"Fancy Emma"

One of Emma's favorite book characters is "Fancy Nancy". Nancy loves to be fancy. She loves to dress fancy, talk fancy, and eat fancy foods. So for Emma's birthday this year, we are going to have a "Fancy Nancy Soiree" (that is a fancy word for party) We will be dressing in our fanciest and "accessorizing" . We will be eating fancy foods like parfaits and our sandwiches will have frilly toothpicks. In preparation for the party, we had a short photo shoot for an invitation picture. Here is Emma at her fanciest. we will call her "Fancy Emma".

All fancy girls need feathers and movie star sunglasses

The winning invitation photo
Emma now wants to wear her Fancy Nancy Accessories everywhere!

Ice Skating and Chocolate

We are getting back into our weekly routine and activities after the holidays. Emma and Daddy have now added a new activity to their Saturday Mornings. One of my cousins teaches Ice Skating classes in the area, so every Saturday morning, Daddy and Emma go to the skating rink for a little daddy/daughter time. These are pictures from her first week of skating. They were taken through glass, so there is a lot of reflection, but you get the idea of what Emma is up to.

Emma makes her way across the rink with the help of my cousin, Gretchen and Daddy

With Daddy

Ring around the rosy

"We all fall down"

Standing on her own

Tongue out in concentration


We also made brownies for our small group last week. Emma did a great job at "cleaning" the spoon for me

"Now how can I get my mouth around this???"

"There... I think I've got it"

"Mommy, are you really letting me do this?"

"I like it!"

Winter in Yosemite

We spent the last few days relaxing in Yosemite National Park. Dan got a good deal on their historic hotel and the park was beautiful with snow on the ground and bright blue skies.

The hotel was still decorated for Christmas, so Emma had a great time examining their Christmas Tree

Emma had a great time looking for bears. Luckily, the closest we got to any were the ones in the gift shop

We walked to Yosemite Falls. Emma enjoyed running across the "Snow Bridges"


It was really cool to see steam rising from the snow. It made for great pictures, too.

Bridal Veil Falls in the distance

The moon was rising over "Half Dome" When we took Emma to try out Ice Skating

Emma shows off her skates

Warming up by the fire

Skating around the rink

On the hotel grounds, we found some fun creations...
A snow fort

And a little snow family

The hotel had a great fireplace to warm up by

On our way out of the park, we found a great sledding hill to try out

We dreamed of a White Christmas!

We joined all the Grandparents and Uncle Scott and Tricia in Park City, Utah for a White Christmas. We had a great time hanging out with all our family and trying out various Snowy Activities. ON Christmas Eve, we took a Sleigh Ride up the mountain to a restaurant for dinner.

Here come the sleighs!

Emma meets one of the horses

The family in the sleigh

The "Snowed Inn"


Ready for dinner

Emma enjoyed the chili

Playing in the snow waiting for our bus home
On Christmas day, we had a real blizzard outside for most of the day. Emma really enjoyed helping pass out presents and opening them...

Playing with magnets from her stocking

Our tree with the snowing day in the background

Emma left out cookies for Santa and Salad for the Reindeer

Checking out her stocking

Helping Grandma open a gift

Snowman love
Later in the day, some of the family decided to go out a play...

Waist deep in snow

Emma loved the snow!

Daddy gives Emma a snow shower

I think the snow drifts were bigger than Emma

Red cheeks from the cold
On Friday, Emma got to try out tubing



and then we went to the Park City Olympic Park Museum

Emma and Daddy try out the bobsled

Holding the olympic torch

Trying out the skeleton sleds
Saturday was a day of skiing for Daddy, Scott and Tricia while Mommy and Nana went shopping at the outlet mall...We got a lot of great deals for baby boy!
We had a great time spending time with our family for the holidays!
You can see more pictures from the week in the album below!

Christmas 2008 in Park City Utah