San Antonio!!

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

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!!!

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

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!!!

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!

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

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!!!