Happy 40th Anniversary to Tom and Kathy!!!

On Saturday, we celebrated 40 years of my in-laws being married! It was a fun celebration and a house full with family and friends!

Emsleigh enjoyed playing with family she doesn't see very often.

The happy couple cutting their yummy cake.

Happy Anniversary, we love you!!!!

Random from the past few weeks...

Playing with Josiah.

We left Emsleigh with my mom multiple times over the week she was here. It was nice to know that one of those times Emsleigh was sad to see us go...

Emsleigh found the changing table pad in her closet. She pulled it out and said 'night, night.' She was serious too, cause she took her nap on the pad that day.

A video of Emsleigh in her new sunglasses. She cracks me up, so serious, yet her sunglasses are upside down.

Remembering Miriam

We are ready for warm weather!!!!!!!!!

Emsleigh's Ice Cream Birthday Party

Our attempt at an ice cream cone cake :)!

She loved blowing out her candle so much she asked to do it one more time!

New aprons from Memaw!

For activities we had people make picture frames with pictures of our friends the Watts. This was to help remind them to pray for them!

Toss the ball into the ice cream cone.

Pin the cherry on the ice cream cone.

Thanks to all our friends who came to help us celebrate.

And thanks to our family for, well, everything. It was a fun birthday celebration!

Emsleigh turns 2!

March is a difficult month for me. The anniversaries of Miriam's birth, week of life, death and my dad's death all fall within 12 days. This year I have thought often of God's great providence in Emsleigh's birthday. Right in the middle of those 12 days Emsleigh was born. And she surely is the meaning of her name....a gift from God.

We celebrated her birthday morning with waffles, strawberries and blueberries....some of her favorite foods.

Yes, I could not find the 2 candle I bought her, so we used a tea light :)!

Emsleigh opened presents. Here we are looking through The Big Picture Story Bible we got her. As you can see, we were very intrigued by some of the pictures.

Emsleigh got a package from Mimi. Our tradition with packages from Mimi is to pull out all the packing peanuts and play in them for the day!

Emsleigh loved reading her birthday cards.

She also loved Cooper the interactive bear! Thank you Mimi!

The new dress from Grancy could not go unworn.

We finished the day with an ice cream cone and

youtube videos with Grancy :)! Baby Beluga by Raffi is Emsleigh's favorite (it was mine too as a kid, except we had to watch it on vhs and not wireless internet!!).

Omaha Zoo

We took a fun day trip to the Omaha Zoo on Monday in celebration of Emsleigh's upcoming birthday.

Even on Spring Break Grancy is still teaching :)!

Lunch overlooking the rainforest with mac-n-cheese...Emsleigh's favorite.

Those are hippos down there...

She really wanted the bird to come over to her!

With the help of a Fancy Nancy book we both have a greater love for butterflies!

The aquarium was one of Emsleigh's favorite parts. Penguins are some of her favorite animals and she was fascinated with the fish tanks.

Thanks to my mom's dear friend, Cindy, Emsleigh got to pick out a birthday present at the gift shop. She choose this blue sea turtle. She and "Blue" became instant friends. Thanks Miss Cindy!!

This was the last picture we took. This is one tired little girl!