Emily is WALKING..... almost!

This is Tyson writing....

Welp, it's been a fun couple of months, we celebrated Emily's first birthday on New Year's Eve. Grandma & Grandpa Higham came to our place and we had some cake... tons of fun. Now, at 13 months, Emily is on the verge of walking. She can mostly walk right now, but I don't think it's fluid enough to classify her as a full blown walker. She stands up, takes a few steps, then falls back down on her rear end and proceeds to crawl the rest of the way to her desired destination. If she's coming towards Mom & Dad, she'll take a few steps and then dive in our direction and hope we catch her... it keeps us on our toes!

Jeffrey is now two and a half and is beginning to talk up a storm. He's becoming a real hoot. Often times his antics will leave our sides aching from laughter.

Congratulations Brock!

I just wanted to give a shout out to my brother in law Brock and my soon to be sister in law Natali! They got engaged last weekend, and I am so dang excited for them! Natali is a wonderful girl, and just right for Brock. They make each other laugh and they love to cuddle :) I cant wait to have her as a part of the family.

Congrats guys!!

Time to recap the last month...

We now live in Rexburg! Brock bought a house here really close to campus, so we moved into help him take care of it. Its a super cute house- built in 1915. It still has a lot of the original windows and wood- I'll get pictures up soon! Today was our second week in the new ward, and I've already found a fellow Twilighter! Speaking of which...

I went to the midnight showing of Twilight on Thursday! Wow! I loved it, absolutely. I thought they did a fantastic job being true to the book, and the actors really got the essence of Edward and Bella. I cant wait to go see it again!    My sister in law Natalie went with me and we had a blast. It was no neat to have some girl time away from the kids, and do something totally out of the ordinary. One funny moment that happened- of course the theatre was packed with teenagers, so I was commenting to Natalie about one particular loud one right in front of us.  It was a boy, so I was thinking that he was just there to impress the girls. Well, it turns out that it was Natalie's cousin!! I felt kind of humbled for judging him so quickly, although she said she does remember him being fairly obnoxious, so not much has changed. hehe. 

Emily all of a sudden decided she liked formula better than what I could give her. One day she just wouldn't nurse! So after a couple scary days of her not drinking much, I decided to try formula, and she took to it right away and hasn't looked back. Its kind of nice, I feel free!

Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone!

My tribute to Jeffrey

Now that Jeffrey is 2, and has been for 3 months, I think it is time to let you all know my favorite things about him!

1. He can do things like this:

We were at my sister-in-law's house the other day, and Jeff wanted to go play on the back porch. So he went out and closed the door, and it was quiet for about 20 minutes. I wondered, what could he be doing to occupy himself for that long! When I checked on him, this was what I found.

2. He is the best big brother! Jeffrey loves Emily so much and takes such good care of her. Last week while I was holding her, she dropped a toy she was playing with. Jeffrey jumped off his chari where he was eating and crossed the room to give her the toy back. He said "here baby!" and handed it to her. What a sweetie!

3. He is such a goofball! He loves to make funny faces and silly voices. He makes me laugh every single day. This video shows just a little of his silliness- its about a minute long

I wanted to take you on a little journey through Jeffrey's life thus far:

Brand spankin new!

4 months -1st Halloween (he's a farmer, can't you tell?)

8 Months and getting into trouble already!

1st birthday

17 months

2 years- and he shows it!

1st Haircut Sep. 5th

Before:

After!

We love you Jeffrey! You're the best little buddy a mom could ask for :)

I'm still alive!

Yes, its been a while. -but here I am. And I have no idea why this is being underlined! Oh well. Well, the reason I haven't posted in so long is because the internet explorer on this computer was being weird and I couldn't post pictures, so now I'm using safari and the pictures are working! We also just set up our own computer  and downloaded all our new pictures onto that one, but its not connected to the internet yet. So, here are some pictures- a couple months old, but cute nonetheless!





Sorry about this last one, I cant figure out how to flip it! Its facing the right way on my computer...Oh well! Now, onto us! The kiddos are growing like weeds. Emily is now 8 1/2 months old. I cant believe how fast its gone- I felt like it took forever for Jeffrey to get to 8 months! She is juuust on the verge of crawling. She just barely mastered sitting up on her own about 2 weeks ago, now she rocks on her hands and knees, and can push herself forward just a little. She has 2 little toofers and is very good about not biting me, which I greatly appreciate. She loves eating bananas, being held upside down, and bouncing on the trampoline!

