Fun Stuff!

I need to blog more so I can show off my cute girls and Man :) Here are a few fun pictures from this month.
Now that Emma has mastered crawling she is trying to climb.... Mike screwed the toy shelf into the wall on Saturday just in time.
Emma wants to do EVERYTHING Lilly does, it's so cute. Lilly doesn't mind too much either.
Mike gave Lilly a manicure and pedicure..... Don't you love the purple smiley faces :) To make it a little manly Mike used a BBQ wood stick thingy.and Lilly gave Mike a pedicure the other day :) He is such a fun Daddio :) Lilly really likes to help feed Emma, so when she asks I usually let her. She is an amazing big sister and Emma is a very fun little chick :)

Emma Started Crawling Today!!!

Lilly and Mike caught Emma crawling on video just a few minutes ago...Now Lilly is leading her around the living room, and Emma is following. Time to really baby proof our home.

Emma is 11 months old!

Wow, I really can't believe how fast this year has gone by... Emma is a mama's girl and I love it :) She has a funny quirky sense of humor. She is a pretty serious soul and loves to watch other children play. Her favorite is still Lilly and will always have a smile for Lilly even when she really, really doesn't want to smile.
I just love her tiny feet :)

Emma has mastered waving hello and goodbye. She sounds like she is saying hello when she waves too, it's very cute :)
It's hard to believe when we brought her home she didn't have ANY eye lashes, now look at those beauties... so pretty. These pumpkins are from our garden, we have three more too! Emma thinks they are pretty cool too. Emma gives kisses, even to pumpkins.

Hiking To Timpanogos Cave

Since I don't work on Fridays and Mike had the day off we decided to head up to Timpanogos Cave. The weather wasn't looking very good, but we decided to take a chance anyways and I am so glad that we did. It was PERFECT hiking weather, it made Mike and I really miss hiking in the PNW... Lilly hiked pretty much the entire trail up, which is pretty good since it's 1.5 miles of switch backs with an incline of over 1000 feet. Lilly was totally in her element of science at the cave, the ranger that gave us a tour LOVED Lilly and deemed her as her Junior Ranger and even let Lilly hold her flashlight a few times. Lilly got to lead the entire tour group, which consisted of our family and 3 other 'older' couples. The 'older couples' were charmed by Lilly as well. She was the star Junior Ranger of Timpanogos :) Mike carried Emma up the Mountain, and Lilly at times. He is such a hiker rock star dad :)
We kept Lilly on her leash, mainly because I have an extreme irrational fear of heights and falling from cliffs. I carried Emma down the mountain because Mike ended up having to give Lilly a piggy back on the way down, she was pooped.
Emma slept through half of the cave tour. Unfortunately, you can't bring framed backpacks into the cave due to some narrow passageways, so we had to leave the pack outside and Mike had to carry a sleepy, wiggly baby through narrow low passages in the cave. Again, rock star dad :)
Emma LOVES hiking and being outside, so does Lilly and the rest of us. We are going to get a season pass to the National Parks next year and hopefully use it like crazy.

Here's a video of Mike carrying Lilly and Emma down the mountain before I started packing Emma. I had to rescue Mike from going deaf and also having a heart attack :)