A month old already!

I can't believe Emma is a month old already. Time goes by so quickly it amazes me. Some of my favorite things so far are:

The way she lights up when she sees me



How happy she is unless she's hungry or cold but those are easy fixes.



How she loves to cuddle at night before bed time



Sleeping in together



Seeing my family light up every time they see her.



And of course her great big smile!

Introducing Emma Rae Huff

Emma Rae was born on Saturday November 28th at 5:38 PM





She weighed 6lbs 12 oz and was 19 inches long.





Everything went really well except my doctor was out of town :( but I didn't care too much at the time as long as someone was there who could deliver her. The on call doctor was really nice and comforting. I really liked delivering at a smaller hospital. They were always right there if I needed them. All in all everything went really well. Contractions weren't very much fun but the rest wasn't bad at all. Here are some pics






Amanda and Emma (Emma is in the blanket her daddy made her)


Proud Grandma McFall

Proud Grandma Huff

Our first family photo

Love at first sight!

The Nursery

Tony and I finished the nursery today. It looks amazing, we are so happy with it. We went with a rock and roll theme, which is very hard to come up with for a girl. We found a bass and a guitar on ksl for 40 bucks and spray painted them pink. The big records came from my parents basement and I painted those. The little records came from a friend of Tony's that he works with. I love it and think it is awesome. I figured this is my only chance to decorate the room how I want, since next time she'll have her own idea's. Here are some pics of the nursery.

Baby Shower!

On saturday I had a baby shower with my family. It was a lot of fun and am so happy everyone came. We got a lot of really great stuff. I definately feel more ready to have the baby now. I'll try and post some pics but I have to get them from my mom so who knows if that will happen. Thanks again to everybody who came and all the great gifts, we definately appreciate it

FYI

I know I have some baby showers coming up so I just wanted to let everyone know Tony and I have registered mostly at Target and a little at babies r us. We do need a lot of things being new parents. So if any one is interested you can look at those stores.

Our August camping trip to China Meadows

Our family went camping this year to China Meadows and for a first time, in a really long time, we all made it up there (just not all at the same time). For some of us it was trickier getting there than others. Tony and I were following my parents up there when all of the sudden my dad's truck started smoking. So we pulled over and it was gushing something, I don't remember, but it was not good. Luckily at this point we had just passed Morgan, which is were my great grandma Bell's house is, so we turned around and went to her house. My dad parked his trailer in the field next to her house unhooked and we drove home. My parents tried to find a truck the could rent for the weekend, but no such luck. We were just going to bag the whole trip, but Tony and I talked them into bringing their car and staying with us in our trailer. Not ideal but why ruin your fun, so they finally decided to do that. So back up Weber canyon we went. Finally we made it camp. We all had a blast and I think my family was glad they decided to come. We both learned a very important lesson. My parents learned sometimes you don't need everything that you pack, most of its overkill. I learned you can't always rely on your parents to have everything you need. It was a really good time and Brandi's kids are so cute and always make any trip fun. She has really good kids and they are great campers. Here are some pictures from the trip... The colvert that we jump into every year. This year it was really cold so no one jumped in. However Bentley did get pushed in, it was pretty funny! Tony, the kids, and Bentley at the cabin Brityn and Bentley Shelby, Tony, and Bentley Matt helping Brityn shot his new gun Here is a funny a video of oaklie taking us on a road trip

Thrid trimester!!

Holy Cow I am into my Thrid and final trimester and it is going by really fast! On monday I have to go get my Rhogam shot. Not looking forward to that, I hear its a very thick solution that is injected into you. Yikes! We have the paint for emma's room and the rock and roll decoration's. I'm very excited for this room. I'll post pictures as soon as its done. I am feeling really good, except my heel with the screws in it from my surgery is starting to hurt more and more. That is kinda scary to me, but I put up with the ankle pain for at least two years, so whats another couple months. Tony and I have so many projects to finish I hope we get them all done in time. Which is why haven't posted anything in a while. Well wish me luck.

