A happy ending to a tragic week

Last Tues. Sterling found out that at 6am Mon. they were coming to rescan his inventory (a kind of reassurance that nothing else is missing after they fired the guy that guy that stole everything).

So he was at work from thurs thru mon from 5am to anywhere from 6pm to 9pm). To add to that on thurs morning when he was leaving (at 5am) he told me goodbye, i heard the garage door go up, and then i hear a thud!!! I decided to just lay there for a minute and see what came next. Sterling came back in to tell me that the garage door had buckled inbetween two panels and it had ripped all the screws out on the roller. Thus....no garage door.

Luckily on Friday Sterling found someone that would sell us JUST the garage door for a pretty cheap price and they delivered it in 1 hr. Fabulous, we think we are doing ok, sterling is gone alot, but after monday everything will be fine, he can put up the new door.

Well, It was also my weekend to work and I borrowed a Michael Jackson Number One Hits CD. from my friend at work so i can burn it to my ipod. Well it was late going home on sat. night and i knew sterling was asleep so i couldnt call and talk to him, so i decided to put the cd in my cd player. It went in.....and wouldnt play and wouldnt come out, NOTHING.

I decided i would just get online and try to buy the cd. Yep, still sold out everywhere!! I would have had to buy her 3 cd's to make up for all the songs that were on the one cd. My only option was to pack Emma up and go to Sterlings work and have him take out my radio (i have a built in 6 cd changer) and then take apart the cd player to get out the cd. Ok, but remember he is at work and has to help customer so this takes over 1 hr. and we are at a car parts store, not fun for mommy or baby.

To make this long story short, CD recovered, radio put back (no cd player though), inventory went great and Sterling didnt lose his job, and the following is Sterling dancing to Michael Jackson while putting up the new garage door, because who can not get up and dance to Michael Jackson.

Emma's favorite things

Before Auntie Em moved out, Emma use to LOVE to go in her room and get into all of her purses

Emma's newest trick is to go into rooms, shut the door completly, scream at the top of her lungs, and then when you come open the door, give you her biggest smile!!!

Unroll the toliet paper and then pull on the empty roll with all of her might until the spring comes loose and she can wear the cardboard as a braclet.

play on her new jungle gym. she has actually learned to climb up the slide all byherself.

and of course the number one thing is to open the dryer and pull all the clothes out and carry them throughout the house. (if only she could fold!!!)

Las Vegas

So a whole week ago (i am becoming a horrible blogger) we got back from las vegas. Sterlings little brother (he is single!!) took some amazing pictures and i just wanted to share.

This is Emma playing with her new choochoo train her Grandma got her. All she wanted to do was STAND on the seat.
This is one of my favorite pictures. It really captures her everyday just hanging out, i am just a happy kid face.

One day we were bored and Emma needed to let out some energy so we took her to a park. Luckily for Emma her Uncle Steven took her down the slide (he is single also!!!!) He and Emma love each other to death, although she did NOT love the slide.

At the same park the had a spray park, so we let Emma just walk around in and she could not have been happier.
I love this picture it shows that she just loves the water and is not afraid to get in and get wet.

(Please notice the cute girl behind Emma....she was more then double the size of Emma (who is in the 90th % for her height. I asked that little girls mom how old she was because she was really cute and wanted to be friends with emma.......You will never guess she turned 2 the day before this picture!!!!!)

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.)