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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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Big Sister

We knew shortly after Emery was born when we were supposed to try to add to our family, it was sooner than we had planned but we both knew and could't deny it.  I posted previously about my experience with my Granma dying, in it I mentioned that I asked her to do me a favor and take care of our babies that were supposed to come to our family and send them WHEN IT WAS THEIR TIME. At that point we had been trying for a baby for a while and knew for some reason that it would be a while. Months passed, a year passed, more time passed and no baby. "Infertility" is a hard thing, but we never felt bitter or angry because we knew that Granma would keep her promise and send our baby when it was the right time. 

We were coming up on the two year mark of trying for a baby when we thought that there was a chance I was pregnant. We didn't want to get our hopes up too much, we had just had the week of Grandpa-Great in the hospital, him dying and his funeral, but I felt like I knew that this time I was pregnant. We came home from Idaho and finally got up the courage to go and buy a pregnancy test. 

It is all in the Lord's timing. He knows exactly when we need things and how to make a sad time in our lives happier. We were sooooo excited that we finally got to add to our family! We gave Em these pajamas shortly after, but told her that they said "Emery is the cutest" when she asked. 

Another little story to go with this, I am not a very patient person. I am constantly praying to Heavenly Father to help me work on my patience. Shortly after the new year I was praying and thinking about things I wanted to work on, I thought about this and started to cry, I realized that I had been ignoring the biggest way Heavenly Father had been trying to teach me patience. It was just a couple of weeks later I found out that I was (am) pregnant.

We are so delighted for this little GIRL to join our family and when we finally told Emery she was stoked!

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Oh E...

This was just a random conversation from Christmas that I found in my drafts and thought it was too cute not to share. (or for me to remember)

J: "Do you want to help dad make a box for the Christmas tree?"

E: "A box for the Chri Chri Tree!?!? Awww yeahhh! Dat'd be great!"

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Isn't This?

Isn't this how you watch YouTube videos of minions at your house?

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Da-E's Helper

This girlie spent a lot of time helping Da-e out in January. She's a good helper these days!

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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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Reindeer

Thanksgiving Point had a reindeer out for a few days in December and we took Emery to see it. She thought it was really cool to see "Sven" from Frozen. :) 

Jared even did her hair this day! He's practicing and doing a pretty good job!

Ignore the terrible picture of both of them, she ALWAYS wants to be on his shoulders these days. :) 

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Wishbone

Emery and Jared did the wishbone one Sunday after church. Emery didn't really understand but thought it was a fun thing to do!

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Da-E's Kitchen Helper

Like mentioned before, she LOVES to help in the kitchen! She helped Jared make a cake & the frosting to go on it and she tasted every.single.ingredient. as it went into the bowl. Then, she enjoyed the beaters afterwards!

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A Shed

Jared and his dad built a shed during conference weekend. It has been such a blessing to have! The week after we helped Jare do the finishing touches like the roof. Emery loved helping Jared by handing him whatever he needed! (and emery's awesome outfit is compliments of herself.) 

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Hair

I've been cutting Jared's hair since before we got married and every time I do I forget how much hair he has! It takes me 30-45 minutes with the clippers! This last time it was so long, which I love but it gets "uncontrollable" as he says, and we both hated it after. I really wanted to cry when I saw how much hair was on the floor (and it was the longest clipper length).  He has decided he won't go that short anymore, but it just means more time because I will start using the scissors exclusively on it now. 

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Moving

We MOVED! We bought our first home and moved in August. These are random cell phone pictures that I sent to my mom along the way. I'll try to post better before and after pictures soon!

Cleaning hall/baseboards. It's amazing, even though this is an area I cleaned weekly when you do a deep clean so much more comes off!

The Cream color is what we painted over the flesh color.

Kitchen before!

Again the cream over the green.

Living room (cream is what I painted). The first day I got SOOOOO much painting done. E had hand, foot and mouth the first week we moved-(we moved/did projects over a 2 week period the last of August.) I had to paint what she wouldn't/couldn't touch so I got creative!

Lunch. She loves a burger.

Master (antique white over green on 3 walls, one blue)

Master

The living room and hallway/stairs upstairs as well as stairs going down (but not family room) carpet was all replaced a week before we made the offer on the house. We found out what the carpet was and put it throughout the rest of the house. Jared and Adam ripped the carpet out and then a neighbor (by the townhomes) came and laid the new carpet. It's amazing how much better it looks!

Downstairs the carpet wasn't laid on the stairs or in the (what we call) exercise room, but we laid it there. We did have child labor while we were doing projects. She's quite the helper these days!

Previously a white fridge! I highly recommend the $3 a can appliance paint! $12 and this fridge looks so much better and matches the rest of the appliances.

When you only move .5 a mile it is so much easier to not fully pack/unpack. I got pretty creative and felt like a genius with some ideas! (side note... I've never taken clothes off hangers to move... it's so much easier not to I think!)

This light was just a circle bulb light and we found this one for $5 at a yard sale. It's amazing how much of a difference the little things make!

Getting packed!

Unpacking!

Taking things off the walls-I try to do this very last because it makes everything seem so sterile.

What was left/our last loads of what we moved. 

Jared's parents came down the weekend in between the weeks we moved. They left his dad's new truck and Granpa Fielding's snowmobile trailer. It was so nice to be able to take larger loads and to not have to rent a truck. Every time we went we took two cars and loaded them to the very brim! We also took basically everything from both of our parent's homes which was quite the task. Now we've been going through it and dejunking. It feels good to be responsible for all of our stuff, but it is also an overwhelming task somedays. Every time I take something out to the garage/Jared's car to get rid of it feels so lovely. I don't know why de-junking feels so good to me but it does! 

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