Emma and the Animals

Back in November, we had the fun opportunity to take Emma to Discovery Kingdom (aka Marine World).  It was a nice family trip, just the three (well, 4;0) of us for the day and between travels for Tyler.  We thought Emma would just enjoy seeing all the animals (and tix were FREE!)...and boy did she!

This was our first stop: sea lions...she's still doing her 'arc, arc' while clapping and referring to these guys ;0

Next up were the penguins.  Not the best pic, but I had to share because she was so worried about these little guys.  They each had tags on their arms.  She thought they were band aids and, she's so traumatized by 'pokes' from the doctor, that she thought all the penguins had 'pokes'.  She talked about that for SO LONG. Every now and then she still brings it up ;0

To me, this was one of the neatest for her because they were right in front of her! 

she doesn't know that sharks are scary yet, so not too impressed by these guys swimming right above her!

loved seeing the giraffes!  And, PS, this is her 'smile' or 'say cheese' face...love it yeah?!

here she is saying 'roar' ;0

She loved all the animals and the whole day, but, this little girl...when we'd tell her to tell someone about our trip, all she could talk about was getting to hi-five rudolph! ;0  (she just watched Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer movie this year and he's her fave;0)

We don't get many pics together, so had to share this one (see, she's 'smiling' for the camera!)

We ended our day at the Dolphin Show.  We got front row seats....and didn't realize that there was a reason the front row was open!!  

We got splashed....

So sorry that I've been so slow with posting these last few months!  There are several reasons...one is that I'm almost out of room on my photobucket account...so it makes posting pics a little challenging but I don't have time to figure out what to do about it :(  Will try to keep truckin' along here, tho!

Halloween

Although Emma's done the Tinkerbell thing before, that was for a bday party and not for Halloween...that and she LOVES tink, and it was only $6 at once upon a child (yay!)  While she's still a little too young to get much about Halloween, she did have herself a fun time this year.

Here she is all dressed up and NOT thrilled at all about it ;)  Off we were to the church's harvest carnival!

...but once we got there, and she saw the 'jumpy jumpy'...she was READY TO GO!

she played games with her Papa 

and went down the slide together a few times ;0

Jessica brought over some pumpkins to carve for the kids and Tyler went at it!

amazing! (too bad someone stole it on halloween night :0)

After the carnival night she had it down, but thought we were going to go play more games, ride more slides, etc to get more candy :)

Caden the cow came to grab some goodies with us too!

and Isaiah and my sister...oh my :)

the kids had so much fun!

Family time

This past weekend I went to clear my memory card on our little camera before heading out to Discovery Kingdom for a little day trip (pics to be shared later) and to my surprise, there were so many pictures I had not yet transferred!  Including these fun ones from Thomas & Steph's visit this summer.  Well, August/September.

My goal is to share a few of the fun times we've had since then and get you up to date.  Hub is gone for about 12 days followed by a vaca for just us then vaca from work for him...SO lots of time coming my way to do just about...nothing...or whatever I want ;0 YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY

OK here we go really quickly!!  The kiddos had a fun time playing out in the dirt @ Nani & Popi's, Matt & Charrie's house;0

the guys had an itch to climb the dirt mountain...just to do it mostly (i think) and also to see the view from way up there...

...they said it was beautiful.  

We had the opportunity to go to dinner without the kids and Nani & Popi got a fun opportunity to watch Caden, Emma & Justin - and try to put C&E to bed...neither of which were asleep when we got home - it wasn't a successful attempt at having the kids go to bed to say the least ;0

It was such a treat to have Justin, Steph & Thomas stay with us!  

for the most part ;0, the kids had a great time having each other around all day

As some of you know, however, Emma does like her own space...so sometimes, it wasn't so happy ;0

I just loved this shot of them all cuddling together ;0 

Sweet times, sweet memories.  Love you and miss you guys!

40th Anniversary

I thought I was going to be good and share these right away!  I did upload them the day following the party, just haven't really been able to sit and transfer them in to a post!  I think there are so many pis, I will minimize the words ;0  You're welcome!

I had to share this one below because we're cracking up, Charrie and I had our legs up on grandma but that got cut out ;0

if you'd like to see them all - click the below 'view all' and it will take you right to them!  There are also many all family shots that were taken by Kimberly and Easton but we haven't gotten them yet...will try to add those when we get them!