Projects and Fun

It's been a long time since I have posted anything but we have gotten a lot done!

Here's what we have been up to the last 2 months.

Emily and Daddy reading Cars!

Emily enjoying a sucker that Daddy got her.
He's such a sucker when it comes to Emily and those suckers!

J.R. enjoying his new grill!
We got it at a yard sale for $30

Cooking a big steak on the grill!
J.R. is very happy with his new toy!

I love this dress on Emily!

J.R. and I got some new shoes and Emily pulled out the inserts and put them in Daddy's crocks!

Emily really likes to play the piano right now. She wants to sit at the piano like Mommy does so I let her sit in her booster seat. She turns the pages in the book and then she hits every key on the keyboard one right after the other. It keeps her occupied for a long time!

Emily and Daddy "taking a nap" together

Eating M&M's

She's so pretty!

Easter morning!

A little later on Easter morning.

Emily unwrapped every piece of chocolate in her basket and took one bite out of it before she put it on the floor. I never got her to even taste it again after that.

The Easter baskets we got had hats on them!

We planted some grass in a big dirt spot in our back yard and Emily loved to help me water the grass. She also liked to give Pebbles drinks from the hose!

Daddy was helping Emily name all the pictures in the front of the Book of Mormon

She got pretty good at it

We didn't use our grill for about a week and a half and then when we went to use it we found a birds nest inside! I think we need to get a cover for the grill!

Some of the rusty bolts and nails we had to get out of the swing set we bought from some friends who were moving.

Here it is all put back together!

It took us all day one Saturday to get this thing apart because the bolts were so rusted, but it only took us an hour and a half to put it back together. We did get some new nuts and bolts which helped speed the process up a bit.

Emily really likes it. Everyday she asks if we can go swing. It is so nice to not have to go to the park to swing. I love the swing set too!

The next project was the bathroom. This is the hall bathroom because I didn't take any pictures of ours before we improved it. Anyway, there wasn't really anyplace to put anything. There was not a cabinet behind the mirror and under the sink didn't offer much space either.

This is the only place to store anything in the bathroom and it doesn't even have drawers. The two on top are just there for looks.

The mirror was glued to the wall which we didn't know until J.R. started trying to take it off. While he was trying to get it off in one piece the mirror shattered, so he went to work with a hammer and a chisel and he got it off the rest of the way. This is what our wall looked like when he was done. There were two more spots above what is shown in the picture. We had to patch the wall and then paint it before we could put up our new cabinet. I was happy about that because I really didn't like the paint that was in there.

Here is the finished product!

We painted it blue and we both really like how it turned out.

We love having a cabinet above the sink. It makes it so much easier to clean the bathroom since the counter isn't so cluttered. It looks really nice too!
Emily has only fallen asleep somewhere other than her bed or car seat once in her life. This is the second time. I babysat 3 kids aged 18 months, almost 3 and 4 years old for 5 hours and Emily didn't get a nap. When the kids left Emily crashed.

My precious little girl

Fun

Emily has been having so much fun lately!

I think I like this age the best so far. She plays so well by herself and with her friends now. I love it! It is also really fun to listen to her explanation of what she is doing. She has quite the imagination already!

Emily playing in the "waterfall"

This video is where I found out that Emily thought the dog bowl was a waterfall. A few minutes after I came inside from taking this video I saw Emily and Pebbles playing tug-a-war with something white. I went outside to find out what it was...it was Emily's diaper! I brought her in and gave her a bath after that.

This video is so funny! I think Emily has figured out that her Daddy is a foot doctor.

This has nothing to do with this video but it is a cute little side note. Almost every night Emily wants Daddy to put a band aid on her foot before she goes to sleep. She leaves it there all night too.

Princess Attack!

Emily is really into princesses right now so when she started climbing out of her crib last week we decided to get her a princess toddler bed. She loves it! So far we haven't had any problems with her coming out of her room at night or during nap time. In fact, most of the time she tells me that she wants to go to sleep! This picture was taken the morning after we got the bed.

Here is the bedding set we got to go with it

Yes, we know she is very spoiled, a canopy bed at the age of 2!

Daddy is still not ready to let go of the baby stage. I'm just glad he finally decided it was OK for her to be in a regular bed and not a crib. We have been discussing it for a while now.

Here is the toy box that came with the bed. It's just fabric and the lid is very flimsy. Emily gets very frustrated that she can't put it on by herself.

This bench came with it too. Emily has some of her stuffed animals and dolls in the the little baskets now. She also likes to wear them around as hats! I still need to get a picture of that.

Another princess thing!

This is the princess tent and tunnel we got using some Toy's R Us gift cards we got in the mail.

I'm still surprised that J.R. can fit in there. It's a tight squeeze even for me!

Emily is so pleased that her Daddy is in the tent with her

Looking down the tunnel

My precious little girl

Cute little dress

I made these cupcakes for Valentines day. We were at the store a few days before Valentines Day and J.R. saw some cupcakes with swirly frosting that he wanted to buy. They were $13! I told him I would make some at home and attempt to frost them the way the ones in the store were frosted. Here is how they turned out. I was impressed and so was J.R.! While I was practicing on some wax paper Emily told me I was making pretty flowers.