Clint Jordan Emmi and Easton

~September~

2011-09-21T13:37:00.000-07:00

Here is our September update...

~EMMI~

Emmi started preschool and LOVES it. She goes

everyday for half a day. It has been nice for her AND me!

She also started dance and loves that too.

She loves to color and draw and I find

pictures EVERYWHERE.

Yes...she STILL lives in a perpetual disney world and

STILL loves to dress-up. I have had

to take away the dress-ups so she will wear

normal clothes. She only gets them for quiet time.

She LOVES to sing and is usually belting out

a song at the top of her lungs most of

the day.

She also loves to help me out with Grady.

~EASTON~

Easton is definitely 2.

He is TOTAL boy and loves to do anything boyish.

And he is a little/lot naughty...but I can

laugh about it when he is in bed!

He CLIMBS on everything,

DUMPS out everything,

HITS everything,
and THROWS everything.

He has also decided that he loves being

NAKED. So he takes off his clothes ALL

the time. We have had to resort to

taping his diapers shut so I don't have to

clean up all the time.

He has started to go to the bathroom on the

toilet, but I just don't have to energy to

potty train him right now.

He also just figured out how to climb out of

his crib. So to the big boy bed he goes!!

His birthday is next week and can't believe

he isn't our youngest anymore!

~GRADY~

He is such a sweetheart! We love him

MORE and MORE each day. He is a fussier baby

than my other ones and LOVES to be held, so I have him strapped to me

MOST of the day. He is growing so big and

looks JUST like Clint. I guess the Duncan gene

is the more dominant one!

He is 6 weeks old and I fits right into

the family.

We SURE love him!

~CLINT~

Who is that??? Need I say more :)

~ME~

I am surviving having 3 kids and sure

have my hands FULL. But I am super

blessed to be able to stay at home.

I just cut my hair cause I needed a change

and that is about the most exciting thing

that has happened to me.

Enjoy the pictures!!

~Introducing~

2011-08-16T19:22:00.000-07:00

Grady Ryan Duncan

August 12,2011

5 lbs. 11 oz.

18 inches long

7:15 pm

He is here!! I can't believe my little man came 1 1/2 weeks early. It was definitely a surprise and very unexpected, but we are so glad he made it. For those of you who don't want to hear the story browse down to see the pictures. All others here is his story.

On Friday I went to the Doctor for my usual 38 week check up. when I got there the doctor measured me and was a little concerned because I had stopped growing. Then he listened to the heartbeat and got really concerned because it was really low. So he sent me to get a non-stress test done. While I was hooked up to the machine I had a couple of contractions and during those contractions the baby's heartbeat dropped dramatically. Dr. Parker got really worried so he sent me over to the hospital to get more extensive tests done. During all this I had contacted Clint to let him know what was going on and also let my babysitter know it was going to be a little bit longer. Clint met me at the office and took me over to the hospital.

After getting admitted and hooked up there they noticed the same thing my doctor did. That everytime I had a contraction his heart rate dropped. So they told me that they were going to keep me and induce me. I was super shocked because Clint was working and was supposed to be on-call ALL weekend, and the kids were with my sweet neighbor with only ONE diaper and no food, and my mom wasn't coming for another week. So I let Clint know (he had been seeing patients at the hospital and had been checking on me in between each one). Then I let my babysitter know and called my mom in a panic.

Everything happened really quick after that. They wheeled me into the room and started the pitocin. They were watching his heart rate like hawks and it kept dropping. So they stopped the pitocin for an hour and then started it again. After 5 mins back on the pit the baby's hearbeat had dropped twice so they brought in the attending who told me that there was no way the baby would tolerate a regular delivery so I had to get a c-section. By that point I was in tears because I didn't want to have a c-section, but it was his health at risk so of course! Clint had finished work and my mom had been able to switch her ticket to the next day so that put me at ease a little bit.

They took me to the OR at 7:00 that night and Grady was born at 7:15. I was so glad to hear that cry. He is SO beautiful. He had SO much hair and I couldn't believe how little he was. It had been such a stressful day, but as soon as they laid him on my chest and I got to kiss him, ALL my worries went away. I was so grateful to Heavenly Father that I had another beautiful, healthy baby. I was so happy that Clint was there by my side and that he was able to give me a few blessings through-out the day. Grady is such a blessing to our home and has been such an amazing baby. He sleeps a TON and eats every once and a while when he isn't sleeping. Emmi LOVES him and Easton isn't quite sure what to think yet. My recovery is definitely slower than my other births, but my mom has been Heaven sent. Thank you to all our family who sent love and prayers our way. They were definitely felt by us. We love everyone and hope you enjoy the pictures of our newest addition!

~8 Years~

2011-08-06T11:06:00.000-07:00

Clint and I were married 8 years

ago today. It is crazy to think it has been that

long. But while I was thinking, I was

able to come up with somethings

that have happened to us since we have been

married.

~We have 2 kids with one coming in 2 weeks!

~have lived in 3 different states

~have lived in 6 different houses

~had 5 different cars

~driven through 26 different states

~attended 4 different colleges

~earned 1 undergrad

~somehow earned 1 medical degree...(it might not be legit :))

~survived one year of residency...3 more to go!

~been to 20 different temples together

~have had 8 years of pure bliss... well maybe 4

years of bliss and 4 years of so-so...kidding!!

~looking forward to 70 more years together

I know Clint hates it when we talk all

lovey-dovey online, but I do

want to say how blessed I am

to be married to him. I love him

more now than I did the day

we got married...and I

was MADLY in love with

him then. He is the best hubby and father

anyone could ever have.

I love you Clint.

Happy Anniversary!

~Brown~

2011-06-03T12:37:00.000-07:00

The other day I was laying on my back and Emmi was feeling the baby kicking and we had one of the funniest conversations I have ever had...it went like this:

E: Mom...(very serious, sweet and innocent) is the baby in your tummy going to be brown or white?
M: (laughing) I'm pretty sure the baby is white.
E: Why?
M: (still laughing and wishing Clint was hearing this) Because mommy and daddy are both white.
E: Ohhh, me and Easty are white too!!
M: Yes you are.
E: Why?
M: Because me and daddy are white.
E: okay!! (very statisfied...to my relief)

It was so funny because she has never once mentioned anyone being a different color. I didn't even know that she had even noticed. But I guess maybe I should have because San Antonio is about 50% Latins and she has a few friends that are "brown". SOOOO funny and sweet.

~dentist~

2011-06-01T11:39:00.000-07:00

Emmi and Easton went to the

dentist for the first time

a couple days ago.

I am proud to say they

are cavity FREE and

that they both did a great job!!

I was really cute to see them

with their sunglasses on and

holding the spit sucker.

I happened to have my

camera so I documented it...

I think that is the first thing

I have documented!!

I have also included pictures
of them doing their FAVORITE

things...

Emmi's is building towers and

dressing up.

Easton's is playing with his cars.

He could do it all day

and he LOVES his Lightning McQueen

car and even takes it to

bed with him...

SO CUTE!!

I promise he was good...he just wanted Emmi's

jump rope that she just got.

He never cried when the dentist was there.

2011-05-17T09:51:00.000-07:00

It has been a while so I will

do a quick post of

what our May has been like.

We bought Sea World passes

(best money spent EVER)

Clint's 30th birthday...

SO old...

swimming

Texas heat

a broken a/c...broke

3 times...not so fun when

it is 90+ degrees outside

AND when you

are super big and pregnant...

sea world

gardening:

corn

beans

squash

zuccini..spelling...

radishes

watermelon

surviving without any rain

sea world

playing with friends

girls night out...a few times...

Easton went to nursery!!!!

Emmi gave her first talk

AND prayer in Primary

and did I mention

sea world...we go

there at least

once a week.

So far the beginning of

summer has been great

and we are really

excited for Clint to

finish his first year of residency

and begin Ophthalmology.

We're having a...

2011-05-11T09:30:00.000-07:00

So when we found out that I was pregnant again Clint was so sure that we weren't going to find out until it was born. But I can NOT handle that kind of a surprise. I have to be somewhat prepared. So when I went in to get the ultrasound...of course Clint couldn't be there because of work...I found out the sex, but then had to keep it a secret from Clint. So it lasted a few weeks but I slipped the other day and revealed to Clint that we are having another BOY!!! So we are adding to the boy Duncans and Bullocks and are so excited that East is going to have a brother so close in age to him. And I also must say that little kids have their own kind of intuition. Emmi has said from the beginning that it was a little brother and has NEVER changed her mind. I was so sure it was a girl but maybe next time I should listen to my kiddos!!

Emmi's 4!!!

2011-03-06T14:36:00.000-08:00

Emmi turned 4 yesterday!!

I can't believe she is that old.

We had a very fun day that

included:

pancakes for breakfast

opening presents...

a Tangled dress

a Book of Mormon

and a Tinkerbell puzzle

having 9...yes you heard right

9 girls over for a

PRINCESS PARTY...

what else right?

where we made:

bracelets

princess crowns

and painted our fingernails...

pizza

cupcakes

treats

and more treats!!

We had SO much fun and

are SO glad we have our Emmi.

She sure keeps us on our toes

and makes us laugh everyday

but we love her more than life itself!

Love you Emmi...

Happy Birthday!!

Three's Company

2011-02-21T14:44:00.000-08:00

Clint wanted me to post something so I am.

Surprise Clint...I am expecting our third baby in

AUGUST!!!!

There you go hunny...another post.

Lovies,

Your pregnant wife

Christmas

2011-01-02T15:59:00.001-08:00

I know these are a little late

but better late than

never right?

Christmas was fun and also

on the 23rd. Clint had to work a

36 hour shift on the real Christmas so

Santa visited early.

The kids had so much fun and it was

fun to see Emmi so excited.

We acted out the Nativity story and

opened jammies on Christmas Eve

and on Christmas day we opened presents

ate sticky buns

made lots of treats

went and saw Tangled...cutest movie ever

and had lots of fun together.

Emmi got a bike from Santa and

TONS of Princess dress-ups...she was in HEAVEN

Easton got a TON of cars...he was in HEAVEN.

We missed all of you and hope everyone had fun.

(Oh and we didn't have a ton of pictures

the camera ran out of batteries and

I was too lazy to go upstairs and

get them!)

Halloween

2010-11-06T13:16:00.000-07:00

Here our Halloween pictures

I know it is well past Halloween

but I needed to post them.

We got to spend Clint's week off in Utah.

We decided about a week before to go

so we drove 20 hours straight and had a BLAST!!

Here is the only picture I took while we where there.

All of the grandkids on the Duncan side except for Josh.

I also decided that I wanted to do a theme Halloween again.

Last year we were the Flinstones and this year

Clint was Captain Hook

I was Wendy...the oriental version

(If you look closely I am wearing a kimono...)

Emmi was Tinkerbell and LOVED it

and Easty was Peter Pan.

I do have to brag for one second.

I can't make a lot of things but I made these costumes

and I think I did a pretty good job.

They were SO cute and had so much fun at the

ward trunk-or-treat.

