Ode to the Cupcake Wrapper

I love these cupcake wrappers. They're foil on the inside so when you bake them the colors stay true and they hold their shape. The colors are really cute and they're only $2.24 for like 36 of them at Wal-Mart. Anyway, they're wonderful. That is all. (Don't mind whatever that gross mystery spot is next to the cupcake.)

Emmaline's Talk

So Emmaline gave a talk a few weeks ago in Church, and it was supposed to be about the Restoration, and I thought it would be fun to save, so here's her talk. She wrote all of it by herself (she was very specific about the wording) except I made her put in the scripture, and I wouldn't let her say that the other Churches were bad. (We had to explain that that the other Churches have good parts to them, but we believe that they don't have the full Gospel of Jesus Christ.)

"Joseph Smith was working hard in a field. All of the people in the Churches wanted Joseph Smith to go to their Churches. Everyone was fighting and arguing. Joseph Smith was wondering if he could go to any of the Churches or not. So Joseph Smith looked in the scriptures to see if any of the Churches were right or wrong. The scripture said, 'If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.' That means if you have a question you can ask Heavenly Father and He'll give you the answer. Joseph Smith went into the forest to pray so nobody could see him pray. He saw something dark, then he saw something light. The light was Heavenly Father and Jesus. They told Joseph Smith not to go to any of the Churches. Joseph Smith was supposed to start a new Church. Then he knew that Heavenly Father and Jesus were watching him and that they would always be there for him. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen."

Giggles

I found batteries for my camera

Happy baby!

Emmaline set up this little photo shoot.


Really Mommy? Tummy time again?

Friends and 4mo Stats!

This is Emmaline's little friend *cough-future husband-cough* Jarom. Normally she has a couple of other friends over at the same time, but last Friday everyone was out of town, so it was just Jarom and Emmaline so I had to steal a pic. He and his wonderful family are moving tomorrow, and we're so sad, but happy that they get to move forward.

In this pic are more of the cute little friends that Emmaline has, who are moving at the end of the summer! We're so sad to be missing all of these sweet little boys, but are glad that we've gotten to have so much fun with everyone.
I have a deal with Emmaline that for every serious picture that I get, she gets to have a silly one.

And here's our cute little Marta girl. I keep getting in trouble because I don't have more pictures of Marta, but the batteries in my camera are dying, and I have just enough time to get one picture before the battery dies, so this is it for now. :) She was sitting up so cute and smiling at me, and I'm just awful at getting good pictures. But she had her 4mo check-up today, and she's doing great. She was 90% for weight, 90% for head circumference, off the chart for height, but is the same height as an average(50%) 8mo old. Yikes! She's doing great though, and her heart murmur might be gone, she rolled over for the first time this weekend, and has started solid food and loves it!

More Pics!

Such a cutie pie!

I cut 14 1/2" off for Locks-o-Love.
Royce found a really good deal online and got me a Cricut Cake for my birthday!!! It was awesome. This was the first cake I decorated with it.
Lol...I have no words.
Emmaline wanted to take a pic of Daddy while we were Skyping. Royce had a networking conference in Virginia that turned out to be a really good thing.
Sweet little girls!


I let Emmaline sleep with me while Royce was gone; can you guess where I slept?
Hanging out with Daddy!

Stuff!

Wow, it's been a busy few weeks. Royce's birthday, Easter at Nana and Papa's, egg hunt with friends around the apt complex, Grandpa visiting, Marta's blessing, Mother's day, and even a video of smiles from Marta's new toy. Here's the pics; I'm sure you can figure out what pic goes with each event. (I find that I type much less when I only have one hand.)

These are my beautiful Mother's day flowers. They accompanied danishes for breakfast, a gallon of BlueBell chocolate brownie fudge ice cream, and a clean kitchen and living room! It was awesome.

Emmaline took this picture.

This is what Emmaline does to my hair at night when I'm not paying attention. Maybe that's why I just cut 14 1/2" off!

I really did get another picture of Grandpa, but it's on the other computer right now.

Emmaline has some serious issues with taking pictures in the sun.






I gave Emmaline the cake below and she spent a ton of time piping it. The top row of her piping is a bunch of tiny dots.

Jammies!