Emeri's 1st Birthday!

I can't believe our cute little Emeri is 1 year old! Her Birthday was on January 4th and we had a lot of fun. This is a picture of her first thing in the morning.

Our friend Jim sent Emeri a birthday card on the computer. We had to keep playing it over and over because she loved it so much.

Here's the card. She absolutely loves dogs! They barked Happy Birthday to her :)

Emeri and Momma.

Emeri and Daddy.

Here's her cake and her cute decorations that I found at the dollar store.

Emeri's cake. It's not that great because I had limited time. Someday I will get my cake decorating talent back :)

They were out of the balloons that matched with her decorations so I chose this one. She loved it.

The picture just before she digs in.

Or not :) She only touched the cake once with her finger and then she hurried and wiped her finger off. After that she wouldn't touch it so I took her hand and put it in the cake and that's why she's crying. She hates being messy.

Damage on the cake....The hole in the middle is where the candle was. You can also see her handprint which is where I stuck her hand. Bottom line....she didn't really damage it, I did haha.

Birthday hat (that she hated, she doesn't like anything on her head).


Opening presents. She is such a pro at this. This last Christmas she opened her very first present just like she had been doing it for years. I'm not sure how she learned this because she had never seen a present opened before. She has to tear off every piece and hand it to you. She won't look at the present until every last piece of paper and tape is off.

First purse.

She loves standing up.

Do you think she liked the phone we got her? I can't tell because all I see is a huge grin on her face hahaha.

When she gets excited she breathes in and makes a noise which I obviously can't explain by typing but trust me, it's so cute.

She loves phones and actually likes this one because it kind of looks like a real phone. However, she still likes to find ours and play with them and she always sends random texts to people usually late at night :) (sorry if you have been one of the victims)

She kept trying to eat this when I blew it at her.

She doesn't know how to blow yet but she wanted to give it a try.

Playing with her new toy standing up.

She threw a complete fit every time the music stopped even though she knew how to make it turn on again. It was so funny.

One last picture before bed.

Time for an update.

The past few months have just flown by and I had basically forgotten about our blog. Emeri is growing so fast. She is 10 months old. She can stand up to furniture, walk using the furniture, still working on the crawling but she is getting the hang of it, claps, dances a little, starting to talk some (well, baby talk I guess), eats some real food and baby food still, opens drawers and cupboards (and empties them), takes out the batteries in the remote, watches t.v. a little, and laughs all the time. She is so much fun! Since I haven't updated the blog for a while there have been quite a few pictures taken so I just picked some random ones and then a few from Halloween. The pictures are in order from oldest to newest.

Willow Park Zoo. She always makes this old person face whenever we go out in public. It's so funny.

How she usually sleeps now.

Down on the farm with Destiny and Grandpa.

Drivin' the Bobcat.

Playing the piano with Grandpa.

Emptying out the drawer and obviously loving it.

Helping do the laundry. She took all her clothes out of the laundry basket as I was trying to put them in haha. She does this everytime I do laundry now.

Halloween with cousin Ashlyn.

Daddy and Emeri at the trunk or treat.

Emeri and cousin Olivia.

Little Pumpkin Emeri. I had to tie a pink bow on top because everyone kept saying she was a cute little guy. Later I put on a bigger pink bow because the little one wasn't convincing enough I guess :)

Emeri and momma.

Trying to eat the licorice.

She couldn't fit anymore candy in her hands. You'll notice that in all the pictures she is always holding or sucking on candy (with the wrappers on, we didn't let her eat the candy just play with it). I guess she takes after me and not her dad (Matt would rather eat something healthy) because anyone who knows me knows that I love candy and have to have it, it's a medical condition ;). We had so much fun taking Emeri around on Halloween with her cousins. She loves to be outside and loves to watch people and she had a lot of fun.

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Advanced crawling

Emeri's crawl

Emeri's been finding her way around the house for a while now but about a couple weeks ago she started trying to crawl (I guess you could call it that).

Oliva Ruth Mellor

I should have posted this before my last post but I wasn't thinking too clearly. Olivia Ruth Mellor was born on June 29th at 11:22 p.m. She weighed 7lbs 12oz and was 20 inches long. She is my older brother's second baby.

We took this picture while we were waiting for Olivia to be born. This is 4 generations. Emeri, me, my mom and my mom's mom.

4th of July

I made this dress for Emeri yesterday. There's a matching hat too but I didn't really get any pictures of her wearing it. We went to my brother's house for dinner and we watched the Brigham City fireworks show. We had a lot of fun.

Here is Emeri with her cousins, Ashlyn & Olivia (born on June 29th). I made Olivia's dress also and a little skirt for Ashlyn.

Our camera has a firework setting and I thought this one turned out pretty good.

Me and Emeri with a sparkler. The fireworks didn't even phase her (the ones at the park and the home ones). We thought she might get scared or be really excited but she was neither haha. After a few fireworks she was bored. Her favorite fireworks were the sparklers.

Brandin and Holly (my older brother and his wife). They are Ashlyn's and Olivia's parents.
Matt and Emeri after the fireworks were done.