Officially Homeowners

March was a big month for us. The beginning of February, when I went to see Logan in Idaho Falls, we went house hunting and found the PERFECT home. And if you know me, you know that this was going to be quite the task. I didn't want a house and was sure I was going to hate every house we walked into for one reason or another. I also really hate being pushed into doing things, so luckily for Logan, he found an awesome realtor that was zero pushy! :) First house was a NO. It had all wood floors and I just do not like wood floors. Weird I know. I think it's because I know how much my mom has to work to keep hers looking good. The second house was also a NO. It was just strange looking. The third house was a maybe. It needed more work than I wanted to do to it and it was on the outside of a neighborhood so the neighbors were kinda eh. Then we got to the fourth house. We walked in and I wanted to cry. It was brand-spankin-new. Which means clean carpet. And never been used bath tubs. And I won't have to paint. But for Logan's need of fixin something up- the yard is not down and the basement is not finished. So it worked for BOTH of us! After I had fully fallen in love, we looked at one more home, and it was nice, but it was a split level and I didn't feel like it would easily baby proof. We made an offer and it was accepted. We were to close a month from that day. A MONTH. We said ok, not realizing it would be so difficult. We almost gave up a few times. But because of the feeling I had when we looked at that house, and the feeling I looked at it the times after that first time, I couldn't let it go. We were going to get it. After going back and forth with the bank, I booked my flight for the 24 hours to be there to close. 24 hours because there was NO WAY I was going to fly with Emmy. She couldn't, and still can't, sit still to save her life. I forgot how relaxing traveling can be. I thoroughly enjoyed my flights. I actually got to read my book, watch a movie, and get an iced coke without Emmy's sneaky little fingers grabbing it and tipping it over! Finally, the long awaited home---

My beauty of a kitchen!

Dining area. the door on the left goes to the laundry room then out to the garage, which I love because it means Logan can drop his dirty work clothes without walking through the house!

Living room, coat closet, stairs to basement, and hallway to bedrooms

Master bed, that has a walk-in closet bigger than the bathroom of our one bedroom apartment. 

Master bath- still fairly small, but with a 3 bed 2 bath house this is as good as it gets it seems.

But it won me anyways because the tub is JETTED! Woohoo!

 I love it and can't wait to get our new furniture in it, and our king size bed that after years of begging Logan we finally are getting! (You may wonder why I wanted a king size- well- Logan tosses in his sleep. a. lot. and snores SO loud. So the extra space will help me sleep I think. YAY!

Emmy Had a Birthday!

Emmy had her (2nd) 1st birthday party the Sunday before her birthday. Which means that she got sung to a few more times after that, once at Longhorn where she was SO excited when everyone surrounded her and clapped and bounced around. She loved ALL of the attention. My grandparents on my mom's side were able to come down from Missouri to celebrate with us and Logan also ended up being home. It was a good time.

Opening her presents

Clapping while everyone sang

playing with JJ

Great grandpa JJ and Great grandma DeeDee

I think she liked the taste of this cake a lot more than the first.

SURPRISE!!

Logan left for North Dakota the first week of January and we hadn't planned on seeing each other until Emmy's birthday (in March!). However, he was going to be going to Idaho for a week in the beginning of February to do our taxes. He had begged and begged for me and Emmy to come for the week. I said no. Too expensive. I would see him a couple weeks later anyways. It's too hard for Emmy to handle sitting for a 4+ hour flight.
But....
Little did he know...
I had already booked my flight and was planning to come! I had a lot of help from Travis and Angie, our friends, in making sure he was home in time and helping me surprise him. The day I was flying in I played that I was soooo sick and just could not talk and later that evening (when I would be on the plane and my phone would be off) that I was going to bed to try to "sleep it off". And yes, he believed it. He told his parents (who knew I was coming) that I was super sick. Then that night he had a boys night while Angie picked me up from the airport. We got to the McDonald's where Angie was meeting her husband and the boys and she walked in first-so Logan gave her crap for taking forever- then looked at me. He just STARED. Then it kicked in and he realized I wasn't really sick at all. haha. Probably the best thing ever. It's actually on video so I will probably post that as soon as I get it.

