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I got these little outfits for the girls at Kohl’s!  Where else!  Anyway, the whole Relief Society presidency was released so we were going to lunch with the rest of the presidency.  (So quick update…yes I was released a few weeks ago as Enrichment counselor and now I’m assistant ward camp leader and the Young Women’s Secretary!  Both of which I’m super super excited about!!) Anyway, Emmy was really excited to go to lunch with “May Anne” (Marianne Tonks) so she didn’t really want to sit for pictures! But here are the few shots I got!

Kaylee working on some crawling!! She is getting really close! She is already army crawling with a lot of speed!

The one shot I managed to get of both the girls in their little polka dot pants!

“Naturally Sweet”- very appropriate shirt!

“Free as a bird”- Pretty much sums up Emmy!

Later that day I decided to take the girls to the park to try out my new double stroller!  Ta-Da! I got this at the Little Forest Resale for 30 bucks!! It’s a “Euro-Graco” which I’ve never heard of…but I think it makes me more cultured or something!  Anyway, I really love it and although it might not be as fancy as some other double strollers it gets the job done! And for you Seinfeld fans out there “It’s European!!!”

Here’s miss Kaylee in her comfy seat!  She loved looking forward for a change!

And Emmy thinks the double stoller is the greatest thing ever!  She loves riding around with Kaylee!

It was really bright at Urban park!  Here is Emmy in the swings trying her best to smile and look at the camera!

After Urban we walked over to Mountain School.  This was our first time going and Emmy loved it!!! This playground was just her size and she could do it “all by herself” which she made sure to tell me if I walked to close to her while she was doing it! She is going to do the early start pre-school program through Barranca but if we still live here in two years Emmy will go to Kindergarten at Mountain!

I think this pick is funny because she is wearing her Free as a bird shirt but she looks like a jail bird!

Poor Emmy…always in my shadow!  Just kidding!  She leaves me and Alex in the dust on a regular basis!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!

We stayed at mountain so long it was time for Daddy to come home so we told him to meet us at the park! Here is Emmy showing dad around the playground!

And finally Kaylee gets her turn to join the fun!  She loves riding down slides just like Emmy!  They are both pretty fearless so it will be interesting when I have to chase them BOTH around the playground in opposite directions!  Maybe then I will finally shed those extra pregnancy lbs!!

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So I am totally behind on my blog.  I have about a million posts to do!  So I’m going to just go through the pictures in order!!  So first up is Easter!  We had a pretty low key easter which was nice.  However, it also snowed that weekend, which wasn’t so nice!  But the girls had lots of cute outfits to dress up in and they looked super cute at church!  So although there are no happy daffodils in our pictures you can still tell it is spring by the way the girls look!

Emmy was old enough to dye her own eggs this year!  For some reason she wanted most of them to be green so Alex and I made a few to use the other colors!

Three amigos!

And I was there too…see…

Kaylee thought Emmy coloring eggs was hilarious!  Kaylee thinks everything Emmy does is hilarious!

Kaylee was just working on holding her head up and rolling over at the point!  She rolled over on March 17th which was exactly 3 months after she was born!  She’s showing off her muscles in the pic!

Kaylee pretending she is the same age as Emmy!

Emmy pretending she is the same age as Kaylee!

Emmy loves piggy back rides!

So I couldn’t decide which picture of the piggy back ride to include so I’m putting in both!  This one shows off Emmy’s and Daddy’s blue eyes!

We had the Grandpa’s and Uncle Ray over for Easter dinner!  I couldn’t find a small enough ham so we did a pork roast instead.  Still very yummy! Here is Emmy and Grandpa Baker!  Showing off her candy!

Emmy and Grandpa Layman!  This time she is showing off the candy in her mouth!

Here’s Kaylee’s little easter bunny outfit…

complete with fluffy tail…

and little bunny slippers!!

In this picture I was trying  to capture the craziness that Easter candy can induce!  Notice the wide eyes and the slight trace of chocolate on the corners of her mouth!! 

Happy Easter!!

