3rd Anniversary and Mother's Day

May started out rough for us...

We had a healthy winter, occasional coughs, some runny noses, but nothing big at all. But ever since it started getting warm back in March it's like we cannot stay healthy! Luckily we have been for a little while now...So I'm hoping that we have kicked it for the season! This time around it was a nasty stomach bug. First I got it, then Jake. It wierdest thing about it is we would be really sick one day, fine the next, then really sick again the next day. So you would never know if you all the way over it or not. It was terrible. Thankfully it just bounced back and forth between Jake and I for about a week. Emery never really got it. She was sick for about 2 hours one day, aside from that no problems. Thank goodness. But anyway...Lucky us our Anniversary and Mother's Day (obviously) fall in the beginning of May. And Jake was very sick on both of those days. So we celebrated very low key this year!

One plus of him being sick was he was too sick to go into work so we got to spend the whole day with him! Emery loved having him around all day to cuddle and watch movies with. It was really nice to have him home. Later that evening my mom came and picked up Emery so we could have a little time together. I ordered take out for me, and Jake tried to eat a little chicken noodle soup while we watched a movie together. Romantic right?! Nothing says I love you like taking care of each other while your sick! 

Early that morning when Jake got up to get ready for work, before he realized how sick he really felt, he put up little notes for me all over the house. It was during this that I woke up to him running to the bathroom...and that was the end of it, haha. That's about how the rest of the day went! Poor guy. I loved his little love notes though ;) I stilll have a few of them up! The ones that Emery couldn't reach to tear down...

All in all it was a good day to just be able to spend time together. And ultimately it doesn't matter how we spend our anniversary. The important this is that we remember the promises that we made to each other that day. Promises that I am grateful for and thank my Heavenly Father for daily. Words can't describe how grateful I am for this man in my life. He is the most kind, caring, hardworking, loving, man I know, and I am so lucky that I get to call him mine. Emery, our new little girl, and all future children are so blessed to get to call him daddy, and man alive, is he good at that job. Emery thinks the world of him, and she is wrapped around his finger. I can't believe that it has been 3 years already, and while those years have been anything but easy, they have the best years of my life! While their have been many hardships, there is not anyone that I would rather go through them with. Happy Anniversary love, I love you more and more every day ;)

Next up was Mother's Day. And like I said before Jake was really sick this day too. It was such a wierd illness, he felt great Friday and Saturday so we thought he was over it, but then Sunday morning he woke up terribly sick again. But being the sweetheart he is he went about the morning like nothing was wrong. It wasn't until after he had gotten up with Emery letting me "sleep" in (as much as a pregnant can...mostly I just laid in bed, but still it was nice), got Emery breakfast, and made me breakfast in bed, that I found out that he was even sick. Poor guy. We went to church for sacrament at least, but left after that since he was feeling so crummy. That evening we had dinner at my parents. Jake, Colton, Haley, and Shayli planned a yummy dinner for my mom and I. Haley made some super yummy Chicken Cordon Bleu, and Jake and Shayli headed up dessert with a "Better than you know what" Cake. Overall once again it was a great day. Even though Jake felt so crummy :(

One mistake that we did make is try to take some Mother's Day pictures 30 minutes after Emery should have been down for a nap...Yeah that's about how they turned out. Haha. Oh well. With some tickling I did get a smile out of her. 

And a kiss...although she did give me a nice frown before giving it ;) haha. I love that girl. 

I am beyond grateful for this little girl in my life. For as long as I can remember all I've ever wanted is to be a mom, and boy I never even knew how amazing it would be. But this little sweetie has given me a glimpse into that and I couldn't be more grateful. I can't imagine our lives without her and she has brought so much sunshine and love into our lives. I am so thrilled to be welcoming another little angel into our lives in just a few short weeks. I know we are going to be blessed with even more love in our lives and I just can't wait. I am so grateful to be a mother. It's the best job ever and I couldn't imagine having another. And it wouldn't be right to not acknowledge Jake as well because without him I couldn't do what I do, and I am so grateful for him. 

Wow I am one blessed girl. 

Killing me with Cuteness

Sometimes I think I could eat her. Just too cute. 

Grandma's Wa-Wa

This is Emery's very favorite place these days. Frequently throughout the day I get asked "ma-ma wa-wa" and while she says it she moves her arms around like she is swimming. Makes me laugh every time. 

She even has her own special seat there in the corner to sit on. She also has a life jacket and an inner tube that she wears so she can swim around in the middle. (not at the same time...haha) We originally got the life jacket but I think it's annoying...it always floats up around her head. Then last week my mom bought one of those inner tube things for babies/toddlers. I didn't think she would sit in it, but Jake tried it out on Saturday night and she liked it! So it was a success. And I'm so glad. 

