Oh yea...

These last few weeks I have been having some trouble. I have not been feeling well. I have been enduring it, but we went to the doctor to find out what all was going on,  and found out there is a growth in my tummy.  We don't know what exactly it is yet... but we are giving it some time to see what happens. I have been taking some pills to try to help it. Only time will tell how it turns out. It is not life threatening at this point. I have another appointment in May to check up on it and see how it is going, if it is growing or not.  We should be able to take care of it by the end of November, if it hasn't worked itself out on its own sooner than that. We will see what happens. Don't worry though everything will be fine.  

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It is all quite unexpected, but still exciting. 

Easter Fun

Happy Easter all, We've had quite a time so far. Here are a few pictures of our weekend so far.  They are backwards. Saturday is at the bottom and the end of Church at the top obviously. Since we have church at 1 to 4 EmmaLynn gets pretty tuckered out afterwards. She just laid down with the new bunny she got for easter. so cute.

Before church she was standing at the door with her bunny. So excited to go to nursery today. 
Snacking before church. 
She woke up and found a trail of easter eggs leading to her easter basket.  She learned a little bit Saturday about easter eggs and how they have candy inside them. She was absolutely thilled to find so many in one basket.
Saturday, our friends they Hodges, invited us over to their house to color eggs with them and hang out. EmmaLynn had fun dropping the eggs in and putting stickers on when they were done drying. The rest of the time she got to play with one of her favorite friends Courtney.
 We went to downtown Saturday morning for their Eggstravagaza one of the radio stations was advertising all week. They had free breakfast, face painting, pictures with the Easter Bunny and other things. She just made a sad face cause we wouldn't let her just run around. 
Kinda silly picture while we were walking around Sunday morning. It was near the river and it was very beautiful. 
Here we are just getting started on our easter eggstravaganza.   This has been such a fun easter with EmmaLynn older now and understanding how things work. It is so fun. 

Funny things

EmmaLynn was in our room playing with cd's.  I walked in and caught her and told her "EmmaLynn no please."  She stopped turned around walked up to me and looked me right in the eye and said "what talking bout mom" .... " what talking bout mom"  So funny, cause she has never said anything like it. Then I said " please don't play with the cd's."  Her: " okay mommy"  She is starting to say the cutest things.  I just love it. 

Life is good

Well, life is always crazy and stressful, but always worth it. There is not much to say except EmmaLynn is still growing like crazy and saying the funniest things. Here are some more cute pictures of her. And yet, another video capturing her imagination and her love for her Little people. 

Teething Adventures

So, I have been pretty lucky with the teething thus far. EmmaLynn is not super crabby or whiny while teething. Most of the time I have no idea. She will usually just take  longer naps and might sleep in a little bit longer in the morning, and then a tooth pops up. This was the most prolonged teething trouble we've had so far.  Over the last 2 days, EmmaLynn has been working on some teeth. She has had a fever constantly off and on.  The other night she woke up at 3 am burning hot, So we doped her up on some Tylenol, let the fever break and put her back to bed. Dan stayed up with her the first night. Even though he was up with her, I couldn't go back to sleep as much as I tried, so I was up till she was asleep.  Then last night I gave her Ibuprofen for children,  and put a movie on we laid there together till the fever broke, then I put her to bed... and of course she wakes up at 3 AM again burning up... So, it was my turn this time, I got to hang out with her for a couple hours till the fever broke again. so, while we were sitting on the couch she looks up at me with her cute little chubby face and sad eyes and said " movie mommy? movie huh? Please? Ichage (ice age) please?".  So, after I had Dan give her a priesthood blessing, we put Ice Age on (which I skipped through a lot of it ) and as soon as the fever broke put her back to bed.. So hopefully we have that out of the way and we see that tooth or teeth, as it usually seems to be, sometime soon. Thank goodness for the Priesthood, herbal Calcium, Tylenol, and Ibuprofen.  It is good to have her back to eating like normal and playing on her own again.

Happy 2nd Birthday EmmaLynn

It sometimes feels like just yesterday, and other times it feels like it was so long ago. It was a Sunday when I went into labor. My water broke at around 11:45 am. I was so excited to finally meet my little baby. I didn't start having contractions till around 2:30 or 3 pm.  We went to the birth center around 9:30 pm or so. At 11:06 she was born 9lbs 4 oz.  What a beautiful baby girl. She is the sweetest little girl ever. Her favorite things are books, singing, dancing, little people toys and animals. We are so blessed to have her a part of our life. Happy 2nd Birthday EmmaLynn Faye. We love you more than you could ever imagine!

Here are a couple of pictures of her when she was born. Above: going home outfit from Grandma Johnson. Below: one of the first pictures with a pretty  bow in her hair.

On her first birthday. What a happy girl. 

Here she is when we celebrated her 2nd birthday. The best I could come up with was to put her Tinkerbell toy on top. She likes Tinkerbell. I was going to try to do a butterfly, however, once I cooked the cake. I realized it was definitely not going to work. so tinkerbell it was. She loved it.

We also took her to Bush Gardens, the local theme park, and watched a few shows there, played on the rides. We had a lot of fun. We will be going back next weekend for another full Saturday in the kids place. What a fun park for us. 

Love Hilary Weeks

I thought these were way cute. When they had "time out for women" in Spokane she performed these cute songs.

Don't forget to push pause on the music player.