Next up...Emory turns 3!!

The Birthday girl and her baby!

Watching airplanes with mommy and daddy

Chase: "who sent Emory gifts?"
Me: "umm actually those are all from us."
Chase: "Erin!"
Me: "well, she's an only child!"

Her birthday was on a wednesday (our lifegroup night), so Miss Amanda, our babysitter, made Emory a birthday cake and we all sang happy birthday! She loved it!

Singing to her at her party on Saturday at the park. Hiding in Ms. Tara's arms.

Courtney loved the cupcakes!!

It was a little cold and windy...ok, maybe a little more than "a little" cold

Emory with a mouth full of cupcake and Kolton

Emory and Jayden, her buddy from school

Sunday we had a party in Birmingham for the family. Much easier this way!

Dude and Gabriel and Haley and Shawn

Tripp with Sam

Sammy...look at those big blue eyes! Love this boy!!

Opening gifts!

Payton helping Emory blow out her candles...that cake was YUMMY! Thanks mom for getting it!

So Emory got to celebrate her birthday for almost a solid week. Chase and I were able to take off that day so it was all about Emory. She wanted to eat tacos and go watch airplanes so that's what we did. The weather was beautiful that day which made sitting in the back of Chase's truck watching for airplanes, quite pleasant! Later that night we had our weekly lifegroup meeting and of course Em's birthday didn't go unnoticed. Thank you Amanda for making a cake for Emory! Saturday was Emory's birthday party for friends. We had it at Charlie Daniels Park in Mt Juliet. It was a great idea because then my house wasn't destroyed, but it was freezing! It wouldn't have been so bad if the wind hadn't been so fierce. Needless to say it was a quick party, fun but quick! Saturday, immediately after the party was over, we headed to Birmingham. A friend of ours was making his rounds before he left for his second tour in Iraq. Since we were going to be in Birmingham that weekend anyway, we decided to have a family party at my parents house Sunday afternoon. It was a great weekend celebrating the birth of our beautiful baby girl!! (new post below)