I seriously have the BEST travelers. 

These two are so chill and don't ask for much when we are in the car for 10+ hours.

The girls and I took off Friday and spent a week in Ohio.

Ammon (my little brother) was graduating high school and my dad was having heart surgery. 

A few things we always do when we visit Ohio:

cousin time with Katelyn and Olivia

trampoline

Columbus Zoo

Weldon's Ice Cream

Carly gets sick

Just coloring. 

I did have to move Carly's car seat for a bit because she couldn't sleep.
Emma kept pulling at her blanket.

Cousin Katelyn helping Emma put her shoes on.

It's tradition at graduation parties to sign the barn.
 Aunt Dana helped Carly sign her name and then she helped me sign Emma's.

Cousins! Their first time seeing each other. They are so fun together.

Cousin Ana and Emma found a mud puddle during the graduation party.
I told myself to embrace the mess and not care about the girls getting dirty.
It was pooring rain during the whole party. 

We made it through graduation! Woot woot!

They love Aunt Dana!

Pasta bar at a graduation party was a hit! 

Five siblings out of seven were together!
(Franki is on her mission and Korbin is in Idaho).
Anton, Dana, Ammon the graduate, me, and Clayt

With Uncle Leo! 

My mom is on the school board and gets to hand out some of the diplomas.
While handing Ammon his, he kissed her on the cheek! So cute.

Where we spent a lot of our time. By the dogs.

On Monday, we went to Hometown Hotdog! 

Carly loved sitting with Uncle Leo. She kept rubbing his facial hair.

Weldon's Ice Cream!

This is how we do Weldon's.
The three of us shared a banana split milkshake. It was delicious. 

Cousin Time!

Being three is tough.

Can you see her hair??! 

"Mom I touch my bum"
hahahahahaha

Typical Pitchforth girl photo.
One running away and the other being silly.

They are obsessed with strollers and the dogs.

Haha both their faces. Emma's tongue cracks me up.

Digging in Papa's garden.

They had a youth temple trip while we were there. Clayt and I were able to go and help.
After the temple we took Ammon to Chick-fil-a for the first time.
Oma and Papa watched a movie with the girls and put them to bed late, but they both slept in!

Perks of sleeping in the same room as the girls, I get to see how they sleep!
Emma is always curled up in a ball.
Carly is all sprawled out and moves a ton.

Sick and upset Carly. Poor girl.
She always gets sick when we go to Oma and Papa's house.
Makes for a rough 24 hours and lots of snuggles.

How sick Carly took a nap on the couch. Poor girl.
She woke up so sweaty and super upset.
Good thing I was giving Emma a bath at the time
and she did not want Oma to comfort her.

Zoo day! It was perfect weather! The sun was shining and the wind was blowing.

The four girls.

Carly wanted to see two animals. Elephants and Giraffes.

Emma trying to get a few inches closer. 

I love this picture!
Emma's cute piggy tails and the giraffes in the background.

Uncle Clayt pushed Carly in the stroller and listened to her orders.
She ended up on his shoulders a few times.

Papa and Emma.
As you can Papa did not have heart surgery! Whoa. Crazy miracle.
Monday afternoon he went in for surgery. Totally prepped.
Shaved, marked up, blue all over, tubes put in his arm and neck.
They did one last test to check his heart when he was completely under anesthesia.
And his heart wasn't leaking like they thought it showed in tests 7 weeks earlier.
They called in other doctors to check it out.
They said surgery wasn't needed.
The doctors said his heart is strong.
So onto more testing...but at least it's not his heart!

These parks at rest areas are a life savor!!!!
We stopped four times on our way home. Twice to only play on the slides!

I absolutely love this little arm wrapped around mine. She is the cutest.

Sometimes the girls match. Sometimes we ALL match. 

Sometimes for our walks, they both get out and walk.
I ended up carrying Carly's bike and pulling the empty wagon.
Thank goodness we could see our house by this point.

Reason number 1,233 for having two kids. They push each other!

These two have the cutest hugs.

At 5:30 in the morning this girl wants to sing Wheels on the Bus.
The horn on the bus goes beep beep beep.
(Beeping her nose).

I love this picture.
Emma steeling all my smoothie and Carly riding her bike in the distance.

"Mom, ssshhhhh I'm sleeping." 

Emma climbs up the ladder all by herself now!
And then she slides down on her belly.

"Emma, I hold you".
I think Emma was okay with this.

Movie night with the girls while daddy was out with friends!
We watched Snow White and ate popcorn.

Post nap time. Carly's blank stare and Emma eating away.
Carly loves to snuggle and Emma loves to eat as soon as they get up. 

