Memorial Day Weekend and more...

Memorial Day weekend started off great- we went to a pool party at Zach and Steph's. It was our first swim of the "season" and I was anxious to see how Emerson took to the water after a couple of months "off." She was a rock star... We had the best time. Steph and Zach are always the most amazing hosts.

Sweet Emerson in her new swimming outfit. My BF Carrie O.


Emerson and her BF Audrey.

Audrey was trying to sneak Emerson a kiss... She thought it was hilarious.

Phoebe got in on the action.

Fun with dad.

We left the pool party early to go to Red Oak for the weekend. It's always the most relaxing, fun time. Emerson and pretty Aunt Sarah.
I thought this was a good shot of her curls...
Mmmmmm...
A bite to eat with Grandma Wood.

I put on Yo for her while I get ready for the gym and she'll start off watching by the couch and just inch her way closer and closer to the tv. Wow. This is how I found her the other day. See K-Mac- we all park our kids in front of the tv!!!

Last Friday Jonathan, Amber and Ryan and I took the kids to the Family Golf Park for some mini golfing. I wasn't sure how Emerson would do but she did great. Oh, PS, she's walking now! She just started about a month or so ago. It's awesome to see her getting around like a big girl finally!

Jonathan showing Will how it's done.

Doesn't Will look like such a big kid??? Love that guy!

Sweet Griffin's view.

So I worked tonight but Ryan took Emerson to Drew and Shawna Testerman's house to hang out with the gang (the Grice's and Brown's) and Ryan told me that Emerson saw Will as she was climbing up the stairs in Drew and Shawna's house and she walked straight over to Will with her arms out saying "Wuh- Wuh!"- (Emerson speak for "Will.") She went right in for the hug. She loves her big cousin Will- so priceless...

The Little Apple

We went to Manhattan last weekend to visit the Yoders and watch some baseball. The game Saturday was great- the weather was perfect. Kelly is a much better baseball wife than I am- I got pretty antsy as the game went into it's 3rd hour... I can only keep it together for so long... Anywho- we also got a new fancy camera so we've been playing around with it. Hopefully the pictures we take of Emerson will be a whole lot better!

Hence, the super-duper close ups...

Sitting so lady like- we've got to work on that...

Brandon at work. Ryan isn't at all jealous that this is his job.

Blue Steel.

So cute!

Emerson dancing for us.

They were pretty dirty after the game so we gave them a bath- okay, Kelly gave them a bath, I took a million pictures...

LOVE this one!

Playing after their bath. We put the girls to bed and they both slept great.

Wrigley checking out Emerson on Sunday afternoon before the game.

Thanks for being such great hosts, guys! We'll have to do it again soon!!!

Mother's Day

Mother's Day was a great one this year- we visited Brandon and Kelly Yoder in Manhattan and then drove home for dinner with my family. I'll post the Manhattan pics later but I just wanted to say congratulations to Katy and Aaron Zimmerman- Mother's Day doesn't get much better than that! I was at Brandon and Kelly's when Katy went into labor so Kelly lit one of her tea lights for me.


Happy Mother's Day mom! I love you!

My Blogiversary

It's today! I started the blog a year ago- so glad I did! It's been fun keeping all of Emerson's fans up to date. Ryan and I had a date night last night going to Makenzie and Dave's wedding. My mom had Emerson all night- she went down at 9:30 and my mom had to wake her up at 10 to go to church. She did awesome...

The wedding was SO much fun- it was great being able to spend time alone with my sweet husband. The wedding and reception were at the Longview Mansion- I'd never been and it was absolutely beautiful.

Hanging out during the cocktail hour with Jocelyn.

Some of my favorite ladies!
Our place settings.
Solah sisters on the dance floor.


Here comes the new married couple! Don't mind me...
Oh my gosh- the truffle bar. Those were long gone but their monogram was etched into the ice sculpture. It was awesome.
Having fun on the way to Power and Light on the trolley after the reception.

Ryan and the groom, Dave. Me and the beautiful bride!

Hanging out at P & L. People just started applauding wherever they were walking around- it was awesome!Christina, Mazenzie's friend, was a hoot!

Now on to Emerson, of course. So her new favorite show is Yo Gabba Gabba, or "yo" as she calls it. I resisted the show at first because it's so far out there and wierd but she LOVES it. And Jack Black was on an episode so it can't be all that bad... This is how we spent one of our nights last week. Oh, and she's sitting in Will's chair she calls "Mo." (Short for Elmo...)
This t-shirt was mine when I started dancing at Cathy's. It's vintage. I'm hoping to get her started dancing there maybe this time next year...
Still watching "Yo."


We watched Will for a couple of hours last week and they had a little lunch at the kids table...

Oh my gosh, this picture is priceless. They were watching Cinderella and Emerson went over and laid in Will's lap. Ugh- seriously. Cuter.