Emma's First Easter ~ 2011~

Easter was a lot of fun .  We got to spend lots of time with our families this trip which was really nice plus this was Emma's very first Easter and she was pretty cute.

The way we "share" holidays in my family is the day before Easter and Christmas Eve is spent with our family and then the actual day of celebration is with the in-law families but Thanks Giving we alternate years. It works out so perfectly!!! We have never had a conflict and there is equal time for both sides of family. Cody and I really like that it works out so well.

Saturday was the Cluff Easter Egg Hunt. It was super fun to be around all the little kids and see how excited they all were. Well maybe not the older boy teens so much they are in the "I don't like to show I really enjoy or care about stuff" stage, but the others were super cute.

Here is a list of things that we did:
- Our friends th/ the Lees loaned us their bubble machines and a bubble stick. The kids had so much fun  playing with them , especially little miss Ivy. Cody and I played bubbles with her for a very long time and you know what? I think we might have had just as much, if not more fun than she did.
-We ate lots of yummy food like hamburgers and oreos
-While helping hide Eggs Cody and I caught the cutest little tiny frogs and showed them to the little kids they loved them! Too bad we didn't get any pictures.
-We played some volley ball
-The boys played some basket ball
- And OF COURSE we hunted for eggs.

The next day we headed to the park to meet up with the Heimberger side of the family. We had a lot of fun taking pics of Aspen and Emma. Poor Aspen wasn't very happy though. After taking lots of cute pics we went to Mama H's house and ate more delicious food and talked and had tons of fun.

She looks so much like my niece Taiha in this picture.

Katy's Cute little cove!

Emma and Cove play so well together and always have the best time.

I love this picture SO much. She kept putting her face on the net and giving me the funniest little smiles.

I am getting lots better at making sure
I am in some pictures too.

She was being SO wiggly I had a hard time holding on to her.  I think she wanted to get down.

Aunt Kim and Emma. Emma loves to slap peoples chests. I love that that is what she is doing in this picture. as annoying as it can be , its just one of hose things I don't want to forget she did ALL THE TIME!

Cody has a mouth full of Oreo in this picture :)

Cody and I love our random family shots. I don't think Emma feels the same...

Getting ready fro the Egg Hunt.

Emma /Daddy , Ivy and Colby lined up ready to start hunting for eggs.

Emma just eanted to take off as soon as her feet touched the ground. The little kids thought it was funny but I also think they were a little worried that she was getting a head start. I was cute.

Emma's first ever Easter egg. Every egg that she picked up she tried to throw into her basket. She started doing it all on her own too. It was pretty funny to watch. Not going to lie, we ended up with quite a few broken eggs.

Volley ball with the fam.

Easter Morning she was kinda ornery and didn't really want to touch her basket stuff.

Mostly the basket was full of stuff for mom and dad :)

Braving a touch...

Emma and Aspen! Love the bunny Ears! Thank you aunt Traci.

The Man I Love

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CODY!

Cody's birthday was Tuesday March 22nd and we had a lot of fun celebrating it. He ended up having to go to work at 5 that morning so as a surprise I woke up at 3:30 (not that I got a whole lot of sleep I was so excited) and started making him one of his favorite breakfasts, Belgian waffles with eggs, bacon and sausage. 

It was a lot of fun being all sneaky about it. I even went to the store late-ish the night before and bought all the stuff and hid it so he wouldn't know  what I was planning. Before I went to bed that night I hung the birthday sign and made sure the apartment looked perfect for when he first walked out to see everything. 

It all came together nicely... at least I think so. He didn't even  hear me get up to start all the cooking. It was great to see how happy and excited it made him when he saw what was going on. I love making birthdays a big deal because I think that they are.  

After he got home the plan was to go out and do something and then go to Costco to buy his birthday cheesecake but the soar throat I had woken up with had only gotten worse and by the time he was off work I had a pretty good fever going so instead he made me take a nap.  I felt SOOOOOOOOOOOOO SOOOOOOO BAD!!!  The night turned out pretty fun though. We did go to Costco to get his cheese cake and ended up buying a pizza and inviting his little sister Aubrey and her husband Joseph over for dinner and the Avatar Rifftrax  (SUPER FUNNY!) .    Cody said he really enjoyed his day and I'm glad that he did.

