Emmy's First Birthday

We celebrated Emmy's 1st birthday a week early due to family being gone. Thursday, her birthday, was a pretty busy day, so I totally forgot it was her birthday. That is strike two for me this year in remembering the girls birthdays, I also forgot Aspens when scheduling a trip, whoops! We are so blessing to have amazing friends who invited us over for dinner, cake, and singing for her real birthday. As you can see from the pictures Emmy has found a new love of frosting and has no shame. Emmy adores the Orth's kids and it was so much fun to celebrate it with them.

 Singing Happy Birthday

 She wanted to share

PS the next morning i found Emmy in the trash can eating an half eaten cupcake that I had thrown away just the frosting. I guess there is no going back now.

Emmy's 1st Birthday

While I have time and it is fresh in on my mind I will post about Emmy's Birthday and get back to the fun summer trips later this week. We were actually going to have her Birthday Party on her birthday but Brady will be traveling to Japan for two weeks so we moved it up a week. She was all smiles and laughs until 6:30-6:45 hit then it was bed time. We are so lucky to live by so much family and good friends to celebrate her birthday with us. We did a butterfly theme, well when i say"we" i mean me. Aspen helped me put up balloons and butterflies so when Emmy woke up from her nap she was laughing and loved all the decorations, especially the streamers. We had pizza and played some of Emmy's favorite things, bubbles and the parachute, and of course sang Happy Birthday. This was the first time she really had any cake....okay okay the first time we have given her any sweets, we were out of town for 11 days so there is no telling what she ate while she was with Grammy and Gigi.  She almost at the whole big cup cake, poor thing i think she was sick when she went to bed. She sure loves to eat.
Now my motherly speal on how amazing Emmy is. We are so lucky to have her part of our family, she is only one, but she always know how to make us laugh especially when it is needed. She is a determined little girl and very adventurous. She can eat more then the three of us put together. The best hugger ever! My favorite parts of the day, when she wakes up in the morning and is so excited to see me that she flapping her arms and moving every part of her body that most of the time she falls and hits her head but that doesn't bother her she stands back up and does it again. And at night before bed cuddling with her in the rocking chair. We love Emmy, where has the year gone!

Alaska

 ALASKA July 2012

 train ride

 beautiful sights

 waterfall everywhere and Brady was taking pictures of them left and right

 glaciers

 this is what i did a lot driving makes me so sleepy

 awake long enough to strike a pose

 this is what Brady did a lot while driving

 Our cabin on the lake

 Eagles flying everywhere

 Hiking

 Brady fishing

 me reading

 yummy food everywhere

 ATVs

 Happy 4th of July. We got the parade in for me :)

 Fishing in 45o weather, rainy, and stinky, but the fish is yummy

 Halibut fishing

When Ocean meets Mountains an amazing sight

Alaska LDS Temple. Trying to take a picture of us on my phone after our camera broke

We LOVE to travel but Brady and I haven't gone on a trip by ourselves since we have had kids. Brady decided it was time. He planned his dream vacation to Alaska for us. I did nothing but pack and waited, not even sure I could leave the kids for 10days. We are lucky enough to have both sets of Grandparents close, so the each took 5 days. We got to talk to the kids everyday which was nice. The trip was wonderful and beautiful. But I am definitely a Texan 45 degree weather in the middle of the summer was to cold for me (I think I prefer 105). We flew into Anchorage and drove 1406.4 miles around staying the night and stopping in Whitter, Homer, Talkeetna, and Seward to name a few. Over all it was an amazing trip and great to get reacquainted to my husband. We also very irresponsible, leaving my sunglasses at a restaurant, the camera broke, we had to buy a new camera then we left the battery charger at one of the cabins, the list goes on and finally to top it off we left the fishing poles on the airplane. O'well what can you do but laugh! Here are some fun pictures from the trip

Aspen's 3rd Birthday Party

I can't believe Aspen is three, well we celebrated her birthday, since we will be out of town on her real birthday. She's been waiting and helping me plan her Mermaid Party for several months. We started out side playing in the pool and sprinklers. We also played go fish, paraschute, and bubbles. Everyone was having a lot of fun until the ants started to attack. So we came inside and had lunch on beach towels, opened presents, and sang Happy Birthday. Aspen's been on cloud nine for the last couple of days. She said her favorite part was when everyone sang to her and eating cake. Once again we are so lucky to have celebrated Aspen's birthday with so many friends and family. Thank you everyone for coming. Here are some pictures of the party and after math.