Emery is 1!!

Happy Birthday Emery! And happy it was. We could not have asked for better weather to celebrate Emery's special day. I was busy baking 80 cupcakes and a giant cupcake cake for Emery, thank goodness I had a great friend's help, to make sure her birthday was extra sweet. Emery had a wonderful time playing with her friends, opening presents, and eating sweets for the first time. I still can't believe a year has passed and my little baby girl is one. Frank and I could not be more in love and thankful for this last year with Emery. We are blessed and only pray and look forward to many more wonderful years. Such a happy day!

Can you find the garden gnomes? For Halloween we were the Garden Gnome family and it was so much fun. Emery was a sport wearing her gnome hat and slippers. We pushed her on her tricycle and she was more than happy to take the candy. Of course the candy was for Mommy and Daddy:)

Had to share the pumpkin patch pics of my gorgeous girl. She had fun playing with the pumpkins.

Happiness to all!

Emery is 11 months!

Is everyone as excited about this cool weather as Emery and me? It is so nice to go to the playground and not come home soaked as if we were at a splash park. I am so excited to break into Emery's fall outfits. I put her in a velvet skirt the other day and a long sleeved shirt and my friend said you do know it is still like 85 degrees outside? I then started to feel a little bad when I saw Emery's rosy cheeks. Oh, the sacrifices for fashion:)

We had a great family vacation to Asheville, NC. We hiked (see poor Em stuck on Daddy's back, she did fall asleep every time she was in it), picked apples at the apple orchard, shopped and visited the amazing Biltmore Estate. Emery had a blast and was a great traveler, minus being a little under the weather.

So she is 11 months now and sprinting. She is so fast, we are constantly on our toes keeping up with her. She is very silly now; making faces, pretending to be a teapot when we sing the song, talking ( saying dog, duck, truck, ball), kicking the ball, playing chase, blowing kisses, showing off her teeth... okay I will stop there but I could go on forever. She goes into the kitchen cabinets now and finds her favorite toy... our handheld strainer. She will walk around the house with the strainer like it is a stuffed animal.

We are looking forward to her 1st birthday and celebrating with family and friends.

Emery is 10 months!!

Is anyone tired of the Texas heat? We are just trying to enjoy the summer and somehow stay cool. We took Emery to the Austin Children's Museum and she had so much fun exploring all the activities. We have been busy with 1st birthday parties for all Emery's friends and have started thinking about the fun things we will do to celebrate her big day.

Emery has been walking for 2 weeks now. It is so cute to see her with her Frankenstein walk coming into the kitchen to see what I am up to. She still opts to creep sometimes (mainly when Mom or Dad asks her to show off her walking to friends or family) but she is doing really well with her walking. But she hasn't mastered walking in the pink cowgirl boots that Mom puts on her. We made a trip to Walhburg to listen to polka/country music and she had fun on the dance floor. People couldn't get enough of her in her pink boots.

Emery is very funny. If we ask her where our sweet girl is, she will tilt her head to the side. It is very cute. She loves to play like she is going to sleep and have us wake her up. She loves riding her airplane scooter at Grandma's and still loves to give big kisses.

Wish for a cool fall!

Emery is 9 months!

So we are just a short 3 months away from Emery's 1st birthday. It is so crazy how quickly time passes and how many happy memories can be made in a relatively short period of time. Emery has filled these past 9 months with fun, laughter, and above all immeasurable love. She continues to be the light that brightens my day, seven days a week!

She is into everything and I mean everything. We are constantly following her around and seeing what mischief she is getting into. She usually looks back once to see if we are on her tail and if we are she kicks it into turbo gear. If she is feeling bossy, she will hold up one finger and shake it at us and give us a look that says "You better not come get me". She walks now holding on to one of our fingers, climbs the stairs in record time, climbs up the slide, waves hi and bye, makes a little piggy face, and loves to give long, wet kisses.

She still lets me dress her up and loves to model. As you can see from the gorgeous tutu photo shoot. She also is geared up for UT football season and already can demo UT is #1! Really we have been teaching her to say she is turning 1.

All the best!

Emery is 8 months!

So our sweet baby girl is now 8 months and looking less like a little baby! I just cannot believe how time fly's and how much Emery has grown.

What is she in to? Everything that is not a toy. She headed towards the stairs the other day, where she usually just stands, and all of a sudden just started heading up like she had done it a thousand times. So baby gates need to be installed ASAP. She has taken a step here and there but not walking as of yet. She has a very nice tan since she gets in the pool just about everyday and she love hanging out in the cool water just floating around.

If I had to pick one word to describe Emery's personality it would have to be sweet. She is just a lover. The best is when she is in her Daddy's arms and she just lays her sweet head on his chest and looks so perfectly content. She laughs, loves to clap, throws and catches a ball, says Mama/Dada/hi/bye bye. She is just the best.

Emery is 7 months

So I haven't been as diligent with my blogging but not without good reason... I am too busy chasing Emery! The little lady is crawling and into everything. Before she was an efficient crawler she was already pulling to stand (first discovered when we turned our back and turned around to find Emery standing in her crib) and now that she is mobile she wants to pull-up on everything and see what she must get her hands on.

We have been having tons of fun jumping from Spring to Summer. We had a nice day trip to Fredericksburg, walking around the wildseed farms, having ice cream down town, and hiking Enchanted Rock. Emery had a great time looking at the bright flowers and enjoying a nap on Daddy's back while we hiked to the top of the rock. It was a beautiful spring day.

Emery loves swimming. She is such a girl. I put her in her float and she relaxed back with her head on the cushion and just sunbathed. She already has a nice tan forming. She looks too cute in her bathing suit.

So we are loving our very blessed life and thankful everyday for the gifts we are given.