Happy Birthday Emmy

Happy Birthday Princess, Grandma Brenchley made this adorable lady bug birthday cake, because I called her on my lunch break (I ended up having to work all day on Emmy's birthday), upset because I couldn't find a cake decorator to do a "Tinkerbell" birthday cake in the short amount of time that I had, since I had procrastinated.

It was my fault to begin with, I was going to order the cake the day before, of course the cake decorators come in in the mornings to make their orders, and then go home by lunchtime. Well the day before I got so busy, I didn't want to call because I wanted to go look in their cake book first. Any way I never made it to the bakery.
I felt so bad I actually started crying in all my frustration to find a cake, because I felt like such a bad mom. I know she is only turning 1, and she'll never remember, but I had made such a big deal of Brody's 1st birthday, and I felt I wasn't giving her the same. (2nd child syndrome!)
So I am never going to work on my kid's birthday again, I am going to always take it off, and get things ordered and prepared the day before!! It ended up working out so cute. My 'Tinkerbell' theme birthday party was a hit, because the Ladybug cake matched perfectly, because there are ladybugs in the new Tinkerbell movie which she got for her birthday, so everything blended well.
Of course she didn't dig in right off, it took her awhile to check it out and decide what to do, but after a few tastes she was all over that business and stuffed her face!! I had to give her a quick bath before she opened all the presents! it's been almost three weeks now and her balloons are stilling floating, I can't believe it!

HULK MAN

Here's Brody we let him start watching the "Incredible Hulk" the new one that came out with Liv Tyler, well it started to get a little scary so we decided to watch the rest after he went to sleep!! He remembered what he'd seen and pretends he is the Hulk now!!

Fancy little splits!! His two older cousins, Annie and Lexi, taught him ballet, it is so funny he'll hold onto the couch and lean forward and kick his legs up trying to do ballet moves!! I think the splits are probably his fanciest move so far! He's got "awesome skills"!!

Here is our sleepy little "belle of the ball!!" she is just so pretty and I love her so much, I am so thankful for my little princess, I think everyone needs to have a girl and boy!! they are both so different and so much fun!! I am just so thankful that I can experience them both!!
Here is Emmy again, she is not quite a year in this picture!! just crawling as you can see!

Here is my little Dork!! He found these upstairs in all our storage stuff, and puts the snorkel piece in his mouth. I ended up having to put one of those child locks that go around the whole door knob so he'd stop going upstairs!!

Happy Halloween

Halloween 2008

Well Halloween was really fun, we did the "trunk or treat" at our church parking lot, and let me tell you, whoever thought that up is a master-mind!! It was so quick, Brodyn got a load of 'teeth-rotting' candy, and he loved it!!

Here is our 'little cowboy', His costume was a riding horse that had suspenders, I thought he'd love it because Grandma Brenchley has one and when we are there he has me put it on and off, then on and off again! This costume he just tolerated! After I bought this costume at Walmart, Brody kept saying he wanted to be a rhino for Halloween, (he's obsessed with rhinos) a rhino costume is not easy to find, so needless to say he stayed a cowboy!



Emmy was a little stinker!! she was so cute, and the best thing about her costume is, I got it last year on sale at the children's place for $4.00. She definitely was one of the cutest skunks on Halloween night!!

COWBOYS

Brody with his dad, look how big his Halloween bag is!! Believe it or not that little horse was small enough that it fit perfect on him and he was able to walk so easily. We are at the trunk or treat in this picture. Later Dan took him house to house around our block!!










Emmy Le'Pue

I have no idea how you spell that in french!! Anyway here is our little stinker again, and boy is she ever a little stinker! I can't believe she left the costume on without tearing the hat off!! Melissa let us use those cute black striped tights to complete the ensemble!



"Thatcher Stinkers!"

Here is Emmy with her cousin Abby, they were both little skunks, they are only 2 1/2 months apart, they are going to be best friends. They are both mommy babies, or what my sister-in-law calls "Velcro Babies"!

Welcome to the Family Athos and Theo!!

I know...I know, everyone is
Thinking..."Marsha got cats!!", Well let me tell you the story! I was walking into the laundry room two nights ago, and from the corner of my eye, I see a flash of brown run under the baskets in the mud room. You guessed it, yet another mouse, we live around fields, and we have had the worst luck with mice. So the very next day, Dan brings home two ultra mouse traps, the type that is like a box and they run into it, and then some ultra huge sticky pads!
Well that was great and all...but I brought home two mouse hunters...look at those two fierce, ferocious wild beasts!! Well Brodyn adores them, sissy just coos at them and claps her hands. We bathed them today so they are ready to be apart of the family!! (they are garage cats...by the way!!) I'm hoping they catch the mice before they make it inside!!

