Poll

Just wanted to point out the poll on the right side of the page. My cousin did this poll before she had her ultrasound and I thought it was fun. I figured since we are going to find out this month what we're having it would be fun to see what everybody's guesses are. Please vote!

Dancing and Spinning!

I am so excited. I finally got a video to post. I have had several that I wanted to put up and they just never finished processing. Yeah! Emma loves to dance to any music she hears. She has a stacking toy that plays a song when you push the button on top so this is what she usually dances to. I hope you enjoy.


Here is another video that's kind of cute. I'm just putting it on because I'm so excited that I can finally put videos on!

We Got a Christmas Tree!

Thanks to Esther and Nathan we have a Christmas tree this year. We didn't have one last year and weren't going to get one this year because we had nowhere to put one. But as luck would have it, their fake 9 foot tree was way too tall for their apartment so they let us use the top part of their tree. It's small but fits perfectly on our end table, where little hands can't reach it. It's amazing how much a tree can really make it feel like Christmas. Thanks guys!

Just Some Funny Pictures

The other day I was trying to get Emma dressed. She let me put her undershirt on but wouldn't let me put anything else on. Since we weren't going outside I didn't push it. Then she brought me her shoes and whined until I put them on her. Boy does this girl have style! I can't wait till she starts dressing herself. :)

This is her favorite toy. She rides this bus up and down the hall all day. It works great for me,
I just feel bad for our downstairs neighbors!

Emma and Ryan(the boy I babysit) love to spin in the computer chair. He put his arm around her and I thought they looked so cute together.

I love the "Uhh...what is he doing?" look on Emma's face.

The stuffed animal in the picture is Ryan's coveted Cowie. Emma has recently taken a liking to him and will steal him any time she gets a chance. This time Ryan gave Cowie to Emma and then changed his mind. We call this picture "What have I done?"

Christmas Time!

We had heard it was supposed to snow on Saturday so when we woke up and looked out the window we were so excited to see that it really had. It actually ended up snowing all day. It is beautiful. And it was nice that it snowed on a weekend so we could actually enjoy it. So, we bundled Emma up and went out at 8:30 in the morning. She loved it. We found a little hill and went sledding and let her walk around in the snow...as much as she can walk with all of her snow gear on. :) Later in the afternoon we went to a park by our house with real sledding hills and went sledding again. It was so cold but it was fun anyway. In the evening we got together with my sister and her husband, Esther and Nathan, and made gingerbread houses. We had fun decorating and Emma had fun eating WAY too much candy. She has been one wild little kid today. We have sworn to never let her have candy again...we'll see how long that lasts.

Christmas Tag

I've been tagged so here goes...
First, list some of your most memorable holiday traditions from your childhood that just make you go all warm and fuzzy because they were just so much fun or made you feel your Savior's love. Secondly, tell about your holiday traditions now, because we frequently will pick up new traditions from our other half when we get married, or drop old ones because they don't fit with who we are now.
Growing up we had a lot of Christmas traditions, most of which we did on Christmas Eve, but I'll try and get a variety.
-doing the 12 days of Christmas for another family (or giving them a piece of a nativity each night with a scripture until they had the complete set on Christmas Eve)
-reading Christmas stories from the big Christmas book and always reading Luke 2 on Christmas Eve
-giving a gift to Christ on Christmas Eve. We write down our gift to Christ and put it in a little lantern ornament that each of us have. We also read the gift we gave Christ the previous year.
-giving sibling gifts on Christmas Eve. We either drew names or rotated and that is the one present we opened early.
-each getting a box of cereal for Christmas and then eating it for breakfast that day.
-getting a new ornament each year. Mom usually picked them out and they represented us or something we had done that year.
I know there are more but that's all I can think of for now.
As for the second part, I don't know that Jon and I really have any Christmas traditions yet. We have only been married for 2 Christmases and have spent each one with family. We have fun decorating and we've done gingerbread houses each year but that's about it. I'm excited to see what everyone else's traditions are so that we can get some ideas for new ones for us!
If you're reading this consider yourself tagged!

It stuck...baba

This morning Emma and I were eating breakfast. All of a sudden she looked up and said "It stuck...baba(bottle). I had no idea what she was talking about or if it was just jibberish and I made it sound like something but I looked down and sure enough her bottle was stuck between her leg and the table. I was so excited because this is the most words she has ever put together that made sense. I can't believe how fast she's learning to talk. She's been able to say several words for a while but in the last couple of days she's started talking nonstop. She will name all sorts of random objects she sees or hears and loves to say her name. It always catches me off guard because half the time I had no idea she even knew what something was called. It just goes to show how much stuff little kids pick up. I really have to be careful about what I say around her now!