7 months

 Emilee is now a 7 month old! I can't believe it. Her favorite things are to:

•  Yell and babble very loudly. Loves to say dada (even though I don't think she knows the meaning or is specially referring to Dad, it's still cute).
• Scoot around doing the army crawl.
• Not sleep through the night. :(
• Smile at everyone, although sometimes she will look at people and cry or every time Daniel laughs, she is usually pretty happy.

She has one little tooth, working on tooth number two which is not so fun.
So basically, she "talks, crawls and chews on stuff" -Daniel

Me and Christy tried on multiple occasion to make homemade Carmel apples. One batch was too sticky and stuck to the wax paper, but still delicious! Gotta love Carmel apples. Next batch the Carmel hardened super hard, but Emilee really enjoyed to suck some sweet Carmel off the spoon. She looks serious about eating, getting both hands on that spoon!

 a recent family pic.  (a picture of a picture with a camera phone so it's not great)

Birthday

So did I mention I had a Birthday (shoot Hooray!) My friends Kristen and Julianne arranged for me to get a beautiful bouquet of flowers delivered. Aren't they wonderful? Daniel got me more beads for my troll bracelet and Granny mailed me a cute sweater and I talked with my wonderful family!

Document for my posterity what I looked like on my birthday.

My Birthday cake in a bowl. I didn't want to make an entire cake because I would be the only one to eat it and that's no good. I learned this in college and it has served my sweet tooth very well through the years. All you do is mix a half cup or so cake mix and water and microwave for 90 seconds and voila.. cake! Just as good as baking it. It has a "26" and a jack-o-lantern on it -fabulous cake decorating skills eh? Or not!

I don't know why this picture is sideways, it's not saved that way on my computer. Sorry. But anyways, Emilee is teething. It has been a rough few days for her, and us too. Crying, waking up a few times at night, but look close in this picture and you can see it, ONE LITTLE TOOTH peaking through. Awwwww

Guest bed

So we have been wanting to get another bed and set up a guest bedroom in our extra room. Daniel found a lady selling a queen bed with mattress and dresser for $200 so we decided to go for it. We picked it up and it looked alright but I knew it could look better. Thanks to Daniel's hard hard work painting we have transformed it into a work of art! "The things I do for you!" he says. It took one day of painting it, and one more day to clean out the junk from the room for it to go in. So that's right- now you have a bed, you HAVE to come visit me now Pops, Dawna, Ben, Julia... Adam!!! Here is pictures:

Before: Drawers the bed sits on top of

Before: Headboard

Before: Dresser

After: Dresser

After: Headboard with new bedding!

After: Under bed drawers

Our Autum Blaze tree!

WE LOVE AUTUM (just not winter!)

cousins

I had to show the comparison of Emilee and her cousin Phineas.  I thought it was pretty funny! Phineas looks uncertain in both pictures and Emilee has mouth wide open in both, one is a scream the other is a laugh. They both look like they've grown up alot in 6 months.

Some pictures to go along with the last post...

yum... Apples!

Emilee on her HALF BIRTHDAY!  6 months!

Sweet view of down town

                                                             

Little America room

Grandpa and Uncle Adam

Adoring her



Strawberry Resevoir on the drive home to Vernal



weekend

I guess I have a few things to update....

Sept. 27th was our 3 year anniversary.

Time flies by.

The past three years have been pretty good to us, the past year has brought the most changes for us with our own house and a most beautiful baby to keep us busy, and Daniel still loves me, amazingly, sometimes I don't know why. I made lasagna for dinner, that was a first and I thought it was delicious. The table was set and decorated with candles and our engagement pictures and ready for Daniel when he came home. I gave him the Apples To Apples game and he got me a Troll Bead braclet with beads that represented the months of October for my birthday, November for his birthday, Febuary for when we got engaged, September for when we got married, and March for Emilee's birthday. Awww, How sweet! Then we went to "the city" for the weekend. We stayed in The Little America Hotel, where we did for our honeymoon and ate  expensive room service food and took Emilee swimming in the pool and had an enjoyable time. We had lunch with my brother Ben and Dad in the afternoon and spoiled ourselves later with hour massages!! I was so sore for the next day though, elbows pushing a hard as physically possible on my lower back was not so relaxing afterall, but it was still worth it. I will admit that I had a hard time walking away from Emilee while she was screaming her head off, but I knew Julia could handle it. Thanks Julia! The rest of the weekend was devoted to watching conference  http://lds.org/general-conference?lang=eng     http://mormon.org/faith/ and eating too many cookies, chocolate and licorice!

I could have done alot better at paying attention but it was good to be reminded of all the great things about the gospel of Jesus Christ and all that the leaders of the church can teach us. One talk that I liked was Elaine S. Dalton talking to young men and fathers about how to raise girls, she said  "The greatest thing a father could do for his daughter is to love her mother." I think that is so true! A fathers example can do so much in children's lives. We also watched the movie 17 Miracles. That movie was flipping amazing to see what faith the pioneers had. I wouldn't want to starve to death, walk thousands of miles in freezing weather and snow, and bury my babies, but I'm sure greatful my great great- or however many greats it was- ancestors sacrifed what they did so we can be where we are today. I couldn't believe the miracles that happened, but they were all from true stories. Crazy! Anyways, It's always a good when we visit the McMillan's and we love grandpa Bryce!