Friday, April 24, 2009

What we've been up to...

A lot! A couple of weeks ago my cousin Beth and her daughter Maddie came to town again for a quick visit. They were here when Amber had Griffin so it was good timing.

Something is shocking, obviously. Her expressions these days are hilarious.

Amber pre-Griffin and Beth is due with a little boy in August.


Ryan was doing some yard work and Emerson was very interested...

We had Sunday Night Dinner and Maddie and Will thought "Peter Cottontail" was awesome.

Emerson, not so much...

Note there are four people taking pictures of the kids on the bench... I think we got all angles covered!

She'll kill me for this one... I was in a hurry and had to wake her up for her nap (which I HATE doing!) to take her to my mom's so I could get to work. I just left her hair because it was too funny to fix.

Last weekend we went to Des Moines to visit Cole and Sarah. Mike and Geri and Chris all came over as well- DM is a pretty good central location for all of us. Again, something is obviously very surprising...
This is really all we do...
Ryan LOVED this one and already has a 5x7 at work.
"It's perfect for baseball season!"

Emerson proofing and approving her pictures.

Uncle Chris goes to Iowa and gave her this bib when she was tiny. She was eating a Milky Way bar I, in my infinite wisdom, decided to give her. She was up until 3 am. Really.

This is also what we like to do - hang out in the kitchen and have a few adult beverages. I was still a bit sickly from Makenzie's bachelorette party (thanks Mak!) so I didn't drink. Cole and Sarah thought for sure I was pregnant... Nope, just had too much fun the night before!

Emerson had quite the audience when Cole's friends stopped by... What do I have her wearing, by the way?!?!?!




On Tuesday, Stacy and I took the girls to Deanna Rose. Emerson was loving the goats.

She was fearless!

She had to ride the "duh- duuuh!"

A little different than last year!

She says "muh, muh" for cow- a take on moo I suppose. It was pretty cool showing her the real thing.

Peeking at the baby chicks.

Stacy fed the baby goats some milk- she was afraid Audrey would drink it. Makes sense! I joked that Emerson wouldn't know what to do with the bottle!

SUCH a fun day!

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Easter Weekend

We had a great Easter weekend- Saturday night we went to the McLaughlins to let the kids hang out and it was quite the scene!





We were happy when Audrey and Hadleigh showed up to even out the girl to boy ratio- 3-3. Katy- you've got the tie-breaker!!!

Stacy told Audrey to give Emerson a kiss. Emerson wasn't so sure...


Katie was getting ready to give Carter a bath and the girls heard the "b" word so they had to get in on the action. They'll kill us when they're all at Graceland together.




Getting a snack after bathtime.

Emerson mooching snacks off of Jeremy. It was a common theme throughout the night.


We all took turns snuggling with sweet Hadleigh. I fed her a bottle and she slept the rest of the time!

More snacks...

Can you believe we have half a dozen kids between us?

Sunday morning we went to Walnut Gardens. Here's Emerson in her Easter dress.
Amber stayed home with Griffin but came to lunch.
Whew!


We were trying to show Emerson that there were eggs and candy hidden around the living room.
Amber led her to the loot. Can I just say how freakin good she looks after having a 6 day old???

Guilty!




Sweet Griffin's first Sunday Night Dinner (okay lunch, but whatever.) His first of many!

This is how he spent most of it...
It was great seeing everyone over the weekend- thanks Ken and Sue for hosting us! Have a great week! I'll update soon!