Family, Its About Time!

Hello Family and Friends, I am finally updating my blog, I've been busy. Heather, sorry I give you a hard time for not keeping your blog updated when I haven't been doing it, lets both promise to do better! Wow what a busy couple of months, this is a long one folks, keep up!

School will be out in a week and a half, Emma's last soccer game is on saturday, then she will start up with gymnastics, Rick is growing up tooo fast, what an athlete, mom is trying to keep up. Nick got a promotion at work (yeah) and is doing great, 2 promotions in just the year and a half he's worked there, AWESOME, I love you Nick! and I am just the soccer mom, trying to keep up with all the activities and family fun. We had Grandma Cindy come visit (by herself, never been done before) in April and the kids just loved every minute of it, mom didn't want to leave, we went to the zoo, opry mills, toured some civil war sites, saw some country stars homes and just got to be with grandma. Its warm and so beautiful here, eveything is in full bloom here and very humid, I am melting. But loving every minute of it! Enjoy!!

Static shock... love it

Emma and Canin, picnic with neighbors.

Soccer Break!

We got a new 4 wheeler!

Nick gettin the girls fired up for the game!

A friendly deer right outside the window! we see deer all the time.

Emma loves to read to Rick (in her swimsuit)

Isn't she the cutest bunny you ever saw!

Our new Easter Clothes!

5 easter egg hunts later and all these eggs!

Under the sea dinner with Grandma Cindy!
We went to the Aquarium restaraunt in opry mills, the food was soooo good!

There are fish swiming all around you. But no one ate sea food, ironic!

Petting zoo with mom!

Emma loves her Grandma

Grand Ole Opry

Emma, Rick, theres a Jaguar behind you!

Bamboo forrest. Bamboo grows all over here, soo pretty!

Help, were in a bubble surrounded by meerkats!

The Elephants were silly!

Grandma gave Emma this stuff giraff at the Nashville Zoo!

Rick remembered Grandma and they picked up right where they left off.

Daddy loves Rick

These monkeys were just hootin and hollerin and swing around, they were so much fun to watch, Rick was trying to imitate them. tooo cute

A future football pro!

Emma loves here giraff!

Emma right before a game. Her team is the Hot Shots

Nick coaching the girls. 3 on 3 soccer.

Rick loves to play with balls.

Go hotshots!

go orange and black

Daisy Girl Scout meeting

My little daisy girl!

Cookies, Soccer, and work!

Hello Family and Friends, sorry for the delay in getting updates, just been very busy!
Emma is doing great! she met her goal of 100 boxes of girl scout cookies and she will head off to girl scout camp on March 21 -22. She is just the greatest daughter in the world, such a great big sister and example to her brother, she still doesn't like him in her room, but loves him so much. Back in February, Emma and Nick went to the daddy daughter dance hosted by the girl scouts, they had some fun, although she thought the music was too loud! She also went up and bore her testimony for the first time today, so amazing to see how much faith a child has, I learn more from my children then they learn from me. Emma also has her first soccer game on the 7th of March and is excited to play!
Rick is more rowdie than Emma ever was, such a little man! He is like Nick in so many ways and I love it. He is now 18 mos and in Nursery, yeah! a milestone! He just loves to play with his friend Tyler Saville. We've been going to toddler time at the library and he loves to look at the books. He also loves to run and is very FAST! maybe I'll lose this last bit of baby weight just keeping up with him. He also loves soccer, he will chase the ball and kick it around and around and let me tell you, he has a good kick to him, natural athlete! I am so blessed to have these two precious spirits in my life and I thank my Heavenly Father Daily for my family.
I am nursing a spranged ankle and decided to stop training for the half marathon next month, just focusing on recovery and still enjoying working part time at old navy, I also just picked up a couple of new clients to train, and getting back to my old self again. Nick is doing great at work and just being a great husband and father, he just finished off a season of basketball and will help asst coash Emma's soccer team. The weather is wet and warm, we get just as much rain as Utah gets snow, but will still take the rain over snow anyday!
Here are a few pics to enjoy! love you all!

Daddy Daughter dance 2/13/2009

Ward dance 1/31/2009, me and Nick dressed up and Giner and Fred!

Our friends Jenny and Ben Saville!

