MOTHERS DAY LUNCH AT PRESCHOOL

Last week, I had the privilege of having lunch with Emma at her school. They hosted a Mother's Day lunch for us mom's and our children. Emma and I took our sack lunches and our blanket and had a wonderful time together out on the lawn of her school! After lunch, the children sang us a song and then we went inside and planted a flower together. It was so much fun!!

Emma really enjoyed her lunch and part of mine as well!!
Emma's friend Sommer and her mom
The kids were a little shy when it came to singing for us, but they did such a wonderful job!!

The song was this:

We love mothers, we love mothers,

Yes we do, yes we do,

Mothers are for hugging, mothers are for loving,

We love you, Yes we do!!!

EMMA'S BIG GIRL BIKE

LOOK AT OUR BIG GIRL GO!!!!

Mimi and Papa got Emma a new bicycle for her birthday! They took her shopping on Saturday while they were here and let her ride the bikes and pick out the one that she liked best. She was a little nervous about a big girl bike at first, but she rides it very well. She still has to use the training wheels, but at least her knees don't hit the handle bars when she peddles.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY

We had a great time celebrating my birthday this past
weekend. My parents were able to come over and spend time with us, which was great! One of my precious neighbors made me this wonderful strawberry cake!!
Emma enjoyed helping me make a wish and blow out my candles!! I think she liked licking the icing off of the candles even more!! (She is so ready for her birthday)

MIMI AND PAPA VISIT

Mimi and Papa came over this past weekend and we had a great time! Emma was so excited that she waited up until midnight on Friday night for them to get here!
We had a fun filled weekend!! Thanks for the visit, Mimi and Papa! We enjoyed it!!

HORSE RIDING LESSONS

Emma has started taking horse riding lessons. Today was our second trip out to the barn. She really enjoys this, and is doing very well. Miss Gina is super with Emma, and is teaching her not only how to ride, but how to take care of the horses as well. Today she rode Cookie, the pony. The first time, she rode Pepper which is a full sized horse. Emma really wants to ride the Clydesdale that is pictured here, but I think it will be a long time before we are ready for that!

SHE WANTS BLUE JEANS!!!

Emma has NEVER wanted to wear blue jeans! As a matter of fact, I just passed down about 4 pair to McKinley because Emma would not even try them on. But in the past couple of weeks, blue jeans are all she has talked about wearing! We went yesterday and finally got her some blue jeans. She was soooooooo excited!
She insisted on changing into them just as soon as we bought them and then from that point on, she had to tell everyone that she saw that she had gotten new blue jeans! Kids are so funny!!!

SURPRISE VISITOR

This morning while Emma was taking a bath, she had a visitor to join her!!! I had walked out of the bathroom for a minute when I heard Emma screaming and laughing. I hurried back in there, and this is what I found!!!! Lucy is now big enough to jump in the tub!!!! Lucy loved the water (until I started washing her) and Emma thought it was the coolest thing in the world! I quickly bathed Emma because the thought of her bathing with the dog is just gross to me! It was quite comical while is lasted!!!

CHARLOTTE'S WEB

Emma got the movie Charlotte's Web from the Easter bunny! The movie had a little beany baby Wilbur in it. Emma has carried Wilbur around constantly. She at first wanted to feed him real milk, but she gave in when I found this play bottle of milk.

FUN EVENING WITH THE SPANN FAMILY

We had a great visit with the Spann Family while we were home for the Easter weekend!

We miss them dearly!

Emma and Jillian played for a while in the playroom and then they got wild and crazy running around the living and performing stunts for us!! You can check out more pictures of this at www.sunspann.blogspot.com
Kodak moment with the girls and their daddy's!!
After much running and playing, these 2 little girls were exhausted!!

THANKS FOR SUCH A GREAT EVENING !!!!

