Sunday, January 30, 2011

Temple Square



Cody and I had really been wanting to go and see all the lights at Temple square for awhile. We talked about going last year but I was too sick being just pregnant I wasn't really feeling up to it. But this year, since we live pretty close and all, we thought we would go enjoy the lights.
We decided to go on the 16th since Emma had an appointment 20 minutes Salt lake direction anyways and thought it would be perfect to just leave from the doctors office.

The day started out perfectly normal, Cody went to work I took care of baby, cleaned the house  and packed everything I could think of that we might need while in Salt Lake (or so I thought).

Cody and I were excited all day about our little trip and about Emma's doc appointment , we really wanted to know ho much she had grown. 

After the appointment we hit the road totally jazzed about finally getting to go but the excitement wore off around the end of the first hour of being STUCK ON THE FREEWAY!!! It was awful! We didn't start moving for almost TWO HOURS and for a good chunk of that Emma let us know how truly annoyed she was with the situation. Needless to say I was on edge When we finally got to Salt Lake.

We parked a few blocks away which was fine with us. We loved the walk there it reminded us of our honeymoon.( We went to General Conference ) We thought it would be nice to go to some of the other church buildings and tour them so we decided that we would go to the Joseph Smith Family History Library and have a look around.

I was feeling much more happy and at ease by the time we got there and really enjoyed the tour. They have SOOOOO many bibles all sorts of different versions and TONS AND TONS of literature on other faiths. It was really neat. All was well until they showed us the movie. 

As we sat there and watched I kept getting a wiff of something that DID NOT smell very nice. I couldn't figure out where it was coming from and thought it must be the room because it was such a strange smell. After 10 or so minutes of this it occurred to me that I should probably check Emma since she was after all sitting right next to me. YEP! it was her and WOW was she smelling bad!

WORST BLOW OUT EVER!!!!!! It was disgusting! The poop was EVERYWHERE! In the car-seat all over her and her clothes. And of course I had dressed her warm so she was wearing a sweater, a long sleeve onesie , a corduroy dress, pink tights and  boots and to make matters worse.... I'm an absolute idiot! I ALWAYS have extra things for Emma in the diaper bag just in case something like this were to happen. Well not this time. I didn't even have to essentials. No wipes, no butt cream, no extra clothes. I ended up wiping her down with mostly plastic disposable changing pads that i found in the fold down changing table  and water from my water bottle. To keep her warm I put my arm length gloves on her legs and put her dress and her boots back on .( All this and she was still content and happy as could be. I love that she is like that. It could have been so much worse if she would have been screaming.)

After that whole disaster we decided that we would have to do a quick run through of the lights and then  head home so the baby wouldn't freeze and even  though we found ourselves in some less than ideal situations that day we still thought that it was really fun and decided to make it a tradition.... going to Temple square that it is : )
   
 



Baby all bundled up





This was my favorite tree



















The picture on the left we took first but there were too many people so I wanted to take it again and in the second picture you can see our breath. I didn't mean for it to happen but We think it looks really cool!






















Saturday, January 8, 2011

Emma's First Snow

 We have always loved snow and were anxiously awaiting it's arrival. We were like two little  kids. Every morning we would look out the window just to see if it had snowed and when we saw that it hadn't we were pretty bummed .  The first big snow storm came the Monday before Christmas which gave us plenty of time to enjoy it before we headed  to St. George on Christmas Eve.


It was fun get Emma out in the snow. When we first walked out she was real quite and was just looking around like she wasn't quite sure how to feel about it but after about a minute she got more into it. 

At first when the falling snow would touch her face she would kind of blink funny and jerk her head a little then she started smiling. It was pretty cute to watch her take it all in or the first time.

That has to be one of my favorite things about having a baby, getting to watch her learn things and everything, EVERYTHING fascinates her. It's such a pleasure to watch her enjoy life so much.
 
Cody's mom had just sent us the cute little coat and I just had to take pictures of her in it because she looks so cute! I also love her boots and try to make them work with as many outfits as possible! Thank you dearest Katy! 

In these pictures she is sitting on the back of our car. The snow was pretty deep so it put her up kind of high but I think she liked it. 




She did NOT like when her hands would touch the snow. It made her cry and us laugh.




This little girl sure loves her dad and I'm pretty sure he feels the same way. What do you think?







                                                                      



She really liked standing in the snow. 












I love her cheeks in these pictures






We had  fun playing in the snow as a family.
Such good times!