One of their favorite things to do. 'Drive' our car.
Emma loves finding water bottles to unscrew the lid and dump all the water.
Carly goes from the driver's seat, to buckling her car seat. 

I love this man right here. He is really the best dad and husband.
I love watching him be a dad to our beautiful girls.
He plays with them. He goes on walks with them. He lets them feed him. He is pretty awesome.
I am the lucky one.

This smile! Oh my goodness it just melts my heart. 

I told you. Best dad right here.
After a long day at work,
he still has a bit of energy to carry one girl on his shoulder and chase the other. 

Yes, Emma climbed up on the bench by herself!!!
She is a crazy awesome climber.
My three loves.

Really?! Where has May gone??!

I feel like the same pictures are being taken over and over. But these are my days.

The girls are getting bigger and growing like crazy.

I want to remember my simple days with them.

Emma loves carrying around Carly's helmet until someone puts it on her.
She loves 'riding' Carly's bike. I mean, look at that smile!

They love love love parks. They are obsessed with the swings, slides, and climbing.

There was an older kid swinging like this. haha
As soon as he was done, both girls ran over and hung on the swings.

Making me some chocolate milk! She knows me oh too well.

I love taking pictures of the different ways we go on walks. Lately it has been bike and wagon.
It used to be strollers. 

Happy 16 months Emma!

Yet, another Sunday night has come and I am not tired, due to a nice nap I had this afternoon. :)

So here's to blog posting!

Happy 16 months Emma!

She is looking and acting more and more like a toddler rather than a baby. Which makes me sad because I love the baby stage. But it also makes me excited because of how fun she is! 

Selfie with mommy after church today. 

 New things Emma is doing:

*imitates us (when we cough she will cough, when we yell she will yell back)

*she can sing the itsy bitsy spider. I ask her if she wants to sing a song and she puts her little fingers together for her spider and waits until we start singing. She also loves Wheels on Bus. We were singing it the other day and she was across the room, when we came to 'the horn on the bus goes beep beep beep' she comes running beeping her nose and singing it.

*when she laughs really hard she throws her head back and keeps laughing with her little nose scrunched up and all of her teeth showing.

*she folds her arms to pray! She used to just put her hands together, now she actually folds her arms.

*she can climb onto the kitchen table! Ah. Just this morning, a chair was pulled out just far enough that she climbed onto the chair, and then onto the table and was smelling the flowers when I turned around to see what she was doing. Ah!

*she will blow a kiss and say bye to just about anyone.

*when Carly wakes up in the morning she runs to her door to give her a hug. cutest. thing. ever.

*SLIDES! She goes down the really big twisty slides all by herself at the park now.

*feeds herself with a fork/spoon. She is actually better at it sometimes than Carly!

*Wiggle car. We have this yellow car that she sits on, steers, and goes all by herself.

I asked her to say hi to Emma in the camera. She waved.

I love this drink steelin', sun glass wearin', runny nosed baby.

 Funny story: The other night we asked Emma to go and put her toothbrush away in the bathroom. She didn't come back into Carly's room, so Jeremy went to the bathroom to find her with her arm in the toilet, swishing her toothbrush around. As soon as she saw Jeremy she plopped her toothbrush in her mouth! YUCK! We both laughed but told her not to do it again.

She loves this tunnel at the playground.
She loves crawling through it and turning around right before she gets to the end.

 Sleeping: Emma has been waking up at 5:30-6:00 lately. But then she takes a nap at about 8-9:30 then again at noon when Carly goes down for her nap. Then she is up until 7:00.

Talking: She can say mom, dad, Emma (ma!), prayer, more (she will sign it and say it usually when she wants more milk) bye, hi, thank you

She loves this swing. I spent the last few days outside with the girls.
All Emma wants to do is swing. She runs over, pats the swing and yells for me to put her in.

Emma loves: Carly, bath time, (after dinner we say "Emma bath?!" she runs straight to the bathroom yelling 'ba ba ba!' 

She loves outside, slides, putting things in and taking things out (today at church she had a little water bottle and she put cereal in and dumped it out again and again)

I love this little energizer Emma. I love being her mom and getting kisses from her multiple times a day. She is so kind and so sweet. I love you Emma Jean.

I am not a fan of sick babies.
But I am a HUGE fan of snuggles from this precious baby.

My view right about now. Emma climbing on the table to get more crackers.
And Carly stuck in the car seat for the fifth time.
Which one do I save first?

Naturally, while daddy shampoos the carpet we play 'music' on pans and then make popcorn to eat!

sisters in matching diapers
Carly wears diapers to bed and I snapped a picture before she took it off.

'This little piggy went to the market'

How is she so big??!!! 

Emma in mid-run and Carly busy coloring.

This smiley three year old melts my heart.

My favorite one year old in style.