Audrey Faith

Our beautiful new addition arrived April 23rd at 10:34 am. She weighed 6lbs 13.5 oz, was 20in. long, and is absolutely perfect. Emmalee is totally in love with her and so are we. I realize now more than ever how truly blessed I am, and have spent everyday of the last week thanking God for two beautiful healthy girls and praying that I can be deserving of them.

Birthday Girl

I can't believe Emmalee is three years old today. It seems like just yesterday that we were preparing for her arrival and here we are now with her baby sister on the way. She has grown so much and I am amazed very day by how smart and beautiful she is. When I look at her I can still see that tiny little baby I held for the first time three years ago. She has taught me so much about love and faith and I know that I am truly one of the most blessed people in the world. I am completely humbled by the fact that God chose me over everyone else to be her mother and my greatest prayer is that I can prove myself worthy of that honor.

Sneak Peak

We aren't finished yet, but I wanted to give you a sneak peak of Audrey's room. (Her bedding is ladybugs). We still have to put up the chair rail, hang the curtain, put all the furniture in place, on and on and on. But we still have about ten weeks so that is plenty of time, right? Not to mention that I still have to pull all of the baby things down from the attic, get them all washed, and put away. Time is really flying by, but I can't wait for her to get here!

Gone Fishin'

While I was doing laundry the other day, this is how I found Emmalee. She informed me that she was fishing in Travis's boat. She has only been fishing in the boat one time, but she really enjoyed it. She has been fishing at the pond with Daddy several times and it is one of her favorite pasttimes. I am so glad to have a little girl who is very girly, but also not afraid to get dirty!

Christmas

Emmalee working on her list for Santa on Christmas Eve. New Pink Recliner

Doll House

New Baby Doll with a meme (pacifier)

I have been so bad about posting lately, but here are a few pictures from Christmas. Santa was very good to Emmalee and I wish I could say he brought her everything she asked for, but considering she was adding to her list right up until Christmas Eve, including asking for dog food (not sure about that one), there were a few things that didn't make it under the tree. She did get the things she has been asking for the longest, like a doll house, a new baby doll, and Wall E. She also got a new pink recliner to watch movies in her playroom, and a Fisher Price digital camera. I am going to start adding some of her pictures to the blog. The world through her eyes is quite interesting. Adam was off nearly the whole time I have been and we have all really enjoyed our time home together. We were very blessed in this past year and I am excited to see all the wonderful things this new year has in store for us!

Uh Oh!

Ok I know I said in my last post that I was going to change my layout to something festive, but I seem to be having problems with my home computer, hopefully not a virus. So bear with me and I will get a new layout, just don't think I am crazy for putting up the plainest background and saying I was being festive!

Finally a New Post!

I am finally after weeks and weeks taking a moment to sit down at the computer and give everyone a little update. I feel like I have been going non stop since the beginning of October, or maybe even before then. I have 37 preschoolers right now and when I get home I am usually just exhausted. We have been visiting with my family every weekend for the past month, I think, so it feels like I haven't seen anyone in forever. It is hard when all your family is out of town and sometimes I wish we lived closer, but we are very happy where we are and I would never want to give up our church and our wonderful friends just for the convenience of being closer. It is hard when we are traveling so much, but we get to visit with them pretty often, and we talk everyday, so we are still very close.

I have decided to go all out and change my blog layout and everything. I am starting to feel very festive. This is one of my absolute favorite times of year and I am really looking forward to the holidays. Hope you enjoy it!

Nothing much is new with us, Emmalee is getting so big, and she thinks she is bigger than she is. She begged to have her ears pierced so we did it, only to have one of them get infected 3 weeks later. It was looking great and healing fine and then all the sudden it was really red and swollen. The doctor said it just happens sometimes especially with little girls who touch their ears with dirty fingers. So, we had to take it out and let it heal up. The other one looks beautiful though! We are planning on getting it repierced as soon as we can so she doesn't have to run around with one earring. We also moved Emmalee into a twin bed. Adam was hesitant, but I insisted she was big enough, and she was sleeping in a toddler bed with a crib mattress, so we figured it would be best to make the transition now instead of trying to explain why we were taking her bed away when her new baby brother or sister gets here in May (did you notice the new ticker?). We are SO excited and feel very blessed to have been given the opportunity to be parents to a new little life. I feel like being Emmalee's mother is the reason I was put on the Earth and I am sure I will feel the same way about the new one. And Adam, who doesn't usually share his feelings about things, tells me often that being a daddy is the most impotant thing in the world to him. Boy or girl makes no difference, we are just praying for a healthy little baby.



So now that you all have eye strain from staring at your computer reading this novel, I will wrap this up with the intentions of posting more often so I don't have to do this again!