{for a moment}

we have peace

Welcome...

...to our lemonade stand!

Family Pictures

My immediate family all met up in Layton this last weekend and got to meet this cute little dude:

Rylee! I still can't believe my little sister is a mom... but she is a great one!

We also did family pictures while we were all together. I think that this pretty much sums up how pictures went for us. Emma refused to look at the camera and Macie was too busy to sit still. I think we got a few good ones on Savannah's camera and I will post them later.

3

I can't believe my little girl turns three today! We had a mermaid party last night which was really fun. Just family, but that's how we like it. She is generally shy, and had a hard time when everybody was watching her open presents. She mostly stood with her back to the crowd and opened them on my lap. Sooooo Emma. The other seriously funny thing? We started singing to her and she hopped off her chair and got under the table and said "I will just hide under here!" When the song was over, she got back up and ate. She does not like all the attention on her. I had every intention of getting some pictures of her tonight... but she fell asleep. When Macie noticed, she climbed up on our bed to cuddle with her and watch tv. I love how much these girls love each other!

{sweet talk}

While Nick was gone this week (all week) for work, Macie decided to pick up scentences. Here are a few of her first scentences:
"Mommy hold me"
"Emma no go down"
"Mommy I coloring"
"Jacket go now"
"Excuese me, move"
... and my favorite... "Thank you Mommy"
There have been more, but these are my favorites. I can't believe how quick she has put her words together! Once she started, there was no stopping her.

I also had a really funny conversation with Emma:
E: Mom, when I grow up I can be in a band.
L: Okay, honey. Good idea.
E: I will do it when I get big. (pause for thought) Bigger than DADDY! Mom, when you get bigger than Daddy will you do band with me?
L: I am not going to get bigger than Daddy.
E: Just when you get bigger than Daddy.
L: I don't think I am.
E: No, when you get taller than Daddy.
L: I am done growing. I am not going to get taller than Daddy.
E: Are you even going to try?
L: I will try, honey. And then we can be in a band.
E: GOOD! And we can do drums!

can you guess...

Updated: That sweet little Macie dumped Nick's coke on the laptop keyboard when we weren't looking earlier in the week... oops! Luckily, the actual computer still works (which is amazing because the laptop dripped coke for hours!) but most of the keys don't. So... we are a little ghetto in our house and bought a keyboard for a desktop and set it in front of the laptop. Cool, no?