I'm late posting this one too... but Tyler has all but finished classes! He has one more month in January and then he's done with classes, now it's just rotations, baby being born and boards, piece of cake ;).
In September Lyndi started Joy School again. I've loved doing this with the group we have. Lyndi loves it and counts days in between until she can go back. The other day she told me she wanted it to be preschool all the time so she could have fun all the time instead of just at preschool, haha.
We had a campout for church that was so fun! The girls both miraculously slept all night, although Emerie somehow ended up going from in between me and Lyndi, over top of Lyndi's head in the tent over to Tyler's head by morning... without waking up... haha. Lyndi wants to go camping more now.
We found out also in the beginning of September that our baby was a boy! Tyler claims he knew it all along, well I guess so did I, but I think we both hesitated to say it out loud just in case we jinxed it haha. He is an extreme wiggle-worm, stronger and more wiggly than even Emerie, which is saying something. I went with my friend Torrey to a consignment sale right after that and bought a ton of clothes for super cheap so now we're all set... for the first 6 months! Well, as far as clothes go... I'm realizing now with 7.5 weeks left I have to lot to get still! We went to a Fall Festival with friends that have all moved away and on with their lives. It was fun! We bounced on these giant pillow things, went and picked apples, went through a haunted alien invasion house thing, and looked around at everything that had to see! While we were waiting for the tractor to pick us up after we picked apples, Emerie was playing in the dirt and all of a sudden found a spot that was not dirt, but mud and slipped and fell in it! She was covered in this weird mud and was crying. Good thing she was new to being potty-trained because I had an extra outfit on hand. After using about 100 wipes to clean her off she got some new clothes, but no shoes, I forgot extra shoes... It was funny and sad at the same time!
In October Emerie turned 2, which is crazy to me, but she milked her birthday for all it was worth haha. She gets it! Tyler also turned 29 in October! We actually made sure we all got up before him and made him breakfast in bed, which is... 6 birthdays overdue! Lyndi was so excited to make him breakfast in bed, she loves that kind of thing. Emerie sang happy birthday to herself all day on his birthday too. For Halloween we carved pumpkins and Tyler made one look like he was eating a fake arm that we had on hand. Emerie did NOT like that, she cried and wanted to save the poor man that was getting eaten by a pumpkin! We had a chili cook-off for church that was really fun! Lyndi was Rapunzel this year and Emerie was her side-kick Pascal, which nobody understood, I guess it's been too long since Tangled came out haha, and Emerie wouldn't keep her tail and hat on, so she just looked like she was wearing pajamas. But it was cute! Tyler and I even dressed up as mummies. Emerie has issued with masks, or people with pumpkins on their heads, haha. There was a boy with a clown mask on at the party and she grabbed on to my neck and didn't let go until I distracted her with some food. The next night we went Trick-or-treating and we had a blast! It was chilly, but the girls got loaded (since when is it tradition to hand out King-size candy bars, or handfuls of candy to each child?) and when we got home we broke open the hot chocolate and watched a movie.
In November we went out to eat with a bunch of Tyler's classmates and they threw us a baby shower, it was so sweet! None of them have kids, so some of the girls were saying it was good to shop for baby things to get it out of their system haha. I loved all the clothes and things we got! Plus it was at the Hibachi Grill, so it was delicious too! my sister, niece and mom came to visit for a week. It was nice to see them! I haven't seen my sister and her baby for a year and a half or my mom for almost a year. We honestly didn't do much that week haha. We mostly sat and talked, which is was girls do I hear. My mom helped me go through baby clothes and get rid of a lot of girls stuff, sniff sniff. My sister interviewed at 3 PA schools including Salus and got into all 3, of course ;) We went downtown the last day they were here and it was gorgeous weather! I love going to Independence Hall every single time. It makes me feel so patriotic and strangely close to the people who started it all. We went to my mom's for Thanksgiving and I got a lot of fabric to make receiving blankets, including a pattern with mustaches on it, it makes me giggle every time I look at it, it's hilarious! After stuffing ourselves full of food every day we headed home and began December.
I felt like I had so much time in December and then it passed so quickly I'm not even sure what happened! Tyler finished finals, and then we had Lyndi's birthday party and then he flew out to Utah for a week to bring us back a car, which I'm so excited for! We are just about way overdue for 2 cars. The day before he left there was a Christmas party at church, and the girls were both sick, but Lyndi wasn't as sick so she and Tyler went and came home with homemade ornaments with pictures of the girls on them. They did the nativity with all the kids and Tyler said right before they went up on stage he told Lyndi he was going to give her a thumbs up, but she said that would be embarrassing for her so she told him not to. When the kids were on stage Tyler gave her a thumbs up anyway and she yelled back down at him that he was embarrassing her! Haha, such a funny girl. That night we had Lyndi's birthday party and then Sunday Tyler flew out to Utah. What a long week! But we survived in one piece. Makes me feel like I might survive maybe when he's gone doing rotations. I took Lyndi shoe shopping for her birthday and she picked to eat out at McDonalds, and she LOVED shoe shopping! She wants to go back :) Tyler got home with his dad a week later and they brought gifts of home-grown canned food :) I LOVE the apricot jam that they make.
Christmas was so fun this year! We had friends over for a dinner on Christmas Eve and everything was delicious and the kids had fun with each other. We might end up doing that more often, it was so fun! We did the nativity for the first time with the girls after everyone left, which was chaotic and funny. I wish we had a video camera! Then we watched Frosty the Snowman and the girls went to bed. Tyler and I stayed up finishing those last minute gifts and then went to bed. We had planned on leaving all the Christmas lights on all night, but where the girls doors are glass, we decided it was better not to. Then Tyler (the Christmas 5-year old) went and woke everyone up, as he does every year at 6:30 to do Christmas. The funniest part was Emerie opening the movie Frozen. I knew she'd react exactly as she did and I missed recording it! She saw it, gasped, and squealed "I. got. FROZEN!!!" Haha. That afternoon we headed over to my mom's and stayed for a few days, ate lots of yummy food and candy, played games, went to see the last Hobbit BEFORE it came out on redbox, rare for us haha, and went over to my mom's friends house, where the girls were introduced to her dog, Emerie got licked all over her face and neck several times before she finally didn't like it and Lyndi didn't like it to begin with. Granted it is an overly excited dog when new people come over! We ate some really good cinnamon rolls, Tyler got some Playstation time in and then we went home.
Sorry, these always turn in to novels, but I don't ever feel like writing here more often.
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