Emily Michelle Marsden

We had a bAbY...4 months ago! On Friday, March 8th at 8:17pm  we welcomed an 8 lb 14 oz, 18 1/2 inch, healthy baby girl into our family. We were all so excited to see what color hair she would have, she came out orange- just like London. It was perfect- all of it!We were able to have my Mom and Dad there and I loved it. I feel like there is not a single more spiritual experience then when I'm able to bring a baby into my life with my husband standing by my side holding my hand. I LOVE LABOR! I know I'm crazy, but I really do love it. We were undecided on a name the whole pregnancy. We pretty much had it narrowed down to Emily or Lauren with Michelle (after Kerrie, Kacy and Lacey) as the middle name. We couldn't decide so we let the girls choose between the two and it was unanimous that Emily was the name :)

So I introduce...

Emily Michelle Marsden

 

Melt my heart...isn't he just the BEST!?

September 2012

 In no particular order...
Jilli had enough hair to do pig tails...finally!

 We played with caterpillars

 Allie and London both started gymnastics...

 All the finger and toes crossing paid off because London got into Pre-School. She loves pre-school. She goes Tuesday and Thursday mornings for 3 hours and has a class of 5 little girls, one of them is her BFF, Madison.

 We picked strawberries to make homemade jam...

 We got Kacy back...YAY!!!

August 2012

 August brought it's BIG surprise announcement...

 Our family is growing, baby girl is due in 7 weeks and I can't. wait. another. minute. I want to hold my baby!

 We filled August in with lots of fun last minute activities; movies, fat cats, swimming, iJump and much more...

 

 

 The big girls had been begging to have a "real lemonade" stand and our house just isn't prime location. So we headed into town and set up a lemonade stand. People were so kind to stop and buy lemonade and make these girls' day. They actually did really well and made over $30 and put it towards their "swing set fund" which they were finally able to buy, YAY!

 August also brought some accomplishments; Allie mastered all aspects of bike riding and Jilli mastered climbing and getting into EVERYTHING!

 London continues to LOVE working with Jordan, so much of her August and September was spend in the combine.

 Perhaps some of our BIGGEST happenings were this summer were "The Glass House." My sister-in-law was on ABC's reality show and did ah-mazing! She even made it to finale. She made us so proud to call her ours :)

 And then, all the fun came to an end when school started :( But Alllie and I got to enjoy our special day together shopping and getting her all ready for 1st grade. She is quite the fashionista and I had so much fun just her and I. I hope she will always remember these days!

When I picked her up the first day she looked SO TIRED! I don't know that I have ever seen somebody look so tired. I felt so bad for her but she loves school and does SO well.

 I took pictures of the first few days of school to show my parents some of her cute new clothes...

 London also got to go to pre-school screening where we had all our toes and fingers crossed that she would get in, didn't she look totally adorbs?

July 2012

 We went and helped some friends of ours move into their new home one night back in July and when we came back to Jordan's pick-up we found this...WHOOPS!

 We LOVE the 4th of July!

 For the first time in our married life we didn't spend the day playing softball. It was a little bitter-sweet. I really like playing and look forward to it but it was getting more and more un-organized and harder and harder to find people to watch our kids while we played (If only I could convince my family to move here:).
We made the most of the day though and had fun. We went up to West Yellowstone after some of the Ashton festivities with the Clark Family and hit up another parade, ice cream and played at the park. Then we made it back to Ashton in time for their fireworks. I LOVE THE USA!!!

 Allie and London got to go with Gary and Susan to Cody, WY for a weekend. They had fun and talked about it for weeks after. I was totally and completely bored without them and missed them like crazy.

 I took Jilli to play at the park while they were gone...it was just weird with only one kid!

 July also brought Soccer Season! This was London's first year to play and she had fun...but mostly just looked cute. Allie didn't really want to play but I half convinced, half made her play and we were ALL glad she did. It was finally her turn to be the oldest and it was so good for her confidence. She played SO well!

 We took lunch to Jordan at work one day and had fun being silly.

 Calli came and stayed with us for a week before we dropped her off at EFY. We can't wait for her to move here for school.

 We met up with some of my cousins from CA at Bear World one day. You all know how I feel about Bear World...it's only like my favorite places!

 Pioneer day brought another parade. The girls were getting pretty good at getting candy and waving their arms!