Of course my child is the crying one.

Wendy

Petey Pan

With the hat

Hook...scary hair!!

Tink

She is such a poser!

~Easton Turns One~

2010-09-28T17:43:00.000-07:00

I can't believe my baby is 1!!

It really seems like he was just born.

He is the sweetest little boy ever

and has such a fun personality.

He loves to

play with Emmi

snuggle

make huge messes

bite

make the funniest faces

books

Emmi

Mommy

Daddy

and playing outside.

He loves to eat

nuggets

cheese

crackers

and anything sweet.

He is our little sweetheart and

we love him more than life.

Happy Birthday Easy!!

Sharing with Emmi

Yes, Emmi is still wearing her princess outfit.

So excited

Just died!!

Emmi helping out

Just died...again

{daddy's day off and princesses}

2010-09-10T11:29:00.000-07:00

Clint got the day off today and were so excited!!

It doesn't happen very often so when it does

we feel like we should always do something

fun.

So today we went bowling

It was so fun!!

Clint and I haven't been bowling for years

and this was Emmi's first time.

Needless to say it was a blast.

I love having a husband home!!!

Emmi has also been in the

princess stage

were all she does is watch princess movies

and then acts them out.

So also only wears dress-ups.

I promise I try to do her hair

and I try to get her dressed in real clothes

everyday...but that is a fight I am willing to

lose!! This is her favorite outfit

that she wears everyday....stylish huh?!?!

she is dead here...like sleeping beauty

Easy's first time bowling

just died... he is so cute

go Clint...get your game on!!!

just died again... she is so cute

Picture overload....mostly for Clint!!

2010-08-13T19:45:00.000-07:00

So the kids and I have been in Utah for a couple weeks now
and we are missing Clint like crazy....
but he is missing us more
So he wanted me to post some pictures
So sorry for those of you who don't like pictures
but we are having a
~picture overload~

swimming and relaxing

all 12 of the grandkids

Emmi the future model

Em, Livy and Payton at Greggy's wedding

so so so so cute

my handsome baby with his new haircut

pre-haircut and chocolate chip cookie

me and my sister's whitney and lindsey...
and baby Jack

baby jack

in Denver at the zoo and splash park

Emmi and Livy

Summer Update

2010-07-26T08:03:00.000-07:00

We have been having a good time here in Texas. We have had a lot of fun moments and a couple of bad moments. We will start with the bad and get it out of the way. Clint started work this month and it has been the LONGEST month of our lives. It really has been pure hell. He is gone ALL the time. He leaves at 5:30 in the morning and doesn't get home until 6-7:00 at night. Then he is on call every fifth night. So the nights that he is on call he doesn't get home until 10-11:00 at night. Then it starts all over again. The poor kids don't get to see him for 48 hours when he is on call. It has been hard on EVERYONE. He has only had 4 days off this month and it has been so hard adjusting to this life and going to everything by myself. I'm sure there are people in our ward who think that I don't have a husband....or at least not an active one. The good news is that he only has one more week of this rotation and then it will get better...at least I am crossing my fingers that it will because this has been SO hard.

The next piece of bad news is Texas itself. Whoever thought living in a place that is hot, humid and that has GINORMOUS bugs, rattlesnakes, FLYING cockroaches, and scorpions was crazy. I have been going crazy with the amount of buggy awesomeness in this place. I also had a run-in with a scorpion the other day. I was cleaning the bathroom and I had just put cleaner in the bathtub and here come a scorpion out of the drain. I screamed SO loud and freaked out a little. Of course I was alone and had to catch AND kill it all by myself. I told Emmi that if it got out of the pitcher that I caught it in it would kill her and suck out her blood....needless to say I may have been a LITTLE dramatic. But the rest of the week I couldn't stop thinking about this scorpion and all of his little friends that are going to invade my house. I am a little paranoid now.

There have been some great things about being here. We have found some GREAT friends. We have been to BBQ's, Dessert nights, parades, swimming playgroups, and of course BACHELORETTE NIGHT!!!! It has been really nice to have people that we can hang out with and for me especially to find a great group of friends that I love being with. We also bought a new car...a MINI VAN for me so now I can get around and not be trapped in my scorpion invested house!!! It has made a world of difference. Emmi has a good group of little girls that are her age and she is starting to get some fun friends. Easton is getting so big and is CRAWLING everywhere. It is so fun to see him crawl and explore. He loves to open every cupboard and is starting to climb up the stairs. He has had a few accidents and a few head bonks but still loves to do it.

We are actually heading to Utah next week for my brother's wedding and we are so excited to see family..(when I say we I mean me and the kids). Emmi is so excited to go on the airplane and to go to "Livila's" house...Livy.

At the Parade on the 4th of July

Our new van...I LOVE IT!!!!

Chick-fil-a day...dress like a cow and get free food!

Emmi in her element...NAKED!!!!
(It was raining and we couldn't find her...
than we looked outside and found this. :)

Just swimming

The scorpion that ALMOST killed us and sucked out our blood.

San Antonio!!

2010-06-04T13:07:00.000-07:00

This blog may not be very long. Easton is having a hard day and I may need to hold him soon. I wanted to update everyone on what has been happening. We left the sweetest place on earth (Hershey) on Sat. May 22 and started driving on our cross country...literally...tour. We drove about 1300 miles and went through Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. I think I gat all of them in there. Thanks to Clint, my dad, and Clint's brother Brady we were able to get to San Antonio in 3 days. The kids were SO good except for Sunday. They were both really sick and so that day was a rough one, but they survived and we made it. We arrived Tuesday morning and went and checked out our new house...you heard me right I said NEW HOUSE!!! We are proud new home owners. We haven't said anything because we were so afraid to jinx anything, but we signed the papers on Wednesday and moved in that night. It is SO wonderful. We have so much sapce and so much room to grow. It is 3 bedrooms and 2 1/2 bath. It has a loft and a familyroom, living room and a study. It also has a HUGE backyard that has two garden areas, a shed and a BBQ area. It is so nice. It is fenced in and so I can send Emmi outside and let her play out there without worrying where she is. Clint is having a blast mowing, weeding and watering the lawn. He loves having a yard to take care of. We are finally unlaoding the last of the boxes thanks to mostly my mom. She fly out here for a few days to help us get situated. She was SO much help and I can't tell you how awesome it is to have such a great family (both sides) that we can count on all the time. Anyways, we are here and we are really enjoying it. We have about 10 LDS couples in our neighnborhood so that will be so nice. We have already been to dinner with a few of them and had others come over with cookies to welcome us. It has been so nice and has made the transition a little easier. For these next few weeks we will be in Utah seeing our family before Clint has to come back and start work so this will be my last post for the next couple of weeks. (Not that I am really that important the people are even looking at this blog.) We really miss our friends...family really..that we left behind and that moved around the country. We love you guys, think about you everyday and miss you!!!

Our visit to the Alamo and the Riverwalk... I look really cubby so don't look too close :)

East just chillin'. I LOVE his blonde hair

Our new friend let Emmi borrow her Snow White outfit.
Emmi LOVES it!!

Our new backyard. It goes out both directions and is SO big!

Our new house. It is so cute and we absolutely LOVE it!!

Clint Duncan, MD

2010-05-19T05:07:00.000-07:00

It is official.....Clint is a DOCTOR!!!! After 4 years of blood, sweat, tears (from me), late nights, early mornings, and A LOT of studying my hubby GRADUATED!!! Congrats Clint. We are SO proud of you. I can't tell you how proud I felt when they called your name and you walked across the stage and got your diploma. We love you so much and can't wait to start a new adventure in Texas!!! CONGRATS!!

Vacation!!!

2010-05-13T06:51:00.001-07:00

Easton at the swimming pool chillin'

Emmi at the beach and in the sand...she LOVED it

Relaxing after a long day of relaxing!!

Clint and the kiddos at the pool

Warming up from the cold pool

Kate, Livy and Emmi...they are going to miss each other

Easton and the girls!! Sophi and Elizabeth

Livy, Emmi, Bennett, Jaedon and Kate ready for church

Happy Brithday Clint and Jeff...good thing the fire department
was next door. We almost had an incident!!

We had SO much fun on our vacation. We went with all of our LDS friends (Us, Bassetts, Wrights, Bruesekes, Bradfords, Flints, and the Heslops)...that are graduating...and rented a beach house in Outer Banks, North Carolina. It was the PERFECT vacation. The house was AMAZING and right across the street from the beach. Everyone had there own rooms with bathrooms, a huge kitchen to share, an elevator, theater room, game room, pool and hot tub and tv's everywhere you went. The kids had a BLAST together and all the adults had fun with our late night hot tub parties. There was TONS of food, we did some Zumba...thanks Kellie and Amber, lots of sight seeing for other families and LOTS of sun for us. Clint and I just went to the beach or to the pool and Emmi loved EVERY minute of it. We missed the Thompsons and Ashley and we will miss everyone SO much when we graduate and all move away. It was a PERFECT way to have one last hoorah and to be together one last time. We love you guys and will miss every one of you. Good luck in residency!!!

Emmi update

2010-04-13T12:42:00.000-07:00

We have a few pictures that are really funny of Emmi that I thought were blog worthy. She has REALLY been into the Little Mermaid and loves to watch it all day long. Well the other day Clint and I came into the kitchen and we found her combing her hair with a fork. We thought it was so funny and now I catch her doing it all the time. We were also able to go to Princesses on Ice the other day. It was really fun but Emmi didn't change her expression the whole time. She was mesmerized and never looked away. every once and a while she would look at me and tell me which Princess was out on the ice at the time. It was a fun Mom/daughter date. Some of the other pictures are of bunny and Ariel on time-out and Easton after Clint fell asleep watching the kids and Emmi found a pen. It was pretty funny but something always seems to get colored on when Clint watches the kids.

Combing her hair with a "dinglehopper"

Her face the WHOLE time at Princesses on Ice

I love Easton's face in this picture

Bunny and Ariel on time-out

Hoppy Easter!!!

2010-04-05T18:56:00.000-07:00

We had so much fun for Easter. My dad and brother Alex were in Washington DC for a lacrosse tournament so we went down there to visit them. Emmi and Easton LOVED getting spoiled by both of them and loved staying in Grandpa's hotel. We got to go to the zoo and see all the sights in DC. The Easter bunny also came and left Emmi a little basket. She was so excited to open the eggs and find chocolate. Needless to say that is ALL she ate the rest of the day. She also had fun swimming in Alex's pool at his hotel. It was such a fun weekend and we were sad to leave family...AGAIN. But we will see them soon when they come out to help us move to TEXAS!!

Happy Birthday Emmi!

2010-03-05T11:47:00.000-08:00

Today is Emmi's birthday. I can't believe that my little girl is already 3. Time has gone by so fast. She is such a sweetheart and one of the loves of our lives. We are so grateful for her being in our family. Here is a little list of some of her favorite things.

Favorite color: Pink...so far

Favorite food: French Toast, melted cheese sandwiches, hot dogs and anything sweet.

