Idaho!!  We can actually go outside and play all day long!! Emery has been in LOVE --Rolling around in the green, soft, ant-free grass, and digging in dirt where ever she can find it.  Her knew thing is collecting rocks.  I find them all over my house! haha (And our car.)  Anyways, we are loving being home.  Corey is back in school, doing pretty well, and I have been busy painting rooms, canning with my mom, and chasin' Emerz around.  Oh yeah and preparing for our little man to get here the end of Feb.! Yes that's right, I am about 20 weeks pregnant and we are having a BOY!!!  It's been a bitter sweet road getting to this point but we feel so blessed, and cannot wait for Em to have a little brother. She is so excited to be a big sister.  She has always been so fascinated with babies, so hopefully the transition will go over well.   Sorry for the overload of Pics!!  

Sunday Afternoon Picnic

Discovering a ladybug on daddy's arm :) 

Feeding Black Jack

Em is seriously obsessed with this horse...she even said the baby's name is gonna be Black Jack...oh dear!

Contagious smiles..and giggles!

Blackfoot Fair

Cousins Emery and Dalton

Father's day---better late than never!!

Corey is such an awesome dad. Emery takes advantage of every second she gets to spend with him. She loves swimming with him at the pool, and going to the car wash, and getting suckers at the gas station with him. It's so crazy how much she is like her daddy. (especially like how I hear he was when he was young!) She is so full of energy, and can hardly focus her attention on one thing for more than 5 minutes. I know that one day all that energy will be focused on something amazing. She will be able to achieve great things.

We had fun making daddy some cards...and we got daddy a camping chair! haha classic Dad's day gift.

Em likes to make her dad pretty paintings...

Sorry for the butt shot, but I love this picture. So sweet.

Havin' fun at the pool. She just started swimming by herself today too!!! Look at the similarities in their eyes and smile...she looks A LOT like her daddy.

4th of July Happenings

I love the 4th of July. It's one of my favorite holidays. Emery and her friends made a few crafts for the fun occasion. We went to the parade where Em enjoyed waving and gathering up the candy that was tossed. Later that night we had a BBQ with friends from the office. It was a fun filled night!

So I'm finally admitting that i am the world's worst blogger! ( as you can see.) But I do a lot better when we are away from friends & family so they can see what we are up to. We are once again selling in Texas. Austin area, same as last year. So far things have been really great. Its kinda nice knowing where things are and whats going on. April was so HOT! In the mid and high 90's! It was the hottest April in 156 years! wow. The last couple days have been super nice though. perfect weather. We even had a day this week where it was colder here than in Idaho! Ha. Imagine that. Anyways, other than allergies being EXTREMELY awful we are doing well.

Easter was super fun. On Saturday we went to a near by park with some of the girls and their kids. We took a ride on a little train, got a treat bag for finding an egg, and got to see the Easter BunnY! Em was excited but then when it was her turn she got a little hesitant, so she asked her friend Emrie to come with her. So cute.

When we got home she got to decorate eggs! Em loved it. She concentrated the whole time. Kylee and Keisha came over and also decorated some sugar cookies(that was a little easier...and less of a mess!) On Sunday we had a little easter egg hunt and Em found her basket the Easter bunny hid for her. She got some sidewalk chalk and bubbles to play with on our balcony, since she's out there like all day long!

Noelle was nice enough to snap some super cute pictures of our girls in their Easter outfits. Emery's facial expressions make me laugh. She'll never sit still and look directly at the camera and when she finally does she gives a huge fake cheeseball smile. Haha. These capture her personality for sure.

Happy Birthday Emery!!

Wow time flies by so fast. Corey and I are officially the parents of a two year old! And an amazing one at that;) Here are...just a few;) pics of Emery's "Happy Day!" as she called it.

She loves Elmo so it wasn't hard to think of a theme. It was lots of fun to make this cake, even though one of his eyes is buggin out! haha I also got to make a birthday banner that can be used over and over again. We had a little family party on Sunday. She was a little clueless about what was goin on but she knew everyone was there for her. She got lots of fun stuff and loved every bit of it. Thanks for all who could make it!!

