Last night we went to a 14 scene living nativity at Baptist Faith Church in Lafayette. I love the opportunities that churches provide to remember Jesus during Christmas. It was incredible! First, they have parking down to a science. We were guided by men waving lighted wands having a lot of fun into our perfect…
Family
Christmas Fun
I think Christmas really started last Thursday in our home. I feel like that is the point I had cleaned up from our Thanksgiving trip and I had recovered enough that I could look forward to the next holiday. We made and delivered some Christmas treats to a few neighbors. This was a real event…
Andrew and Emily Fly Solo
I had a place to be Sunday afternoon where Emily really shouldn’t join me. I wasn’t the least bit concerned leaving Emily because Andrew was at home to take care of her. As I was walking out the door Emily spit up all over Andrew. Like she filled the burp cloth and had serious spillage….
2 Months Old
Dear Emily, Today you are two months old! You are an absolute joy to have in our home. At least once a day you give us a really good smile and sometimes an excited shout or almost giggle; we still aren’t sure that you know you are smiling, but it is cute! Emily you love…
End of Semester Fun
Andrew finished all of us classes up this week and just has one test and paper to go! We are both very excited for the end of the semester and all the fun things we have planned during the break. Andrew spent all day Monday working on his final project for a creativity class. He…
Thanksgiving 2013
We had an incredible thanksgiving break! After we arrived at my family’s Wednesday afternoon I helped with Thanksgiving dinner preparations while Andrew ran errands with my brother Brian. After a great pizza dinner, we went to Whitey’s Ice Cream as part of my family’s celebration for completing the Book of Mormon. Andrew and I had…
We just didn’t know…
traveling in 10 degree weather plus windchill means it is too cold to open the doors to make enough room to feed a baby in the back seat. But when you are in the middle of no where surrounded by what used to be corn fields you feed her in the back seat anyway. A…
Smiles for Jesus
Emily is still working on her “social smiles”. The last two days she has been inconsistently smiling rather frequently, which we think is just awesome. Plus we smile all day trying to get her to smile. Tonight while Emily and I were hanging out at home, we flipped through Preach My Gospel looking for pictures…
Adventure Buddies
This week I feel like I woke up from a deep sleep and Emily and I have been on the move! We don’t run “errands” in this house; every time we walk out our door an adventure begins. This means that no matter what happens (from diaper explosions to turning onto a one-way road that…
Sharing Traditions
Yesterday we went to a friends annual donut party. They spent all day making delicious donuts and in the evening lots of friends gathered to chat, play with cute kids and babies, enjoy apple cider and donuts, and expand friendship circles. Emily loved sitting and watching all of the action and wasn’t the least bit…