Rexburg!

Jared had another long week away so my nice sister came all the way to Orem and got me and E to spend the week with them.

Megan was gone to girl's camp at first but was soon home sharing her treats with Emmett.

E had fun with Austen and was able to enjoy snack time with him (cookies dipped in milk)

Breakfast with his two pals, woody and buzz.

This boy's obesession with tractors grew after this visit.

Here he is trying to convince us to carry him through the tall alfa alfa to the "tractor"

One night we had s'mores. Sometimes he'll catch me taking a picture and bend down to say cheese.

Mmmmmm

Admiring Megan's awesome fire she learned how to build at girl's camp.

Megan and I made suckers one day.

I saw that Brooke White was doing a free concert so we decided to check it out and while we were eating at Gator Jack's she came in to sign posters.

Brooke was a contestant on American Idol the same season as David Archuleta for those of you who are thinking "Brooke who?"

Megan and Brooke

Thank goodness for this balloon to entertain the boy.

We had a great visit!

Fun with friends

In June we had a fun BBQ and swim with friends.

Jared and Ryan were trying hard to have Luke and Emmett give each other a five. When one boy would cooperate, the other wouldn't so it was funny watching them try.

All the nice dads swimming with the kids so the moms don't have to.

Steele, Luke, and Emmett on the playground. I love when Steele does that face.


Luke and Emmett

Father's Day

Last night Jared left to take a 10 pm flight to LAX, have a 2 hour layover, fly to Memphis, then leave to Columbus. We're sad he's not here to celebrate with but here's something I found that I thought was pretty fitting.

REASONS TO CELEBRATE DAD

1 Someone needs to deal with the "some assembly reequired" stuff.

2 Who else would dare face that black fuzzy spider under the basement stairs?

3 His shaving cream comes in handy for rainy-day crafts.

4 He has an amazing ability to cheer up a cranky child merely by tossing him in the air.

5 He's happy to discuss the finer points of old Road Runner and Coyote cartoons with the kiddos.

6 No one else ever seems to know exactly where the bicycle-tire pump is.

7 He insists that you look even better than you did before you had kids. (And if he's lying, he does it really, really well.)

8 Amazingly, macho man though he is, he doesn't mind having his nails painted bright pink by an enthusiastic pre-school manicurist.

9 He doesn't make fun of you when you do yoga in the living room. Well, most of the time.

10 Fatherhood looks sexier on him than you could have imagined.

-Charlotte Latvala

Emmett sure loves his dada and we will miss him a lot for the next 6 days.

June 11, 2011

Today I talked Jared into going to see what Orem's Summerfest is all about. It was super hot and not very exciting. We did get to experience a few firsts with Emmett which made it worth it though.

We got to sit in an airmed helicopter. He didn't quite understand what it was since it wasn't in the air and it wasn't making any noise.

Next he sat in a fire engine which is a lot bigger on the inside than I had imagined. He loved it.



When he's in the driver's seat he likes you to close the door and kept pointing at it so Jared would close it. Then he tried pushing all the buttons surrounding him that don't show up in this picture so it was time to get out.




Even the outside of the truck is a little boy's heaven.

Next we found some Army jeeps!

To cool down afterward we had him play in the sprinkler.

We started getting the pool ready so the hose is in it swirling around in the water and every once in awhile pops up and sprays out of the water so here are the boys waiting for that to happen. When it does Emmett says "you see?"

To end the day Jared and I were making dinner and when Emmett goes in the family room and is silent for awhile I usually find him doing this.

When his G-ma helps him play with her i-touch she needs her glasses to see it so he thinks he needs them as well. He always has them around his neck. It makes me laugh every time.

That was our fun filled Saturday.

Memorial Day 2011

We spent the weekend in rainy Paris since Jared had Memorial Day and the following day off!

Here's Emmett at my Aunt's grave.

On our way home we stopped at LaBeau's and ate dinner and shared a Raspberry shake.


Emmett doesn't like fries but he discovered he could dip it in the shake.





Then lick off the ice cream.

(pictures are out of order) Before LaBeau's we stopped at the Paris cemetery to visit Grandpa & Grandma Carlsen's grave. It makes me so sad to think he won't know them growing up.

Birthday dinner with cousins. He climbed up there all by himself to sit by them which I thought was cute and also that they all have their pj's on.

Springtime!

We are getting anxious to be in our new home which will possibly be finished the end of this month. We go out there so much I think it is already a familiar place to Emmett. He especially loves the unfinished basement to run around in.

Once it finally warmed up we decided to head north to the cold windy 'burg. We couldn't miss out on Megan turning 13!

My pictures are blurry for some reason.

Emmett was so sleepy but we had to keep him up so he could sleep on the way to Jackson.

We went swimming at the aquatic center in Jackson and Emmett got to go down the mini waterslide with his daddy. He was always scared at first but at the end he would smile. I think he had mixed emotions about it.
Jared even took him down the bigger waterslide but I didn't have the camera. bummer

Hanging out with Austen. He was mad that I was holding onto him. He thinks he is so big.

We love Jackson and it was nice to not have it so crowded but it was sooo cold.

My mom, me, & Emmett

Wish I could've bought this little buffalo for him. He kept snuggling it and it was so cute.

He also loved the moose.

Chasing him up and down the boardwalk

Emmett and I were able to spend the next week in Paris.

Emmett liked playing in the rain and splashing in the puddles.

For some reason he thought it was funny to press down on fluffers back while he was eating.

Checking on the cows in Sharon.

Emmett's first ride in the tractor with Grandpa. He was scared but I think he'll like it more as he grows up.

First time on the trampoline this year. He loved it until he almost fell off. Maybe he'll learn to stay in the middle now.

He would attempt to jump then clap for himself.

Can't wait for the next adventure in Paris and hopefully it will be nice and warm.