Mother's Day 2010

This year we stayed at our home and it was so nice!! We had a wonderful weekend all together. Sunday I woke up to roses in a vase and cards on the counter. Chase made French toast for breakfast, then we headed to the late service at church. I am reminded each week how much I love our church! We spent Sunday lunch at 5 guys, then headed home to play outside in the beautiful weather!! I won't bore you with all the details of our day but we had a WONDERFULLY relaxing day.

I LOVE being a mother! Emory is the most amazing little girl and I am so blessed to be her mommy! This is by far the hardest, most exhausting, wonderful job I've ever had!! :) Thank you Emory for making me a mommy! I love you with all that I am!

Nashville Flood

As many of you know, Nashville was hit pretty hard last week by LOTS of rain, 13 inches to be exact! All the rain brought significant flooding, where there were little creeks, they became raging rivers, the lakes filled and threatened to spill over the dams, and the Cumberland River resembled the Mighty Mississippi when it was all said and done!! Luckily we were spared and had no flood damage, but so many people were not. Nashville, however, was amazing! As soon as the raining stopped people were out helping where ever they could. Many people helping strangers. The devastation the rising waters left behind was astounding. To see the pictures doesn't give it justice. Chase took a few Sunday evening when he had to go check on things at work.







What kills me is that Wednesday, I got off work early so I went to pick Emory up from daycare. However, it took me twice as long to get there because the way I usually go was still very much flooded!! Crazy! Chase said the Volvo dealership by his office had cars piled on top of each other Monday where the water had just moved them around!! Despite all this, Nashville has been so positive and everyone has been willing to help out anyway they can!!

2 Year Stats

So this is a little late, since we went to the doctor about three weeks ago!! Oh well, better late than never!

Weight: 29lbs 4ozs, 40th percentile
Height: 34.5 inches, 25th percentile

As far as what she's doing...everything! Her vocabulary astounds me some days and the things she can comprehend amazes me. Now, we might be a little partial! She loves to cook in her kitchen (as I type she's telling me she's making pancakes), color, work puzzles, and read books. Everything is a cell phone and she "talks" all day to her grandparents! I'm so glad the weather as gotten better because she LOVES to be outside and would spend all day out there, however, the bugs love her too! She's just too sweet!

It's been awhile...

So the weekend before the flood we had a grown up game day planned with Kate and Baxter. Originally the plan was to come to our house and hang out there for the day. We switched to Kate and Baxter's house last minute because there were tornadoes predicted for Saturday, and they have a basement. Little did we know the weather that weekend was going to be mild compared to what was to come!! Anyway. The idea behind these days are to run the kids until they are exhausted, then put them down for a nap and then we get adult time without interruption. It is great!! We usually get about 2 hours of game time and adult conversation before the kids are up and ready to go again.