Some Randomness

I am the first counselor in the Young Women's Presidency. This is a busy calling. I don't write much about it, but I thought I would throw up a quick pic of some of the girls. Right now I am busy planning camp and trek. Help!

I told these girls to pose "busy" during our "Iron Chef" activity. It turned out really fun.



Are they beautiful or what? I thought 14-15 year old girls were supposed to be more awkward!




This is Debbie, my advisor and dear friend. I LOVE her!!!

Okay, to make this post live up to it's title of randomness, I will now post a picture of my adorable daughters in their Christmas dresses, and tell you a cute thing Carolina Jones said. She asked me when we could go to disneyland. I said, "Someday"...to which she replied, "Mom, someday is when I am going to get married."


Maybe the underlying theme to this post could be, beautiful women!

I Hope They Call Me on a Mission

I am enjoying looking through my pictures to make these updates. For my brothers and sisters this post will feel like a walk down memory lane.

My parents left in January to be the Mission Presidents of the Madrid Spain Missionary Training Center. It was hard to see them go. They had been living with us for six months, which I think made them leaving even harder for me. On the day they left for the MTC in Provo I put on my happy face and said goodbye. Immediately upon hearing them shut the door, I started bawling my brains out...then I heard the door open again like a minute later. I was so embarrassed at my hysterical state that I yelled "get out of here!" My mom stammered, "I'm going, I just forgot this one thing". I then yelled "Don't look over here" (I was around the corner on the couch). She was out the door pretty fast and I resumed my pity party. It was funny.

We went a couple of days later to say our official goodbyes at the MTC. It was a neat experience. I was excited for my kids to get to be there, along with all my brothers and sisters and their kids too. I am really trying to help my little group understand what this is all about.

Robbie found a picture of the prophet, and was so excited to show all the kids.



What a group.

This one is blurry, or is that just me crying?....not sure.


I miss my parents tremendously. I sometimes wish I didn't like them so much. My sisters and I joke that we even miss them when we are with them. I never even had those rebellious years when your parents drive you crazy. I have always loved to be around them. Why is this? Is it my mom's sparkling conversation?...oh wait, that's just me talking her ear off while she does Sudoku. Could it be my dad's gentle ways, his sensitivity?...HA. I'm not sure, I just know that they are my people.

So mom, dad, if you are reading this, come back soon! And by soon I mean exactly when you are supposed to, in one year and nine months!

Here I Go Again

Are you ready for more updates? I will start in January. My in-laws came for a great visit and we blessed Fiona and Henry on the same day. We figured one party would be easier. Okay, prepare yourself for LOTS of photos: (photography by Cortney Boice by the way...love it!)

The woman of the hour: Fiona!

And now with the man of the hour: Henry! Henry, by the way, is so incredibly chubby by now that it was funny to even look at these pictures. I am really behind on this blog. Fiona is much taller now but her face is still really similar....not Hens though!

I hesitate to put this chubby-faced picture of myself, but hey, I was there and I this IS what I looked like that day.

Joey with his incredible parents. I love this picture because they all look so happy.

Four generations of Emigs! Joseph, Ruth, and Joey.

My parents with both babies, by now Fi was out of her fancy dress, but still cute.

My dad did the food. It was quite the spread. (thanks daddy.)

One more of Fi. She is sporting her grandma Lori's blessing cap and blanket. It was a good day.

This is For You, Angelique!

Hey...I have been so so busy. This week I am watching Dougie for Angelique and Justin while they are in Hawaii. I wanted to post some quick pictures so they could get a good look at their little guy. I remember how much I missed Ty the first time I left him.

A random picture of my girls, and how they look alot of the time:

Dougie REALLY loves to be read to. Oshin snapped this shot of me...notice how beautiful I look with my unkept hair and stylish sweatshirt...I'm afraid this is how I am doomed to look this week.

This is the expression Dougie loves to make this face for pictures. I'll have him smiling so big, then as soon as I hold up the camera, this is what I get:

Just hanging with the ladies...

My favorite thing about Dougie are his hands and feet..so chubby and soft!

He is doing great you guys. Yesterday he fell in love with me and is now obsessed. ha. My kids are totally into him. Carolina follows him around like a little mommy and picks up any little crumbs from my floor...then she runs them to me and says mom, we need to throw this away, Dougie almost wanted to put it in his mouth! This has caused me to start sweeping my floor like someone with OCD.

