Emery's Eight Months Old

     Time is flying by. Our baby will be one in four months.  She is just so fun to have around.  Emery continues to be happy, and overall is just a delightful addition to our family.  The only time she is not happy is when it comes time to dress her. She really resists it, and will try to roll over especially when you are half way through a diaper change.  Avery and Harper were not this hard to dress. Emery gets up on her hands and knees to rock back and forth.  When she's ready to move forward though she gets back down and does her little army crawl.  She doesn't seem really interested in sitting up yet either.  We can get her to do it for a little while, but a lot of the time when we sit her up she immediately tries to lean back on something.  Emery did finally get her two bottom teeth in about two weeks ago.  As always here's some pictures.

Emery loves to crawl into her sisters' room.  Avery and Harper are already beginning to get mad about that.

Today Emery conquered our floor pouf and was very proud of herself.

A close up of her two new beautiful chompers.

Here she is with everyone's favorite monkey and mom's feet.

Too Much Snow

   Last night as we were on our way home from celebrating Erik's return home from his mission. It snowed all the way home, and we noticed that it was getting thicker as we were getting nearer to our home.  It's pretty unusual for us to get snow where we are at, so it was troubling.  We knew the worst roads would actually be right by our house.  We go up a hill and then take a right down a hill and from that road we have to turn onto the alley that leads to our house.  To get into the alley we go up a little hill, and then right before our house is another steep little we have to go down.  We turned into our alley and missed the telephone pole thankfully and bumped into the bamboo that lines the side.  We barely got up into the alley and when we got to where we had to go down the last hill into our driveway we decided to play it safe. The snow shovel was waiting for us by the front door, and we had some ice melt that had been languishing in our garage for the last two years.  After our quick ministrations to the alley we made it down without crashing into the front of our house.  Today was Sunday and our ward wasn't canceled.  When I went to check out our hills though it didn't seem terribly safe, so we stayed home.  The snow didn't start melting until well into the afternoon.  By tomorrow morning it should be gone and good riddance.

This is what our front alleyway looked last night. You can see where we laid the ice melt.  

This is what our alley looked like in the morning.  We got about three inches of snow.  

The girls were just dying to get outside and play in the snow.

They of course wanted to make a snowman which meant Daryl got to make a snowman.  The snow was perfect for it.

Avery put her scarf on the snowman, gave him a carrot nose, stick arms and antennae too I guess, gloves, and she poked holes where buttons should go. 

Avery wanted to hug the snowman since Olaf from Frozen likes warm hugs.

Harper also wanted to hug the snowman.

Hello Erik

  If you recall about two years ago there was a post entitled "Bye Erik" when Daryl's cousin left on his mission to Sacramento, California.  Now here we are with a "Hello Erik" post already.  The time has flown by.  Last night we gathered together to celebrate Erik's arrival back home with family at Aunt Debbie's.  We were especially excited to see Grandma Shirley who was been sick for too long and now is back to feeling better.  It was Emery's first time meeting her Great Grandma, and of course I don't have a picture of that because I am actually horrible at taking pictures.  Enjoy the pictures I did take. 

Harper really liked the good old Etch-a-Sketch.

Emery hanging out.  By the end of the night the children had destroyed that poor ball.

My sister-in-law Aimee turned the tables on me.

Grandma Shirley looking radiant.

Emery and Great Aunt Debbie

Tyler being silly.

Here's all the boys:  Erik, Karl, Scott, Kyle, and Daryl.

Just in case if you wondered what Avery was up to.  She's playing on the Leap Frog. I'm not sure who gave Scott the Mickey Mouse puppet.

One last picture of Aimee and Emery.