C is for Ruise?

Give me a home among the Gum Trees,


With lots of Plum Trees, a sheep or two, a ka-kangaroo.


A clothesline out the back, a verandah out the front,


And an old rocking chair!





This song has been in my head for the last 24 hours! I am so stinking excited!!!! For what you are now asking!!!!!








WEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.....................................




















FOR THIS!!!!





Thats RIGHT!!!! A CRUISE!!!!
I'm headed back to work so that means that Devin had to take his vacation early so we decided to hang out at my dad's house down in Mesquite because Cruises and Vacations were way too much money and Devin doesn't have a passport. On Friday night I decided to look one more time and found the most perfect cruise! 7 Days leaving Fort Lauderdale Florida and going to San Juan Puerto Rico, Grand Turks, Turks and Caicos Islands and the Virgin Islands. We are very excited to finally have our honeymoon. We also get to celebrate our birthdays with the present.
NO EMRY!!!! THANKS GRANDMA!!! We already miss our baby boy though. I've been cleaning so he's with grandma already. Yes I cried. Anyway last night at I was checking email for our boarding pass's and such I discovered our present. THEY UPGRADED US!!! Yes mam to a veranda suite(balcony). We are so stinking excited and that ladies and gentlemen is why the song up top is stuck in my head. Good ol' verandah!

I'll post lots and lots of pictures when we get home

Enjoy the cold and snow people!!! 80 degree weather here we come!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I thought I should hurry up and get a blog up before Christmas cuz We'll have a lot to write about and we don't want another super duper long blog. Life has still been crazy! We're all done with crafts except for on ebay if I ever get any time to list them. I have my next building to clean but can't seem to find time or sitters so I can get started We'll see if it happens. I start school January 11th so life's going to get even more crazy. That's all for current.

December 9th my Grandma Hovik passed. She had four Hearth Attacks and was taken off Life Support and died a couple hours after. We had her funeral December 12th. It was a very very spiritual event for me. We see birth, and all the things that happen after, blessings, baptisms, missions, marriages, sealings, endowments etc. It was amazing to see the end of a life and all that it brings. In a sense it brought closure to my life. I was able to help dress my Grandmother in her Temple Clothes Friday. I was terrified about seeing a dead body. I didn't think about touching her. I got there and my Aunt grabbed my hand and said touch her! My stomache exploided! But I got through it and it was one of the top five best days of my life. Though the week events had me completely drained and very very tired. I didn't get much sleep cuz I got kicked to the couch by my own child. He refused to let me sleep in the same room as him. Not fun!

During the week in Utah I was able to get a lot of errands done and see some friends that We've missed a ton and even got to eat at IN and OUT! Yum.

After a week away from my husband and around a lot of family I was very happy to come home to Wyoming. And so was Emry! We walked in and if you were here you would have heard me scream. I completely forgot what my house looked like! CHRISTMAS! So happy. And I put Emry down and he squealed as he adventured into every nook and cranny of the apartment. He was so happy but no daddy was found for a few hours. We love to come home and hate to leave.

I think that's all the news we have. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

Emry With Grandma Ready to go Walking Christmas Lights.

Emry with My favortie cousin Brian and his wife Amanda in the background.

I got several boxes of clothes for Emry and I was in his room going through them and stuff and I turned around to find this. My son LOVES to take things out of boxes and laundry baskets. I have never seen him get into one himself. I can say now that he's done it Twice!!! He's hilarious.

YAY DECEMBER!!

My Heavens it has been a very long month. Emry has grown up a lot this month. He started really crawling. At the moment I'm very mad at him. He's become what I call the Terror. He's broken three keys on my laptop now including the backspace and spacebar. Two keys I use most often. So now I have to hit the key in the exact right spot in order to make it work. LOVE IT! Everything takes twelve times as long to write now. He's also broken the Curtains in our living room. The vinyl kind that came with the apartment. He pulled down the decorative piece that the curtains were laying on top of and then tried to pull the individual blinds down one by one. LOVE IT! I'm going to blame this one thing on him too. He broke my phone. Really I did it with my elbow(Devin tells me daily that they are dangerous and now he's correct). I was getting out of bed and didn't want to step on Emry so I was manuevering awkwardly around him so I wouldn't step on him and ended up using my phone as an elbow support to hoist myself up. LOVE IT! He's also broken several other things around the place and in constantly into EVERYTHING! I do truly love this part. He's so big now and so grown up. He's a brand new kid that has A LOT of opinions.

We had a couple dr visits this month. The first he had an ear infection but went in for a cough that he had for more than three weeks. Never found out what that was but cleared up with the antibiotics for the ear infection. Then about a week later we returned for his well check/sick visit because he once again was broken out bad on his face. He's very allergic to many things and were having a fun time trying to figure out what the many things are. So far its pretty much any and all fruit, and dogs. He also had thresh. Which he in turn gave to me. So many pharmacy visits later we are all better. Except Emry is supposedly teething but I'll never know because he refuses to let me put my finger in his mouth to feel, not to mention attempting to look at it. I think I'll figure it out when he bites me but so far it always feels like he's biting me so once he draws blood i'll know.

We also had a craft fair that we participate in on the 21st. It was fun and definately an experience. We evened out so overall it was an okay day though the three previous nights of no sleep was totally not worth it. Did I mention that during this time I was also doing construction cleaning. I had twelve units at about 7 hours a piece. After it was over I literally had blisters on my palms, every inch of my hands were cracked and bleeding, and my body was the most sore it's ever ever ever been including child birth. I had to saran wrap my hands after putting mounds of lotion on them and stick them in socks for three days before they finally started to heal. Man the check better be worth it!

