Remember.

Remember back in February when I won a giveaway for The Vintage Pearl?  I finally got around to ordering them.  I was wanting to wait in case I got pregnant this year, but since that isn't happening yet, I decided to just collect my winnings.  I was able to get two necklaces (I did have to pay some), and I couldn't be happier with them.  I just love them!

I guess I could have been slightly happier with Emerson's if it could have fit his whole name in the font I like.  But I still love it just the same.

Take Pictures...PLEASE!

Emerson is discovering that pictures can be fun.  He has started to ask for me to take pictures of him.  They start of all sweet and cute.

Then they most definately turn into a funny face session.  I love how he poses for pictures and will hold a funny face until I tell him I have a good one.

 (I LOVELOVELOVE this next one. I love that smile even though it is one of his "funny faces".)

Then he turns it into a take pictures of my toy session and that is when I am about done.

How, you ask, that I am able to get good pictures of this sweet boy and why he wants to have pictures taken of him?  It might be something about this hippo that I made this week to put on my lens.  My sister found someone that makes them and told me about it.  But I wanted to see if I can make my own.  So when I was recovering from surgery, I decided to try it out.  Out of the two that I made, one is really cute and one is horrible terrible, and they are definately not as cute as the girls that I am copying.  However, no matter how ugly, it still keeps attention at the camera for more than a second and with that I am happy.  I am going to make more, so we can switch them up and keep his attention longer. 

Surgery

Jason and I have been trying to have a baby for over two years.  After doing all the clomid and IUI's that my doctor would allow for the time being we had to make a decision on what to do next.  Our options were: adoption, surgeries, wait, or IVF.  I didn't want to give up trying just yet, but we didn't feel right about IVF, so we decided to do the surgeries. 

Jason's surgery was a Varicocelectimy.  It was done in September and he is still healing from it.  We won't know if it worked until the middle of December or later. 

My surgery was last Friday (November 12th).  I actually had two separate surgeries that day. They were a Laparoscopy and a Histeroscopy.

During the Laparoscopy, they will cut me open and look at my uterus's outside.  This was to see if there were any problems, such as endometriosis or scar tissues that can be preventing me from getting pregnant. It turned out that I didn't have any of those problems.  They also drilled little holes into my ovaries to help drain the many cysts that are there.

In the Histeroscopy, they looked inside my uterus to see if there were any problems in there and fix them. There was not.  They also put dye through my tubes and that was successful.  Both open!

I am recovering very nicely.  I am in very little pain and have little soreness now.  So things are good.   I should be fully recovered soon.  Hopefully between both of these surgeries, we will have a little more hope of having another baby near in the future.

Great Wall of China

 While Jason was in China last month, he had a couple of extra days to get to do some sight seeing.  So he took advantage of it to get to do some cool things that he probably will never be able to do again.  The first thing that he did was go and see the Terracotta Warriors.  Then when he went to Beijing, he took the trip out to the Great Wall of China.  He was the only one in his group that went the whole distance that was open. 

Out of this World Halloween

 Happy Halloween!

from our little Rocket Ship.

 3-2-1-Blast off!!! 

Off we go trick or treating!

Outside=Pictures

Emerson wanted me to go outside with him, and when he asked he just looked so sweet that I told him I would if he would let me take pictures.  So, out came the camera and the funny faces.

When I ask Emerson how old he is he says two, but this is how he puts his hands.  He just can't make his hands into a two.

Toward the end, Emerson wanted me to take a picture of his bum, so I did.  Just for him.

I had my camera out again taking some pictures and Emerson just had to have his spotlight in the camera.  I just LOVE these pictures.  Especially the last one.  Classic Emerson.

We have been throught two phases of pictures lately: the all behind and the no smile all funny faces.  I think I like the funny faces more, it is showing his personality with is pretty hilarious.

Super Saturday

For the past month and a half, I have been working hard getting Super Saturday ready for our ward. If you want to see the fun crafts that our ward is doing this year go to our Ward Relief Society Blog.

Evermore.

Last week Emerson started saying a new word that has become his standard word to end a phrase about something he doesn't want to do.  This word is evermore.  Meaning forever and ever.

He uses this word in sentences that sound like "No _______ evermore.  OKAY mommy?"

Here is a list of things that Emerson has said to fill in the blank:

Dinner
Lunch
Breakfast
Chocolate milk
water
nap
bed time
kisses
pooh pooh on potty
diaper changes
go bye bye
bathtime
playing with toys
read books
clothes on

This list continues, but you get the point.  Apparently Emerson wants to live a completely unsanitary, starving, and bored to death life.  Luckily when he says "okay Mommy?", I say "No Emerson".

Game

 I love this game.  Such an awesome computer game!

A Day at the Fair

In lieu of a vacation this year, we are doing some fun things around our home.  So we went to the Oregon State Fair as one of our adventures around town.  We had a lot of fun.  We went to a magic show, a Lets Pretend Circus, and a petting zoo.  We at our $5 hot dogs and $6 cotton candy (which is totally worth the money).  We played carnival games and rode rides.

We bought tickets all at once because they were half price before 5 and we wanted to do most of the rides and games in the evening.  So we bought as many as we thought we would want to use that evening.  After we bought the tickets, we found out that you have to be 36 inches to ride most the rides, where online it just said two years old or older.  So, there were just a few of the kiddie rides that Emerson could go on.  He is like 35.5 inches currently, so just barely too short for the majority of the kiddie rides.  Needless to say, we bought way to many tickets, so Emerson just got to ride the rides over and over.  Jason did go on a couple of rides himself.  The first ride that he rode on he said is the first ride to ever make him remotely sick.  It made me sick just watching it go. 

Emerson loved all the rides that he was able to ride.  He rode each one like 5 times each.  I think that the workers knew him by the end...except they have to keep checking his height.  They didn't believe that he was tall enought even for the 34 inch tall rides.   I think that he was so cute on all the rides.

We had an awesome time at the fair.  I think that it is going to be a yearly activity from now on.