It has been a long month since I last posted. James is now 6 weeks old, James was blessed over memorial weekend. Linette made James Blessing outfit. She always does such a great job.

Crystal is done with kindergarten. They had a kindergarten circus it was great, Crystal was a tight rope walker

Crystal got 76 Accelerated reader points, we are very proud of her for all her hard work this year.

We have been busy we spent 6 days in Casper and Douglas with my parents. The kids loved the pool at the hotel in Casper and the playground that looked like a castle
We are now busy working on getting our garage built, and I am learning what it is like to have three kids at home all day every day alone. I got the garden planted and lots of things are coming up and doing good, my flowers are looking great, I will have to get my camera out in front and get pictures of my flowers for the next post. The kids summer reading program in full swing. The kids sure love James and are always trying to help.

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Crystals school has been working with the kids on fitness. So this year those who wanted to ran a Marathon. Yes 26.2 miles, but since it is elementary kids they ran the miles over the school year. Each recess the P.E. teacher would be out checking off laps that the kids would run.. On the 24th they ran the last couple laps to complete their miles. Crystal was very excited. She even got a really cool metal and a t-shirt.

Here are some more pictures of James. He is two weeks old on the 12th.. He is doing well and getting better at the sleeping during the night thing.

We found this super cute shirt at the store the other day.

Crystal loves to read and her new favorite thing is reading to James. So this is bedtime stories a couple nights ago.

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Hey all I know you have been waiting for this. James Allen Emmett was born Tuesday the 28th at 4:33 p.m. He weighted 8lb 5 oz and was 19 1/2 inches long. Here are some pictures of him in the first couple days. We are both as well as can be expected. The kids are completely in love with him and were so excited when we brought him home today.

Joe got his motor bike up and running the other day, So Crystal got her first ride. Joe's Dad use to give the kids rides on their birthdays and so I gave in and let Joe give Crystal a ride in the alley. She LOVED it. Clayton just loved wearing the helmets. Joe had is Birthday this week so we had a party with lots of food and friends. We had a really good time. We even wrangled the Elders into coming in for some Cake and Ice cream.( we saw them walking past the house just at the right time).

A couple weeks ago Clayton was looking scraggly so Joe cut his hair and he just wasn't that happy about it.
We are all doing well. Just waiting for the baby to come now. Hope everyone is enjoying the spring.

Hey all, I keep getting asked so I thought I would put out the word. I am 38 weeks today. No baby yet.
Spring is starting to come. Last night we went on a flower hunt around the yard to find all the tulips that have started to come up. Crystal is so fun, she had to come in and get paper and pen so she could make a chart of how many tulips we found. She checked out 4 science books from the library so we were also looking for the moon to see what shape and color is was but there was no moon to be found when we looked at 8 o'clock.
We had a great weekend with Joe's cousins in Lovell. The kids had a great time playing with some cousins (both kids and adult). Clayton found a quick friend in Jordon and Ryan (both over 20). We had fun finding candy, shooting, 4-wheeling, playing kick ball, going to the park and assorted games.
I am busy trying to get things organized for when the baby comes. One thing I need to get done just in case is writing a talk to Clayton for Primary (his first). He has to give it on the 26th which is two days before my due date. I also am hoping the baby doesn't come between the 22nd-25th because my doctor has to go out of town for a conference. I guess babies come when they come and I can wait until it is ready. This is one thing you don't want to rush. Joe is getting very impatient. He wants the baby here now so he can hold it. Crystal is getting very excited and Clayton is still just not quite understanding the whole thing. He thinks we all have babies in our tummies and after the baby is out of moms tummy he is going to trade me my baby for his.
We love you all and will keep you all posted on all updates that happen.

I am dying for spring to be here. I am trying my hardest not to be deceived by the happy chirping of the birds. I went to take crystal to school the other day and the sun was shinning and I could hear the birds chirping. I thought this might be a really nice day, Then I stepped out into the 1 degree morning and wondered what on earth the birds could be chirping about. We keep getting warm spells, followed by a week in the single digits. I am ready for the warm weather but a little anxious about all the things we have to get done between spring and fall. The news paper says spring is coming soon because there are a lot of dead skunks on the highway. I guess that is a better indicator of spring then the groundhog shadow. All I know is the drive to Cody has been kinda stinky that last couple times I have been. Well whenever comes "HAPPY SPRING"!!!

Hey all, I thought I would add this to the blog. You have to know what you are looking for though. We have a great friend that hooked us up last night with a FREE ultrasound. Thanks!!!!! But as it goes with our kids this baby was most uncooperative so We don't have any amazing shots. Here is a video of the heart beating.

We still could not tell the gender due to the baby moving continuously and keeping it's legs tucked up nice and tight. But it was fun anyway. We took the kids and they thought it was pretty cool. This baby wouldn't even give us a good face shot. Every time Tom tried to get a good picture or video of the face the baby would put one or both hands in front of it's face. It wants all aspects of itself to be a surprise I guess. We are very grateful for this blessing in our lives, we could tell that as far as could be assessed with an ultrasound it is healthy, all the organs are there and the blood is pumping great. That was the coolest thing was when Tom would put it in color and you could see the blood in the umbilical cord, pumping. They have it colored in blue and red. It was nice to see the heart and the chambers and see that it was all working as it should.

