Birthday Surprise

Last month over my birthday weekend, Josh surprised Emmy and I with a little surprise getaway. Josh and I both love Columbus, OH and over the past few years whenever we needed a little break from the tough stuff, we'd make the quick trip over there. So this time, he decided we should go for a fun reason. My last two birthdays were so hard....we lost a little one within a day or two of my actual birthday. So this year, was the best birthday ever :) Here are a few pictures of our weekend in Columbus, we went to the Science Museum, which was amazing, swam in our hotel pool and went to one of our favorite restaurants. Thank you Josh & Emmy for making this birthday so memorable, I love you both so much!!!

Playing dress-up

Emmy has always loved playing dress-up, so I couldn't help but share a few of her recent favorite outfits. The last two pictures are of Emmy and Zane, one of her friends at Miss Carol's house. She almost always has a different, fun outfit on when I pick her up after work. So cute! Love you Emmy Jane!!!!

 

 

 

Emmy & Zane at Miss Carol's :)

 

 

What a year this will be....

   

After an amazing holiday season, filled with precious time with family and wonderful Christmas traditions, we are excited for this new year and everything it will bring. I apologize that it took us so long to update, but we have been waiting to share a very special surprise. As you can see from our pictures above, the year will be full of new blessings for our family :) Telling Emmy the news that she is going to be a big sister will forever be one of our favorite memories ever....We'll continue to post updates on how things progress, much more frequently this time, I promise! So, to catch everyone up to speed, things are going absolutely wonderfully this time, we are a little over 18 weeks along, and our little addition will be here in June!!! Please keep all FOUR of us in your prayers!!! ;)

Breakfast with Santa, Part 2

Here is our picture with Santa from the breakfast and Emmy's penguin hand print craft. They both turned out SO well!!! :)

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Breakfast with Santa

I can't believe another month has flown by! We were so fortunate to get to spend time with family over Thanksgiving and now here we are getting ready to celebrate Christmas in just a few short weeks!! Well this week we started our Christmas preparations by putting up our tree, decorations, lights, and stockings. And today we went to our very first "Breakfast with Santa" held at Josh's parents' church. Emmy had so much fun, and we did too! We had a big pancake breakfast, then met Santa and got a picture with him and a present. And then they had three different crafts for the kids to do. It was such a great little event! Or should I say big...I think our whole town was there! :) We'll get to pick up our picture with Santa and our special animal hand print craft in a few days but in the meantime here are some pictures of Emmy making her Christmas crafts. So cute!

Making our "Reindeer Food" :)

Picking out our animal for the hand print craft

Emmy picked the penguin, we can't wait to see how it turns out!

Making an ornament for our tree

3 yr pics!

We were fortunate enough to have Shannon take Emmy's pictures again this year. Shannon has been taking pictures for us since Emmy was 6 months old so it has been fun for her too to watch Emmy grow and change. And this year was especially fun as Emmy entertained us with her super cute poses she came up with all on her own! Enjoy these pics of our precious girl! We love you Emmy Jane!

 

 

 

 

Zoo Boo!!

Earlier this month we were able to enjoy our yearly tradition of meeting Lacy, Melvin and the boys for an afternoon of fun at Zoo Boo at the Indianapolis Zoo. Grayson was Captain Hook and Oliver was the cutest Peter Pan. Emmy got to wear her Rapunzel costume which made her SO happy!! They sure looked cute and had a ball together!