Happy 7th Birthday Emmi!!

7 years ago, Emmi was born!! It hardly seems like it could have been that long ago, but it was. We have had a fun couple of days celebrating her for her birthday. This afternoon, the girls and I went to the dollar theater to see Chicken Little. This evening, we had a steak and fettucini dinner. :)  

Since Josh would be out of town with the church youth Friday night - Sunday afternoon, we opened presents and had the birthday party a day early. Every present Emmi opened was "awesome!"

The opening of the awesome presents was great fun for Kezzi, aparently!!

Emmi asked for (and got) many (awesome) Hot Wheels and cars. She also got a dog that she is excited about... It has batteries, and moves and barks. I like that it won't have to go to the vet, won't have to be fed, and can never mess on the floor!

Braden and Emmi shared a Build-a-Bear party last year. Braden gave Emmi this outfit for her bear this year. 

Emmi and her best friend Braden share a birthday, so we partied together once again. This picture was taken right after they blew out the candles... Braden turned 6, not 4... you can see the candles are in the process of being removed (and licked). Braden just lost his first tooth, so he and Emmi got to share toothless grins. :)  

Here's Emmi in the apron Grandmother made for her, and wielding the spatula that came with it and the brownie mix. Emmi is quite excited about baking now, and can't wait to put the apron to the test. It looks as if she may be reciting the Young Baker's Pledge or something, but she was embarassed by the cow peeking through her apron, and wanted to hide it! 

Kezzi was full of poses for Emmi's birthday. Poor Tori didn't make it into any of the pictures I'm putting on the Internet today. I'll have to have a photo shoot soon... 

Emmi sporting the "awesome" outfit her Nana and Poppa sent her. 

Abbi's birthday is coming up next! 

Officially 7 now! 

Cougle #5!!

Here are our first ultrasound pictures of the new baby... No, we don't know yet if it's a boy or girl. ; )

The first picture is labelled... if you've never seen an ultrasound picture before, squint your eyes and use your imagination. The white dot floating above the body is a cross-section of a leg. The leg is actually attached to the body. :)

The second picture is baby's face... The whitest part is its cheek... you can see the pointy nose and a dark spot where the eye is.According to the measurements of the baby in the ultrasound, my due date is around August 1st... So, sometime in July (my kids are always early), I should be able to introduce him/her to you! 

VACATION!!!

Well, we just got back from our Plan B vacation to Austin and San Antonio, TX. Our Plan A, of course was to go to Gulf Shores with Josh's parents, but Hurricane Katrina destroyed that plan. We instead, we took a long weekend trip.

We left Wednesday night after church and drove through the night to Jesse's house in Austin. (Jesse is Josh's brother.) Thursday and Friday, Jesse showed us Austin. We got to see his office at UT, the Children's Museum and a Science & Nature Center. We ate out at a couple different places, and we got to meet Jesse's Hope Group (his church's small groups). They met at Jesse's. I was amazed we all fit in his cute little house!

I've got lots of pictures, but I tried to keep it under 30 that I posted. :) If you want to see more, let me know, and I can email some to you. You will probably have to click on the October 2005 Archives link on the right to see all the photos I've posted today. I have a couple of non-vacation photos... I put them up at the top... then the vacation begins... Enjoy!

Okay, it took me awhile to post this, but this is what Emmi's current tooth situation is. During VBS in August, she was jumping in an inflatable jumpy thing (whatever you call them) and somehow hit her mouth. One tooth popped out immediately, and the other we took out when VBS was over that night... It was barely hanging, and oh, so gross!