Here is a little from our weekend. Crystal turned 6.
Now she is a "Grown up" according to her, but only when it works in her favor, although it make it had to take her to serious when she opens her mouth and you see those missing teeth.
The kids are all dressed and ready for church. While at the store Saturday I found this cute shirt with matching tie for Clayton and deemed it his "Sunbeams" shirt and tie which he could only wear if he would go willingly to sunbeams. It worked like a charm. If I would have known it was that easy I would have bought it for him for the first Sunday January. The dress was made for Crystal by her Grandma Emmett. She loved all her gifts.

She really liked the lady bug clips Aunt Carene made for her.
Yesterday was a beautiful day. Clayton played outside for hours. I went to check on him because the neighbors dog was barking like mad and this is what I found. He is only about 15 feet from where our elderly half blind neighbor dog sits all day. So when ever she can hear Clayton but can't see him to figure out what he is doing it upsets her and she barks like a crazy dog. Our neighbor who is in his 80's came out and asked if I had tied him to the tree with the garden hose. The answer is this was self inflicted.

I am always being accused of never having any pictures of me anywhere so here is one I took yesterday. It isn't the best picture sorry, but I have had a bad cold for two weeks now. I am now 31 weeks pregnant and between that and the cold this past two weeks has been interesting. I have been up with the cold 3-8 time each night either coughing of not being able to breath due to stuffiness. Without fail every time I woke up during the night the baby woke up and it took longer to get back to sleep then normal. You just can't fall asleep very quickly with someone inside you doing the mambo.

Hey it has been a busy couple weeks and not done yet. First Crystal lost her second tooth. She was pretty excited.

We have make one hundred mini cupcakes and decorated for Crystals Valentine party, helped with the food for a funeral, went to a birthday party, wedding and had family visits (from both sides of the family) and canned (est.) over 200 #10 cans of food. That was all between Thursday and yesterday (Monday). Oh ya we also had a little valentines day fun before we left Saturday morning. Crystal will be 6 on Sunday so she is "Grownup" So she got flowers and Chocolates for valentines day this year from Dad. The White ones were for me and the pink were Crystals. We still have another birthday party tonight then Crystals birthday Sunday, and because her birthday is this weekend she is in charge of snack on Friday for her birthday. More cup cakes. We are having lots of fun though. Last night My brother Dave and His wife Heidi and the girls came for a visit. They also had Heidi's sister and little boy with them. Soon after they arrived Joe's brother Chad arrived with his little boy. We had 6 kids under 7 years old in our house. It was great they all had a great time. The kids had a great time. They kids were very excited to have been able to play with so many cousins this weekend. We are greatly blessed with wonderful Family and Friends.

Hey I have been a slacker this week with the blog. We had a great Friday night. We had a family camp out. Clayton told EVERYONE at the store that we were going camping. They all looked at me like I was crazy so I explained we are camping in the house. We set up Clayton's little tent and had make your own pizza for dinner and watched a movie. The kids loved it! It was really a lot of fun, so I think we will have to start doing that more often. Kinda like a family date night. The kids slept in the tent, Mom and Dad went to their bed to sleep. I just can't do a night on the floor right now. This is a really cheesy picture of me but Clayton took it and I thought it wasn't to bad of a picture for a three year old. He is always taking the camera and taking pictures of things. I guess he gets that from me.

So this week started off with about 7 inches of snow. That was fine because it was very light and dry so it wasn't bad driving or shoveling. But then the change came. We woke up Monday morning and it was 0 degrees not great but doable, they Tuesday morning it was -25 degrees. That wasn't nice. So I called my mom to see if they were as frozen as us and they were -30 with strong wind and 1-2 feet of snow. So she won the who's town was colder. They have been out of school for two days. Here is our yard. The frost in the air made a pretty ring around the sun.

This morning while I was working online I asked Clayton to come and talk to me (he was being pretty quite while playing). When he arrived in the office he was covered in Hot Coco powder. When asked what was on him his response was "I don't know". Then I asked if it was Coco and he responded "Maybe".

Sorry I am a little slow this week. I just found out that I am Anemic so that would explain a lot of my being tired this past while. The doctor has me on Iron supplements and they haven't quite kicked in yet so I am pretty tired still. It is funny how each pregnancy is as different as the child inside you.

We went for a quick trip to West Valley last weekend. Joe's brother Chad was blessing his baby. While there we went to feed some local ducks. The boys loved it.

We were wondering were Chad and Joe were, They had missed lunch and it was starting to get cold in the house. We went back to the bedroom to find them boxing on the wii and they had gotten so into it they had opened the window to help cool themselves down. It was great. Within minutes all the little kids were in their cheering. It was a site for sure.

On Thursday Clayton had a busy day with friends over and playgroup and having lunch with Dad. After Crystal got home from school they started to fight so they went to time out. It was apparently more then Clayton could handle so he fell asleep. After about 30 minutes he got up went potty then came back to the couch to sleep. We couldn't wake him so he slept until 7 p.m. Which made 7:30 bedtime non existent. He fell asleep very LATE that night.

We also had a first this week. Crystal lost her first tooth. She was very excited last night when it finally came out, but was hesitant because a friend at school had told her there was no tooth fairy. So she was a little concerned about that. After finding her tooth missing and money in it's place she is a believer this morning. She came running into our room shouting this morning she was so excited. She was checking Clayton last night for loose teeth. He kept telling us he didn't want us to pull out any of his teeth. He was concerned he was next.

Hey this is a little late but we just got this back from the College.