Sunday, May 30, 2010

Fun around the House!

We were so blessed to have Dan, Kaye, and Kelsey be able to be here and spend some time with us to help the transition! Dan was only able to stay a couple of days after we got here and unloaded and then headed back to Utah but we were able to have Kaye and Kels stay with us for two weeks!! And we loved every minute!! Thank you guys for everything and spending the countless hours helping us and playing with us! So the next many posts are of all the fun we had with them here!!
This was the first night enjoying the nice weather and relaxing after their long few days of driving!



Dan and Andrew getting all the "man" stuff figured out!

Emma relaxing under the table while we work around her! Yes and if you look close do you see those beautiful flowers????? They are one of my favorite things about the house!!

My little helper!

Emma watching Nemo on the Ipod! She decided she wanted to use it, even though we had it for the flight and didn't need it so now she thinks it's fun to sit and watch it instead of the tv;)

Kels and Ems! Ems didn't leave poor Kelsey alone the whole time she was here...lots of gotch you, chase me, "KELS" and by the end yelling "KELSEY" for her to come and find and chase her, and piggy back rides! Thanks Kels and Nana for all the fun laughs and entertainment of the little lady!

Emma likes to sit by the door in this little window, and of course taste the shoes! I don't know if she is ever going to grow out of tasting everything!!!!

'Her' cupboard!

My little mini me chef helping me learn how to make rolls with my new Bosch from Dan and Kaye! Thank you guys...I love it!! There are those flowers again that I love;)))

I didn't realize that Emma loves apples so much! Kaye gave her one and she ate it down to almost nothing!!

Another little hiding place Emma likes in the kitchen and more of the beautiful flowers!!

Emma is loving having a yard and being able to be outside and help daddy even though the grass is thick and not very soft;( she doesn't care!! I think it's only me that wishes for soft grass to lay on...however I am not sure I would still lay on it, who knows what critters crawl around in it! I have to walk on it with shoes cause it creeps me out!

Her tree she likes to play in! Another place that I just shutter thinking of what new spiders live by it!

Relaxing after running around crazy!


This is one of Emma's little lizard friends that comes and visits her EVERY night when she takes her bath! She LOVES it! She constantly is pointing at the window and saying "lrds" "lrds go?"

She loves being under these tables and is enjoying lots of space for her toys only!

Fun surprise for Emma! We got this little blow up pool for her so she can keep herself cool out in the heat! She thought it was pretty cool to play in in the house but even better outside!!
Now about the flowers that I love....well truth is I really don't love them! At the moment I am tolerating them but really they are a little overwhelming and WAY to busy for me but for the time being they are here! They were even in my cupboards!! Yes flower power! However I have found that I can remove them so I am currently in process of taking them out and I am soooo happy!! Doesn't it just make you feel better without them??? Does me!! But in all reality I do love having a bigger kitchen with lots of cupboards and counter space!


KeMah BoArDwAlK


We decide to check out the Kemah Boardwalk one day, which was cute and fun! Emma will love it even more when she gets a little bigger so she can ride all of the rides there! We can already tell she is going to be a roller coaster junkie!!
We walked around everything and checked out a few of the shops and let Emma play in the water to cool her off!


At one point I thought she was going to get ran over by all the big kids but she held her own;)

Afterwards we stopped at a local BBQ place and had lunch! Wow I agree Texans know how to BBQ...yummy yummy!

The Zoo!

The Houston Zoo is huge and was a lot of fun to go and see! Kaye, Kels, Ems, and I headed out and were pleasantly surprised to have lots of cover as we walked around so the heat was not too bad, we were extremely happy;) Emma of course loved seeing all the animals and was super good!



Emma loved being able to go and pet all of the goats. The goats were amazing and just let all of the million kids sit around and play with them!

Feeding the fish!

These Lions were huge but lazy! Not nearly as fun to watch as the white tiger at the Aquarium!

Check out the horns on these guys!!

A grizzly bear sleeping.

Emma loves Elephants, so this is her first time seeing real ones! She was a little warm..rosy cheeks, sweaty hair!

Now this little guy was adorable! He was only one day old!!! Still had his baby hair, and was a little wobbly on the legs! We couldn't get enough of how cute he was!!




They are building a whole new African area in the Zoo that is going to be massive so these guys are getting a new home built!

A super fun day for all of us girls!! Thanks Kels for going and enduring the heat..thank goodness it wasn't too bad;)

Ocean fun;)

We were able to go to the Beach twice while Kaye and Kels were here visiting us and we sure did have fun, doesn't this face just show it?!! Emma absolutely LOVES the water! She would stay in it all day if we let her!





Andrew finally lured Emma out of the water to come and check out his castle he built for her! She had fun playing in it, throwing sand, and finally demolishing it!

Kaye, Kels, and Ems jumping the waves, laughing, and having a great time!



This poor bird only had one leg!!!



I could definitely spend lots of time here, who couldn't with the joy it brings to this little lady!! I couldn't get the pics to work of the second day we went but the waves where way bigger and we took a float tube for Emma and she loved sitting in it to ride the waves, so fun!! We also saw a dolphin jumping right in front of us! Andrew yelled out "Look a dolphin" I look up and see nothing as say "Quit lying;)" and as I do I see it jump again, way awesome probably only 30 feet from us!! We love the Beach, if I can't have my mountains at least I have the beach!!!