Birthday Party

Here are the pictures from Anna's party on Saturday. Here's the birthday girl. Anna we had a great time!!! Thanks for inviting us:






Here are my favorite pictures from the party. This is the round circle they were holding onto that I mentioned yesterday. See Emily's little head poking over the circle:And here they are running in a circle where I thought Emily was going to lift off of the floor and fly!! Emily did a great job keeping up. Look at her go!!!! She was running REALLY hard:

Christmas Party

We had our Christmas Party last night with our Sunday school class. We had a great time! We had an ornament swap and the kids enjoyed picking out the ornaments as much as we did. Don't we all look groovy:
Saturday morning we went to Anna's Birthday party and had so much fun! I forgot to bring my camera so hopefully I can share a couple later when Carey uploads her photos of the party. It was at a place where the kids could jump on a trampoline or slide down the slides, etc. The host at the facility had the kids play some games and Emily kept up with them pretty well (all the other kids were 3 and 4). There was one time where they were all holding on to a circle and the guy had them run around . . . I thought Emily was going to take flight because the kids were running so fast . . . but she kept up with them and only fell when she tripped over a foam block on the floor. The adult guys decided it would be fun to try to jump as high as they could on the trampoline and dive into the "pit" which was a big hole filled with big foam squares. I thought they were all going to hurt themselves. . . .they all looked a little stiff Sunday morning!

Saturday night Joe and I went on a date! A guy that his company sends business to gave them each a $100 gift card to a nice restaurant in town. We decided from their website that it wasn't very kid friendly so took it as an opportunity to go out! Our friend Leslie came over to babysit. We had a nice time.

Emily woke up at 4:00 this morning crying for some milk . . . I gave her some and she went right back to sleep . . . and is still asleep right now! Hope she wakes up soon or my schedule is shot for the day : )

Visiting Santa

We went to visit Santa tonight. We talked him up all day today to see if Emily would sit in his lap. But as we guessed we all got to be in the picture with Santa : ) Santa almost didn't make it in the picture! Emily enjoyed seeing Santa and loved walking thru the mall:
And Emily is still enjoying Bud's pallet. Doesn't he look thrilled that she is sitting next to him!
I also finished Emily's 2nd pair of pants tonight. This time I added eyelet lace to the bottom of these. I'm now going to attempt to make a top to match the pants!

Lots to Blog

I have several pictures to share of our activities over the last several days. First off, on Friday morning I was putting on my makeup, and just like any other day, Emily was going thru my makeup bag to open up everything and look at it (and try to put a little blush and eye shadow on her cheeks). This time she tried to put on my eyeliner:
This weekend my brother Robert came for a visit. Here is a picture of Emily and Uncle Robert:

Saturday night we ordered Chinese food and Emily decided to help herself to the rest of the rice:

We also got Bud a new warm pallet to snuggle in. Before he got a chance to try it out Emily gave it a try:
On Sunday afternoon, Emily and I drove to Auburn to attend my department's Christmas party on Monday. We stayed with Bonnie on Sunday night. They have more dogs in their house than people . . . and Emily loved it! Bonnie dressed the two smaller dogs in their Christmas outfits:
Here's Emily running in the front yard with Cocoa:And here's their gargantuan bulldog, Dre. We didn't let Emily near him in fear that he would sit on her : ). During the party on Monday Dre did jump up on one of the chairs to join us at the dining room table . . . that was pretty funny!

Here are the fabola people I work with (Ray was sick so he's not in the picture): Chris, Mike, Felicia, Pam, me, Bonnie. Thanks for a great party today!!!

Dinner

Last night LeAnn and I went to the Dinner A'f@re. You prepare 12 meals to take home and freeze. We split the meals and the price. This is the second time we've done this and we had a really good time. Now I don't have to think about what meals to prepare next week . . . yea!

Here we are at one of the food stations with our groovy hats and aprons:

And here are some of my meals in my new freezer!!!

Reindeer

Emily's class made reindeer hats the other day and Emily wore the hat for the rest of the day. She also asked me to sing the "reindeer song" over and over. I wasn't sure what song they sang at school so I sang "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer" and that seemed to work for her.

Here she is playing with her makeup purse and reading thru the mail wearing her hat:

Yesterday we were watching Elm0's world and there was a scene where a bulldozer was about to dump dirt on Elm0's head. Emily stood up on the couch and got all anxious and even started to cry a little because she was afraid he was hurt. He shook off the dirt and started laughing and she smiled and calmed down . . . too funny!

Thanksgiving Weekend

Here are a few pictures from our visit with Family during Thanksgiving:
We put our tree up Sunday night. We bought an Elm0 ornament for Emily and I gave it to her yesterday morning to put on the tree. She didn't want to put him on the tree though so she has been carrying him around the house. Yesterday at lunch she fed him some cheese and apples. This morning before school she had to kiss Elm0 goodbye. What a hoot!!!

Here she is thinking about putting him on the tree . . . but then she said "No" and walked away with him: