Emery's 1st Birthday

Emery Jane is 1!

2 ft 4 in tall and 18.8 lbs.
She has 8 teeth. She is walking but not completely, probably because I don't push her at all to do so. ;)  She loves kisses and knows how, but refuses to give them more often than not.  She likes to climb up to the highest point she possibly can.  She does NOT like to get tackled by her loving sisters, but loves them just the same and get very excited when she sees them in the morning and after naps.
Emery is a joy to have around! A year ago, I definitely was surprised and scared to have you, but after having you, I wouldn't have it any other way.  I would never change the fact that you were born when you were, even if it seems hard to take care of you and your sisters together.  You are still a ray of sunshine I need in my life and I am so happy to have you!
We love our Emy J!

 For Emy's birthday we had a small group of family and friends over and had smoked pulled pork sandwiches and lemon cake. I thought for sure Emy would make a complete mess of her cake so we took it outside. Instead, she was terrified of her candle and ended up with frosting all over her foot. After her sisters "helped" her blow out her candle we took it inside and I sliced her a piece, which she was more comfortable with and ate much better. :)

One of my favorites :)

  She picked off all the candies first and ate them one by one.  Then she picked off small pieces of the cake and ate them piece by piece. I thought she'd be more vigorous in her cake attack but instead she was neat and dainty. haha.

 

 Presents

 OTHER PICTURES OF HER 1ST YEAR

(In retreating order)

 

Easter 2015

(not the best moment for a picture.)

  Auntie Shelby's homecoming from her LDS mission.

 " Happy all the time"

Her favorite spot to hang out for a long time.

  (got herself stuck trying to crawl through the stool at Grandma Cheryl's)

 Long-eared donkey

 Fighting Cairo for the sippy cup.

 My phone fits in her baby pocket.

Sydney's 4th Birthday & 1st year Preschool

Sydney T turned 4 this year on September 10th.

For Sydney's birthday, we celebrated the day after so all those who wanted to watch the BYU football game with us could stay.  I made a chocolate cake with purple frosting (same as last year) and she had some friends over to play with.  (Friends included our neighbors the Frydays, Austin Smith and family, Jordan and Ashley, and parents and siblings.)

She received a bow and arrow from the Frydays and a new purple bike from us and Grandma Teresa & Grandpa Randy.  She immediately was good at pedaling the bike and continues to want to ride it daily.  (I actually accidentally put only three candles on her cake at first. Oops...)

This year was Sydney's FIRST year of Preschool.  Both her and mommy were SUPER excited. ;)

She is attending Nisha's Happy Hearts Preschool located here in the Silverlake subdivision every Mon/Wed/Fri. She wishes she could go everyday (as well as her jealous younger sister who thinks she's 4 as well). 

 Classic Sydney pose by the way.

 (Ainsley's bangs are curled because they had gotten so long I was experimenting.  She looks like she was a child of my era. Nothing wrong with that, right?) ;)

 Ainsley got her backpack for her birthday for this very reason...

  Poor Ainsley was (is still) so jealous.

Her other best friend, Kendyl, who happened to also be on her Tball team this year.