There goes my baby

It's happened. Emersyn, my baby, my sweet little girl is now in preschool. She was so excited, we went to her meet the teacher night and she was mad that we weren't going to leave her there.

On her first day I picked her up after class and she was hanging her head, upset that she had to go home. She loves to sit at the counter and show me the papers she brought home in her bag. She is such a big girl. Maybe not literally, she is the smallest in her class, but she makes up for it with her charming and sweet personality.

The mountains are calling

I love going with the family up to Snowbird for Oktoberfest, we always have such a good time. This year we went on the Monday after Labor Day so it was busier than usual, I think next year we will go later in the month.

We took the tram up to the top of the mountain, it was freezing, about 40 degrees but it was sure beautiful. We walked through the tunnel to Mineral Basin and then rode the chairlift back down. I am never doing that again, I hate chairlifts.

The girls got their faces painted and played in the jump house. We didn't have time to do the Alpine Slide this year so Kory doesn't have any battle wounds from this trip.

It's the most horrible time of the year.

The day that I had been dreading for 5 years has happened, Marti has started Kindergarten. I know that lots of parents look forward to the day that their kids go to school but I am not one of those people. I miss Marti, she has been going to school for less than a week and it is only 3 hours a day but it feels like an eternity. I did pretty good the first day, dropped her off with no problems, but when she got home she was sitting having a treat and she looked up at me with her big beautiful face and said "Mommy I missed you a hundred million" the flood gates opened and I started blubbering like a baby.

Luckily my bad attitude hasn't rubbed off on her and she is having a really good time, she was really excited when she found out they have recess (uh oh).

We're party animals.

In our house summer is for birthdays, Marti turned 5 on July 1st and Emy turned 4 on August 7th (Kory and Tawnia's birthdays are in the summer too, but who cares about that when you have little kids their birthdays are way more fun).

Marti kept telling me that she wanted a surprise birthday so that is what she got. Kory brought her home and she was really mad until she walked outside and we all yelled then she got embarrassed and hid by mommy. She asked for a camera and got a cute little pink lego camera, she still really loves it. She also got a new backpack for Kindergarten.

Emersyn wanted to go to the movies on her birthday so we invited some friends and went to see Despicable Me, it was pretty funny. Then we went home and had pizza and Spongebob cupcakes. She loves the baby polar bear that makes noise and her My Little Pony. She also got a bike that she is not too sure about yet, she has fallen off about 4 times but she keeps getting back on so that's a good sign.

Here's some pics of the festivities.

4th of July

We spent the 4th at Bear Lake with all of Kory's family, we had a great time eating, playing at the beach, watching fireworks, going to the park and most of all just catching up (very interesting, especially about the brothers and sisters in law).

We were able to get all the grand kids together for a few minutes to take a picture with Grandma and Grandpa, so fun to see them all together for the first time in a few years. Can't wait til our next adventure.

Isn't she lovely

Marti graduated from preschool last night, she loved her class and her teachers and learned so much from them. They had a program where they sang Broadway songs, so cute, and then they gave each of the kids an award and their diploma. Marti got the Most Likely to be a Teacher award. I could see that happening, and now she has added it to her list of future careers, which includes teacher, painter, pilot, dentist and doctor (but not the kind where you cut into people like Uncle Jason, in Marti's words that's yucky).


Now it is onward and upward to kindergarten, I thought about holding her back since she will be so young, but I think if I tried she would freak. She is such a smart, sweet, awesome little lady and we are so proud of her.

Easter

It's been a while since my last blog, I really am going to make more of an effort and to start with here are some Easter pics of the girls. Don't they just look like sunshine wrapped in rainbows?