Date night

Tonight after dinner at a weird chinese resturant, we came to Dolce
Via a new gelato cafe. It was fabulous! I had chai and peach gelato
and Sara had Irish cream and chocolate. Sara is so glad we have a new
dessert place.

Tres Purpura Flores

Today was another beautiful day, not 70s beautiful but still nice enough to go outside. So Emma and I went to work in the yard, the tulips that line our walk way are coming in and some are even budding. While raking away some leaves and dead grass I discovered some purple flowers near a tree in our yard, I didnt even know we had flowers planted there, but there they were in all their glory standing tall and proud saying and I quote, "hello spring here we are an were not going anywhere". Little do they know tomorrow they will die, why you ask well let me tell you. Although today was a warm 60, tomorrows forecast is 30 and were expecting snow. So good bye my three beautiful friends I will always remember you in my heart.

Happy tax season everyone

Uncle Sam decided to pay up his debt to us. So, we celebrated by
buying a grill. This is sure to provide many meals of summer fun.
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Sunday The Way It Should Be

Well yesterday was nice but today was beautiful with a high of 73. So we all decided after church we were going to go to the park and enjoy the weather. We all got lunch on our own and met at the park, of course as soon as lunch was over the girls were off playing. Because Alivia is a professional at the park Emma and her didn't really play together, Emma's large round belly slows her down too much for Alivia's fast pace climbing and sliding. That didn't stop Emma though she crawled through the tunnels, slid down the slides on her own with no fear, but preferred to climb up the slides. She would of course end up falling down the slide but if you tried to pick her up she would get mad and scream until you put her down so she could try again. My mom would have been terrified the whole time if she would have seen her running around. At one point a very braty little boy was refusing to let Emma in the tunnel he would yell at her and kick at her to keep her out, she of course just stared at him, but I was ready to attack and luckily for him I didn't have to. No matter what there is always that one kid that is mean and annoying.We enjoyed chocolate covered cones from DQ and then ended our experience with a walk to go see the ducks and geese. Levi with crutches and all did the walk with us, it was very impressive considering we were walking down hill and it wasn't a short walk.

Sunny day

Today was a beautiful day, we didn't even have to wear jackets or as Emma would call them "jackies". Since it was so nice we decided to take full advantage of the day. Coy had to work all day so Emma and I played outside and wished he was there the whole time, then later that evening we enjoyed our dinner on the porch for the first time in a long time.

Boots

On Sunday Emma finally got to wear her cow girl boots that her grandma Sherryl bought her. They finally fit her but because her legs are so short it is a little bit hard for her to walk in them.
Today when I was getting her dressed she kept exclaiming "boots!, boots!" only when she says it, it almost sounds like a bad word. I always said I would never let my kid be the kid that is wearing their boots with shorts or with an outfit that didn't match, so I tried to trick her I pulled out her converse and asked "boots or shoes" purposefully asking shoes last, thinking she would choose the shoes, but she is smarter than I expected, she continued to exclaim "boots!". So I gave in and let her wear the boots, luckily they still looked cute with what she was wearing and she was very happy. All through out the store she would point at them saying "boots", but because it sounds like a bad word I would try and distract her with other things so that people didn't think that I was a bad mother.

Fresh family room dos

Once again we are in the family room, Emma it still recovering from her cold. The family room has been moved from the Active room back to its original smaller cozy room.

Being a toddler

Do I really need to say anything? We know who did this.

Sickie Poo

Emma is still sick, she sounds like froggy from the little rascals (I think thats his name) her nose is dripping constantly so much that her upper lip area is red and chapped, and mommy currently sounds like bobby. With all that said she is still her wild and crazy self playing and making messes. We did stay home from church though it was good because normally when I would be running around getting ready to leave I was able to just relax with Emma. We sat in the rocking chair and instantly she was falling asleep, I enjoyed the cuddle time because these moments are so few, I put her to bed, but first snapped a few sad photos.

Cute Girl

Tonight we had our staff meeting so as usual we were out late. We got home around 12:30am, so Emma had been asleep for several hours but woke up when we left the Luskos and stayed awake the whole car ride home. when we got home and went to put her to bed Coy told her good night and I was going to lay her down but before Coy could leave, with her sweet raspy sick voice she asked "pay" which means pray. Every night when we put Emma to bed Coy like a good daddy prays. He always asks "Emma do you want to pray" and she usual just smiles and gets all snuggly, I didn't realize how much she was used to us praying with her before she goes to bed. I'm so glad she asked.
Usually when its this late she just goes straight to bed but to night she was fighting it. We have a monitor in our room, other wise I will not hear her crying and I will just sleep, it is a video monitor so its fun to turn the video on when we hear her talking or playing in her crib. Thats what we did tonight, she is sick so it is hard to understand her( and she is a baby) but she is saying Livy and Lenya over and over again, I think she might even throw in doggy once or twice. I got just a little clip of it but she did this for about 5-10 minutes, at one point she switched and said Solo (short for Solomon) over and over again only it sounds like "oh row". She is so entertaining even around Midnight.