Because Im sick of blogging

and I'm pretty sure I'm sick about the fact that she has to grow up and become a teenager.

Although we got to have 3 teenage girls stay with us for over a week and we LOVED it.

I just think my teenage girl is going to give me a lot harder of a time than they did.

a little bit of christmas morning

We woke up Christmas morning to a silent house and I would have enjoyed a little more time in bed but Dusty couldn't wait to wake up the kids this morning. It was after 9:15 so I couldn't really argue with him. My kids take after their Dad and love to sleep in.

I love having Christmas morning at our house just with our kids. We left and headed over to my parents house for a great breakfast that was waiting for us and some funny breakfast conversation around the table with my siblings. These meals are always fun and we end up laughing more than anything and we were in no rush to go open presents. We did however and Hunter and Ben both got new bikes. Hunter rode his over to Dusty's parents house to break it in. We all headed over to go see more cousins and spend the day playing with them. I love Christmas time and still have yet to take my tree down. I really just love having the lights on at night time and I know its going to be a couple hour job whenever I decide to do it. ................

She really did like her new doll stroller and highchair............

and she was pretty excited about the fairy toothbrush

but the box of Dora band aids was one of the favorites.

Every bump since has been covered by one of these.

Sacrament Meeting

 

Every Sunday as we sit through Sacrament Meeting I try to keep this kid engaged as long as possible before she spots someone more exciting that she wants to go sit with. This usually lasts 5 minutes. tops. Today while she was off sitting with another family and I was busy not looking up at the stand, Hunter turns to me and says,"mom, do you know where Emma is"? to which I reply,  "of course Hunter, shes sitting with either Reghan or Davia".  "nope mom, look up there".  I glance up and  see Emma sitting up on the stand with one of her favorite people, Pres. Bart. or President Winters as most people call him. Shes up there with her arms around his neck just sitting on his lap hugging him. 

 I was a little surprised by this but I don't know why.

She is my most social child and always enjoys being out doing things. She does not enjoy staying at home unless she has a friend over, and yes this does worry me.  She is never shy in asking all my friends if she can go home to their house and throws the biggest fits if she doesn't get to spend the night at grandmas. 

It did make me feel good last week when she had spent the night at my older brothers house and then spent the whole next day at grandmas house and that evening she told her grandma that she missed me and wanted to come home. 

It only took 35 hours for her to miss me. 

Family pic outakes..............

Sunday Morning we decide we are driving out to see Dusty's sisters. 

Sunday Morning I decide on our way out we will see if we can have his sister snap a couple pics of us. 

Sunday after church I lay some clothes out on the couch and in 10 minutes have the outfits decided. 

After our hour drive and waking Emma up we spend 1o minutes outside taking pics. 

It was not a fun 10 minutes for our photographer and was pleasantly surprised at all that she was able to capture.

I should not be surprised. She is a great photographer that taught me everything i know.........

All of my boys were out of control wild and my girl was just a grump. As i  sat watching the wrestling matches,  I  wondered what the heck I was thinking when deciding to attempt pics again.

But I'm glad I did.  

 
 
 
 

Baby D

 
 
 
 This is my cousins baby that I got to play with on thanksgiving who I pretty much fell in love with. 

Is his face not the cutest ever??