more pumpkin fun!

As promised, here are the pumpkin painting pictures... EmJ having tons of fun painting!
Chloe, Ireland, and EmJ painting away
Ireland - look at that concentration!

Chloe painting her pumpkin
EmJ getting some blue paint - her favorite color :o)

And EmJ with her finished products

Kimmi posted a blog about this too so head over to her page to see more fun pictures :o)

Halloween blog is on it's way... stay tuned!

pumpkin madness! :o)

We had a little fun with a pumpkin the other night...
This picture makes me laugh cause EmJ's face is hilarious - she would stick her hand in and say "eww!" and make this face - but she loved it!


Showing the camera the pumpkin insides...
We kept laughing cause every time she would put it down, she'd say, "my hands are all pumpkiny!" and she'd try to brush it off... haha!

EmJ and Daddy

The finished pumpkin!

We didn't do a traditional carving this year - instead we did these holes all around and rubbed cinnamon on the inside of the pumpkin... it smells so good when the candle is lit!!!

Here's my attempt at a picture of the pumpkin in the dark...

Tomorrow we're painting pumpkins so we'll have fun pictures of that soon... and of course, Halloween is Friday so we'll have plenty of those pictures to share too!

it's fall!

Funny story to go along with this video... So, EmJ asks a lot "what's his (or her) name?" about people on tv. Obviously, with all the political commercials, it didn't take her long to recognize John McCain and Barak Obama. From there, it wasn't too tough to tell her they were running for President. :o) Well, the other day she was looking at books on the couch and a political commercial came on. She wasn't even looking at the tv, and it wasn't the end of the commercial yet, and she just says, "...and I approve this message!" I laughed so hard that I had tears running down my face. EmJ definitely keeps us laughing!!!

Here are some pictures too... :o)

Obviously it's fall and the colors are gorgeous... so we had to take a few pictures!

EmJ looking at books with her duck - and yes, she put his book there for him and opened it and everything. It's so fun to watch her play with dolls and animals now cause she talks to them and pretends with them... so cute!

Big grin :o)

Rockin' awesome - EmJ and mom having matching toes - down to the sparkles! :o)
And for those of you who didn't know... yep, I got a tattoo! Hee hee!

One last shot of EmJ with some awesome fall colors - and a cheesy, but awesome, pose!

lots of fun... and pictures to prove it! :o)

EmJ :o)
We recently got the dress-up stuff from my sister and the girls had a blast with it! Here's Ireland as Snow White...
Chloe dressed up - she put her headband on herself :o)
and EmJ dressed up - awesome scarf!
I LOVE this picture! Ireland adores drawing on the magna-doodle and the other day, she drew these hippos - aren't they fabulous?! And I think her face is just too stinkin' cute in this picture!
Chloe and EmJ reading together

EmJ painting a picture - check out that tongue action!

And the final product- with the proud painter :o)

Yep, we're back at it!

We tried to potty train a couple times already -the first time EmJ just wasn't ready and the second time, she was just too stubborn (hmm, where did she get that?!). Anyway, a huge thanks to Chloe (and Kimmi!) for figuring it out because that made EmJ want to do it too! She adores Chloe and often wants to do whatever Chloe is doing. :o) So... last week she just decided she was ready. She told me she wanted to wear big girl panties and I said then you have to pee in the potty and she said ok... and she has been!!! WOO-HOO!!!! She's been doing so so SO awesome and I couldn't be more excited. She had a rough day yesterday at Kimmi's, but we think it was because she didn't want to stop to pee cause she knew Chloe and Ireland would be playing. :o) She's been great today- no accidents at all! And for those of you who know potty training - she's even pooping in the potty! ROCKIN' AWESOME if you ask me! :o) Yeah!!!

just some new pictures... :o)

Kind of a random mix of pictures, but still cute! :o)EmJ smelling some flowers
With Great-Grandpa Lee and Great-Grandma C on their 60th wedding anniversary! So awesome!!!
EmJ being quite a girly-girl! (She's not always a "tom-girl!")
Dancing on Daddy's shouldersFlying with Daddy :o)

a fun day at the museum!

Jeff, EmJ and I got to spend a fun day together at the WOW Museum and we had a blast! :o)EmJ in the pirate lighthouse
I had to put this one on - EmJ loves coloring (seriously, this is something we do at least twice a day!) so she had to do it at the museum too! And yes, the tongue is always out!
EmJ in a dinosaur (or maybe a dragon) costume
This thing was awesome! It's a huge bubble that goes around the kid - so cool! EmJ could have played with this for hours!
Driving the car... so awesome!

And here's a video of EmJ with tap shoes on... I think she liked them!!!

EmJ's Drawing!

EmJ drew this picture of Daddy today: Stinkin' cute!!! Obviously I labeled it so you can tell what each thing is - and I also "helped" her draw this by saying "Ok, draw Daddy's eyes, now his nose...etc." I do have to add that the goatee (which she calls pokies) :o) was all her idea. So awesome!!!

**For those of you stinkers who wondered at first what the "pokies" were - get your minds out of the gutter! Sheesh!!! Hahahaaa!

pictures and a love of hats!

Cute cowgirl!
Clearly EmJ is concentrating on her drawing! :o)
Ireland, Chloe, and EmJ just playing and laughing together!!! So cute!

EmJ has had a love for shoes for a long time - and it doesn't seem like it'll go away! :o) Here she is wearing Kir's shoes...
Chloe and EmJ play together often - and the funny thing is, 2 year-olds don't usually play with other kids - just next to them. Well, EmJ and Chloe love each other - they totally set up the chairs like this by themselves and were just playing away!
EmJ "playing the Wii"

We have Wii Fit and you stand on a board - so when we play, EmJ gets out her stool so she can "play" too!
Nice... we'll keep this going!!!
If you didn't notice throughout this post - EmJ loves hats! She used to ask me if she could wear hats all the time - especially right before we are about to leave- but sometimes I would say "no, mommy just combed your hair so pretty - let's not wear a hat right now..." Well, she decided she'd stop asking and just grab a hat, shove it on her head, and run out the door. I told her the other day, "EmJ - you're a tomboy and you're only 2!" And she said "No, Mommy - I a tomgirl!" :o)

Future Olympian!!!!

The other night (well, really every night) we were watching the Olympics and EmJ decided she needed to get in on the action. She seriously did all these things by herself and told us what she was doing... needless to say, we were cracking up! :o)"Diving"

One of my favorites :o)

"Gymnastics"
"Gymnastics" (2)

We were watching men's gymnastics this night - I'm pretty sure this is the parallel bars :o) and yes, her feet really are off the ground!

"Swimming"

I'm gonna go with backstroke! Ha!!

Getting up after swimming - just a cute picture, really! :o)

I'll post more pictures as the Olympics continue!!!

I know I've been a blog slacker lately - I have to do a post of Jeff's Alaska pictures too... soon, soon, soon! :o)

Weekend Fun!

This weekend Grandma Chuck (Jeff's mom Charlotte - I know it's silly, but I've called her Chuck since I met her, so that's why she's Grandma Chuck), :o) and Grandpa Greg came for a visit. Uncle Travis got to come hang out with us a lot too! We had lots and lots of fun. I even got to shoot sporting clays with Greg, Travis, and Jeff - which was super fun!Grandpa tickling EmJ :o)
The cowgirls
Stinkin' cute - don't you just love all their hats?!
EmJ with Uncle Travis - I'm sad I didn't get a better picture - EmJ ADORES Uncle Travis!
In Grandma's boots!