3 Years Ago Today...

I was on my way home from the most wonderful journey of my life that far. Picture me with no sleep in the last 24 hours, no make-up on, and 30 pounds heavier (yes 30lbs:() walking around the Houston, Texas airport. Flights were being delayed and cancelled left and right. It was a crazy, stressful time. I was sitting with my sister trying to make a CD of pictures and getting really frustrated. I heard my name called over the speaker and started freaking out and being upset. Then I look up and guess who I saw...Koby. "Koby! Koby?! Koby, what are you doing here?!" Then he proposed! I must say it was love because when you look at me in the pictures you'll think the same thing. We have had our struggles and hard times but the good has by far out weighed the bad! I'm so happy that Koby went through with the proposal after seeing me that day 3 whole years ago! He has made me the happiest girl in the world!! I love you Kobs!!

My fortune from Panda that day! It's framed in our house:)

My fortune came true!!

You can see the no sleep, make-up, & +30 lbs, huh? :(

The ring

I just wanted to post some of these cute pictures that I took of Emi the other day. Ok, well I think that they're cute:) She can't get to the standing position by herself yet but she LOVES to stand up! We are just waiting for her to crawl anyday now (I really did intend to write "crawl" and not "walk" as you might be thinking I wrote it wrong, I didn't :)). Emi is also in the process of getting some teeth! She hasn't been as bad as I thought she might be, I guess I should stop there so I don't curse myself! :) Enjoy the pics!

A Day of LOVE!

Saturday my parents had a grand kids V-day party and watched the grand kids so that the parents could do whatever they wanted for a bit. Koby and I went shopping and then went to Tepanyaki. Oh, it was SO good!! It was also so nice to eat without having to hold or entertain Emi! Sunday my mom had a special fancy V-day candle light dinner for all of us. She then gave us the valentine's that the kids made for us the night before. She dipped Emi's feet in paint and made a heart out of them on paper! It was so cute! Thanks mom! Monday was so nice out side and Emi got a jogging stroller for Christmas so we decided to go for a jog. Well let's just say that Sunday I basically ate candy all day (except for my mom's yummy dinner) and I didn't exercise at all the week before. So anyway Emi and I go for a jog and not a very long one, but by the time I was almost home I felt like I was going to faint and lose anything that I had eaten that day. I had to sit on the curb and breathe for a bit. It looks really nice again today, but I'm not sure I have it in me to go jogging again. Koby and I didn't get anything special for each other for V-day because we both want a porch swing, Koby found one on a really good sale. So that's what we are going to give each other. We had a good day and enjoyed our time together as a little family. I love you Koby and Emi!!

Ps I want to run a 5k in April, does anyone know of a good training schedule? I need all the help I can get!

It's Official-I LOVE Her!

I'm a stay at home mom now, which means that I get to spend every second of everyday with Emi. All through out my last semester I was so excited to be done with my last semester and get to stay home with Emi. Then I got really nervous because if I don't have things to do than I get a little blue. After the very first week I was really afraid that I would end up this depressed sad person. Fortunately that hasn't happened! Emi is the highlight of my day! Lately Emi has been pushing herself backwards to get around (I'm hoping that she'll figure out the crawling thing soon). She backs herself into many tight spots. For instance under the kitchen table, under the couch, and today I looked back and she had pushed herself under our old entertainment center upstairs! I absolutely love her and could not even imagine not staying home with her all day.
Her dad will not be happy that she doesn't have a bow on but we are just hanging around home so we hadn't gotten it on yet! :)

A Little Fishy & New Year's Eve Pics!

Last night Koby and I decided that we wanted to take Emi swimming. We bought her a floaty and we headed to the pool. I'm proud to announce that Emi LOVES the water!! Even though she was very hungry she was happy in the water for over an hour. We had so much fun swimming with her and can't wait to take her swimming again!

Here's some New Year's Eve pics. We first had fondue at my parents house then headed over to their church to play games and celebrate the new year!

Picture Overload!

