Sledding

We took Emily sledding for the first time and she had a blast! I didn't think she would like going down the hill, but that was her favorite part.

Our funny girl

Emily loves anything and everything to do with music and dancing. She just learned all the actions to Popcorn Popping and is very proud of herself. She loves this song and would listen to it all day long if I could stand it. Sorry it's going the wrong direction...I can't figure out how to rotate videos. It's pretty cute, anyway.

These are Emily's 18 month pictures that our good friend, Jared Guardipee, took for us. I LOVE them! Jared did such a good job and we want to thank him for putting up with us. Emily wasn't in the best mood and it was so cold! He really captured her personality. I know we're biased, but we think she's the cutest little girl ever!

Cute as a bug!

This was Emily's first "real" Halloween and she had so much fun! She LOVED wearing her ladybug dress. She would run and spin around and everytime she saw a mirror she would stop and say "Oh Pretty!" This was taken at Inkley's. Every year they take Halloween pictures for really cheap. I think it turned out pretty good.

Livvy, Emily, and Mason

We went trunk or treating with Peggie and kids to our church. Emily thought it was pretty great! Some of the people would left her pick out her own candy. She would look over everything in the bowl, pick her favorite, and put it in her bucket. Then she would wave at them and say "Ya Ya!" (See Ya) and then move on to the next person. She caught on to the idea pretty fast. She loved to carry her bucket and didn't want help from anyone. It was getting so heavy, but it was HERS and would cry if we tried to carry it for her.

She started digging into the candy pretty fast. She also learned a new phrase today. "Candy! YUMMMM!"

That's alot of candy for a 1 year old! Luckely, she has a Dad who is more than willing to help her out with it!!

Some good ole pumpkin carvin' fun!

Last night we decide to carve some pumpkins. I thought Emily would have more fun with it, but she was pretty bored. She wouldn't stick her hand inside and kept saying "EWWWW!!!" Geoff and I fun anyway. Emily just wandered around and checked on us from time to time.

Emily thought they were chairs.


The finished product. The one in the middle is Emily's...sticking a face on is so much easier!

Yummy pumpkin seeds

So, after we carved pumpkins, we decided to try toasting the seeds. I LOVE pumpkin seeds, but haven't really found a recipe that sounded good enough to dig through all the yucky guts to save the seeds. I think these turned out really well.

I found the recipe on Allrecipes.com. I thought I would share it with all of you.

1 1/2 TB butter or margarine, melted

1/2 tsp salt

1/8 tsp garlic salt

2 tsp Worcestershire sauce

2 cups raw whole pumpkin sees

Preheat oven to 275 degrees. Combine all ingrediants and mix thoroughly. Place in a shallow baking dish. Bake for 1 hour, stirring constantly. YUMMY!!!!

Emily is 18 months old!! Where has the time gone???

So, last week our sweet Emily turned 18 months old. I can't believe she's already so big, it seems like she was born only a few months ago. In some ways it makes me so sad that she's growing up, but in other ways, I'm so excited for her and all the fun things that she has to look forward to. She started nursery two Sundays ago and she did pretty well. It won't be too long before her favorite words are "MINE!!" and "NO!!!".

I thought it would be fun to share some fun facts about our little "Lou Lou".

Her favorite things are:

*her "bub" (favorite blanket) and her monkey

*PB&J (only if she can use a fork), chicken nuggets with dip, cheetos, grapes, cereal, chocolate chips, M&Ms, doritos, bananas, whipped yogurt, and ice cream

*being outside...swinging, kicking her ball, going for walks, playing with dad

*Grandpa Meredith and Grandpa Sant

*Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

*DANCING!!!!

*reading books

*Bigfoot...our neighbors big black dog

Things she doesn't like very much are:

*being told "No!"

*sitting down to eat

*coming inside

*being away from Mom

*being chased by Shadow (Grandma and Granda's kitty)