Flower Girl

Auntie Holly and Uncle Cory got married this past weekend. It's hard to believe that it's been almost a year since they got engaged. We were SO THRILLED when Holly asked Emily to be a flower girl in their wedding.

At the Rehearsal Dinner, Holly gave Emily a pearl necklace to wear for the wedding day. SHE LOVED THEM. Grandma JoJo made the adorable dress. Please enjoy the pictures of the big day!

Emily-ism

(Not the best quality of a picture, but I just like it)

I am LOVING all the new words and phrases that are becoming part of Emily's vocabulary. She makes us laugh so hard.

When doing something she shouldn't be doing and we catch her...."look around mommy"

When she wants me to scratch her back..."fingers mommy"

When calling her sister closer to her...(in the most southern accent possible) Ken lay, come here Ken Lay

When pronouncing "w" in the alphabet song...duck-u

When hungry..."my mouth hurts" or "my tummy hurts"

If you were having a conversation with her right now you would hear that she is going to be Belle for Halloween, that she will be a flower girl throwing petals, that she is almost three and if she goes potty she'll go to school. We hear about each one of those subjects at least once a day, but if I'm being honest, most of those subjects are touched at least three times a day.

Apple Pickin'

We woke up to a "cold" day and decided it was the perfect day to go to the mountains for apple picking. We got the girls dressed in their long sleeved shirts and jeans, hats, socks....the works. When we got to the farm and got out of the car we were slapped with heat. Thankfully, I had sunscreen in the car! Emily refused to take her hat off. So, I guess she had the spirit of fall within her!

Oh Kinley

You sure give me a run for my money. You are quite the social bug. If anyone is in the room with you, you'll give them a smile. If they leave the room you are quick to cry to get them to return.

You took your first crawl "step" on August 21st and now you are a crawling pro. You get into absolutely everything. Your favorite is shoes. I feel like you have a completely different gear when you see a shoe in your path.

You pulled yourself up on the couch for the first time yesterday. You were quite proud of yourself. You had a HUGE grin and even chuckled to yourself.

You still don't love to sleep. You like to eat okay and we were hoping that the food and crawling would help you sleep, but it hasn't helped yet.

You've been working on your upper teeth for a couple of weeks now and you finally cut them this morning. They are huge and look quite painful. I'm so sorry boo...

Gone Campin'

We went camping for the weekend with our dear friends the Parlas. It was SO hot, but the kids didn't seem to notice the heat. They kept busy jumping in the bounce house, playing in the pool, riding bikes, dancing at all of the campground festivities and cruising on the scooter.

Joe, Brian, Kinley and Henry (babies were born just two days apart)

Check out those rosy cheeks!

My morning view coming from our "bedroom"

Breakfast time! Emily got her helmet on so she could play as soon as we finished eating.

Sisters loving each other...

Emily and Oliver after dancing their hearts out.

GOOD MORNING, MOM!!

Kinley 7 Months

Not to be outdone....Emily needed her picture taken too....

Hard to believe my baby girl is already seven months old! She's been working on a crawl for a couple weeks now. She gets on all fours and rocks back and forth. She has crawled a couple of "knee steps" for a few days so I know we are super close to crawling. She rolls to anything and everything. She loves to explore. I'm assuming that I will lose 15 pounds. ha! She's all smiles and giggles though, she loves everything!

She has two bottom teeth and she's currently working on her upper teeth---which I think means that there is a long night ahead of us. I wish I could say that she is sleeping perfectly through the night, but that is not even close to the truth. She is up 2-3 times a night and every once in a while every two hours. Brian usually tries to rock her back to sleep, but she wants me and won't stop crying until she has me. Ugh. I joke because I prayed that Kinley would be a little more snuggly than Emily, but I forgot to pray that she would sleep! I keep telling myself that this is only for a matter of time.

Tonight was my night to rock her to sleep. I had some lullabies playing and I found myself choked up as I listened to the tune:

Goodnight, my angel

Now it's time to dream

And dream how wonderful your life will be

Someday your child may cry

And if you sing this lullaby

Then in your heart

There will always be a part of me

Bloglogged--a mostly picture post

Carrots---First veggie---not a big fan

Eating Tofu with chopsticks on daddy's birthday

Birthday Boy!

Joe, Alisha and Brian all turn 30 within a few months of each other and we took an impromptu cruise together.

Ensenada Mexico

Probably not the most flattering picture, but I had so much fun on this slide.

Love her!

I'm sure they'll hate me for posting this picture, but they look like a cruise ad

My groom and me.

Palm Desert

Grandma and Grandpa with all of the girlies

Kinley loved the pool and Grandma/Grandpa loved Kinley!

Papa Johnson's visit with Kinley for the first time. She loved the snuggles!