busy, busy, busy

Sorry for the delinquency! It has been a crazy, but wonderful few days around here. My first work week went pretty fast and I must say, even though this sounds bad that I actually looked forward to going to work everyday. I have managed to make it to work by 6am and sneak out of the house without waking everyone. Lauren is still in her crib in our bedroom, so I have to put everything I am going to wear in the bathroom the night before so I don't wake her or Dave trying to find something to wear/fit into. :) Anyway, Lauren is an awesome sleeper just like Emma...we are SO lucky. She has not woke up in the middle of the night for probably 3 or so weeks.

Friday I worked only half a day....can't work a full week on my first week back! Aunt Berni was in town from Washington so went to Stacy and Ted's for a yummy lunch and to chat for awhile so she could meet the twins and Lauren. She also made all of the new additions stuffed bears..they are so cute.

Friday night we went to Beaver Lake to my good friend Lisa's parent's house. Her, her husband and their 8 month old son Mason were in town from Denver. We had a wonderful pasta dinner and then hung out by the lake. Emma enjoyed playing with bubble guns and sprayed everyone with them. Dave, of course had to throw a line in the lake and actually caught a nice size bass. I took Emma's pajamas hoping that she would fall asleep on the long drive home and that I could have one night without the long routine of going to bed...but what was I thinking..this is Emma we're talking about. She talked and sang the whole way home....darn!

This morning we went to Dave's niece's graduation at the qwest center. I think there were almost 400 graduates from her class...but the graduation was under 1 1/2 hours. they read the names so fast it was great. Anyway, thanks Stacy for watching Emma during that. She has a hard enough time sitting still for church than for a long graduation. She is already talking about visiting you again.

This afternoon, we had the graduation party at Dave's mom's house. Emma ran around and played football with all of the boys and got so sweaty and dirty. I immediately gave her a bath tonight as soon as we got home. She went downstairs to watch "her shows" and I stayed upstairs to feed Lauren and watch America's Most Wanted and she was just sssoooo quiet down there. I came down to find her OUT on the couch, so I carried her up to bed. Wow is she getting heavy. Anyway, it was so nice not to have to barter about how many books and going to the bathroom and what pajamas to wear and needing a drink and laying with her, and whatever other stall tactics she would have come up with tonight.

Dave had to go back to work tonight, so it's just Lauren and I right now and she is taking a cat nap before her final feeding. Just a couple cute pictures from these last two days.