cousins

Emme waiting for her dad to come down the mountain after the Ridge Run

eating popsicles on a hot day in Missouri

Linc, Billy and Linc's friend Joey about to go explore the old Bozeman tunnel

Little ballerina

Linc, trying to get Emme to hold still for a photo op

Pretty girl

My most handsome, sweet boy

Isaac, Ava and Amelea all cuddled up in bed.

A few things Lincoln said that are funny:

*After Emme just bit him, "Mom................... Emme just boot me." He thought for a long time about how he should say that. He knew it wasn't Emme bite him. Just got it wrong. It was hilarious.

*"Mom, for my birthday party tomorrow I want a Spider Man cake, for my birthday party at Nani and Papa's, I want a Transformers cake, and for my birthday at Aunt Shellie's I want a butterfly cake." I paused for a bit and said, "Butterfly cake?" to which he replied "yea mom, butterflies aren't just for girls."

*On his trip over to Aunt Shellie's for said birthday, he rode with his Grandma Peggy and Uncle Tommy. When they arrived in Kalispell, Peggy noticed a police man was following her, then two, then three. Finally they all turned their lights on and so she pulled over. They then proceeded to get out of their cars, crouch down behind their open doors and pull their guns out. Over a loud speaker they told the passengers of the vehicle to put their hands up and slowly roll their windows down and put their hands out the window. Lincoln could barely get his little hands out of the window. They then told Peggy to come out with her hands up. She was angry and very scared at this point and asked then after she complied what the hell was going on. They told her they received several phone calls that someone was pointing a gun at people on the streets in the back seat. Whoops- That was Lincoln pointing his two toy guns out the window. Won't be doing that again. After they learned it was a 3 year old, they all felt embarrassed and were extra nice.

Emme is currently walking around the house in her Sunday dress with a spoon and carton of frosting she took out of the garbage can(!) happily eating away. She is getting sassy. But she gives me kisses when I ask for them so she gets away with it..

Old one of Billy before my c-section.

Naked babos. Emme and her cousin Brody

Jordan is a cross-fit fanatic. That's ok tho, cause look at her abs!!

swimming

Billy's 32nd!

Lincoln and his friends at his birthday party

Emme thought she'd try out the cake before everyone else: notice the side of the cake where she grabbed a chunk.

Lincoln driving Emme around in a Barbie Jeep

Missing Kate when my sister's came to town in June.

Linc trying out his new helmet.

Emme and Berklie

Emme made friends with this old grandpa.

Watching the fireworks after the rodeo.

Aunt Libba and Emme at the rodeo

Enjoying some blue raspberry slushy

Emme trying on her boots.

Lincoln and Addy-- best friends :)

May 2011

Standing under some cover at the Dinosaur park during a downpour.

Lincoln left some fruit puffs on the floor near the door in Emme's room last night. This morning I heard Emme SCREAMING in her room. Lincoln goes, "Mom-- go check on Emme." I said, "Why don't you go climb into bed with her." (He usually does every morning) He says, "No- I'm sleeping" rolls over and pulls the covers up over his head. Ok then. So I head into Emme's room to grab her and realize she's not crying, she's literally just screaming at the top of her lungs. She was reaching through her crib as far as her little arm would go, trying to grab the fruit puffs on the floor. She was only about five feet away from them, but she was NOT going to give up. She WANTED THOSE FRUIT PUFFS!!

A couple hours later, I was sitting on the couch and she had my phone. I noticed the screen wasn't locked, and she was about to call somebody. So I reached over and locked my phone, but immediately gave it back to her. It made her so mad, she threw the phone at me and then threw herself on the floor and started screaming. Nice. I don't remember these little fits starting so early. Guess I'm in for it.

Whenever Emme is hungry she goes straight to the cabinet where we store her food. She grabs whatever looks good to her and brings it over to me and throws it at me. She's so funny. She literally rummages through it to pick out what she wants. Sometimes it's spaghetti, sometimes chicken and rice. Sometimes it's a jar of pears or bananas, and sometimes it's fruit puffs, cheetoh puffs or a fruit rollup.

This morning Lincoln was looking at the globe we have and said, "Mama, where do we live?" So I pointed to Montana and he said "oh, and this is where Mexico and the beach is." And he pointed exactly to where we went in November! He's so smart. He is counting. He can get to about 20, but for some reason he always gets stuck on ten. He wants to start back over at four every time he gets to ten. He loves reading books, and is awesome at picking out letters. His favorite letters are O and S. He loves to sing. He sings all the time. Billy said he sang the whole way home from Great Falls on Sunday, saying "There's a rat in the kitchen, what am I gonna do with that rat? I'm gonna fix that rat. Oh Yeah. I'm gonna fix that rat, I'm gonna bang that rat. Oh Yeah."

I have the cutest kids...

Lincoln's hair is so long he needs a ponytail

My Sweetie

My Sassy

She insists on feeding herself, so this is the result. I think she made some of it into her mouth.

my little ham

eating some chicken she stole off the table