Well, Emmy started Pre-school this year through the school district!  She is having so much fun!  She just loves it!!  So now that school has been in for almost 2 months I’m finally getting around to posting about her first day of school!  She was so excited to go meet her teacher and the people in her class!

Emmy was too excited to eat breakfast and spent a lot of the morning trying to walk out the door!  She was also really particular about what she wore, how her hair looked, etc!  She is quite the Diva sometimes!

Grandma bought her this cute dress at the outlet mall in Park City!  It was just perfect for her first day of school!

We got this little snack box free when we bought sleeping beauty!  Up until now it had been home to her princess domino set from Grandma Kath…but it is the perfect size for Emmy’s backpack  so now it is her lunch box!

I drove her to school the first week so that she could get used to going in and out of the school!  Here she is on the front steps with her new backpack and her princess lunch box!  I didn’t cry the first day…but looking at this picture makes me a little teary.  She just looks like such a big kid now…not a toddler anymore!  That went by really fast!! What a good little student! Now Emmy takes a bus to school and she loves it!  One of the girls in her class catches the bus at our house each morning and the bus driver goes to church with us!  She loves seeing them each morning!  Her driver gives them invisible mice to play with on the bus…which she thinks is awesome.  She is constantly losing the invisible mouse around the house and will ask “have you seen my mouse?”.  When we asked what it looked like she said it is bright red and named Mommy!  haha!

She was kind of staring in the sun on this one plus she was in a hurry to go inside!  :-)    Some of Emmy’s other favorite things about school are her teachers, the fact that it has a library (so now she gets to go to two every week!), the potty and sink are just her size (she talks about them constantly, haha), the slide inside her classsroom and riding bikes!  They have also started learning letter sounds and she is doing great!  She also goes to Physical therapy, speech and occupational therapy to work with some of her tone problems from the CP.  But her teacher says that she is doing so great that if we work hard now she wont have to be pulled out of class in Elementary school for those kind of things!  So, so far so good!  Anyway, she is having the time of her life and I am so proud of her!  Yeah Emmy!

Toward the beginning of August my sister Annah visited!  (Also, can I just say I can’t believe tomorrow is October 1st…how am I still so behind on my blog!!)  Anyway, Annah HAD to spend most of her summer vacation doing boring things like living in France, working for the World health organization, and sight seeing most of Europe…so I’m sure she was glad that she got to come somewhere exciting like Los Alamos to end her vacation!  😉

While she was here we went down to Santa Fe and had a girls day!  In the mall they have those little toys that you can ride on and they go up and down and whatnot.  Well, usually I just let Emmy climb in them and pretend (because imagination is free!).  This time, however, she saw some other boys going up and down in the helicopter and she put two and two together and as a result got to take her first real ride in the school bus with her sister Kaylee!  As you can see Kaylee loved it!  Aunt Annah held on to Kaylee because she was trying to walk all over while the bus was bouncing up and down!

Here’s the bus in all it’s smiling glory!

We bought a pool pass this year so while Annah was here we went to relax at the pool!  Here’s a little princess enjoying some Trader Joe’s pretzels with her princess cup and princess towel!  (Did I mention she likes princesses?)

Annah attacking Christian!  Am I going to have to separate you two troublemakers?

Here’s Kaylee relaxing in her stroller after a hard day of splashing!  She going, going….

gone!  Sleeping beauty!

We all agreed to pose for this picture (even though we were in swimsuits) becuase my Mom said she would pay for the popsicles!  Woohoo!! :-)  Thanks for visiting Aunt Annah!! We had a lot of fun!

So this summer some of our friends, the Masons, came to visit!  We had a great time with them while they were here!  Emmy and Eldon are just a few months apart and always get along great!  The Mason’s daughter Lily is a doll too! While they were here we hung out, went hiking and went to the duck pond.  I forgot a hat for Kaylee on the hike so she had to wear a swim diaper on her head!  I wish I had the picture!  It was super fun to see them!

Anyway, you may be thinking…what does this all have to do with Uncle Ray!  Well…when we went to the duck pond we had a great time throwing bread pieces to the birds.  Then when we ran out of bread so Eldon threw my car keys into the middle of the pond!  He has a pretty good arm too :-)  Anyway, as I started calling around about Honda keys I found out that it was going to be like 100 dollars to replace since they put a chip in it to sync it to your car…blah blah blah… So Ray took a rake down to the pond and Emmy showed him where to comb for it!  AND he had to wade into the pond like 6 inches up his leg!  So that is what makes him a hero right there because I wasn’t going in after them!  Anyway, after only like 5 minutes he had a crowd accumulated to watch him and after only 10 minutes he pulled up the keys!

He took them home and cleaned them using rubbing alcohol and the remote still works!  I couldn’t believe it!

Here is Ray at Ruby K’s with the van key!  We took him out to eat there as a reward!  I even made him pose for this picture so I could do a blog post about it!  Thanks Uncle Ray!

I take about a billion pictures every time we go to the park so I thought I’d combine some of my best pictures and make a post!  I put away the girls shorts and things and unpacked their winter clothes so I needed a summer-ish post!  (funny side note:  I just barely put away Emmy’s 12 month clothes like 3 months ago when she outgrew them…and I just got them back out for Kaylee who already needs them!!)

Here’s Daddy helping Emmy with her brand new bike!!  Her legs are finally long enough to move the pedal in a full circle!  Good job Emeline!

Kaylee loves the tunnels at the park!  She can already navigate them all by herself!  They are one of Emmy’s favorite things too!

This picture took about 3 trips to the park to take!! They would both always look out the holes but never for more than about 5 seconds!  So I had to be ready and fast with the camera!  And I never was…but I finally got it with the help of my mom!

What a cutie pie!

Emmy is so proud that she can go up the ladders and down the slides all by herself!  A few months ago a little girl kept pushing Emmy from behind and telling her she was going to slow on the slides!  Emmy was kind of upset…but the next time we went to the park she told me to time her!  And she would go up the ladder and down the slide over and over again and make me count!  She is one determined little girl!  Good job Emeline!

Here she is coming down the big slide!

I love this face!

Kaylee is definitely our little Maggie Simpson!  She always has a pacifier when she’s on the go!

Here is Emmy on the “Big Girl” swings.  As she always reminds us, “I am getting so BIG!”

Okay, so I found out you can vote for more than one girl each day so here is Kaylee too!  Thanks for voting!!

Vote for Kaylee!

And here is her picture! What a princess!

Hey There! So I’m going a little out of order but I just entered Emeline in a Disney photo contest and wanted to post it so that you could vote for her!  If she gets the most votes she could win some special princess costumes.  There is also a panel of judges who will pick one girl’s story and she will win a trip to Disney World.  Anyway, it’s kind of a long shot since there are 4,000+ girls in it but she is so stinkin’ cute!  I uploaded one for Kaylee too but it isn’t up on the website yet.  I’ll let you know when it is!  Anyway, here is the link…it’s on my facebook too and you can even post it to your facebook profiles and tell all your friends to vote for it!  I’m pretty sure you can vote for it once a day! So tell all your friends and keep voting!  Thanks!

http://family.go.com/princess-picture-contest/who-is-the-fairest/princess-emeline-17004/

And since this is a blog post…here is the picture as well!