Beautiful Heartbreak

This is an amazing song with a beautiful message. We have all had heartaches in life and can relate in some way. Our strength comes in working through them. Hope you enjoy this as much as I did. Thanks Ashley for sharing it.
Remember to pause the music at the bottom of my blog so you can hear it. :)

Emily turns 9

I can't believe my little girl is 9, time just keeps on flying by...... I am so grateful to have Emily in our family, she is so sweet and loving, she is constantly helping out. She also likes to make everyone feel special. She is always working on some sort of project, surprising people with little gifts and pictures. I love this pic, she really likes to pose for the camera and so when I told her I wanted to take some pictures of her on her Birthday, she quickly grabbed the fake flowers to pose with, lol. Such a beautiful girl :)


Of course, Emily loving horses so much she just had to have a horse cake. Here is the awesome cake Mike made, she loved it. It looks great, but it tasted even better. Emily always has a pumpkin cake and so she requested it again this year. It was delicious with the cream cheese frosting and coconut.

Fun Balloons!


Emily and her Grandma, she loves her so much.
Mike put trick candles on the cake so they kept re-lighting. It was so funny to see how confused Em was about it. Such a fun day, so glad our family could come out and celebrate with us.

Emily's friend Birthday Party

For Emily's 9th Birthday party we went to a ranch to see horses. Two sisters took my CNA class, they were telling me how they are true cowgirls. The are in rodeo's, ride horses, rope goats and do barrel racing. When I told them how much my little girl loves horses they told me they would be willing to do a Birthday party for her. It was amazing. They did such a great job planning so many fun things for the girls to see and do.


They had a bunch of cute bunny rabbits that we fed, held and petted. Savannah still talks about how much she loves all bunnies.

They had 17 horses on their ranch, we saw about 9. The rest were in the pasture by their home.

We were even able to hold chickens and pet them. Their feathers are so soft! Looking at this picture makes me smile. Brett was in heaven, I am sure he was wishing he was born on a ranch.

Emily brought 5 friends with her along with her siblings. Here is our cute neighbor and Emily's good friend Elsie.

Emily and her cousin Haylie. Haylie is 7 months younger than Em and they have always been such good friends.

Aliza on top of the horse with Savannah in the background. I was actually shocked that Savannah wanted to ride the horse. She is always kind of nervous around big animals, but she loved it.

The girls even had a chance to try and lasso the pretend cow while they waited for their turn to ride.


They were actually pretty good at it, I was impressed!
Emily loved riding the horses, later she told me that next time she just wants to jump on and ride the horse without any help and have it run. Notice the boots she insisted on wearing, she doesn't have cowgirl boots so snow boots will have to do :)

Here the girls are dressing a goat, yep you heard me, a goat. Each team had an item of clothing, pants, shirt, bandanna and a hat and they had to run up to the goat and see who could get their goat completely dressed first.


I seriously laughed so hard the entire time they were racing to get their goats dressed, it was hysterical! The girls loved it too, so much that they did it again. Each team had a turn at winning.



Liam was enthralled by the goat. I was a bit nervous it was going to try to nip at him since he kept touching it. The poor thing was probably exhausted after all it had been through.

Notice my poor guys little face, yep you can tell he is a typical one year old. Trips and falls constantly and his face shows it!

Even Liam got to set on the horse for a photo. He just kept smiling and laughing.

At the very end the kids had a blast searching for candy in the hay. We then took the girls to our house, watched Secretariat (a horse movie) and had pizza. There was a lot of giggling and playing, Emily said it was one of the best days ever - the party was a success.

School

I can't believe the summer went by so quickly and now it has been over a month since school started! I am a bit behind on my school post, so scroll down below to the prevoius posts and you can see all the cute things the kids said about what they like, dislike and want to be right now. Mike's cousins wife posted this for her kids a few years back and I have been doing it every year since I started blogging. I think it is so fun to look back on. Here are some cute, and crazy pics of Em and Brett on the first day of school.

Savannah the Preschooler

What is your favorite color? Um, my Favorite color is pink and red, and that color. Points to her orange shirt in the picture.

What is your favorite sport? What is a sport?

What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play

What are you most excited about learning at school? That I think I will love it

Who are your best friends? Zoey and Emmie and what is her name again? I think it is Miya, except one day she told me I don't look pretty. But I always look beautiful

What is your favorite food? Um, cereal and chips and chicken

What is your least favorite food? I don't like potatoes and beans

What is your favorite animal? A Horsie

What do your like to do at home? Play with my Barbies and Babies

What is your favorite book? A Ariel book

What is your favorite movie? Ariel and Rapunzel

What is your favorite place to go? Into the Toy Room

What is your favorite thing to say? I love Mommy

What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be a helper and go to school like Emily and Brett. But they don't go on a bus and I want to go on a bus.

Brett starts 1st Grade

What is your favorite color? Green

What is your favorite sport? Go Utes!

What is your favorite thing to do outside? Soccer, cuz I am really good at it! And fishing with Daddy.

What are you most excited about learning at school? I can't choose recess, soooo learning about being nice and not hurting each other.

Who are your best friends? Cy, Caleb, Matthew, Andrew....I don't know anyone else. I can't remember their names.

What is your favorite food? Chicken, your chicken. You know, the good one you make?

What is your least favorite food? Potatoes, green bean and remember the long green things? I can't remember what they are called but we once ate them and I don't like them at all! (Asparagus)

What is your favorite animal? Cheetah, Lion and a Hippo

What do your like to do at home? I like dancing....I guess.

What is your favorite song? Brett: "Superman" Me: But that isn't a song that you sing, Brett: "Yes it is, dun da da da da dun dun....."

What is your favorite book? Gecko books, I love lizard books

What is your favorite movie? Superman and Harry Potter

What is your favorite place to go? To Oregon, Utah games and Las Vegas.

What is your favorite thing to say? "Arrrrrr!"

What do you want to be when you grow up? "A Boxer, you know like Dad is cuz he makes Boxes."

Emily starts 3rd Grade

What is your favorite color? Purple

What is your favorite sport? Soccer, because I play it.

What is your favorite thing to do outside? Ride on my Bike with Brett.

What are you most excited about learning at school? Math, um like sometimes it is fun.

Who are your best friends? Haylie, Elsie, Stasia, Jayleen

What is your favorite food? Shrimp and Crab

What is your least favorite food? Macaroni

What is your favorite song? California Justice, I like dancing to it in the car

What is your favorite animal? Elephants and Horses

What do your like to do at home? Something Art, I like to draw and write

What is your favorite book? I love all books, I don't know my favorite. Maybe, Roald Dahl books.

What is your favorite movie? Um, it is Harry Potter

What is your favorite place to go? Oregon and Las Vegas

What is your favorite thing to say? Supercalifragilisticespialidocious!

What do you want to be when you grow up? A nurse, for sure!