Sunday Style Section

So apparently I was pretty stingy with the camera this week!  I only took pictures 1 day!  Anyway, this is a new outfit.  I was trying to get some pictures for our Christmas card so I had her dressed up!

I love this smile...tongue hanging out and all!

We put up our Christmas tree this week and Emmie is fascinated with it!  She LOVES the lights so they stay on pretty much all day while we're home!  Contrary to what the picture shows, she's been really good about not messing with the ornaments.

Sunday Style Section

The little cherry dress my mom made.

Her tutu for her pictures!

I love this little leopard print dress, especially with her hot pink tights!

We were having an animal print kind of week!  Gin-g found this outfit for Emmie.  I think it is so cute and it has bows on it too!  One thing's for sure...Emmie can rock the animal prints!

A little smocked Christmas dress.  Tis the season!

It's just a little big on her...haha!  The actual dress isn't that big but there is sooo much material on the sleeves!  It's an adorable dress though and hopefully she'll be able to wear it again next year!

Catching Up

We had a busy week this week but it was lots of fun!  We went to Greenville Sunday afternoon to my parent's house.  Monday I got a lot of shopping done while my  mom watched Emmie.  It's so nice to be able to just run in a store without having to get a baby in and out of a car seat...especially when you have a lot of stops to make! 
Tuesday the day started with having Emmie's one year old pictures taken by Mark and Russell at Ernest Rawlins.  (They did our wedding pictures too.)  I can't wait to see how the pictures turned out.  I'm pretty sure I'm going to want them all!  We did some with a tutu on, some with just her monogrammed bloomers, and some with a cute leopard print dress on.  Here's a little preview!

And this was just one I took in the dressing room with my camera...I can't wait to see how the professional ones turned out!

After we finished with pictures my Grandmother came over and we played with Emmie until lunchtime.

After she woke up from her nap my mom and I took her outside to play...it was sooo nice out...high 60s at the end of November is one of the big perks of living in South Carolina!

Gran!  Gran!  I've got something to tell you!





Look over there!  It's a bird!  It's a plane!  It's super Franklin!



Run Away!





That evening after her bath Emmie got a special suprise...her GIANT came home!  She is still just as fascinated with Ben as she was when she was younger.  It's so funny!



Emmie having a dance with her Uncle Ben.

The next morning they were eating breakfast at the same time and it took her FOREVER to eat because she was so busy staring at him!

On Wednesday we did Thanksgiving with my family.  My Grandmother came over along with Ben's girlfriend Sandy, and my cousin Michael and his wife Courtney.  We had a great time and ate lots of yummy food!  Before dinner we attempted to get a family picture for our Christmas card.  We thought it was hard the last 2 years when we were trying to get Franklin to hold still and look at the camera...well it's even harder when you have to get Franklin AND Emmie to focus...at the same time!  HA!  It was quite an ordeal and I may end up just putting a picture of Emmie and one of Franklin on there.  These are some of the more humerous outtakes!



Hey Franklin, I have an idea.  Let's both look away from the camera at the same time.  Ready? One, two, three, GO!

On Thursday morning we went to Boiling Springs, NC to celebrate Thanksgiving with Paul's extended family.  Once again we had bunches of yummy food and we really enjoyed visiting with everyone!  Emmie had such a good time because Laura Ann, Emma, and Mary Jane were all there to play with her!  I just can't get over how sweet they are with Emmie and how much she enjoys playing with them.  Emmie's face lit up as soon as she saw them!  After Laura Ann finished eating luch she and Emmie were playing in some pop-up tents that were set up and everytime Laura Ann would stick her head out Emmie would just laugh and laugh...it was so cute! 

Crawling through the tents with Emma and Mary Jane.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We are so thankful this Thanksgiving for all of our family and friends!  We were so fortunate to be able to celebrate Thanksgiving with both sides of our families.  We celebrated Wednesday with my family and today with Paul's family.  Emmie really enjoyed her first Thanksgiving and she can't wait until next year when she gets to eat all the yummy Thanksgiving food!  (Although she thought her Thanksgiving salmon was pretty good yesterday!)

A Look Back: Sunday Style Section month 1

So I've decided to do a Sunday Style Section "look back".  I've decided to start with Emmie's first month even though I didn't have my blog then.  She still had some pretty cute clothes that I was sad to pack up!  I will say when I was packing these newborn clothes up (which I did when she was around 3 mo. old and we took them over for Julia to borrow) I couldn't believe that she had ever been small enough to wear them!  It's even harder for me to believe now!

The dreaded bear suit.  We would stuff Emmie in this when we went for walks!  Luckily for Emmie Abby got her a bear jacket which was much more tolerable!

I love this little sleeper.  This is waht we had her hospital pictures taken in.

Emmie getting acquainted with her puppy, Franklin. 

Franklin said boppies are stylish places to sleep!  This is also a great picture of her boppy cover.  If i remember correctly Claire and Kelly, who work with me, gave this to us and then Christa monogrammed her name on it.  We got so many compliments on the cover while we were in the hospital!

Emmie's Christmas dress from Susan.  She was so cute in it and I love the tights.  I love the experession on her face.  "Really, you're taking another picture...sigh."

I love this outfit.  The shirt says it all!

My only regret with this outift is that it was a newborn size so she couldn't wear it very long!  I really love how she looks in brown.

This is Emmie getting ready to go home from the hospital!  Underneath the sweater she had a white onesie that Christa monogrammed.  My mom knitted the sweater, hat, and booties.  They were so cute!

This is a few hours after she was born.  I was MADLY in love with her hat....it had a BOW!  I love how sweet and peaceful she looks. :)

Sunday Style Section

This is one of the outfits that I made Emmie and I LOVE the fabric.  One of the best things about this outfit is that she can wear it all year...we just stick a long sleeve shirt underneath in the winter and we're good to go!

This is the dress Emmie wore today.  See the plaid on it?  It was perfect for this Sunday because (unbeknownst to me) this week was the Kirkin of the Tarten which is a Scottish thing so Emmie fit right in.  It was at the second service and we go to the first so I went and got Emmie from the nursery after Sunday School and we went and listened to the bagpipes in the courtyard and then watched them parade into the sanctuary.  It was really neat and Emmie, my music lover, thought it was great.  After they finished playing she clapped and said "yay".

The great thing about this dress?  It has a BOW!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to Emmie's Papa Coach!  Hope you have a WINNING day!

Love,

Paul, Stacy, Emmie, and Franklin

Hey Papa Coach...I made this for you...go ahead...just reach through your computer screen and get it...come on...just stretch a littttle farther....



...WHAT?  It doesn't work that way...oh...ok... well I guess you'll just have to look at your sign from afar.

PS.  GO GREENWAVE!