Luau August 27, 2009

Angela and my mom threw a great luau party! Everyone had so much fun!  It was the first time in several months that Brad was able to come with Emma and I, and we all had a blast!

This is Keegan, Emma, and Jack on the piano, one of the Egbert-household’s favorite toys.

At Emma’s first chance getting outside, she runs directly to the pond. She loves to sit on the little bridge and run her feet, hands, and everything else in the water. (You’ll notice in later pictures, she has no pants… she was soaked, but had so much fun!

This is Carson and Emma – they were so cute playing in the water together, that I had to post a few! The pond has been so much fun for grandkids – even though grandpa doesn’t appreciate all the rocks being thrown to the bottom… Good thing Brad and I had our reception there so you had an excuse to build it huh?

Brad helping Emma (pantless) jump on the tramp, and of course, the crazy hair that follows!

Anglea modeling the prize for winning the hula-hoop contest.

First winners – Maddie & Kenadee

I think Claire won this one, and Autumn won the next ( We had to make them walk while hula-hooping to get them to fall.. WOW!)

I won the 19 and up group – but I don’t have any pictures of it because of all the booty & hip action that was going on.

Curt showing his Hula moves. A nice little family picture.

I didn’t get very many pictures over at the Wights – and the ones I did, didn’t turn out very well – so hopefully there were some other people taking pictures! This is the Gary Wight kids and Emma – Emma was trying to convince them that it was time to go “bye-bye” to church.

Ever wonder where Emma gets all her goofy-ness? See below….

Brad & Paul – All American Men – hiking up in the South Hills. (Pictures courtesy of Paul’s facebook )

Always Love Big Sister Visits August 26, 2009

Well, I started downloading pictures, and realized I had more than 100 on there just from this week, so I’ll do a few posts of the highlights

Emma and Keegan.. So Cute!

My oldest sister Angela came to visit us for a few days. Here are the boys with their tent in the backyard (it was a little chilly when they came though – so they ended up in the house anyway – but it was fun to have a tent back there). On Angela’s last visit about a month ago, she convinced me to get these blocks at a yard sale — what a great idea! The kids loved playing with them! The boys are so great with Emma!!

We then took a trip to the zoo; the monkeys are always the favorites. Emma kept doing her evil laugh at them as they hit eachother and swung away!

Colin, Angela, Emma, Zach, and Keegan

The lizard (I had a ton of pictures from the zoo.. but these will do). Thanks again Angela for watching Emma so Brad and I could go on a miniature golfing date for our 4 year anniversary! Even though I lost miserably, we had a lot of fun!

This is what I spend a lot of my time doing… ready books over and over again… This kid loves to read books, and I’m sure that’s where a lot of her brain food comes from, so I don’t mind reading.

Family August 20, 2009

Mom’s “glamour shot” – I thought it was beautiful! Had to do some editing to get few people out – but I thought it turned out pretty good!

Angela and Keegan – I like this picture, too!

All the siblings; I was trying to crouch down to make sure back row could be seen, but just ended up looking bad bent over! Wish people taking pictures would have said something! Oh well – always next time!

In the second family picture – I had everyone smiling and looking in the right direction, except for Brian – but thanks to photoshop – I switched his head with a good smiling one! I love photoshop!

All the cousins that were there. At least there were a few faces looking in the right direction! (Ignore the leg under Emma – it was the only way I could get her in the picture without tears Mom gave me a challenge to get a few more kid faces looking in the right direction… I got a few of them changed (can’t tell very well when the pics are this small) but any of you who have a better face in one of your pictures, and is from about the same angle… let me know!

18 Months August 13, 2009

Emma is finally 18 months! Nursery here we come! We’re (Me) so excited! It’s so hard to get a good smile on camera because she’s always so busy. So I tell her to ’smile’ and she relates to “if you chance to meet a frown – change it to a smile’ song that we’ve been learning – and I get the frown instead… Oh well – it’s cute, too.

I know where to get the good smile though.. the park swings are her favorite!