Too cute......Just had to share!!!

A couple weeks ago we were at my friends house and Elijah took a little tumble on their fire place mantle and had to have a few stitches. He was such a trooper. It didn't even phase him while the stitches were in and his eye was swollen. He was still his little curious self ALL over the place.

Here is Elijah at his first trip to the park. He loved the swings

Christmas 2010

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Emmit's first trip to california/disneyland

My parents got an offer to stay at the Marriott's Newport Beach Coast Villas if they would listen to the time share presentation. They were offered a two bedroom condo so they invited our family. Emmitt had never been to california or Disneyland so we were excited to go. My dad rented a minivan and off we went. We spent a day at disneyland and another day at California adventure with my uncle who works for Disney. We had a wonderful time. Except when we were in the car--Elijah HATES being in his carseat. I hated to leave our place we were staying at. Our bathroom shower had to shower heads. I told my husband if we ever build a house I want a His/hers shower!!! ha ha.

Our Trip to Houston

We decided we needed to go to Texas before Elijah started walking! So we booked our reservation and spent a week away from reality to let Emmitt's family meet Elijah and get to know Tayva and I better since we have not been out there since we got married. We had a wonderful time with only a few minor problems with having a flat tire and getting horrible customer service from the car rental place--Basically they rented us a car that did not have the tools to fix the flat and because of the type of car it was the tow company could not help us either. And at first the rental place was going to make us pay for the car to get towed even though they rented us a car without all the equipment. If the stuff would have been in the car, emmitt could have done it all by himself. So I called them and threw a fit and they said they would send out a new car but it would be two hours (it was already 11 pm by now!!)) then they give us a much smaller car than we paid for and would not reimburse us. So we will never rent from them again. But it was so much fun seeing all of his family and going back to Keemah where we got married. Hopefully we can make another trip out there next year as well. I really enjoy his family. His twin sister is so much fun and hillarious.

Sealed

On June 19th our family was sealed in the Oquirrh Mountain temple. It was such a wonderful experience and we were blessed to have many family and friends there to support us!!! The following day my cousin toured us around temple square. Tayva adores my cousin Mary and we all had such a wonderful time with her.
The missionary who baptized Emmitt in Texas last year was able to attend our sealing as well which sort of tied everything up for his conversion.

Getting Sealed

Well I just wanted to say that after a year of being married Emmitt and I, along with our two children are going to be getting sealed in the Oquirrh Mountain Temple on June 19th. We are so very excited and blessed that things went so smoothly to allow Tayva to be sealed to Emmitt and I. It could have been a lot harder to have that happen but her biological father was very cooperative and sent us the letter of permission for this to happen!!! Emmitt took out his endowments last Saturday-June 5th and Elijah was blessed by my father the next day. (with Emmitt being a new convert he still was not comfortable blessing Elijah in front of so many people) we are loving having our little man home with us and can't believe he is already 7 weeks old. Tayva is having the time of her life with her new brother.and will actually ASK to change his diaper at times!!! She is such a wonderful "little mother" and is such a big help during the day when my husband has to sleep from working the night before.