Favorite Game/Toy: She just discovered hide-and-seek, playdough and her dolls.

Favorite sayings: "Actually", "see you later guys" and she always clicks her tongue when she talks.

Favorite thing she likes to do herself: get dressed, brush her teeth, put on her shoes and coat, make her bed, buckle her car seat, get in and out of her highchair, bath herself...okay it is pretty much everything.

Favorite movie: UP and Cars

Favorite place in Hershey: Hersheypark and Chocolate World

Favorite OCD: Tags and wearing her jacket in the car...she can't stand either of those things.

Those are just a few things that we love about Emmi. We love her and want her to now how special she is. Happy Birthday Emmi!!!

5 months old

2010-02-28T17:25:00.001-08:00

I can't believe that Easton is 5 months old today. It seems like I just had him and every time I look at him he just gets bigger and bigger. He no longer looks like an infant but a little boy. He is such a joy to have in our home. I am so surprised that he is still intact. Emmi loves him a little too much. One day she will get it back, but he is such a good sport about it. He love to laugh and smile. He is definitely a "good self-esteem" baby because he never cries with anyone. He is starting to grab things and loves to grab our faces when we hold hm and plant big slobbery kisses on our cheeks. He loves Emmi...even when she hurts him. He loves to be thrown up in the air. He loves to babble and drool. He loves his binky, fingers and toys. He is growing like a weed and is starting to sit up and can roll over from his tummy to back. I feel like he is a genius because Emmi only did that once until she was 13 months. He is such a sweetheart and I love him SO much. We love you East!!!

Funny things

2010-02-17T06:58:00.000-08:00

Emmi has been talking SO much lately. She is finally catching up to where she should be with her speech and she says the funniest things.
~So this morning she was playing with her legos and trying to stack them into a big tower and they kept falling and she kept saying to me.."Mom, I have to practice. I have to practice."
~The other day she was talking to her bunny and I guess bunny was doing something it wasn't supposed to and I heard her saying to bunny "that is un-a-cep-ta-ble" because Clint says that to her sometime. Emmi that is unacceptable.
~She also loves to say "actually". It was bed time so I said for her to go to the bathroom to brush her teeth and she said "Actually mom, I come in 10 more minutes."
~She loves to give us a time on things. "10 more minutes mom", "2 more minutes", "one second mom". It is so funny. She sounds so grown up.
~She has also found the word "stupid" which we are trying to end ASAP.
~She has been hitting Easton lately and so when she does it I tell her I am angry. So of course the other day I did something that she didn't like and she said to me "Mom..you make me so angry". It was in such a mad little voice too. I guess I need to watch how I talk to her.
Anyways, I thought I would post some cute little sayings before I forgot them.

Snowed in

2010-02-06T09:17:00.000-08:00

So yesterday and last night we got hit by a REALLY bad snow storm. At 5:00 last night there wasn't anything on the ground and by about 9:00 Clint was out shoveling snow. Then when we woke up this morning there was about a foot of snow. For those of you who know the East coast, there aren't very many storms like this with good snow. It usually turns to ice as soon as it hits the ground. They also cancel/shut the whole city down if it is even forecasted to snow. So you can imagine what is going on. No one is driving and nothing is open. It is really fun though because Emmi has had a blast going out in the snow and climbing on all the snow drifts. It is really beautiful and kind of cozy. But this is about as much as I can handle snow. I am going to be sick of it by this time tomorrow. I am looking forward to Texan winters....50-65 degrees in January!!!! Anyways, I thought I would post some pictures of the kiddos and the snow!!

Residency Match

2010-01-14T10:53:00.000-08:00

I can't believe that we have been here in Hershey for almost four years now. It has been such a fun and awesome place to live. We are now just finding out what kind of a doctor Clint wants to be and where we are going to go for residency. Clint decided in August that he was really interested in Ophthalmology...eyes...and we have been interviewing these past few months all around the country (and when I say "we" I mean Clint), and he has liked everywhere he interviewed. After lots of discussions and prayers we decided on our top picks. They are:

1. University of Texas-San Antonio
2. University of Utah
3. University of Nebraska
4. University of Kentucky
5. Wake Forest

This morning was our "match" day and we found out that we are going to....San Antonio Texas!!!! we got into our number 1 choice. We are so excited and can't wait to move and get started out there in Texas. The only thing that stinks in that we have to wait until March to find out if we will be going there for our intern year or if we will be staying here in Hershey for one more year. Hopefully we get accepted to Texas for our intern year and get to move in May but we will just have to wait. But we are so excited and we know that Texas is where we are supposed to be and that we will have a ton of fun there. I am going to have to start working on my Texan accent and start learning Spanish!!! :)

October Festivities

2009-10-30T13:29:00.001-07:00

These pictures aren't in order but we have done lots of fun things in October. Grandma and Grandpa came out to help us with Easton, we went to the pumpkin patch and got pumpkins, went and saw Paul and Kristen and Grandma and grandpa Duncan and Brady, carved our pumpkins and then went trick-or-treating yesterday. We were dressed as the Flintstones and I have to brag...I made all the costumes. They aren't the greatest but I am proud of myself. It was really fun and now we are looking forward to heading the Utah for a few months to be with family while Clint is busy interviewing for residency.

The Flintsones

Me and the kiddos
Bam Bam

Pebbles

Grandpa and Easton

The gang...but Easton, he is inside staying warm.

Clint working hard.

At the Pumpkin patch

Easton's fauw hawk

Clint took this picture...so cute huh?!?

Clint looks evil

Emmi's favorite thing to do...put on clothes.

Even if they aren't hers.

Our sweet boy. He looks more and more like Emmi did when she was little

Correction

2009-10-04T06:59:00.000-07:00

This is what I get for having Clint do the blog. Easton was 7 lbs.9 oz.. NOT 8 lbs. 9 oz. There is a big difference there. I will update with moe pictures, but right now Easton needs me...if you know what I mean!!! We love him and he is so good. Emmi is such a good older sister too. We love our beautiful children.

Baby Easton!

2009-09-29T18:52:00.000-07:00

Baby Easton was born yesterday at 12:03 PM. Everything went well. He was 8 lbs 8 ounces and was 20 inches tall. Easton and Jordan are doing well. Emmi always say "eten" now. Jordan did very well and is the most beautiful mom in the world. We think that Easton is a cutie. I think he looked a little bit like a grandpa, but a cute grandpa. Here are a few photos of Easton, Emmi and us.

My Two Year Old

2009-08-21T07:06:00.000-07:00

Emmi has been in the "terrible two" stage lately. Everything is "no" and she doesn't want me to help her do ANYTHING. That includes putting her in her highchair, getting her dressed, putting on her shoes and changing her diaper. And if I try to help her she throws a tantrum for about 15 minutes. It is AWESOME!!! She is miss independent. By the end of the day I want to pull my hair out. Good thing Clint is finishing up his Neurology rotation and getting into his really easy/vacation months. Hopefully Emmi will be okay when the baby comes...(I'm crossing my fingers and toes.)

But even with all of that she does some very cute things. She is still a little snuggler...with me... and she LOVES taking care of her dolls. She dresses them, feeds them, sings and rocks them, and puts them to bed. It is SO cute. She also loves dressing herself. For example today she took off her pjs and put on a different pair. 5 minutes later she decided that she didn't want to wear those anymore so she put on her swimming suit with her underwear over it. Then she thought "why put on one swimming suit??? I have 3 of them." So she put on all of her swimming suits and her little cover up. She wore that for about 30 minutes and then decided that she wanted to get dressed for "real". The picture below is the outfit she FINALLY decided on. I tried to get her to change into different shorts that would match but quickly decided that it doesn't matter. The shirt is also a size 6-12 months ( don't ask me why I still have it in the drawer) but she LOVES it. She was so excited when I told her she could wear the shirt that she started clapping and saying "yeah" and had the biggest smile on her face. How can you say no to that? I love my little Ems.

Don't you just want to eat her?

Nice outfit huh??

Emmi Update

2009-07-23T09:39:00.000-07:00

Here is a little update on Emmi. She has been growing up so fast and doing such funny things I thought that maybe I should post some of them. We just got her a new toddler bed to sleep in and she has been doing GREAT. She has no idea that she can get out. When she wakes up she just calls out to me or Clint until we come and get her. It is so nice. And every morning when she wakes up she points to the crib and says "Eaton" (we told her that is baby Easton's new bed) and then she points to her bed and says "Emmi".

She loves to talk to Easton. She will get really close to my tummy and say "Hi Babya" and then give it kisses. It is so cute. She also goes to every Dr. appointment with me and she loves hearing Easton's heartbeat. She just got a DR. kit to play with and loves listening to everyone's heartbeat.

She still isn't very good at talking yet. We have an appointment in Oct. with the speech therapist so hopefully that will help her out. She can say all of her words and she repeats everything you say, but she won't put the words together in a sentence. She has also mastered her colors and we are working on counting and the alphabet. She is really good at both of them and is starting to recognize some letters.

When we have been doing Family Night we have been talking about things that we can do that make Jesus happy because she is in the stage right now where everything is "No" or if I don't look at you while you are talking I can't hear you. So I put her on time out the other day and when I got her off I asked if Jesus was sad. So now everytime I ask her to be happy or to help she asks "Jesus?" meaning is this making Jesus happy? It is really cute. She also loves to pray. She uses her sweet, quiet voice and loves to pray with her animals.

She also loves outside, riding her new bike, her sunglasses, putting on my makeup, coloring, reading books, singing, pretending bunny is a baby and she wraps it up in a blanket and rocks it to sleep, loves putting on her backpack and going to work like dad, being thrown up in the sky by Clint, nursery, playing with her friends Livy and Kate, doing puzzles, and her newest thing is chewing gum.

We love our sweet little Emmi and think that she is the cutest thing ever. We wish we lived closer to everyone so they could see how cute she is. But I guess I will just have to be better at blogging so you can be updated.

Wrestling with Daddy

Talking on the phone before going to
"work".

This is my FAVORITE picture. Her happy face.

At the temple for a wedding.

Fourth of July with Daddy's hat on.

Grandma's Visit

2009-07-23T09:01:00.000-07:00

This past week my mom came and visited us. It was SO much fun. I always love when she comes out because A: it is so much fun to have visitors, B: I miss my momma, C: she spoils us like CRAZY!!!, and D: Emmi had so much fun with Grandma.

So while she was here we went to Gettysburg, we went to Baltimore and to the Inner Harbor which also included the National Aquarium, paddle boat rides, the Cheesecake Factory, and the Lexington Market. We also went out to eat a lot...Panera...yummy, and we went shopping for baby "Slam". It was so much fun having her here and I miss her already. But I guess I get to look forward to the next time she comes. Little baby Easton will be just a few days old and get this.....My Dad will be coming too!!!! Yahoo! And any other visitors that want to come are more than welcome.

At the ESPN Zone in Baltimore

Paddle boating in the Chesapeake Bay

The Dolphin Show at the Aquarium.
(If you look close there is a dolphin right in front of Clint and Emmi)

You can't really tell but we are in a giant shark mouth.

