Halloween 2009

So don't get me started on Halloween this year, but I have to post some of the pictures that did get taken so Grandma and Papa can see. Anyways, there are not very many good pictures because I was busy doing a bunch of other things, so..... You get what you get and you don't throw a fit :) So here are my kids. Emilie looked a lot cuter than she did in these pictures. She had wiped all the mascara like all over her face. But oh well.

Easton Boy :)
Little pumpkin girl Emilie
Doing the cake walk, notice her hand on her hip the entire time

Well I guess not here :)

This is her probably telling this other kid what to do

More of her hand on her hip

And that is it, nothing great I know but the grandparents wanted to see the kids. And just don't ask about Halloween for us, it sucked. I made Daniel ditch the church party in the middle because I was so bugged and went to McDonald's and then went back to clean up. We did watch the proposal after we got home though and that was fun.

Emilies 3rd Birthday

My little Emilie is now 3 years old. I still cant believe really that I am a mother of a 3 year old already and 2 kids. It is so crazy to me. Anyways, so I guess we needed to document that day. She had a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse party and we had a lot of fun. Out of all the characters she chose to have a Donald Duck cake. Kind of funny cause when I was either 2 or three I think I had this same cake. :) Anyways, so we started off the morning by decorating the cake, and here is the finished product.

Then we got the kiddos in the tub, Easton does pretty good now sitting up in there until Emilie starts going crazy on me. I love this one of Easton
Now it it time for the party, Emilie handed out Mickey Mouse ears to everyone that came.
Then we started some games with oh toodles, they had to find the numbers to 10 around the house and sometimes they needed toodles help
This is Emilie trying to get number 6 with the help of the toodles stepping blocks
Daniel is Pete and they had to pay Pete 9 pennies for him to give them the number 10, Daniel was hilarious about this and toodles helped them with the pennies
Each of them giving him a Pennie
Me trying to play duck duck goose type game with mickey mouse, but the kids were a little too young I think, didn't work out too well :)
Next we went and ate some Pizza
Then presents, and during the middle of this my camera died, luckily Keresa had hers and started taking pictures for me.
I love the expression on her face

She has been waiting for this Mickey Mouse backpack forever. She picked it out a while ago and I held onto it until her birthday but she never forgot about it.

She was so excited to now have a backpack like daddy
And this is what Grandma and Papa Bartlett got Emilie a little while ago when they came out. So for her birthday she got a lot of accessories to go with it from Grandma and Papa Gilberg and Nicholas, she loves it.

This is something Daniel and I bought her as part of her birthday but I found it along time ago, Growing up we had one of these and everyone loved it. These things are like really expensive but I managed to get this one like brand new at a yard sale for 20 dollars. Killer deal let me tell you. Anyway she loves it along with every other kid that comes to our house.

Then it was time for cake
Blowing out the candles

Enjoying a pieceEmilie also went to the Dr. this week and she weighs 28.5 lbs-28% and 37 inches - 39%. She loves to talk-A Lot, and is full of energy. She is always keeping me on my toes.

We Love Fall!

We have been up to a lot these days, but that is good. Here are some pictures of some things we have been doing. And we have another busy week this week with Emilie's Birthday and Halloween. So I thought I would get these out of the way.

We carved pumpkins with the Whitney's last weekend. We had a good time ate some pizza and let the kids play.

Our primary program was this week, technically Emilie would not have a part in it because she should still be in nursery but they don't really have a nursery in our branch so she goes in the older class. She was assigned a part in the program and we worked and worked on it, She had it memorized and everyday I would ask her to say it to me. She did so good. One week before we went and practiced with the microphone and she did it so good she thought it was so cool, then the Saturday before she practiced with the primary and she did so good, loud and clear. I get all excited on Sunday to see my little girl up there (Proud Parent:) And she gets up and just smiles, she got nervous and wouldn't say it, I tried everything to get her to say it. I bribed her with candy, I said it into the mic to see if she would say it after me, and she would not do it. I was so bummed, it sucked cause we had worked so hard and I though she so would have done it, but the shy little Daniel in her couldn't do it :) Anyways, here is the video of her part on our way to church. (Sorry she is totally playing/picking her nose)

This is us at the Homecoming Parade, it was so funny. Probably the quietest parade we have ever been too. They didn't throw candy and it was about 10 min long. But it was fun to get out and the kids liked it.

One of Daniels YM is on the Football team so we also went to the Homecoming Game. It was fun the team here is really good and his YM scored a TD. So here are some pics of us at that. Emilie and her awesome smiles these days Our FAMILY And last we had some good quality family time and made our Halloween sugar cookies.

Here are Daniel and Emilie's sweet dancing moves or not so sweet :) you decide.

Our finished project, Emilie was so into decorating them and eating them, they are not the most professional looking cookies, but they sure were YUMMY!

Fun Times & Family Pictures

This past week the Gilbergs came out to visit us. I didn't take any pictures of us all together, but we always love and enjoy having visitors. Daniel had a couple days off of school so we had a fun relaxing time. I got to go to the mall down in Charlotte for my birthday after picking them up and with no kids (thanks Whitney's), Mark and Daniel found some comfy seats to sit in the entire time :) We didn't get to do much because the weather wasn't the best the first few days and if you ask Mark... "They didn't get to do any guy things" ha ha. Let me just say, they watched every Phillie's and Yankees baseball game, which there was one on every night sometimes 2 a night. And then they got to watch the BYU football game. Now is that not "doing guy things" Ok I know you all agree with me :) I just had to give Mark a hard time. We also went and snapped some family pictures. These are just with our camera so they are not like way professional but here are some of our favorites tell me which one you think is the best and if you have the itch to do some cute photoshopping for me...feel free.
Here we are, the pictures are completely out of order.

Man it was hard to get Emilie to focus and smile

Oh so cute. ha ha Daniel wanted one with just us

Now back to the family

This in the only way I could get her to take a pictures with me is to be goofy.

My 2 cute boys

These are from last week. Easton is sitting up pretty good now. This little guy is so funny and so happy. He laughs and smiles over everything.
He was watching Biggest Loser with me

And last....Emilies favorite place to go is Lowes, she thinks she is so cool driving the car.

Now we have a few crazy weeks ahead of us, we are excited for Halloween and Emilie's birthday and she gets to do her part in the primary program on sunday, she is excited and has it memorized, I hope she does it, and I almost forgot we booked our tickets for Christmas, we are sooooo excited.

Fall Festival

So recently there was a Fall Festival in our little town. Daniel and I had gone to play tennis and discovered that part of the festival were these bouncing toys. We thought 'oh Emilie will like those lets take her' it was free also so we thought we would give it a try. Little did we know she was so scared of these things. I should of known because she hates being on anything that isn't steady or that you can see through. But Daniel said 'she's going' and took her through this bouncy thing and down the slide and the entire time she is screaming. Anyways, we thought it was funny and had to document it.

Her hair is all messed up...I promise one of her messy buns isn't supposed to be sticking straight out.