Sickies

This week was a long one! Emma and I had a fun intro to the fall season by getting our first gross cold since last winter. Urgh, I was so excited about the weather cooling down and the leaves changing that I forgot about all that getting sick all the time junk. Joy. So Emma, who finally started sleeping through the night 3 weeks ago, went back to waking up 4 times a night and not being able to take a nap without me nursing her while in bed. Poor little thing.  Hence, no sleep and Emma smothering me with snotty kisses gets me sick. And to top it off, Josh had to work almost every night this week, with homework on top of that.  I seriously don't know how you do it with more than one kid. ( Take them one at a time I know ). But we made it through triumphant! That cold is behind us...until the next one that is.  I was impressed that I still made dinner most of the week, but here's a picture of a casualty as a result.



I know what it looks like but it's not, thank heavens. I gave Emma a squeeze pouch while I was making dinner, and thought she could handle it, but...oh well, she had a great time so what can I say?:)  

Family Reunion Time

Our Family Reunion in Yellowstone was a blast...literally haha! Josh thought of that of course. ( You know, cause Yellowstone? Old Faithful? he he). We got back from an incredible week in Idaho on Saturday, Josh's only week off for the whole summer. That guy works so hard! He's amazing!  I'd say "heck no! I need my vacation!!!"  My family rented an awesome barn/huge house in Ashton, ID. It's called the Shootout Barn. We later found out the origins of its name and it creeped us out big time. It wasn't just a creative name.  There was literally a shootout between an escaped convict and a police officer. The convict shot himself in the barn after shooting the cop ( the cop lived ). You could make up some FREAKY bedtime ghost stories! Josh was going to make some up and tell the nieces and nephews but we wanted them to sleep:)

During the week in Idaho we went to Yellowstone, horseback riding, hiking, floating the river, and vegged. It was fantastic! Shoutout to my brother and sister-in-law for planning it all. 

Isn't that barn fantastic?! Such a cool idea to redo a barn and make it a house! It was a perfect size to fit our whole family, more than 30 people.

The Luker Crew!

In Front of Old Faithful after the big shootoff!

Yep, that's bison after crossing the road. Pretty awesome.

Emma and I on our horse "Shadow"

Love these two:)

Cave Falls. A Beautiful Hike!

The Grand Canyon in Yellowstone. Isn't it spectacular?

Emma is not a big fan of grass. 

She'd raise her legs like the every time we put her down haha!

Emma and her cousin bonding:)

Emma will be 10 months tomorrow so here's some adorable pics from the last little bit.

Being super aggressive with her toy box haha. 

She finally has her 1st tooth and loves talking. She waves and loves to clap and we swear she says "Hi Dada" whenever Josh comes home from School. Haha but that's probably just us:) We love her!