Well, where do I start. Not too much has changed in the Embleton home in the months the blog has fallen by the wayside. Owen turned four in March and is as enthusiastic and energetic as ever. Eli has gone back to studying full-time while Sarah continues to work in the newborn nursery. Sarah just recently got a new calling to be the enrichment leader and is very excited to go back to regularly attending sunday school and relief society after 2 years. Lately we have enjoyed making our house more our own. We, meaning Sarah (I'm very non-committal with paint, it always looks so different on the chip!!!!!), finally decided on painting the house something other than white. We will post pictures of that soon!!! Really, we will:) In the meantime enjoy the following pictures of various events and holidays. Reader beware, six months worth of pictures found below.

For playgroup we went to Little Chef Academy where Owen learned to make cinnamon sugar tortilla chips and fruit salsa!

Owen loves Spiderman!! He was Spiderman for

Halloween, this was my first attempt

at doing costume make-up. Not too bad......

Another first was my first was Thanksgiving

when I cooked my first turkey dinner!!!

Not too bad either;)

The Texans poor attempt at snow at the winter festival.

Owen didn't know any different.

We made a gingerbread house this year,

a first for Owen. He talked about it for months!!!!

Our crazy miniature daschund, Fritz.

He was six weeks here at 2.5lbs,

now 6 months and 8.5lbs

We went to Chico in December, Sarah was glad

to be able to meet up with some old friends.

Sarah and Rachel were blessed to be

able to go to a Celine Dion concert in January.

This was Sarah's 2007 Christmas present.

Thanks Eli!!!

Seriously, this was a dream come true!!!

We were so close we could've touched her!

In fact the girl two down from us did.

Sadly we were offered that seat but we let her have it.

Oh well, it was an awesome show,

the shot below was not zoomed in at all!!!

Owen loves Bob the Builder. We brought Owen to see him

when he came to town. Owen loved it, but had we known

what we were getting into.......

it was a musical......

about recyling in sunflower valley......

well, we had fun anyway.

Heather came to visit last month, we had a blast!

She is even more adorable pregnant:)

This was our attempt at homemade pizza dough, at least we had fun;D
Owen loves fingerpainting!
Thanks for reading!!!!!

It's official...A BOY

We had our 20 week ultrasound (actually at 19 weeks and 2 days) yesterday. It is official we are having a boy. We definitely got a money shot so there is pretty much no doubt. I think he is going to be very tall. Already the doctor said he is in the 60th percentile for his size and he isn't even born yet. :) His arms and legs look so long on all the ultrasounds. I guess we are going to have a basketball player. I didn't have very strong feelings about a boys name, so I am going along with the name Scott wants. Nathan. I don't like any of his choices for a middle name and he doesn't like any of mine, so that discussion continues. I think Nathan Scott is inching out the competition. Scott just doesn't like it because he doesn't want his son named after him at all.

The pregnancy is going well. I am still working. If I can make it for another 12 weeks, finances will work out a lot better. When you get to be 32 and have been working as long as I have--and working my entire married life so far--you begin to really depend on your income. I only get twelve weeks of disability so if I can make it to 32 weeks, I will still be able to have 6 weeks after the baby is born.

I am getting so excited. My lack of patience is rearing it's head though. 40 weeks is so long. I want to meet Nathan now!!! I just can't wait. I am hoping to see some family members visit with the birth and after. Mom and Stephanie have already promised to make every effort to be here for the birth. That certainly makes things less scary. If you can't remember, I don't do pain so well. I am not looking forward to the whole childbirth part. If there was just some way to get the baby out while skipping the discomfort....

We miss everyone and love you!! For anyone who missed it my due date is August 29.

Heather

The Guinn's

Hello all! I miss hearing from everyone. It feels like we are all out of touch now that mom moved away from Susanville. I haven't seen most of you in years- sad. I don't really have much to say today, I just wanted to tell you all that I am missing each and every one of you and that I think about you all a lot. Can we plan some kind of reunion for next year? Please????

