Emilee's 1st Birthday Party

We had a really enjoyable evening with our families celebrating Emilee's first year. She seemed to have a fun night and we enjoyed watching her be the center of attention (she is definitely more like her daddy in that area). Happy Birthday sweet Emilee! We cannot believe how quickly your first year has flown by, we look forward to watching you grow into a little lady.


Getting ready for guests to arrive.

Our living room transformed into a dining room for our taco soup dinner. We had to sit at tables seeing that 9 of our guests were age 5 or younger!

Emilee's birthday banner

The big girl!

Dad, mom, Gracie and Allie (our neighbor)

Mike's mom (Ginny), Casey, Luke and David in the background

Emilee tearing into her gifts!

Reading a card.

Penguin cake!

Harrison danced next to her while we sang Happy Birthday!

We were trying to get her to blow out the candle but she didn't :)

Deciding what to do - Ava knows!

I think she liked it!

Definitely liked it!

I will rethink black icing another time!

Ava

Max

Harrison

Leeland

Luke


Happy Birthday Emilee!!!

South Carolina Snow 2011!

Mike woke me up at 4 am to see this. It was beautiful - but it took me forever to go back to sleep because I couldn't wait to get up and go play with the kids in the snow!

January 10, 2011 Cooper and Amos are not fans of snow! I couldn't even get Amos to come out in it enough to get his picture!

H and E in a southern sled :)

Emilee loved it - for about 10 minutes and then she was ready to go in and get warm! She lasted longer on the second day!

Don't we look like we were ready for a big snow! We were except that E has socks on her hands and H has on rain boots - oh well - we still had fun!

January 11, 2011

Harrison throwing snowballs at me!

Look at that face - he is trying so hard to cover me with snow!

Emilee's safe spot - the Radio Flyer

She didn't last in there long - she wanted to get in the snow like her big brother!

Our make-shift sled!

They LOVED it!

Mike had to leave for Detroit, Michigan today so we will see if I can get them both outside by myself again tomorrow!

Happy New Year!

Welcoming 2011 with sparklers!

Snow!

It was very exciting to have snow on Christmas this year!

Christmas time early 1980's Christmas 2010 (Emilee's First Christmas Snow)

Christmas and Zoo with the Masters

Opening Christmas presents with the Masters. Max, Emilee, Harrison, Kate and Jake

Does anyone else think this little thing might have some attitude!!!

Emilee with her friend Kate.

We took advantage of a day with some warm weather and went to the zoo with the Masters. Here is Harrison and Emilee on the lion.

All of the kiddos

Watching the leopard walk right in front of them! You can see it between Max and Harrison.

Everyone riding the bear. Emilee was not happy about it!