Update Mania!

So, first story of the day... Emma stares at the lights when they are not even turned on! We'll leave her laying in the middle of the floor by herself and suddenly we hear her just giggling her head off and we come in and she's just smiling and cooing and laughing at the light that's not turned on... so the mystery is... was there really somebody there? Like a great-grandparent or friend from Heaven come to visit? I really wonder... anyways, just a thought to chew on.

*Logan and Blake. And Logan is doing one of his favorite things. Making a four-year-plan... for Blake. He can't make one for himself anymore because it's decided for him what he'll take... so he has to do it for other people.... cuz he REALLY enjoys it. He's done it for a lot of his friends. But it was fun for us to have Blake over for a few hours today.*

*So just this last week Emma has started grabbing things. It's SOOOO fun to watch! And it's amazing how it just happened overnight. So we bought her some rings to grab at, she likes them but they also frustrate her after playing with them for a while :) We also bought her a walker for pretty cheap! She can't really walk in it yet (her feet don't yet touch the floor) but she likes to be upright so she doesn't mind being in it for a while. We also bought her a mobile at a garage sale for a couple of bucks. It's been fun to find deals :) Also, our good friends the Johanson's sold us their old high chair for 25... cents! We love it :)*

*Frisbee golf! Logan and our good friend, Jon Clark, go a lot. They really enjoy it and I usually hang out with Emma (cuz I'm no good at Frisbee golf...). This is the new little place they have set up at McCowin Park, it's really nice!

*Emma on the day I found out she was starting to grab stuff. She grabbed her little caterpillar friend on the way to the park and then it was the blanket :)*

*And TADA!!! It's my new haircut! I haven't had it this short since I was like 5 (and in the pic it was my first time styling it... so it doesn't look the best, but it looks okay).*

*In this picture and the next this was Dad putting Emma to bed. She was wide awake and had about 20 blankets (ok... like 8) blankets piled on her.... I was like... uhhhh I don't think that's going to work... it didn't... but that's ok. Actually right this very minute Logan is working on putting her to sleep. I've been trying to teach him how, but he likes to play with her too much :)*

*Can you see that bruise? It got even worse at one point! On memorial day we played soccer with our good friends the Pages, and Logan got kicked with somebody's knee! It hurt him quite a bit... and at first it was swollen almost to a golf ball size and we were afraid it was broken or something... but it's okay now! Along with the exercising thought, we'll bring up Logan's new hobby: biking! He LOVES it. Him and my dad go biking up the hills behind Ammon/Idaho Falls almost every day. It's great exercise for them and they love it. He's been looking at getting himself a really nice roadbike. He loves roadbikes because they go FAST. Anyways, he and my dad have been going on 20 mile bike rides... UP and DOWN hills! I could never do what they've been doing! Hard work! So last week... on Friday they headed out with my brother-in-law Eric, and got all the way up to the Dump, and it started hailing and the wind was blowing with gusts up to 50 mph! They said that they were dodging huge things of flying sagebrush and said it was pretty scary! So my mom and I got worried and packed Emma into the car and went to rescue them! Good thing we did too, cuz they called us a few minutes later and were begging us to come get them! :) It was freezing, and I think all of the stress got Emma all worked up and she screamed the WHOLE way home! Anyways, in spite of that, they still love to bike and plan to go on many more bike rides.*

*WOW! Mike is actually hanging out with Emma! He can make her laugh ALMOST as much as Dad can :)*