A little update on my fam-

Ash is still living in the dorms at Texas State. She loves living away from home- I don't think she ever intends to move back home. She is almost done with her first year of college. She just got a job at the Outlet Mall at a shop called Gymboree. They sell cute kid's clothes. She seems to love working there so far. She likes being around kids but not having to change diapers like she did at the daycare she worked at in high school. I think I still have her beat with the diaper changing though!:)

Sarah still loves school. Her teacher is great and she adores Sarah. So far, she seems to be a "teacher's pet" to every teacher she has had. I am not sure how she will feel the first time she isn't. Sarah loves, loves, loves to read. She can't get enough to read. We are reading The Chronicles of Narnia together. We are reading Prince Caspian right now. She loves the series so far.

Liam is going to start pre-school in the fall. He is so excited. We talk about it a lot and he keeps asking me if today is the day he gets to start school. I hope he is still excited when the time actually comes. He loves to "take care" of his baby brother. He still calls Austin his baby brother, even though Austin is getting close to Liam's size. He likes to carry Austin around and the other day he told Austin to jump to him off of my bed! Needless to say, Austin happily jumped and they both went down.

Austin is really growing up to be a sweet little boy. He likes to say "I luuhh yooo mommy" and he gives lots of hugs and kisses. He is talking a lot and repeating everything we say. He learned a new word a week or two ago. His new word is "truck", only he can't make the "tr" sound. He says it "f". So "truck" comes out "fu**"! It's hard not to laugh at hearing this sweet little voice joyfully pointing out the window and saying "fu**". We are trying to teach him to say "tuck" instead. We'll see how that goes.

Jeremy is loving his new job. He has done really well and is meeting his quotas every time. His bosses are really pleased with how well he has adjusted to a whole new field of work. I am really proud of him.

I am still staying home taking care of the kiddos. So far, I love it. I don't know when I will go back to work. I am just enjoying being here and being able to watch my kids grow up.

We miss you all and hope to hear back from some of you. Please let's try to schedule a reunion. I miss you all soo much. Lots of love from Texas to all of you!

we're coping pretty okay

so it has been almost a week since my husband left. life is still just chugging along. feeling pretty lonely a good most of the time especially at night when I find myself all alone with my mind wandering. Dana is doing well.

it looks like we may be expecting more than one baby. the doc wasn't 100% sure considering the ultrasound was done at 4weeks 6days. but he did say that he was pretty positive we were having twins. i will definitely keep you posted on the developements with that.

if we are having a boy - Joshua and I have agreed on the name - Joseph Dwight Emmot. we are still kinda bouncing girls' names around. we are pretty sure the name Rose will definitely be either a first or middle name though.

Dana taught herself how to eat oatmeal with a spoon today. it was the cutest thing. she wound up needing a bath right afterwards though. Joshua sends his love to all of you.

Love, Teresa

This blog is dying

Hey, I miss all of you. How is everything? Life with me is pretty uneventful, but I'm updating this blog so you'll know I'm thinking of you. Not much has changed with me. I have just a little over a month left of school, and I'm pretty excited about that. I'm really behind, so I decided to give up my #1 addition: Facebook. Yikes! I just deleted my account last night, and I'm having major withdrawals. But alas, it's what I had to do in order to focus on school. I'll let myself log back on once I ace all my finals next month. :)

This weekend I'll be leaving the comfort of my 80+ degree Texas weather to go to Utah for a mission reunion. It's just my luck that they've been getting pounded with snow the past week or so. I got my license after moving to Texas, so I don't have a clue how to drive in snow. I'm renting a car and have been freaking out, to say the least. Wish me luck with that! I'm excited to go up there, though, because I'll have the chance to see many of my old mission buddies, as well as our mission president & his wife. Plus, I'm meeting up with a couple of friends that served their missions in San Antonio. I can't wait to see them, as it's been years (I haven't seen them since before my mission). Also, I will have the opportunity to watch General Conference live. I've never been before, and I can't wait. And if that wasn't enough, I'll get to see our beautiful sister, Rachel. She's going up for conference too, so it'll be like a mini-reunion.

Overall life is good. I'm just enjoying life while trying to keep my head above water in school. I miss all of you, though, and hope to hear from you soon. Rich? Jason? Jared? Where are you? It's been AGES since you've posted. I imagine you've forgotten about this blog...but come back to us, please!

I love you all. Hope to hear from some of you soon.

Becky