Emma loves to watch herself on video. She's dancing while she watches the previous video we posted.

Pretty Toes!! Emma loves getting her toes painted, but every time I do it I realize that she is still too young. :) She always touches the wet nail polish.


Pretty pretty Princess!! Emma loves playing dress up so Santa brought her some jewelry.


Emma also loves sitting in her shopping cart while she takes a break from playing with her new kitchen.


My family and I dipped chocolate for Christmas this year. We made a total of 16.4 pounds. Most people would wonder how many people we delivered them to. The answer? 0. We divided the chocolate among the families and devoured 4.1 pounds of chocolate each.




Ammon's cousin Trevor, Trevor's wife Liz & Trevor's 11-month-old son Ben came to visit us.


Ammon's sister Jana & her fiance Mark Eliason also came to join the party!


We also had Ammon's brother Dallin & his wife Becki down for a visit! Thanks everyone for coming!!




We hiked Camelback mountain with both Jana & Mark and Dallin & Becki. Emma isn't much of a hiker (like her mom) so we had to bribe her with M&M's the whole trip (notice the chocolate remains around her mouth).






Emma's latest face...the roll of the eyes. Most parents would be annoyed. Personally, I think it's hilarious...at least for now. What 18-month-old knows how to roll their eyes at their parents? HAHA!

For Halloween Emma was Ariel and her cousin Cambryn was Cinderella. True to their characters, Cam carried both her Halloween bag and Emma's Halloween bag, which was a purse. Emma just stole whatever candy she wanted, when she wanted it. It was in the 80s that day, so naturally we put on lots of layers under her costume to make sure she wouldn't be cold when it got down in the 70s while we were out.



So I bought Emma this new yogurt that was super on sale. It's called "Crushables" because you are just supposed to squish the cup to get the yogurt out. Their selling point is that you don't need a spoon. After she tried it I thought..."Well I don't technically need a spoon to eat my food either, but I think the point of one is to prevent me from looking like Emma does". What do you think?


Ammon trying to do a Christmas card. Emma's not buying it. A hat like that is not exactly necessary for 75 degrees and sunny. She now loves Santa though. She says Santa whenever she sees a piece of red and white clothing, and definitely knows the "Ho Ho"...not to be confused with her impression of a Daadoo(Dog) "Hoo Hoo".



Our favorite thing to do is to go to a park. It has since gotten a little colder and we have to wear a coat (60s), but at least we can get out of the house! We would definitely go crazy otherwise!


Emma's first encounter with the snow was at Thanksgiving in Salt Lake when we went to visit Ammon's family. She wasn't the biggest fan of all the layers...except the hot pink boots (thanks to grandma!). I was expecting her to just eat the snow because she still puts everything in her mouth. However, she didn't want to get her face that close to it because it was a little too chilly for her. She also learned the word "COLD" on this trip. It was definitely COLD!



Ammon's family are all very outdoorsy, so we went rock climbing at an indoor climbing gym. I thought Emma would climb more than she did. She didn't have the patience (attention span maybe?) for it. She enjoyed cheering everyone else on. This is one of the few pics we got of her actually trying to climb.


We also went to see the Salt Lake City Temple Lights. They were as gorgeous as ever. It was C O L D, but not as cold as the year before when we went around Christmas time. Emma also learned the word "lights", but was more interested in pointing out all of the "cuckies" (garbage cans...her current favorite word. not to be confused with "guckie" for her aunt becki!).




Most of the time older kids just push Emma down at the park...no seriously, it's the saddest thing. However, this time, an older kid finally taught her something useful. The first few times she skinned her nose during take off, but this time she got it and was so proud of herself. Cute.