Mommy and Daddy get a VACATION!

Whoo Hoo!!! Jason and I will finally take a vacation.....alone! This will be our very first "vacation" since Emercyn was born almost 4 years ago! We've taken overnight trips here and there, but nothing longer than that. Jason hit a goal at work and won a trip for the two of us! We will be gone 4 days/3 nights. We leave next week!!! We are going to a resort called The Abbey on Lake Geneva in Wisconsin. Check out their website! www.theabbeyresort.com

They have so many fun things to do.....parasailing, a 600ft zip line, kayaking, and a spa just to name a few!

The girls will be staying with Nana and Popa (my mom and dad), and I just know they will have a great time! Emercyn's already planning out her weekend! :)

Dancing Queens.......

My girls LOVE to dance. Actually, that is an understatement! If there is music playing, they are dancing. And sometimes, they dance without music.....or they make their own! Emercyn loves to watch "So You Think You Can Dance" or "Dancing with the Stars" with me simply because she can dance along with the contestants! Harper has two specific dance moves that you can be sure she will do when there is music. First she pulls her right arm up and down in a motion you would do if you were saying "choo choo" and imitating a train. Who knows why she uses this in her dance moves, but it's pretty darn cute!! And then she throws in her hips....swinging them back and forth, back and forth. I have every intention of videoing them dance, but everytime they do it I find myself too involved in watching and forget to grab my camera! Some day I will and I WILL post for you to see! :)

15 Months Already?!?!?!?!?

Baby H is 15 months old!!! This actually makes me a little sad! Where did my tiny baby go? This past year with Harper has gone SO much faster than the first year with Emercyn. I feel like things happen faster the second time around!!

Harper had her 15 month well-baby check last week. Drumroll please......26lbs 9oz and 31 inches long! Big girl! :)

I like to compare her stats with Emercyn's at that age just to see how similar in size they are. Emercyn was 26lbs even and 31 inches at 15 months. So they are very close in size! :)


I mentioned a couple of months ago in a post that I was teaching Harper some baby signs like I did with Miss E. Harper has them down and uses them every chance she gets! It is definitely a life saver! She can tell us what she wants without frustration, and we completely understand. She has "milk", "eat", "more", "night night", and "bath" down perfectly! Go Baby H!!! We are working on a few others at the moment, so I'm sure in a couple of months she'll have those down as well!


Baby H also knows a few animal sounds. She can tell you how a cow, kitty cat, and puppy goes as well as point to her nose and your nose. :)

Swim Classes!!

Miss E took her very first swim classes this summer. She absolutely LOVES the water, but has a fear of actually going under the water. She would stay in the pool all day long if we let her.....but she probably would do so without getting her face wet!

She did great at swim class! They worked with her on her fear, and she did so good! I was such a proud mama! She's not "swimming like a fish" as she thought she would be at the end of the class, but this is a great start. She had two teachers. She would jump in to one of them from the side of the pool, but absolutely would not to the other. So it varied day to day how well she did, depending on which teacher worked with her more. She even went down the HUGE slide, sitting on the lap of one of the lifeguards! :) Her good friend Bailey was in the class with her, which really helped. They were just darling together....running to sit by each other, always wanting to be in the same group, etc.

The class was every night for 2 weeks. Harper stayed home with Daddy during the classes. They both enjoyed their time together! We had planned to do a "Parent and Baby" class this year with Harper, but decided to wait until next year. She's definitely a water baby (standing at the bathroom door doing the sign for "bath" is a regular occurrence for us), so I have a feeling she will love the class!!

Finally....Baby H takes her first steps!!!

At 14.5 months (on July 7th) our sweet Harper Belle decided to take her first steps! Yay big girl!!! We are so excited for you!!!!

Emercyn was more excited than Jason and I were! She screamed and cheered and hugged on her baby sister. She couldn't wait for Harper to take this big "step" (no pun intended)!

Red, White, and BOOM!!!

We celebrated 4th of July at Jason's Grandma's house in Granite. They host an annual 4th of July get-together. Lots of food, fun, laughter, and fireworks are sure to be in store at the Looper's! We had a blast!!! Emercyn followed her older cousins around most of the time (thanks to Kaylen, Kendall, Kirsten, Melanie, Hunter, and Carson for letting her tag along) and had the best time!!! And Harper enjoyed playing outside in the big yard! This girl loves being outside!!! Maybe next year she can try to keep up with big sister!

Jason and his dad (Grandad) took Emercyn fishing at the creek. Jason bought Emercyn a pink Barbie fishing pole, and she thought she was in Heaven! She absolutely loved it!!! This girl loves to fish!!! Jason's cousins Ryan and Carson joined them on their fishing trip!!


I also brought home some sand plum juice (thanks Nikki, Staci, and Sandra!!!) to make some homemade jelly!!! Mmmmmm!

And of course, we took the annual 4th of July hat picture!!!! :) It just wouldn't be 4th of July without the hats!!

Twins!!!!!! :)

Jason's sister Marci, who lives in Central Asia, had twin baby boys a little over 3 weeks ago in Thailand (June 25th). Josiah David and Hudson Jay were several weeks early, but they were born needing very little help from oxygen! Yay!!!! They were both around 5 pounds, which is pretty impressive for how early they were. They got to "go home" this past weekend and are doing great! Marci and Brad also have a little girl named Lydia. She and Harper are just a month apart in age. She is 16 months old. We've been told that she's taken to her baby brothers very well and seems to enjoy them. :)

We are so excited to have nephews and can't wait to meet them in person!!!!!



Congrats Marci and Brad and Big Sister Lydia!!!! We love you!!!