Emma got her first and hopefully only tattoo, because that's something that good girls just don't do (sorry Linds). It was cool though because it was birds just like mine and she enjoyed it while it lasted. Emma and I also made our first cake together. It was for the fourth and it came out great, in fact I just cleaned up the pan today.

Happy Anniversary Linds. 6/22/02

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to when you have forgotten the words.

Emma has been as silly as ever. She loves to play pretend lately. Below she and Lindsey were playing "spa". They do each others hair, nails, massage.....I think Lindsey is just training her for later. Poor little Emma just thinks it's fun.

Then she was fingerpainting which turned into face painting.

And last but certainly not least, Sue came over for a visit and we broke out our new beach cruisers for a ride to the swimming pool.

Emma has been in swim lessons now for almost three weeks and she is doing so good. She practices the crawl and breast strokes, jumps off the diving board, and can even dive and flip off the side! She continues to amaze us.

Fishing

It took her 2 trips but Emma caught her first fish! Her Disney Princess pole caught a big 'ol carp at Elephant Butte this morning. We used a pice of hot dog and set it out and continued to eat breakfast when all of a sudden her pole was going into the lake, luckily Clarissa spotted it and ran in after it. And yes, we let it go back cause I ain't eating no carp! Oh yeah, Lindsey wanted to know if we had any bait for Mahi Mahi?

Emma being silly......like usual.

Starting Off Summer Right

Lindsey and I started off summer right this year with a visit from Tom, celebrated Sue's retirement from teaching, and we took Emma on her very first camping and fishing trips. Emma had a blast with the worms and seeing a catfish. She was so excited because the fish had whiskers like a cat. Camping was fun too, making hot dogs and smores over the fire. We slept in a tent and even hiked a little.

You can never replace time once it has passed so it's better to take advantage of the time you have now and the time ahead of you. That's all you have control over so make that time count.