Emma going to be a little later than expected

We had a doctor's appointment today and found out everything is going very well. However our doctor moved our due date to the 27th of November. She measured only at 18 weeks at our 20 week appointment and nine weeks at our 10 week appointment. I expected it to be the week of Thanksgiving so it not a big surprise to us.

More Fun times in Seattle

Here are some more pics. These are of the Mariners game that we went to on Saturday. It was a lot of fun to go to a professional baseball game. I got what I've always wanted a Ball park hot dog. It was delicious. They also had these awesome garlic french fries that were to die for. The smell was a little overwhelming but so worth it. It was a good night of baseball and the Mariners won so that was fun. We also got free t-shirts for Ken Griffey Jr. night even though he didn't play

Tony and Amanda

Tres and Jamie

Tony and Amanda, I know we look puffy but we had jackets on under our shirts.

Pictures from Seattle

Some miracle worker at my mom's work was able to save my pic from Seattle! So I wanted to share some with you.
These pictures are from the Experience Music Project, which is kinda Seattle Rock museum. A lot of the museum is about Jimi Hendrix, who is my favorite music artist.

The emp is right by the Space needle

One of the many guitar of Jimi

One of Jimi's outfits

A wood stock ticket

A crazy tower of guitars

Boating

Last Saturday my family went boating at pine view reservoir. It was a lot of fun. Unfortunately I had to stay on shore and just watch the action from my binoculars. It was a nice day the clouds were out for most of the day so it wasn't too hot for me which I liked a lot. Everybody went wake boarding and knee boarding at first before the water got to choppy. It looked like they were having a ton of fun. My mom stayed on shore with me while they did that and we had a nice little chat. After the water started to get choppy they decided to tube (that's what I was really jealous of). It looked like so much fun. My dad had bought kinda a mini wienie tube for three people and it was hilarious to watch them out there especially when they fell off and had to get back on. My dad would have to tow the tube back to the boat because they couldn't get on out in the lake. Well I have some pics (courtesy of Whitney's camera) and an awesome video of my mom trying to get into the boat from the shore (be prepared to laugh, we sure did. She also know this video is on here so it's all good). Whitney and my Dad on the tube, his face is great! Trying to get onto the tube Whitney, Mandi and Preston before they fell off Everybody before the wake boarding and knee boarding begins!

So we are having a little girl after all!

Tony and I went to the doctor yesterday for our twenty week ultrasound and it turns out we are having a little girl. It was quite drama filled because Tony could not see what the technician was pointing out, so he was very mad and moody when we left. He wasn't upset that it was a girl just that he couldn't see anything so he didn't believe her. Finally we decided to go to fetal foto where they have a better ultrasound machine. We decided to take Whitney since she didn't get to go the first time. I think she liked a lot, she is one excited soon to be aunt. Anyway fetal foto confirmed it. So we will be having a little Emma Rae and we are very excited.

The McFall Family Reunion!

The last weekend of June we had a very fun McFall family reunion. Everybody made it to lake Palisades near Manti, except for Preston and Mandi, and Tony was working grave yards. My Mom and I drove down friday night to Manti to watch the Manti Pageant, my dad, whitney, uncle jim and family were already down there so we had to meet them when I got off work. Unfortunately I slept through the entire thing. OOPS! but what is a girl to do when she is exhausted. We did a lot of swimming at the lake and played a huge tournament of bean bag toss. I think Whitney and I did a great job, we were pretty awesome. It was so great to see my grandparents, they are so cute and I love to see them every chance I get. Most everybody got there on Sunday which was the day I had to leave, so I was a little sad that I didn't get to spend more time with them, but hopefully next year I'll get to go the whole weekend. Here are some pics of the weekend.

Andy on the shark getting sprayed with a water gun.

My dad out like a light. At least he can sleep anywhere



Cute Kelli and Kennedy




Cute little Gwen





Grandma, me, and Grandpa

Seattle!