Grandma and Emmi at Gettysburg.

It's a ????

2009-05-07T11:22:00.000-07:00

We went to the doctor today to find out what we are having and it turns out it is a...?? Well before I tell you, Clint and I had made a bet. I for sure thought it was a boy and Clint was 100% positive it was a girl. So Sunday we made a bet that if it is a boy I get to name him and if it was a girl Clint got to name her. So anyways we thought we would start writing down names. If it is a boy we both really like Easton, Jackson, Jack or Thunder. I love Easton the most but I still really like the other ones. Girl names were a little harder for us. Clint started coming up with names like Sugar, Candy, Cookie, Rainbow and Starburst. We can't decide on any of those so we will have to wait until later to narrow it down. (By the way Thunder is a joke name...I wouldn't do that to my kid.) So we were really excited going into the doctor just so we could know who won the bet. And the winner is...??? Oh I forgot. It is Clint's birthday today so it was a great birthday present for him and he was so excited. What a fun thing to get on your birthday. I love Clint more than anything and he is the best Hubby, daddy and student. He works so hard to make sure Emmi and I are taken care of. I am so glad to have him in my life and I love him more than anything. Happy Birthday Clint!!!! We love you.

Okay...I think I have stalled long enough. We are having a...

Beautiful baby...

BOY!!!!!!!!!!

What was I thinking???

2009-05-04T06:29:00.000-07:00

Emmi has been curious about the toilet lately and is always getting undressed and trying to change her diaper by herself so we thought we would buy her a little toilet for her and try to potty train her. The minute we got home from the store we opened the potty and she wanted to try it right away. So all afternoon Saturday she was naked and sitting on her toilet. The problem is she thinks it is a toy and not something you don't play with. As you can see in the picture she thinks the toilet is a hat and the seat is a purse. Don't worry...she hadn't used it yet. She also doesn't like sitting on it all the way so when she does end up going it isn't in the toilet but on the floor. We were very proud of her though. She did end up going a few hours after we bought it and she was SO excited. She kept clapping and saying "yeah". But now it is a nightmare. She doesn't want to sit on it but doesn't want to put her diaper back on either. What was I thinking? This is going to be such a hassle. Daddy...when I come out there will you potty train her?!?

Sean's Visit

2009-05-01T06:12:00.000-07:00

Emmi at the Lollipop Shoppe in Amish Country

Our Amish Buggy and the horse "Geronimo"
At the Warold War II fountain

In the water in DC

We were so excited to have Sean here with us last week. We had such a good time. It is always so nice to have visitors. It was extra special to have him out here a couple weeks before he leaves on his mission. We did lots of fun things. He came on Tuesday and had come by train from Boston. He was in Boston watching my parents run the marathon and then he took Amtrak to our house. We were able to do lots of fun things including:

-going to Chocolate World...anyone that comes to visit us will go there.

-went to Gettysburg and saw all the battle sites. It was cold so we spent a lot of time in the car.

- went to Amish Country and rode on an Amich Buggy ride around an Amish Community. Emmi loved the horse.

-went shopping at the outlets...that one was for me and Sean was a trooper.

-went to the DC temple and did a session together. It was an awesome experience to just have me and Sean together in the temple while Clint stayed outside with Emmi.

-went to downtown DC and explored the National Mall. It was so HOT outside that Emmi and I spent most of our time at the fountains. Emmi also decided that she wanted to run away from me which ended with her face down in the World War II Momnument fountains. She was so excited to be in the water. It was the funniest thing I have ever seen. She is such a little stinker.

So all in all we had a great week. It was so nice having Sean here and can't wait to come home in a week to see everyone else!!!

Easter Egg Hunt #1

2009-04-06T07:33:00.000-07:00

Hershey LOVES Easter. We celebrate Easter here for about 2-3 weeks. There are 3-4 egg hunts to go to and then Hershey Park opens for the springtime. We had our first egg hunt on Saturday at a local park. They just throw tons of eggs on the ground and let the kids go crazy. It was really fun and Emmi understood it this year, but it was FREEZING. It had been warm and sunny all week and then the day that we had to go outside it was so windy and cold. But I don't think any of the kids noticed. They just loved getting all the candy. So here are a few pictures of Emmi getting her eggs. I will be posting again soon with more Easter festivities!!

She got a little distracted with all the kids but still had fun.

Bucket Anyone?

2009-03-28T13:58:00.001-07:00

I am officially into my 2nd trimester of my pregnancy and thought I would finally post the great news. If you haven't figured it out yet I am PREGNANT!!!! We are so excited to be expanding our family and Emmi is excited to be a big sister, but I do have to say that I am hating life right now. The first trimester of pregnancy STINKS. I have been so sick. Thank heavens for good drugs. I feel like a D- mom because all I do is lay on the couch all day, throw up, and let Emmi do anything/get into anything she wants. I thought I was feeling better these past couple of days but alas....nighttime came and I had to visit my good friend the toilet once again. But after all that complaining I feel SO blessed to even be pregnant. We have a really hard time getting pregnant and I couldn't imagine not being able to. Thanks to the help of a great Fertility Specialist, prayers, and lots of blessings our little addition will be joining us October 1st. HOORAY!!!! I do have three ultrasounds but I won't post them because they were taken at 5, 6 and 8 weeks. So all you can really see is a blob. Emmi does love carrying the ultrasounds around saying "bebe". She is so sweet!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMI

2009-03-06T06:16:00.000-08:00

Emmi turned 2 years old yesterday. I can't believe I have a 2 year old. We didn't do a lot because she had no clue what was going on and because Clint has been so busy with this Medicine rotation. So we went and got balloons in the morning and she LOVED doing that. She didn't let them go the rest of the day. We also had our friends come over to have some birthday cake with us. So all in all it was a quiet, uneventful day. We did go to the doctor for her 2 year check up and she weighs 23 lbs. and is 31 in. tall. She is in the 10th percentile with her weight, 5th percentile in her height, and her head is in the 40th percentile. She is just a petite little girl. Other than that nothing else has really happened. Sorry it has been so long since I last posted a blog. Don't count on too many in the future either. I would love to keep it updated but I'm really bot good at keeping my blogging word.

Birthday Cake!! She only ate the frosting off the top.

She was "helping" me make her cake.

Addy, Kyle and Kaysen, and Londyn.

Blowing out her candles.

Her birthday balloons.

Emmi's been Tagged!!

2008-11-20T08:24:00.000-08:00

Emmi has been tagged by Alexis...

Name and Meaning: Emmi and I don't know the meaning of her name.

Age: 20 months almost 21 months.

Nicknames: Emmers, Ems, pooh bear, babers, bemmi, bems.

Favorite Activities: Dancing, singing, listening to music, playing mommy (includes pushing her baby in the stroller and wrapping it in her blanket), going outside, unloading the dishwasher, doing the laundry with mom, dusting (I'm teaching her early!!), blowing her nose, looking at pictures and coloring.

Favorite Foods: She isn't the best eater but she loves hot dogs, chicken nuggets, raisins, green beans, cheese, ketchup or "dip", spagetti and rolls.

Least Favorite foods: She hates veggies except for green beans and she doesn't like chicken unless it is chicken nuggets.

Favorite Music: She loves anything fast and loud. She loves Chris Brown's "Forever", cotten-eye-joe, primary songs and the songs on Playhouse Disney.

Favorite Toys: She loves her doll, blocks, the baby stroller and anything that makes noise.

Favorite Books: She LOVES her animal books. But really any book.

Favorite Item of Clothing: She loves all clothes except for socks. She loves to put clothes on. Especially when I am doing the laundry she loves to put anything on that she can find in the dirty piles.

What Makes her Happy: Mommy, Daddy, Bunny, Blanket,Lars, singing, outside, Mommy, playing in the blinds or with the shower curtain, when daddy comes home from work, blowing bubbles on mommy and daddy's tummy, snuggling, and did I say Mommy?!!!

What Makes her sad: When I don't listen to her or get the thing that she wants right away, when mommy leaves, when we have to come inside (what am I going to do all winter?), when she doesn't get her way...she is starting to "cop a 'tude".

Funny words or phrases: When she wants me to get out of bed she points to my glasses and says "glasses, glasses", please, thanks, baby, she loves to pretend baby is sad and so she is always saying "wa, wa, wa" in this cute high voice, "nack" for snack, "bampa" for grandpa, she loves our neighbor girl Londyn and always says "lonin" when she wants to play.

Emmi tags... Olivia (Lindsey), Payton (Kim), Davis (Katie), Ellie (Kristen)... and anyone else who wants to do this.

Emmi's Hair

2008-11-06T08:30:00.000-08:00

Everyone keeps asking how long Emmi's hair is. She has cute little curls so you can't tell how long it really is. So I thought I would straighten it and take a few pictures. And of course some pictures of her in the bath with it wet. He hair grows super fast and it is SO cute. I love it when it was straightened but I LOVE her little curls.

I don't have an actual straightener so I used my

curling iron. There is still a little curl at the bottom

but you can get the idea of her hair length.

More Halloween

2008-11-01T17:17:00.000-07:00

I couldn't resist putting on more Halloween pictures.

I thought I would be creative and make mini pizzas that

looked like spiderwebs with spiders on them. I got

the idea from my friend Bryn. They were yummy.

Olivia the Ladybug, Sarah the horse, and Emmi the Butterfly.

Kate, Emmi and Lars at the egg hunt.

Emmi and Lars in front of the pumpkins

HALLOWEEN!!!

2008-11-01T16:57:00.000-07:00

Here in Hershey they have more fun things to do and more Halloween celebrations than they do for Christmas. They have Hershey Park in the Dark, a parade, trick-or-treating at Chocolate World, a Halloween egg hunt and trick-or-treating. It was so fun for us becasue Emmi was old enought that she understood that when she dressed up in her comstume she got candy. It was so fun. So on Thursday we went to the outlets and did the Halloween egg hunt. It was so fun. They had a section blocked off with Emmi's age group and there was SO much candy all over the place. Emmi loved picking up as much as she could and put it into her bucket. They also gave us boxes and she filled that up with candy too. We had SO much candy but when we were leaving there was still a ton of it on the ground. They had so much that you could pick it all up. Then that night we went around our neighborhood and went trick-or-treating. In Hershey they always do it on the Thursday before Halloween for safety reasons. She loved the idea of knocking on peoples doors and getting candy. She had so much fun. I couldn't figure out how to put all the pictures on without erasing some of them. So we had some really cute ones but I picked some of the cutest. They are a little out of order too, sorry.

Our Haul!! There were two buckets and a box full.

Emmi the "Butterfly"

Emmi and Lars. Emmi is a Butterfly and Lars is
Mickey Mouse.

At the egg hunt.

The cutest trick-or-treaters ever!!

Carving Pumpkins

2008-11-01T16:45:00.000-07:00

For FHE we carved our pumkins that we picked from the pumkin patch and Emmi loved it. She was so excited to bring in the pumpkins and she loved sitting on the table. I think she liked sitting in the table and playing with the newspapers more than she did about carving the pumpkins. Clint and I aren't very creatvie but at least we did it right?!? So here are a couple of pictures that we took of the festivities.

