Crazy life

Life gets so crazy sometimes. Well, sometimes meaning I have a week that isn't crazy about every 4 weeks. ;)

Not last week, but the week before, I went to a teacher development class for two days. My amazing awsome wonderful parents babysat Emi for 8 hours each day so I could go. My dad even watched her for most of one day by himself! I was impressed. And grateful to both of them, of course. I think Emi and Pampa (that's how Grandpa comes out when she says it) bonded that day.

The course was on how to use Adobe Flash CS4. It counts toward keeping my teaching certificate valid, but the real reason I wanted to take it was because I want to do a flash website for my photography. I think I learned enough to do it, too. I'm really excited. I had to do some homework, though--a project that was related to teaching. So I decided to make a game for Emilia that would teach her her letter names. She's been pointing to letters on EVERYTHING lately and making up names for them until I say their real names. I mean, she points to bulletin boards, trucks advertising whatever, my t-shirts, real-estate signs, license plates, diaper boxes, etc. You get the picture. I've done through the letter J so far, but I'll put it up here when it's finished so you can see how cool I am. :)

I also had 3 photography jobs this month, so I've been working on those pictures, and Steve's boss's wife is starting a kids' clothing business and I'm going tomorrow to show her some of my bows and my fairy costume I made to see if she'll sell them at her store.

Oh, I also made Emilia's halloween costume. She's going to be Princess Leia. It's going to be so CUTE! I'll post pictures if I can get Emi to leave the hat on long enough to take one. Haha.

Here are some more pictures of the cuteness:

She loves her daddy! She crawled up and cuddled into his shoulder after I changed her diaper in the morning.

Emi in her warm PJs. The top part fits her pretty well, but the legs are way too long. haha

You can see her third tooth really well in this one, even though it's not a great picture of her.

A typical Emi face. Especially when Momma is telling her something she doesn' t like. It is usually followed by "No!" "Don!" (Don't) or "Dop!" (Stop).The other night we had olives with our dinner, and Emi didn't want to try them until I put them on my fingers. Then she wanted to try it too and would eat them off her fingers. She didn't like daddy taking a picture of it though! :)

And last, but not least, we were at my parents' house yesterday to celebrate Alison's and Steve's birthdays, and Emi saw that Daddy got a sucker (from Ariana). She really wanted it, so we let her try it. It happened to be blue raspberry flavored. She loved it, if you can't tell.

I hereby proclaim us the League of Benevolent Goodness

Steve and I were discussing my book the other day and we decided that the good guys are going to be mockingly called the League of Benevolent Goodness. Haha. (I am giggling at my own humor because I am like my father.) The name came about mostly because of the show I mention below. Keep reading!!

This morning Emilia and I played Frogg Rocket at Cartoon Network. Our high score was 305,400. Beat that Ah-ahahahah! Have I mentioned that League of Super Evil is a stinkin hilarious cartoon? You should check it out. They have episodes for free online.

Emilia and I also figured out our DJ names the other day. Steve's box of Reeses Cereal had a DJ name mixer on the back. Emi was Megatron J and I was Division Jack.

Also, I finally have a new video of my amazing daughter. Here you go:

Apparently ducks like Cheerios

As I think I've told you before, there is a canal that runs in front of our house that has a number of ducks that live in it. This spring, we got to see at least three families of ducks with the tiny little ducklings swimming in the water. It was amazing.

Well those little ducklings are all grown up now and we can't tell the difference between them and their mother. And now that they're big, they're not nearly as afraid of us as they once were. They saw us (Emi and me) as they were swimming by the other day, and they got out of the canal and walked over to us expecting us to feed them something tasty. I didn't have any bread heels at the time, so I grabbed a box of Cheerios to feed them. They loved them! And Emi liked eating them, too.

Let me just say, that I found it a little forward of the ducks to come to us demanding food! Sheesh.

Steve's parents were nice enough to give us tickets to the BYU/CSU football game last Saturday, PLUS they offered to babysit, so we hightailed our butts down there and watched some football. It was definitely warmer down there than up here. We roasted during the first half of the game. I get heat exhaustion easily, and I was feeling pretty ill by half-time. Some time spend under the bleachers (haha! there were about 40,000 other people under the bleachers with us too, so you just do what you want with that one.) in the shade and on the cold pavement helped, and after that the sun was going down. My gallant husband (and tall!) also let me stand in his shadow, so the rest of the game was much better. We won ( :p to Aunt Amy), so the game was way better than last week's, thank goodness!

Sometime during the rest of the weekend, Wilda mentioned to me that she had a whole bunch of extra tulle from one of Nicoletta's old prom dresses that she wanted to make into a tutu. Coincidentally, I had been doing some research on how to make those, so I decided to make it for her while Emi was napping on Sunday. It was really cute!

Other than that, not much new going on. Steve is working the same job and teaching one section of sophomore writing as well as taking one class. I have a few photography jobs lined up. I had one today and one last Saturday for the same person (bridals and wedding), and I have a family shoot and an individual next week and the first week of November. Things are pretty swell at the moment. :0)

Love you all!
Brina