Like Father, Like Son

BYU Graduation

We went up to Provo this last Friday and saw my brother Tyler graduate from BYU. Tyler graduated in English and will be attending law school at the University of Washington in the fall! Congrats Tyler! Wish we could follow you to beautiful Seattle!

We took this picture because we thought it was hilarious. When we got to the Marriott Center they made us check in our stroller. What was funny was how MANY strollers there were! If you look closer at the picture you'll see the "W" portal. That's precisely how far the "stroller check in" went to. There were probably hundreds. 

This is another picture Mike and I thought was funny. We were waiting for Tyler to meet up with us and we looked down and what do ya know, Emmett was just kickin back. Literally. 

Blah Blah Blog

I wish I had something really cute and fun to blog about. But today I don't. I could keep postponing until I do, but I have a free moment, so here's a little update on our lives.

I went to the temple on Wednesday night (by myself) for the first time since before I had Emmett. It felt good. Emmett was naughty and cried for the whole 2 hours without me. It feels good to be loved, but not THAT good.

I'm busy doing a Quiet Book exchange with a bunch of other girls in my ward. We each make the same 2 pages, 10 times and then we'll exchange our pages we made and have a fun book for our kids in the end. I'm nervous about pulling out the old sewing machine my mom gave me years ago. We'll see how mine turns out.

Mike brought up the idea the other night of him wanting to go back and get his Master's degree. Love the idea. Hate the prospect of never seeing my husband. I already see him so little as it is!

Easter was lovely. Had dinner at my sweet Aunt Kris's house who fed us wonderful food. I was a bad mother and didn't get Emmett an Easter basket. Next year for sure.

Bought some rice cereal for Emmett. I think for our date night tonight, we'll gather around the table, stick our baby in his lovely Bumbo chair and watch and google over him spitting out a bunch of mush all over his face. Sounds fun huh? I think so too.

Mike called me today and said its time to go on a vacation. (Something that is always my idea). He even looked into flights to various places before he called me. If you know my husband, that is so not like him. All he needs is a tent in the mountains and he's on vacation. I'm a little more into the sightseeing stuff. So perhaps we'll spend our 5 year anniversary somewhere else besides Island Park. (No offense mom and dad, we DO love it there).

Getting ready to put a new roof on our house...coming May 2009! Meaning, my husband is going to get up on the roof, rip off the old, curling, moldy shingles and nail lots and lots of new shiny ones on there. Ps. We are taking volunteers for help. No experience necessary. We don't have any either.

Now that the only reader I still have reading this is probably my parents in Korea, I'll end with some cute pictures of E.



Might go in easier the other direction don't you think?


On a beautiful walk the other day! Front-facing strollers are so much funner than rear-facing.



Our Ecuadorian baby. (One of Mike's old hats from his mission)



First time swimming! Why is it that this kid looks so huge when I hold him?



And last but not least. Emmett randomly showing us how long his tongue is. Definately a trait he got from his mother. I'm seeing a 4th generation nose-toucher with that one.

New Discoveries

Emmett is starting to discover there's some odd things that came with this new body of his:

His hands and arms,

His feet and toes,

He has a voice and uses it,

And best of all, his tongue.

If you want to see a baby go to town on that big wet thing in his mouth, hit play.

Spring Fever Does Me No Good...

I haven't had much motivation to blog lately and I blame it on the weather. I've been feeling some severe spring fever and its given me the lack of motivation to do just about anything.

I've been wanting to post some pictures. It was a beautiful day about 3 weeks ago (seems like forever ago since all we've had is snow ever since) so we went downtown to Temple Square and took some family photos. We took them ourselves by setting up the tripod, and away we went.

PS. I finally figured out how to make my pictures bigger! If you want to learn how too, go HERE.
































Check out that stream of drool!



Emmett giving us the stink-eye. This is about when he'd had enough and became vocal about it.

We sure love this kid.

Pss. I'm sad to say those stinking cute overalls are now too small for him. Why do they have to grow up so fast?

Thankful

Times are tough for a lot of people right now in our world. I think now more than ever I find myself taking a step back and seeing all the blessings in my life. I've added a "gratitude list" on the side of my blog (thanks for the idea mom). So I can keep track of the little things that make me happy, and what I'm grateful for.

Strait Jacket

When you have a baby, the hospital instructs new parents to wrap their new bundles of joy into little burritos as shown below. This helps the infant feel more secure as if they were still in the womb. It also helps babies with their uncontrollable reflexes, as some babies sporadically spread their arms and legs out and it wakes them up or makes them feel unsettled.

Emmett 1 day old...aww so sweet.

Well, as Emmett has gotten older, he's much stronger and can wriggle out of that burrito blanket WAY too easy. So when he wakes up in the middle of the night or in the morning, his arms end up by his face. Well, the problem is Emmett loves to rub his eyes. Which results in a pretty mangled up little face as seen below.

His forehead is full of scratches...poor guy. I clip his nails I swear. He just happens to find the sharp parts.

So Mike and I have gotten a litte creative in our own blanket wrapping. Fit for a 4 month old.

This is the blanket on top:

And this is what you see when you lift it off:

His own little strait jacket! His face is looking great!

Trip to California. Part I: Wedding

We're back! Mike's brother Kyle got married in the Oakland Temple on Friday, March 6, so we (by we, I mean Mike's sibs, parents, grandparents and aunt) flew out of the Salt Lake airport on Thursday to go to the wedding. This was my first time flying with a baby and Emmett handled it like a pro. Except for on the return trip he screamed for about 15 min out of exhaustion, but fell asleep as soon as we took off.

We had a great time. I'm not good at explaining trips and I don't want to bore you by reading pages about what we did, so I'll just let the pictures do the explaining.

These are the pictures from the temple:



Here's Mike and I, pretending to be the bride and groom again. jk.




Emmett just hanging out, sucking on his hands. It was a bit chilly out that day, however it was a lot warmer than what we left in Salt Lake, which was snow.







The bride and groom! Kyle and Tyne.



The whole family.






This view is from the front of the temple looking out. Beautiful. I can't believe all the flowers CA has already, and how green the grass was. I know why people live there. You can also see the tiny figures of the bride and groom if you look close enough at the picture.

After the wedding we went back to the church for the luncheon and then later that night, the reception. It was a really nice day. Weddings are so fun! We have a lot coming up in the next little while as Mike's sister Melissa is getting married on March 26, then my sister Krista on June 20!