2 Months

Emma is now 2 months... How time flies! She just had her 2 month check up. Here is how she measured up....

23 Inches long... 65%

11 lb. 2 oz... 48%

OFC (head) 15.5"... 58%

Our little Emma is growing and developing. She is starting to show us her smile more and more, she coos, and she holds her head up pretty good.

Some of her favorite things to do is sleep (of course), loves to eat, get on the floor and kick and smiling at her favorite people...

We finally got her pics taken last week.

Isn't she just adorable?

Summertime Blues

I can't believe there is talk of kids going back to school! I can't believe that September is almost here! I can't believe that the days are getting shorter and the nights longer! What happened to summer? I feel like I haven't had much of a summer this year. I've spent most of my summer indoors caring for a newborn and watching a tornado, named Ethan, tear up the house. Next year I hope to have a wonderful summer and here is list of some things that I missed out this year, but will do next year (I hope).

• Go Camping
• Go to a swimming park/pool
• Get a nice sunburn (I know that can't be good, but it's evidence of being outside and enjoying summer).
• Go to the mountains
• Go on vacation
• Go farther than 45 minutes from my house.
• Work in the yard. (I actually like doing this believe it or not)
• Stay up past 10

The New Camera!

I finally caved! Scott bought himself a new digital camera. I have to say, it was worth the money. These photos are amazing quality and I hope this gets Scott back into taking more pictures. Most of these pics are from our trip to Red Butte Gardens from last Saturday. Afterall, Scott had to go play with his new toy!

I'm putting my favorite first... Doesn't that smile just melt your heart!

Of course there is always my little bubba... He was naughty and wanted to climb on all the rocks. It wasn't until after that I saw the sign, "no climbing on the rocks." Oops!

She is lovin' her tongue these days.

Amazing!

Love this one!

I actually don't look too bad... I can actually see the color of my eyes.

More from Red Butte.

If you look close enough, you can see Scott's reflection in Ethan's sunglasses.

This isn't from Red Butte, but I like it anyways. She was taking a snooze while Ethan swam in his pool.

Potty Training

We are trying to get Ethan potty trained. He'll be 3 in about 5 weeks and I'm hoping to have some kind success by then. At the moment, I'm having no luck. Ethan is willingly getting on the potty and "trying" to go potty. But recently he will sit on the potty and get in the bathtub and then do his business. We were thinking he just doesn't know what we mean, but tonight I now know that he does know what it feels like to go potty... here is how it played out...

Ethan tries the potty as usual... He, unclothed... including no diaper, gets up from the potty and walks to the nursery door way and says, "go potty right here" as he starts to go... Scott comes running with a diaper to catch most of it.

Little stinker is playin' us...

5 WONDERFUL YEARS!

5 years ago I married my sweetheart, my best friend, and my eternal companion. I haven't been happier. Thanks for all your love and patience. I love you Scottie! Here's to many more years together!

6 Weeks!

So it is time to get off my butt and put that behind of mine into shape... I got a clean bill of health from the doc so I guess I have no more excuses! I only have about 5 pounds to lose to get to my prepregnancy weight, but that doesn't say much. I have so much more to lose. I would love to have my old body back, the one that I had before I got married, but I know that isn't realistic... 2 babies later. But I know I can be healthy again. So I'm challenging myself to lose the weight and get back into shape. I'm not recording my weight here, after all, I don't want the whole world to know... but I do want to lose about 30 pounds. I know I can do it and I hope to do it by this time next year. So I need a motivator... something that I can look forward to and work for. I was talking with Scott and I always wanted to go to Hawaii and Europe. What do you think, can a nice trip be my reward? Would it work? I don't know, I just hope to feel better about myself and fit into some of my clothes in my closet. So it's time to start... Wish me luck!

A day with the trains...

For the 24th of July we decided to take a little trip out to see the trains at Golden Spike Historical Park up near Brigham City. It was about an hour drive from our house and we packed up the kids and took off. After paying our fee to see the trains we walked out the door and the first thing that happened was the train tooted it's horn. It was very loud that it made everyone jump. Poor Emma woke up and it scared Ethan. It took a lot of work to get Ethan to go see the trains up close. After all, he is scared of just about everything these days. He warmed up to the trains and hasn't stopped talking about them since.

Cool trains...

Ethan and his juice.

Ethan and daddy!

This is how Emma enjoyed the trip... asleep.

No, Ethan isn't sunburned... His face turns very red when it is hot and it was very hot out in the middle of nowhere.

Me with my kidlets...