Happy Birthday Emma!

Today we celebrated Emma's fourth birthday! We had a family party for her with lots of yummy food and cupcakes! One of her favorite presents was the little princess chair she is sitting on!

Her cousins Spencer and Molly from Denver were able to come to her party this year. They had a lot of fun playing together and opening presents!

Because Emma's birthday is so close to July 4th, we were able to put on a little firework show for our family and neighbors. It was such a hit I think we will have to make this a yearly tradition!

Emma's Finger

Today at church, Emma got her pinky finger shut in her Sunbeam classroom door. Micah and I immediately took her to our doctor's office and they looked at her finger and told us to go to Primary Children's Medical Center. After taking X-rays they were able to see that no bones were broken so they put four stitches in her finger. We had a child life specialist in the room with us that played with Emma and helped her make a doll to demonstrate how they would put stitches in her finger. Through the whole experience Emma remained really calm and handled everything really well. We were amazed that she didn't even cry!
This is the last place we thought we would end up on Father's Day, but we were still able to spend time with both of our Father's and have a good day!

Graduations!

Over the past week Ethan graduated from kindergarten and Emma graduated from her 3 year old preschool class! We had a fun time attending their festivities and will probably be singing "Going to the Zoo" for the next month!

Here is Emma with her teacher Mrs. Suzanne. Emma is excited to have her again next year as her 4 year old preschool teacher!



During the graduation ceremony Eliza decided to join in with the singing and dancing!

Next we had Ethan's graduation from Kindergarten. He really enjoyed having Miss Shaw as his teacher!

The graduation program was so exciting for Emma, she fell asleep in Grandma Monson's arms!

Grandma and Grandpa Morrell were also there for Ethan's big day!

Denver

This past weekend Eliza and I drove to Denver with my sister Desi and my dad to go to my nephew Marcus's baby blessing. Our favorite part of the eight hour drive there was stopping for ice cream at the Little America Hotel at 9:00 in the morning.

Here is Eliza enjoying her ice cream!

Eliza and I were in baby heaven holding Marcus. He is such a good baby! I didn't hear him cry once!

Here is my mom and I having fun with baby Marcus. Five of my six siblings were in Denver this weekend and my mom did a good job of pampering us while we were there!

Poising with my two Denver nephews, Marcus and Spencer. Spencer is my sister Mary's cute little boy who is Emma's age.

Grandpa and Granny Morrell with Marcus and my brother Will and his wife Alisha on Marcus's blessing day.

Eliza and I flew home with Aunt Desi. We were lucky the plane wasn't full so Eliza got to sit in her carseat on the airplane. Eliza and I had a fun time on our trip, but our happy to be back home with the rest of our family!

It's Always Fun When Grandpa Comes!

The children love it when Grandpa Reed comes over. He is really patience with them and they have a lot of fun together.

For Ethan's birthday he got a Book of Mormon reader with pictures. Here is Grandpa and Ethan "reeding" together!

Now that my dad is retired he has more free time. He brought us up a couple loads of mulch for our garden. Little Emma who loves to wear skirts and dresses most of the time, is helping Grandpa shovel dirt out of the truck!



Eliza loves both her grandpas and loves saying their name. She is a big mamas girl, but if Grandpa Reed is around she prefers to be held by him. He takes her to see the neighbors dogs and she loves to bark and say doggie!

Beautiful Bathroom

With the help of Micah's Uncle Lynn, we finally finished our bathroom in our basement. Hooray!!!

Here are a few pictures of how beautiful it turned out.

Birthday Boy

This past week we celebrated Ethan's sixth birthday. He got to celebrate his birthday twice this year! On his actually birthday he got to celebrate it at school and Grandpa and Granny Morrell came up from Provo that night and took him to the restaurant of his choice (Artic Circle)! On Saturday he had a birthday party where we let him invite whoever he wanted. Ethan chose a basketball theme and invited neighborhood friends, friends from school, his baby sitter, two nine year old girl friends, aunts, uncles, and even his grandma and grandpa. He hand wrote most of the invitations!

Here is Ethan at his party opening presents. We were amazed at how well behaved the kids were!

Ethan even had three little princesses make an appearance at the party for cupcakes!



Later that night Micah took Ethan and his cousin Taylor to the Jazz game against the Hornets. Here they are ready to go all decked out in their Jazz jerseys!

Uncle Russell and Aunt Nat were also at the game that night. They let Ethan and Micah sit in their third row seats during the second half of the game. Thanks guys!

Here is the view from the third row of two of Ethan's favorite players: D Will, and Millsap.

We l0ve you Ethan! Happy Sixth Birthday!