Grandpa Gibson Turned 99 Years Old!

We went to Idaho to celebrate Grandpa Gibson's
99Th Birthday party. It was so much fun and of course Grandpa was just as fun as ever!

It was so much fun to see everyone, and just enjoy Grandpa for the day. We love him so much. I've only known him for 8yrs now, but he is definitely my grandpa too!! Grandpa is such an amazing man, he has this amazing memory, Dan always jokes that grandpa remembers more than he can!! He tells the best stories, which is the best part about going up to visit Grandpa Gibson!!

We spent the afternoon, singing Happy Birthday and eating birthday cake. The kid's love to play at Aunt Jill's house. This is Brodyn sliding down the slide, he thinks he is so big that he can do it all by himself; well almost all by himself, Dad had to lift him up, his little legs can't climb the ladder all the way to the top!

Here we are sitting next to Grandpa! He was getting so cold, he had sat there, and of course everyone wanted pictures with him! Kamian and her little sister, and Angie and Cindy took pictures with him and then turned and both gave him kisses on both cheeks! His face was so cute he was just a grinning!

Brodyn wouldn't give us a good smile! We had a hard enough time just tracking him down to sit for a picture, and Emmy is just looking at him being silly.



Here's Emmy at Aunt Jill's house, she is so tired. She had such a busy day! look at those sleepy blue eyes, believe it or not she actually kept that brown ribbon around her head the whole time. It was actually pretty chilly there, I am so glad we brought jackets, we probably should have brought coats and of course I didn't bring a blanket.






I think this is Grandpa's 4-wheeler or maybe it is Aunt Jill's, anyway it was parked on the grass where everyone was playing and Brody found it and played on it forever! At first I didn't know where he had gone and just like a guy...he found a "big-boy toy!!"








Here's Emmy again, with Dad, she loves daddy, she is just chilling out in the cool weather with him. I got her to sorta smile, even though she was getting tired!

The yard is almost done!

We've almost finished the yard, what a nightmare. Well I guess I shouldn't say we, but Dan!! He's done everything himself. I did help him pour curbing though. This is just out the sliding glass door from the kitchen. That's our garden!









Here's Brodyn, on the front pathway. It is coming from the park strip in front of the house.












Here is our house. We will have been in it 2yrs This Christmas. We have enjoyed it so far, Dan loves it, he built it all himself, he is so talented I can't believe it! I love it other than the hordes of mosquito's we get in the summer.

IT'S GETTING COLD!

Emmy and Brodyn, we'd just been outside on a stroller ride, and I couldn't believe how cool it is getting.













Brodyn, crawling around with his little sister!













Emmy chowing down on her animal crackers, cookie crumbs all over her face. Her hair is coming in, but she is still "Miss Fuzz-Head!"












Here are my little
"Thatcher Monster's"
again! Bundled up ready for fall!

"Summer is Over!"

The Pool has closed for the summer, we are so sad. We tried to go once a week, during the summer, but right toward the end with that cold weather over labor day weekend we put in as many days in a row as we could. I knew winter would be on our toes soon and Brody and Emmy would be inside for most of it. So we were soaking up as much sun as we could!
Here is Emmy with Jeannine, she was getting so tired and sun worn that she took a break with bean under some shade reading twilight!! She loved the pool, she won't keep her little hat on though, I should have gotten one that snapped under her chin, but we kept sunblock on her and she didn't get one sunburn!!
I put Brodyn in a waterbabies class. It lasted 2 weeks and we went everyday. It was such a blast I can't wait to put Emmy in it next summer, while Brodyn gets to be in the preschool age swim class. Waterbabies was fun because I got to get in with him and learn safety with kids in the pool. Brody learned how to blow bubbles in the water, dunk his head, jump in, and my favorite is, hold his breath under water. Before the waterbabies class he was a little unbalanced in the water, but after he was doing the crocodile crawl, bunny hops, dunking his head, holding his breath. Now he is a fish in the water, or rather a "shark" that's what he calls himself.

This picture is of him counting to three with his fingers before he jumped to dad in the water! he says "one...free. two...free....jump!!"

The funniest thing is that he'll belly flop into the water and stay submerged because he's holding his breath but it looks like he's drowning. Other mothers in the pool would look over at him and think he was drowning, one mom actually reached down to pull him up, but of course he popped up before she needed to save him. I was always right by him too. I'm such a worry wart!!

