Back from the Valley of the Sun

Well we are finally home and recovering from our trip to Arizona. Isn't that how it always happens! On March 17th my mom and Emma heading down to Arizona. So this first collage is the pictures of her while I was not there. Emma got REALLY sick an hour after they left and threw up for days. It was such a horrible feeling to not have her near for me to help her feel better. She feels much better now and was still able to enjoy her vacation. She had a hard time at first with Sasha and being soft with her. She is so used to playing with older kids that the baby was hard for her. But she sure loves her and they had a lot of fun together. While she was down there my mom fished the potty training with her. She has not had an accident for 2 weeks (well the #2 is still a problem and we still have to watch her! ) But I am so proud of her... I told her she had to be potty trained before she turned three, which is next week!

Another bad thing happened for Emma before I got down there was my sisters pool was closed for cleaning. All she wanted to do was swim and she had to wait a week before she could. These are some pictures of her getting to swim. It was not really warm enough to be swimming down there because the pools are not heated, but she still had fun.

I flew down there on the 23rd and it was so good to see little Emma! I did not think that I was going to miss her as much as I did. We did not really want to plan a whole lot to do because we just wanted to relax, but we seemed to be moving all the time. We helped my sister clean her house, I made Emma a cute apron for her birthday, got her b-day shopping done, went swimming, caught up with old friends watched a lot of Harry Potter (Emma new favorite movie. Just the second one with the big snake in it!) One day we drove out past Phoenix and went the their new wildlife aquarium and zoo. We had such a fun time. We even got to pet and feed stingrays. It was an amazing place. Emma favorite place was the snake house. I am really starting to worry about this girl. I hope one day she does not ask me to get a snake.

We did not want to leave the wonderful weather and company! It was a great week but we missed Aaron and it was nice to come home. Now we are deep in preparations for Emma's birthday party! For those of you who did not get an invite and would still like to come it is this Saturday at 12:30 at the arctic circle on center street!