Happy 8th Girly!!!

Today E turns 8.
I can't believe that she is 8. I remember the day before I had her. She was due on Fathers Day and I had been having contractions since Friday off and on. She was my first so those contractions can go for a while. Went to the hospital Sunday evening they sent me home. Not any progress. The nurse actually told me that since I was walking and talking fine I couldn't be in labor plus it was my due date and Fathers Day so I had those things counting against me. Later and still home with contractions starting and stoping lots of pain (I now know that it was all BACK LABOR!!! if you are unfamiliar baby comes out looking down and then turns to the side Not this little princess... she wanted to come out looking at the world so her spine and my spine became friends they are no longer on speaking terms btw) So after 4 hours of pushing our stubborn little girl and some help from foreceps (finally) E. C. S. our suprise baby girl was born on Monday June 18th 2001 8lbs 3oz with brown fuzzy hair. She has been so much fun these past 8 years. Looking at these pictures I can remember what was happening and can still hear her asking a billion questions. She has always been even tempered and well mannered. Always looking to make friends and make sure that others fit in and aren't forgotten. She began playing the violin at 5 and has said since she was 6 1/2 that she hates it and when can she quit. Um never. She is better than she realizes. Loves her daddy and family. She loves telling insane knock knock jokes. Can climb a rock wall better than I could at her age. Loves to read weird stuff... bird books, history books, atlas', encyclopedias. Remembers anything and everything and has since she was little. Thought for the longest time that sheep were woolly and wet. We realized that when she was 2 we went to San Diego Zoo and the sheep in the petting zoo had had baths and were still wet. She used to suck her thumb and hold a My Little Pony's tail hair in her hand. All of her ponies went bald because of this. She loves to paint and draw and make up stories. I love her for all of these things and so many more.

She is kind, warm, sweet, beautiful, ambitious, thoughtful, strong, smart, wonderful, spiritual, and mine.

This is more for me than anything but here goes. I put together some fun photos from when you were little to now. Hope they don't make anyone's computer too unhappy.






This is her 1 year pic... look at how short her hair still was! Just some curls in the back and enough to clip the top. No hair cuts yet. I didn't have time to scan more pics of year 1 in, sorry monkey. Before our first digital camera.


Her second birthday. More hair thank goodness. I loved this dress.


Her birthday D-backs game! 2years.


She can't read but that didn't stop her from studying each and every page. She is our only child who never tore a book.


loved the pool even then

little painter this is the only mess you made. wish I could say the same for your brothers.... messy painters.






love this picture. you were hot so I put your hair up last minute then while waiting for the parade grandma and pop bought you an ice cream. you shared so sweetly! people kept stopping since you were both so cute.


Higher daddy. . . dumbos ride



For a full 4 months you ate this gross sandwich mayo and a slice of cheese. You loved it and I thought that you were silly for not wanting to change it at all. I tried to add ham or something and you would get mad. Yuckie.


First day of first grade


you made a mud hole in the back yard then painted yourself in it. not too sweet here are ya?


first day of second grade


halloween you wanted to be half pretty bride half dead ugly bride. you got it girly.


first birthday party at skateland for a friend... also first time rollerskating! you did great!


I took you along on a senior photo shoot you insisted on getting your picture taken too. you weren't a ton of help carrying stuff. and you talked our ears off but I did enjoy having you there babe.


I needed a pic of you with a white back ground for our alphabet book. I loved your eyes in this.


you wanted one with just your eyes looking sneaky. :)


You swim wonderfully. learning the strokes and trying your hardest not to get tired while swimming across the whole length of the pool is making you stronger and more confident. You are truly comfortable in the water.
I took this the other day at GG paul's house. I love your eyes.

This summer you have asked to learn how to sew. I am so excited to teach you how. You have requested learning to make a pillowcase and some other fun items. We will probably start with the pillowcase. We will post our progress as we go.

Just in case you didn't know in my world 8 is a very big deal. If you didn't know I am LDS a Latter-Day Saint or Mormon gal. I have been since I was born and can't imagine it any other way. When you turn 8 you are able to be baptized as the savior was. E wants so badly to be baptized and will have the opportunity to do so surrounded by family and friends very soon. We are so proud of her choice to follow the Savior in this way.

Love you Sweetie!

Spring is HERE!!!

Yay the boys of summer are back in the park. Spring training has begun. Wahooo.




Bob Melvin manager.

So I feel that I have to say how much we wanted to see Orlando Hudson resigned with the Dbacks but when that didn't happen . . . HE WENT TO THE BLUE SIDE AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH nnnnoooooooo the Dodgers signed him. Our house does NOT like the dodgers at all. They tend to have very rude fans... can't stand going to a game against them. Win or lose they are just annoying when they all get together. (kinda like Giants and Yankees and Braves fans) Ok off of that rant.

I seriously can not remember who's sig this is. Scott may.




So we are very much a Diamond Backs Baseball family. Unless you talk to Emma then you would find out that she is not part of that. Any who Monday, Feb 16th we had a free day, no school or work for Scott so we decided to make the trek down to Tuscon to see the Dback pitchers and catchers. So fun. If it was a few days later we would have seen most of the other positions players. So we walked around the parks practice fields and had some luck with finding players. They were so nice. We also happened to see a guy who had season tickets behind our seats last year... that was kinda weird. So we got autographs from Miguel Montero, catcher; Eric Byrnes, outfielder we got to watch him in batting practice; and Scott's favorite Kirk Gibson, the 'natural' and our bench coach. (Scott was pretty excited to get Kirk's autograph). It really was fun. Scott was even in some photos for the Tuscon paper and his infamous purple pen seen in our photos was in AZ Central and Republic sites with Scott's hand.

Since we were down in Tucson we thought that we would visit a historic site a State park Picacho Peak and take a hike with the kids. It is so pretty when the flowers are blooming. We had just received rain so the flowers were growing but not really blooming yet. The mountains were very green though.
The kids wanted to climb up the rocks at the top of Childrens cave trail.
M was trying so hard to get daddy to sit down in the cave I think that his exact words were
'Dad you are supposed to sit down like this. That is what you do here.' Scott let him know that he didn't need to sit down.
D loved the fact that he could climb so much. Mommy didn't like that he loved standing so close to the edge of the mountain. He really liked the nacho cheese Doritos though.
All in all it was a great day. We got to see some pitchers and catchers and players then got to see some history. So fun!