Christmas morning

The view of the tree and presents before anyone dove in.

Emma's stash!!! (just kidding-the 4 presents for Sterling and I are in there also!)

The look on Emma's face when she got her kitchen.

Emma playing with her kitchen while the rest of us opened presents.

The rest of us.
Emily looking at her wedding book (all she got for christmas this year was a wedding. And thats Adam next to her, he kept the room clean)

Daddy putting Emma's toys together.

This is what we saw most of the morning. When she wasnt playing with her kitchen she would run around and squish her face up to the glass and make piggy face.

Christmas 2009

WOW!!!! christmas was crazy this year. I worked deep nights christmas eve and christmas day and then sat. and sun. were my regular weekend to work. Lets just say i was extremely tired but once the paycheck comes i wont even remember how tired i was.

I went to download the christmas pictures from the camera to the computer and this lovely picture pulled up. I will call it self portrait.

Emma is just so stinkin' cute with her cans of veggies. They are all over my house all the time, but hey she is learning good eating habits, right??

Pictures with Santa did go so well. I tried so hard to prep her. We went and had lunch with santa. i didnt make her sit on his lap. we just went up and sat next to him. so she could see him and that he isnt scary. (that is her "say cheese" face not a scary face)
When we did actually go see santa she did so well. she kept pointing at him and saying Santa, but then when it was time to sit on his lap she wanted nothing to do with him and screamed bloody murder. thus no pictures.

Emma did love christmas trees this year and would always point and say "light" when she say a christmas tree. so i decided to just take some pictures with a tree to document christmas 2009.

Couponing

PREFACE
Couponing has become an obsession for me. It is a game. How much can i get for how little? Christmas would not be happening at the Wagner household if it was not for couponing this last year.

I need to give some serious "thank you's" to my wonderful neighbors (who i know read this and why i am posting this)

WHY I AM POSTING
so I am at work as I am writing this. Just sitting here waiting for labels to print so i can make some IV's. So I sit at my computer and start reading some blogs.

I have one blog that i totally blog stalk. it is a friend/roommate (i think) of one of my really good friends so i dont feel that bad. but she just blogged about

...how she does not care about the prices of milk or fruit at the grocery store....


I literally had a heart attack!!!! I think I officialy have an obsession

this is a little old

This is at my mom's house but this is Emma's new past time!!

What is up with today??

First, I woke up to snow....I know its Dec. 2nd but really its Texas!!! (for all you vegas foke...this only lasted about 1 hr.)

Second, for all of you that dont know I have become a serious couponer. i dont do anything unless i have a coupon...i really have saved alot of money. I turned around from sitting at the computer and apparently my couponing/add brousing has passed on to other people in my family.

Black Friday

I did it!!!! I got up at 4:15 was at target at 4:35 stood in a crowd that looked like this but I was in the first 1/2 closest to the door. Got in, got my stuff, and was in the car at 5:29. I even saw our bishop at Target.
I was home back in bed at 5:45!!1 I only missed an hour of sleep, got the stuff I wanted, I may be a black friday shopper. Maybe next year i will try more then one store.

(p.s. for those of you that asked...i saved my parents the hassel of having to find Sterling and mine's present from them and just went ahead and got it since they are out of town. and a christmas present for myself.
Sterling and me: a portable dvd player for the car that goes on the back of the headrest
for myself: a stand mixer -it was only $24 (it will by me more time for wanting a kitchenaid)

dont worry i told my dad he could just give me the money difference on the amount i saved him. its like a finders fee!)

Thanksgiving day

I went big this year! This is what the front of the house looked like

but...... this is all that was inside. (all the cars are our neighbors company. literally the whole street was lined with cars!)
I did go big and make my first thanksgiving. The turkey came out pretty good for my first time. But the stuffing was not the same as my moms. i think i have a few lessons to learn.

Family Pictures 2009

SOOOOOOOOO Many AMAZING pictures to decided just a few favorites. Please tell me your vote for favorite picture.

(and again many thanks to the photographer- i dont know if she wants the world to know so i wont say her name until i do)

The End

Why we LOVE Texas

The date: Novemeber 11, 2009
The time: 4pm
The place: The coolest park EVER!!! (Celebration park, Allen, Tx)

It is Mid-Novemeber it was above 70 degrees so after doing all our yard work we took Emma to the park. Sterling and I were in shorts and T-Shirts. It was a "Best Day Ever" feeling, and Emma found our shadows!!!

Then we played on the playground for 1 hour. Up the stairs, down the slide, up the stairs....and down the slide.

Then we went to swing and Emma decided to make funny faces everytime she came close to us.

(Notice all the teeth!!!)

I love Texas and even better i married a man who loves Texas too!! (oh yeah I am still picking roses off my bush-its november!!)

Halloween 2009

Halloween 2009 started off with a tri-ward playgroup party. Here is Emma who took the glory of being a unshoed Pebbles and ran on the church for hard wood gym floor for a good hour.

If she wasnt running she was climbing in and out of a nursery chair (you know the little tiny ones) she didnt care about the crafts i helped put together, just the chair!

Emma and her bestest buddy Makayla as a bunny

On Sat. night we went to our wards trunk or treat and then off to my parents buildings trunk or treat.

Emma and Ellie cruzin in the wagon (best purchase ever)

Emma being a big girl on the electric 4-wheeler (not ours)
Family picture- Thanks Steph for taking the picture or "The Flintstones" would never have been seen.

Pumpkin Patch

At the pumpkin patch Emma got to:

Feed goats, sheep, a cow, and a longhorn (she was just giddy with all the animals and their tongues licking her)

Go on a hay ride

Self portrait

and pick her own pumpkin