Tony and I took a road trip to Seattle over the weekend and it was great we did a lot a really fun stuff that I've never done before in all the times we've gone up to Seattle. We left on Friday early in the morning and drove all day, which did take a little longer since I had to stop more often. We still made it by about 8:30 and that was the only day that it rained on us while we were there. That's right I went to Seattle to get out of the rain! On Saturday we went to a museum called experience music project, its about rock and roll, and all the bands that have come out of Seattle. It was made for the best rock and roller of all time JIMI HENDRIX! My absolute favorite. The also had this sculpture or something like that which was made out of tons of guitars and played a song. It was pretty cool looking. After that museum we went to the Mariners baseball game it was a lot of fun and they won(even better). I had a ball park hot dog, some cotton candy, and some amazing garlic french fries. They were so good, but the smell was a little overwhelming for me. That was all on Saturday.

On Sunday, we went to a great restaurant called rock bottom. They have a ton of good food and great beer. I didn't have any of the beer of course and besides the whole pregnant thing I don't like it at all. But other people we were with do :) I had a very good dish called mac and chicken. It had mac and cheese and chicken, but it had some seasoning in it that was really good. After that Tony, Tres and I went on the underground tour which was very interesting. Seattle has a very colorful background, but it was a good tour and if you ever make it to Seattle I highly suggest going on it. After that tour we met back up with Jamie at Best Buy where Tres found rock band. So we had a fun night of rock band. That was pretty much it for Sunday.

On Monday, Tony and I went on a duck tour of Seattle, which was hilarious. You get on one of those world war 2 amphibian truck/boats and do half the tour on land and the other half in the water. Our tour guide was so funny we like him a lot. After the tour I was hungry of course, what else is new, so we went down to pier 66 and had lunch at a restaurant called Anthony's and it was so good. I had a clam chowder in a bread bowl, and I'm not really sure what Tony had and he couldn't remember. It was a lot of different fish and seafood in a tomato based broth. I also had a Hawaiian ice tea, which was so delicious. I want to make it myself. It was ice tea with a mint syrup in it. MMM! so good, the only thing now is I can't find mint syrup and I don't know how to make mint syrup. So if anyone knows how to make a mint syrup or where to buy it let me know. After we all got home that night, Tony and I from down town and Jamie from work, we all went out to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. It was as always very good!
THE ONLY SURVIVING PICTURE!

On Tuesday, we got up early and left for Salt lake. We made it home at about 8:30, where we came home to a great surprise of my yard looking amazing! My dad and Whitney had mowed, edged and totally cleaned up my backyard from all the construction work at our house! I am so happy they did this and love my family very much for watching my house and the crazy dogs while I was gone! I would post some pics but unfortunately the memory card in my camera decided to DIE right at the end of our trip so I have lost all of my pictures. Hopefully my wonderful cousin Matt might be able to rescue the pictures but we will have to see! I do have one picture of Tony at the pier that I took with my cell phone after my camera died but that is it! It's up above with our Monday day. Also sorry about the bad quality but what do you expect with a cell phone camera!

baby showers, weddings, and dancing oh my!

Sorry its been so long since I lasted blogged. I've just been so tired and busy, but mostly tired. Well we went to our ultra sound and they are about 90% sure its a boy, however we have one on July 2nd with our actual doctor so hopefully they will be able to tell us for sure! In the meantime I have just downloaded some rock and roll lullaby's! They are so fun I love them. Once again sorry it took me so long to post that, now on to this weekend!!!!

First was my cousin Kyle's wedding. I am so happy for him and his new wife is so cute. We are happy to have her in the family. They got married on Friday which it of course rained, but it was still very nice. They got married in the new Draper temple and my parents said it was beautiful. On thursday before they got married we had a wedding dinner for them, where their family challenged our family to a softball game. It was a lot of fun. I actually caught a line drive, but I'm usually good at catching things coming straight for me its when I have to move that I miss. I also got to hits, I had a runner though since it's still a little tough for me to run with my ankle.