Don't you love this pose?

This is what Emmi did the whole time. She just walked around the
table and threw the newspapers on the ground.

Daddy and Ems

Unsupervised Children

2008-10-31T08:54:00.000-07:00

So this morning I was getting ready at went into my room to check my email/blogs and I ended up on the computer for a while. After 10 min. or so I realized that the kiddos hadn't come into the room or even made a peep. So I went to go check on them and I realized I had left the bathroom door open. I am usually so good about closing it because they love to get into the cupboard and pull everything out. Well this is what happens when children have freedom and no supervision....

Emmi drew a cute picture with my eyeliner.

I think there are about 150 little rubberbands all over the floor.

More pictures with eyeliner

Lars

Emmi thought she would try to put eyeliner on.

At least she knows the area you put it on.

FALL!!!

2008-10-28T06:06:00.000-07:00

So fall has come to Hershey and I love it. Fall its my favorite time of the year. I love the colors of the trees out here and I love the color of the sky. It is this amazing blue. I also love the temperature. It is perfect. Just cold enough to have on a small jacket but warm enough to go outside. I love the smell. Clint would say it is the smell of college football and I would have to agree. I love the crispness of the air and how you can come inside on a cool day and put on snuggly clothes and drink some hot chocolate. I love having spice candles lit all the time in my house or the cinnimon mixture on the burner. I love that there is no humidity. I think that is my favorite part. You can come outside and not have your clothes instantly stick to you. I don't know why I am going on about fall. Maybe it is because it is raining and cold here. For those of you who watched the World Series...that is exactly what it is doing. I think fall is leaving soon and I am a little depressed because that means winter and cold cold cold is coming. Anyways, I got some cute fall pictures of Emmi the other day from our backyard in all the leaves and thought I would post them. Hope you enjoy my beautiful girl!!

Emmi LOVES putting her hands in her pockets.

She gets mad when she can't find them or her

pants don't have them.

Emmi doesn't smile a lot in pictures so when she

does it is SO cute!!

Alexis, Emmi and Lars

SO CUTE FRIENDS

Grammy's Visit

2008-10-27T09:06:00.000-07:00

My mom came a couple weeks ago and it was the best thing ever!!! It was so fun to have my mom here and for Emmi to see her Grandma. We loved every minute of it. We had a really busy week but fun none the less.

(Almost) DAY 1: Grammy arrives in Philly. I went to pick her up in Philly which is 1 1/2 hours away, got stuck in traffic and was about an hour late picking her up, so by the time we got home it was 12:30 am. So hence the name of the day.

DAY 1: We woke up and Emmi was excited to see who was sleeping in the family room. I was worried that she was going to be shy around my mom but she wasn't. She never once cried or got scared when my mom held her. I could even leave to room which is a total shock since she cries when I leave the room and she is alone with Clint. She is just attached to my hip. Anyways we went to Chocolate World (a must when we have visitors) and then went to Panera. YUMMY!! Went home started working on my Christmas stockings and relaxed the rest of the night.

Day 2: Went and bought some fabric for some cute aprons that I made for me and Emmi. (To be posted later). Went out to eat at Texas Roadhouse YUMMY!! and relaxed and worked on stockings.

Day3: SHOPPING ALL DAY...need I say more.

Day4: Church

Day 5: Went to the pumpkin patch, went out to eat and then mom and I went to a movie. Nights in Rodanth, bought some treats and pigged out the rest of the night.

Day 6: This was mom's last day so we decided that we were going to leave early, drive to Philly and go shopping at IKEA and then go out to eat and then go to the airport. Well when we were packing the car we shut the back door and the door wouldn't latch. So I drove to the nearest Ford dealership where they told me it had to be replaced and that they didn't have the part. So we drove to Lebanon and sat at the dealership while they fixed my car. I was so worried that it was going to take long and then mom was going to miss her flight and chaos was going to follow. I swear every time we drive visitors to the Philly airport our car breaks. Literally. Our old car's engine blew up last time we drove Clint's family to the airport. We had to buy a new car. So note to any other visitors. If you fly and have us come pick you up we better pick you up from Baltimore. Anyways..the car was fixed and we made it in enough time to still go to IKEA.

It was so fun to have my mom here and I am so excited to go to Utah for Christmas and see everyone!! Thanks Dad for sharing mom with me. Love you Momther!!!

Emmi in her new outfit. Grandma bought

this stroller for her. Best purchase EVER!!

Grammy and Emmi

Say "Cheese"

Little mommy Emmi

Lovies!!

Pumpkin Patch

2008-10-27T08:39:00.000-07:00

I know I'm the BIGGEST slacker when it comes to updating my blog. I'm going to try to get all the Halloween festivities posted but I'm not making any promises. A lot of things have happened since the last time I updated the blog. Emmi started walking!! Hooray!! She had a little bit of a late start but better late than never right!?! She also started talking. She can say about 15-20 words. It is so fun to hear her try to communicate with the few words that she knows. She also does a little sign language so that also helps. Clint is busy in his third year rotations and is doing his pediatric rotation at the hospital. I do nothing but watch Emmi and Lars all day. So that's about it. A couple weeks ago when my mom was here we went out to a farmers market a few miles away where they have a pumpkin patch, a corn maze, and a hay ride. Emmi loved it. She loved sitting in the wagon behind the tractor. She also LOVED the pumpkin patch. We got to pick out our own pumpkins and she picked out one that is just her size. It is sitting outside our door so every time that we go in or out of the house she has to pick up the pumpkina and carry it with her wherever we go. We haven't got around to carving them yet but hopefully we will do that tonight for FHE.

Walking through the corn maze.

The hayride

Picking our pumpkins

Apparently Emmi is little. I didn't realize this

until we put her up to this pumpkin. It is just

a regualr pumpkin. My poor girl is destined

to be short.

Our Visit From Jeff

2008-07-26T12:52:00.000-07:00

Last week Jeff was in Virginia getting some training done for his new job and he was nice enough to rent a car and come visit us for a couple of days. It was so nice to have him here and we were so excited to have some visitors. (Especially from my family...hint...hint :)) He got here Friday night and he was a good sport and went to a birthday party with us for a little boy in our ward. Then on Saturday we drove down to Baltimore and went to an Orioles game. We were lucky enough to be part of the first 20,000 fans to enter the ballpark because we got this SWEET DVD made by some of the Orioles players. (I am being extremely sarcastic. It was SO SO SO dumb.) O-R-I-O-L-E-S!! We also went to Chocolate World and got to see how chocolate is made. So anyways we were so glad we got to see Jeff and spend some time with him. Love Ya Jeff!!

Emmi in a Reese's Chocolate Dome.

The Orioles and Tigers
Uncle Jeffy and Emmi

(I'm not sure what she is doing with her face.)
Daddy and Emmi Take me out to the ball game!!

Emmi's Little Quirks

2008-07-23T08:22:00.000-07:00

Emmi does some really funny things. She has such a funny personality. It is SO cute to watch her everyday and watch for the funny things she does. She loves to put hings over her head whether it be necklaces, headbands, or towels. The other day she put a towel over her head, started to crawl and crawled right into the wall. She loves to take off her clothes. Especially if it is a stretchy shirt. She usually wakes up from her naps naked. She loves her sunglasses and wears them around the house. She loves to crawl into or under things. She is such a funny girl so I have some cute pictures of Emmi's quirks.

Emmi's necklaces (in a knot). She wore it

like that for about 20 min.

Emmi in the dryer.
She took off her shirt and tried to take off

her skirt and this is what I found.

She wouldn't let us take off her sunglasses for the bath.
Mommy's headband over her eyes.

She will crawl like this all day if I would let her.

Our Summer (so far)

2008-07-23T07:47:00.000-07:00

Hurray!! I am FINALLY updating our blog. We have had many people (family) getting on our case to update so I got a quiet moment to do it. We have had one fun/crazy summer so far. In May Emmi and I went to Utah for the month to visit family while Clint stayed home to study for his boards. We had a blast but really missed Clint. Since we have been back we moved to a new apartment so now we are behind the Med center. We love our new place and especially our neighbors. A few people from our ward live in our same building so it has been really nice. We have also had a few mishaps with our new place which have been memorable. I have already locked myself out once and had to break in while the kids were eating lunch. Our oven also blew-up and so we couldn't cook anything for about a week. We just got all new appliances in our kitchen so I guess that is an okay trade off! Clint has started his 3rd year of Medical School and is doing his AHEC rotation in Pediatrics. He is enjoying it and it is nice that he is really close. Emmi is having a blast swimming and playing outside. She loves to crawl out our screen door and then crawls as fast as she can down the side walk. It is funny to see. She can really move!! We have ahd a couple visitors which we ALWAYS appreciate. Clint's parents had a conference in Washington DC so we went down there for a few days and stayed with them in there nice hotel. We went and saw the National Mall and went to the Zoo and of course went out to eat A LOT!! It was tons of fun. Last weekend my brother Jeff came up from Virginia where he is being trained for his new job. It was so nice to have him drive up here and stay with us for a couple of days. It was so fun. We ended up going to Baltimore and going to on Orioles game. It was BOILING hot but lots of fun. And last but definitely not least, Clint got his boards score back. I am SO proud of him and all of his hard work. We are so proud to have him and as a hubby and a dad. So here are some cute pictures of Emmi for everyone to see.

Emmi and Bunny eating some breakfast.

She wouldn't eat unless bunny was eating too!!

Emmi and Payton.

Twinners!!

Emmi doing her FAVORITE thing,

swimming.

Thanksgiving Point with Tyler, Sydney and McKay.
Fireworks in our front yard. Emmi loved them.

Pictures

2008-05-09T10:24:00.001-07:00

So here are the pictures of Clint's birthday that I promised. Funny though that they are only of Emmi. I guess that is how our life works!!

Enjoying some cake!!

YUMMY!!

Happy Birthday Clinty-Poo!!!

2008-05-08T18:57:00.000-07:00

I am one day late with this post but I wanted Clint to know how much we love him. He is a GREAT hubby and I love being married to him. He is a great dad to Emmi and she loves him to death. He is such a good student and just finished his 2nd year of Medical School. Half way through!!!!! We are going to miss him for sure when we are in Utah for a month. Anyways... The big 27!!! WOW!!! You are old. And of course with Clint being the party animal that he is he had breakfast in bed (a bowl of cold cereal. Go me :)), he went to school and studied for the boards until 5:00. We had a pizza party with my cub scouts and had birthday cake with them to. Emmi gave him little cards with her hand and foot prints on them, and I gave him a big old kiss. I finished my book and he studied some more!!! Whew. I hope I didn't leave anything out!! He did get a ton of phone calls from family so that was really nice. Thanks!! So Happy Birthday Clint. We love you. (oh, I am at work right now and don't have access to photos so I will post them tomorrow). Lovies Clint!