Emmy Grace

"Princess n' the Pea!!"

This is our little "princess and the Pea!!" That is what I call her all the time, because she is the definition of Drama!
The funny thing is, is that I love how dramatic she is. I know it is just because she is a girl! She is so funny, if anything is going on around her she has to be apart of it. Whether she is exhausted or not. She's looking around just being in "every one's business!"




"Playing at the Park"

We call her sissy sue sue, or Emmy Gracy Sue Sue, just a dorky nickname I came up with! When Dan heard it he said, "You call our daughter...Sue?" He wasn't too happy about that one!
Here she is giving me her silly face.







"Swinging"

We doubled them up, Eliza and Emmy, but we couldn't get both their cute faces. Emmy loves the swing, she just giggles and giggles, she is such a happy baby!

From the time she was 2 months she pretty much slept through the night, but right now she gets up in the middle of the night and wants a bottle, but at least she'll go right back to sleep.










"On the Prowl!"

Emmy is 10months on September 14th! She started crawling at 8months, and she is already pulling herself up on things. Yesterday I was sitting down and she crawled over to me and pulled herself up on me all the way to a stand. I hope she figures out walking before she turns 1yr. She's two months ahead of what Brodyn did. He crawled at 10 months and walked at 13 months.

Brodyn...terrible two's?

"Dennis the Menace"


Doesn't that look, just look like he's just about to do something he shouldn't! He was actually moving around quite a bit so that is why it is a little fuzzy!

When he is getting into all sorts of trouble I call him Dennis...he is such a little rascal. What 2yr old isn't though!











"GIDDY-UP"


Horse back riding with dad is one of his favorite things to do, and riding on dad's motorcycle!

Dan said that he kept saying "Run, Run...Blue", that is the name of that fancy mustang you see right there!

At the fair this summer, Brodyn got to ride a little pony, because our ward was doing pony rides, he loved it and didn't want to get off, I think we need to get him a little pony!


"Grandma's House"!!

My mom runs a daycare, so it is pretty much heaven for Brody with all the toys and outside stuff to do, he loves the sand. I hate sand it gets everywhere, so it is a good thing grandma's got the world's biggest sandbox, that way I don't have to have it at my house!








"Vroom!"


Brodyn playing in one of grandma's cars. Look in the background see how many toys, it is the best place for kids! We love both grandma's houses, especially this summer since all we have is dirt. It was nice to go and play on grass!!







"Hoouge-ISH"!!


This was actually in the spring, but he is telling me his fish story. He got to go fishing with dad up around Sid's pond, which is just up the street from us. They caught a big rainbow trout, that somehow swam into the pond. I asked Brodyn how big it was, and he spread his hands out like this and said "hoouge ish"...translation, "huge fish!!"

MOAB TRIP

LET'S RIDE!

Dan was able to go to Moab this summer as well. He went with his brothers and Dad and a few friends. They biked the White Rim trail.

The trail is 100miles and they did it in 2 days! 50 miles the first day and 50 miles the second day!






These are some of the caverns they went through.

The trail is pretty popular, you have to get reservations to stay at the camp sites. I guess you have to reserve them a year in advance.

Dan's dad has this ghetto Winnebago (driving RV) and all of them just piled in it and drove down there. Then his dad followed them while they biked.






You would think it would be warm in Moab, but it rained the entire trip, Dan said it got pretty dang cold. I think the last day they got a little sun!

We were glad to finally get him home though, I hate sleeping alone in a dark house at nights, I just get both kids in my bed and lock all the doors, I'm such a sissy!

Dan's Alaska Trip

Alaska Trip!

Dan was so lucky this summer, he was able to fly to Alaska and do some salmon fishing with his buddies.

He was gone for a few days, one of which was my birthday. That was a little bit of a bummer but I got over that pretty fast when I saw how much salmon he brought home with him!

Dan said there were black bears all over the place, just waiting to steal a fish or two. One bear in particular came down to where one fisherman had a pile of freshly caught fish and one he'd been filleting. the bear chased him off and stole the fish the man had been filleting...smart bear!!

This picture was taken from the back porch of the small cabin they were staying in, only about 50ft from them. The eagle's are my favorite pictures. I think they are such awesome animals, they are such big birds!

Dan had so much fun, he wants to do it every year!

Thatcher Kids

Love's his horses

We just joined the book club, and I got Brodyn these little horse books, and they came with a stable and four little horses. Here he is now mauling them! He won't put them down.

Getting Ready for Church

This is Emmy "Gracey-sue", ready for church, She does the best gummy smiles, they are so funny!