HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

oh yeah, .....GO UTES!!

Christmas 2008

(Can't really tell, but we had a WHITE Christmas this year! It was beautiful!!!)

We were so excited for Christmas this year since we had our little Em's to share it with. She was such a babe. She is getting so big so fast it's crazy! She slept in her own bed the whole night, and on Christmas morning we had the Jansson family over to watch her attempt the presents and have a yummy breakfast! Then we made the rounds to G &G Jansson's and G & G Jones' for some more loot!

NOTE: Please disregard the silly Merry Christmas sign hanging in the tree!

Em's waiting for the gang to get to her house.....


opening her gifts from Santa and Mom and Dad....


she did it!


We had a great year this year and look forward for next year when Eme understands Christmas a little more!

This picture is from the Jones family party....Santa was a little bit scary to some! lol

Randomness....

So I haven't blogged in almost a month and feel like I need a new post at the top of my page. I don't really have anything I feel is worth sharing so I found a picture of our little Em's off my phone. I just LOVE her little blue fuzzy hat. The only downfall is people always notice the hat and tell me how cute HE is. Then when the notice the pink clothes she is in and the piercings in her ears, they change it to SHE. I still let her sport the hat regardless of what people think she is!! This month has been kind of an interesting month. It seems that no matter how hard I try to relax, it just doesn't happen. I seems like there is always something to do and our poor little Em's ends up getting dragged around town at all hours of the night. Even when I work late, little Em's is still up too late, mostly waiting for her turn to nurse. She is so addicted to nursing I don't know whats going to happen when I have to cut her off when those top teeth of hers break all the way through! SCARY! She seriously throws a fit if she can't nurse the second she wants to nurse. Any advise on how not to fight with a kid when you want her off???? I am up for any advise! Brady has been busy working on little (little being used in the simplest use of terms) projects around the house. Why is it that when you think you are just going to change something small, it always changes to something BIG that costs 2 x's the amount of money you planned on? I don't understand. Anyway, he has been keeping busy on things like that, and I have been keeping busy doing things that never seem to be as visually appreciated as they are to do. (does that make sense) Well, other than that, we are just wrapping up the Christmas tasks and waiting for the new year to come. Hopefully next post will be a little more important! We hope you all have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!

8 Months old!

I am always to late to post about Eme's "month-versaries", but this month I'm not!! Happy 8 months baby!!
Eme has been such a blessing in our lives. She is such a well mannered baby whom you will rarely find without a smile on her face...
However, the other week we were cheering for REAL and the UTES, and she was so upset about it. I could not figure out why she was so bothered by it. I kept thinking that she was in a stage in her life where she got the stranger danger/ mama's girl, and was having a hard time with it. I LOVE my baby girl, but I don't want her to be a mama's girl. lol. So everytime somone new would come around, she would cling to me and be all whiney. I thought it would be funny to show them how whiney she had become that week, and say, "WOOHOO! Go REAL!!" and poor little Eme would cry and cry. How funny, right! WRONG! That night night I noticed she was running a fever, but when I took her temperature, it was only like 98*. So that morning I called to Dr. and took her in for a checkup/shots. We go there and she would not let go of me. She was screaming like it was nobody's business and having a really hard time with it. We got her measured and weighed (14#) and then it was time for the temperature. She was NOT having it. Well she had a temperature of 102* and a double ear infection!! WOW, if that doesn't make you feel like a failure of a mom, I don't know what will. I mean, is it really necessary to cheer and cheer and make her cry because her mom thinks is crazy! NO! lol. Poor baby. I felt like crap and took the rest of the day and the next day off to be with her. I love that Eme loves to be with me (until she gets to nurse and then could care less where I go)
Anyway, she is such a big girl and learning new things all the time. She waves bye-bye, gives "uma's"-kisses, and loves to give high fives! Although she doesn't really care to roll over, crawl, or get mobile in anyway (thankful for that) she loves to stand and pull herself up on things. She gets on all fours and then gets mad cuz she doesn't know what the heck to do from there. Silly girl. I just want to say thank you Eme for chosing me to be your crazy mom. I love you so much and can't wait to see what this next month brings...

Em looking for her mom..................

So the other morning Mahina was out in the mess of shoppers and when I woke up I found Eme staring out the window looking for her mom wondering why she left her with her crazy dad.......

Not really I put Eme next to the window and she stood still long enough for me to take a picture with my phone, she is such a good girl not crawling yet but stands and holds on to things she is very strong. So strong in fact that me and her have arm wrestling matches and she has a tendency to win partly because she is so strong and I stop pushing after a while in fear that I would hurt her. We want to thank all who have helped with Eme because of her two full time working parents it has been a great blessing to have you near to take care of her, Thank you! (and remember her cute face when you are out shopping she has been asking for all sorts of things clothes, shoes, hair stuff, and she would most of all like to get an old ford bronco 66-77 if you would she was so precise on those years, wierd?)