The Many Hair-dos of Emmi

2008-05-02T07:27:00.000-07:00

I love that Emmi's hair is getting long enough to do. I have been experimenting on her to see what will go and stay in her hair. She hates bows or headbands and pulls them right out. Well I guess she pulls her hair out no matter what. So I do her hair about 5 times a day because she pulls it out as soon as I leave the room, and I have to take her hair out when she goes down for her naps because she will eat the rubberbands. (She ate one on the way to church and so her hair was sticking straight up the whole time. It was very funny.) Anyways...here are the fun things hair-dos I have been able to do.

Piggy Tails (my favorite because her hair is

curly and they curl really cute when they

are pulled up.)

The back pony

Braids

Buns on top of the head

Bed head!!

Sleeping Beauty

2008-04-14T11:11:00.000-07:00

So Emmi is so funny when she sleeps. She loves to turn herself completely horizontal so her head is hitting the bumper pad and her feet are resting up against the back of the crib. I went in the other day because I thought she was awake and this is how I found her. She had pulled the bumper pad off and wrapped herself in it. I thought it was so funny and was able to get some funny pictures. I still don't understand how little kids can sleep in the positions that they put themselves in. Oh and yes...Emmi's crib is still in the highest setting. She hasn't figured out that she can sit up yet, so hopefully she won't find out until we move her crib lower!!

Family

2008-04-04T11:28:00.000-07:00

General Conference is coming up and I am so excited to listen to our new prophet, but it always makes me home sick. Especially when they show Temple Square in between sessions. I am so thankful that we are in Hershey and that we have the greatest ward and tons of close friends, but I miss my families. Being far away makes you appreciate family so much. It has been hard to miss a lot of fun things and to see everyone play sports, go to dances, learn to drive, and have family dinner every week together. It has been hard to not be there for Helen and the rough year she has been having. It is really hard to have everyone miss Emmi growing up. But with all that said, Clint and I are so grateful to be living here in PA, going to school and having the experiences that we are having. We are so thankful for our ward out here. They have become our "family" away from home. I'm so glad that we have such a close relationship with each of our siblings and their families. It makes it that much more exciting to come home. Anyways...enough babbling. I just was thinking about my family and wanted them to know that I love and miss everyone. Oh and Clint and I were counting. If you count my family we have 21 people and in Clint's he has 22 people(both of those are not counting us). So a combined total of our families is 43 people. If you count us there are 46. AMAZING!!! Emmi has 4 grandparents, 13 Uncles (5 of which are not married), 8 Aunts, and 18 cousins with more that will come. What a family for her!!! (And if I can say, both families are BEAUTIFUL.) The Bullock bunch
The Duncan Clan

Taking after Mommy

2008-03-31T13:52:00.000-07:00

Now that she can crawl she loves to crawl up to the TV and watch it 2cm away from the screen. Clint is a little worried because she loves to watch the tv whenever it is on. She will actually push you out of the way if you are blocking her view. Oopsies. I guess I shouldn't watch tv anymore. Like mother like daughter!!

Emmi is Crawling

2008-03-31T13:02:00.000-07:00

So Emmi decided the other day that she wants to crawl. I have been trying for months to get her to crawl but to no avail. I couldn't get her to budge. So the other day Clint and I were eating dinner and we look over and Emmi is crawling. We looked at each other and just stared. We were so amazed. She was full out crawling on her hands and knees. It was so funny. I know most of you are thinking "she is one years old, shouldn't she be walking by now?" But no, she is just a very content/lazy girl. So this is a HUGE step for her. Go Emmi!! So hopefully this video works. I will also post some pictures and try another video of her doing all her "tricks".

Laundry day.

2008-02-25T11:40:00.001-08:00

So the other day I was doing laundry and Emmi likes to take all the clothes that I have just folded and unfolds them. So after I had finished folding everything I went to the bathroom and came back and this is what I found. Emmi had reached up and grabbed the clothes that were hanging off the sid of the laundry basket and then put on one of my shirts. I thought it was so funny. She has strated to do that now. anything that she can put over her head goes over her head. She is getting such a funny personality and loves to do funny things.

Reaching for the camera with my shirt on.

Hiding in the laundry basket.

Hiding under her shirt.

Our little peasant child.

Rub-a-dub-dub...Emmi in the tub!

2008-02-25T11:16:00.001-08:00

Emmi loves bath time and loves to play with the bubbles after I wash her hair, so the other day I bought bubble bath and she LOVES it. She loves all the bubbles and loves to squish them in her hands. I this picture we thought we would make her a bubble beard. She kept wiping it off because I think it tickled her.

Doesn't she just have the sweetest eyes? Her hair is also getting SO long and fun. Too bad she won't let me put anything in it. She just pulls everything out. It is getting really curly in the back though. She gets that from Clint.

Clint always puts her in his towel.

So cute!!

All done. She loves her softy jammies!!

Funny Daddy!!

2008-02-25T11:03:00.000-08:00

What is wrong with this picture? Let me tell you a little about it and see if you can tell what it is. I went to work the other day and left Clint in charge. He always does such a good job and Emmi loves being able to play with dad all day. So I get home from work and Emmi is in the highchair getting ready to eat. I look at her and start to laugh. Clint is clueless of why I am laughing and I think I laughed for about 5 minutes srtaight. Take a close look at the pictures and tell me if you can see anything wrong.

Here is the close up picture. Notice anything????

Okay. I will tell all of you who don't know what I am talking about. Clint put Emmi's shirt on backwards. It is a turtle neck and the buttons are supposed to go in the back. I asked Clint if he noticed the tag and he said he did and he just thought it was weird that it was in the front. So funny daddy!! Good thing for funny stories huh?!?

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

2008-02-15T11:36:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentine's day. I thought I would post a picture of Emmi in her Valentine outfit. I don't know if you can see it but her little jumper has a cute little heart on it. Anyways. It has been a long time since I have posted anything so I guess it is about time. Life in Hershey is great. We are just plugging along and loving life. We miss all our family and I also want to tell everyone thanks for all the nice birthday calls you gave me. It really meant a lot. Thanks again!! We love and miss you.

Here is a cute picture of Emmi and her best bud
Lars. Just hanging out on the rocking chair playing
"Rocky Road".

Uncle Elder Greg right before his mission. Emmi sure
misses him!!

Awe!!! How cute :)

President Hinckley

2008-01-28T13:00:00.000-08:00

Our sweet wonderful prophet Gordon B. Hinckley passed away yesterday. I was so sad when I heard the news. I feel like we are missing a lot of things living here in PA. It wasn't on any news stations and I got really upset. I wish everyone knew of President Hinckley and about the wonderful man that he was. I felt like he was my Grandpa. I loved hearing him speak and I always giggled when he cracked his voice. I thought it was so cute. He is the only prophet I remember and I can't picture him gone. He was so genuine and sincere in everything he did. You can't help but smile when you think of him. I just want everyone to know that I have a testimony of him. I KNOW that he was and is a prophet of God. That everyhting that came out of his mouth was inspired by Heavenly Father to help us grow. He did so many things for our church and aided so much in its growth. He will be so missed and will always hold a special place in my heart. I love you President Hinckley. You will be so missed.

Pictures!!! (finally)

2008-01-28T12:23:00.000-08:00

Here is our sweet Emmi. She was DREAM to take
on vacation. She loved the sun, water and sand.

This is at the clubhouse at sunset. We were waiting
for food that some members where going to bring
to us. YUMMY!!!

Emmi was jealous of her uncle's and daddy always leaving
her to go on the boogie boards so she decided to try it.
She LOVED it. Don't worry we just went in the little pools.

She hated her sunglasses at first but by the end
she loved them. Little diva. And Uncle Roger called
this her "full skank mode" outfit.

Mommy and Emmi out for a sunday stroll.

Happy New Year

2008-01-12T07:54:00.000-08:00

So it has been SO long since I have posted a blog. We have been out of town for most of December and got home about a week ago. I have Finally gotten back into the swing of things and feel like I can start blogging again. But much to my dismay, when I got home and went to take the camera out of my bag I realized I had the camera case but no camera. I had taken one last picture of Becca and Emmi right before we left and then left the camera on the piano at Clint's parents house. So this blog will not be full of fun pictures of our awesome Christmas like I had planned, but will be of me rambling and updating all on our Christmas festivities.
So Emmi and I left for Utah on Dec. 8th just in time to be at my brother's farewell. Let me first tell you how hard it is to fly with an infant without a husband for 9 hours. We had little problems on our flight from Philly to Denver (besides the fact the we arrived at the airport 3 hours early. Clint and I always have to be early....just in case.) Then after we arrived in Denver it was snowing so instead of a 30 min. layover we had a 2 hour delay. We switched gates and planes about 5 times before we finally got on the plane. Then the plane finally leaves the gate and we start heading for the runway. We had been on the runway for about 10 min. and I think to myself...."man, this is a really long runway. We could have been in Utah by now." Then I look out the window and see that we are pulling up to the gate again. The pilot gets on and announces that they had forgotten to load the bags and we had to come back so they could get every one's luggage in the plane. I was about to die. Poor Emmi had passed out in my arms from sheer exhaustion. ( It was 11:00 Mountain time but 1:00 Eastern Time.) We finally arrived in Utah and everything was great after that.
My brother Greg had his farewell the next day and did a great job. He is going to be an awesome missionary. He is going to the Argentina, Rosario mission. He is so excited. Anyways...Poor little Emmi had to get used to being with 44 new people. (That is the amount of people in mine and Clint's family ALONE. Immediate Family ONLY. Can you believe it?) She cried with every noise that they made. My mom coughed she cried, my brother burped she cried, my dad looked at her she cried. She has never been that snuggly of a baby but she would snuggle up to me when anyone came close to her. I loved it. By the end of our trip she was really good and loved everyone.
We ended up going to Mexico with my family for Christmas. It was a ton of fun and so relaxing to go to the beach everyday and just lay out. I do have to say that Emmi is the best baby. It was so easy she never cried the whole drive down there and she loved the beach. She would sit on her towel under the umbrella and just play. She "snuck" into the sand a couple times and got sand in every crack and crevasse that she has from head to foot. (And there are a lot of them). She liked to eat it too, so we had to watch her closer after that. She loved the water and the sun. She is definitely going to be our summer child who loves being outdoors. And of course she has Clint's golden skin so despite the fact of being lathered in SPF 50 and in the shade the whole time she got more tan than I did. Why I 'otta!! We had so much fun with my family and loved spending a little more time with Greg before his mission. I was so glad I got to see the speedo one last time! :( (And hopefully the last! My retinas will be forever burned with the images I saw of the speedo.)
After our Grand Mexican adventure we went to Clint's parents house for New Years. It was so fun to spend a little time with Clint's family. It is hard living so far away and then wanting to spend even amounts of time with both families when we are home. It is so hard to do but both families are very understanding. We made it back just in time for Tyler's baptism. It was so fun to surprise everyone (we were supposed to still be in Mexico.) We went to movies, played games, and went out to eat!!!! We had so much fun but I found out I can't play games with Clint OR Brady. :):) (Those of you who witnessed my embarrassing meltdown I apologize.) We had our fun annual New Years Breakfast at the Jones'. I love that tradition and will always do it. We also got to go to Ellie's baby blessing, Davis' baby blessing, and I got to go to the MTC and see Elder Bullock off on his mission.
What a great start to the New years that we have had. We are so blessed to have such a great family and support system. I am so homesick and want to be back in Utah so bad, but we are excited for another fun filled year here in Hershey!! Sorry about my SO long blog and hopefully when I get my camera back I will post some fun pictures.

