NEVER TOO MUCH RED!!!

I was SO excited when I found out the the University of Utah home opener football game was going to happen while I was in town! GO UTES!! I found out my parents had an extra ticket, so Emma and I got to go!! Well, you CANNOT go the a football game without the appropriate attire!!! So I headed up to the U of U bookstore to get Emma and I ready for the game! Here is how it all came out...you really can never have TOO much red! Man, Emma was SO adorable...everyone just loved her. If only Emma LOVED the game, with all the loud noise she wasn't a very happy camper. She was super tired from the previous night of being out so late, and didn't get very much sleep. She ended up falling asleep at the game and stayed alseep as long as I was holding her ears to drown out the noise. All in all she did pretty well, and we had a GREAT time. OH AND OF COURSE THE UTES SLAUGHTERED UNLV!!!

GO UTES!!

Here is Emma, she just got ready for the day!

Here she is with Grandpa's Utah blanket...like I said-never too much red!

In the car, just got her wicked tatoo!! (SO SUPER CUTE)

Mom and Emma at the big game

totally tuckered out, so exhausted!

Utah State Fair

On Friday Emma and I went to the State Fair!! There is nothing like a good ole fair, with the good ole fair food!! We had SO much fun!! We went with my brother and his family!! We ate, we played, we saw the cows, pigs, sheep and pigeons (yes I did say pigeons???) and just had fun! Emma LOVED the bright lights from the rides, she just couldn't stop looking at them! I didn't get a whole lot of pictures, really hardly any at all...but here we are as "bushels of apples"!

Wika Down Under! Sydney

So ... last week Melboune this week Sydney! The good news is its only 6 days till I get to go back to be with my girls! WOOHOO!

Sydney is incredible! From the hotel (which is REALLY nice) I have a great view of the bridge and am 3 minutes walk to the bridge and the opera house! While we went down to check them out we heard a didgeridoo player jamming to a techno beat. Thats where I got the photo op below! We bought the CD but apparently a friend of mine says its kinda creepy and not nearly as cool as listening to it in person!



This is me with the famous opera house behind me.

And of course the bridge (which I hope I have time to climb!)

After the opera house we traveled almost 2 hours to a wild life sanctuary where you can interact with the aminals (tee hee ... I said aminals). Above is my pet Koala ... its sleeping.

I also got to feed kangaroos! There was some seriously cool stuff here but I will have to post more pics on facebook as posting pics on Blogger gets kinda tedious!

All in all I wish Emma and Aly could have been here to do this with me! I sure miss them ...

Wika Down Under! Melbourne

So ... as most know I am currently away from my family which is brutal hard. This is especially true since it will be for the longest trip away from my family ... 2 weeks!

BUT ... I AM down under in Australia so I wanted to see what I could ... this would have been AMAZING with Aly and Emma so we will absolutely be returning at some point!

I spent my 1st week in Melbourne. Its an interesting city but we got to see most of the sites within a day. Our hotel was in a great location. The highlight of this city was we got to watch a game of "footy". Australian "football" is a mix of ... soccer, basketball, rugby, and football all rolled into one!

This is me with the Melbourne skyline in the background. The building to the left of me is a huge railway station which was kinda cool. Just outside of this picture on the other side of the bridge was a really neat open air market full of art stuff. I got Emma a present from there :).



This is me going to the big game! It was St Kilba Saints vs the Essendon Bombers! (St Kilba KILLED them).

This is part of the game ... played in a circular field. On the far end of the field you can see 4 posts. If you scored through the middle two it was worth 6 points and you started again in the middle of the field. If you scored through the other goals to the sides it was 1 point and the team had to start from their end of the field. It's actually a very fast paced game and was a lot of fun to watch if the other team would have been better.

The only other thing to note here was rather than the typical hot dog they sell "meat" pies. I say "meat" in quotes since I am not sure there was actually meat in it and it was hardly edible!

She DID it!!

Our little Emma, not even 4 months old has figured out how to roll over!! Well at least from her back to her tummy!! It's just so darn cute to watch...she starts trying and if it gets too hard she takes a break by sucking her thumb! (you won't see that in this video...but I promise, she does it)

Unfortunately daddy wasn't here in person to watch it, but THANK HEAVENS for webcams; he was able to see her do it over the world wide web!!! We LOVE and MISS you dearly...hurry home!



This is her just after she had rolled...I was a pretty proud MAMA!!



This is her with Auntie EM...she was proud also, but not as proud as I was!! :)

Swiss Days, and good ole corn!

Well, if you don't already know Emma and I are in SLC!! We really wanted to go be with Wika (daddy) in Australia, but thanks to the great IMC for taking FOREVER in purchasing the tickets...that they were TOO expensive. So I decided to come home for a little bit. My mom asked if I wanted to go up to Swiss Days with her, my dad, and Andrea; I had NEVER heard of Swiss Days and was a little skeptical at first but decided to go. And it was AWESOME!! It was like a glorified Quilted Bear...so great! It was a really good thing I flew here, and can only take so much stuff back with me. Otherwise I could have spent quite a bit of money!! It was So much fun, we had a great time. Thanks MOM for the great idea!!

After we had finished doing all the wonderful shopping we went to Camper World were our dear friends Jay and Wynn have their RV parked, and had a WONDERFUL meal. Emma was starting to get tired and a little fussy, and thats when someone suggested we let her suck on the "cob" of the corn. SHE LOVED IT!! Although, the next day was a little hard on her, we think it was the salt and butter that was left on the cob. Sorry baby girl, I hope you loved THAT much to make all the discomfort worth it!!

So far things here are GREAT...we just really MISS Wika and Daddy!! We can't wait for him to join us!! One more week...WOOHOO!! Enjoy some pictures!!