Sunday, October 19, 2008

Googly Bear


I've decided that I need to blog about Royce more often. I've been realizing lately that it's easy to get caught up in things that I'm doing with Emmaline, and cleaning, and cooking, and what not, which are all very important things to do, but I think in all of my efforts of trying to do good things I've kind of been neglecting Royce a little bit, and so this is part of my attempt to focus on taking care of him a little better. So it's bragging about Royce time :)
A couple of weeks ago we found out that he is going to be published! One of his professors and another student and he (him?) are compiling a bunch of stuff together to make a book about instructional technology (I think :) ) and they're going to present it next year in Washington DC. Which is really cool, and it's a great opportunity for him, especially being so new in the program. So whoohoo! And hopefully he'll keep telling me cool stuff like that. (sometimes I have to beat it out of him, or we'll be talking with somebody and we get on the subject, and then he says something cool that he's done, and it will be a surprise to me too! Which is another reason that I want to focus on him some more, and help encourage him in the good things that he's doing :) ) It's a little harder to blog about Royce, because it's not like they're moments that I can take a picture of, but since I don't really like blogging without pictures, here's a cute one with his youngest sister Gina, when they went camping right before he left on his mission.) (And I really don't call him googly bear, but Emmaline has been watching Monsters Incorporated a lot lately:) )

Sunday Naps


Royce was so tired when we came home from Church today, and he fell asleep in the chair, and Emmaline went in her room and got her princess blanket, and put it over him, and then she got her monkey and Mr. Bear, and tucked them in with him too. It was so sweet!

Monday, October 13, 2008

Thanks for the flowers Aunty Lea!

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Both of the girls got bikes for their birthday, and Nana and Papa got them each a princess dress-up outfit. It was funny how well they could walk in heels!

Fun at Nana and Papa's






Emmaline and Chloe's birthdays are pretty close to each other, so we went to Nana and Papa's this last weekend to have a little party. Lots of fun!! They got each of the girls their own little cake so they could just go crazy and do anything they wanted with their birthday cake; it was really cute.

Friday, October 10, 2008

I love kung fu!!!





We're going to Nana and Papa's house this weekend, and Emmaline wanted a Kung-Fu-Panda cake, so we made it for this weekend, and I just finished it! It was pretty fun...I found the idea of the bamboo on-line, but she covered pretzels in green fondant, and I thought the Pirouettes were easier and tastier. :)

Emmaline's Birthday





Emmaline turned 3 on Tuesday! It was such a fun day. I tried to get everything done that I had to do the night before, so we spent all day reading stories, and playing, and building towers, and decorating her cake. Then there was this big block party for the married student apartment complexes, and there were pony rides, and a bounce house, and a fire truck, and tons of stickers and games, and food, and it was really fun. We did that from 5:30 until 7:30, and that's when Daddy got home from school, so after trying to get the web-cam all set up for my parents, Emmaline opened her presents sitting at the computer so Grandma and Grandpa could watch from the web-cam. Then we talked to Aunty Lea and Uncle Mike on their web-cam, and she opened her present from them, then back to Grandma to watch her blow out her candles. Part of me wishes that I'd gotten more pictures and video, but I was so caught up in the moment I completely forgot, but I think that's a good thing. It was such a special day for our special little girl. We love our little Emmaline so much!
Her present from us this year was a little tricycle...everytime we go to Walmart we have to go look at the bikes, and then I found this one on sale, so we got it. She was so excited...Royce kept trying to put it together, and she was grabbing stuff and just putting it anywhere on the bike because Daddy wasn't going fast enough. She got the little monkey from Grandma and Grandpa as part of her own little suitcase, and so she rode her bike around the apartment, holding her monkey and taking him for a ride.