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Emery and I made Jared a Father's Day lunch right after church (before a nice dinner later) and it truly was a "Father's" day lunch... every piece of pepperoni has a bite out of it!

Emery's first day for gymnastics.  At Emery's birthday we talked to Clarissa (Bishop's daughter) about teaching Emery gymnastics because she had already taught her to do a somersault in like 30 minutes a few days previous. Emery now does gymnastics once a week in their front yard for 30 minutes (as long as she is healthy and we are in town.) She loves it!

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Emery Turns 3

This girlie planned her birthday months in advance!  We (with Karissa and Emmaline) were coming home from Target one day and she started to tell us all of these plans so I told Karissa to take notes so we could fulfill her pink wishes. She woke up on her birthday to pink decorations everywhere, some balloons and her favorite cereal as well as donuts. She thought it was the greatest! My parents were down so we spent the day celebrating while her da-e was at work and then partied with him when he got home. He had the next day off and we continued to party.

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Pink cupcakes and pink sherbet! 

On Saturday we had a little party/bbq for her. She took invites around to people who she wanted to come. It was so fun! She even made sure to invite her buddy the Bishop. For her birthday she got "pink stuffs" and baby dolls. She was one happy 3 year old! She continues to tell people "I am 3 on my birthday then I will be 4!"

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A little behind...

I promise I will get better at blogging again, if for nothing else journaling reasons. Life has been busy around here lately-more on that to come. Here are a few pics of Little Red from the other night when  Jared was taking pictures of a bike to sell and she was enjoying a Lofthouse sugar cookie (HER FAVORITE) and she jumped in for a few shots. 

She is growing up too fast!

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Playing with Grandma Great

Last time Grandma-Great was down in Utah we had the opportunity to have her come to our house for a bit. We LOVED IT! Emery enjoyed coloring with her and making pretend food for her. We love getting to spend time with her and try to treasure it as much as possible!

(E has a silly smile in this picture...)

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Easter in Park City

We had a chill weekend in Park City for General Conference/Easter with Jared's parents and Julisa & Daniel. We explored the city, hit up our favorite places and enjoyed conference. Saturday morning we woke up to find that the Easter Bunny had indeed found Emery in Park City, and spoiled her! We hurried off to Smiths for an egg hunt!

She was sooooo excited for it to start!

And then, she cried. Eventually she warmed up to it and...

made quite the haul! She got 7 actual eggs that were hid on top of cans. After we looked to see what was inside we wish we would have had her go for more eggs! They were coupons for free boxes of cookies, pudding, or fruit snacks!

They also had donuts, milk, and juice as well as cookies to decorate and pictures to color! 

It was a fun weekend spent with good company!

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Grandpa Great

We had one of the hardest things we have had to go through in our marriage in January, when we said "See you on the other side" to Grandpa Great. It was a roller coaster of a week and we are so glad that we listened to promptings so that we were able to be there with him for a few days before and then when he passed. He is one of the greatest examples in our life and we are so proud to bear his name. We will do all that we can to live worth of it and to live as he would. There have been several times in the last two months when we have thought "What would Grandpa do, or what would Grandpa say?" 

We draw comfort in knowing that he was ready and knew that it was his time to go. It has been a hard adjustment and there have also been times of looking around thinking "Where's Grandpa" only to remember and have your heart break again. It has also been a good reminder to cherish the relationships we have with others every single day.

Their love story is one of the most beautiful ones we can think of. 

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Utah Christmas

Christmas day it started to snow like crazy and then it continued to snow like crazy. Jared ended up working from home the day after Christmas because we didn't feel good about traveling in the snow back to Utah (ended up that there was a terrible fatal accident in Pocatello about the time we would have been going through). We got stuck on our way out to Jared's parents house once even the snow was sooo bad! 

When we got back to Utah we opened all of our presents that we had left here. It was fun to have "another" Christmas.

She loved holding up everything that Jared and I got to take a picture of.

Showing off new jammies and stick on ear rings. 

I love this girlie!

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An Idaho Christmas

I went to Idaho early for Christmas with Karissa and Emmaline. Dad got his knee replaced, so we went up early to help. By the time Christmas rolled around most of us started to get sick. :(

I introduced Emery to Sherbet and was the. best. mom. ever. 

Christmas Sunday Dress!

Sprinkling out reindeer food so Santa knows where to stop.

It was so fun to all be together for Christmas! (Even if we all took turns being sick). 

Christmas Eve!

Opening presents, it was a rough Christmas Eve night for many so we were up early with not much sleep.

I think Parker wrote this, I loved it!

Opening presents at Jared's parents. Since I was sick we didn't go out much because I didn't want to share my germs.

Emery loved spending time with her cousins! She snuck into the back and found Parker and Ama laying in the bed and Parker let her climb up and join them. She loved it!

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