Winter Musings

Ok, It's started getting cooler. Can you say Yahoo!! With the Summer being soo hot the cooler weather is a much welcome change. Time to pull out the winter clothing again. Emma was going through a HUGE growth spurt last winter that all her winter clothes are to small. She had only been home a little while and was still catching up developmentally where she needed to be. She has changed soo much and the growth spurt seems to have slowed down a bit. One of our wonderful playgroup Mom's has loaned us some winter clothes for Emmie. Her daughter Alana is not quite Emma's size yet. THANK YOU DEBBY!! I have added some pictures of Emmie last year and this year so that you can see the change. I am soo happy to she her so full of life and growing and yet so sad as well. I finally understand my mother when she said. "Your Heart burst with love on one hand to see them grow up and breaks a little at the same time" I love you Mom and wish you were here to see my wonder full daughter. I know that you are with God in Heaven watching over us.

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A Hidden Treasure

Yesterday my sister, Emma, and I went to Jesse Jones Park to check it out. The park was really a neat place. It has a wonderful Pioneer Homestead buildings that Emma just loved walking around. She had blast just walking through the trails too. It was nice to take a moment to slow down and enjoy the day. Here are some pictures...

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Sarah's Birthday

Well today is Sarah's birthday but yesterday we attended her birthday party. Emma had a great time and got lots of candy. (thanks Aunt Sherri lol) It is such a joy to watch Sarah and Emma together. Just when you think you have those two girls figured out, they go off and change things. I thought for sure because of their age difference Sarah would be more interested in her friends and Emmie would feel a little left out. See Sarah is 7 as of today and Emmie is 3 and 1/2 years old. Boy was I wrong. =0) Sarah was so excited to see Emma yesterday! She came running across the park and nearly tackled her, while Emmie giggled the whole time. Then Sarah made sure to include Emma in everything her and her friends were doing. What an awesome older cousin Emma has. It is amazing to watch Sarah grow up. I believe that I was about the 3 rd person to hold her after she was born and now she is vibrant, funny, loving, active girl. She has filled my heart with so much love and truly made feel that I wanted to be a mommy. She has accepted Emma with every once of her being and is rarely jealous of her. (all kids are of each other at some point). I am so fortunate to have a wonderful friend in Sherri and awesome God Daughter in Sarah Gale. I have added some pictures of Sarah's Day below.

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUG!!!!

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Pumpkins Patch and Petting Zoo's Oh My!

Well we went to our first carnival of the season last weekend with our freinds from the play goup. Boy did Emma have a blast. She just loves being with the girls! I really do enjoy watching the joy on thier faces when they get together. We adults had a ball too. Emma got to meet her first "actual live" monkey. The monkey's name was Mango and was at a petting zoo/pumpkin patch that we went to after the carnival. Mango seemed to be very courious about Emmie. She actually reached out and grabbed Emma's nose. It was so neat to the courousity on Mango's face and the sheer terror on Emma's. (lol) Then my daughter asked "Mommy is my Moe in the car?" I guess she prefers stuffed monkey's to real ones. Well I have attached some pictures from our trip. I hope you enjoy them.

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Pumpkins Guts!! Ugh!!

Yesterday my sister called and said that she wanted to decorate pumpkins with Emma. My first thought was Great but Yuck. You see I have a pumpkin carving aversion. I don't like doing it. There I admitted it!! I feel like a murderer when I have to pull all thier guts out. Yeah, I know I am wierd. Anyway, Janet came up with a really neat idea on how to decorate pumpkins. Last year Emma was home with us for Halloween but she was still very unsure of everything. Needless to say tha Halloween just went a little over her head. Not this time! She loved decorting her crazy pumpkin. She laughed and smile and I think I had the most fun that I have ever had pumpkin decorating. I have added a small slideshow of the results of our pumpkin decorating. All I can say it our house is going to be the talk of the neighborhood.
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