Cowgirl and Balloons

This girlie keeps me on my toes!

Emery picked this dress out to wear on Wednesday by pulling it out of her closet so I let her wear it! She loved it all day (twirling in it, etc.) then later added the cowgirl hat to it! She also learned how to go forward on her car! (Too Old.)

Just for fun, here's Julia in the dress 16 months ago at Emery's blessing. It's crazy how fast Emery's grown! (and how well a dryer shrinks I think as well.)

Yesterday Savanna brought Emery the balloons from a baby shower Julie and Jill threw. It was the best day of Emery's life, and guess what, they were still here this morning when she woke up! Made for one happy girl again!

(Ignore that my child looks homeless, she had been dressed with her hair done earlier... then spilling, etc. add nap time into the mix... and we end up with a night shirt and bed hair at 3:30 in the afternoon...

Enjoy the Journey.

Dear Girlie,

Tonight we did your bedtime routine and you melted my heart. This week our song is "Book of Mormon Stories" and you did the actions for the first two verses (the only ones we sing right now) all by yourself! I don't know how you are getting so old!

Every day you are surprising me with new things you are learning. You don't love to say words yet, but you are communicating with me constantly. Today you finally learned how to scoot forward on your car/walker. Last night you slept for 12.5 hours straight without waking up once! And then you took a 3.5 hour nap today as well!

Girlie, you get prettier every day! Your hair is starting to grow so fast and get long, which always makes your hair CRAZY after you wake up. You're growing so fast as well, I've noticed your jammies are starting to get smaller/fit better lately.

This morning you decided that your socks make great balls to throw down the stairs, and you enjoyed watching how many stairs you could throw them down. You even got a few pairs all the way down to the landing at the bottom! Dad is working so hard with you for your throwing arm, it's getting quite impressive.

I'm so blessed to be your mom girlie. Thank you for teaching me new things everyday!

Love,

Mom

Cell Phone Update

Sorry again for them being so blurry. Here is a little cell phone update from our last week.

In April we were at DI and they had a text survey to get 20% off your purchase (I know it's DI, but we did it anyways). I got a phone call while we were at G&G Jones that I had won a $25 gift card for participating! WOOT!

This one is terribly blurry, but she figured out where her fingers go....

We've had a few lazy mornings lately with a teething girlie.

Her hair s getting soooooo long!

We barely made it to the car before she grabbed this and ripped it open!

She's getting so old!

A project for redecorating. Thanks Debbie for teaching me to mix the PERFECT reds!

While we were shopping this weekend the girlie got a little tired...

Enjoy the Journey.

Ten Minutes

Ten minutes one day is never like ten minutes another. 

This isn't part of the "ten minutes" but it was the same "first" day. Emery broke her tumbler cup I'd just bought her and was sad.

The picture above and the ones below in the blue shirt are all within ten minutes. She keeps me busy!

Below we have ten minutes of another day...

Her daddy's response "oh my, oh my, oh my."

Pictured above: a new storage place for my lotion, make up brushes, and nail file. 

Then she reads to me about forgiveness. I love this girl.

Enjoy the Journey.

Dear Girlie,

Dear Girlie,

Today at 5ish a.m. I woke up to dad calling me from your bedroom as you were throwing up.... again. This happened last week and I felt terrible for you as you were so miserable, but acting like a champ! You started throwing up every ten minutes, just clear mucus like stuff, and it lasted for two hours. Then you spaced it out, and you ended up throwing up 17 times today. I felt bad, but once again you acted like a champ. You only cried a little, but we would pat your back and tell you "you're doing great! Keep going! Get it out! Awesome!" I never thought I'd cheer for someone throwing up, but today I did. Your poor tummy! It started at the other end too, and you went through about 7 or 8 poopy diapers today.

At about 8 this morning we were able to take a nap together on the couch for about 2 hours. You woke up and acted fine the rest of the day. Because the day started so early though, it seemed to stretch on forever.

Thirty minutes ago you started to get sleepy, dad asked if we should take you up and put you to bed; I refused. I just held you girlie, and you quickly fell asleep. Your body needs rest, and after such a sad morning I'm glad I get to just hold you and watch you sleep. You're growing up so fast, and you get prettier everyday. You'll even be 17 months old tomorrow! I don't know how that happened so quickly!

I'm so blessed to be your mom, you teach me new things everyday!

I love you sweet girlie.

Mom.

A Weekend in Monroe

Last weekend we had the chance to go to Monroe to visit Granpa and Granma Jones as well as go to my cousin Rachael's baby shower. It was so fun!

Going on to pick out wood for a pinterest project.

This sign was on Granpa's barn. Koosharem is just over the mountain from Monroe and is actually the real name of the company Jared works for. The owner of the company grew up there, he thought the sign was really cool when Jared emailed him this picture and offered to buy it! They're just going to do a print of it istead though.

Ready to go!

When we came back from the shower it was soooo windy!

Granpa's tools are loud!

He made her a wooden car and she loved it!

Their brand-we knew Adam would love it!

Helping get the goats to take them back to breed them.

Checking on the Cows.

Emery took this picture of her daddy. :)

Goat's eyes are so strange!

On Saturday night we got to go visit Aunt Liz and Uncle Move-It. It was so fun!

Saturday night this girlie didn't want to go to bed so she got to watch HSM.

Sunday morning (after we went to bed at midnight) we woke up to sounds from the girlie. Jared jumped out of bed and was trying to find the light and it took me a few seconds to realize she was throwing up/choking. She wasa still laying down so I sat her up and she proceeded to throw up in my hands. The smell was horrid. We cleaned her up in the bathroom downstairs and then took her up to get a drink. I really couldn't handle the smell so Jared grabbed her and she started to throw up on him. She was throwing up her lunch from Friday! It was so sad. 

Jared said I could wake up his Granma so I did-I about scared her half to death though! I went downstairs and tried to keep myself from throwing up by calling my mom and talking to her. Granma was awesome, she kept running up and down checking on both of us, starting laundry, getting this or that, etc. Granma and Jared both said they didn't breathe through their noses that's how they were able to handle it.  

Emery ended up throwing up 6 times total. At 6 a.m. she woke up and asked for water. She was happy and seemed back to normal. I went downstairs for something and came back up, and Jared asked for help. Apparently she went to the throw up bowl and stood there for a bit, so Jared thought it was gross and took it away. She walked to the TV and threw up on the carpet. 

A bit later it started out the other end, and overflowed her diaper. We ended up going through about 10 diapers in the next 2-3 hours which caused for a sore sore bottom for the girlie. 

By the time we headed home she seemed normal, other than the fact she still didn't want to eat. 

It was a fun weekend and we can't wait to go back!

Enjoy the Journey.