4 years ago today!!

Journal write: MAY 10th, 2005
OUR FIRST DATE!

What a fun night!! That Derek guy that was in my health and Institute class last semester asked for my number last class. I was so happy because he's a great guy. We finally went out tonight!
He picked me up and we went to a Thai Restraunt (Thai Chili Gardens) for dinner. Then we met up with his friends at the bowling alley (Miracle Bowl) and we played about 7 games. I beat him once. We were tied once and the rest of the time he beat me :) Holy cow my arm is tired. But it was fun getting to know him more. Things I learned about him.
-Served a mission in Venezuela. He went a little later, so he's my age.
-oldest of four. His youngest brother has down syndrome and knows sign language.
- loves all types of smaller sports like ping pong, bowling, ultimate frisbee, frisbee golf, snow skiing, etc...
-loves 80's music :)
-his Mom is German, his Dad works for Delta Airlines.
-He wants to study graphic design
Anyways, that's just a few things I learned about him.
It was so cool because he was really interested in me and my life as well. Not too many guys I've gone out with before are that interested in me. He was paying all the attention to me, even more than he was to his friends :)
We went to go get a drink at 7 eleven afterwards than he took me home. He turned off his car and walked me to the door (I always get nervous for this part) But we got up to my door and after we finished what we were talking about, I thanked him for taking me out and I gave him a hug. I told him we should do something again and he said, "Yeah, we should go watch a movie or something."
YAY!! I hope he asks me out again.

HAPPY 28th BIRTHDAY DEREK!!!

*28 things I love about Derek......
1. I love how excited he gets watching something interesting and educational on Discovery channel, like "Time warp", or "how it's made", etc....
2. He is quick to help if anyone is in need. No questions asked.
3. He always puts the toilet seat down
4. when he randomly grabs me and starts slow dancing with me and humming one of our songs, "Close to you" sung by the Carpenters.
5. He is quick to say "I love you"
6. love how he quietly encourages Emma on a daily basis to come give mommy kisses and hugs. She does it.
7. when we drive by a fancy, sporty car and he starts rambling on in a foreign language of the kind of engine and power the car has. Then breaks out in the Tim Allen grunting noise.
8. whenever we're watching an intense movie that may have guns, he ALWAYS critiques how their using the gun..if it's being used right, or if it's a movie based in an earlier time period, he lets me know that that gun didn't even exist back then. It's always good to know for my g-whiz collection.
9. love that he's sensitive.
10. He is such a kid. He loves legos, toy cars, race tracks, etc...
11. how hard working he is to provide for our family.
12. brings me flowers spontaneously. My favorite ones are the ones that he and Emma pick and bring back from playing from outside. Priceless.
13. he's a great brother and son.
14.The best dad to our little Emma. I love how he is with Emma. And how she looks at him. She is definitely a Daddy's girl.
15. Willing to watch "Steel Magnolias" with me at least once a year. Thanks babe
16. love the clicking sound in his throat that he makes when he's laughing so hard, nearly peeing his pants.
17. loves how he is with kids. They love him. Especially his younger brother Dylan, and our nieces and nephews.
18. always willing to clean the dishes after dinner.
19. how embarrassed he gets being center of attention :)
20. honors the Priesthood which he holds.
21. how SMART he is. He always LOVES to learn.
22. loves how excited he gets over anything related to technology.
23. how he can read a 120 page manual to learn about the camera. I throw the manual down after reading 3 sentences. :)
24. How motivated he is in training for the marathon coming up. WAY TO GO BABE!
25. He is one of the most patient people I've ever known.
26. he puts up with all my questions about his opinion on my crafty projects :)
27. How supportive he is. Especially playing Mr. Mom for 4 months while I was in school.
28. He is the most genuine, loving person. He truly is my best friend. I love you sweetie. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Daddy-Daughter Field Trip

Derek checking in. This week we took a little field trip to Hill Aerospace Museum in Ogden along with Emma's friends Brooke and Ava, and their dads, Dallas and Isaac. We took one of the CNG
vans that we had in inventory so that the we could all go in one car.

These three little girls are best friends and they thoroughly enjoyed themselves. It was so funny seeing them get so excited to be sitting in one row in the van.

The girls had fun together and the dads had fun looking at all the great military hardware.

Emma probably had the most fun playing outside in the gravel.

A neat old B-17

A lot of walking for a little girl but she seemed to enjoy it and hardly wanted to ride in the stroller at all.

Posing in front of an F-4 Phantom.

One of my favorite planes, an A-10 Thunderbolt "Warthog". (Insert Tim Allen "Arh Arh Arh" sound here.)

A B1-B Bomber.

Two out of the three crashed in the car on the way home. Not Brooke though. (Blatently stolen from Dallas' blog)

We wished we had more time to spend at the museum, and I would recommend it to anyone who is remotely interested in aviation or the military.