A little bit about MY Cody:

He is an AMAZING , lighthearted , patient and loving husband who takes the best care of me. He is super respectful of me and is slow to anger and really knows how to communicate. He really is the sweetest Man! 

He loves and gets along great with everyone in my family even the little ones.

He LOVES air planes and is almost 75% done with is degrees in the aviation program at UVU. He is good at EVERYTHING He tries and is passionate about it . So of course all of his flight instructors have really loved working with him because he is so dedicated and good at flying.

Is the best Daddy and is totally wrapped around his little baby girls finger. They are the best of buds : )

He has a deep love for Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and it shows. He respects his priesthood and leads our family with loving care. I'm so glad that we have his strong influence in our home.

Again... The Best little dad EVER!

He super fun and crazy in a good way ! Seriously, he constantly has me and SO many others laughing. He can make me happy so fast it is ridiculous!

We call him Ninja. It's a lot of fun to play volley ball and other games with him because he gets so into it. Not in an annoying competitive way but in an "I'm here to have fun way" and I LOVE IT!!

He has deep love and concern for every member of his family and wants only the very best things for them. He respects and honors his parents and how they raised him.  

Dearest Cody, 

I hope that this doesn't embarrass you too much. I just wanted to share some of the many reasons why I love you.  I'm so glad that you are mine!!!  

P.S.

I totally have the biggest crush on you. 

 

Funnest Present EVER!

For Christmas Cody gave me a Snowboarding trip! We decided that we would go January 21st to Brianhead instead of going somewhere a little closer to home so that we could borrow all of the gear we needed and so we had someone to watch Emma for us.

We started the day by dropping Emma off at my sister Natalie's house.  It was a weird feeling leaving her knowing that we wouldn't be seeing her ALL day and going so far from her but it was also a much needed break. Nati ended up taking her over to Cori's and hanging out with the "Sisterhood". Cody and I had pretty much expected this so when we returned later that day to pick her up and found her bathed, cradle cap scrubbed and in clothes that we did not recognize, we were not at all surprised. This is just how our sisterhood works... which is really nice because I had neglected my poor daughters head and was having a hard time getting rid of the blasted cradle cap but they did the work for me! AWESOME!!! Can't imagine not having all my sisters!


Anyway back to the trip. We got a good deal on our lift tickets because half of the lifts were closed which we were not bummed about at all since we didn't want to use any of those slopes anyway.

Cody had been planning this for awhile and was looking forward to hitting the slopes after such a long time .I was really excited to go too but I would be snowboarding for the first time and was also feeling really scared and when I am scared I can be a little mean.... ok a lot mean. Lucky for me I have an amazing husband who knows me very well and was not surprised by my reaction or even really phased by it. Mostly he just chuckled or smiled at me while I grumbled under my breath or was chewing him out for something that he didn't even do and this was before I had even successfully stood up on my board! 
 
Once we got to the top of the bunny hill and I had learned a better way to stand up strapped to a board I calmed down a bit and by the time I got the bottom of the bunny hill ( it took a LONG time) I was having a lot of fun!  I will say though that snowboarding is PAINFUL!!!! I fell..... A LOT!  Even Cody fell some but we also laughed a lot and made some really good memories.

This is how I ended up snowboarding most of the day. My legs were to tired to stand all the way and control the board so I stayed down like this so I could better control the board direction with my hands. I know... I am such a nerd!!! but you know what? I couldn't have cared LESS!!! I was having SO much fun!

I thought we were being silly...

Cody waiting for me on one of my many breaks

Yet another break! Haha

Yep! This is how the day ended... me walking! I took another BIG fall and thought "We have been here for almost five hours I'm ready to go home".   SO much faster to walk! Yes I know that sounds backwards but when You are having to take a break every 30 or so feet it takes a long time to get down the hill.Cody was already at the bottom. The poor mans feet started to really hurt form wearing small boots so I told him to go on without me.

And here I thought we were being normal! We couldn't quite get it right.

Happy New Year!!!

Cody and I had a really fun New Years night . Don't ask what we did because honestly I don't really remember much of anything except we bought those party poppers so we could pull them at midnight. I remember laughing a lot too, but again I don't really remember why. I do know that there is NO better way to start out a new year then with my best friend . I love you Cody ! Thanks for all the laughs.... and the perfect pictures ; )

YEP! We are best buddies!

We are OLD! It was hard to stay Awake

We really loved the popper things

The mess after our big party!