Merry Christmas!!

It's been almost a month since I've posted and if you'll remember correctly...I warned everyone that I'm not good at the whole posting thing. I'm not going to even try to go back and remember everything that's happened in the past month. I will just hit a few of the highlights. Emma is standing!!!!!! That is, by far, the most important highlight. And I turned 26 on December 20th. Chris bought me a very nice Nikon camera that I have wanted since before Emma was born. That has pretty much kept me occupied since I got it.

We went for Emma's 9 month check up earlier this month. She weighs 20 lbs and is 28.5 inches long! He said she's in the 80th percentile for GIRLS her age...not just all babies, which is crazy tall!! She is a lot more verbal and will eat anything you put in her mouth. She gets a really awful look on her face like she's going to hate it but then she wants more. Her favorites are french fries (duh), hamburger helper, mashed potatoes, ritz crackers, and cookies.

I'm beyond excited about this holiday season. I don't know if it's because it's Emma's first Christmas or what but I just can. not. wait. I think I'm going to be more excited to see the look on the kids faces this year than anything. It's going to be a busy 3 days with a lot of traveling in there. Today we start off by going to my moms to stay the night. We wake up Christmas morning and open presents there and the guys cook breakfast for everyone. Then we head off to pick the kids up and we're going to stop at the house for an hour or 2 and let Emma rest. Next, we will head to Heber to open the restaurant. This is the first year we are doing this and we will see how it goes. Then we will come home and put everyone to bed so Santa can make a special appearance at our house and all the other houses of kids who have 2 families. We open presents at home the 26th with Chris' parents and last but not least, we go back to my moms that afternoon and let the kids open presents. That is A LOT of driving but we love (hate) it, haha. I will leave you with some pictures....