Second was a very fun baby shower for two of my friends at work! They are sisters and due two days apart. It was a lot of fun and I was very jealous of all the fun stuff that they recieved and it made me realize all of the stuff I'm going to need. And that totally stresses me out. The shower was suppose to end at 7 and I ended up staying until 8 oops! My one friend who is pregnant also has a little girl who will be two in August and she was so cute there. She fed me about a bucket full of popcorn. I think I've been popcorned out for life, but then she shared her ice cream and that was really good.


And lastly, which acutally didn't happen this week end but tonight was Whitney's dance recitetal. It was fun and she did a really good job, however at first we didn't even know if she was going to make it. Whitney was in Moab, river rafting, with her school (I know I'm jealous too). She barely made it back from that trip in time to get to the dance recital. Brityn danced tonight too, but she danced early so I missed her, which I'm really bummed about I love to watch the little kids dance and she is so cute. Well that about does it for me right now I do have some pics and a video of Whitney dancing but that will have to come later I'm exhausted right now. My work had to fire a girl last week and we have a some scheduled off almost everyday this month so I'm working extra, but at least the money will be good. And I get my chance for a vacation coming up!!!

Our Second Appointment!

Last Wednesday we had our second appointment with our doctor. We tried to hear the heartbeat but the tech could not find it with the microphone. :( but that's ok, she then did an ultrasound where we got to see the baby again, which was a lot of fun. It's gotten so much bigger. The doctor told me I am doing great. The only thing I need to watch out for is the sun because I will torch. Well I already found that out with my gardening that I did last weekend. OOPS! I did go buy sun screen though. Hopefully I'll make it through the summer ok. On Tuesday we are hopefully if the baby cooperates we will find out what we are having. I'm kinda thinking a girl but I really have no idea! So if you have any idea's or guesses or whatever I would love to hear, and all let you all know Tuesday if everything goes according to plan!

Dog's and the craziness!

Tony and I are trying to have a veggie garden this year. Well it mostly me doing Tony just helps when I need big things done. Anyway not the point to this story. So I was getting ready to plant my onions today and I look out the window and Shelby is in my fenced off garden. GRRRRR!!!! Usually she gets out as soon as she realizes she been found out, but not today! I think because I surprised her. So I go outside and I try to get her out on her own but she won't, she acts like she can't. She's totally faking it, like she didn't know how she got in there. So finally I got the hose(she hates water and is terrified of the hose). She just ran down to the other end of the garden and acted still like she couldn't figure a way out. Well I decided to get a video of it so I could show Tony when he gets home tonight. Here it is enjoy!

Um.... So I have some big news!

Tony and I are expecting our first baby! A little frightening and a lot of excitement. We had our first doctor appointment today and the doctor said everything looks fine right now. We saw the heart beat (but we didn't get to hear it). We also got our first glimpse at it. I think it looks like a peanut! We are very excited and wanted to share the news. Oh also our doctor told us our due date is November 17th 2009. However I think it will be closer to thanksgiving, and I told Tony if I'm in the hospital on thanksgiving someone better bring me pie!!! Here is the ultrasound pic!

Sick of being Sick!!!

Ok so this evil sickness started out as the flu, horrible I haven't had the flu since I was in junior high school probably, but on top of that it turned into a sinus infection (ouch!) and bronchitis. I've gone to the instacare twice now and hopefully that is it. I had to take a week off of work, which means little pay check. Now I am taking antibiotics for the sinus infection and using an inhaler for the bronchitis which taste nasty. I've never used one before YUCK! Also I didn't know your nose could be stuffy and runny at the same time what an oxymoron! I have horrible sinus pressure which I've never had before. So pretty much I am not having fun this has been going on for about 10 days now hopefully it will start to clear up with the antibiotics. Well that's enough ranting for one day! Hope all is well with everyone else!!

