Thursday, March 4, 2010

Austin KLRU open-house is on Saturday!


I saw an ad for this on TV, and didn't know if anyone with kids in the Austin area would be interested. It's an open-house and "Miss Rosa" from PBS will be reading stories, and Clifford will also be there. (That's what got my attention...Emmaline really likes Clifford. Well, she used to. It's been a while since she's watched it.) Anyway, it's this Saturday and here's the link for more information.

http://www.klru.org/blog/2010/02/klru-open-house/

Sunday, February 28, 2010

More Randomness

I found Royce and Emmaline watching The Prince of Egypt last Sunday like this.



Emmaline printed off this little mustache from the Sesame Street website yesterday, and wanted me to cut it out for her, so I did, and then she came back with her cowboy hat on, and she had gotten some tape and taped the mustache on. I thought it was pretty funny.


We also got a portable dishwasher last week! I love it so much, and so does Emmaline. She loves to unload and load the dishes. It's awesome. But right now she just came in and said, "I just finished unloading the whole thing and you didn't help me! You said it was only going to take you two minute." Hehe. Yikes. I'd better go help her load. :)

I also found this last picture on a friend's blog just a second ago. It snowed last week! It was right at the end of Emmaline's little "school" so all of the kids went outside and played around a little bit. I'm glad that I have friends that are responsible and actually take pictures. :) (Thanks Amanda!)

Sunday, February 14, 2010

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Just a couple of pics from a Sunday afternoon.




It took a little convincing to persuade him to let me put these pictures up.

I really like this one. I was trying to get a better profile picture for him for his blog, and this one was my favorite.

(We celebrated Valentine's Day yesterday, and it was a really great day. The three of us got each other little gifts, then went to dinner at Macaroni Grill; it was so so good. Mmmmmm. Emmaline also can spell her name by herself now, because she filled out so many little valentines for her little friends and her primary class. They were Spongebob valentines. I hope nobody has a problem with Spongebob. :) )

Thursday, February 11, 2010

We're Not Dead

So my little brother called a couple of days ago and said, we hadn't talked to you on the phone in a while, and you haven't posted anything on your blog lately, so we thought we'd call and make sure you're not dead. So no, I'm not dead. Just resting peacefully and glad that there's nothing too big going on to blog about. Well, I have been re-decorating Emmaline's room, but I'm not done so I haven't put any pictures up yet, but I'm trying to just work on it slowly and not go crazy. That's another thing that I'm working on right now is not going crazy and stressing out about projects that I work on, but getting the stuff done that I need to slowly and calmly, and it's been really nice to just kind of relax and do the day to day stuff, and hang out with Royce and Emmaline.
So today I'm posting about a few things that Emmaline has been working on lately. She loves to color, and she loves to draw, and she will spend literally hours working on a picture. She's really meticulous and careful about her drawings. So here are a few that she's done lately.

I love this little picture...it's Emmaline and Mommy, and she told me that the flowers along the bottom are dandelions, and the little brown rectangle by the pink flowers is a garbage can, and the other one is a tree. She can almost spell her name by herself, and only needs help with the last 3 or 4 letters. Sometimes she gets all the right letters, they're just not in the right order. She also puts a smiley face at the end of almost anything she writes. It's so cute.
She did such a good job with the colors on this one, and then she decided to draw fire, and informed me that the little girl's foot was in the fire. That's a little disturbing. And the gray circles are smoke. She's kind of been nervous about fire lately, because a few months ago the smoke alarm went off, and it freaked her out so much, (she hates loud noises) so we tried to explain to her what the smoke alarm was and what it was for, but we obviously did a bad job explaining because a few weeks later she told me that she thought flames would come out of the smoke alarm. The red circle on the left with the line through it was where she tried to draw the fire at first, and then didn't like it, and she got really frustrated with it, and circled it and drew a slash through it.

She made some flowers out of her fruit loops one morning. She comes up with all of this stuff on her own. She can make things that I would never have even thought of.


She also likes to take pictures, and as I was going through the camera I found some fun ones that she'd taken, that I didn't even know were on there. So here are some of those.

Honestly, this little guy creeps me out a little. I think his teeth and nose are mini marshmallows, but I don't remember.

More fruit loops.


