She's Sitting Up!!!

Well, for the most part! She is doing so good! Charles caught a picture of her tonight while she was playing with Emily's "driver". Santa Claus brought this toy to Emily her first Christmas and Ashley really loves it! She is sitting up pretty well. She still goes forward some, but is working so hard on it! She did eventually crash to the left, but she is making so much progress! I can't believe it, she just looks so big sitting up!!! Sorry it's fuzzy!!

Climbing the Tree

So apparently somewhere along the way, Emily has learned that trees can be climbed! The other day when she was outside playing, I look out and she is in our little pecan tree! I said what are you doing and she said "climbing the pecan tree Mommy!"! So, here she is! The pink mower was her "step stool" to get up there!

Our Growing Girls!

Here are just some random, cute pics I have taken the last few weeks!

Ashley enjoying her Bumbo Ashley enjoying her walker!

Ready for church one cold morning!

So cute!

Ah :)

Emily's favorite thing to do, play dress up!

Halloween 2009

We had about a week of Halloween this year! Here goes!

Halloween #1 - Party at Tarah's
On the 23rd Tarah had her annual Halloween Party. Well, maybe not annual, but she has had it 2 years in a row now :) Daddy was off work that day and got to go with us, I know he was thrilled! It actually worked out really well because he took care of Ashley while I took care of Emily. It was so cute to see everyone dressed up! Tarah had put a strobelight in the garage and played kids Halloween music (Scooby Doo was their favorite!) in the garage! They had so much fun out there just dancing around! Then they decorated cookies and ate lots of snacks!

Sage Lee and Emily decorating cookies

Hitting the pinata

Halloween #2 - Halloween in Ft. Smith
On Saturday, the 24th, we took the girls to Ft. Smith to trick-or-treat at the Grandparents! We went to Gigi's first! She had made a yummy pot of soup! Her and Uncle Jackie loved seeing the girls in their costumes! Emily wanted to wear hers the entire time we were there! Gigi had gotten Emily a Cinderella chalkboard and she loved it!

After that we went to Mimi and Bub's for dinner! Bub had built a fire in his fire pit and we roasted hot dogs for supper! Emily didn't want to roast hers, but she sure wanted to eat :) The girls put their costumes on for Mimi and Bub too! They were so cute! After it got dark, we roasted marshmallows and had S'mores! Emily actually roasted and then ate the marshmallow this time!

It was a long day, but a very fun one! (I only took 2 pictures the whole day, I can't believe it!)

Uncle Jackie and Emily coloring on the chalkboard!

Uncle Jackie's SO TALL!!

Halloween #3 - Trick or Treating at Daddy's Work
Charles' work had their annual trick-or-treating on the Thursday before Halloween. It really is annual :) Emily was so excited to get to wear her costume to Daddy's work! It ended up POURING down rain that afternoon, but we still had a great time! Emily's candy bag was FULL after this! I can't believe how much candy she got!! When she got home her and Charles had to go through her bag and see what all she got :) We ended up handing out all the shew candy on Halloween night, but she didn't know that :)

Our cute little bee!

Beautiful Snow White

Having to drag her bag of candy!

Halloween #4 - Trick or Treating
On Halloween we had our annual Sonic dinner! Emily had a $.50 corn dog and an apple juice slush...she was so excited about it! She could not wait to get to go trick-or-treating! When the first ones came to the door, she said "We have to go now!"! Her and Charles went around our street and Ashley and I stayed here and passed out candy! When they got back, I think Emily had more fun answering the door than she had going around!

Ready to go! Off they go!

Shelly, Emily & Ashley's Trip to Dallas

Aunt Vicky asked Emily, Ashley and I to come down to Dallas one week when Uncle Jeremy was going to be working a lot! It was kind of a last minute decision, but we are so glad we went! We just hung out with Aunt Vicky and Hadley! We did a little shopping in the POURING RAIN! Yes, we took all 3 girls shopping....I don't know what we were thinking. We were so wet when we finally got home!