I'll post more when I have another minute!

Vegas Baby

For Christmas my dad rented a house in Las Vegas and all of the Earl family was together! My parents were to be leaving for another mission in January, and we wanted to have one last hurrah. It was an amazing place. We chose it for 2 reasons. First, we wanted to attend the Vegas Bowl, and second we needed a BIG place to all be together. I know my dad had worries on how it would all turn out...I thought it was a BLAST!!!

So I am going to post mostly pictures. My dad bought rock band BEATLES..it was a hit! I love his singing face by the way! The kids favorite was Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

I have to say that this kinda changed my kids life forever. They LOVE the Beatles now. They have downloaded all their songs and memorized the words. They have Beatles t-shirts, which they begged me to buy. The other day I heard Jack in the kitchen singing at the top of his voice "when I find myself in times of trouble...mother mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be." It made me think of my dad, and it made me get a tear in my eye.

This is what our time in Vegas looked like most of the time, lots of kids....

And lots of fun sitting around talking!


There was SWIMMING!

And crafts.
And even an invalid!
This is Joey and Ty when they got home from the BYU game. They were still smiling! It was one of the best nights of Ty's life. He got to storm the field, and be on TV (thanks to uncle Justin) and he didn't even complain about the bitter cold.
We had a mini talent show Christmas eve. Grace and Carolina sang, Jack did a handstand, and Ty threw a football through a target.

Christmas morning was great and the kids loved all their presents. I had to include these two pics of Grace Christmas morning.

It was an amazing time. I love being with my family. Do you love us in our matching pjs?

December-Grandpa Christensen Funeral

In December we received the news that Joey's Grandpa Christensen passed away. We were sad, and so happy. He was 93 years old. He was an amazing man. I feel so honored that I got to know him. When we were in law school we lived in the same complex with grandma and grandpa and I had the opportunity to spend lots of time with him. He was gentle, kind, funny and charismatic.

A big thank you to Southwest Airlines for helping our family to get to the funeral! We took the boys and Fiona. It was nice to be able to see all of Joey's family, and right before Christmas too. Here are the boy cousins, practicing their musical number, Called to Serve". It was powerful. I was in 2 musical numbers as well, I Know that my Redeemer Lives and Silent Night. The funeral was wonderful.


Joey was a pallbearer.

Fiona got to meet tons of Arizona family. Here she is with "Auntie Allison".


We had a great experience. One negative though...Joey was playing football with all the little kids in the park and he re-injured his ankle. He had been limping since August on a bad calf/ankle from a flag football injury. When we got back to Utah and took him to the doctor we found out that he had ruptured his Achilles tendon and would have to go in for surgery the next day. It turns out that he had a partial tear all along, and then tore it again. Thus began one of the hardest 6 weeks in my life! He couldn't put ANY weight on it and had to use crutches to get around.

A Time of Thanksgiving

November flew by. With a newborn, night and day have no meaning. Fiona definitely had the two reversed. She struggled to gain weight and I had to start supplementing with formula. Thanksgiving was great, but kinda a blur. It was at my house. I looked back and had absolutely NO pictures. I had to take some from my sister's blog.

I wanted to include this picture so I could remember what Fi looked like...cute. I however, look tired!

Joey loves to come up with something creative (or weird if you ask me) to make for Thanksgiving. This is him making pear brulee...it had 2 sauces and was actually really good.

Cousins!! It is so fun for the kids to be together. Here are the younger ones.

My dad carving the bird. I miss my dad!

The food was GOOD! My favorite thing was Ash's orange rolls.

Another awesome thing that happened in November was that my Grandma read the Twilight books. (I insisted) I kept asking her if she liked them and she would say "NO!"...emphatically I might add. She read them soooo fast though. She even stayed up later than her 10pm bedtime a couple of nights. If you know my grandma, breaking schedule is almost unheard of...so I'm pretty sure she was obsessed! Here she is with Grace, oh and look what she is holding!

November comes with alot of football. Ash got iron on letters and we made the babies BYU shirts for the Utah game. AWESOME.

I have so much to be thankful for!