Daddy

This is one that she took while Royce was doing his homework. He is so funny when he's focused. We could seriously light a fire on his feet and he wouldn't notice. When I have to tell him something important I have to make sure he really heard me. He gets really embarrassed and apologetic when he realizes that he's been zoning out, but I really do love it. He has some really cute little quirks that I really like. :)

Also, Emmaline's favorite song right now is "Breaking the Habit" by Linkin Park. Also a little disturbing, but she says that she likes it because it sounds like the song on Veggie Tales. I've yet to figure out which song that is.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Christmas and Wedding

So here is my post from Christmas and Ron and Alci's wedding. I was going through my pictures and thought, why do I not have any pictures from Christmas? And then I remembered, we were in the ER on Christmas eve! We opened presents from my parents and ones that we got each other on Monday night before Christmas, and we made a video of that that we're going to send to my parents, and then at 5am Tuesday morning Emmaline woke up (well, she woke Ronda up who was staying with us for a few days to help get stuff ready for the wedding) throwing up, with a fever of 103. I freaked out a little and called the doctor, and the nurse said to bring her in once the office opens. So we went there, they checked her for strep and influenza; both were negative so he said it was probably just a virus, and by Christmas she should be feeling a lot better. So we loaded her up in the car and drove to Nana and Papa's that evening. The next couple of days she was just feeling awful, with a pretty high fever, so I called the nurse again on Wednesday, and she said that if her fever is still high on Thursday we should bring her back in. When we woke up on Thursday she still had a fever, but it had gone down quite a bit, so we thought that she was on the mend, so we relaxed a little bit. Then that night we started opening presents with Nana and Papa and family, and we hadn't taken her temperature in a few hours because it had gone down for a while, but around 11:30 she was feeling pretty yucky again and getting pretty warm, so we took her temperature and it was 104.3. So I totally freaked out and lost it, and said, I don't know how to treat this! We're going to the emergency room! So we bundled up and hauled her in; long story a little shorter, a urine test and some x-rays and we discover that she had pneumonia. It was so crazy. But the hospital we went to was really great, and the doctor was even in Royce's parents ward when they lived in Madisonville. Anyway, he was going to admit her into the hospital that night, but he said since it was Christmas eve, if we watched her really closely, and if she had any signs of trouble we would need to bring her in right away, then we could take her home so she could still have a little bit of a Christmas. Anyway, a shot of antibiotics and a constant dose of Tylenol/Motrin and within a couple of days she was doing a ton better. We had to go back into the ER Christmas day for a re-check, but they didn't even have to take any x-rays she was doing so much better. Which was so good! We were excited to have our little monkey feeling better, and much happier. And it was good timing, because then we had to get everything ready for the wedding on Tuesday! Which was also very fun and rewarding. A lot of work, and a pretty crazy couple of days, but really great to be able to be a part of Ronald and Alci's wedding, and it was so special to be able to go to the Temple with them when they got married. So I guess that's all...there are a few random pictures that I took from the last couple of weeks, because I thought they were pretty cute, but sadly this is all for pictures for Christmas this year.









Thursday, December 31, 2009

Wedding Cake

Here's the wedding cake I made for Ronald and Alci's wedding. I have more pictures and more stories, but I told my mom I'd put up a picture for her to see the cake.
This is poor tired Royce after being on his feet for 2 days straight setting stuff up for the reception. This was about a half an hour before the reception started.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Head Band



Here is a little head band that I made for Emmaline to go with her Christmas dress. It was kind of a spur of the moment thing, and it came together pretty easily. I got all of the stuff from Hobby Lobby. (Their floral stuff is 50% off right now.) I just got a flower that had a yellow center, and glued the center and put black glitter on it. The headband I found in the wedding section, by the veils, and it was only $1, but it was white, so I took a black permanent marker and colored it. (Royce laughed at me a little when I did this part. :) ) Then I glued the headband and glittered it, and hot glued the flower on. I also trimmed down some of the green part on the bottom of the flower, because it was sticking up a little too much. But for a craft project that I made it turned out pretty well. Emmaline was a patient model for me while I made it and took the picture, so I didn't make her put her Christmas dress on when I took the picture, so that's why she's holding it up.

This last one is just another way Emmaline "organizes" stuff. Silly goose.

On other side notes, she's started giving her toys names, and she named her puppy sprinkles, and her baby Peaches. And she tells me that Peaches is my cousin. Random.

Frink out.