WOW!!

Emmett loves Christmas lights!

Bedtime

Emmett kicks off his cover and since his bedroom stays a little cooler, I put him in this 'sleeping bag' lately. He apparently loves it and comes running every time I lay it out!

Upright...

at last! Just 2 days ago Emmett really started walking!



and was back to crawling when he woke up the next morning!

It's been a rough year....

having a kid this cool ;)

dancin' the night away

Well, I thought this wasn't working because it's not showing on my computer, (hence I tried it again and there are 2 of the same video) but given the comment, I guess maybe it is?!

Happy Halloween!

We have family in Albuquerque now! How crazy is that?! Micah's cousin, Mark, and his wife, Sarah, just moved down from BYU for a job at Sandia! Last night we had a Halloween dinner (we had orange soda and doritos....other than that, it was not especially festive),

carved pumpkins

and ate delicious carmel apples!

Last but not least, Superman!

Here he is at a Birthday Halloween party...

he figured out the pinata candy pretty quickly

And a shot of the whole costume before he got too sick of it

A New Post!!!!

Emmett turned 1 last month!!!!
....so we took him camping for his birthday and he LOVED it! We decided to just do his favorite things for his big day. This kid loves being outside and makes a run for the door anytime anyone comes in or out of the house. He loved crawling around the campsite & in the tent. This site had a little wall around it (which of course he loved crawling over and dropping down the 2-3 feet to the ground) and was covered with woodchips, which was nice because then he didn't get too muddy. It had rained that week and it rained all night but it was fun.

Isn't this hat adorable? It's an apple (in case you can't see the top)
One of the ladies at work 'just whipped it up' for him last year

I know...it's a great one of meMicah was excited to use his tripod and took some nice family shots!

and his actual birthday on Sunday ...ended up being much busier
than we'd expected and we had some friends that are leaving town for dinner

we did get one Skype visit in-Micah's family had their own b-day party in MI,
complete with a lion cake, too, and balloons!
and continuing with his favorite things, we got him dum dums

toilet paper,

and cheez whiz!

and his absolute favorite thing is his lion that my sister Carrie made for him when he was born, so we made him a lion cake!

oops...

what's up with blogger? did I imagine that they always used to automatically rotate pics for you?

Day 6

Christopher arrives...with donuts!!

we went to Explora that afternoon:

You could fly this remote plane and the wind would blow in your face

Wind blow out of these pipes and you could 'balance' the balls in the air...

Emmett just kept trying to grab them and loved it!

Christopher got the bubbles to cover his kids!

This is the elevator....you heard me right! Elevator!

the electricity station was really fun...you

could build circuits and get light bulbs to turn on and stuff

and this was some type of heat camera...black areas are cold

guess who's hands those are?!

and in mom's family fun magazine, I found this cute project that Kenzie did!

A rug out of t-shirts...it wouldn't lay flat, though, so she folded it in half and made a purse!!

Day 5

Wednesday morning, Nik helped us with the gardens. While we were out there, Jayden was playing with some tools and Payton wanted one, too, so I found some old paintbrush, which turned into a 'painting the bricks' tool (we had stacks of bricks we were building the raised gardens with), with puddles of water being his paint, which turned into the cool tool that everyone wanted, so I found some more, and they got some ice cream buckets and filled with paint (water) and that turned into painting (washing) all the walls, twice, then the table and the grill....They seriously did this for hours! It was great fun!

That afternoon we went up to the foothills and took a

hike and had a picnic at the top of 'the mound.'

water break

this doesn't really do it justice...

cuzzin buddies

Micah had promised the kids a campout...

and a fire!

Not the worst night's sleep we've ever had...

Good mornin'!