Friday, July 18, 2014

Family Beach Trip

A few weeks ago we took the girls to Santa Rosa Beach, Fl. We are so lucky that our best friends, the Carrs live there and let us stay at their house while they are on vacation. We had such a fun week playing on the beach and eating at all our favorite restaurants. My sister and her family was also there so we got to play with them also. The beach is my favorite place and I am so glad the girls love it too!!

Ready for the drive
Playing at Seaside with Cousins

Cora, AB, Joseph, and Emerson

attempt at a family pic

second attempt

sweet picture

sleepy baby

sleepy big girl

they loved looking at all the frogs on the porch 

sweet sisters

Love this one!

and this one

and this one

family pic on the beach

sand doesn't bother them

daddy's girls!

more playing

jumping waves

sand angels

running to the beach

beach pics

notice the ducky...

Love them

last night eating at Bud and Alley's Pizza

Emerson's face!Ha!

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Memorial Day Weekend 2014

We went to Pickwick for Memorial Day weekend! This was our first big lake trip of the summer so we were so excited!! The girls have really grown since last summer so it was thankfully much easier this year. They had a blast swimming in the baby pool, playing in the water table, floating in the new float, feeding the goats and riding the boat. Anne Bailey said "I want to live at Pickwick forever." We are excited about all the fun we will have this summer at Pickwick!

getting ready for a boat ride

the boat puts this one to sleep

and this one

They had lots of fun playing in the pool

We had so much fun playing with Gia

We love this new float 

having a dock bath

Emerson is ready to go feed the goats

No boat ride is complete until we visit Goat Island
sisters
covering daddy with bubble soap

catching fireflies


Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Silly Girls

This is my new favorite picture of our girls! It really shows their fun and silly personalities!!


Recital Week

Anne Bailey has been having so much fun taking gymnastics and ballet/ tap this year. She was very excited that it was finally time to show us all she learned in her recitals. First we had her dance recital. Her class did the cutest little tap dance. She danced so good and of course looked adorable.

Next was her gymnastics recital. This is her second year but the first without me helping her. It was amazing to see how much she has learned in a year. She can walk on the balance beam, swing on the rings, and turn a flip on the wedge all by herself!! 

We are so proud of our sweet girl!

Anne Bailey and Tatum ready to dance





Family pic with our dancer

warming up for her gymnastics recital

stretching

our little gymnast

swinging by herself


AB and Tatum


AB and Anne Cambria

walking on the balance beam

sweet little gymnast

So proud


Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Last Day or School

I have no pics from the last day of school! Unfortunately, both girls were sick with strep throat so they had to miss all the last day of school festivities.

The girls both had a great year and we are going to miss their teachers so much. We are so thankful for Ms Paula and Ms Mary Lin teaching our chatty, energetic, and smart Anne Bailey. We are also so thankful for Ms Sherri and Ms Kelli for loving on Emerson in Mother's Day Out! We love our Preschool!!

Mother's Day Tea

Anne Bailey's sweet teachers had a Mother's Day tea at school a few weeks ago. Her sweet class sang songs, counted, said the ABCs, and recited the Pledge of Allegiance. They had yummy sandwiches, cakes, and cookies! They presented us with some flowers, a questionnaire about their mommies, and a picture book that their teachers made for us. I had to hold back my tears that day because it was so sweet! I am so thankful to to be Anne Bailey and Emerson's mommy!!



Love all my sweet happies

my sweet girl

Emerson is 22 months!

Emerson turned 22 months on May 9th! She is getting so grown! It really breaks my heart that my baby is growing up! She wants to do everything big sister does so she is doing it faster than I would like. She has really found her voice and talks so much! She says complete sentences and can have a conversation with you now. It is so sweet watching her and Anne Bailey talk and play together! Emerson is such an affectionate child and loves to hug, kiss, and cuddle. She loves to run up and hug your leg when you are not looking. She loves watching frozen, playing babies, barbies, kitchen and coloring. She is learning her ABCs, colors, and can count to 5. We are amazed at how much she is learning everyday!

Emerson loves to eat and thankfully is not too picky. She loves grapes, watermelon, cheese, cereal, poptarts, Mac and cheese, chicken, rice, crackers, popcorn, cookies, and suckers. She will try anything and most of the time she likes it. She takes a 3 hour nap most days and sleeps about 10-12 hours at night. She has gotten in the habit of waking up around 2:30 and crying until we put her in the bed with us. She is such a sweet cuddler but she wants to sleep on top of me and gets mad if I move her. I know that I should try harder to break this habit but I kind of like her wanting to cuddle with me. I know this is me wanting to keep her a baby.  I can't believe she will be 2 in a couple of months! I am so not ready for her to be a toddler!!