A big rain storm hit right after they got in the other day. It was really pretty. 

Sunshine and Otter Pops

I didn't do a 19 month post this month. For a few reasons...Emery is at the age now where not a whole lot really changes month to month. She learns a TON, and I swear she learns at least one new word a day I swear. 

 Her big thing right now is speaking in sentences. She is trying to make everything she says into sentences. Most frequently she says "It's a _____" She pretty much uses every word she knows in that blank. It's a ball, It's a bird, It's a baby, etc....For a few months she has used other sentences like "Where is it?". That's one of her favorites. She just loves to use sentences now. She is just getting so dang smart! Sometimes she most of the sentence doesn't even make sense and she'll just end it with a word we can understand. It always makes me laugh, but I have no idea what she is talking about sometimes. She has also become very possessive of  Jake lately. She always says "My Da-da". 

Mostly we are just enjoying our last few weeks together before we are joined by our new baby girl! I am so excited for her to come, but I am really trying to soak up these last few weeks where it's just her and I. I can't believe that it is coming so fast, but we can hardly wait! We still have quite a bit to do. We have most of the nursery done. We have Emery's new bed, but we still need to get a mattress. I have her bedding picked out, but I still need to order it. We have her new dresser, but we still have a little bit of work before it's totally ready. We also still need to get a new glider and stroller...ahhh. Of course it's our two biggest purchases that still remain...I have both picked out, just need the money to get them ordered! It's nice that we really don't need anything else since we already got everything with Emery. We just need to get it out of storage and cleaned and set up! I need to get all of Emery's newborn clothes out and washed and get everything in that way ready. But mostly we are just excited to meet our newest little sweetie, until then, we are going to soak up every minute of our time with our current one. 

Baby Animals

After taking Emery to the Baby Animals Exhibit last year at This is the Place last year, we knew we definitely had to do it again this year. But a few days before we were planning to go we got a flyer in the mail about one just right in Kaysville. Plus it was half the price of the Salt Lake one, so we decided to try it out! It made it nice to not have to drive all the way to Salt Lake. I don't know which one I liked better. I think this one is much more reasonably priced...I actually think if Emery were older I would have liked this one better, but a lot of the activities that they had Emery just didn't care to do. Next year I think she would like this one a lot better. But either way, all she really cares about is the animals and being able to see and pet them! So she didn't care one bit! I like that you get to get up closer to the animals at the other one, this one they are all in pens. But Emery didn't mind. She still walked right up and petted them all!

She thought these lamas were bears...haha. They kind of do look like a teddy bear. She just kept pointing at them and saying "bear". 

I'm pretty sure Emery was lucky enough to inherit Jake's terrible allergies...argh...I feel so bad! A few weeks ago at my sister's track meet the wind started to blow and within minutes her eyes were swollen up, she was sneezing and rubbing her eyes terribly. The track is right next to the trees that always make Jake's allergies act up. Then again at this baby animals thing after a little while she started to get a little grumpy, and her eyes were swollen and red. She didn't sneeze or anything, but she was acting like she felt miserable. After we left within about 30 minutes she was completely fine again. I'm sure it's not animal allergies because she has been around TONS of animals all the time and never has a problem. It's got to the same thing that Jake has. My dad has bees so when the honey is ready I'm going to give her some of that, and I'm hoping that it helps her! Anyway, we got some yummy snow cones and that made her pretty happy!

Next up, baby chicks.

The picture on the right makes me sad. You can just see how miserable she feels...she was trying to be a good sport, but after a little while she just felt so terrible. We had pretty much seen everything anyway so we decided to leave. They had face painting we could have done, but there is not a chance she would have held still for that. They also had pony rides, I don't know how she would have done on that. But like I said, she was ready to go anyway, and the line was really long! I think she had fun anyway with what we did get to do though. I'm glad we took her! We are loving all of this sunshine! We especially love weekends when Dad is home!

Dandelion Bouquets

We took full advantage of the almost 90 degree weather today and went on a nice long walk. This 8 month pregnant lady was cooking by the end. But Emery was in heaven so it was all worth it. Her new thing right now is picking flowers. She loves to pick little dandelion bouquets and smell them. It's super sweet. We stopped about halfway through our walk for some play time on the playground, and then she headed back to the dandelions. 

She had a whole bouquet to take to Grandma at work, but by the time we got back to the car they were gone...haha. So we bagged it. Maybe next time! She did get to stop and see Grandpa for a few minutes though so she was happy.

 Here's to summer and sunshine!!