Twins?

So, some people say our girls look just alike-could've been twins. Other people say they look very different. Let me know what you think...

I must admit, I've always thought they look quite a bit alike. They do have a lot of similarities. No hair for a long time-both starting getting teeth around 9 months-started crawling/walking about the same time...

But, Jessi's eyes are dark and Emmy's are light.

Anyway, maybe I'm crazy???

Newborn




2 months ish




Blessing Day




7 months ish




9 months ish




1st Birthday

Nate's helicopter

This is my first ever posting on the blog, and I saved this moment for something very important. I want to show you all the helicopter that KayLyn gave me for Christmas this year.

It goes forward, backward, up, down, left, right, and everywhere in between! Landing on the oatmeal container has taken weeks of practice to learn; it's harder than it looks.

If electrical engineering doesn't pan out for me, maybe I'll become a pilot.


Thanks for the copter, KayLyn!

Happy Birthday Emily

I can hardly believe that Emily is already 1 year old-she is growing up so fast! She didn't quite get some of the birthday traditions (opening presents and blowing out the candle)but Jessica was very glad to help her out!! She understood about the cake though! I left her in her high chair to check on Jessica in the other room and when I came back she had pulled one of the cupcakes off the pan and there was chocolate all over her, the counter, and the high chair, and she was really enjoying it!

Happy Birthday Jessica

Jessica is 3 years old now!! Janelle and McKay were visiting during New Years and her birthday, so that was a lot of fun. Janelle helped me make a cake for Jessi.






Jessica really enjoyed her birthday, and said to me for days afterward, "Thank you for telling me happy birthday, mom, thank you!"

Yay Nate!

Nate has had a really exciting semester, and I must admit I am pretty proud of him!!

First off, he won "Best Overall Poster Award at the IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium" (I copied that from the article about it-so I didn't just have to say "he won best poster at a conference he went to in May").

http://www.ece.illinois.edu/mediacenter/article.asp?id=1139

He also received a patent on the "sprinkler project" (I call it) that he worked on as an undergraduate at Utah State. Here's what the article calls it: patent for “Methods and Systems for Wireless Communication by Magnetic Induction.”

http://tco.usu.edu/htm/in-the-news/articleID=10996

He also won best paper at the conference he went to in October (no article to quote from-yet.)

And he recently won an award from the school for excellence in research. He gets to have his name on a plaque in one of the buildings at school.

Most of all he is a wonderful husband and Dad, and takes good care of his girls.



I love you Nate!!!!

Camera Unhappy

I've decided that we are "camera unhappy" because we always forget our camera, or when we happen to take it somewhere we forget to use it.

Therefore, we don't have any pictures of our fun Thanksgiving with Bruce and Brittney Richards and Dale Kirby.

And we don't have pictures of our awesome trip to Milwaukee last Saturday-Sunday to see Cody, Jocelyn and Talmage Pehrson and Lake Michigan.

But, that's what has been going on with us recently.

We did take pictures on my birthday...



Nate and I have played a lot of Ticket to Ride since he got it for me-hooray!!

I also had fun experimenting with gum paste and using it on my birthday cake.

Halloween

We had a lot of fun celebrating Halloween this year!

We picked out pumpkins at a pumpkin patch.



I kind of procrastinated on the Halloween costumes, but was still able to get them done in time-Hooray!
(Several people when they saw Jessica said, "Of course she's Snow White!")




Nate had a lot of fun carving his pirate and it turned out really well! Jessi and I just did the simple pumkin face.