Hunting part 1

Hunting adventure part 1

 Dennis and Emilee at the "Ice Cave." A small little cave that had ice crystals- even in August!

This look out point had me terrified that Dennis would hold Emilee off the edge just like the Lion King! I didn't even dare walk up there. It was so high! You could see forever but it was really pretty.



I think the flash was a bit too much but Em loves her Daddy.

The little hunter

With Grandpa Dan

Walking to Paradise Lake

First time fishing

She had to paint her face with camo paint just like the hunters do

Roasting marshmallows

I swear Daniel has a sleeping disorder every camping/hunting trip. He will nap for like 4 hours at a time. So we thought it was would be funny to put bows in his hair while he was asleep.  :)

Daniel's Utah deer, killed right outside Vernal (and after all that camping!)

Daniel's Colorado deer. He was gone for over a week with his dad and came back with this.....

..... Crazy facial hair after not shaving. Had to be documented.

In other news,

 Em got a new big girl bed! She loves it and did really good at first, but now we find her coming into our bed at about 3, or 4 or 5 or 7 every morning. Oh well....

My Grandpa Blaine also passed away at the age of 90. He will be greatly missed by many people. He was one of the very most kind hearted man I've ever know and we always loved going to St. George to visit with them. He would often make us "egg McMillan's" for breakfast (like a egg mcmuffin). Playing cards at night around their table will always be a favorite memory.  We traveled to Fielding, UT  for a lovely burial service where he was also born.

 

let's play some catch up....

 

 

Well the last time I blogged it was spring time, now it's nearly winter so yes I have been slacking! I'll do a quick re-cap of our fun summer activities.

 

 First up: a family vacation to St. George. Boating with all the McMillan's and visiting my dear grandparents. We got a great Condo and spent the days at Quail Creek and Sand Hollow "Just enjoying our memorial day weekend!"

                                                      At Blaine and Granny's house

Blaine and Granny

                                                         Emmers and aunt Crystal

                                                               Daniel water skiing

Helping Grandpa drive the boat

 

This was also the trip that we announced to my family that we were expecting baby #2! So I never got to do any skiing or tubing on our boating adventures, I just became the boat bum but that was ok.

 

Boating Trip to Pineview

The McMillan's decided to go on a boating trip to Pineview reservoir because it was a Wilcox favorite and we had never been there. If Blaine and my mom loved it, we are sure to love it too, and we did!  

                                                                   Daniel and Cheeto face

                                                                  Goofy brothers :)

         Emilee just loves to be around her aunt "JuJu." I do love that she adores her aunts so much (and Uncles too!)

                                                                       Uncle "Addy"

 Everybody was so amazing at wakeboarding and waterskiing. Even my Dad got up in one try! Julia was crossing the wake like a champ and even got some air! I was impressed.

 

Glad to get some time in with her adorable cousins

 

We spent a lot of time in the Condo's swimming pool. There was one that was only a foot and a half deep so it was perfect for these little ones to play in all day. Ruby just celebrated her first birthday, so we had a one year old, a two year old and a three year old.

 

LOVE her. need I say more?

 

more catching up to come..........

 

Grass!

House before- it has soil prep on the dirt, it didn't look this good before.

Our first strip

Front part half way there

Side of house before

Side of house after



Isn't it heaven?


Here is a few pictures of our sod project. And it was a PROJECT! We worked hard to get this all done, but I'm glad we had lots of help. We got the sod from the Farnsworth's (my in-laws) who were tired of having to mow this acre of their lawn, so we kindly volunteered to take it off their hands since we have had no grass for...like 2 years. Long story short our house was a foreclosure. It had grass but half was bad grass and morning glory, so we cut it out, sprayed weed killer which turned out to be ground kill, which would kill any grass for a whole year. So... we waited. We rented a sod cutter and cut and rolled up the grass and loaded it in a horse trailer and drove it to Vernal and carried and laid it at our house, and did this several trips which took all day long. It was more work then having a truck deliver sod to our house already cut and rolled and ready to be laid out, but we got this grass for free so I'm not complaining. Now it looks green and beautiful like it's always been there. Neighbors say it makes our house look much better (I feel like that's a compliment hidden in an insult. maybe??)
Next job is to paint the house.








 

Play days

Aren't these girls the cutest thing you've ever seen? Tricidee is Daniel's cousin's daughter, and Emilee's best friend, she just loves her! We went to play at the park with them one day and I had to share these pictures.

 



After the park (we missed nap time.) She didn't even make it home before passing out.

(The park another day) She tells me "I swing everyday!" We can't hardly get her off. She also says; "I stay park."  Oh? You want to stay at he park all night? "yyesss." This girl cracks me up.    

2

 

Somebody had a Birthday!

 

We had a fabulous day for Emmers 2nd birthday. Emilee woke up to balloons and presents and then later we had a small family party at Daniel's parents house. She got lots of sweet loot and got to play with her favorite friend Tricidee ("Triss"). Daniel and I spent hours trying to make the perfect Minnie Mouse cake for her. When we would ask her what she wanted for her birthday, all she would say is balloons and a Minnie Mouse cake. We used a chocolate fudge glaze frosting for the black and two small cakes for the ears and a round cake for the face. I love how it turned out, and it tasted good too! :)
I can't believe 2 years can go by so fast. It's just crazy because it seems like yesterday she was a little baby and now she is running around like a wild woman. She talks all the time and know probably over 100 words. Also:
-she loves to watch "the map" also known as Dora the Explorer
-I think her favorite foods would be green beans, carrots and rice-a-roni, I'm so glad she likes vegetables!
-she loves bath time
- she loves to play with horses, dolls, and Barbies, anything actually, just playing
- she loves her Grandma Christy and clings to her every move anytime we are around them and always says "I stay" when we are at their house, and yes, I let her have a lot of sleep-overs and they have lots of fun
-she loves to play with her dog Daisy and Rambo too
-she has such an imagination and will turn anything into a object to play with. Even when we are eating, she will take my fork and get her fork, and the two forks will have little conversations like "Hi fork"  "Hi, baby one fork." Or will cradle your hand and rock it as if its a baby and will feed it pretend bottles of milk. I love that about her.
-she thinks she is big enough to buckle her own car seat buckles and if you do it for her she is not a happy camper.
-she is also the Best Little Girl EVER.
- The END

Family Vists VERNTOWN

Oh..... Hello again. It has been ages since I posted. I literally may have been a different age. I may have to do some catching up, but I'll start with the latest fun thing that happened here at the Farnsworth house; the McMillan family took at road trip to Vernal and came to hang out with us and celebrate Emilee's second birthday. They haven't been out here for a visit since she had been born, so I thought it was a pretty special event! First time visit for new sister-in-law Crystal and niece Ruby! We had tons of fun. We all went swimming in the hotel that my Dad was staying in, ate prime rib dinner Daniel cooked for us, ate cake, and stayed up until midnight playing Catch Phrase and laughing a lot. I sure love my family! I stole a few pictures from Crystal's and Julia's blog until I get mine uploaded.


Here we are doing Saturday morning Zumba, Emmer joined in.


Pops and Emilee could not be any cuter. Makes my heart melt I love them together.


Emilee just loves all her aunts and Uncles so much.

The cousins after church, it was a purple kind of day.


swimming



The party. Thanks everyone! She got lots of good presents and loved blowing out the candle.



Harlem shake McMillan style.