Jeffrey is getting so big now too- he's talking tons more, but still no sentences. He got his first haircut last week! Finally! It was getting really bad- and we decided to do it before my mom came to visit. He looks so handsome- I cant wait to show the pictures! Jeffrey loves to play outside and will entertain himself for long periods of time just pushing his dump truck around in the grass. On the other hand, he loves TV- and would watch that for hours if he could! 

I guess I watch more tv than I should, now that we have cable. My new favorite shows (kind of guilty pleasures...) are Project Runway and What Not to Wear. Just FYI, if anyone wants to nominiate me for WNTW, I will gladly give up my wardrobe to get a new wardrobe in New York! I love seeing all the creative clothes people come up with on project runway, although a lot of it is just plain weird! 

Tyson started school at BYUI last week, and is doing pretty well now! The first week was kind of whirlwind, but he's getting the swing of things now, and really likes the campus. I'm really glad he has a good atmosphere to be in, and he comes home a lot happier. I think being at a church school makes a huge difference! We'll have to take a picture of our new license plates- when we got our car registered here, we picked out BYU-Idaho plates. I think they look awesome! 

I think thats enough to get all you readers up to date on us. I'll be sure to post more frequently so I can show off my cute kids! Hehe

Past, Present and Future

20 Years ago:
1. I was 2 years old, living in the Everett house. I was my mom's best little buddy!

10 Years ago:
1. I was 12 years old, just starting Young Womens.
2.I went to my first girl's camp and put my hair in braids.
3.I was an awkward pre-teen starting middle school- I loved Hanson, Redwall books, sleepovers and of course, boys!

5 Years ago:
1. 17 years old, a senior at Mesa High School- I was involved in cross country, track, choir, the musical Once Upon a Mattress and AP classes.
2.Given the Most Valuable Runner award on my cross country team (along with my best friend Angie)
3. Still Boy crazy! My friend Tiffany frequently asked me "Kim, who's your COW?" (Crush Of the Week). Many of these crushes were the cute sophomores in my choir class :)

3 Years ago:
1. 19 years old- My world revolved around Tyson! We met on Apr 4th, I broke up with my boyfriend on Apr. 8th, we went on our first (official) date Apr. 16th, kissed on Apr 23rd, he proposed on Apr. 26th, I said yes on May 1st, we were married Aug. 26th!
2. It's a miracle I passed any of my classes at MCC
2. I went back east on a YSA Joseph Smith History tour- my best friend Angie was my roomie and she met her future husband, Duane, there.
3. I worked at Jamba Juice and had a blast there!
4. I got pregnant with Jeffrey

1 Year ago:
1. Jeffrey was 1 year old
2. We were still new in the Keating ward and I was getting to know people
3. I discovered Twilight! And haven't looked back since- I'm hooked! (P.S. only 16 more days till Breaking Dawn comes out!)

Yesterday I:
1. Helped my mother in law watch my little niece and nephew
2. Went to dinner at Chili's
3. Ate super delicious oatmeal cookies.
4. Got about 4 hours of sleep.

Today I:
1. Actually got to take a shower!
2. Made my bed
3. Will hopefully go grocery shopping
4. Gave Emily big squeezes!

Tomorrow I Will:
1. Continue my daily ritual of cleaning my room and the kitchen
2. Give Jeffrey and Emily lots of loves
3. Jump on the trampoline with Jeffrey
4. maybe even get to watch a movie with Tyson!

In the next year:
1. I will not get pregnant again! (please please please!)
2. I might take some classes at BYUI
3. Live rent- free for as long as possible
4. Quell my Twilight obssesion

Jeffrey's birthday

Jeffrey is a big bad 2 year old now! His birthday was on June 20th, and he had so much fun. We got him 2 big Tonka trucks with he absolutely loves, and I made him the Higham favorite birthday cake. I dont think he got any though...oops! We took lots of video and pictures- which I will post as soon as I figure out how- for some reason this computer isn't letting me!
Something fun was that Tyson's mom said that I made that cake better than she does- and she's been making it for years! Alright!