Finally...another blog!!

2007-11-28T18:14:00.000-08:00

So Stoic Emmi. She is such a drool machine.

Emmi and Daddy just haning out!!

Right before church. She is too cute if I can say
so myself.

I think she is on the verge of folding her arms. Isn't
she so cute??

Emmi and Lars. This is her first kiss. Clint was
a little worried it has already started. The next day when
Lars came over he was cleaning out his shot gun. :)

Sweet little Emmers

2007-11-07T07:32:00.001-08:00

I tried to do her hair because it is now
long enough. I don't know if you can see
it but it is sticking straight up in a little
rubber band. If you click on the picture
you can see it better.

Right before the bath. She found the toilet
paper and started unrolling it.

Isn't she sweet??

Just for you Whid!!

2007-11-07T06:55:00.000-08:00

Whitney wanted me to post some pictures of our homemade (last minute) Halloween costumes. We went to a party with all our friends and so I needed some costumes. I went to Salvation army and bought these little get ups. Clint is a farmer, I am a carrot ( but I look more like a cream sickle) and of course Emmi is our little bunny. Whid I hope you enjoy these!!! Oh and PS, we did win an award for "Best Costumes".

Farmer Clint and Emmi

Mommy the carrot and Emmi. Do you
like my slammin' awesome shoes??

Emmi looks dead but she is really asleep. And I
look really chubby but those clothes were about
3 sizes too big. And I had layers on because we
were outside. (I just had to add that because it
makes me feel a little better.)

Emmi and her new friend Reese. This is Jen Hull
and her little girl Reese. I went to high school with
her and she is now living in Hershey!!! YEAH!!

Halloween!!

2007-10-26T16:32:00.001-07:00

I love this picture of her sticking out
her tongue. It is her new thing.

So in Hershey they do things a little different when it comes to Halloween. They always do it the Thursday before Halloween. So yesterday was Trick or treating and we were going to go but I still wasn't feeling well (I was still stoned :)) so we just dressed her up and took some pictures. So she was our sweet little bunny rabbit. She looks SO cute. Thanks Heather for the costume!!!Happy Halloween!!!

She looks so bored in this picture.

Isn't she sweet???

Here is the backside. We like the fluffy tail.

She is reaching for the camera but it makes it
nice so you can see her face up close. She is too
cute if I can say so myself.

I'm Stoned

2007-10-26T16:08:00.000-07:00

So, finally something happened to me that was blog worthy. Wednesday I was coming home from pack meeting at the church (I am a Den Leader!!) and as I was driving home my back started hurting. Our church is about 20 min. away and I was dropping of a couple boys and then I dropped off another leader so it took me a while to get home. By the time I got to our apartment I was in so much pain. It started out feeling like I pulled a muscle in my back to where it felt like something inside of me had exploded. Good thing Clint was out in the parking lot when I got home because he had to carry Emmi upstairs because I was in so much pain. We started walking towards the door and I started throwing up. I was throwing up forever and finally I had it under enough control to walk inside, but as soon as I got inside I started throwing up again and screaming that I hurt SO bad. I was almost in hysterics and Emmi was crying because I was scaring her. Clint gave me a blessing and then we went to the ED. (Clint will be mad at me if I call it the ER. It is the Emergency Department, not Emergency Room.) Anyways, we get there and I run to the bathroom throwing up and Clint checked us in. We got in the room and they hooked me up to an IV and took some blood. They came in and told me it sounded like a Kidney Stone but they wanted to get a CT Scan just to make sure. Sure enough I had a little kidney stone traveling down my tubes. So they loaded me up on pain meds and sent me home. That night was a nightmare and I was up all night throwing up and didn't get to sleep until 5:30. So anyways...I am felling a lot better and I don't think I have passed the stone yet because they have me peeing into a strainer to catch it and all I have gotten is the piece that you see in the pictures. Clint and I think it is just a piece of it because at the hospital they told me that it was about 4 mm. And the piece that I have is NOT 4 mm. Hopefully there is more inside of me because if I was in that much pain over that little of a thing than I am a HUGE wuss. Anyways, that was kind of a funny little story...and PS having a kidney stone hurts worse that having a baby. I swear, but then again I had a epidural so.... :)

My Kidney Stone. Yes it is that tiny little speck
of a thing on the paper.

Yes I know that it is only as big as the tip of
that pen but it hurt SOOOOO bad. Like I said,
I hope there is more coming out because I feel
like a wuss crying over that little thing.

BORING!! cont...

2007-10-23T12:35:00.001-07:00

Emmi and mommy at the duck pond.

Emmi didn't like the ducks. Especially the Geese
they scared her when they quacked.

Right before church. I love this little outfit.

So cute sweetheart!!

She hardly ever smiles in pictures so we were
excited when we got this one. Isn't her smile so
cute?!!!

BORING!!

2007-10-23T12:15:00.000-07:00

I'm boring. Nothing new in life. I have been getting hounded by people to update the blog and today I finally have had time because the kids have been asleep for almost 2 hours!!!!!!YEAH!!!Go naps!!

Right before bed. She loves to play with Clint's
watches. And we love her "Love Bug" p.j.s

I went into check on her during nap. I found her
like this. This is usually how I find her but I was
able to get a picture this time. A couple days ago
we went in to see her and she was sucking on the
bunny's ear fast asleep. It was SO cute!

She likes to hang out upside down while she eats.

This picture is totally her personality.
Just hanging out mellow and observing.

We went to the duck pond by our house and took
some pictures. She wasn't too happy and hated
the grass. But they were cute. A little dark in her
face but so cute.

Cute Little Emmi

2007-10-02T11:11:00.000-07:00

So again, like all my other blog postings, nothing has really happened this week. I have been busy taking care of the babies and Clint is busy in school. That is pretty much our lives. I guess I really don't have anything exciting to say except that Emmi is darling. Here are some pictures for everyone to enjoy. Oh...and we want to tell Greg that we are so proud of him. The people in Rosario, Argentina are going to be so blessed to hear the gospel from you. You are going to be a great missionary. We love you!!

Emmi is finally eating real foods now. She loves to
get messy and spread the food all over. Clint hates
it and it drives him nuts when she is dirty (I guess
he has a little OCD) and so I took this picture to make
him mad... And because this is totally Emmi in this
picture.

I had to make some homemade wheat bread
for a church acitvity so Emmi and I put on our
matching aprons that Megan made us. We had
fun being twinners, and the bread turned
out pretty good as well. I am the next
Martha Stewart.

We were waiting for the bath tub to fill up and
Clint thought it would be funny to put her on
the towel rack. I love this picture with all of
her fat rolls everywhere. And that she looks
like she is going to fall asleep at any moment.

Here is the far away shot. She is our little
monkey!!

I think I already said how much she likes to
have her binki facing to opposite way, but I
finally got a picture to show everyone how
cute it is. She did that all by herself!!

Test Week

2007-09-22T20:55:00.000-07:00

Not a whole lot has happened to me this past week, but I am bored out of my mind because I can't turn on the TV. It is test week for "dictator" Clint and so the week of the test we aren't allowed to turn on the TV. It helps him get studing done, but I die of boredom. (As you can see test week makes me a little bitter towards Clint.) So I thought I would blog. All I did this week was babysit and take care of the kids. On Friday my friend went into labor and called us at 3:00 a.m. to see if we could take their son for the day. So they brought him over to sleep and I ended up sleeping next to him on the floor so he wouldn't get scared. The next day was just a blur to me. All I remember is that I had three kids to take care of. It was crazy but fun. It was definitely birth control for me. I am NOT ready to have anymore quite yet. Maybe in a couple more years. All you moms with more than one kid, I don't know how you do it everyday. You're amazing. Anyways...here are some fun pictures of our sweetheart Emmi. She is SO cute and tons of fun.

Bath time!! Emmi LOVES the bath
and loves to splash and suck all the
water out of the washcloth.

Emmi and her "boyfriend" Jaedon.
He loved to kiss her and sit behind
her and give her hugs.

We bought her some new binkies.
She had to test out all of them

She loves to sit with her feet crossed.
No matter what she is doing she always
crosses them.

Whenever I give her the binki she takes
it out and puts it back in upside down.
She thinks it is pretty funny.

Happy Birthday Bailee

2007-09-17T15:07:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BAILEE!!! We love and miss you so much. Emmi loves her favorite girl cousin on the Bullock side!! She wanted to make a poster for you since she can't talk yet. So these are some pictures we took of the poster we made for you. You are so special and you are getting so big. We can't believe you are 5 years old!! We heard you are going to preschool and can already write some words. That is so awesome. We hope you have a great day. Happy Birthday!! Love Uncle Clint, Aunt Dode, and Emmi.

Labor Day Weekend

2007-09-09T16:38:00.000-07:00

So another week has gone by. Things are going well for us. It is pretty much the same. We were able to go home to Utah over Labor day weekend. Clint's mom was diagnosed with Lung Cancer and had a pretty big surgery to take out the tumors, and so we flew out to Utah to see her and to be with the family. It was really good to see everyone and it was SO hard to fly back home. It just makes me look forward to the next time we come out there even more. We do want to say that Helen is our hero and we are so impressed with her and her optimism. She is really keeping our family afloat. We love you!!!
Emmi had her 6 month check up on Friday. She is getting so big and I can't believe I have a 6 month old. She is 14 lbs. 1 oz. and is about 25 inches. She grew one inch since her last appointment and gained one pound! She is getting HUGE. She can now sit up all by herself and would rather sit than lay down. She also has two teeth and they are so cute when she smiles but I hate them when she eats. Her new things is to bite me really hard when she is doen nursing. Yesterday she made me bleed. OUCH. But other than that nothing new is happening in Hershey. We miss everyone and can't wait to see you again!!

We had a family picnic after the
BYU game at Jeff and Kim's house.
It was SO fun.

Grandma and Grandpa Bullock

She is trying to show you her teeth!!

She is probably screaming in the picture
(her new thing) and I love the shorts
she is wearing for bed.

