Emerson

My precious Emerson Paige. Avery has been in school 2 days now and I have had the privilage of spending quality one-on-one time with Em. I say privilage and I really mean that. Yes, we spend most everyday together, but the quality time we share really is a privilage to me. Emerson is so full of this colorful, loving, happy, giggly energy constantly! The days where she is sad and grumpy are so few and far between. This girl brings so much joy into our lives, including Avery's! They really are the best of friends! Emerson Paige We LOVE you!!

1st Day of School 2010-2011

Yesterday was Avery's first day of school. She is a Pre-Kindergartener this year. Avery was so excited and happy to be back at school. We absolutely LOVE our school and hope to be there for a long time! Here are a few more from yesterday:

Time at the beach...

It's not a great time in the Pacific Northwest for a beach visit the second week in November, but we had to take advantage of the weather (it actually stopped raining today and the sun shyly peeked out from behind the grey clouds) and get the girls and Webster out to run and play. We bundled up the girls and headed to the beach! We froze, Mark and I that is, but the girls and the dog had a blast...now that I'm home and warm, I'm glad we went!

Avery, her usual solemn self at the beach...she spends the time gazing at the water, throwing rocks and digging.

Emmy follows so closely in Avery's footsteps in so many different ways... she loves tossing rocks just like big sister!
Em swinging at the beach park
Our handsome boy Webster LOVED the beach too!
And a post about the beach wouldn't be complete without a shot of the Mukilteo Ferry heading off to Whidbey Island!

My silly girls.....

My polka-dotted Emmy-lou

xoxoxo

Blue-eyed Bugaboo!

Trick-or-Treat!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween! We did, that's for sure! Avery was a little lamb and Emerson was a little 'Who' from Whoville...we called her Emmy-lou Who!! The girls had a blast! Avery was a die-hard trick-or-treater, out til 8:30pm!!

Our "Little Lamb"...I almost couldn't find this costume in a toddler size

and she's wanted to be a lamb since this summer!

Sweet "Emmy-lou Who," our little "who" from Whoville!! (How the Grinch Stole Christmas??) :)

Ready to go!!

We actually trick-or-treated at the mall first because the weather was AWFUL! When we got home from the mall it was dark and the rain let up a little. Emerson didn't trick-or-treat outside, rather, she answered the door with my mom and LOVED seeing all of the kids in their costumes!

Overwhelmed.... :)

Yep, that's me! When am I not overwhelmed lately?? Maybe when I finally fall asleep at night...if you call it that! :) But all I have to do is look at these two little girls and all else is perfect in my little world!

Emerson has the longest eyelashes you have ever seen and a head full of thick, sweet curls <3

Avery started Ballet class last week and LOVES it! Everyday she asks me if it's ballet day...I'm so glad she's loving it as much as she is... you never know with these little ones!

OVERHAULING/UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!

Hello!! I know... I haven't been spending anytime on this blog whatsoever! I miss it so much...well, I miss the photography. I have been so wrapped up in preschool that I've neglected photography completely. Well... the preschool news is not good, but the photography news is... for now though, I'm overhauling this blog and getting back into the swing of photography again!! (Thank godness!!!!) Here's a couple just to update the girls...they're GORGEOUS and we're loving our life with them!! Avery is 3 now, and Em is 10 days shy of 11 months old!!! WOW!!!

Avery LOVES lipstick these days!

My adorable Emmy-Ems...she's always this happy!!

Catchin' Up!

OK... so here goes! :) I've been away too long post everything that's gone on in our lives the last month... but here it is in a nutshell... a very small nutshell!
Christmas was wonderful at our house! Santa brought Avery a Thomas the Tank Engine Railway and a play kitchen!

Santa brought new clothes, books and rattles for Emerson. Mommy got an awesome gift from daddy that she totally wasn't expecting... a Nintendo DS! All I can say is I'M LOVING IT! (And no, that's not one of the reasons I've been neglecting the blog.) :)

And here's the newest member of our family...