EASTER EGG HUNT #2

Nanna always has a family gathering at her house on Easter Sunday afternoon. This is for Jason's immediate and extended family! We of course hid a ton of eggs for the kids! Pop and Nanna have a huge yard so the Easter egg hunt was lot's of fun!!
Emma loved getting to play with Carson and the other kids in the family!!

HAPPY EASTER

It was a joy for us to be able to worship at our home church on Easter Sunday morning!!

Emma was such a big girl and sat out in big church with us through the entire service! We were so proud of her!!

THANK YOU EASTER BUNNY

Emma and daddy checking out what the Easter bunny brought her!
She was so excited about her swimsuits and the cover up! She actually slept in one of them and her cover up on Sunday night once we got back home.

EASTER AT MIMI'S HOUSE

We celebrated Easter with my family on Saturday afternoon!!

We enjoyed visiting with everyone and Mimi cooked a fabulous dinner!!

EASTER EGG HUNT #1

We hid Easter eggs several times for Hunter and Emma!! Emma would help us hide them for Hunter and then she would tell him where to look for them! We got so tickled at her!
Emma had to show Uncle Jason all of the eggs she had found!
Emma was cold and exhausted after playing out in the yard and hunting Easter eggs at Mimi's house. She was ready to snuggle up with daddy and rest for a while!

EGG HUNTING PRACTICE

While the dye on the eggs dried, Aunt Tanya hid some plastic ones so that Emma could practice hunting eggs! It didn't take her long to figure out how this all worked!!

COLORING EASTER EGGS

Emma enjoyed coloring Easter eggs this year! She wasn't extremely patient while the eggs were in the dye, but they were her eggs and we let her take them out whenever she was ready! She was able to color eggs at Mimi's house with Tanya and Hunter, and then we colored them again at Nanna's house!

PLAYTIME WITH THE GLASSCO GIRLS

On our trip to Alabama for Easter, we were able to spend time with the Glassco family. These girls have missed each other dearly!! They played for several hours on Thursday afternoon and had the best time together!!! Of all the toys that they could have played with, these are the things that occupied most of their time!!

SPRING BREAK FOR EMMA AND SETH

SPRING BREAK 2007

My Aunt Kathy, Uncle Chuck and Cousin Seth drove all the over here from West Tennessee during Seth's Spring Break, which just so happened to be Emma's Spring Break also. I think this was about a 9 hour trip for them.

THANKS SO MUCH FOR COMING TO VISIT US!! WE HAD A GREAT TIME!

Emma and Seth had a blast playing together!! They don't get to see each other as often as we would like, but when they are together, they have soooo much fun!!

This Power Wheel's Escalade belongs to our neighbors children, but they don't live with him all the time, so he has been letting Emma ride it! She loves this thing!! Bye-Bye Gator, hello Escalade!

Of course we had to take them to the big playground! The kids had such a great time!

I'm just glad that the weather was pretty while they were here. We actually spent about 3 hours at the swimming pool on Monday!!! Seth is a little fish!!!!!

JASON GOES TO BRISTOL

Jason had the opportunity to go to the NASCAR Race in Bristol, TN. last weekend. According to him, this was the "ULTIMATE RACING EXPERIENCE". He had such a great time! They were able to watch a taping of the Speed Channel's Raceday TV program, plus get to see some of the drivers up close!!!

SWIMMING IN MARCH

I cannot believe this weather!!! It has been close to 90 degrees this week!!! We have been to the swimming pool 2 times already and it's just the 1st of April!!!

The water at the pool is a little chilly, but not too bad once you sit out in the heat of the day!

We may just have to stick the apartment out through the summer!! This pool is hard to beat!!
Emma and the other kids don't seem to think the water is cold at all! They have been enjoying playing together at the pool!

SNEAKY LITTLE GIRL

Yes, these are Emma's hands!!! She does little sneaky things when you take your eyes off of her. This is her attempt to paint her fingernails with dry erase markers!!!

You gotta love her!!!!