Thursday, June 4, 2009

As Promised...

Here are the pictures from the last few weeks.

Hope you all enjoy them!



Emi riding around on Daddy's Back at the Zoo!

Emi playing at the fishie tank in the Keiki Zoo!

Emi and Mommy watching the flamingos.

Emi making a silly smile face. It was funny, had to share!

No....I didn't forget....I swear...*flees*

Okay so we all know I've been very bad about updating this. I'd love it if Ray would update once in awhile, but meh, he's busy and I have nothing better to do. So I just have to remember to actually do it. It's been months since my last update, so there are a few things that I can mention. I'll break it down into people.

Emi: We took Emi to the zoo for the first time. It would have gone a lot better if I'd thought about the timing. Instead I decided we should go at 10am...which is when Emilee tends to get tired. By the time we were strolling around the zoo, she was trying to catch some zzz's. Poor little one. But we got some cute pictures and I made a photobook out of it, if anyone wants to order one. But Emi has gotten really tall. She's about 28in the last time she was measured. She was 75 percentile for that. She's still proving to have Ray's metabolism, as she is only about 18 lbs 5 oz which is 35 percentile. Not dangerous or anything, but not your average heavy heavy baby. She's been making strides in the walking department though every time she takes a few steps she realizes crawling is faster, throws herself down and crawls the rest of the way. She did learn how to properly climb onto the couch which is giving us a heart ache because now she wants to climb up and over EVERYTHING. Today she climbed over the arm of the couch and took a nose dive off. No damage, but scared the begeebus out of me. Which reminds me about the movie theatre. We went to see Up! on opening day and typically half way through a movie, Emi gets bored and wants to crawl around so Ray will take one end and I'll take the other and she'll crawl around. Well this time she got past both Ray and me and CLEAR across the threatre. I noticed she was gone and then got Ray's attention to see if he saw her. Lucky for us, some nice people pointed out that she was playing with them. Emi is just TOO friendly and curious. Little rascal!

Ray -- He's getting all ready for deployment. It sucks and all that jazz, but not much we can do about it. We went to his pre-deployment briefing where they gave us information and drove home the fact that they really are going. Otherwise, Ray seems pretty good. A few hectic things at work here and there, but nothing out of the ordinary. He did pull his back the other day and was in a great deal of pain. I teased him for being an old man, but still rubbed his back to help it get better sooner. He seems better, but his back bothers him from time to time now. He's getting old and broken hehe.

Tanya (Yeah, that's me) -- I finished another semester of college with As and Bs. No big feat but still happy with myself. Now I am just sorting things out as well as I can. I am a planning person, but I have found myself in no plan hell. The military keeps messing with me, and I keep having to change things up, and it's annoying me so much. Still I'll make it work. I have a lot of trips planned to keep me and Emi distracted during the deployment. One in October where I will go on a cruise with my mom and Emi will hang out with her Meemaw and aunties in Colorado. One in November (though it is still in the planning stages) to have Thanksgiving with Heather and Chris. One in December/January to see my Aunt and Grams, as well as my dad and Sister(s), and a few friends, including Tatiana, Jarvie, Crystal, Buddy and Dan. It should be fun and interesting. Then a trip back to see Tatiana in March (unless the military screws with me again) and during this trip Ray will join us for his RnR.

But the one trip we all are looking forward to is in just under 2 weeks. We are going back to Colorado to spend some time with family before Ray has to deploy. It should be fun. We plan to go to the Ren Faire once or twice as well as spend some time with friends we haven't seen in awhile and then have a pre celebration party for Emilee so she can have her family celebrating her birthday, even if it will be about a month early. She won't notice, and will just enjoy the time with family. As we all will.

So there you go. Hope you enjoyed this little update. I've got pictures, but they are on the desktop, which Ray is hoarding at the moment. So I'll put them up as soon as I can...and remember...lol