Over the 4th of July we spent a few days at our Sister-in-law Heather's cabin in Island Park. I am not sure why we do not have any picture. The most amazing thing that happened there was that we managed to get Cyris in the water and he liked it (after a while)!! He even played fetch in the water like a real dog!!
Our friends Mike, Whitney and Macaroni Hardin visited in the middle of July and we had fun weekend. We went on a whirl wind day driving through Yellowstone and home through the Tetons and Jackson Hole, went to Jefferson Lake, and reminisced about our collage days (haha that makes us sound old). Emmett was in his car seat for the better part of 14 hours when we went to Yellowstone and he only lost it right before we stoped in Jackson for dinner. Basically Em is awesome!
Whitney helped toughen up Em's outfit even more
Em the sous chef baking a cake for the Hardin's arrival
August
There is an awesome carousel in Rexburg. 
Maybe Emmett with agree that it is awesome next year.
We went on a 10 day Koontz family vacation to Bedford PA and Washington DC. It was so fun to hang out with my famliy and go on a little adventure.
Emmett and Pappy enjoying some swing time
Our traditional corn husking party. Even Em got in the action.
We ate, and ate, and ate all my grandma's wonderful food
We helped bake rolls and sugar cookies
Thanks for the fun time grandma!!
In DC we went to the National Archives and had a tour before the archives opened. It was awesome to be in the gallery with the Constitution and the Deceleration of Independence with no one in the way!
We went to the Air and Space Museum
The Natural History Museum
Walked along the Mall
And one of the days ate at Fado's, the most wonderful pub in existence!
After our fun vacation it was back to our daily routine, but with a toddler it is certainly never boring!
Thankfully carrots can be rinsed off
This little boy LOVES bacon!
Best Buds!
Mom's sous chef
Emmett thought Cyris was board so he brought him all of his toys
Em's sunglasses finally came in the mail and he loves them so much he has to wear them around the house. Em and daddy are expert block builders,
as well as best buds
oh have I mentioned that these two are also best buds :)
September
The most exciting news, I am officially graduated! I finished up the last edit and turned my thesis in to be bound!
Emmett's big accomplishment, potty training!! We have moved on to wearing underwear! He loves it! His motivation to sitting on the potty is his potty watch which plays a little song when it is time, and M&Ms. He gets some when he sits on the potty. Today was our best day yet! He would start to pee and just make his undies slightly damp then stop and run to get me. He would then sit on the potty and finish peeing!! There was only 1 accident I had to clean up off the floor in the 4 hours he was in undies! He even kept 1 pair of undies dry for 1.5 hours. His record for most undies was 3 pairs in under 30 minutes. Today when it was time to put a diaper back on for naptime he was very angry and still wanted to wear his undies! We are excited about getting out of diaper and into undies!