Devin helped me out a lot during this time and Emry spent a lot of time with Grandma Anderson. Devin has hit what they call 'peak' season so Emry and I won't be seeing too much of him. He'll leave for work around 6 and won't be home until around 7 or 8 if he's lucky. And the bad weather hasn't even hit yet.

Thanksgiving was spent here in Wyoming at the Anderson's trailer. It was a good day. Devin spent most of it cutting wood for more craft projects. I'll be posting a blog devoted to the crafts. I still have a bit left that I need to sell if anyone is interested in taking it off my hands.

I honestly didn't even take many pictures during the last month because I have been so dang busy but Ill put on a few.

That's it for now.

Emry's Awesome hairdo that daddy perfected with shampoo. He's starting to get some more hair!

Emry saying 'ello! He's been chewing on his fingers this last week. That's his christmas present from mommy(blue table). He loves it so much. and yes this is our living room/bedroom now. We moved Emry into the one bedroom to see if it helped when he was sick and it did. He sleeps 11-12 hours again. So he's king of the house now:)

I retyped this blog post title fifteen times and liked nothing so I wrote this....

I'm a dork. Enough Said. Anyway it's been another crazy couple weeks. We're all still pretty sick. I took Emry to the Dr and he was on the verge of having an ear infection so he got antibiotics for that. Though his coughing still has not stopped so I have to give him allergy/asthma medicine. I can't remember which one it is. Hopefully that works. I had about a week and half off from cleaning so it was great to catch up on all the things I lacked on doing around my own house. I got everything cleaned and we actually moved all our furniture around too. We ended up putting Emry in the bedroom so that he wouldnt be in the drafty dining room anymore. We were hoping it would help with him being sick and with his sleeping. It did work. He's back to sleep 11-12 hours. Mom's very happy for sleep again. He's grown a lot in the last two weeks too. I bought him 18 month pajama's that hung off his feet like 4 inches and last night I put them on him again and they fit! He gained about a pound and half in the two weeks too. Big boy. He also started crawling and gets into EVERYTHING now. It's fun. His favorite games are to pull down every single DVD from the entertainment center and if he finds anything like a basket with things inside he pulls every single thing out. His best friend is still the vaccuum but mum doesnt let him play with it ever. Dirty! He's still pulling himself up like crazy. He loves to stand and walk along things and he's attempting to walk in between things now. Usually results in a fall and a smack on the head by whatever object he was going for but hey he's trying! He'll be walking before ya know it. I think I just had a anxiety attack.

For Halloween Emry dressed up as a, you guessed it, a monkey!!!! He was so dang cute. Tray's birthday party was on 29th so we all dressed up. It was fun but man were we ready to get out of our costumes. It was fun to wear though and remenaisse(don't feel like doing spell check)about our special day on the beach. Tray was Elvis! Fun!! Then on Friday, we went to church for the fun and games but we ended up missing the Trunk or Treat which was the only reason we went. We left because it didn't seem like they were going to do it. Nothing seemed organized, but it's probably cuz we got there late and missed all the instruction. Oh well. Then on Saturday out apartments had a pizza party so we chowed down then went home. By this time we were all so sick and decided we should hunker down in the house for the weekend. Oh well.

Now I've been cleaning again and have tons and tons to do. Oh I have been working on my many many projects as well and have actually sold quite a few on ebay! Yay for more business! It's so exciting!

K picture time.

Scary Mom Dead Bride

Crawling

Tray

Monkey Em

Sleigh Ride

My happy boy!

Scary Dad Groom

Em ands dad playing at church cake walk

Dad getting Em started Early. Can we say obsessed

Cousin Kisses

Some More Projects

Here's a couple more projects I've been working on to sell at the show we're doing here in November.

I can do this custom to your favorite person instead of George Strait. I'm thinking of doing one that says If you're not God or Miley Sirus, DO NOT ENTER! all pink and girly for doors to girls room? I'm going to sell them for $5 if anyone wants one they will make great christmas presents!!

This is a girls night light. The picture is from a cell phone so it didn't show it the best that I would like it to but general picture I'm going to sell these for $15. I can do different things with the girls too like princess themed, animals, etc

And a boys night Light. Again $15 if anyone wants to get one for christmas presents. I can pretty much put any figure on the outside of the nightlight. I would do the inside a little more colorful and unique that would match the figure. Like elephants, bears, giraff, lion, monkey, boat, pretty much anything you like.

I am also going to do some christmas themed ones that I'll put pictures up after I make them. I'm way excited to make them!

Pics

Grandma and Grandpa Shinrock and also Great Grandma/pa Shinkrock came to visit on their way home from Nebraska


This is what Grandpa gives my son....I'm very worried


This is a night light I made with my Mom this last weekend.It's Emry's Christmas present but I LOVE it!

Emry got his first present from Grandparents Hoviks though it would have fit him about 4 months ago lol

playing in his crib


snoring

STARTING TO CRAWL!!!!

Emry was over sucking on the door like he randomly does on his adventures around the house. He started to cry and I looked up and this was what he was doing!!!!! I screamed and grabbed the camera. Mean Mom

It's a little long but the ending was just too cute to cut off.