SNOW!!

Bekah is all geared up for the cold in her cow hat!

Friday it was snowing when we woke up at 8:30 and then it kept snowing for 12 hours! It was pretty intense! Rebekah and I went outside to stand in it and watch the flakes piling up but we soon decided it was much better to watch from inside.

This is what it looked like out our front window

The railings looked so delicate!

Family Update

On October 7 my baby sister got married. It was a beautiful ceremony and she was radiant, of course! She always looks so good! Her reception was lovely and we loved getting to see family. Unfortunately, our trip was extremely short. I worked a grave shift from 12-6am, we loaded up the car and left by 8, arrived in Vernal in time to feed the baby and get dressed for the wedding at 1, helped get the reception ready, stayed at the reception till about 7pm and then drove home. I was exhausted!!! Between the wedding and reception, Garrett went to my brother-in-law's house to help him with something and in exchange, he earned a giant, beautiful, gorgeous, amazing tv! So now our living room is dominated by this glorious object, making all our college friends extremely jealous! Thank you Bortons!!!!

We went to Camille's house near Payson for an amazing Halloween party. She has a beautiful new house there and was an amazing hostess. It was so good to have most of the family all together.  The next week we went to Vernal for another Halloween party! We have been so spoiled to see our family so often. 

Rebekah has been such a delight! She is always so happy and loves to laugh with me. I could photograph or film her entire life and it still wouldn't capture her beauty and the love she shares with Garrett and I. I know I always put so many pictures of her on each post, but I promise I spend forever picking only the best pictures. There are dozens more I'd love to post! Here are the best from the past month:

This is for my mom. She dressed me in this hat and sweater when I was a baby.

This was our leaf adventure, she thought they were pretty cool.

I was surprised by how long it took for the leaves to be put in the mouth, 

but they eventually made it there!

Then the hood got annoying!

She just melts my heart everyday.

CAUTION: Icy Bridge Ahead

Unfortunately for the man on his bicycle this morning, there was not a caution sign near the bridge. I was driving home from work at 6am and on my way I crossed a tiny little bridge. There had been an extremely dense fog all night and as a consequence, the roads were coated in a fine layer of moisture, which had frozen on the bridge. The man on the bicycle was riding with his hands in his pockets to keep them warm, when all of a sudden his bicycle slid out from underneath him! I hit the brakes to make sure he was alright but slid forward several feet instead. Realizing that he was alright and that I would just further embarrass him by asking if he was okay, I just watched him in my mirrors as he got up, walked his bike to the end of the bridge and then continued on his way. Relieved, I too continued. Suddenly the hilarity of the situation hit me and I laughed out loud for the rest of the ten minute drive home. And I am laughing out loud again!

Motherhood is Beautiful

I think Rebekah has been teething on and off the last couple of weeks. She will be fussy for about a week and then super happy for the next week. Also, she has tiny bumps on her gums. I'm pretty excited to see her with teeth! She's just gonna get cuter! So a week ago she kept getting fussy so I'd try to help her be happy but it got to the point where I just had to let her whine while I did dishes and cooked and cleaned. So one evening she was fussy. I had just fed her, she had taken a nap recently, so I checked her pants and they were clean. A bit later, I checked her pants again. Still clean. A bit later I checked again. Still clean. Finally I just had to sing to her while I cooked and once I was done I picked her up. She stopped fussing. Right then a couple of guys from Garrett's class came over to study so I took Rebekah down the hall to get her ready for her bath when suddenly I realized my hands felt sticky. Poop. All over her back and legs. Oh well. I deal with that a lot. Then I realized my arm felt sticky. I looked down. Poop. All over my arm. All over my shirt!! GROSS!! I ran down the hall and yelled "Garrett, she pooped all over me!!" Good first impression on Garrett's friends, right? "Oh hey, guys, this is my wife, Emily. She's pretty awesome. I know you can't tell from the messy ponytail, the poop all over her chest and on the baby, or the crazed look in her eye, but she's pretty cool." Okay, he didn't really say that, he just laughed. But still, I felt dumb. I had to change my clothes, strip Bekah, bathe Bekah, scrub the tub,  hand wash all the poop out of our clothes, start the laundry, take out the stinky trash, and then take a shower. It was exhausting. But through all my tugging and pulling at the baby, and all my exclamations of "gross!" and my moanings and groanings, my little baby looked up at me and smiled and laughed. She is so sweet. She can make me feel happy even when it seems like everything is going wrong. She is my sunshine.