Emma's graduation from Teller...WOW!

So my baby graduated from Elementary school today...it brings a small tear to my eye. I can't believe how time flies in life! Emma is an amazing kiddo...I couldn't have been blessed with a better child. She has totally thrived at Teller, and has such a kind heart. She always cares about other people's feelings, and is friends with others when no one else is. I just love her. I remember a few years ago when she was 5 and I took her to her first day of Kindergarten. She was so excited! I cried of course...but not her. Nope, she said "I love you Mommy" and kissed me and ran to the playground. That's how she's been ever since. She goes all out on everything she does. She joins every school group: student council, the green peace group, the PEace group...she's so social. I'm so very proud of her!

This is her teacher Ms. Santorico
Beauen, Casey and Emma

Emma and Quinn

My sweet girl

How beautiful is she?

Graduation

So this last weekend probably was one of my favorite weekends of my life. After working long and hard I finally graduated from college...granted I have 16 weeks left, they hopefully are easy weeks. I got my practicum placement in the ED...just where I wanted to be. I love that I went to school and persevered. I can't go back just yet, because I'm sick, sick, sick of school, but in a few years I'll be going back for sure. So...here are a few pics of this last weekend...

Emma and Zoe going to my pinning
My lovely cake my mom got for my graduation...along with a delicious mexican fiesta catered by a delicious mexican restaurant here in town.

My future Graduate

Here we are!

Grandpa/Granddaughter Western Dance

I'm so thankful to have a Dad that's so great! He's taken Emma to both of the daddy/daughter dances. Her dad lives in TN, but I know he'd love to take her if he were closer. Emma loves these dances. She planned her outfit. She's getting to that age where I have less and less say in her clothing choices. They line danced and had sloppy joes...so fun!

Emma and her friend Amaiya

Emma and Grandpa in front of the big western truck

Phew!!! I'm full!

Spring background

OK....well the editing in Blogger sucks! I had a whole paragraph written and somehow it's been deleted! Whatever! Anyway...I changed my page from wintery Christmas page to a more springy page. I've spent about an hour now perusing other people's blogs while I should have been doing homework. Oh well...this is far more interesting. Anyway, I can't wait till school is over and Emma and I can take exciting trips and do way more fun things than we do. Speaking of which...graduation is right around the corner for me! I have only 3 more classes before I graduate! Singing praises...So for the last 6 days I've been hanging out with Liam and Sean so Michael and Shelley went to VA for CRNA interviews. Yes...they will be leaving this fall for school...in another state. I will miss them terribly! Shelley is my best friend. I haven't been taking too many pics latley...but here are a few.

Shelley, Mary and I took the kids to a really cool concert where the Colorado Symphony played for the kids. They sat in a huge circle and the kids got to sit right up on stage and watch them play.

We took the kids to the Stock Show...this was them in the horse trailor. If you want to tire some kids out...take them there! We had a blast. Thanks Mom for taking us!

Christmas...a little late

So I suck at keeping up on blogging...here are some Christmas pictures. Christmas is getting way more crazy at the Buckwalter house. Everyone keeps multiplying and replenishing the earth...or at least the Buckwalter house. There are kids everywhere! I love it though. It's how I grew up, so it's normal to me.

So this is the fam...everyone was here for Christmas! Love it!
Cute pic of my Mom and Emma. I love this picture.

Emma got her WII for Christmas. We need some new games!

We had a gingerbread making party at Shelley's house on Christmas eve. We had homemade pizza and made houses. It was fun!

My sweet Emma

This is the posterior view

In this picture, she had been sitting in front of the heater, so her face is abnormally red!

So Emma's friend from school had a "red carpet" bday last weekend. Emma really wanted her hair in ringlets. Now for anyone who knows us...we have super thick hair, and that's a super time consuming ordeal. Anyway, I caved, and we spent 1.5 hours curling her thick hair. It turned out so dang cute though. She dressed up in her cute dress with her cute hair and went to her cute party. She had a great time!

Thanksgiving

So...I love Thanksgiving. I love that our family gets together with other families and eats lots of food! It's rad. So here are a few pics from TG.

Baby Adam
Most of the sweet cousins...Emma, Lily, Ethen, Caroline, Carly, Sean, Liam

Sweet Emma and Lyss who came from Vegas. We were happy her and Bri could come!

Sweet Emma and her sweet friend Casey who joined us for TG.

Scary Zeke and Ethen