Beadboard frames!

I made some frames for my house and love how they turned out. I found this idea on craftyit.blogspot.com and loved them! I changed a few things about them to fit the idea I had in my head. I bought the beadboard at Lowe's and my Dad helped me cut them and drill holes in the top. I spray painted them ivory and used brown paint down the beadboard lines. It took FOREVER to find square frames that were just the right size, but finally bought some and painted those ivory and brushed the edges brown as well. I printed some of Emma's cute one year old pictures and put those in the frames. I love finishing a project! It feels so good to create! If I had all day, I would love to just make crafts all day....maybe when Emma's about 25 we can do that together :), right?

Thanksgiving 2010!

Ahhh, yes, Thanksgiving day! I love this holiday mostly because i LOVE family, food, and fun. We definitely had a lot of each of those. We had the entire family over to my parents house in Bountiful and spent Wednesday through Sat there. Here are some pictures of the weekend:

Will's doing his "cheese" face :)...


My cousins Craig and Shirley spent Thanksgiving day with us along with their two boys.





We went out to eat on Friday (after shopping and Jordan's basketball games). Emma is getting to be a handful when we eat out. She only will sit in her highchair for about 15 mintues they she is spent!



Emma got to open a few more gifts from family members. She loved them and I'm so happy that she is finally starting to be interested in toys...I hope this interest keeps growing!








And even though little Henry has had a rough spell lately (with his tummy), he too enjoyed the holiday weekend! I got lots of pictures of him smiling....so cute.


Enjoy the holidays!!! They fly by way too fast!

Bridal Shower

I can't believe it! Kristen and Andrew get married THIS SATURDAY!!! Yay!!! We are so excited for them!

My mom, Sisters, and I threw Kristen a bridal shower a couple weeks ago. It was lots of fun! The theme was "all girl"...with cut outs of purses, dresses, shoes and such. And as party favors i made these darling purses made out of scrapbook paper. I think they turned out so fun! And i filled them will things that tell about Kristen and her life. It was fun to get together with family, catch up, and celebrate Kristen's soon-to-be marriage!

In the Life of a One Year Old!

Emma's stats at one year:
Percentile for height: 70%!!!!! Wahoo!
Percentile for wieght: 1.2%.....yep, definitely her daddy's girl :)

She is growing so well and the doctor was SO SO happy with her development. She is doing great for a normal 12 month old, let alone a premie! She is far past what they would expect, especially for her fine and gross motor skills. We are so proud of her! Emma is a little talker. She loves babbling and she just learned her first word!!! Not mama....not dada.....but Nana (for banana). Yes, most important things first. She is walking all over the place now. This first video was a couple weeks ago when I got on video one of the first times she started taking more than a few steps together. The other video is more recent and still a little wobbly, but shows how much she learned in 2 days from the first video. Some people have said, "oh you get so excited for them to start walking, and once they do you think 'what have I done?'". But I'm just as excited as I was for the first few....I think she is an adorable walker and I'm so proud of her growth!

...Because 1 balloon was not enough... Sometimes it's rough being the baby...we can get stuck sometimes! We love throwing books and whatever else we can all over the place :) Once in a blue moon, we stop moving and just chill :)

(I've tried for a few hours now to post cute videos of Emma at this stage- her babbling, playing in her fort, and walking around- but it is NOT working. I've tried everything I always do, for some reason it will not work. For you bloggers out there, any advise?)

Halloween fun!

I never posted Halloween pictures and I think Emma was the cutest little bunny EVER! So I had to post them still. She got this costume as a hand me down and it happened to work perfect...it was just her size! We had fun Trick or Treating at Cade's work and Cade and I dressed up too :).

Bday presents and CAKE!

I told my in-laws I would post a video of her eating her first cake! And...I was slacking until now :). She was so funny at first...a HUGE piece of cake in front of her, she didn't know what to do. After she got some in her mouth (i broke it into pieces for her), she LOVED it! I was really sad because her b-day fell on a Wednesday, which is a very busy day for my calling, so I knew we couldn't celebrate that night with my family and no other day that week worked for everyone else. So we planned on celebrating the following Sunday with cake and presents and the works. But then Emma got sick. So we never ended up celebrating with family, but Cade and I sang to her and opened presents from us and Cade's side on her actual birthday. It was still fun!