Future Texter

She even knows how to get the phone open without help now! I still say she's not getting a phone until she is 16!

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Aunt Katie's in town

We spent Saturday at the lake.

Of course she would rather play with BOTH cell phones then get in the water!

Emory's new obsession is the sidewalk chalk.

She really loves to draw and color now.

Katie thought our sidewalk needed a little AOII...what sidewalk doesn't!?

Crawling down the hall...notice the cracker that Emory is refusing to let go!

Emory thought it was so funny when Katie would crawl around with her.

Katie has been in town since Thursday afternoon and we have had a great time. Thursday we shopped and then she was so nice to keep Emory for us for our anniversary date. Friday was the zoo with Kate and Garrett...picnic included. Saturday we went to the lake. For the last two years we have lived within 10 minutes of two HUGE lakes in the Nashville area. Only twice had we been to enjoy them, today was the second time. I think we decided to make it a regular thing now. The water was a little cold this trip, but Emory has inherited her daddy's love for the outdoors! She was perfectly content sitting on the blankets watching the "wawa" and waving to the people that drove by on the boats. It was very relaxing and nice to be out in the beautiful weather. Tonight Chase went and spent some time with a few guy friends at some race thing and Katie and I watched Harry Potter. I have been trying to get The Twilight Saga off my mind, so Katie and I decided to focus on Harry Potter, seeing as how the 6th movie comes out in July! This afternoon we watch the second movie on DVD and tonight ABC Family had the 3rd movie on with previews for the 6th movie. I know, I know...dorks...but it worked...now I am wrapped up in Harry Potter again and I can handle that for now! HA! At least I own all those books and can read them again!

We have REALLY enjoyed Katie being here and have been trying to convince her to move to Nashville, live with us, and attend Vanderbilt...sorry Mom and Dad... but you will be happy to know she's not going for it! :) Emory has enjoyed Katie being here so much she has even started saying her name...over and over and over again! HA! We've had fun Katie...can't wait until the next visit!!

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Play date at the Zoo

Watching the lemurs.

The lemurs

Snack break.

Garrett watching the alligators.

Tiger cub...that's 6 months old!

About to go to Africa.

The Giraffes. Katie took A LOT of pictures of the giraffes.

Emory had to wave to all the animals too!

Posing with the elephants

It's been a while since we had seen our friends Kate and Garrett, so Kate I set up a play date at the zoo this past Friday. We didn't think that is would be that busy at 9:30am on a Friday. However, we went on "senior day." Who knew SOOO many senior citizens were interested in the zoo!? We had a great time and Emory really enjoyed seeing all the animals. Every time we would see something new animal she would gasp and say "oh." It was so cute! I think we will be buying a zoo membership next summer!

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I heart Sonic Happy Hour

Two large slushies for $2.27! So good!

Memorial Day Weekend

Uncle Forrest playing with all the babies. Blue was showing Emory where her eye was!

Preparing for dinner...grilled corn...yum!

Bennett loved wearing Chase's hat.

Emory riding the jet ski with dada. She wasn't to sure of it at first.

Heading out to ride.

Aren't I cute in my life jacket?!

Last weekend we had short but fun trip to the Martin's lake house. I was on-call Saturday morning so we weren't able to leave until around 9:30. Technically I was on-call until 1pm, so I was praying I wouldn't get called in on the trip down. Anyway, we spent most of Saturday hanging out with Chase's family and spent the night at the lake house. Sunday was our Memorial Day celebration. There were 9 adults and 3 children and we had enough food to feed twice that many! Ha! We had a great time and enjoyed spending time with everyone!

4 Years and Counting

Chase and I celebrated 4 years of marriage yesterday! It has been a WONDERFUL and fast fours years. Katie came to town to spend sometime with us, so Chase and I took the opportunity to have a date (a rare thing these days). I have been craving sushi for a while so we decided to try a new place downtown call Ru Sans. It was OK. The techno music blaring in the background was a little annoying but the sushi was good. We followed dinner with a movie, Angels and Demons. It has been a while since I have read the book, I just remember liking it better than The DaVinci Code. Overall the movie was pretty good. It was nice to be able to get out and spend quality time with each other. It was a great date night and has been an amazing 4 years! Happy Anniversary Chase! I love you!

13 Months

For whatever reason, I forgot to write a post for Emory at 13 months. We were at the beach so that had something to do with it, I guess. Anyway...

Here is what we've been up to:
-She has been saying a few more words. She can now say "Mama, Dada, Papa, cat, dog, 'side (for outside--while pointing to the door), and few others that I am having trouble remember right now. oops.
-Every time she has ever dropped anything, I have always said "uh-oh" but not until we spent the week with Payton did SHE start saying it too! Now I think she drops things just to say "uh-oh"
-She knows where her eyes, mouth, nose, ear, belly, and toes are and will point to them when asked.
-Still not walking but she is cruising and transferring from the couch to the coffee table. She is a very cautious child, so I don't think she will be walking too soon. She is a quick walker when she is holding onto our fingers but as soon as you let go of one hand, she stops. We'll get there.
-She LOVES reading. She is pull out any book, magazine, piece of paper, anything...sit down, cross her legs at the ankles and start "reading" out loud to me. Pointing to the pictures as she reads...too cute!
-Animal Sounds: most things sounds like a dog "woof" but she will wrinkle her nose and sniff when you ask her what a bunny rabbit does and she will "moo" for a cow. She "woofs" at the dogs ALL the time. Anytime we are outside and she hears a dog bark...she "woofs" and says "dog."
-She has cut at least three new teeth since turning a year old...two molars and a front bottom tooth.
-She is not a picky eater and LOVES to eat, as evident by the size of her thighs! Some of her favorites right now are Goldfish, yogurt melts, bananas, pears, apples, peas and carrots, peanut butter...told you she was a good eater.
-She has become VERY independent with her eating as well. She will eat anything if she can pick it up and feed herself (which makes for a messy mealtime). She prefers the whole banana instead of little bites and whole pear or apples slices.
-She LOVES to be outside and I think she would stay out there 24/7 if I let her!
-She is in a MAJOR mommy mode right now!

We have had a great time watching this little girl grow and she is becoming more independent every day! We love you Emory!

Beach 2009

So I have completed the Twilight series and as promised I am going to post beach pictures. I must admit, I have not been able to stop thinking about the books...crazy, I know. Chase is still reading the fourth one so I can't even talk to him about it!! Although, as my friend Sarah said, "they are good, but they did nothing for the Harry Potter shaped hole in my heart!" With that said I believe that I am going to re-read that series now...from start to finish! I had already made plans to read the 6th book again since the movie is coming out in July, but why not read them all?! Anyway...here's the beach as promised! WARNING: there are A LOT of pictures! :)

On Our Way...that cup holder stayed filled with snacks ALL the way there!

Emory loved that yellow crate. She would go an pull everything out almost every night.

Ready for the beach!

Payton and Emory with Katie before nap time on the first day.

Picture night...you can't go to the beach without taking pictures like these!

The pictures below are the last day at the beach :(

We had a wonderful time and can't wait until next year! Thank you Nita and Papa for a great beach trip! We love you!