Emma's 1st birthday

(I am very sorry to Nana that these took a week to post)

Emma's friends that came to celebrate her birthday with her. Of all the toys at my house everyone loves this little ball popper, what cracks me up is that Emma NEVER plays with it on her own. Then we sang happy birthday, but there are no pictures of her destroying cake, because she got a little freaked out. Birthday cake, not a hit at my house (it was fine by me and sterling because then we got to eat all the cupcakes). We did try to give her another cupcake later without a candle and she still wanted nothing to do with it. Then we opened presents. Emma didnt really want to help me open her presents, she wanted to play with her GiGi or her friends. I am just glad that someone took this cute pictures with my camera (thank you to however it was). Its about all i have from her birthday that represents birthday.

After her bottle and nap, she woke up a very happy baby so we got her presents out again and let her play with them. I put on this adorable apron that Gray's mom made and she loved it. She walked around the house with it on for about an hour. Even now she brings it to me and tries to put it on. (she is become such a girl lately)

The next day after church I thought this was such a cute picture of her playing with her new toys all at once.

Thanks to everyone for making Emma's birthday sooo much fun. Be waiting for more pictures. We had her 1 yr pictures taking a few days ago and they are SOOOO cute!!!!

Butterflies

At one of the malls, was a butterfly exhibit and my mom was dying to take Emma. I figured she was fascinated with ladybugs so we would see how she did with butterflies.

It was in a tent (like the size of a 12 man tent) and their were close to 200 butterflies just hanging out on the ceiling, walls, the potted flowers. Most of them were monarch butterflies...

But a few were obino butterflies and they loved Emma's bow. they landed on it the second we walked in and we had to take them off of her when we left.
Emma had to touch every single butterfly that she saw. and she would get soooo excited when she did. i just wish i had caught the look on her face.

i thought the whole thing was just amazing. Emma loved it and i hope she did not cause any major heart attacks among the butterflies that she caught in her cute little hands.

Life as I know it....

.....IS OVER!!!!!!!!! She walks!!! She has been walking for about a week now. But i am usually on the receiving end of the Emma, so it is really hard to catch it on film. So for our Sat. night activity....catch emma walking on film.

Easter pictures

Easter weekend was kinda bust at our house. I thought it was going to be the perfect weekend (since it is my favorite holiday) but it was just ok. We took Emma to a bluebonnet field and in my head i was going to have the cutest pictures EVER!!! Well it started like this. Ok she is smiling, but the wind is blowing and she is more involved with the flowers then with looking at me. So i tried to reposition myself on the ground so i would be closer to her.....

.....but while i was moving, the wind blow a flower and it touched her foot. So now she is afraid of the flowers. And the next two pictures are the best that i got. I am going to try again this week and we will see what happens.

As afraid as she is of the flowers, she was all to excited to play with the lady bugs.

Then Easter Sunday she missed her morning nap. She wasnt as bad as i thought she would be, but she was not about to just sit and let her mama take a picture. So, I figured that any picture in her dress would be ok, It turned out ok. (Warning, this dress is probably going to be used for her 1 year pictures, since i didnt get the cute easter picture i wanted.)

Our Adventures

I am off this week and I am determined to get things done. The most important on my list is the yard. It has been a thorn in my side since we moved in, and between work and the weather it has taken me almost 5 months to finish it. (pictures to come dont worry)

I am finally to the point of putting mulch down but i ran out. So yesturday when i had sterling to help me, i thought i had the perfect day planned. When Emma woke up from her morning nap we would go to Home Depot, get the rest of the mulch and then go down the highway to Costco and get what we needed from there and then home. We have a pretty big truck and i figured hey, we will load the back up with the mulch and then put the costco stuff on the floor inbetween the front seat and the bench. Ok well they have a car seat on sale at costco and so we decided to get it along with all of our other things that ended up being more then expected.

I would like to call these pictures: "Where's Emma????"

As you can see we really needed the car seat, Emma has seriously out grown the carrier and she is only 11 months old (today by the way).

So in doing all my yard work i ended up giving Emma her Easter present a little early. I needed to put her somewhere to do yard work and she ABSOLUTELY loves this wagon.

So much has happened

So here is our life in pictures this past week:

TUESDAY Morning Sterling was home and Emma was sooooooooo happy. But daddy was outside and forgot to take his hat off when he came inside, so she attacked him like she always does.


(Sorry this picture is sideways-i am not sure what happened and it is way to late to spend time fixing it. ) Emma thinks she looks better in hats then her daddy.

Daddy leaves for work and in flies the ducks. They literally just swam around for 2 hours. Then Emma started banging on the window and they flew away.

WEDNESDAY-morning Sterling had to hurry and mow the lawn and Emma followed him from window to window around the house.

SUNDAY- oh what a great day it was. My mom just went to New York and got me this AMAZING purse, I love the color and I love how big it is. Sterling is proving how big the purse is by putting our 21 pound 29 inch long child in the purse. Hey in my eyes....throw in my wallet, cell phone, a few diapers, some wipes and since the kid is already packed in and ready go it is now the worlds perfect purse!!!

Emma has become such an entertainer lately. She loves to talk and dance and she does so many faces, so i thought i would capture a few. Dont mind my head, but FINALLY we have a picture of the top teeth.

And finally I feel like i captured her smiles that just melt my heart.

Emma at GG's

So for those of you that dont know we call my mom GG (Grandma Gunn). She just loves Emma to death, and I am pretty sure that she has probably told a stranger that this child is hers and not her grand baby. That is how obsessed she is. (she even sends Emma text messages)

On of my moms favorite things to do is to have Emma play on the piano. She thinks that if she lets Emma play it now that she will want to play it later, since all of her own girls HATED playing the piano. (I am hoping that Emma gets bored of the piano by the age of umm....2 and NEVER wants to play)
I just saw all of these pictures on my moms camera last night so i hurried to down load them but most of them are a few weeks old. GG gets to babysite Emma while Sterling goes to class and GG gives Sterling a VERY VERY VERY hard time for how she is dressed (mostly that she is not dressed warm enough) so one night when it was really really cold here this is what she looked like. (She has gloves on also, but still no coat)
Abbie lives at GG's house. But Emma LOVES Abbie and even follows her around the house saying "Ab...Ab....Ab" GG believes that Emma is going to say Abbie any day now.

Abbie does love Emma back. Know that Emma can crawl Abbie loves to get Emma to chase her. So Abbie gives her a little nudge and takes off, but the first couple of times it shocks Emma and she gets a little scared. I am sure this way funnier to my family members, but i hope you all enjoy.