Emma Grace: 2009

Friday, November 6, 2009

Emma Updates...................

OK so we have been busy with lots of different things (more Adoption paperwork, etc) last several months and have been getting alot of heat from Emma's peeps about not updating her site so...............

.............here are some Summer to Present Highlights.

We spent 4th of July at Grandma and Grandpa's in McCall.

We also went camping once with our friends the Wursts, Stillmans, and Kimballs.

Emma had lots of fun playing in the dirt

Stillmans also brought baby Timothy with them on his very first camping trip.

Emma Helped Grandpa and Daddy build a new deck and Grandpa L's House

Emma also found out that Grandpa L got a new lawn mower this summer and tried and tried to get Grandpa to let her mow the lawn for him.

Emma helped Mommy bake some Almond cookies for the Harvest Moon Festival party with the Idaho FCA (families with children from asia).

Emma is holding her paper lantern she helped make at the Harvest Moon Festival party at Eagle Island state park.

Emma made some new friends at the Moon Festival all from China.

Emma and Mommy joined in the Lantern Parade with all the boys and girls at the Moon Festival.

There was a line after the parade for some CANDY!!!!!!

Mommy got me some new winter duds for when it gets cold out. My mittens have Abby Cadabby on them.

Grandma bought me and my cousin Kabrie new "ESB" (BSU) Jackets.

WOW............that's the biggest pumpkin, I have ever seen!!!!!!!!

at the "Pancakes" House in McCall.

One of My favorite places in McCall at the beach front park that has a water fountain.

I get to see lots of wildlife up at Grandma's in McCall. I call this one "Foxy"

I wanted to dress up as RaggedyAnn for Halloween, Daddy thought I should be a Rapper

But, Mommy found me a .....................

A Snow White Dress, and Grandma loaned me her Crown.

Here is my new cousin KYSON.

Here we are, all the Cuz's

OHHH.....THIS IS SO EXCITING, WE ARE AT THE PUMPKIN PATCH!!!!!! aka: The Berry Ranch

Pigs

And Sheep

and Cows

and Chickens

and Tractors

But, I REALLY DON'T Like that guy Sitting next to Daddy!!!!

Me and Mommy are so beautiful!!!

I'm getting ready for the Church Harvest Party...........

Here are my cousins, Taylor Swift, Pirate Lauren, and me Snow White.

This is my buddy Buzz Lightyear aka: Noah Davis

Emma And Noah went Trick or Treating

Well these are the latest updates..........we should be good for a while now, right? We will try to be better and update around thanksgiving.

Monday, July 13, 2009

1 Year Anniversary for Emma's "Gotcha Day"

WOW, it has been 1Whole year, 52 Weeks, 365 Days, since we received Emma in Lanzhou, Gansu, China. We spent our one year anniversary in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Salt Lake City Marriott City Center Hotel, Eating "Chinese" Food at PF Changs, and Seeing Emma's Chinese Hand Dr, Doctor Wang at the Shriners Hospital. How Chinese could we get than that?????

EMMA July 13, 2008

EMMA July 13, 2009

We were just trying to remember all of Emma's stats when we got her (we have them written down somewhere). She was 19 lbs and around 30" tall. She is 30+ lbs now and 36" tall. She counts to 20, says her ABC's and talks all the time. We are so proud of our little girl. She loves her Mommy (now) and Daddy (probably mommy more than daddy now), and WE love her so much more now, than even before we went to pick her up in China. GOD HAS BLESSED US IMMEASURABLY WITH HAVING EMMA AS OUR DAUGHTER!!!!!!

Oh and her doctor at Shriners said we don't have to come back for another year. WOOHOO!!!! We have had more than enough road trips to Utah last six months.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Memorial Day Weekend in McCall/Payette Lake

Overlooking Payette Lake in McCall on Memorial Day Weekend 2009. We spent 4 Days with Grandma and Grandpa Lund. They enjoyed having Emma and her mom and dad up for the weekend.

There is still snow on Brundage Mtn in the background, and Grandpa Lund heard of some people a couple of days ago hiking to the top to ski down on 4+ feet of snow still.