Sterling & Meadow's Birthday Party

On Saturday we went to James & Adrianne's house for Sterling and Meadow's birthday party. Sterling turned 3 in July and Meadow will be 2 in September! They had a Madagascar party with animals everywhere! I just can't believe how big our babies are getting! Emily had a great time! They have a big wooden swingset that she just loves to play on! They had little pools set up for the kids to play in! All of the kids sat at a little table to eat their pizza, it was so cute! Sterling had dropped the box of cupcakes, but they were still yummy! It was a great party!

Opening presents!

Concentrating so hard on the pinata. It's really hard for 3 year olds to break a pinata!Can I please have candy?

Emily & Hadley's "Sip & See"

As if there was not enough going on the weekend of Emily's birthday, Mimi and Bub decided to take advantage of having Vicky and Hadley here and held a "Sip & See" Sunday afternoon to introduce everyone to the girls! It was great to see all of our friends and family in Fort Smith. All of the girls were troopers :) Of course the best time to do something like that is in the afternoon right during naptime, but everyone seemed to be well behaved!

It is so fun to have all 3 girls together! It is especially neat to see Ashley and Hadley together! I can't wait until they can interact with each other, it will be so cute! I made the mistake of putting the girls in the same dresses that we had recently had their pictures made in. We used one of the pictures for Ashley's announcement and sent several people pictures of the 4 of us together! So, needless to say, yes, my girls do own and wear other dresses than the pink and green ones seen here :) I just happen to love them! Charles happens to not love the, but that's ok :)

Emily, Ashley and I stayed in Ft. Smith for a few days with Hadley and Vicky. Charles has to come back home to work, I guess someone has to around here :) We had a great time! We had the girls' pictures made at Penney's one day! They did ok, it was very hard to get all 3 of them to cooperate at the same time!

Family Pic!

My sweet girls!

Vicky & Hadley

Her so cute :) Sorry it's kind of fuzzy!

Riding the Merry "Ge" Round at the mall!
Bub on baby duty :)

Emily was dying to hold Hadley and finally got to!

Emily in her new bunny towel!

Cool shades!

The babies!

Happy Birthday to Emily! (Party #2)

On Saturday, August 8th we had Emily's family party at our house! We were so excited that everyone got to come, including Aunt Vicky and Hadley (Uncle Jeremy had to work...boo!). We had lunch of sandwiches, chips and fruit and then we had cake and ice cream! Again, Emily got more than she could have ever asked for! It was definitely a Cinderella party! She picked out a castle cake that turned out REALLY cute!

The night before Daddy had put together Emily's swingset that was her present from us. She thought he was mowing the yard, but he was really out there putting the thing together! It's the first of many things that Daddy will have to put together :) So, on Saturday morning we let her go outside and see it! She loved it and during the course of the day I think everyone had a turn swinging her on it (she made sure of it)! Since then, when it rains, she informs me that God is watering her swingset :)

Happy Birthday to Emily! (Party #1)

We decided to have 2 parties for Emily this year, a family one and a friend one. I don't know what we were thinking, but that's what we did :) Well, we were thinking that it would be WAY too many people to have one party for everyone! We had her friend party on Friday, August 7th at Chuck E. Cheese in Rogers from 12:00 to 1:30. She invited 17 friends! So we had a really great group! We had a great time! Emily had decided that she wanted a Disney Princess party, so that's what we did. We also let her pick out her cakes for the parties (we maybe helped a little :). She picked out a crown made out of cupcakes for this party. She got lots of wonderful presents and had a great time! Thank you to all of her wonderful friends!

Grape Festival

So, as if we needed something else to do this week (Bunco Thurs. night, Emily's party Fri. at lunch, SS party Fri. for dinner, Emily's party Sat. at lunch, Sip & See Sun. in Ft. Smith!), we decided to head out to the Grape Festival tonight. Charles LOVES going there and the Fair and now so does Emily :) I, personally, think they are just really shew and dirty, but they have such a fun time I guess it's ok (we just come straight home and take REALLY good baths!).

We met up with Lance, Tracey and Lily, got the girl's their armbands and hit the rides! Emily and Lily rode everything together. They were so CUTE! I was glad Lily was there so that we didn't have to ride all the kiddie rides!! Plus there were a couple that you had to be over 36" but under 48" so it worked out perfectly! Lance and Charles were on ride duty and Tracey and I visited and watched...a pretty good division of responsibility if you ask me :) Oh yeah, and I had Ashley in the Baby Bjorn and Tracey is 7 months pregnant :)

We also saw Gary, Tarah, Jack and Jacob. They walked up while Emily was riding a ride. It took her three times around to realize who it was we were talking to. Every time she came around she would just look. Finally, on the 3rd time, she said "Tarah and Jack"! It was cute!

Ready to go!

Terrible picture of me, but the only picture of Ashley (kind of!) at her first Grape Festival!

Yummy...grape ice cream!

Emily participated in the grape stomp! She wasn't exactly sure what was going on!

What's going on in there?

Hey, this is fun!

All done! With lovely feet to prove it (definitely a Daddy idea!)!
Her face says it all :)

Advancement Sunday

Today was Advancement Sunday at church! All 4 of us went to new Sunday School classes! Ashley went to her first day in Sunday School in the Babies class! When Emily started in the nursery we had just joined the church and didn't know any of the teachers. It was a lot easier to leave Ashley this time because we knew everyone in there! We didn't get paged at all and when we went to pick her up they were just standing there watching her smile...it was too cute :) They said she hadn't been put down since we dropped her off :) I love her teachers!

Emily moved to the Two's-Two class! I was kind of nervous about dropping her off! Our friends Layne and James have been her teachers for the last 2 years and she was having some issues with the fact that they wouldn't be her teachers anymore. We have been talking about it for a week now and Layne took the kids last week to the next class to meet their new teacher! Well, Miss Sarah and Miss Shannon were prepared and had Play-dough out as the kids arrived. Emily walked right in and sat down at the table and started playing! We said "Bye Emily" and she said "I need hugs and kisses!" I thought, "Oh no, she's going to start crying!" But she gave each of us a hug and a kiss and went right back to the table! I was relieved and sad at the same time...she's such a big girl!

Charles and I moved up to the "old" class :) We are now in Adult 6, which covers the ages of 30-39! Oh my goodness!

All dressed up and ready to go :)

Such a big girl!

First day in the nursery!