Emily, this is your birthday and you deserve a birthday brag/post:
My sister, Emily, is Everyone's favorite friend. I will talk to her and she is going to a dinner party, or organizing a game night with friends, or going to a playgroup, or the zoo, or out walking, or exercising, or going to Las Vegas or out to dinner or on some vacation with friends. She doesn't judge anyone and loves everyone. She's the everyone's favorite sister, too. She keeps in touch with us and stays interested and involved in our lives (mine and Amy's) and she is everyone's favorite daughter (at least she thinks so!) and daughter in law.
She is My reality show guru! I can be sure to get the "who's-who" of reality tv from my sister. She's not ashamed to admit that after a long day of errands, cleaning, raising kids and husband, she can settle down for some no-thinking-laughing-at-those-people-showing-their-life-for-all-to-see-reality-tv-show-gems.
Emily Is THE BEST mom. I'm sure everyone out there would agree that Em would do anything and does do everything for her family.
Do you know that Emily Loves to exercise? I loved growing up having two sisters who really like to work out hard and enjoy the health benefits and just plain fun of exercising in all forms. Once Emily decided she wanted to do a marathon and railroaded a bunch of us into doing it together. I think her attitude about a marathon now is, "been there-done that". When I was 16 she took me to the "spa" with her for a visit, and I left a member of that spa. She just loves staying active and fit and that's very cool.
You are so beautiful. It's possible that she is a tad bit vain but you can be when you have those looks to back it up!!! (teasing, Em, really I am) She really is just beautiful inside and out and she is spiritually beautiful, too. How lucky it that?
She is Always up for a game. You can pretty much always count on Em to play whatever game you want. She has already taught her kids to really love games, too. We know that when we visit family in utah there will always be late nights of Mormon Rummy, Yahtzee, Scrabble, Settlers, Scattergories, Hand and Foot, or some new game that was introduced to the family that year.
I have recently been finding out that Emily is a Numbers girl. Really. She says, "it's kind of wierd but I really like balancing my check book and figuring out finances and numbers and stuff."
With Emily, there is Never a dull moment. Swimming, drives up the canyon, skiing, game playing, barbeques, picnics, Wii with her kids, going to see U2, blogging about her life, attending her kids and nieces and nephews activities, visiting family, church callings, temple, having mike do the next project, family dinners, dreaming of the next vacation, brightening someone's day...sheesh, this girl is bizz-ay! and she wouldn't have it any other way.
Emily is so very Down to earth. She doesn't take herself to seriously. She has a really funny sense of humor and she laughs at your jokes, even if they're dumb. She even laughs at herself when she says something pretty dumb (like the time she thought that it was shorter to drive from California to Missouri (if you went through St. George) then from Utah to Missouri. (I couldn't resist adding that Em...I just couldn't)
Emily is Easy going. I know Easy going and Down to earth are pretty much the same, but as I write this I just think that those are such important qualities she has. Nothing ever seems to bother her. We went on a vacation to Chile, once, and while we were navigating the potted streets of a Chilean village and wondering where the next stop was, I'm pretty sure she was just sitting in the back watching something on the ipod. I also remember everytime we'd go on a family trip she'd just fall asleep till we got there. Just easy, easy, fo-sheezy.
If you know Emily, AT ALL, you know that she is Always planning for the next vacation. She's been everywhere and wants to go everywhere else. She loves being with her family, extended family, sisters!, and just her husband. She'd go from vacation to vacation if she could.
and...Emily is Neat, in every sense of the word. She is Neat in that ultimate old-school compliment way you used to catagorize your friends when you were a kid. But she is also Neat and clean and tidy. Her house is perfectly clean and in order almost all the time. Everything matches and there are perfect little accessories all around.
Emily Dean, I hope you have an A+ birthday. We wish we could be there with you on this big day, but it sounds like you may have a hard time fitting us into your busy "birthday week". Love ya. (p.s. will this be too long for your blog book??)
Mike surprised me with this blanket.
I got my Blog Book....HURRAY
Mike surprised me with this blanket.
I got my Blog Book....HURRAY
Here's to MANY more birthdays...BRING ON the next "38"!!!
Here's to MANY more birthdays...BRING ON the next "38"!!!
