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!!!

back to school equals...

early mornings
packing lunches
early mornings....
and getting sick!
Emma has barely been back at school 2 weeks and is home with a cold!

she starts a soccer class tomorrow (nothing to do with her school),w e asked her if she would like to do some dancing a sport or music and she said she wanted to play soccer ..Her Uncle Stewy would be proud! :) Her daddy sure is!!! Im sure he would prefer rugby but she is only 5 after all! i still want to start her with some piano lessons but we will see how this goes for now. its a 2 month class once a week.

In other news well there isnt any it looks like Matt will be heading over to the Uk in November although no flights have been booked yet. if all works out he will only be there for 2 weeks if it doesnt he may be there up to 4 months! but 2 weeks is more likely!
anyhew no news, still lots to do in the house before we even get to painting.