Rick loves his big dog Grandma Cindy gave to him! and Emma loves her little brother!

Sanity!

Hello Family and Friends,
Just taking a moment to myself for a little sanity. Nick has been in and out of Utah for the past 3 weeks for work that I am going bonkers with my kids, oh I love em to peices, but they can stretch your last nerve. Emma is selling girls scout cookies, wow what a big project it mostly is for me not her. But the money from the sales will benefit her troop and help toward the cost of the big camping trip this summer! Emma also has a date with her dad next month for the Daddy Daughter Valentine Dance on the 13th of Feb. It will be so much for them.
It's finally gotten a little warmer here, coldest its been in 6 years. Finally nice to take the kiddies to the park today, Rick got to play with his friend Tyler. So nice to be outside.
I've been training hard for a half marathon in April in Nashville, wish me luck ya'll! I'm still at Old Navy, just as a back up, so I'm lucky to work 5 hours a week, which I don't mind cuz I still get me great discount! yeah!
A big SHOUT OUT to my little nephew Dominik who turns the big 3 Tomorrow! Happy Birthday! I love you all, I need to go update my facebook account, its long overdue!

Happy New Year 2009

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Whitney's. Lots have happened this last month and need to catch up the blog. 2008 was a busy year for our family. The Lord has truly blessed our family this past year. We flew to Utah on the 16th and stayed until Christmas. We didn't get out to see everyone, with half of Nick's family with the flu (thank heaven none of us got sick) and the weather outside was frightful for driving conditions, we weren't able to make it out to see everyone. Grandma cried when she picked us up from the airport, she didn't even hug her own daughter, went straight for the grandkids! She missed us a lot. But we enjoyed spending what time we could with family and friends.
Emma loved the snow, she went tubing with her uncles and had so much fun! We went to the Fun park and Emma took her friend Kiya and won lots of arcade tickets and prizes. We went bowling, shopping, we stopped and had a Brazilian dinner with our friends the Fish family. Great food. It was great for Nick to work on his Portuguese, and had FHE with them as well. We spent time with Nick's Dad and Mom.
We were worried that we wouldn't make it on our flight, lots of storms coming through, thought our flight would be cancelled or delayed. But we got lucky and we were able to fly out on time in between snow storms. But in the end we were ready to be home! Its a lot warmer here in Tennessee. Here are some pics which are past due.

Just playin in the Utah Snow!

Rick and his favorite uncle Brandon! Christmas Day

Me and Rick Christmas Day!

Emma and Grandma! She's rockin pj's from grandma. Grandma gets all the kids pj's to open Christmas eve so they can wear them Christmas morning. Just keeping up the tradition her mother started 25 years or so ago.

Rick got a stuffed monkey from his uncle Brandon and he loves it! He's also rockin the new pj's grandma got him.

Ho Ho Ho! Went to see Santa. Rick did very well with Santa. Emma was upset because she wanted a car for Christmas (the electric ride in one) which she didn't get, obvious reasons why, and so she was a little upset by it. But Santa promised her that when her family gets into a house then she will get one.

Rick met his new cousin Kara for the first time.

Rick LOVED the snow, couldn't get enough of it. He built a snowman with daddy in grandmas front yard (the back has dogs, need I say more) not the cleanest snowman with all the pine needles, but they had fun. and a little friendly snowball fight between me, Nick, and Brandon was fight for your life fun!

Reindeer at the Tanner Family Christmas Party! It was a close race for Nick, Jay, Uncle Dan and Grandpa. Dan took home the prize for filling his pantie hose first with balloons and wore it atop his head! Manly! But such a riot to watch! I'll soon have it downloaded to YouTube!

OMG! its Gabriel from High School Musical!

Me and Emma went to the Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring the Radio City Rockets! Grand Ol Opry Dec 12th 2008. She loved the show, and we got to meet a couple of the rockets. Gotta love those outfits!

Santa lil helper! Such a cutie!

Carnton Ward Coven Newborns! Twilight Premiere!

Happy New Year 2009!

We went to a party at the Lori Stucki's Home. Had so much fun, haven't been out for new years eve in years! Got a babysitter and got home at 2 am!

Karaoke never sounded good. But I was amazed with Nick, he never does this and we had a lot of fun playing all kinds of games and all you can eat buffet!