Happy Girl

Amelia woke up from her nap so happy!

Wouldn't life be great if we could all take a 10 a.m. nap!

Em's 1st hair cut

We took Emry to cookie cutters for her first hair cut. It is the cuttest place for kids. First she was able to pic out a DVD to watch(they had a tv and dvd player at each station). Then they tried to let her ride in a darling little tin car for the haircut, but she wasn't grooving on that so we just sat her on Michaels lap.
She wasn't really sure if she wanted to go through with the haircut, but then the stylist offered her a sucker, and Emry was on board for ANYTHING!





She just laughed and laughed when she got her hair blown dry

Tonight

Tonight michael was trying to get Emry to put on her pajamas but she just wasn't too enthused about it. Then instead of losing his patience with her he put all of the clothes she wore that day on his head. She LOVED this! He was able to then slip her pajamas on her without her even noticeing. Watching him do this reminded me of the 90-10 principle video lauren had on her blog. If you didn't see it, it talks about how we don't have control over a lot of the things that happen to us in life, we only have control on how we react to them. This has left a huge impression on me. Michael could have gotten mad at Emry and forced her pajamas on her tonight and she would have gone to bed in tears and we would have gone to bed feeling guilty, or he could have done what he did and we can now go to bed peacefully. Thank-you michael, I love you!!

I can't believe that we have been in our house for a month already. The time has just flown by. Now that we have the Internet I can blog again, yay:)
I got to visit my family in Kansas last month and loved it. We went to the zoo a couple of football games and I had my best visit to the state fair in my WHOLE LIFE!!! I love you Mom and Dad! Thank you for being the best parents in the world! Thank-you dad for wrestling with my girls and thank-you mom for making me laugh until I couldn't breathe and had tears in my eyes. I miss you guys so much already!

La Crosse

This is our last week in La Crosse. I have really enjoyed it here ( aside from living in a tiny hotel room). Michael and the girls and I became pretty close. With not having anybody else we knew out here, we were all that we had. I loved that, though I am looking forward to being around friends and family again. Today driving around I saw this old wall that had an culligan man advertisement on it. I have driven by it several times since we had been here and always thought "I would love to take some pictures of the girls in front of that". Well, today I figured would probably be my last chance. So we hopped out and I took some pictures. Then we went to a cemetery that again I drove by a million times and always thought it was beautiful. It was such a peaceful place. There were sections of it dedicated to veterans. It was a humbling thought that in just this little town so many fought for my freedoms and gave the ultimate sacrifice..... I am so grateful.

CHICAGO

One of the perks with being out east is that we are much closer to some of our family that we don't get to see enough of. This last weekend we were able to meet Andy and Shay in Chicago. Chicago was amazing, I have never been in a city so big! There was so much history and beautiful Architecture. The part we loved most though was just being with Andy, Shay, Porter, Carlee and Tessa! Emry couldn't get enough of Carlee and Porter. She even had her first sleep over with them, it counts if she stays until 4 Am right? We went to Lego Land(thought of Preston the whole time), Sears not Sears Tower, Millennium Park and got to walk down the famous Michigan Ave. Everything was perfect! Thanks for the great weekend Andy and Shay!! We love you!

Emry and Chocolate Ice Cream

The first blog posted well so I am adding one of my favorite pictures since we got here. We took the girls to a very old ice cream parlor near the boardwalk and got Emry a "Childrens Cone" of chocolate icecream. It started out about half the size of her head! Of course it didn't take long for her to coat her face in a beard of chocoliciousness. Eating our "treat" as we walked along the river, Emry could not stop smiling and laughing spontaneously. It was one of the most casual and easy-going times I have had here.