1 year of Emery

I love how people usually do a string of pics from the whole 1st year of their child's life... so here it is! I can't believe this post has come (3 weeks + late) and how big our tiny 6 1/2 lb baby has gotten!

our favorite newborn pic. just minutes old.

1 month old

2 months and smiling

3 months and finally chubby

4 months and adventuring

5 months and laughing... hysterically!

6 months and sitting up

7 months and independent

8 months and hiking

9 months and eating sticks... and anything else she can get her hands on

10 months and spunky

11 months and adorable

1 year old... so big and on a sugar high! (she stayed up 3 1/2 hours after her birthday cupcake in las vegas! yikes!)

for those of you also hoping for #2...

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happy birthday old guy!

my wonderful husband turned 26 on Monday! it seems like just yesterday we were 20 and 22-year-old newlyweds. at that point i thought i could never love him more, but i love him more now than i ever thought possible. i love you, aar!

we had fun celebrating his bday. we went climbing at the Quarry where we put Em in her 1st kiddy harness and then we went to the BYU Creamery and got kids meals - something we used to do all the time, but hadn't done since Em was born. For his present, I made him an apple pie and got him a bag of mini 3 Musketeers. :)

em eating ketchup. yummm.

for dinner, she had this french fry, grapes, ketchup and my entire ice cream cone (just the cone, no ice cream) on the way home in her carseat.

swinging in her 1st kiddy harness experience!

i heart coupons!!!!

so, i've recently gotten into couponing... and i love it. i'm not a die hard, but i do use them almost every time i shop and i get some pretty sweet deals. nothing makes me happier than free (or crazy cheap) stuff. i love it. here's what i have gotten this week.


bag of 3 musketeers minis (for Aaron's birthday) - $1
loreal vive pro shampoo and conditioner - $1 each
2 bottles loreal kids shampoo - $1 each
garnier fructis shampoo and conditioner - $1 each
box of kleenex brand tissues with lotion (deluxe!) - $0.54
2 Reach toothbrushes - $0.50 each
2 Johnson's Buddies soap - FREE
8 pack of Juicy Juice - FREE
16 bottles of Sobe Life Water - FREE
10 Soy Joy protein bars - i MADE $3 - yes they paid me $3 to take them home. sweet.
the joy and satisfaction of getting free stuff - PRICELESS!!!!!!

emery's boyfriend

i know emery has been spoken for by several tiny men (russ-russ, liam and jacob to name a few), but she seems to be testing the waters on her own. this is her boyfriend tanner. tanner is 2 and he says he's going to marry emery. tanner crawls when she's around and they just follow each other around the climbing gym or wherever they are. it's adorable. his parents are our climbing friends, Aaron and Jen. they are fun to climb and hang out with and the babies love it too - they are entertained for longer when they have a buddy!

em has gotten more advanced in her climbing technique. she can now hang on to a hold, put her foot on the wall and try to pull up with her arms! too cute and her daddy is soooooo proud.

Christmas week in review

We got to spend 9 days with my family over Christmas this year! It was so much fun! Here's a quick list of what we did and pics below:

• surprised my parents by coming 2 days early
• hiked Sloan Canyon and to the top of a peak we named "Sheep Poop Peak" - I'm sure you can imagine why
• went to my parent's Ward Christmas program and saw some friends I hadn't seen in forever
• ate yummy Cuban food ala Jer (my bro) with the whole fam including Gma and Gpa Wimmer
• found out my brother Matt, Amy and Miles (2 weeks younger than Em) are moving west, just 2 hours from Vegas. YAHOO!!!
• did our sibling gift exchange and cousin gift exchange (Matt and Amy got us new BPA free Nalgenes out of concern for our health and Ems got a cute shirt and pink sparkly shoes from Abe)
• Aaron climbed at the Craft boulders
• went to the Las Vegas Springs Preserve with Matt, Amy and Miles
• ate at Macayo - the family tradition
• my dad - an awesome cook - treated us to his bacon fried rice, two different stir fries and homemade granola. so good.
• made funeral potatoes, spinach salad, creamed corn and 4 pies for Christmas Eve dinner
• got a new camera for Christmas - it's water proof and even has a "food" setting. rad. thanks mom and dad!
• em got blocks and cool ABC fridge magnets - thanks gma and gpa!
• helped Mel make "terds" for Christmas morning breakfast - my dad named them that. they are little round balls that sort of taste like pancakes but you can fill them with stuff.
• got my dad to play a game of settlers of catan with us (yes this is a miracle if you know my dad). he even liked it!
• went birthday shopping at Target, Nordstrom's Rack and Trader Joe's (whole wheat pasta, quick Indian food and lots of other yummy things I'm too cheap to buy myself)
• saw the nutcracker ballet
• Aaron surprised me by throwing me a surprise bday party. it was so fun to see my friends.
  celebrated Em's birthday with mine so the fam could see her dig in to her own cupcake. adorable - but it meant a sugar high 3 1/2 hours past her bedtime
• saw 3 movies. we took Em to 1 of them. bad idea. (my favorite was The Tale of Despereaux - so cute and taught kids such good morals!)
• bought a baby backpack last minute on craigslist for $35. the lady had never used it. sweet deal.
• took Em on a hike to goldstrike hotsprings in the above mentioned pack. she took and nap and almost froze solid all in a few hours time.
• ate at In-n-Out Burger
• stopped in Cedar City to go to Church on the way home and met a nice guy who is helping give Aaron the low down on grad school at SUU (since we may end up there)

dad and i at the top of sheep poop peak

the whole crew at the top (except Aaron who is taking the pic)

the two prettiest red heads i know with me at my bday party

linds, lewis and i at my bday party

clay and i at my party - i've know him since 6th grade band (where we played percussion)

the whole party crew (without family)

hiking to goldstrike hotsprings

em loved her pack...

enough to take a nap even

pretty present

picking her nose

cute cousins, em and miles

just relaxing

4 generations - way cool

bry and amber - so cute!

December 29th - a day to celebrate life

Yesterday was Emery's 1st birthday - I won't be posting pictures because we haven't had a celebration yet (except for a mini one in Vegas, but I think I'll post them all together), but I will post them when we have them! I can't believe she is one whole year old. It really is crazy to think she's been here for that long. She is my big girl now and that makes me happy and sad at the same time.

We also celebrated another life yesterday - Aaron's "Grammy". She died on the 23rd and we celebrated her life through funeral services yesterday. We're thankful for the Gospel perspective that makes such a day one of rejoicing and memory rather than one of sorrow. She taught us so much and we will always remember Grammy for the strong,determined, mannered, sweet woman that she was.

And on a funeral note, Aaron and I were driving to the graveside portion of the day and I told him I don't want a viewing at my funeral. And he told me, "Too bad - If you die before me we are definitely having a viewing. And I want one at my funeral too. I want to be viewed." You want to be viewed, Aaron? Haha. (And since it was Emery's birthday and we kept making birthday suit jokes all day, he also said he'd like to go out the same way he came in - in his birthday suit. Just FYI that you may want to pass on Aaron's viewing if you're still around when he's gone.)