Springtime - Easter

Here's a quick photo update of what we've been up to over the last month or so...

Now that the weather has warmed up, we have spending A LOT of time at the playground.... Seriously, A LOT of time.

We have met and cruised around with celebrities...We played hide and go seek...We jumped around...S. learned how to crawl...More playground...I tried to get a picture of the girls together... S. tried to escape so E. tried to hold her back...

Seriously, more playground... Also, this happened to her hair every single time she went down the slide!Easter package from Great-Grandma! They love it... Thanks Gr-Grandma!Part of the Easter package included chocolate bunnies... E is a big fan!Tackled trying to escape...Easter egg hunt on Saturday at our friend Lisa's houseThe aftermath of the egg huntDying eggs with her buddy LiamEgg hunt on Easter at Grandma's. S. gets a little help.Emily and cousin Austin surveying the territoryCutenessLoading up her basketS. sorting through her eggs after the huntGrandma has a PowerWheel... Emily loves to drive it. The only problem is that Emily doesn't know how to drive...Tried to get a picture of them both smiling.... this was as good as it got.Sorting loot...Happy Easter/Springtime/Playground time ya'll!

Photo update...

Ok, so we've been pretty lazy about updating the blog, so I wanted to give a quick photo recap of what we've been up to lately.

We tried to take a photo for a Christmas card.... this was the best of the disastrous lot.
We saw a 4-D movie.... Emily was definitely not into that extra 4th dimension

We visited a Gingerbread house

(S. was asleep during photos, but she was on the trip with us)

Christmas came, we opened presents

We also go to Skype with some pretty cool folks to open gifts, but unfortunately we didn't think to take any pictures of that

Mom got footed monkey pajamas!

We wore matching outfits

We went to a karaoke New Year's Eve party. Rock on!

E LOVES karaoke and did not relinquish the mic

E asked Dad to fix her hair.... here's what she got, which she loved btw

We welcomed a new year

We tried food (sweet potatoes) for the first time

Cheesing for the camera

S is enamored with E and is doing her best to learn to crawl to her. E is watching cartoons, oblivious to her stalker

Weekend morning snuggles in Mom and Dad's bed

Got a new cap

Went for a wagon ride and drew with chalk on the road
Trying out the swing for the first time.

Living The Sweet Life...

This past weekend, Emily got a gingerbread man kit and decked out her man in yummy goodness. The kit came with frosting, candies and sprinkles for decorating. Melissa was in charge of frosting and Emily got to decorate however she wanted. The decorating resulted in sprinkles covering about 2/3 of the kitchen floor, but she had a great time and did a good job decorating her man.

Here she is with the final product. Notice, she wanted her man to have shoes.

Sarah wanted to get in on the action as well. (Who wouldn't want to eat a life-sized cookie?!) Here Emily fights off Sarah in a winner-take-all cookie grudge match.

To the victor go the spoils! Emily enjoys the first bite of her creation.

Judging from the sprinkles on her face and poor gingerbread man's missing foot, I'd say she enjoyed the experience.

Christmas Time is Here.... La La La (Part III)

Ok, so I think we can officially call it a tradition now. Here the family sits down for the annual viewing of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Emily, much like her father, loves Charlie Brown, so this is probably just the first of many viewings over the next few weeks.

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Photo Update

So we've been a little slack lately with updates to the blog. My goal is to try to update on a more consistent basis, so I will try to hold myself to that. Below are some pictures of recent happenings in our lives.
Sarah recently reached a milestone where she gets to eat something other than milk! Albeit, still as boring as milk, but it's a step in the right direction. Here she tries rice cereal for the first time.
She was a little unsure in the beginning, but quickly warmed up to the idea of a new food.

Here Emily and Sarah share some love... awww.

Hugs all around...

Here's the family on Thanksgiving. We were able to get 3 out of 4 people looking at the camera, as Emily was trying to make a break for it!
We went to Macon for Thanksgiving celebrations. We had a great time spending the day with Dianne and her family. The food and company combined for a great day!

Here the girls pose with our generous hostess. This picture is so sweet.

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. We have some more photos that should be posted very soon.

October/Halloween Mega Update

The week before Halloween, the Adams family visited a local farm which had a pumkin patch and all sorts of autumn activities. Emily and Sarah were determined to select the perfect pumpkin. Here, Emily shows her prize pumkin. Obviously, she was not interested in some of the behemouths remaining in the patch. She wanted to be able to carry it herself.
Emily makes sure she has just the right one.

Melissa and Emily pose for a photo.

Eric, Emily, and Sarah do the same.

That same evening, we made a fire in the backyard to roast hot dogs and marshmallows for smores. Melissa shows her hot dog roasting technique.

Emily chills waiting for her hot dog to be ready.

Sarah: not so interested in hot dogs and smores, but contented just the same.

Later in the week, Emily and Sarah decorated their pumpkins from the farm. Apparently from the picture, it seems as Sarah has seen a ghost.

Definitely a ghost sighting.

Now on Sunday (Oct. 30), we visited the church with the Vaughns for an event called "trick or trunk." In a line outside the church, people decorated their cars, created fair-like games, and had candy for children to visit and trick or treat. Emily took the opportunity to sport her homemade ROBOT costume courtesy of Melissa. Emily loves robots.

The Trick or Trunk had a hay ride on which we all went. As you can see, Sarah was a skunk for the occassion (Dale had bought it at a yard sale earlier).

We all check out Sarah in all her skunky glory.

Our friend David Vaughn was the designated tractor driver for the hay ride. Here Brenda fixes the EMILYBOT 2000 while posing for a photo.

Sarah says: Happy Halloween everyone!!!!!!

Related? Yep, I think so...

I was searching through some older pictures of Emily and stumbled across one that reminds me of the other little person in our house...

Here's Emily at 3 months...

Here's Sarah at 3 months

I've been thinking that the girls look pretty different from each other, but think they look strikingly similar in these pictures taken at the same age... or maybe it's just that they both have the same "startled" look in these photos.