Sick little girl

Emmry is 'scick' with a cold today. No fun at all!

 

 

I hope she gets feeling better soon.

Love you baby!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Birth Announcement

I finally got Trey's announcement done.


















I ended up just using a snap shot I took of him. I think it turned out cute though

6 years

Our life together began 6 years ago today. Well, actually on January 11, 2005. But back to the start of my love story.... I would like to say it was love at first site, but it wasn't. I was on my 'dinner only' strike meaning I didn't want to waste my time on the first date to do anything else. Ty was lucky because we were on a double date with my friend who set us up (yes, a blind date) convinced us to go back to her house to play pool. After the date, Ty didn't even give me a hug. I had no feelings that struck me upside the head that he was 'the one'. End of date. End of story. So I thought. We ended up getting together casually on our own the following week. That's really when it all started.

Now fast forwarding our lives together we have had 2 babies together! So 3 crazy kids and a dog, 3 chickens and a rooster! Maybe a horse will be joining our family too....maybe. Any more humans you ask? Well, maybe that too....

So to celebrate our anniversary we dropped Tage off at the church for scouts and took the other 2 kids to Smash Burger. Exciting huh?! Not so much. We are cheap. Why pay a babysitter when we could just lug them around with us on our fancy date night?! My thoughts exactly. And speaking of cheap Ty didn't even get me a gift! But that's ok, I got him one from the dollar store and he shared with me.

Love you Ty. Another 6 years is comin' your way.

Run away time

I ran away and kidnapped my own kids! Ok, not really because I told Tyson I was leaving and told him I would let him know where I ended up at. So technically that's not kidnapping, but the running away part could be true.

Now let's be honest. We are not always the happy family you might think we are. We have arguments, we have fights. We have yelling and slamming of  doors. Heck, Tage has been known to throw rocks at me (the door). But don't worry, nobody got hurt and no were windows broken. We all have different challenges in our marriages and families. One of mine is Tage. Sometimes I feel like giving up on being a step mom. It's hard. Dang hard sometimes. And yesterday I had had enough so I ran away.

I went North to Flagstaff to get out of the heat (74 beautiful, overcast degrees!!!). We had a picnic at Mary's Lake, stopped to see some horses we noticed off the side of the road and played at the park. It was a wonderful day. A much needed escape! And Emmry thoroughly enjoyed the day outside rather than being cooped up indoors because I don't want to hang out in the heat all day.

She's 2!

Good Morning Birthday Girl!!
Breakfast of scrambled eggs and a donut. (well, just the frosting off the donut. She doesn't ever eat the donut part....)

Since Emmry LOVES horses we thought that we would get her a pony for her birthday....


















a pony cake that is.

She was a happy, happy girl all day long. Whenever we would say happy birthday to her, she would repeat it with a big smile. I think by the end of the day she realized that happy birthday was a fun word.

She got a some horse figurines and a bunch of littlest pet shop toys. It took awhile for us to get through the presents because whenever she would open one she would take it to Dad to get it out of the package before she would open another present.

















We face timed Grandma and Grandpa's which was fun to have them watch her open their gifts they mailed and watch her dance around.
Grandma Judd gave her coloring books, twistable coloring pencils, and lots of card games (like go fish, and lots of learning cards like ABC's, numbers, colors, shapes....)
Grandma Judy gave her a cute Rapunzel figuring doll and some clothes. She loved the little doll and took it to bed with her! I was surprised she didn't pick her horses to sleep with.


















Then ended the day with fun baffy time!

Happy Birthday Emmry!
Love you , Love you , Love you!!!!!!

6 weeks

Monsoon rainstorm

At dinner tonight we all noticed that the wind had started to pick up causing a small little dust storm. Tage asked if it was going to rain. Ty pulled up the weather channel on his phone and told Tage no, the weather station doesn't say anything about it raining tonight. Tage on the other hand did the smarter move- he went outside to look at the sky. We watched him out the window give us a thumbs up. Then he came back in and said, "your wrong Dad, there is dark clouds." a few minutes later we noticed it was sprinkling. Tage jumped up from the table shouting "yahoo!" (I guess since it doesn't rain so much here that when it does it is a big deal) He took his socks off and ran outside. Then of course Emmry wanted to go outside because Tage did, so off she went too.....playin' in the rain.
I'm surprised Emmry liked it as much as she did. She was running around like crazy, dancing and singing. Ahhhhh, to be young again.

It actually turned out to be a really good downpour! So much for the weather channel getting it right.

 

Ready to Ride

My Lil' Cowboy

These adorable cowboy boot socks were given to me from my friend Erin. I LOVE them! All he needs now is his chaps and hat and he's ready to ride!

1 month old

Stats:
10 lbs 9.5 oz. (72 %)
20.75 inches tall (23%)
14.75" for head circumference (71%)