Krazy Kousins....

Love these kids. What a whacky bunch!

At Thanksgiving with the fam! Emmy loves and adores each one of her cousins! She is very blessed to have them so close!

This is Halloween.....

We had a lot of fun celebrating halloween this past week.
Emmy had a big party at her preschool.

We had a ward halloween party.

Then there was pumpkin carving,

visiting grandparents and getting the traditional orange sucker,

and of course trick or treating.

I made Emmy a halloween playlist on my ipod. We've been having fun listening to classics like This is Halloween, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Monster Mash, Ghostbusters, etc. I still can't get them out of my head!

Gutting the pumpkin. She was scared to do it at first but then got pretty into it.

Painting and carving

At her Grandparent's house with her sucker

One of Daddy's pumpkins this year

Getting ready to go trick or treating!

Happy Birthday Jeremy!

It's this guy's birthday today.
His 30th birthday in fact!
Woohoo!

Happy Happy Birthday Jeremy! We love you a ton!

This morning Em and I decorated his car at work.

I wanted to really deck his car out and fill it up but Em said "no, mom. It can't be messy. Dad doesn't want to clean his car on his birthday."

I asked Emmy what she loved about her Daddy.
She said:

1-he dances with me
2- he plays princesses with me
3- he tickles me
4 - he loves me tooooo much (it's what Em says instead of soooo much)
5 - he lets me sit on his shoulders a lot
6 - he helps me with my numbers
7- today is his birthday
8- do you know i love daddy a lot?
then she said "i'm done now. he's my favorite."

Road trip...

of the 45 minute variety!

But who doesn't need still need the following even on a short road trip?

Snacks!

Shades!

A funny book!

Some good tunes!

Car Dancing!

A little tanning! (when you're as white as me, you take every opportunity!)

We're almost there!

We had fun in Bountiful with tons of family!
We love our cousins, aunts and uncles!

And of course - fireworks!

The big party...

Emmy's first friend birthday party was last weekend.
She and I planned this for months.

I think I have a future party planner on my hands because she knew exactly what she wanted.
She picked the theme, helped with the invitations, and chose all the party supplies.

It was a huge success and at the end of the party we had 2 exhausted parents, one mom in the ER (kidney stones...that was fun!), and a very happy little princess.

Warning: there are a lot of pictures!

The Theme: A Royal Ball/Princesses and a Frog Prince ( we had to do something for the boys at the party! Turns out only one showed up but he was a great sport and a perfect frog prince!)

The Front door

The lunch table

Living Room

Frog and Tiara sandwiches

Treats

Party Favor bags and tiaras

Building castles out of legos and blocks while waiting for all the guests to arrive

Playing Royal Ball Freeze Dancing

all the princesses. The prince didn't feel like having his picture taken

Sitting on the lilly pad eating lunch

playing pin the crown on the princess

Frog limbo

Musical lilly pads

The birthday girl

Opening presents

Jeremy made these castles for every princess and prince. I think he's trying to win Daddy of the year. It was totally his idea and he was so excited to do it for her party.

They decorated castles with stickers and jewels.

And they lived happily ever after.

After the turkey...

we play football!

Emmy had a fun time playing football with her cousins after Thanksgiving dinner. Thank you wonderful cousins who were very patient with her!

Gobble, Gobble!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

(our cute turkey cupcakes we made yesterday!)

We did a 5K this morning bright and early!

all bundled up ready to run!

Look at her go!

We are truely blessed.

Family, fun, food, fireworks!

We love the 4th of July at our house! I think Jeremy considers it right up there with Christmas! This year was no exception. We had a huge party with all of our family. We decked the place out! Red, white and blue streamers, pinatas, red white and blue popcorn, balloons, etc! We set up volleyball nets, horseshoes, basketball, bubbles, and slip and slides. We also had a huge water fight - everyone was drenched by the end!
Emmy woke up at 4am that morning so excited for the day to begin. She said she needed to go play with her cousins! She is very lucky to have such wonderful cousins to play with often. As always she had the time of her life!
After Em had a 4 hour nap that went until 8:30pm (wow!) we went to our town's fireworks show. This was the first time Emmy had seen fireworks and it was a huge hit! She said "Wow Mommy!" after each set went off. It was definitely a hit!
We love celebrating the 4th and we love living in this country! We are truely blessed!