Around the house

Shawn put up these cool frames with our amazing pictures from Kelsie. Only they aren't picture frames the were art displays at Ikea and not made to be taken apart and pictures added in. But shawn figured it out and made it look awesome! The whole wall art, under $10! Please disregard the surrounding mess!

And my latest addition to home is my amazing gift from Miranda. A beautiful perfume bottle from Prague. Isn't it fantastic. I wonder if I can wear it on a chain...

5th anniversary today! I love being married to Shawny. And I cant believe we got to have a baby together. Being parents has been such an awesome transition. I cant think of a bad part of us being together. And now we get to do a road trip, his favorite thing not mine. and go to a wedding, my favorite thing not his. What a fun weekend planned!

Dads day and my girl!

I love having a little girl. I know I always wanted a boy but I love having a girly, lipstick loving, shoe trying on girl! She is so fantastic. If you haven't spent some time with her and you want to let me know because its a crime to keep her to myself! I know she is cute but she gets a million times cuter when you hear her "talking" or watch her do her lizard impression or see her kiss every picture of Elmo in a book! I dont think i better baby exists in the world!

And to honor my fantastic husband I must say he is the most amazing dad for my little lamb! He is so delicate with her but still so much fun. We had a great fathers day with a panini bar. Very fun! Thank you shawn for being an awesome dad!

Here is Randy about to enjoy his panini. I wish i would have gotten a shot of the cool gift Emolyn and I made for him. I took a pair of shawns old jeans and made Randy a grilling apron out of them! Emolyn was kind enough to donate her hand prints to each pocket!

Ketchup

Mexico was great! We had a great time with wonderful friends. Emolyn was amazing and the weather was perfect!

We had so much fun and it was a treat to get out of town. Make sure you enlarge this last picture because her face is pretty sandy.

On the homefront while the girls were in Mexico shawn was in Wisconsin. He had a really fun time with his dad and brother. If he ever decides to blog again I will have him put some pics up.
Getting ready today for fathers day. Hopefully a bunch of cute pics will be up shortly.

In other news we have only 1 more out of town trip this summer and its next weekend. Then we are home until late August. I am excited to have a little less traveling chaos but not excited to be in the heat! Yuck! It should be 110 next week!

Oh Kids under 13 are free at the Phx Zoo all summer! I just found out and Emolyn and I are totally going! Who wants to come with?

Well I am off to try and pull some creativity into fathers day. I love gifts!

real quick update. maurice is sick. The dr thinks he has addisons disease. really? Come on! so we are in the midst of in between vacations and trying to get Maurice to eat and drink. Ahh, one more day of work and then vacation can begin!

Stuff, no pics

I know you all love to see photos of Emolyn, well all 6 of you who even look at the blog but alas today I have no photos. Not that any would compare to kelsies!

Just some quick notes on what I have been thinking about lately:

-go to bed earlier (starting after this blog)

-be in more pictures (i read an awesome post by the famed "pioneer woman" that she wrote about getting in the pictures with your kids. She said in 5 years you will look 5 years older and 10 years ago I thought I was ft but look at me now!) It was kind of an eye opener. I try to get out of pictures because I think I dont look good but I am only going to get worse so get in them now!

-read more, this is hard because I read at night which keeps me up late, see bullet #1

-should we have 2 kids or 3? Not time yet but 2 is sounding good and the 1 I have is easy. Here is my rational: If I have another girl, totally not worth risking a 3rd girl. that would put me over the edge. and if I have a boy then we have one of each and if I have 1 more than only 1 kid get someone like them that feels unfair. Michellis told me this story about a lady having 3 kids incase 1 died the other would have a sibling to help them cope. But i think the more kids you have the more your statistical risk increases that 1 may die. I am just saying. And finally at 3 you are outnumbered. there are more of them then there are grown ups. Just contemplating.

-Summer is looking busy. Or is it? Maybe just for the next month then like everything in AZ it will dry up.

-Should I take Emolyn to Mexico for girls vacation? I want to say yes because we will never be going in the city. we will be in a house on the secluded beach unexposed to any germs which may be swiny in nature. We are going in like 2 weeks. We will see...

-I wish more people would blog regularly. you know I dont always have time to read them all but I love to be updated. Know whats going on in their lives.

-I dont feel like I fully got to enjoy the Memorial Day sales today. Bummer.

To all a good night...

New Pinkerton Photo Pics!

Thank you so much Kelsie for these adorable new photos!

http://pinkertonphoto.com/slideshows/emolyn1/

15 months

My little girl is 15 months old today! Here is a little update to what she is up to.

-she loves swimming and splashing but after ever splash wipes her face, a lady doesn't let water sit on her face!

-she has taken 4 consecutive steps but is not happy about it. she cried after walking at michelle's last night. she just really likes crawling.

-she has 8 super cute teeth

-she does this super excited face where she balls her fists and crinkles her nose, its fabulous

-she loves opening things, drawers containers and putting stuff into them, like pulling out all of her socks and putting them in where the diapers so or right now pulling all the paper out of the printer

-she says "dahg" which is very east coast for "dog" but "dahg" refers to all animals, and some people. and by the way shawn and I are both "dad"

-she loves giving kisses, it used to be like pulling teeth but now she love it. she kisses everyone in a book and if she likes you enough she will kiss you too

-she loves playing with other kids and we are working on being "gentle"

-she points to everything! and pointing is usually followed by a grunt indicating "i want that" or "take me there"

-she is almost too big for her infant seat. i think we have 2 pounds to go.

-she is the most expressive child. i wish i could capture every expression, its priceless.

-she has the most pleasant demeanor. She is simply a joy to be around.