Disneyland Day 2

After everyone else went home for Thanksgiving, Ryan and I still had a day or two so we decided to take another trip to Disneyland. It was fun to have Ryan there this time to see how much fun Emry had! My grandma came too and we had a fun, exhausting day. We decided to spend the morning with Emry and then have my mom come pick her up so Ryan and I could stay until the fireworks that night. It was really fun but I was so tired and hurting by the end of the day. All that walking made my pregnant back really tired. Here are the pictures of our fun day!

This is Ryan's favorite ride ever. I'm pretty sure we rode it like 400 times that day. Ryan was trying to get a high score and even googled how to get the highest score. I'm telling you, he was obsessed. 

Emry loves her daddy. I would ask her, "Do you want to go on the ride with Mommy or Daddy?" and she would hug her daddy and say "Daddy!!" There is nothing cuter than a girl and her daddy! Love them!

Ryan and Em on Autopia 

Me and Grandma Donna on the ride

All of us on the train

 Emry on the 'Mater ride

Ryan and I in front of the Christmas tree that night. We are about 13 weeks in this picture. Funny thing is, we have a picture at Disneyland in front of the Christmas tree when I was about 14 weeks pregnant with Emry. 

Disneyland Day 1

 Before Thanksgiving, Emry and I went to California to spend time with my family and thanks to Uncle Scottie we got to go to Disneyland!! Emry had a blast. So much fun, in fact that she would not fall asleep until finally at like 5:30 pm. She was a trooper though and we had a blast!!

I love Disneyland at Christmas time. They have the best decorations!! This was in the Hotel lobby. A huge gingerbread house! So cute!

Yes, we got my dad to go to Disneyland. If you know my dad, you know how rare this is. 

The group on the Finding Nemo submarine ride. Emry loved seeing the fishies.

It's A Small World ride. Emry loved the dancing.

Me and Emry in front of the castle

This pose was for Ryan. He loves trying to get the sword out. Gotta pass on the traditions.

On the merry go round

She finally conked out at like 5:30. No naps for this baby finally made her give in

Me and Scottie in front of the Christmas tree

Emry and Grandma vs me. I won :)

Happy California Thanksgiving

When Kelli first announced she was having another baby right before Thanksgiving I knew we had to spend Thanksgiving in California to snuggle that cute baby boy!! 

Emry and I went early because Ryan was out of town for work. And I'm so glad we did because it was a blast!! I'm just going to let the pictures tell the story of how much fun we had. We also went to Disneyland twice, but this post is going to be too long, so I'll do a separate post for those. 

We made it a priority to see this little man! He is such a mini Brian! 

We decided to make this trip when we announced to everyone that we were expecting again!! This little girl is gonna be a BIG sister!!! 

 Cade and Cam were excited to see Em! Love these cousins! 

  Emry loved being with Grandma. This is her coming up with the Thanksgiving meal menu :D

 Eating OUTSIDE with our cousin Cam. We love these sunny days. Cadence and Cam were fighting over who got to sit by Emry. They love their cousin.

Best thing about Grandma's house is making cookies!! She looked so cute in her apron! 

Everyone loved helping!! 

"Look what I got!!" Grandma's house = lots of sugar

Since we wouldn't all be together for Christmas, we decided to do our Christmas picture at Thanksgiving. Everyone is so much older than last year, plus there's a new baby this year!! Can't wait to see how these change each year. 

 More sunny days!! Emry loved getting back to the park! We've been missing outside lately! 

Remember the Grandparents = sugar thing? Grandpa got us an ice cream cone!! 

Of course, we had to visit the beach while we were there! Emry loved playing in the sand. 

Emry and Daddy on the swings at the beach

Grandpa's specialty is digging holes for kids to play in, and all the grand kids LOVED it!

She's cute

 Rides on Grandpa's shoulders

We rode the ferry across the bay at balboa. Emry loved the "water choo choo"

Our cute family on the pier. I really do love these two (or three)

Us on the beach (Also, as you can see, Ryan still has his beard/mustache from "movember")

One day we got Uncle Scottie to let us in to the Disneyland hotel pool. It wasn't quite as warm as we would have liked, but it was still fun and Emry liked the little water slide.

On Thanksgiving day, we spent more time at the park. This girl was in heaven with all this outside time!

All the cousins wearing their Big Sister and Big Brother t-shirts. 

Daddy and Emry

Gardner Grandparents

Rylee was blessed, which was a great reason to get all the grand kids together. These are some cute kids and some happy grand parents. 

Four generations. Great Grandpa Gardner, Grandpa Gardner, Daddy, and Emry

Happy Halloween

This year we got to celebrate Halloween 3 times! First, at our ward Halloween party. I had to work so Ryan took our little lady bug to it by himself. She had a blast eating candy and playing games and hanging out with her friend, the bear. I was really sad that I had to miss this, but it was okay because I had 2 other Halloweens with her.

Leah the bear and Emry the lady bug enjoying the party. Ryan had to say "candy candy candy" over and over again to get Emry to keep that hat on for a picture. She really hated it. haha. 

The second Halloween was in Arizona. My friend Becca and her family threw a fun Halloween party complete with bounce house and games. Emry had a blast jumping in the bounce house with all the other kids.

Emry on the swings at the party. Halloween to me shouldn't be freezing. This was perfect! :D

Lastly, we had Halloween day. Ryan's work set up fun Halloween decorations and invited people to bring their kids to come trick or treat the halls. It was a fun time. Ryan's team all dressed up as Ken and Barbie dolls. Ryan was a BYU Dr Ken doll. Clever and easy. Halloween night we had chili and corn bread for dinner at our house and then set out to go trick or treating. Emry semi-got the idea of trick-or-treating. She knew how to knock on the door and take the treat out but had a hard time only taking one treat. We spent the rest of the night at home passing out candy.

Halloween day--showing off our costume with our cousins. Lila the Bumble Bee, Emry the Ladybug, and Owen the Dragon

 Visiting Dad at work. This girl loves her daddy. 

Ryan's costume complete with the Ken box.

Me and Emry at Ryan's work. Emry with candy, of course. She couldn't get enough of it!!

Emry's favorite game. She would get in the car seat and say Ready, Go!! Ryan would swing her back and forth and she had a blast and would laugh and laugh and say Again! Again!! Ryan got tired fast, but he kept going for her, because he's an awesome dad like that!

 Trick or treating at our neighbor's house. 

Trying to open the door after knocking. She got the knocking part down well. Then we had to work on the only taking one candy part...

 Ryan taking Emry door to door

End of the night hanging out with Grandma

Our doorstep with our pumpkins. She was done, you think? 

In all, we had a very fun Halloween this year!