Busy good

With the semester coming to an end (yay!) Life still hasn't slowed down :) Mike earned a 4.0 this last semester and did some really cool unique pieces. They are living in the garage at the moment, I want to find a nice place in our home to display at least one of them, they are too cool to be just stored.

We received some wonderful news... we have a court date to meet with a Judge to finalized our adoption of Emma! So mid-May she will be legally ours, although Emma has already won our hearts completely. She has a sweet content spirit, I can hardly wait to have her sealed to our family forever.

Mike and I have been trying to plan Emma's sealing and blessing and boy oh boy it's crazy trying to figure out a good time with our schedule. We want to do it soon, though so that makes everything even crazier. We decided to not have Emma blessed at church, so we are trying to figure out how we are going to fit +20 family/friends into our itsy bitsy house. We thought about doing it at a church near the temple, but decided not to. We want to be able to BBQ and relax and enjoy Emma's special day at home. She completes our home and our family it makes sense to us to have Mike give her a name and a blessing in our home. I've been trying to declutter so this gives me even more motivation...

Lilly and Emma (and Mike) made a fort in the family room last night :) Lilly ate her breakfast in it this morning. I love seeing my girls do fun things like this together. This is one of the moments my heart longed for and now I have it, for this I am grateful.

Emma really is part of our little family, we love her and I feel a tug on my heart every time I can get a smile from my mellow gentle baby.

Emma is 5-months!

I can't believe how swiftly these past 5 months have gone. Emma has been such a joy to our family and we are so grateful for her and her birthmother. Emma is a really sweet baby, she only ever crys when she's hungry and that's it. She's so content with everything. She still hasn't rolled over but in time it will happen. She did manage to roll over on the couch the other day with the help of the slant :) her favorite person is Lilly and usually only has smiles and giggles for her. I don't mind I love seeing my girls have such a great sisterly love already.

Emma loves to sit up and we just brought out the little bebe pod for her practice sitting in. She loves it and I do too. We are all totally in love with little Emma Rose!

Busy week!

I always want to take a picture of the girls before church on Sundays, they both always look so cute all dressed up. That hardly happens since we have 9:00 AM church. Anyways I took a quick picture this afternoon after church today.

Emma is growing like crazy! I can't believe she was only 4lbs when we brought her home, Mike weighed himself and then himself holding Emma yesterday and he thinks she weighs about 15lbs!!!!! She's been wanting to always sit up and if you put her into a lying position she thinks its time to eat and will cry and cry until you feed her or sit her back up :)Lilly was out of school this past week for Spring break unfortunately she had a horrible ear infection, her ear drum actually ruptured! Luckily we got her into the dr. and she seems to be feeling a lot better now. She is not a complainer and even though her ear probably hurt like crazy she just kept on going and telling me she was fine while holding her little ear... luckily she tells us in other ways like holding her ear, or being VERY moody and emotional.
Even though Lilly was sick this past week we did find time to work on a few crafts. We made a Spring forest out of toilet paper tubes, I finally finished my Family rules canvas and we also did a little water color painting. Mike has been in the studio the past couple of days and making great progress on his final projects for his classes. This next week is finals for Mike so I will probably not be seeing him very much, Saturday is his last final for the semmester and then for Spring and summer he is just taking a couple of online courses, and maybe one studio yay for having my husband for the summer! Mike will be able to work full-time this summer too, so we can build up our savings again, or buy a few things that we've been wanting :)
We moved Lilly into a twin size bed this past week too. I still haven't taken a good picture of her new big girl bed yet.... maybe soon. Anyways, she LOVES hanging out underneath it. It is suppose to have a trendle under it, but it's under my bed instead. There wasn't enough room in the girls room to fit it.

Eventually we will be able to move out of our tiny house, but for now we are trying to be creative with the little space we have. I think Bryn (our dog) has a new hide out :)

My Tiny Dancer

Lilly is taking a 4 week ballet class and she loves it! Unfortunately, it's in the evening so I don't get to take her, but Mike and Emma take her. They had a make-up class on Friday and I got to see my tiny dancer in action. :) It was so fun and I think Lilly's the prettiest ballerina in her class. I know it's just a short 4 week class, but I could not resist getting her the leotard and ballet skirt. I think most of the other Moms felt the same way.

Lilly is always at the front of the class, mainly so she can look at herself in the mirror :)
The last class is next week, I'm sad that it's ending. I am seriously thinking about signing her up for ballet lessons this summer. This has been a good trial run to see if dance is something Lilly would enjoy. I am also looking forward to this stage of Lilly's life.

The bunny won :)

I finally have resorted to the baby head tourniquets (as Mike calls them). Little Emma still has very sparse hair, but I really want to dress her from head to toe. I really need to make it to the Quilted Bear and buy a few more girly headbands.

This was Emma's first Easter, so of course I dressed her up :) I think this picture is so cute, Emma was soooooo tired and I wanted to snap a few photo's before heading off to work. :) Lilly flat out refused to get all dressed up, especially since we weren't going to visit anyone. So I just had Emma to play doll with :)

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Happy Easter!

The artists at work :) Just dunking the eggs in the color wasn't enough for these two creative souls, so we busted out the paintbrushes and that seemed to do the trick.

Lilly Easter morning before we made our traditional Easter breakfast, creamed eggs on toast. This year I made it with whole wheat flour and it tasted almost the same, healthy...

Lilly was so much fun this year! We hid Easter eggs around the house and the baskets, Lilly had a total blast finding everything and was sooooooooo excited that the bunny brought her an etch-a-sketch.Emma loves her basket too! She got a book, and a couple of new rattles.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter, ours was a lot of fun. I am so grateful for the Saviors atonement so that I can be forgiven for my faults and mistakes. I do feel Heavenly Fathers love every day and it gives me strength, courage and hope. I am thankful for the restoration of the gospel so my family can be together forever!