Missing My Utah Hair !

So we have lived here in California for almost 5 years now and we love it ! However when you ask me what I miss about Utah , there are a few things that I can name right off the bat . Here is my list...

1) My Friends ( all of the friends I made as a newly married girl in the University 25th ward ) and the friends that I made working at Arthur Andersen L.L.P

2) Our house ! It was brand new when we bought it and moved in ! It had more square feet than our home now does. Jake and I will always tell you that we miss homes with basements ! We LOVE basements and here in CA there are NO BASEMENTS ( only attics - that are not for living just for storing ).

3) Grandma Sycamores Bread ! We have yet to find anything close here in CA. and we miss it desperately. Jake has his Cocoa and toast cravings in the winter time and Orowheat just doesn't cut it ! Those mormons sure know how to make good bread !

4) My old hairdresser , Amanda Oliver ! She was fun , sassy and did an awesome job with my hair ! Now I have to give credit to the good old Utah weather too because no fail everytime I go to Utah and take a bunch of pics. my hair always looks great ! It might be the soft water my in-laws and friends have in their taps but something great between shower and blowdry for me there in Utah ! Here is a picture from my June family vacation stop in Utah. We went to dinner with friends and my good friend Suzanna took this picture . I am so glad she did too because it happens to be one of my favorites ! I love my curly Utah hair !

( I have to say this pic does not look as good on the computer as it does printed up. I hope you get the gist of my email nonetheless !)

Already Playing Catch Up !

There are just not enough hours in my day to take on one more hobby but bear with me because I am not going to give up . The more I do it , the faster I will get at it , right ? So here is what I intended to post ( on time !) the past couple of days...

Here is Madison on her first day of "2nd Grade". As you can see she is not in the mood for a photo shoot and is just ready to go to school !

Then there is Brooklyn on her first day of preschool. She is showing us her "shy school girl " look. Although she is not smiling , she was actually really excited ! I cannot believe she is already preschool age ! The two days a week ( up to 4 hours each ) that she goes, it is wierd to have a quite, empty house again. I am already missing her ! It is so cute when she tells me what she did at school that day. She LOVES going to "stool " just like her big sister "MAA MAA" (madison ).

My family also came out our way for Labor day. They actually all came out the day before ( sunday) and we had dinner and stayed up late ! The picture shown is Brooklyn with my dad and sister Bethany ( a.k.a Aunt B ). They left the next morning and the rest of the day was low key . This picture pretty much explains how exhausted we were...

And finally this is what Brooklyn did at preschool on Friday. I thought it was such a cute idea that I had to run out to my car to get my camera. She absolutely loves helping bathe her sister Madison here at home and so you could imagine her excitement when she got to be play the little mommy and bathe this baby...


Stay tuned for more "efficient blogging from the Emerys !

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Life Story

So ever since I can remember, I have always enjoyed reading peoples license plate frames. I feel as though you can learn a lot about a person from that one simple sentence. For example, the other day I saw an older woman driving a nice new car and her license plate frame said "Star light, Star Bright, Where the heck is Mr. Right?" So I immediately realized that this middle aged woman was most likely single. That is a big part of her life, right? So anyway, as I have been pondering what my personalized license plate frame is going to say, I have come across two different ones that may explain a few things about me. The first is "The closer you get, the slower I go." That explains my pet peeve for people who ride my tail while I am driving! HUGE annoyance for me. But in the interest of keeping my family safe, I think that I will stick to my second favorite in the hope that it will excuse me in advance.... "Always Late but worth the wait" (at least I hope people feel that way). I feel that this applies well to the start of my family blog because I am well overdue on starting this and have many friends who have been doing so devotedly for the past year or so. I too have been meaning to share our daily journeys with friends and family and vow to start trying to be on time (posting that is), I hope that you will all find it well worth your wait! Thanks for visiting and come back often!

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