Day of LOVE!

Koby left Sunday around noon for a business trip. He didn't get back until Tuesday afternoon. Monday Emi and I had a fun day with M'liss, Kate, and Spence who all slept over with us Sunday night. M'liss took Kate and Emi's pictures for Valentine's day. They turned out SO cute!! I'm not sure that I have one that is a favorite, maybe a few that are favorites:) For Valentine's day Koby got us Lady Antebellum tickets. We also gave Koby's mom a ticket for her birthday, so Koby's parents came with us. It was a way fun concert!!! The only thing I would change is being pregnant:) It was on the warm side, I was having contractions, and sitting in general right now is just not very comfortable. Emi and I were so excited to see Koby that it made the day that much more exciting and full of love for us!! It was a fun day! Enjoy the pictures:)

This is the house that WE built...

Ok, ok we did not build our house, but you know when you make something or build something and you just feel so dang proud? That is how Koby and I are feeling (I'm pretty sure Koby is feeling this way anyway:)) after one of our weekend projects. See if you can spot the difference in these photos.





Can you see it? Our counter tops were horrible. White with fork marks and some chips and SO easy to stain. I did not like them from the moment we moved in. Koby was looking around at stuff and found a counter top kit. You sand, wash, paint, spray, sprinkle, let dry (12 hours), scrape, sand, vacuum, paint, let dry (48 hours), and you are done! It was a lot more hard labor than Koby had anticipated, but we love the results! Don't worry I didn't make him do all the work, but I definitely didn't do the amount he did. Koby also replaced all the door knobs and light fixtures in our house from gold to brushed nickel. It looks so nice!! We had enough of the counter top stuff leftover so we did our upstairs small bathroom counter top as well.




Oh, and this is what Emi looks like when she chooses what she wears! LOL!! She even posed herself:)



This is what I look like 6 months or 27 weeks pregnant! I know I look so big, at least I feel like I look so big!! Not my favorite pic of myself but it will have to do:)

Our Christmas

We had all of our usual Christmas parties, a long with a few birthday parties. Our first party was Koby's work party. He won a Barbacoa (sp?) gift card oh yeah and an ipad!!! I still can't believe he won it, not that he's not lucky or anything. It was pretty awesome, but how do you follow up an ipad? It probably made Christmas a little less exciting for him. Anyway, Koby's parents took all of us to a breakfast with Santa. Let me just say this to anyone that doesn't know Emi real well, she doesn't do well around men-not even her grandpas or uncles.

After breakfast they called up each table to sit on Santa's lap. I decided that we might as well act like Santa is a good guy and just set her on his lap. She FREAKED! So I sat with her and got our picture taken. LOL! My face is bright red and she is screaming! We all had fun anyway:)

We were able to help celebrate Kate's birthday in Logan and then make it back in time for the Bawden Christmas party that night. The Friday before Christmas we got to celebrate Landon's birthday. The next day, being Christmas Eve, was not such a good day at our house. Well, I wasn't feeling so hot. My stomach hurt so bad. I took two bites of my cereal and had to lay down. Later, an hour or two before we had to leave I threw-up the toast so lovingly made for me by Koby. I felt a little bit better and then we got to Koby's parent's house and I started not feeling so good. Koby's sister Jen took really good care of me and everyone was really nice to let me take over the couch til I felt well enough to sit up. After sending off our red balloons for Jesus' birthday or to someone in Heaven that we love, we went inside and opened up our gifts.

After gifts we headed around the corner and down the street to my parent's house. I still was not feeling good so I watched while everyone else "acted" out the Nativity. We opened presents and watched the kids play for a bit. Soon after we got home I threw-up again.

Christmas day turned out to be a lot better than Christmas Eve. We came down and opened our Jesus presents (a present that is church oriented) and then headed into the kitchen to make breakfast. We got Emi a little table and chairs and had it set up in there. She loved and was grining ear to ear!

While breakfast was cooking Emi got to see what Santa brought her. She got a little indoor slide and a couch.

She absolutely loved them! She got puffs in her stocking which she ate like candy (they lasted about 2 days), some color wonder markers and paper, and some other things. Koby and I gave her clothes, big legos, boots, and a babydoll stroller. She was so cute with her doll in the stroller, but then she thought it was her turn to ride:) We were so blessed this Christmas and are so thankful that we were able to see all of our grandparents and almost all of our families at this special time of year! We are so grateful for the greatest gift that our Heavenly Father has given us in the sacrifice of his Son, Jesus Christ.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

Emi is going to be Little Red Riding Hood this year for Halloween. We had our first Halloween party on Wednesday at Koby's parent's house. She was SO dang cute in her costume!! I made it myself, which I'm pretty proud about. For the Halloween party the kids all get in their costumes and have a costume parade. Emi was being a little grumpy so I had to carry her around. As we came back around Emi held up her basket with her pumpkin in it.

little red!

Here's what Emi's pumpkin said...

Emi's pumpkin...didn't get one in the basket

I had to practically wave the basket around for anyone to realize there was something in Emi's basket! Koby's dad noticed first so everyone was kind of catching on. Then we came back around with the other side of the pumpkin showing. Everyone was so surprised that we already knew what we were having. We had to rush off to a Korean concert that we already had planned, so we didn't really get to talk to everyone. After the concert we told my parents.

The next day Emi and I went with the Bawden girls and kids to Gardner Village and then to a park for lunch. Emi had a blast playing with Ruby at the park.

