Shes Growing Up SOOOO FAST!

So we were sitting in the computer room the other day WITH the door closed when ALL of a sudden we lost Emma! Somehow she figured out how to open a DOOR!!! We just HAD to see this in action so this is Emma now opening doors AND giving us her ADORABLE "CHEEEESE" face!

She tends to "enjoy" Daddy's office and "tries" to work so we couldnt really get her to do other tricks! Stay tuned though! We have an AMAZING dancer on our hands!

'Tis the Season!!

We are SO excited for the upcoming football season!!

GO UTES!!!

it's gonna be GREAT

Emma and the Ducks

So ... if you havent heard through the grapevine yet I was recently layed off work. This seems to be both a blessing and a trial but so far things have worked out well for us.

I am working on my own businesses at home which allows us a bit more flexibility with how we spend our time :). So ... in the spirit of keeping it fun and cheap we though it would be a fun idea to take Emma to "Stanley Park" and feed the ducks!

She is easily the most adorable girl in the world but apparently feeding ducks isnt as easy as we thought it would be!

This Post is Rated PG-13

So ... I have been to Manchester quite a few times now and every time I pass this certain "car wash" it cracks me up.

My wife will attest ... my mind is generally in the gutter so I apologize in advance for this PG-13 post :).

Stanley Park, Water Park!

Another SUPER FUN AND EXCITING thing we did while my family was in town is...we went to the Stanley Park water park! We finally got a nice warm sunny day and thus we headed down to play in the water!

Bryce, Sam and Ellie were off in their own little workd so I didn't get any pictures of them...but they had a GREAT time!

Here is Emma just wondering what you guys are doin??

Grandma Bartlett can be SO mean...she thought it would be fun to make Emma run through all the water, and Emma just didn't see it coming! It was pretty funny though. The poor girl kept turning to try and escape the "rain" but wherever she turned she just kept getting wet! If I could have only gotten a picture of her face... it was like "what the heck, how do I get out of here"

seriously Grandma...

OK, OK it wasn't THAT bad!!

yup, there it is, that is pretty much the face of a one year old wondering what her Grandma just put her through

now she is starting to get used to the water...it actually was pretty cold water. She was a trooper and just LOVED the fact that she could literally run ANYWHERE!

The last fun thing we did is go to Lynn Canyon. Unfortunately the suspension bridge was closed!!! It was to re-open...are you ready for this...the day after we were there!! TYPICAL!! That was also the day my family was leaving!! (sniff sniff) So we didn't get to go across it. We could, however, hike down the Baden Powell trail to where the river was.

My hubby being the INSANE man that he is thought it would be fun to take a swim in the EXTREMELY cold water. Those would be the ONLY pictures I got that day. And I know that if I even dare post them for you all, I would be in A LOT of trouble! I love him too much to do that to him!! Sorry everyone, I know you wanted to see my SEXY hubby in his swimming suit, but he is FOR MY EYES ONLY!!

*I could send them via email if anyone wants to see!! HAHAHAHA*

Shannon Falls

On our way back to Vancouver from Whistler we stopped to see Shannon Falls! It was SO pretty!

Love, LOVE, LOVE this picture!

An attempt to get all the kids together...can you tell which child is NOT cooperating!?!? (suprise suprise)

The rest of the group headed up to get a "closer" look at the falls. By this time, Emma had had it! So we went back down and played on the grass and waited. My parents came back with me too! So these picts are her just playing!

she fell once, and I didn't want her to cry so I fell and started laughing...then it was a game and she just kept falling on purpose and then laughing!

look what I found....

yummm

Whistler, BC

While my family was in town we decided to take a day and go up to Whistlerr! The drive up to Whistler is probably one of the most spectacular drives you will EVER take! They call it "The Sea to Sky Highway" and really, that is pretty much what it was. They unfortunately do NOT have any "viewpoints" on the way up where you actually just look out onto the ocean...so you'll have to just take my word on this one! :o)

So Whistler will be the home of the Olympic Village for the 2010 Winter Olympics!! SO EXCITING!! It was so much fun to go up and see a lot of what I saw in Utah during the 2002 games!! I never thought I would be living in a city that would be hosting the Olympics again, but here I am and I am pretty excited!! It's SO close!

Here is Emma with her 2 grandpas...such a great picture! With one grandpa in the Czech Republic and one in Utah, its very rare when we get to have them both around at the same time!! Couldn't pass up this great picture!

Emma just pushing the strollers around, she was great as long as we weren't pushing her...she just HAD to walk.

Ahhhh, the infamous podium shot!! Just as I remembered it!

And then the bobsled!

Can you see Emma?

And this is what you get when you have to disturb Emma from her wonderful walk in Whistler to get a photo of her and grandpa by the great canadian moose dressed as an RCMP.

my dad at the base of Whislter mountain...it's a bike park right now!

Myself with my father-in-law, this is one of the viewpoints we stopped at on the way down to Vancouver. This is on the "sea to sky highway" (just a little glimpse of the gorgeous drive, just not of the gorgeous ocean)