We also went to a pumpkin patch down in Dallas! We met one of Vicky's friends who had to kids a little older than Emily. They just played and played so much, the older kids were so sweet to help and play with Emily! Before we met them, Emily said that she was just going to "pretend that they were her friends." When we left, she said "Mommy, they were really my friends!" So sweet!!! Thanks for the hospitality Aunt Vicky and Hadley :)

Jumping on the Pumpkin for "big kids"!
Cutie!
Emily loved playing on the big bale of hay! I'm glad she wasn't allergic!

Kay-Kay helping Emily up the big slide!

Snow White!

Cute Hadley :)

Emily

Ariel!

Carving Pumpkins

Emily just could not wait to carve pumpkins this year! So, we ended up carving our only pumpkin the night we got back from the pumpkin patch. Charles was going to carve another one for Halloween night, but we just didn't have time! Emily & Ashley both had fun watching Daddy carve the pumpkin!

We also made cupcakes after we carved the pumpkin! Emily even iced her own :)

Ready to start!

So excited!

So cute!
Look at those big eyes :)

All finished!
Spooky!

Icing her very own cupcake!
Yummy!

Pumpkin Patch

I think we picked the coldest day of the year to go to the Pumpkin Patch! We took a picnic lunch, I know...what were we thinking! But we still had fun! We thought Ashley would be able to ride in her carrier in one of their wagons, but it was WAY too bumpy so I put her in the Baby Bjorn. She ended up going to sleep, but that was ok! While Emily was looking for her perfect pumpkin she ended up falling into an old, moldy one! It was shew! She had pumpkin goo all over her and it stunk too!!! Fortunately, we had a change of clothes in the car!

All ready to go!

Our cold picnic! Ha Ha Ha This is the best!
The pumpkin goo! Searching for just the right one. Mommy & Ashley all bundled up!

S'Mores at the Moores

Our Sunday School class had it's annual S'mores at the Moores on Friday night. The Moores are actually teachers in our old department, but they were gracious enough to invite our new department to join in on the fun! They had a "cow train", hay ride and bonfire. Charles roasted hot dogs for all of us to enjoy for supper! Emily helped Daddy roast marshmallows, but didn't want to eat them! She just wanted to eat them regular! We bundled Ashley up really good, I was so worried she was going to get cold! I kept feeling her face and nose and not once did she feel cold! I think she had a good time watching everyone! Mr. Rick, our old Sunday School teacher, watched Ashley for us so we could all ride the hayride. When we got off the ride, she was getting passed around and loving it! Such fun!

All ready to go. You can't tell, but Ashley has on little pink fur boots...ahhh!

Ashley was so bundled up she couldn't put her arms down...Christmas Story anyone :) Roasting marshmallows! Pretty sad that this was the best family pic! Lily wanted to be in the pic too! And Ashley's arms are still up!

Lily & Emily riding the "cow train"!

Jeremy, Vicky and Hadley's Visit

Vicky, Jeremy & Hadley came to visit one weekend! Since Vicky's not working, they are a little more flexible to travel...yeah! They came on Friday and spent Friday and Saturday nights with us. We had so much fun just spending time with them! It was definitely wild with 3 little ones, but everyone survived :) Mimi, Bub, Grandmother, Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Le, Uncle Buzzz, Aunt Becky & Uncle Bob all came over at one point during the weekend so we had a weekend of family! It was great!

On Saturday morning, Charles, Bub and Emily went to a pancake breakfast at the Fire Station in Fayetteville! They said it was really good, they had pancakes and bacon! Emily got to sit in the Fire Truck and they gave her a hat!

Showing off her new hat!

The babies!
Aren't they cute :)

This is such a bad pic of all 3 of them...it's cute :)

Here's the good one!

Our attempts at getting a picture of the babies!!!

(Hadley's thinking Ashley's foot looks pretty yummy!)

(What's going on?!?!)

(You're not going anywhere Ashley!)

(You're wanting us to both smile at the same time...what?!?!)

(Ashley says i'm outta here!)

Cute Hadley in Ashley's exer-saucer

Emily had to help with Hadley's bath!

Hadley the Panda :)