Ruby tellin Emi a secret!

Just a cute pic I took before the Halloween party

We spent the weekend up in Logan. We spent Friday night at my grandparent's house. We were the only ones staying that night and Emi really warmed up to my grandparents. She is normally really shy, but this time she came right up to my grandma and reached up for her to hold her. The next day we met Jare and Lind's family at the Pumpkin walk. We go every year. They always have really fun displays! Near the end of the walk Emi showed everyone her pumpkin. My grandma thought we were joking!

Some of you may think we're crazy, or that it's fun, or that we should have waited longer. Believe me I have had so many different thoughts that I'm sure we've had the same at some point! We are super excited to be adding another princess to our family in April and can't wait to see what life brings next!!

Us in front of the Tangled display, showing our pumpkin

The Latest...

First off-on September 10 I ran a Marathon. Ok, let me clearify. I ran 1/5 of a marathon. Not so long ago in August my friend Becky asked me if I would be interested in running a relay marathon. I said yes because all that I'd have to run is 5.2 miles. At the time I was training to do a 1/2 marathon so I thought this would be cake! Well, we went to Washington for a family reunion in between then and the relay marathon and my training went out the window. Before Washington I was up to 4 miles, after I could hardly run 3. I had a lot of fun training for the relay and got to know some of my ward friends a lot better. So here's how the relay worked: there were five of us and we each had to run 5.2 miles. We handed of a baton to the next person and then they ran the same course that the person before had just run. I was the 4th runner. The Thursday before the race my friend, Alyssa and I decided that we were going to try to run the length of the race. We did it under an hour, which we both felt very proud of. Well, me being the 4th runner in the actual race was not such a good thing because I had been training at night when it was really cool, so even though it wasn't that hot outside, the heat really slowed me down. I ended up finishing in about an hour. I was a little disappointed with myself for not getting a better time, but all in all I'm super proud of myself for finishing 5.2 miles twice in one week!:) Here's some pics of the event.

Next-The Sunday after the race my sis M'liss took our family pictures. I'm just going to put one until she is done photoshopping them:)

Last-Emi went to the Dr. for her 15 month check up. We had to miss the 12 month one because her Dr moved before her birthday. Anyway, Emi had to get her finger pricked to check her iron. Later at the check up she had to get 4 shots! It was the hardest check-up I've had to sit through. She cried the whole time! Her new Dr is so much like her old one that it is crazy! Here are the stats for 15 month old Emi: Height-29 3/4 inches. This is the 40th percentile. Weight-19.13 lbs. This puts her in the 10th percentile for weight. Tall and skinny like her daddy! That's seems to be a trend with her:)

Summer Time!

Gosh I love summer! Well, let me rephrase that-I love Summer when I can be by a pool, lake, or some form of water! We have gone swimming a lot this summer. Emi even has a tan line in the roll of her arm! Emi and I went with the Bawden girls and kids to the Magna pool and had a blast! Emi absolutely loved the splash pad, even though it was spraying her in the face the whole time! I got my first sunburn of the season there. Having a kid to worry about helps to remind you to put your sunscreen on, but sometimes you don't get it spread out very well :) We went swimming for our ward's swim night, which was fun but kinda cold. We also went swimming for our parent's ward's swim night. Later that month we headed up to Lava for a family reunion. The family reunion must have worn Emi right out because she fell asleep on my shoulder while we were IN THE POOL!!! Koby went off the highest swim platform with Nate-who is only 7-more than once! We also got to go to Bear Lake twice in one week. First to Koby's grandparent's cabin and then we went up to Koby's boss' cabin for his work retreat! It was so fun to get to know everyone that he works with and see how lucky they all are! Who wouldn't want to work with these people? We got to try wake surfing which was AWESOME!! Goodness, I just realized that most of what I just wrote happened in July. Man we were so busy in July!

It has been so crazy to see all of the new things that Emi is doing. 1-Walking! Finally she is walking! I seriously felt like this day was NEVER going to come. People kept telling me that I would regret having her walk, but in all honesty I don't. I love that she can WALK around outside instead of CRAWLING. I love that her knees and toes and hands don't get so blasted dirty every time she walks. 2-She is giving kisses:) They are open mouth kisses, but kisses just the same! 3-Brushes her hair. 4-Carries her purse around. 5-Looks through books-like flips the pages herself. 6-Gives a high five. 7-Nurses only once a day. 8-She is very mischievous. I'm not sure if I really like that about her or not, but it does make her giggle which is so cute! 9-She now puts her feet out for me to put her pants on. 10-She can find her belly button! Unfortunately when I want her to show someone she doesn't do it :( We're working on finding her nose but whenever I say "Emi where's your nose?" she looks for her belly button. It'll come, right? 11-"talks" on the phone. 12-talks the cutest baby talk you've ever heard! Ah-tic ah-tic ah-tic ah, you have to hear her talk to really appreciate the cuteness of it:) Oh, I don't know how I could forget about this. We got a new niece and nephew! Mataya was born in June to Jare and Lind! Thank Heaven for little girls(they already had 2 boys)! We love her to pieces! I could hold her all day long, if only I didn't have to share her (or give my attention to Emi:))! Next year Mataya, Kate, and Emi are going to be trouble! I can already tell;)Then in August we had Prescott join the Chad and Amanda family! We were so happy that he and his mommy are doing so well now and to have a boy join the family. Oh, no! Way too many words and no pictures! Here they come in whatever order I find them:)