The day before her actual birthday I took her to arctic circle where we had a little, and I do mean little, party for her. She got to have cupcakes, play on the slides, and have one of her best friends, Emrie, to do it with! And thanks to Noelle for snapping some pics for me;) I seriously want a nicer camera!!

This was so precious. Right in the middle of playing, for some reason she felt like praying! "Heavly Fader" she starts. She does pretty well and makes sure to bless everyone in the family and even people she had just met that day. I can't get enough of her adorableness...as i'm sure every parent feels about their own children. Happy Birthday baby girl. We love you!

(Good luck trying to get this girl to look at the camera...and when she does its so fast you cant even catch it.)

Fall Fun

Oh my oh my. Blogging almost seems like more of a task these days...hence the reason my last post was like 4 months ago. whoops! But I know that there are a lot of family and friends that like to keep up on what we're up to (especially Emerz) since they don't get to see us very often, so I will try to do a little better. This fall has been so much fun. Nice weather and lots of activities with family and friends. I must say that fall is definitely my favorite season of all. This year for family night we decided to start the tradition of carving pumpkins! I honestly haven't carved one since I was like 1o or something...so sad. Its fun to do as a family and makes for some fun Halloween decor! Corey got into it and Emery loved taking out the slimy seeds and then putting them back into the pumpkin. It seriously kept her busy for like an hour! Amazing...nothing every keeps this girl busy for even 10 mins! I realized i didn't get a picture with them all lit up...we had company that night so we finished in a rush and then I forgot to do it later. I was about to go out last night and take one last pic of them but i remember that em had been playing with them and she kicked them off of the stairs and now....lets just say they don't look so grand.

Em has also enjoy helping mommy rake up the leaves from our gigantic tree. She also loved scattering back out once I had finally gathered them all up. Stinker.

This Halloween I was a little out of sorts and just not on top of the costumes. Luckily my mother is great at sewing so she imitated a little Indian princess costume I found online. So Em was "potahanas". And i must say she is the most adorable little thing when she tries to say that word! I already had the boots and we cut up an old coon hat my mom had from when my brothers were little for the fur around the top. Throw on an old shell necklace i made years and years ago...(i was looking for something like elk teeth or a bear claw but my dad reminded me that they also gathered shells...so that was easier!) Thanks mom for the last min costume. It looked awesome!

She loved trunk or treating at our church and didn't really have a clue what was going on. All she knew was that she was getting treats and saying thank you about every 2 seconds!

Happy Father's Day!!!

Happy Father's Day to all those wonderful fathers out there! Today when Emery saw Daddy putting on his tie she decided that she needed one too. It was cute to see her look at her daddy and try to copy him and then take his hand, lead him to the door, and say "chuch!" (Church:)

Before all that happened, we let Daddy sleep in since church isn't till 11 and he had to take some friends to the airport at 4am! Once he woke up we started the morning off with one of Daddy's favorite breakfasts, fried eggs, rice, and smoked sausage. He had a Polynesian companion who made it for him on his mission and ever since then he has requested it on many occasions.

After church we came home and Daddy got to find his gifts we made for him.

He loved his homemade card with Em's pink hand prints and messages from both Emery and mommy.

We made him a candy bar poster! I haven't made one in years. I wanted to do something that she could help with and she did just that! Emery had fun helping and loved drawing and coloring on the poster before we put everything on it. I also got just a simple frame and added some of my favorite pics of him and Emery. He was excited and so was emery when he started diggin in to some of the treats! "Nummy nummy nummy!"

We had a great lunch at TGI Fridays down the street and then topped it off with Kawaii's Hawaiian Shaved ice! Basically like sno shack only the ice is shaved much finer. It was so refreshing on a hot day like today!! I always feel so bad for those poor boys out on the doors in this heat:(

Later in the day we had some friends drop off a special fathers day treat for Corey. Isn't this so cute! The fries are little cookies and the hamburger is yummy cake and frosting! What a clever idea! Thanks Jenna and Cassie!

Overall it was just a chillaxin day. I love my hubby more than anything and he is such a great father to our little Emerz. Thanks for being the hard worker you are hun, and providing the way you do for us. We couldn't ask for a better life together! WE LOVE YOU!