No, the girls did not get a puppy for Christmas! My husband would have a heart-attack before that happened... so would our cats! But I guess they kind of did get a puppy - according to my brother. He got a mini-doxen and named him Jordie, after Michael Jordan. He is soooooo precious as you can see and such a good boy! My brother got him "so the girls could have him" he said, but he lives with Uncle Brian! :):)

Miss Emerson Paige turned 5 months on January 13th:

Just last week she started some solids... rice cereal and bananas! She is loving it and I'm so happy for her. For the last few months she's been on this really yucky formula that she has gotten used to but it's disgusting. Yeah, I tasted it.... I really feel for her, it's nasty. But it's been the only thing to help her poor tummy and each day she's become such a happier girl. So this was exciting. Seeing her love her "nanas" filled my heart with JOY! We call her the "EMINATOR" as in the Terminator!!! She is hilarious, she ROARS at us and is such a ham! She is crazy about Avery! Just today she played on the floor for 15 minutes on her tummy while Avery "cooked" food in her kitchen for Em:

Emerson is usually only happy being in mommy or daddy's arms! She does not like to be in the swing, exersaucer, Jumperoo, on the floor... NOTHING! So I was so proud of her laying here playing with Avery for that long! She is a sweetheart. Such a snuggler and lover! Em's sleeping very well at night. She goes to bed by 6pm and sleeps till 10-11pm then eats and falls back to sleep till about 6am. Mommy's getting a lot more rest these days!


One of Avery's favorite thigs to do is play the Wii with Daddy! She loves to watch us bowl and here she is shreddin' it up with daddy on his favorite game: Guitar Hero!!

She loves posing for the camera lately too!

There it is! Promise I won't stay gone for that long again! :):)

8 Days Old

And I can't post without a picture of her... Could she be any more beautiful?

Their daddy is going to be in a lot of trouble one day!!

All Boy!

Look at this little guy! This is Avery's cousin Camden who's 3 months older than she is. Gotta love his shirt!

His shirt (and pizza face) does the talking!!

One more from the other day:

'C' fell asleep in the car on our way home from picture taking on Thursday. We flat out wore the little guy out... he was in the middle of eating his lunch. Sweet boy fell asleep with his hand in his Happy Meal bag! Tooooo cute!

ALL BOY(s)

Today I was able to get down to my cousin's house to do a little session with her boys. I'm thrilled with the way her pictures turned out. I'm quite happy also because I finally got to take some shots on train tracks! LOVE IT!! I think train tracks are my new favorite place to take pictures! The boys were VERY cooperative... little treats never hurt! Here's a few from today:

Pretty cute, huh?

A Birthday Party!

Yesterday we went to our cousin's 3rd birthday party! We had so much fun. I especially like and look forward to these get-togethers because we don't get to see our family as much as we'd like. Avery had a great time playing with her cousins. Her cousins are 3, 4, & 17 months. Here is Avery playing with her cousin when she was almost 5 months old, he was almost 8 months...

and here they are playing together yesterday at the birthday party...

Toooooo cute for words or what? Totally melts my heart! I absolutely LOVED watching them play together and I had a blast just shooting away. Would you believe I took 210 pictures yesterday? I couldn't believe it! Here's a picture of the birthday girl also:

Isn't she a doll? I got some really great shots of her that I'm sending her mommy today. She is very photogenic. I was also excited yesterday cause I've been aching to snap pics. of all these kids playing and yesterday I was able to! This is Avery's oldest cousin whom is ALL BOY and it was tough getting shots of him, but this picture couldn't describe him any better if you don't know him...
I know this is a lot of photos for one post, but I just had to share this one of the two loves of my life playing on the big toy yesterday:

Aren't they gorgeous?

Well, we had a great time at the party yesterday and thanks for letting me snap away at your kiddos yesterday! Photos will be arriving soon in the mail, mommies!!!!