I've been tagged

2007-08-25T09:46:00.000-07:00

I've been tagged
1. Who is your man? Clinty Poo
2. How long have you been together? We've been married for 4 LONG years. Kidding. The best 4 years of my life!!
3. How long dated? We dated 6 months and then we were engaged for 2.
4. How old is your man? 26
5. Who eats more? He eats more when it comes to meals. I eat more snacks and sweets.
6. Who said "I love you" first? He told me he had something to tell me but he didn't want to scare me and I told him that I knew what it was and felt the same way. He asked me what it was and I told him I loved him. So technically I said it first but he brought it up.
7. Who is taller? Clint is, but not like I am hard to beat. I am 5'2 and he is 5'10
8. Who sings better? Me for sure. He always is singing songs but I can never guess what they are because he is way off tune. Sorry Clint...no offense.
9. Who is smarter? Let's think for a minute. I never graduated from college and he is in Medical School. He also was in the top 10% of his undergrad class and got 4.0 GPA the whole time in college except for the semester we dated. In that semester he got an A-. (My bad).
10. Who's temper is worse? His
11. Who does the laundry? I don't even think Clint knows what laundry is....kidding.
12..Who takes out the garbage? Me...becuase I am the one who fills it up with diapers.
13. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Clint...no matter where we go. It is kind of weird.
14. Who pays the bills? I do. But he makes sure we have the money. I just write the checks.
15. Who is better with the computer? I am.
16. Who mows the lawn? Our landlord...Briarcrest Gardens
17. Who cooks dinner? Me...most of the time. Clint will cook if he is really hungry and I didn't make anything. Other than that it is cereal night.
18. Who drives when you are together? I used to drive all the time because we fight really bad in the car. (I am a MAJOR backseat driver and Clint can keep his mouth shut when I drive), but lately Clint drives. Which means we have been fighting more...and taking less trips together:)
19. Who pays when you go out? Whoever has cash. If neither of us do then he pays.
20. Who is most stubborn? Me.
21. Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Clint...because I am never wrong!!
22. Whose parents do you see the most? Tie.
23. Who kissed who first? He kissed me.
24. Who asked who out? He called me but I had the date planned. I was stood up and so I just took Clint with me instead.
25. Who proposed? He did.
26. Who is more sensitive? Me, by a mile.
27. Who has more friends? Clint. We have great friends in the ward, but he also has all of his classmates.
28. Who has more siblings? Me, I have 8 he has 5.
29. Who wears the pants in the family? Emmi??

Hope this counts Linny!! Whid, Jill and Rachel...I am tagging you now!

More Emmi

2007-08-21T11:10:00.000-07:00

Sorry, more pictures. They wouldn't all fit on the last post. I hope you enjoy.

Emmi had a blow-out and so I put her
in one of my shirts. It was so big on her.

Just hanging out with dad right before church.

I had fun with her hair the other
night and got this crazy hair-do.

Emmi and mom right out of the bath.

Clint and I are already in trouble. We found out
She LOVES cell phones. She cries everytime I
talk on my phone and don't let her have it. We
finally gave her Clints old phone so that she can
play with hers while I talk on mine. What are we
going to do with her?!?!

Cute Baby

2007-08-21T10:18:00.001-07:00

So we haven't really been up to anything new these past few weeks. I am still at home with Emmi, but I am now taking care of a little boy named Lars every weekday. His mom is in Clint's class and his dad goes to school out of state so I am taking care of him for the time being. He is the same age as Emmi so it feels like I have twins!! But he is really good and so far it has been easy. Clint is in school once again. He is as busy as ever and it feels like he never even had a summer break. He enjoys school though so I guess that is good. Emmi is getting so big and has hit some milestones. She has her first tooth. It is barely there but I can sure feel it when she is eating :). She also rolled the other day. She was on her tummy and rolled to her back. I was so excited but I don't think she had any clue what had happened and just thought her mom was nuts. She also tried rice cereal for the first time. That was very unsuccessful. She kept spitting it out and then learned that if she clamped her mouth shut I couldn't get the spoon in, so I will have to keep trying but evertime I try to feed her she gets it everywhere. So yeah!! my little sweetheart is growing up. Here are some fun pictures of her. She is SO SO cute. We love our Emmers.

Here is her first attempt with cereal.
Notice it is all over. I don't think that
spoonful even made it in her mouth.

She is such a big girl and loves to sit
on the couch with me and Clint. She also
loves to fold her arms. It is so cute when
she does it.

Here she is with Lars. This is right before she
rolled for the first time. I'm so glad I got it on
camera because she hasn't done it since.

Here she is after the roll. Notice she is on top of Lars.
Lars can roll and so he is always rolling on her. I
thin kshe is getting him back.

She loves paper and was sitting on Clint's lap
and took this card from him. She is helping
him study his Pharmacology. Smart girl!!
(She is naked because I was getting her in
the bath. Don't worry...I do dress her!)

Hill Cumorah

2007-07-25T19:19:00.000-07:00

This week has been an adventure. There were some exciting and fun days and then there were bad days. First the fun ones. We went to the Hill Cumorah Pagent in Palmyra, New York with some of our friends. It was a blast. We camped in the nearby KOA campground and went and saw all the sights. We went to Hill Cumorah and went through the visitor center that they have there, and then we went to the top of the hill where they have a statue of Angel Moroni on the place were they think the plates were buried. Then we went to the Sacred Grove and walked around. It was awesome and the spirit that you felt there was amazing. It is definitely something you have to experience first-hand to understand. We then drove by the Palmyra Temple but didn't get out because it started to rain and we had to get our tin foil dinners on the fire so we could be on time to the pagent. It is one of the smaller temples but so beautiful. The pagent was awesome and had tons of cool stories from the Book of Mormon and then told the story of Joseph Smith. It was a really fun experience. It did however rain the WHOLE time we were there. And when I say rain it isn't the rain you think about back in Utah. When it rains here it is like a torrential downpour. It can rain 2-3 inches in minutes. No one here has sprinkler systems because of how much rain there is. All of the tents got wet except for ours so one of the couples that we went with ended up sleeping in their car. It was really fun though. I am glad we did something this summer since it is Clints only summer off.

Another "fun" adventure we had this past week was buying a new car. When Clint's parents were in town Clint was driving them to the airport and on the way our car broke down. Clint was an hour away and they had no way of getting to the airport. So Clint scrambled to get someone to come pick up his parents from the side of the Turnpike to get them to the airport while he took our car to the mechanic. Thank heavens for great friends and neighbors. Our friend Jeff was the hero of the day and got everyone to where they needed to be. (Even though Clint's family missed their flights and had to sleep in the airport). Anyways...long story short we got the diagnosis back for our car and the engine was completely shot and it wasn't worth it to fix so we sent it to the car dump and have been searching for a car ever since. Again...I say thank heavens for great friends who let us borrow their spare cars for the past week and a half. So we finally bought a car yesterday and included is the picture. It is a Ford Escape and we love it. Especially for the price we got it at.

Anyways...I am rambling and need to go to bed. Our family is doing great. Emmi is still so much fun and grows so much everyday. Clint starts school again in about two weeks and I am still plugging along. We love everyone and miss you all.

At the top of Hill Cumorah with Angel Moroni.

The Bassetts, The Duncans, and The Wrights in the Sacred Grove.

Hill Cumorah...(Emmi looks really mad :))

Her new trick. She loves to grab her feet and rock back and forth. She isn't rolling yet but at least she isn't just a bump on a log anymore. She was having fun with her Daddy and copying him when he would grab his feet. It was really cute. She would do it only when Clint did it. She loves her Dad!!

The new Shaggin' Wagon. It is an awesome ride. I feel like an official mom now in the "Mom mobile". (Clint was embarassed that I took a picture of our car. He said you could only take a picture of a car if it was a 1995 Ford Taurus. NERD ALERT!!)

New York

2007-07-18T18:20:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone,
It has been so long since I last updated our blog. I finally changed our computer setting so I am now able to put pictures on it!!! A lot has been going on since I last wrote. First and most important, we had a BEAUTIFUL baby girl. Emmi Kristine Duncan was born on March 5th. She is now 4 months old and getting so big. She is growing so much and has such a sweet personality. She is the best baby ever and really only cries when she is hungry or tired. She doesn't have a lot of tricks she can do, like rolling over, but she can sit up on her own if she has something supporting her back. She loves to giggle and loves to snuggle with Clint and me in bed in the morning. One thing that is so cute is she has a stuffed puppy (pictured above) that she LOVES. She is always hugging it or biting on it. She has to sleep with it or she just gets really fussy. We know that she doesn't have her puppy at nighttime when she starts to fuss, so all we have to do is give her the puppy and she goes right back to sleep. She is the sweetest baby in the whole world and we feel so blessed she is ours. Clint is now finished with his first year of medical school here at Penn State and has enjoyed every minute of it. He did really well in all of his classes and the teachers love him because he is such a hard worker. He is now doing research over the summer dealing with infants and pain management. He is also working at a sleep lab. I am enjoying being a mom and stay home most of the time with Emmi, but I work a couple hours a week at the library still. It has been nice to get some time to myself while Clint stays home with Emmi.

Clint's parents and Brady came to visit us a couple weeks ago and it was so much fun to have them here. We went to New York City and had a blast. It was a lot of fun. We saw most of the sights and even went to a Yankees game. We cheered for the Angels and got booed at when we took this picture (Clint has on an Angels hat). It was really fun and it was Emmi's first major league baseball game. What an adventure it was trying to get her to sleep. She cried every time the crowd cheered because they were so loud. It was really fun though. Anyways... that's whats been going on in our lives here in Hershey. We miss everyone and love all of you!!

Her one and only trick!!! Isn't she the cutest ever?!?!!!

October 2006

2006-10-10T13:23:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody!! Greetings from Hershey. We decided that we need to be able to share pictures and updates with everybody so we are starting a blog. Well we have been here for about 2 1/2 months and we are really enjoying it. Pennsylvania is a beautiful state, especially in the fall. Right behind the medical center there is a forest of trees and they are just turning red. Fall has been my favorite so far because there is no humidity..Yeah!!
Clint has been in school since the beginning of August and is really doing well. He is one of the top guys in his class and his teachers love him because he is such a hard worker. (I can say that because I have talked to one of them). He is studing anatomy and embryology right now and in November he is starting Histology and something else that has a medical name that I have forgotten. I am working at the college as a library assistant. It is a perfect job if you like sitting and surfing the web, because pretty much that is all I do. It really is a nice job though, especially being pregnant. I can work until I have the baby and then probably a couple of nights per week after she comes. Plus I like it because I get to see Clint more often. That is always a bonus.
Well we just had the second ultrasound of the baby and everything is looking great. From what we saw yesterday everything is growing normally and the baby is healthy. If some of you don't know yet we are going to have a little girl. We are so excited. That is what we wanted and if you ask Clint he knew it all along. (He actually called it the first time we heard the heartbeat.) But we are glad that we have finally broken the boy spell in both families. The last 7 babies born from both of our families have been boys so we are excited to finally get another girl. Yeah, another girl cousin for Bailee! We already know she is going to be the weak spot for Clint. She is going to make him melt. He is so excited. But anyways. I better get back to work but here are a couple pictures of me at 3 months Prego and there are some ultrasounds. The first one is at our 9 week appointment (they were checking to see if there we two), and the other is from a couple weeks ago, so 19 weeks. It is the baby's head face down with her back. Hope everyone is doing great. We'll write again soon