another catchup i guess!!!

well blogging is better than cleaning!
Emma is now doing 2nd grade English and 1st grade maths!(while she is still technically in kindergarten!) goooo Emma!!!! we have ripped out emmas walls so we can insulate and hope to be done before Christmas! instead of doing the insulation last night we decided we should probably get Christmas food in the house so we went food shopping! we now have the turkey and the ham phew! we are still not ready for Christmas! not one gift is wrapped!!! i owe matt a gift and Matt still needs to take Emma out to buy one for me! I hope Santa is more organised than i am or we may be in trouble!

sometime after christmas i will post some before during and after pics of Emma's room

hope everyone has a very merry christmas and remembers that christmas isnt about the gifts It is after all about celebrating the gift of our Saviour Jesus Christ.

quick catch up!

since i last blogged we celebrated Emma's 6th birthday, with our visitors from Ireland namely my cousin and her hubby and also my Mom and Dad. This was their first time back in the states in 30 yrs!!!!! it was great to have them here and show them around a bit!
My mom and Dad will be back after Christmas for a while before we send them to the MTC!
For Emmas Birthday we started a new tradition. i wanted to wait until she would enjoy it so for her 6th birthday we went to get a manicure and a pedicure! Emma Loved it! as did her Granny. It was Granny's first time too! anyway i hope this is a special thing that Emma and I can do every year!

My parents then left for New Zealand on the 3rd Nov, my cousin and hubby left to go back to Ireland in the 4th and then Matt left to go to the UK on the 7th! it was very strange to have a full house and then it was just Emma and I!

Thankfully Matt was gone for just over a week instead of the 2 weeks to 4 months we were expecting! so i wasnt lonely for long!


I guess the other big massive huge news is... Wednesday will be Emma's last day of school! we have enrolled her in a K12 home-based school with me as the learning coach!

matts birthday

Matt turned the big 3 0 this past friday. We didnt do anything major went out to dinner is all really , he got a number of cards and tons of messages on facebook!his presents were few but included a Super Dad t-shirt from Emma. and a pair of bike boots from me(we went out on sat to get these)
I made him a birthday cake which if i do say so myself was yummy!!! i made an ice-cream cake!
cookie crust followed by chocolate icecream with chocolate sauce on it with vanilla icecream and cool whip on top! the icecreams where of course lactose free. anyhew matt 'said he liked it but i told him he had too !!!

Mission call

Soooo My parents received their Mission call on Friday, they waited until most of the family where together(i.e we obviously were not there due to geographic restrictions!!) to announce where they where going, but small pieces of info where leaked such as they where entering the MTC in Provo on the 25th January!!
which i find pretty funny considering this is their second mission and NOW they go to the mtc, when we have moved away from Provo. typical!!!! we also Knew it was going to be a CES mission, and now we know where!!!! They have been called to Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Port Elizabeth is where I was born. Christmas 2010 should be awesome!!!!! we will all be trying to go there for christmas, I was 7 the last time i had christmas in the middle of summer! Exciting!!!