Friday, October 28, 2011

goat cook-off 2011

Every year on Labor Day weekend we head to Brady for time with family, dove hunting, and the Goat Cook-Off.  This year we were so excited that you were with us to make this trip.  It was a fantastic weekend with some great friends & family!  Em, we are so blessed by our sweet sweet friends & family.

You love the ranch. You love your Nee Nee and Pops. You love driving the jap wagon. You love Rebel.  You love water, Aunt Grace and your daddy.




















These are sweet days that I don't ever want to forget.  

love you-
mom

Children's Museum

Em-
My goal is to get caught up with this blog soon....very soon...like this weekend or early next week.  So let's get started....August & your first trip to the children's museum---you had a blast! Here are a few of my favorite pics of our trip.  















you are the sweetest thing in the world! 

i love you-
mom

Thursday, October 20, 2011

on the go

our days have been so busy, sweet girl.  we have visited nee nee & pops, been at both the W.A. Ranch & the C-M, New Braunfels to meet Miss Brinlee Faith, the State Fair, pumpkin patch....did I leave anything out?

you are so precious, and growing up way to fast.  i can't believe i've started thinking & planning your first birthday. where did time go?

 you are now 9 months old & have the sweetest personality.  you are scootin' & tootin', as your dad likes to say...you are into everything.  i can put you down in the living room to play & go put a load of clothes in the wash & you are by my side in a matter of seconds.  you pull up on everything, and you love to walk around the coffee table.  you love standing at the back door and talk to rebel. you have the sweetest voice.  you have a TON of hair.  it really amazes me at how fast it grows too.  it's brown, thick, and sometimes unruly!  you have this new thing...you love to rub your hair with both hands.  most of the time it's when we are eating or you are really sleepy, but it's so cute! you eat any & everything-we haven't found anything that you don't like.  you have two new top teeth that you got last week, and two others are about to break through.  i love your toothy smile.  just this past weekend you started blowing raspberries.....hard core raspberries!  it is so funny, because you concentrate so hard and your face turns red & the spit flies!  it's precious.  maw maw & paw paw gave you an early christmas present this past weekend----a wagon.  you.love.it!  we are going to have a lot of fun in that wagon.

you are in a clingy phase right now, which i have a love/hate relationship with.  i love that you want to be with me.  and i love seeing those little hands reach out for me when someone else has you, but i know that you've got to learn to be independent.  yesterday, i dropped you off at the nursery at church so i could go to Bible study and as i was exiting the preschool area i could hear you scream.  broke. my. heart. they said it didn't last long though.  i also had to leave you with miss brittany yesterday so i could go to physical therapy, and you did NOT want me to leave.  i know this phase will pass, but that cry just rips my heart out.

emma grace, you are the most precious child.  i love you more than you will ever know.  God has blessed us with you and i'm so thankful that He chose me to be your mom--WOW--what an incredible job!  you are so loved!

my cup runneth over!