Emmy the Amazing!

So here is an update for the arizona Dannenbergs.

Emmy has recently picked up two new tricks out of know where. We are not sure where she picked this up, possibly from some friends of ours, but she plays peek-a-boo with blankets, hands, etc.... She also decided to start clapping. This were sure she got from her cousin tyler. In other emmy news, shes still an adventurer and a tough kid. She can take a good tumble. Shes also getting in her third tooth!! Its poking through.

As far as bekah goes, shes busy with watching emmy during the day and working part time at night.

And I (dan) am still cranking it out at ASU. Its crazy busy though. As it should being the 2nd busiest campus in the nation!!!!!! I have usualy an hour and a half inbetween classes which is great for homework and lunch. Lunch though is quite pricey on campus, so I try to bring food or on thursdays the Institute building has $1 lunchs. (The Institute is an LDS building that has gospel classes you can take, its really cool). So far im loving school still. The design college is VERY competitive, but I like that. Out of the 300 students in my class, only 44 will be accepted for the 2 - 4 years of the school!!!! Its REALLY intense. But, I love challanges and their course do that for me.

MONKEYS CAN CLIMB BUT THEY DON'T BITE!!!

Hello again, so soon! Just an update on our little family. Emmy never ceases to amaze me. She is getting her top teeth, one has been cutting through for the past few days. She is wonderful about it. Just a little upset here and there, couldn't ask for a better teether. She is so obsessed with her tooth, she has to chew everything, and sometimes trys to bite things she shouldn't (like my arm, and tyler's head!!!). She has also been climbing everything. Every time I look over at her, she is climbing something different. Here is a picture from this morning, she climbed into her toy basket with one leg, to try to get to Elmo on the tv, and couldn't get the other leg in or her one leg out! She got stuck, and wasn't quite sure what to do about it. I don't even know how she got in there, since its about waist height for her. She is a monkey girl, maybe she should be one for halloween ..... hmmm

Emmy's third tooth and my ramblings about things!!!!

Emmy has her third (upper front tooth) coming in!!! Its just now slowly poking through and I must say she handles teeth coming in like a pro. Shes been a trooper as always. Shes kinda slowed down with the growing, but with her massive sleeping epidemics lately we might be wrong.

School is alive and kicking for me. Im taking a full load and studing: Design Awareness, Design History, Designing Life, and a Studio class. Of course my favorite is the Studio because its hands on. I got my Mac, laptop computer for school and I must say, I LOVE IT!!!! The simplicity of the thing is unreal and brilliant. I use it for graphic programs and it handles it perfectly. I love it so much I think I might name it and give it a placemat at our dinner table.

In other news!!! My beard is officially gone (at least until the sequel is permitted). Bekah and I were released with the cub scouts at church and I was given a new calling. Bekah is yet to recieve hers. My new calling is Assistant Priest Quroum Advisor. I help out with the 16 - 18 year old boys with teaching their class on sunday, or going to events with them or camping, etc...
It should be fun. But, back to the beard. I shaved the beard off because bekah and I agree that I am teaching and helping these young men prepare for missions, so it felt appropriate to be more clean shaven. Emmy really likes it too!!! thats a plus.
(note: callings are church duties assigned to church members to help run the church, every position in the church is a calling and based on the willingness of the member to serve) not sure if everybody knew what a calling was or not

bye
-dan

Labor Day Weekend!!!!!

Well, labor day weekend just passed and it was great. We spent the 3 day weekend with family the whole weekend just laying low and having fun. The Bekah, Celeste and Kelly went shopping on saturday with the babies freeing up the guys schedual!!!! Wrong, well partly wrong. We cleaned the insides of our cars and then we played Rogers new Nintendo Wii!!! Gotta love video games.

Roger (bekahs brother) and Kelly (his wife) came down for this weekend and had a good time with them. Kellys fairly new to the family and she handles our odd ball craziness like a pro, she fits in as if shes always been family. We love her as a new edition. And shes picking up High-Low (card game) really well. (sorry for losing with you kelly, dont let anybody tell you what to do in cards, your doing fine without them!)

Dan's first week of school!

Well, Dan has officially started college - he's a SunDevil! He had a good first week, while Bekah stayed home and waited for Fed Ex and UPS everyday! Dan has his new Apple laptop, and has already been 'geeking' it out quite a bit.

He also gets to ride the bus everyday to school, it saves us a lot of money in gas, not to mention the $500 for a parking pass (yes that is five hundred dollars!)!!!! Dan's favorite bus moment so far is when two guys started fighting over a seat, and the bigger guy finally got up in the small guy's face and said "I'm getting off at your stop today, esse" - and then did get off at his stop! Other than the bus rides, he seems to love school. He is immersed in art and computers, what more could he want in life?

Emmy is doing well - we call her our little monster. She is all over the place. Already she is walking around furniture and pulling herself to standing almost unassisted! She gets cuter everyday.... this is such a fun age for her to be in! Her personality is really showing. We will post more pictures soon.

Emmys going swimming!

Emmy loves going swimming. Though at first she didnt care for it, but now, she loves splashing everyone.

Emmy Vs. the Strawberry

Here are some pics of emmy having fun with her favorite food, strawberries. We have to get her dressed down to only her diapers due to the mess she makes. She is cute though.