Rebecca and Natalie

At the exotic animal farm!

Emily and I got the girls together for a fun afternoon. We visited the many animals and then ate at the delicious,
Art City Trolley

They have the best salads. Anyway, check out the pictures of the girls in the car as we pulled in the driveway. They were both zonked! Rebecca actually fell asleep on my lap in that trolley car...which NEVER happens with her.

Mini Photo Shoot

Cheese!

Here she realized the camera was out:

Next time I will have to bribe her with "candies!"

Who can blame her, she wanted to "PaLay!"
I just love my girl and everything about her. Thanks for playing with us Emily and Natalie!

Ikea

I wish we lived closer because I think I would take her to Ikea before nap time every day! She thought the whole place was her giant playroom. I had to cringe letting her get into that bed though. You never know who else has been in there...eeks...

Draper Temple

Way back in December, my dad got the family tickets to the Draper Temple Open House. Well, Saturday was the day and we forgot until the day before. Jorg and I thought we would just stay home because 1) Rebecca isn't old enough to remember anyway, and 2) We had some maintenance work we needed to get done on our cars.

Saturday morning it hit me...how could we pass up this experience? to work on our cars? It just didn't feel right. I thought of the people who didn't have an opportunity to go who would have done anything to be there. I also remembered an old single's ward bishop, Bishop Whitaker, who told us,
"Don't leave blessings on the table."
I shared my thoughts with Jorg and he agreed. We Bachmann's would certainly never leave any food on the table. And we won't leave blessings there either!
Here we are at the chapel waiting to board the buses to the temple.
And here are more shots in the church, with some of our Aldrich fam.

Rebecca really did take in a lot. She kept saying, "wow!" And pointing out the pictures of Jesus.
Today I asked her to tell me about the temple. She said,
"Temple. Water. Sheep. Princess. Natalie. Mimi. Cookies."
All of which were discussed or encountered on our visit.
And that about sums it up! We're really glad we went. It was amazing and beautiful.

Princess

"Daddy, daddy....Princess!"
Her voice is a bit froggy because she has a cold
Our girl likes to dress up! Check out her headband...she gets into my hair scarves and headbands daily. She puts on all headbands this way (around the back of her head). She is wearing her princess shoes, bracelet, & ring and is carrying her "keys" - these plastic interlocked hearts that jangle together like keys. (Princess accessories from Mimi, keys & her "horsey shirt" from Omi)
Whenever she gets dressed in a new outfit or gets ready for church, I tell her, "Go show daddy!" This time she went on her own to show him. Precious. And he's so cute to her.

Lucky

Happy Anniversary to us!

I found my four leaf clover
and my pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
I am a lucky woman!
And I know it ;)

Rockband

We love to play with our friends, the Lefler's.
Rebecca and Abbigail really rock! And the miracle was they didn't hit each other with the sticks.

Pizza Night

We had some weird camera settings going on...but there was nothing weird about this pizza! It was soooo yummy.

Here is Rebecca with Aunt Steph! Again, blurry...but they look so comfy and cute!

Animal Neighbors

Since they closed one of the main roads in Springville for construction, we have to use the back roads. That's how we noticed this place. It's a property we could easily walk to from our house. These people have horses, donkeys, a turkey, sheep, goats, ducks, geese, emus, alpacas, pigs...any maybe more. You can drive right up to the fence and see most of the animals! Who wants to come for a play date?

Omi was with us, on a visit from Brigham City!

I wonder if the animal owners know how much joy they created for our little girl.

We Like It (them)!
For those of you in Springville, the address is 950 W. Center St.

Our Beauty

Her hair is getting so cute. I love how it curls on the ends! And since she is getting hair on the top, we are slowly saying goodbye to her mullet.

And look at her pearly whites! She has been our early little teether. And a terrible teether, at that! We could always tell when teeth were coming, because she was completely irrational for days or weeks and was up in the night. She now has all of her teeth except her 2 yr. molars. And we can tell they are coming! We have been seeing the symptoms for over a month now. The past few nights she has been up 3 or 4 times per night. Just crying and asking for "me-sun" (medicine). Poor one. Yesterday I took her to the doctor to make sure it's her teeth and not some stomach or ear issues. She's perfectly healthy! So we should see those little molars pop up soon!

We Like Ice Cream!

Children's Book Exchange

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all."
-Jacqueline Kennedy

(picture taken on her first birthday)
My friend, Becky Z, got me involved in a children's book exchange! All you have to do is send out one book, send a form letter to 7 other people, and you should receive 35 books! Well, that's how it is supposed to work;) But I'll be happy if I get 5 or more. I'm excited about this! So, who's in??

You can email me with your address: eemsrose@gmail.com
or leave your address in the comments.

scrapbook pages

It's a Beautiful Life!

The weather here has been just beautiful and we are loving it! Here is some of what we've been up to...

More Brigham City

Jorg's stepbrother, Jon was married on Saturday. Congratulations, Jon and Jess! I didn't get any great pictures...it was better in real life.
We went bowling after the ceremony. I almost beat Jorg...it was so awesome....Rebecca and Omi...or AHmi (as Rebecca calls her).
It was fun to mingle with Jim's kids. They are so friendly and warm.

Bathing Beauty

(She gets those red marks every once in a while and then they go away really fast. I am thinking she has a minor allergy to bananas.)

This beautiful hair-do was Steph's doing. She is living with us for a little while and we love it! She's such a cute aunt and another plus is that she's making me exercise with her.

Viva Las Vegas!

I only remembered to whip out the camera once. We had such a great time! Jim and Birgit came to stay with Rebecca for a night and we were off to the big city. It was so relaxing and wonderful to spend time and make memories with my best friend.
We Like It!

Valentine Princess Party

The Peterson Girls hosted the cutest party! Their little girls were there and a few girls from the neighborhood. The girls ate heart shaped sandwiches on a beautiful table, did crafts, danced, and had so much fun! Thanks, Natalie, Stephanie, and Lisa!

To Our Silly...

Kissies!

Valentine of the Year

My Aunt Kay has an annual party at her place! It has been a long standing tradition (30+years). Each family chooses their "Valentine of the Year" and writes a tribute to that person, usually in the form of a poem. Then, we have dinner where the special person gets to eat on a "special plate" and gets served first. It's a wonderful celebration of love!

This year our little family chose...guess who...as our Valentine of the year:

I forgot to add a stanza of the poem. It goes like this:
"Our Valentine likes to pass out treats,
The kind that come from the heart.
Her treat is called the "huggie",
Showing love is what sets her apart."
Happy Valentines Day! Here's wishing you many "huggies"!

Self Portraits of a Housewife

I got a surprise today!Awh....shucks :)

My Girl

Love her, love her.

I'm going through an, "I'm addicted to scrapbooking right now" phase. Can you tell?
(Check Emily's Blog for an awesome tutorial on digital scrapbooking.)