Our Christmas Card 2012

My friend, Laurie, does a Smilebox for her Christmas cards each year, so we decided to try one this year.  We hope you like it and hope you have a very Merry Christmas!!

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Emily's 8th Birthday Party

Well, I'm not 100% sure why we did this, but we decided to have Emily's birthday party on the same day as she was baptized.  I'm SO glad we did though, because it all came together and it was all done in one fell swoop!
Emily wanted to have a Merida (from the movie Brave) party and it turned out so cute.  We did archery first.  Some of the girls were slow to get the hang of it, but once they did there was no stopping them.

 Em's best friend, Sarah, who was also baptized on the same day as Em

 Ashley got into the spirit of the party and ran and put her Merida costume on for the party.

 Merida was even there.

 I thought of having a treasure hunt by following the wisps around the house.  The girls LOVED it!!

 Then Kenny had the genius idea to dress up as the witch and have a cauldron bubbling and then give each girl a "tart".  They were so enraptured by the "witch" and few were nervous to eat their tart. :-)

 We sang Happy Birthday, had pizza and cupcakes and then it was present time.  

 She got so many cute things and had a blast.

 We ended the party with a pinata.  Emily had been wanting one for years and we finally gave in and did one.  It was fun.

Ashley even enjoyed herself and didn't freak out that she wasn't getting presents.  It was a wonderful party and such an amazing day!!  Happy Birthday, Em!!

Emily's Baptism!!

Emily turned 8 on October 29, so on Saturday, November 3, she was baptized.  It was one of the most special days of my whole life!!  I can't believe she is old enough already to be baptized.  I am also very pleased with the young woman she is quickly becoming.  Kenny did a fabulous job on her baptism and confirmation.  Lots of family and friends were there.  The Spirit was strongly there too.  She felt very loved.  We had a nice yummy brunch after.  It was a fabulous morning that I will never forget and I hope Emily always remembers too!!

One funny moment of the day is when Emily got out of the water and walked up the steps, I was there to greet her with her towel.  As I was putting the towel around her she loudly declared, "I am soaked!!" :-)  Everyone got quite the kick out of that.

 The picture we used for her baptism announcement

 My beautiful daughter in her beautiful dress

 Our extended family

 Our family getting photo-bombed by my sister :-)

 My family

 My sister succeeding in getting her own picture with Em :-)

 Brunch and presents

It was such a wonderful day!!  Thanks to everyone who celebrated Emily's special day with us!!

Halloween 2012

Another Halloween has come and gone.  Tyler understood this year that people were giving him candy.  He looked cute as a Dragon.  Emily wanted to be her bird costume from dance but she's been growing so much it already didn't fit, so luckily I thought of her being a vet and she LOVED the idea and looked SO cute!  Ashley is loving Merida from Brave so that's who she was.  Another fun Halloween night.

 Halloween parade at school for Em

 and Ash

 Grandma and Grandpa dressed Ty up as a cute conductor to go trick-or-treating around their place until we came to pick up.

 Tyler's dragon costume

 Ashley succeeded once again in making him cry

 My cute Merida

 My cute vet

 Ty loving his candy

 My beautiful children.  Oh, how I love them!!

Happy Halloween!!