What I thought was going to be a nice relaxing Valentine's week with the hubs, turned into a busy busy no time to relax week.

Saturday- Logan had plans with a realtor to look at possible homes. And here is what happened... I had every intention of saying no. absolutely not. to every single house we walked into. I honestly thought there was no way that I would walk into a house and fall in love with it. First 3 were a no for me. The 4th one I wanted to cry when I walked in. It was perfect. In every way. Then the 5th house was a no. I just loved house number 4 and it consumed our thoughts for the next couple of days.

Monday- We did an early 1st birthday for Emmy with our Idaho friends and family--and Emily of course. We just had everyone come for pizza at Leo's Place in Idaho Falls. We made a little cake for Emmy that she wasn't so crazy about. She wanted it so bad until she touched it then it was obvious she did not want that ooey gooey icing all over her hands. I think the only actual bites she took of the cake were the ones that Logan fed her. She just wasn't very excited about it, so I am hoping that on her official first birthday she will be more excited about it!

Tuesday- We decided we had to have that house. So. We made an offer!

Wednesday- They countered our offer.

Thursday- We accepted! Since that moment we have been working with the bank (now banks) to get it all figured out. We are hoping it all comes together and that we get the house. There will hopefully be another post later all about the house, but until we are officially getting it, that is all. Just know we love it. Hopefully. Hopefully.

Thursday was also Valentine's Day. Logan's mom watched Emmy so that me and Logan could go on a date night. He took me to the SANDPIPER. Before this time I had never been there. I had just heard that that is where people in Idaho take their prom dates or special dates or whatever because it is a nice place. So yeah, you guessed it, Logan has been there many a times. With me? NEVER! Well he finally took me. And since he totally forgot that it was Valentine's Day, he also didn't make a reservation. We ended up having to sit at the bar. Funny thing- Logan's high school buddy was also at the bar with his wife. So we didn't feel so lame haha. After that we went to see Safe Haven. I was SO excited for this movie to come out, and since Julianne Hough was in it, so was Logan. It was a great movie! And much better than The Lucky One. bleck. Don't get me started on that one. Did they even read the book? Helloooooo. Safe Haven was done right thank goodness.

Saturday morning- We went back to Georgia.

Before we went to Idaho, Emmy was starting to get pretty good at walking. Well, while in Idaho, she improved a TON. While there she figured out how to walk across the room, turn around, bend over and pick things up, and even how to go down 2 steps without face planting.

She has also become super talkative. She has started to have full blown conversations.

I don't know if I have already mentioned this, but she LOVES her baby dolls. She goes straight to them if you ask about them. She also loves on her stuffed animals when she sees them.

10 Months OLD!

I can't even believe that in 5 days my little baby will no longer be 10 months old, but will be 11 months, which is only 1 month away from being a whole year OLD!!

Since I messed up and didn't post for months at a time and did not write down all of Emmy's little perks for every month, I am now scared I will do it again so I make notes on my phone every time she does something cute. I think everything she does is cute, so the list is pretty long for this month!

1. When she likes a song she claps. And dances. And bounces. And shakes her head. And sometimes puts her hands up in the air, which is my FAVE. Unfortunately she is currently obsessed with a strange song that my dad has on his phone. It sounds like it is from another country and I really dislike it. Well, it's now on my phone because she likes it so much. Here is a video of her dancing in her high chair to this weird song, even though she was very very sick:

2. She loves to play patty cakes and if you start to sing it she will start to clap. Sometimes I do this in the car if she is fussing and it works like a charm!

3. Whenever someone else is laughing, she laughs. I use to always think it was so funny when other kids did this. I didn't realize it was something most kids do! I love it. It is like they know exactly what is going on.

4. When she waves bye bye, or if you are lucky enough to see her do it because it is like she is too embarrassed to do it, she will wave at herself.

5. Since she now has two top teeth and two bottom teeth, she grits them together. It grosses me out. Hopefully she grows out of that!