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So today we went to the children’s museum and we had a lot of fun!  But unlike on Reading Rainbow you ARE going to have to take my word for it because I forgot my CAMERA!! Anyway, without the pictures it’s pretty much just words…blah blah blah!  So, I will quickly tell you what we did and follow it up with some funny stories…so hang in there…

1) We went to Kohl’s (how unlike me) with Kath and I actually got to try a few things on since she played with the girls! Thanks Kath! 2) A quick trip to Trader Joe’s to buy some delicious apple bars, potato gnocchi, and ginger cats.  It had been awhile since I’d been there and Emmy’s snack cupboard was pretty bare.  3)We walked around UNM campus and bought Alex’s graduation robes!  Good thing he’s getting his master’s so he can wear black robes instead of bright Lobo red. 4) Children’s museum- totally awesome!  Giant blocks, musical instruments, a pool full of bubbles!  Toddler heaven!  She loved it! We were there for 2.5 hours and she still couldn’t get enough!

Anyway, thanks for reading the random things we did today…now as promised some funny stories.

So the other day Emmy was eating dinner and all the sudden she started counting in spanish.  She counted from 1 to 5. She’d never done that before and we were pretty impressed so we asked who taught her that.  (I was pretty sure it was from Dora).  She sat there and thought for a couple seconds then she got really exctied and said “Jesus”.  Looks like her primary teachers are doing their job!

Then, a couple days later we were sitting at the table again and this time she started singing a song she made up.  It went like this “Daddy looks like mommy, mommy looks like Kaylee, Kaylee looks like Papa, Papa looks like Aunt Beth, and so on using every person she knows (literally).  Until finally someone looked like Emmy.  Then she stopped and said “Emmy looks like a diamond ring!”  Which I thought was random…so I asked her where she got that idea from.  Then she yells at the top of her lungs “FROM CHINA!”   What a smart alek!  Seriously, who does she think she is, Michelle Tanner!

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Kaylee Maria Baker was blessed March 29th, 2009 in Los Alamos New Mexico by her dad!  It was a great day!  My mom and Christian were down for spring break and Beth and her family drove down for the weekend.  So Kaylee had both sets of Grandparents, all of her cousins, and most of her aunts and uncles here.  Alex blessed her and one of the ladies in our ward who writes short hand copied it down for us (what a nice gift!).  The circle also included Max (Grandpa), Nathan (uncle), Keith Morgan (friend), and Josh Miller (friend) and Bishop Betts (bishop).   After church we had a family lunch and celebrated!

Kaylee is already 3 months old so I was a little worried the dress would be too small…but it fit great and she looked adorable!  Look at her big blue eyes!

These booties are gorgeous but Kaylee only keeps socks on for about 2 minutes.  Luckily Beth got a picture before Kaylee kicked them off!

Logan saying good morning to Kaylee before church!  Kaylee got tons of compliments on her bonnet.

Here’s Kaylee and her Daddy all ready for their big day!  This dress is the same dress that Emmy and I were blessed in.  It’s on loan from my mother.  So far all of her grandchildren have been blessed in it (Emmy and Kaylee)

Emmy wasn’t really in a picture taking mood but we managed to wrangle her into a few of them anyway.  Here we are after church!

Kaylee and her proud parents.

The whole gang

Kaylee kept sticking her hand on Emmy’s face when we were trying to get a picture of the two of them.  Emmy and Kaylee both thought this was hilarious!  Kaylee was even giggling!

Kaylee with Grandma and Grandpa Layman!

Naps all around!

Kaylee with Grandma and Grandpa Baker!

In the words of Emmy, “UNCLE WAY!!!!!”

Kaylee smiling with her Aunt Beth!

Uncle Christian wearing his Gonzaga Bulldogs shirt and holding his newest niece!

All the cousins!  It took 4 adults to get this shot together but it worked!  I was very impressed and it turned out really cute!  Emmy loves to hold Kaylee’s hand in all the pictures.

“oooh cake…”

“Just a little closer…”   SUPER BABY!

So for those of you into decorating cakes…here is a pic of Kaylee’s cake.  Alex bought me a cake decorating kit for Christmas and I finally got to try it out!  The booties are made out of 3 marshmallows.  Two standing up for the heels and one cut in half and laying down for the toes.  Then I just piped lines of frosting on them to make it look like crocheted booties.  I liked the design because Kaylee’s Grandma Baker knits all kinds of things for her family and friends!

Emmy makes a pretty cute biker chick! Logan, Ray and Emmy- born to be wild!!

Don’t I have a cute husband??  Thanks for giving Kaylee such a nice blessing and happy day!

