News About Our Move...

Getting ready to move for us has been sort of bitter sweet. We are SUPER excited to go back to Vegas, leave the snow and icky weather behind and be closer to Brett's family, but we are sad to leave all the family and friends and the life we've been living for the past 3 years behind. However, we thought we had it all firgured out and were hoping to be moving later this month. Well, as most of our close friends and family know we were waiting on just a few key things to get taken care of before we could leave NY, and we found out today that they would definitely not be taken care of by the end of this month and we have had to push back our moving date all the way to July. At first Brett and I were bummed (we had psyched ourselves up for the move and the drive), but we know that all things happen for a reason, and there is a good reason we will be spending some extra time in NY. On the bright side we are happy to be spending some extra time with the grandparents, and hope we can help them get their house ready to sell. We are also excited that spring is coming soon (but not soon enough) as spring in NY is one of my absolute favorite things. I love seeing the grounds go from being snow covered to the tulips blooming and the trees getting back their leaves and being able to go outside all day. So hopefully, pushing back our move date 13 weeks will give us time to prepare more for our move and enjoy NY a little longer.

The 3 Great Loves Of My Life

and here's some more pics to enjoy.....

"Helping" Grandpa open his birthday presents, mind you the girls helped me wrap these presents the night before, and were so excited to see what was in them .

Emma playing hide and seek.

Playing with my camera last night......

Emma's Sick :(

Emma is seriously taking years off my life. I was woke up this morning by Brett telling me "Emma can't breathe we have to take her to the emergency room....now". Brett is not anywhere near the neurotic parent i am so if Brett feels like Emma needs to go to the emergency room i know she's in bad condition. Thanks to my awesome parents who will drop any and everything for their kids and grandkids, they took Makenna, for the second day in a row, and Brett, Emma and I were on our way to the ER in under 10 minutes. Soon as Emma got in the car and the cold air her breathing got better. Long story short, she's got a bad case of croup. The doctor's at the ER gave her a steriod shot and breathing treatment, and i think she's feeling better, although she still sounds pretty terrible. Makenna only had a pretty mild case of croup once and i've never had it so dealing with a serious case for the first time is pretty scary. We are hoping and praying that Emma gets better ASAP, and this clod stops getting passed around our family.
On a lighter note, we are starting to get packed up for our big move to Vegas. When we moved back to NY from Vegas we only had my car and Brett's car packed with stuff, how is it that in 3 years we have accumulated SO much stuff? Crazy. It gives me headache to think about boxing it all up, but slowly and surely it's getting done.
Brett has taken up a pretty cool hobby. He started making knives from scratch. He's done a couple and they are so cool. He has made some handles out of dear antlers. He made me a beautiful knife out of cedar he found in our backyard. He even makes the blades by hand, he gets steel blanks and shapes and sharpens them into knives. I think these will be great peices to hand down to our children and grand children, very cool.
And one last thing...is anybody else's kids obsessed with these zhu zhu pets? They are Makenna's new passion.

Some new pics

Makenna is not allowed to tattle on her sister or she gets a time out. The other day Daddy was tattling on mommy, so Makenna put him in a time out. This is Daddy sitting in his time out. Checkout Makenna keeping an eye on him in the background, she was not allowing any funny business while he was in time out.

Makenna goes to the beauty salon every other week with my mom to get her nails manicured. The other night Makenna and Emma decided to open a beauty salon of their own in our living room, guess who was their client.

When asked Emma denied having the blue stamp in her mouth.

Emma is such a thrifty little baby. Here she is going through the weekly food flyer with her pen, obviously circling the best sales.

PICS...AND OUR MOVING DATE!!!

Makenna Posing.

Makenna is all potty traines (FINALLY!!!!) and has given up her binky completelt and has......gotten her ears peirced!!

I love, love, love Emma in pigtails!

Makenna sleding, both girls, loved it this year.

Shot in the head with a nerf dart

New Year's eve

christmas morning

Christmas Eve in their new christmas pjs, they were so excited with their pj's they thought that was their only gift and they couldn't have been happier. Sweet girls

Emma loves wearing this bathing suit of makenna's

And wearing makenna's pull up, she can put these on herself over her clothes

This is how we spend our saturday nights Brett and I took Makenna to NYC to see the Rockettes before christmas. She loved it. Here she is asleep on Daddy on the train ride back home.

Picking out a sweet in grand central

Chech out those ballons behind Brett, doesn't he look like Mickey mouse? This is dinner in Rockefeller Center

Seriously, how cute are they?

So, Brett has gotten laid off from work again which is the perfect kick in the butt we need to get moving back to Vegas! We figure instead of look for a new job we are just gonna pack up and go! We have to wait to get just a few things ironed out, but we reserved the moving van today and they are coming to get our stuff on March 24th so all our stuff and us will be arriving in Vegas sometime April 1st. Yay! Finally!