Happy 2nd Birthday, Emma!!

Emma Boo turned 2 today!!!  We celebrated her birthday yesterday with cake&ice cream and lots and lots of presents!  Most of my family (Mom&Dad, Thomas & I, Kelli, Jamie, Chris, Grandma Masters) chipped in on a "Big Piano" for Emma.  It's a piano mat made by FAO Schwarz that you walk across to play.  You can record songs you make and change the keys to make different sounds (piano, trumpet, horn, violin, etc).  Emma wasn't really sure what to do at first but I think she likes it!  She also got finger puppets, a movie, books, puzzles, and more!  Lucky girl :]

 

Happy Birthday, Emma!

4th of July 2010

Even though I was sad to not celebrate the 4th with Thomas I still had a great time with my sisters!  Kelli and I went to a BBQ Laurin and Mark set up for their friends in the ward and then watched the kids do fireworks in the street.  Pictures are worth 1000 words so I will save you the boring stuff and you can judge for yourself all the fun we had by looking at the pictures! (oh...except PS...so as not to confuse you for tomorrow's post this was really on the 3rd of July...we're weird...we are celebrating the 4th on the 3rd and the 5th on the 4th...you'll see)

 

this weird cat came up to us after the BBQ and just wanted to sit on our laps and be cuddled. what random cat does that?

 

emma didn't really like the fireworks...

Real Salt Lake game

Tonight part of my team went to a Real Salt Lake professional soccer game.  It was so fun!  Real won 5-0!  Four girls were able to attend: Brooke, Lindsay, Maddy, and Hunter.  Since it was almost the 4th of July they let everyone onto the field at the end of the game and did fireworks.  So fun!

Brooke, Maddy, Lindsay, Hunter, Coach :]

Holmes Family Reunion

This weekend we had a family reunion for my maternal grandmother's family.  Lots of my aunts, uncles and first cousins who we haven't seen in awhile were able to come and that was so fun!  We also met lots of other family--second cousins, cousins once removed--who even knows how we're all related?

Anyway...we spent some time at a campground up Hobble Creek canyon in Springville.  Nobody camped as some had planned because it was rainy all weekend.  But we still had lots of fun hanging out together by the fire under the pavilion (why does it seem weird that this is JUNE?!) and we got out to the field to play soccer, tag, etc with all the cousins when the sun showed itself every now and then.

Pictures?  Of course!...

all wet from playing soccer in the downpour!

 

(great) grandma masters with max, grandma davis (mom) with emma

We spent all day Sunday in Spanish Fork at the Woodland's house with my aunts, uncles and first cousins.

 

Left to right: Aunt Michelle, Uncle Paul, Grandma Masters, Mom, Uncle Mark

 

My beautiful cousin, AnnMarie

 

George and AnnMarie with Emma (cousin once removed?)

 

oh, and i did emma's hair really cute for church :]

Chris!

Chris came to visit this week just for fun!  We had a good time even though I don't have many pictures to prove it.  Most days he came with me to work and played with the kids.  We played a lot of soccer and went to some fun places.  At home, Thomas enjoyed having someone to play Halo (and other video games) with.  Thanks for coming to visit, Chris!

Max's Baby Blessing

Mr. Max was blessed today :]  It was so fun to be together with everyone.  Max is getting so big and is so adorable!

After the baby blessing we (me kelli jess jamie thomas mark chris) played soccer at a field near Laurin and Mark's house.  It was really warm out so we ran through the sprinklers at the end (proof: last picture).