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So this was Alex’s last spring break…EVER!! He graduates in May! Woohoo!  Anyway, we decided that since it was his last we should actually do something.   We decided on going to Phoenix for spring training and to see my mom’s side of the family!  We had a great time!  Some of the highlights include my Grandma’s B-day party, playing with family, seeing my college roomie Kasey and her family, a trip to IKEA and of course seeing the Royals stomp on the Dodgers! BAM!  It was definitely a full trip but so worth it!  Here are some pictures!

Alex and Emmy at the Royals/Dodgers game!  Alex bought the girls some royals shirts while we were there…I will have to take some pictures of that sometime!

GO ROYALS! They won by a lot…I don’t remember the score anymore…but it was a lot…

Here is Emmy and Carson playing with Emmy’s doll stuff!  Carson was also very nice and let her play with his trucks and farm!

This is my college roommate, Kasey.  We visited with them and went to Red Robin! Yum!

It was my Grandma’s Birthday while we were there so most of my mom’s family got together at a park for a birthday picnic.  It was great because we got a chance to see a lot of my cousins, aunts and uncles!  Here is a pic of my cousin Joanne and me.

This is my cousin Stacy and me!  Her daughter is about the same age as Emmy so we went over to Stacy’s house and let the girls play together for a bit!

Here’s Ashlyn and Emmy together!  We had gone out to dinner with Stacy and Chet the night before and Emmy and Ashlynn had been holding hands…so we had them recreate it the next night when we had our cameras because it is really cute!

Me, Kaylee and the Birthday Girl!  Kaylee loved the warm weather while we were there because she didn’t have to be bundled all the time!  She loved kicking her legs and being able to look around!

Here we standing outside my Aunt Cindy’s house before church.  I like this picture because it has palm trees in it!  We drove past two nurseries that sold palm trees and I really wanted to get one…just to see if it would survive in Los Alamos.  But seeing as it’s already snowed here TWICE since spring break…I guess it was for the best that Alex said no way!

My grandma’s birthday was actually on Sunday so we snuck out of church early to go visit with her (don’t tell anyone or I’ll get kicked out of my calling…actually on second thought…Just kidding)  Anyway, we had a great time visiting with her and Emmy showed her the new tea set she got from IKEA.  Emeline is actually named after my Grandma’s mother, Julia Emeline (but she went by Emeline).  (I am named after her too…in case you didn’t pick that up!)

Emmy LOVED eating at the counter in my Aunt’s house.  She got to sit up on a tall stool and it made her feel like a BIG girl.  Anyway, she was being a total ham the morning we left so I took a few shots!

Emmy and Alex enjoying some rice krispies and Cap’n Crunch!

Emmy had a total love/hate relationship with my aunt’s dogs!  In fact Emmy just walked in and so I will write what she is saying!  “There are my friends!  Daddy and I go throw balls to doggies.  Tilly and Max!”  She was really afraid of them when we first got there but she worked on it each day and was finally down on the ground playing with them by the time we went.   One minute she would want them locked outside and the next she would want to hug them!  She had a lot of fun throwing the ball to them!

And finally, here is my Aunt Cindy who was nice enough to let us stay with her!  I meant to take a picture with her and my uncle Lee…but I forgot!  I am not so great at remembering to get out the camera!  But I did remember to take one before we left!  We had a great time!!  It was snowing just over the N’mex border so we almost turned around!  We will have to visit again!

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!  We were packing for our trip all day but we did manage to squeeze some green in!  Here are the pics!

Emmy and Kaylee posing for pictures!  There are a ton of cute ones…but I think this is my favorite!  The rest should be in our picasa gallery if you want to check it out! Aren’t they cutie pies!  Thanks  to my mom for the cute new outfits!

Kaylee has started rolling all over the place.  Not like tummy to back (although she is getting pretty darn close) but she can kick herself around so that her head is pointing in another direction!

Here’s cute little Kaylee in her outfit from Grandma Layman!  She was such a happy girl today I couldn’t decide which picture to choose! Green is definitely her color!

Emmy working on some St. Patrick’s day coloring pages!  (This was a fun activity and gave mom some time to pack her bag for the car!)

Pancakes and eggs are a great meal to make when you have a busy day!  I had a presidency meeting tonight so breakfast was a great dinner and it was easy to turn green. Plus emmy loves the book green eggs and ham…so she thought green eggs were awesome!  I think they looked weird (thus the no pictures). This was my best attempt at a pancake clover.  I only made two and then did the rest in circles!  That’s all for now!  Check back soon for Arizona pics!!

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