As most of you know, our beloved prophet, Gordon B. Hinckley, passed away a few weeks ago. His sense of humor and warm spirit will be missed. I heard the news while at my parents on that Sunday night, and he had passed away an hour before I heard the news. While death is normally a sad thing, I couldn't help but think to myself of how happy he is to be with his lovely wife who passed on several years ago. President Hinckley passed away of natural causes, and was 97 years old.
Several days later I got news of a boy who used to live in my neighborhood passing away. This boy was in his early twenties, and had been severely depressed for some time. He decided to take his own life, and succeeded in doing so. This boy was so young, and his death was devastating to his family.
When I received news of the young man taking his own life, I couldn't help but think of the contrast between the two deaths. Yet, I thought of the similarities as well. I am sure when Pres Hinckley died, his sweet wife was so happy to greet him. I am certain it felt to him like coming home, and that our Heavenly Father was there to say hello to his friend.
When the young man took his own life, I am certain our Heavenly Father was there and was just as happy that the pain His son had been experiencing was over. We are all children of God, and His love is the same for each of us, regardless of our circumstance, and despite our issues in this life. I am grateful for the mercy and love Heavenly Father and Jesus have for each of us equally.

Emmy....... trapped

Emmy just loves to play in corners. Something about tight spaces suits her just fine. She will scoot chairs out from walls about six inches and squeeze her saggy bottom behind them to play in the tiny space she created. I know, I think its a little weird myself. Maybe all kids do this?
Well, the desk we have at the end of our front room has a small area the chair fits. She loves to scoot it out just enough to squeeze back there and most of the time she brings a book to read, or whatever her 'treasure' is at that moment (in this picture it is an old cell phone of mommy's & her Elmo trick or treat bucket). The other morning I was putting a load of laundry in, and I heard her frustration cry, and it got louder. I peeked my head around the corner and saw that she had trapped herself underneath the chair and couldn't get out. It was so cute, she was so mad and all I could do was laugh and take a picture. Maybe that makes me mean, but it was too cute to pass up the photo opportunity.

PIGTAILS!!!!

Well, Emmy's has always had hair, and her mommy finally decided to do something with it! I think she looks so much bigger with pigtails for some reason, I guess more grown up. I thought she would pull out the hairholders and eat them or something, but she is really good -- she just forgets they are there, it's great. She is so much fun at this stage, really understanding and responding to all my questions. She knows animals sounds for sheep, cow, and monkey, and is just a happy cute little girl. I am so blessed to have her, and to be able to be home with her all the time. She is such a great baby girl.
We went to the park the other day, and it was the first time since she started walking. Within the first 90 seconds at the park, she fell and scraped her face. Thus, the big red mark on her left cheek. She loved walking around at the park, had a great time.

Our little mover

Emmy is so fun, never a dull moment with her. She is walking so well, and she has always been a dancer and more so now that she's on her feet. This is of her and her favorite blanket, which she lately wears as a cape. She is watching the Backyardigans on Nick Jr. She doesn't watch a whole lot of TV, but she loves Little Einsteins, Backyardigans, and a show called Yo Gabba Gabba, which you all need to look up on You Tube. Yo Gabba Gabba is a techno music show for kids, it is really weird but Emmy loves to dance to the beat. She doesn't dance a whole lot in this segment, but its all I could catch on film, she's camera shy.

Nap Sharing

Who says you need two cribs for two babies? Celeste and I had been gone all day with the kids, we went to Ikea, Costco Home, etc. and our babies were so good they fell asleep on the ride back to my condo. For those of you that don't know Tyler, he doesn't nap much, so we had to take advantage of this nap. We lay both babies down in Emmy's crib since they were already asleep, and they slept for over an hour like this. Then Emmy woke up and was a little mad someone else was in her crib. It was too funny to not take a picture.

Weekend in Tucson

We spent this past weekend in Tucson. It was so much fun! We had a picnic at a disc golf park, and got to watch old men hippies play disc golf (frisbee), played the train game, ate yummy chinese food at May Flower, played the train game, played cards, and played the train game. So basically we and Roger/Kelly are obsessed with the train game. It is so fun! Anyone want to play? Kelly has pictures of the picnic, I will come back and post one when I get it (Kel- if you read this before I get time to call you, will you email it to me? Thanks:). It was so much fun to spend the weekend with Roger and Kelly, they are so much fun and so easy going. Emmy really started walking so much more in the two days we were there too. I think she just really liked their cute apartment, it was small and great to walk around in for her. It was like watching pinball, she would go from one wall to another, then the cabinents, then the table..... It was cute. She had a good weekend there.

We have a full time walker on our hands!

So Emmy started walking about a month ago, at least her first steps were then. Boy is she walking now! She is walking everywhere, and of course takes lots of spills. She fell into the lazy-boy footrest at Mamaw and Papaw's house last night and scraped up her nose. Its bruised, but she is a tough girl, hardly crying at all.

Here is a video of her walking. As Mamaw says, she looks like Charlie Chaplin when he's pretending to be a drunk, she just needs a cane and hat.