New Adventures!

This is one of Emmie's favorite games...pulling out all of our videos and then crawl sliding...(you know, crawling with dvd's under her hands so she slides around - she loves it!)

Helping Granpa drive (don't worry the car is in park...)

Who needs toys when you have mommy's fake tree to play with?

Happy Birthday Heidi!

Here's to you Birthday Girl!

...I'll be sending my party vibes to you!

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

Working backwards...this is the fun that we had this weekend!

Monday:

I found my dream home!!! Ceri and John love to go Model Home touring so Emmie and I tagged along and I found my dream home...take a look!What Curb Apeal!The Foyer

The Front Sitting room - Check out the awesome little corner library!This Kitchen is actually from another model...but I liked it better so I'm adding it to my dream home!Again...not from my dream home model...but gorgeous!

So you know, when Matt and I have loads and loads of money I'll be buying this house...and then hiring a decorator to make it look like this!

What is Memorial day without some BBQ?

Just chillin' on the blanket!
Me: Dana, say "cheese!"
Dana: "What?"
Me: Say "cheese!"
Dana: Why? I'm not with anyone!
CLICK!
Me: oh this is sooo going on the blog
Dana: Better not!
Me: Too late!
(Love you Dana!)

Cute girl
What's cookin' good lookin'!
The girls got personality that's for sure!

Chillin' with Daddy

Worked off the BBQ with a friendly game of 2 on 2...then realized how bad we all were and switched to Kickball...The boys whooped us!

Sunday:
Since no one had any school or work on Monday we had a sleep over at Mom & Dad Corriveau's house...the boys convinced us to watch Star Wars...Ceri and I have probably watched Star Wars a total of 5 times in our whole lives and I can't remember staying a wake the whole time for any of them...Sunday night was no exception... Sci-fi just doesn't do anything for me! But the boys enjoyed it and where thankful we didn't make them sit through some chick flick!

Saturday:
Not much happened on Saturday... Matt and I were finally able to get to the Temple for a session. It was awesome! I love the spirit I feel in the Temple!

Friday Night:

When Emmie Met Gracie...
Russ and Debbie and their 2 kids came over for a game night with the Corriveau clan. We were suppose to play games but then got carried away talking and didn't even get to the game part...Next time! Russ and I played Referee to Emmie and Gracie who were climbing all over each other. It was pretty cute how fascinated they were with one another! (p.s. Emmie is HUGE! Gracie is 2 1/2 months older than Emmie and they are the same size! Gracie's such a petite little thing! So cute!)

Feeling Hot Hot Hot!

In commemoration of Arizona setting a new record high we went...swimming, of course! Emmie loved it - She took to the water great!

Our Happy Emmie

Having a blast in the grass!Helping Mom with laundry

This girl loves her bubbles! (If you look close your can see her bubble beard...she was trying to eat them...yum!)

This girl is completely mobile... she goes where she wants - when she wants...(mommy and daddy permitting, of course!)
Matt and Emmie's practice time. Emmie loves to stand and bounce in her crib while daddy practices...it's so cute!

A date to celebrate!

To celebrate our anniversary we decided to "recreate" our first kiss date . Originally we went roller blading at Tempe Town Lake... he told me stories of his blading days and the bones he broke in the process and I was so dreamy eyed he could have been saying anything and I would have been drooling - at the end of the date we had our first kiss - it was perfect. It pretty much sealed the deal for me and I was head over heals for this guy...and still am. For this date though...we couldn't roller blade because Matt couldn't find his skates so instead we went Paddle boating! Emmie had a great time with Grammie and Granpa while Matt and I ate at Riazzies and then went out on the Lake. We had a blast!
This is us sitting on our kissing bench

Matt posing with an imaginary me for the picture of our bench!

Look at all of those bird nest...gross

We were out at the perfect time to catch the sunset. It was gorgeous and added a nice romantic touch to finish off the evening!



On the lake Matt made a new friend!

Happy 2 Years To Us!

Here's to two amazing years - To love, kisses...and a whole lot of laughter.
Happy Anniversary!

A Proud Montessori Teacher Moment....

Today I had such a sweet moment with one of my students...This little guy had been working on this map for a few days now and was getting to the end... He traced all of the states by himself, painted them the "Montessori specific colors", cut out all the labels and matched and glued them....it was a really big, time consuming project! Then when he was almost done he was double checking his work and noticed that Kentucky was missing...he looked and looked and then finally got out some white paper and wrote it for himself cut it out and glued it on. He came over to get me to show me all of his hard work and then he says, " I worked so hard Mrs. Coleman...but I did it all by my self...that felt good!" I just wanted to cry...because that's what Montessori is all about - helping the children do it themselves. At the beginning of the school year...even three months ago - he would not have had the self confidence and discipline to accomplish what he did. These are the moments that help me through the rough wild days...in the end all of the hard work pays off!

And now for your viewing pleasure...My Classroom!
This is the view standing from the door and looking directly ahead


This is looking from the door and to the right
This is looking from the door to your far right

This is looking from the the wall opposite the door

Emmie's Stats...

I forgot to add this on the last post!

As of April 15, 2008:
(the percents tell us where Emmie ranks with the rest of the children her age...so 50% is average...I'm sure you all already knew that...but just in case!)

Weight: 15lbs 10oz (40th%)
Height: 26.8 inches (80th%)
Head circumference: 16.5 inches (30th%)

So basically all of this means that she's growing great and that as of right now she's on her way to being just like her daddy...tall and skinny...lucky girl!