It was so fun driving around with all of us in the van that we started thinking up other family activities to give us a chance to throw all the car seats in there and do this again. Maybe we'll even let our wives come next time. :)

Our last couple of weeks....

So, I just thought I'd post some random pictures from the past couple weeks or so. Emma is now almost 20 months (next week) and is just SO much fun. Enjoy some highlights....


Here is Issac and Ava Linton with Derek and Emma after building their awesome and amazing snowman the day of our crazy snow storm. This weather has truly been playing some games with us. One day we get to wear our shorts, the next day we're wearing snow pants. But it was still fun.

Here's Emma with her friend Ava.

Derek took this picture the morning of the big SNOW day! April 16th may I remind you.

Emma LOVES her baby now. She has learned to say "baby" so clear. We brought home a little doll bed that I had when I was a little girl. One of Emma's favorite things is to sit in the bed with her baby.

Derek and I took a project upon ourselves to paint a book shelf for Emma's room. She definitely needed a shelf in her room to hold ALL her books. You can tell she was excited when it was finally finished.

Emma has been obsessed with her first owie's she got on her knees from playing outside on the beautiful spring days. She was so proud of them and wanted to show everyone and say, "Owieee" Emma and her two friends Ava and Brooke were playing outside after church last week. They were being SO cute with eachother. They kept hugging each other, later I got the camera and was able to capture a few shots. These little girls are just too sweet. They sure do love each other.
Here's Ava and Brooke hugging.Here they are finding ants to pick up.

Emma loved drawing on the side walk with chalk. She had chalk from one end to the other on her. SO CUTE!I met up with some friends at the park a couple days ago after my last day of class. It was great for Emma and I to go the park together and spend time together. She LOVED looking at the flowers and smelling them. I love this picture and how she's holding and smelling the flower.Emma was a little anti-social at first. You can see her in the background. :) hahaha.
Then Macy was so quick to be-friend Emma and Emma shared some flowers that she found. We had fun at the park with my friends Sara, Nikki, and Melanie.

Our Easter weekend!!

We had such a fun Easter. Emma had a fun week of fun Easter egg hunts and spent our Easter Sunday in reflection of the true meaning of the Easter season. Lots of fun!!

Emma had fun at her first Easter egg hunt with some of her friends in the ward at Mom and Tot. She was really trying to figure out what the big deal is :)

On Saturday, we went to a ward Easter egg hunt. She was getting a little more into the fun of it.

Then Sunday morning she had her own little Easter egg hunt at home. She woke to some Easter bunny foot prints throughout the house and in her room. She found a bunny rabbit that I got for Easter when I was 3 years old, as well as some other treasures.

As she hunted around the house, following the rabbit prints, she wouldn't let go of the sucker she found at the very beginning. She couldn't wait to get that goodness in her. :)

She loved having her first jelly bean...mmmmmm!!!!

And the most important part was finding a picture of Christ at His Resurrection. She saw the pictures and pointed to Him right away and said, "Desis"=Jesus. It was so sweet. We then watched the Easter video "Easter Dream" together. Great way to begin our Easter day.

We took some pictures of her in her sweet little Easter dress after Church. She looked so darling. LOVED IT!! My friend Sara made some little bloomers for her, they were perfect. Thank you Sara!!

She LOVED this stick.

Dancing around.

Playing the piano at Grandma Phair's house.

She loved playing the piano with Grandma.

Just chillin' and waiting for Easter dinner to be ready to eat!! :)

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter!

doing weird things in your sleep....

Derek says I look like this in my sleep sometimes....Minus the fifth leg at the end :)   (or is that his tail?)

These are a few of her favorite things...

Our little Emma girl is now 19 months! Are you kidding me? This little girl is SO much fun, we can't get enough of her. Here are a few things she loves to do.

She loves to dance around. I caught her dancing around in her new bathing suit. Can't wait to use it:)

She loves climbing onto her chair in her room and read her books and cuddle with monkey.

She LOVES talking on the phone now. Like gab gab gab on the phone in her own language. Once in a while she'll throw in the word "daddy" or "dink"=drink. She's so sweet.

She also looks forward to putting away clean dishes out of the dishwasher with daddy. She's such a good little helper.

Emma loves her Oma. Anytime she see's her she goes right up to Oma and wants her to hold her and sing, read, and play with her. It's so cute to watch them, especially when Oma is gently singing a song to Emma in German, Emma listens so intently.

Emma also loves to play with her friends Ava, Brooke, and Ethan.

*Some of Emma's NEW words are..
"owey"-ouchy
"wawy"- sorry
"tair"- chair
"dywa"- diaper
"cacku"- cracker
"Boo"
"Bwoo"- blue and moon
"wowa"- flower

Those are the only ones I can think of right now