Marley the Kangaroo!

This little kangaroo is named Marley and she comes in to visit us at our pharmacy! This was taken a few months ago but I just found the picture again. This lady brings her in for a visit every once in a while, she takes her around to different nursing homes, retirement centers, rehab centers. You get the idea! I guess it is very good for the people at these centers to meet the little kangaroo. She is so soft it is amazing. And the tail is so strong its incrediable. I don't think that kangaroo is even a year old yet. I guess there is a Kangaroo farm some where in Utah where the rehabilitate them and use them as thearpy. Then once they become to big usually after a couple of years they send them to different zoo's around the world. It's pretty awesome when they come to visit. It makes the whole day better and I can't wait for them to visit again!

Cuddle Buddies

I love this picture, they are so cute in it. Shelby doesn't like anyone to touch her back so it was funny that she was letting Bentley lay on her like that. They have been laying like that a lot lately so its really cute to see them together. I guess Shelby finally did get mad a Bentley and start growling at him about 20 minutes after I left for work.

How many five year olds could you fight?

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Two things I should have bloged about in January but didn't

The first was a trip to St. George with my parents and sister. Tony couldn't go so that was too bad. We had a great time though, we started at Mt. Pleasent (I know it sound like a creepy town) to visit my aunt Sharon and uncle Monty, while we were there my cousin Heather came down to visit her parents so we got to see her as well. We thought we would check out the local town life, so we went to the ONLY bowling alley in ephrim (don't know if I spelled that right). It felt like we went back into the 1950's. We had to keep our own score and had to hit a button to reset the pins. We had a blast though and Whitney learned how to actually score a bowling game. She also got mad at me because I wouldn't let her use a caculater to keep score! She hates me when I make her do math!! After bowling and Mt pleasent we headed to St. George, but first we had to make a pit stop and get some goodies! We stopped at the local Walmart and ran into my mom's cousin Janell. It was fun to see her. My grandparents on my dad's side live in St. George so that is why we were making the trip down. It was my grandpa's birthday, and we just wanted to get out of town! It was so much fun to see them, they are so cute. We listened to my grandpa's stories about getting out of speeding tickets. It was hilarious, my grandpa is a little speed demon. While we were down there my aunt mel and uncle jeff and their kids also happended to be down there so we got to see the too. My cousin Jordan wants to be a pilot and had to take this test, which he scored very high on. He is such a smart kid. I hope he goes far with it! The last night we were there my grandma and grandpa Whitney ended up in St. George on their way home from San Diego. They were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary! My grandparents came over to our hotel to try and find us. They drove right past Whitney and I even though we were waving our arms and in swimming suits. Finally we caught up with them at their hotel, and chatted with them about their little vacation. On our last day we went back to my grandparents house and decided that while the boys were going to play cribbage, the girls were going shopping. We had fun and I think we all got something. Then it was finally time to come home, but to make it a trip we would definately remember, my dad hit a dog while it was trying to cross three lanes of traffic on the freeway. We were in the far left lane and there was nothing he could do. He felt so bad, and Whitney cried. Oh and I forgot to get any pictures with my grandparents which I am so mad about!

My mom and I hanging out in the back seat
Whitney and I hanging out in the back seat
My Dad

Whitney

AND THEN........

Ok so that was one story, now here is the next!! BOWLING FUN with both the HUFFS and the MCFALLS! It was so long ago now that I don't even remember what day it was on, OOPS! However, Tony and I decided that we wanted to do a big bowling party with everyone so we got it all planed out. It was a lot of fun, the kids had a blast. It was their first time ever bowling. They did very good they even bowled higher that their grandpa huff! Which they loved. The only problem with the night was the music was insanely loud, we couldn't even hear each other talk but here are some pics

My grandma Whitney, Preston and My grandpa Whitney
Landon, Sadie and Andrea
Andrea
Sadie, Tony and Andrea
Preston and Mandi