poopourri :)

Yes I said Poopourri not to be confused with popourri. hahaha. I saw this stuff at Evan's Gatehouse a while back and laughed when I saw it. A while later my friend Liz told me she LOVES the stuff and that it totally works. First, you spray 4 sprays in the toilet bowl before doing your business and all you can smell is the lemony scent. I told Derek about it a while back and he got me a bottle for my birthday and it's AMAZING! So I just wanted to share that. Sorry for the random post. Should I be embarassed?

Happy Birthday to me!

Yesterday was my 28th birthday. Holy cow, 28 years old??!! Are we serious? Anyways. It was a fun day. My Mom and I went out to lunch together which is always fun. Thanks Mom.

Derek was sweet and rented a tandem bike and trailer and we all rode it down from the beautiful canyon. It was such perfect weather. Emma enjoyed herself for most of it, then had had it toward the end. She wasn't liking the sudden dips. But it was lots of fun.
Later we went to my in laws and they sang 'happy birthday' to me and brought out a yummy pumpkin pie that my wonderful mother in law made.

Thank you Derek for the fun day!

"Old McDonald had a farm...."

Yes, Emma and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves at the Farm at Thanksgiving Point. My dear friend Jilly invited us along with her daughter Abby, sister Emily, Em's cute girls, and Mama. It was so fun going around and seeing the cute little farm animals. Emma loved petting and pointing to the animals, sticking her finger in their noses, etc... Loved it except for the part of her fingers getting stepped on by the goat against the fence. SO sad. But, she was ok. Here are some fun pictures from the fun day!

Here are the cute little munchkins all together

I think this was the highlight of the day. After Jilly was feeding the goats, not only was the smell atrocious but the slime that got on her hand from the goat food and mucus was just as bad..if not worse. Well that, plus being pregnant sent her into dry heaving mode. I was laughing (still am as I'm writing this, can't stop) SO hard. Oh Jilly, loved it. Sorry I had to steal this picture from your blog, I'm just so glad your Mom caught it on camera.

Emily tells the goat to back off. These goats were totally in our faces to feed them.

Abby and Emma had fun playing with the little goats. Emma was making all sorts of sounds.

We also took a horse carriage ride. The kids loved it. Emma kept bouncing back and forth and loved watching the horses.

Thanks for the fun day you guys. We had a blast!!

13 months?!!!

Our Emma girl turned 13 months yesterday. We just love her so much. She is at SUCH a fun stage right now. I just love watching her and seeing her personality shine through and she seriously makes us laugh so hard. Last night she started to say "eyes" over and over again while trying to poke my eyes and pull my eye lashes. Then tonight, at Grandma Olsen's house she saw their kitty and flat out said with excitement, "Kitty!" What?! She's never said that before...it was so sweet. Then she said it again. So that's two words in two days.
Words that Emma has learned to say recently are..
"da...y"= daddy and mommy(been saying that for a couple months, mostly calls for Daddy:)
"dnt"=drink
"teas"= treats and cheese
"das"= dance
"tsus"= Jesus (LOVES pointing to the picture of Jesus and saying "tsus")
eyes
kitty

That's all I can think of right now. She has been learning to walk with her toy walker this past weekend. She is so stinking cute. She'll be walking before we know it. Here's a video of us egging her on. I hate the sound of my voice on this, I was just way excited. So please excuse it. :)

We went to Derek's Grandma Olsen's 80th birthday party tonight. It was so much fun being with all the extended family. Derek, my mother in law, and I have been looking through old photos to put in a mini album for her 80th b-day. I was able to put together the album titled "thank you Grandma" The pages were of special moments in Derek's family with their Grandma. She's such a wonderful women and has been such a great example to everyone. It was lots of fun putting it together. All of Derek's family were able to write a letter or note to her for her birthday and it went into an envelope inside the book. I just put up a few pics of some of the pages. Lots of fun! Happy Birthday Grandma Olsen!

Emma dances to 'Footloose'

This week we have been dancing to the 'footloose' soundtrack. Emma has now learned to say 'das'=dance. SO funny. Everytime I would say "Emma dance", she would start breaking down in her cute moves. The only thing was EVERY TIME I pulled that video camera to capture it, she would get shy. So I was able to get little glimpses throughout the week of her shaking her cute potoot. Also of her standing up on her own which has been fun. You'll notice in the very last clip of her dancing, she quietly says "das" and starts dancing. Love it. Like momma like daughter :)

p.s. please excuse the messy house. I think a hurricane hit our place. Oh wait, no that was just Emma pulling everything out and scattering her treasures :)

ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz............

So, Emma had a long fun day running errands with me. She was SO good the whole time. By the time we got home it was way past lunch time and nap time. While she was eating her lunch, I was in the kitchen doing some dishes and all of sudden I notice I wasn't hearing her growling and all her fun noises she usually makes while eating. I went and took a look and found her at this priceless moment. Just after I turned off the camera, she totally hit her head on the high chair table...didn't even faze her because she was SO conked out. Cute little stinker. :)

fun outing at the zoo