Ok, I have so much that I want to post about and yet I don't know where to start! First of all I have been terribly too emotional lately. No I'm not pregnant. I was just reading a post from a mommy to a daughter and I was crying. I know that's not bad, but I cried watching a breast cancer commercial...ON MUTE!! Yes I know something is wrong with me. Anyway, I'll just catch up on everything mostly with pictures. I'll start with November. The day before Koby's birthday we (Koby, Mandy, Emi, and my lil bro Spence) flew out to DC. Tim, M'liss,& Kate met us there. The next day we woke up early so that we could make our tour for the White House! I don't know how many people can say that they got to go inside the White House, but now we can. It was so cool to hear the stories and see the incredible architecture. A few semesters back I took a Historical Furnishings and Architecture class and basically all the furniture and architecture was right out of the text book! I LOVED it!! We spent Friday, Saturday, & part of Sunday in DC. Let's just say we could have spent a whole week there. We had such a blast there. After DC we drove to good ol Williamsburg to M'liss and Tim's house. This was the first time that Koby had been there so it was fun to show him this beautiful place that I've fallen in love with. We stayed until the day after Thanksgiving so we were able to have Thanksgiving dinner with M'liss' family. Neither of us has ever had to make anything, so this was a new experience for us. I made the turkey, M'liss made the pies, and we both helped with the rest. M'liss had gotten fabric to make Kate & Emi some Thanksgiving dresses, so the night before we tried to get them done but didn't, so we were trying to get the dinner and dresses done on Turkey day. Anyway here's some of our favorite pics from the trip:

Well, now on to December. One great thing that happened was that I finished my last semester of school!!! Yay for me! I have to wait til Spring to actually walk, but I'm done with all my classes! December we also got to attend many Christmas parties and spend lots of time with family and friends. Emi got to sit on Santa's lap for the first time at the Bawden Christmas party. At first she was ok then after she got a look at him she wasn't so sure. On Christmas Eve we went to Koby's parents and then afterwards we went over to my parent's house. We acted out the nativity for my dad and grandparents. It was really fun and really brought the true meaning of Christmas to the start of our celebrations. My parents and those that live in their house tried to memorize The Living Chirst before Christmas, they weren't able to finish so they handed out the rest of it to the rest of the family. After we were done with the nativity we recited it. It truly brought the spirit into my heart and reassured me the Christ was born and died for us. It was such an amazing feeling. We had a wonderful Christmas time and were so blessed with so much!

Up to Date!

Gosh I feel like I am constantly catching up on things. I have 5 weeks left of school! Hallelujah!! I am basically late everyday because I just can't seem to pull myself away from my sweet Emi Bug. Things are constantly go, go, go for us. When I do have a moment to spare I seem to just veg in front of the TV. Emi smiles all the time now and laughs a lot now too! It just makes my day that much better to see her smiling face and to hear her sweet laugh. Emi had her 4 month appointment and we found out that she takes after her daddy-long and skinny! She is 25 1/4 in (90th percentile), 13.1 lbs (40th percentile), and her head circumference was...um I can't remember what it was, but she was in the 65th percentile for it! lol:)

My great uncle died and they were having the funeral on the same weekend of the Aggie vs. BYU game in Logan so Koby got two free tickets through work and I get in free. We decided it might be fun to go so Jare and Lind got tickets and came with us. Spence also came along with Landon, Ty, and Emi! Emi did pretty good considering the extremely loud crowd, she even took a nap! Spence was highly disappointed that they lost but I had a great time singing all my Aggie cheers!

We found out that we have a Pumkin Walk at the Benson Mill by our house so my family came out and went with us. It was fun, but it was mostly focused on the Craft Fair that was part of it. We came back to our house and played games and ate treats!

We also went up to Logan to the Pumkin Walk there. This is the best pumkin walk!! They make scenes out of the pumkins and some are so life like! The theme this year was animation. We went during the day this time which was much better than going at night and freezing our booties off! After that we went to my G&G Lott's for our 2nd annual Fall Festival. This year my cousins who live in Logan came and celebrated with us which was fun! The kids all go in their costumes to show my grandparents (unfortunately no pics of the actual pumkin walk or of the kids in their costumes).

We had the Bawden Halloween party. Emi went as a Fairy! She is SO dang cute as a fairy! The wings the Koby bought her came with a wand and she holds it and swings it around!! The boy Bawdens have this tradition of holding babies on their hands while the baby stand up. Emi is a little advanced and can already do it! Everytime she does it she smiles and laughs!!