6. Poor Emmy Lou got sick this month. She got her second (and last) flu shot and not an hour later she had a really high fever. I called the doctor and they said it is normal to have up to a 102 degree fever and that it could last about 2 days. On the 3rd day of running on very little sleep and feeling like I just couldn't keep the fever down, I took her in. After being there for an hour and a half, and what seemed like a million tests later, we found out that she did not have an ear infection, did not have the flu (so it wasn't what I thought it was caused from), but she had a nasty UTI (in case you didn't know that does not stand for "Ultimate Tanning Institution"). After a week on the meds she was finally better and she had another doctor's appointment to make sure she was cured. That test came back good, but wait, more tests? Yes. She had to go to the Children's Hospital in ATL a week later to have an ultrasound on her kidneys to make sure there was no damage. After that test, did I find out there was going to be another? Yes. And at this point I was furious. Emmy officially hates doctors and their offices and anything that resembles a table in an office. Luckily, all the tests came back A-OK and I am praying I never have to do that again.

7. If you ask her for kisses, she puts, or sometimes slams, her forehead to yours. That is how she gives kisses!

8. She is SO SO FAST in her walker. She will chase Kaillou (the dog) around and if you aren't careful she will even chase you. You have to watch for her because she will bruise your ankles. She also runs into walls when she is going too fast. She thinks her walker is the funnest thing ever.

9. She absolutely loves Kaillou. She is always trying to play with him with his toys, chase after him, pet him, and feed him. Whenever she is eating her puffs in her high chair, he will beg her for some. She of course throws every last one to him, then cries for more. Well, the other day at dinner, she did this and we told her she couldn't have anymore because she would feed them to Kaillou. She cried. So we let her have one in her mouth. What does she do??? Leans over her high chair to where Kaillou is, opens her mouth, AND GIVES IT TO HIM!!! She is too smart for her own good.

10. She definitely has a low pain tolerance like her dad. The littlest bump or boo boo and it is the end of the world.

11. So, Emmy has had a bath just about every night of her life. In my opinion, babies definitely need one. They go to the bathroom on themselves, get food all over, and in some cases spit up a lot. She has always had them in her little pink bath tub just big enough for her, up until a week ago. She would cry and scream if we were out of town or away from her pink bath tub and tried to bathe her in the regular tub, so between deciding I wanted her to be ok with bathing any where, and thinking she was kinda out growing the pink tub, I decided to start putting her in the big tub. Day 1: cried for the first 5 minutes, then held back the tears long enough to finish her bath. Day 2: cried for 1 minute then played for a while. Day 3 and so on: NO CRYING!!! Had I known it would only take a couple of times for her to be ok with it, I would have done it a month ago. Now she plays and is happy being in the big tub!

Pink tub

Day 1

Day 3

12. Last Sunday, when people would be singing, Emmy would start to "sing". I hope this never stops.

13. She is now 20.6 lbs. and is in a new car seat that sits up, but still faces back.

14. She rubs everything on her nose, and your nose, too. I don't know what it is about her nose, but she seems to have a thing about things touching it because she gets a sleepy look in her eyes no matter what she rubs it on. She especially loves blankets. The other day she saw me holding one and she took it and started rubbing her face in it. Automatically when she has one she does that. And she can't fall asleep without rubbing one on her face.

15. She knows what her "baby" is and she will hug, kiss, and feed it. She even takes the toy bottle and feeds her stuffed animals.

16. For Christmas, my parents got Emmy a little shopping cart. She has learned how to push it and will take off! If she runs into something and gets stuck she gets frustrated, which is why we have been playing with it in the basement today so that she has less to run into and more space to go! I'm pretty sure she will be walking (more than the 4-5 steps she does now) in no time!

17. I got her a little tooth brush with some baby approved tooth paste (oral gel) and when ever she sees me pull it out she gets excited and is ready to brush her teeth. I am so proud.


Well there is my super long list. Now here is what I need you to do: comment on this post and tell me how in the world I can follow people on my dashboard. I am following a few people but I can't remember how I did that. I don't want to follow them through email, just through my dashboard! Hints?