4 MONTHS IN REVIEW...

Yes. I said it 4 months! Gee I said last post I was going to do better but life happens... so we are just going to give you some "snipits" of Emma's past 4 months...starting with December

This year was our first visit from our Elf on the Shelf Ellie....boy was she a sneaky little something.

Emma and Kinsley at our annual Christmas Ornament/Exchange dinner at Aunt Sue's and Uncle Mikes's ..ALWAYS a good time with family.

Just doing a little coloring

Personally I don't think she could be any cuter!

Emma made a trip to Baby Land General, for her very first Cabbage Patch doll...Welcome to the family Libby Elaine.

We had breakfast with Santa with family at Grandma's work...and this is also a great shot of the gravel burn she has from her BIG wheel chair accident at school :(

Time to watch the Hephzibah Christmas Parade!

And now to Granny's for the Reindeer Games!

No Reindeer games would be complete with out pulling "Santa Poppa"  in the sleigh! Gotta love Granny's imagination.

Granny's imagination at work again, playing in their tent outside.

Ready for more family for Christmas Eve fun at our house.

And who needs neighbors and friends when you have a porch full of cousins to play with ...pretty lucky girl I would say.

And they ended their day with a cousin ride on the golf cart.

Christmas morning with a brand new kitchen from Santa means...

that the perfectly good little kitchen goes to Kinsley for another round of good use!

And then the LONG trek to Grandma and Grandpa's for more Christmas morning fun..

Love these two~

To round out the year we got a visit from some of my besties from school days...and their sweet kids!

This pic was too cute to leave out.

And as you can see not much puts a bigger smile on Emma's face then her big cuz JT

Emma ended out 2011 with one of her favs' Madelyn at the  Shipwrecked Chipmunk Movie and..

a get together with our house with our closest family and dearest friends

What a Blessed 2011 we had!!

Our 2012 got off to a rocky start, my Papa passed away right at the beginning of the year. Even though he lived a long, fruitful and wonderful life it does not making losing a member of your family any easier...the not so good news just seemed to keep coming in from there. BUT we are family who perseveres and believes in the power of prayer, we face our battles head on and move ahead. We miss our Papa dearly...Emma refers to him as her Strawberry buddy...but we know he has joined those of our family that have passed before and is looking down grinning at the hard time Emma is giving us with all her sassiness and bossyness every day.....

And here is a good shot of the "sassy" Emma got her hair cut at the begining of the year.

And her and Jeremy attended their first Daddy Daughter Date and Chik-Filet, minus the dressed up Cows...which was not such a hit with Emma... they had a really good time!

And I could not wait for them to get home to tell me all about it...Jeremy is a #1 Daddy in my book!

Grandma and her girls waiting on the Valentines Party to start...

And here are the Valentine Cuties!

Two of the sweetest friends a girl could ask for...Emma is one lucky girl!!

In March we took a long weekend family vacation to Tybee....

Emma loves the beach...such a beach babe.

Two peas in a pod...

Looking rough afer a long day at the beach and ready for bed

Building Castles in the sand...

We celebrated St Patricks Day at the beach.......

And there you have it a quick look at our past 4 months.....got this all updated just in time for us to head to Disney World for the week.... Our count down calendar is at 2 days!!

Blessed beyond measure....

Three Months Behind!

I can not believe it is has been 3 months since I last updated our blog, and posted some pics! Life is just spinning by with all the holidays.....I sat down tonight intending to do a complete update....but looks like I will only get you through Nov tonight...pics are updating slow and I am wiped!

So here are just a few snapshots of Emma's November 2011

 This year for Thanksgiving we took a trip to Pigeon Forge, a big change for us but was nice to get away...needless to say the only Turkey the girls ate this Thanksgiving was the cupcake one we bought at the store!

 Aunt Lib bought Emma a matching tractor shirt to Kinsley's and made them the cutest hair bows!

 We took a stroll up in Gatlinburg while we were there

 The scenery outside our condo was great and we were able to have our own "photo shoot" with Kinsley and Emma

 Can you say cheese?

 And here they are again in their matching Gobble Gobble shirts...to celebrate the holiday with a drive through Cades Cove

This picture is priceless to me...Kinsley's personality is shining through!

 We went to a small winter carnival where Emma rode the spinning bears, carosel, ferris wheel (where I was holding on to her so tight I pratically squeezed her insides out, she actually told me when we got off Mom lets just go back to the bears you won't be scared on that one!) BUT nothing could top her facial expressions from the slide with Daddy!

Dolly Wood proved to be just as much fun for her! She drove me and then her Dad all around the track!

And then came the free fall ride....look at her little tiny self....not sure who was more nervous for her ...Emma, Lib or Jeremy. They both had a very tight squeeze on either hand! When she went up all you could see is her little legs dangling!

But she was all smiles...here you can see the death grips from Lib and Jeremy

 And what were Lib and I thinking when we put these 2 together on this ride by themselves, it was all good till they put the little girl in the "back seat" of their duck..Kinsley kept turning around to see her and Lib and I were standing on the side saying make her sit Emma DON"T let her get up...so it was Emma's turn to put the death grip on Kinsley!

And here are the girls with the best Grandparents ever!!

So there is our November in a nut shell...promise to update our Christmas before Easter :)

Pumpkin Time

We had our first visit ever to a pumpkin patch today. After a Crackerbarrel Breakfast with Grandma, Libby and Kinsley we headed over to pick our carving pumkins. It was alot of fun and leant itself to some great pics of the girls.....