Emily's Birthday Saturday, September 11, 2010

Emily celebrated her friends party this weekend at Jungle Jim's. Emily is a very happy, energetic, and load girl that love to play with her older brother Dallin.

Reid's BDay

Reid had yet another birthday. He had a great day though. First breakfast on the balcony . . . blueberry pancakes, hash browns, eggs, sausage and OJ. Then he went on a quick run before he had a massage, out for Indian with me, and then golf with his brother and father.

Then we had Korean food at his parents house, topped off with cake and home made ice cream. Reid loves to try new food on his birthday. It is always lots of fun to try new things!

Emily Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Emily drew this picture over the weekend. As it says on the picture, it is the Super Babies! It looks like the twins with red capes. From what I can tell, one of them has lasers coming out of his eyes, and the other one has some kind of super power coming out of his hand.

Emily is so darn cute! She loves to play dolls with Amanda, and she loves to play all of Dallin's "super duper games that have so many rules that Amanda can't stand it" games. She loves to dress herself, and she isn't concerned with how she looks as much as if she is comfortable. Oh, and, she has a very loud voice! ;)

Emily insisted on taking swim lessons again this summer because she still didn't know how to swim. I put all 3 kids in round number 2 and after their first lesson yesterday, emily could swim! She was just sooo proud of herself, it was adorable! Good for her for working hard at something she wanted really bad. :)

Let's Sit on Daddy's Head! Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Hair cuts

I got the boys hair cuts today. I wanted to grow is out long, but that wasn't working for me. We went to a place where they watch a movie and eat suckers while they cut their hair. It worked out great for them, and finally I didn't have hair all over me. Can you believe this is their 3rd haircut? They look very grown up now that they are walking and have short hair. They are finally talking too. Henry says ball. That was Dallin's first word too. James say "no, no" and shakes his little finger. They both say "da" for dog. Can't wait to hear some more words (and less crying) coming out of their mouths.

Funny thing:

When I change James' diaper, Henry likes to hand me one wipe at a time as I need it. He thinks it is his job to hand me the wipes. He is very serious about it.

Hawaii with Twins Friday, February 19, 2010

In Oct. we went on an adventure that we would never forget . . . we took the whole family to Hawaii! Reid had a conference there, so we decided to get out of the house and go for it. We haven't been on a vacation since, so maybe it was more traumatizing then I realize. The plane ride there was ok. The babies would cry for about 10 minutes as they fell asleep. The tricky part was keeping them to sleep. You couldn't move, and eventually you either had to go to the bathroom, or a body part fell asleep on you. The older kids did great. They just took care of themselves and each other. Once we got to Hawaii, I felt like it was all worth it. We had a hotel room with 2 bedrooms and a living area, so the babies got all their naps in, and the older kids got to watch TV in their beds.

Emily's Photo's Sunday, January 17, 2010

Karenin did a photo shoot of Emily about a week ago. All the pictures are so cute! She did a couple of the boys too. James is in the darker shirt. Can you just see how handsome James will be when he is older? Henry is in the light brown shirt. Emily is really growing up. She loves Kindergarten, and she is a super reader. She doesn't hold still, but her teachers don't complain about it. Her and Dallin have become little buddies. Amanda likes to hang out with Mom and Dad. We like having Amanda around too. She is just so easy to get along with. Dallin reminds me a lot of his uncle Mark . . . always coming up with games for his sisters to play.

Here is Henry showing you his B Ball skills. This reminds me a lot of Dallin when he was a baby.

Once there was a snowman, snowman, snowman Friday, January 15, 2010

Emily and I built a snowman a couple of weeks before Christmas. Up at our old house, we didn't get a lot of good snowman snow (wet and heavy, not dry and light), so she has no memory of building a snowman before. I couldn't believe that it took less than 15 minutes! I was really glad we got a chance to do it while the babies took a nap.

For the couple of family members that haven't seen our new house, here is half of it!

Ready for Take off! Saturday, January 9, 2010

Dallin started scouts with a new troop since we moved. At the first Pack meeting they did a rocket launch. The boys had to put together their own rocket before the came (a kit). The rockets went so high into the air that you could only see a dot. I think I distracted Dallin cuz he launched his rocket a little bit late. It still went plenty high in the sky. Grandma Sandy and Grandpa Gardner were in town for some more tests for my Dad, so they came along to see it. It was a lot of fun!