A Day in the Life...: August 2008

Saturday, August 09, 2008

Introducing...

Emmersen Reese! She was born August 6th at 11:29am and weighed in at 7 lbs. 12 1/2 oz. She is 20 1/4 inches long and is absolutely perfect. We couldn't have asked for an easier labor...after a wopping 2 1/2 hours she made her way in to this world. We are so happy to finally have her here in our home to make our family a family of 4. Avery is doing pretty well in her new role as big sister, but as expected, we are experiencing a few issues. Everyone is doing very well and we are so glad to be back in our own home. I have many pictures to post of our beautiful little girls, but for now here are just a few. Enjoy!!

The whole family!

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Emmersen Reese all dressed and ready for the car ride home. :)

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As I said more pictures are to come! I'll try to get them posted soon, but it may take a little while. Adjusting to our new family is going to take some time!

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Date Night

Ok, this is officially the last post before the Squirt is born! Our friends Jennifer and William took Avery for us last Monday so we could go to dinner and a movie before the baby is born. We had a wonderful meal and went to see The Dark Knight. Great movie! It was so nice to have someone offer to watch Avery instead of trying to find a babysitter! Thank you so much guys!!

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Bowling with Daddy

A couple of weeks ago we went to the bowling alley on base for lunch. Matt and Avery had a blast bowling together, AND the manager only had to come down a couple of times to help Avery's ball go down the lane. Ha Ha

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Random Pictures

These are just some random, silly pictures of Avery Grace.

I'm sure all of you, or at least most of you, remember the movie The Little Mermaid. Well, Avery loves the movie and we watch it on a regular basis. This picture is of her using a "dinglehopper" for her hair (a.k.a. a fork!). At first this was pretty funny, and it still is most of the time, but when she started doing this in restaurants, we had to draw the line! Ha Ha

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Pretty Princess

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Showing off her pretty earrings and pretty ribbon. What a ham!

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A Tribute to the Shunee Song!

I thought this would be fun to post! It's always fun to go back and watch some videos of Avery when she was younger so I decided to do just that! I recently recorded her singing the "Shunee" song and thought it would be neat to compare this one to the one we recorded just over a year ago. It's pretty hilarious to look back at the old one, but amazing to see how much difference a year makes in a little child's life!! Enjoy!

And this time you don't have to listen to my singing!! Ha Ha

Then...

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And now...

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Eatin' Grapes

Here is a silly video of Avery Grace eating grapes. It isn't the most exciting but hopefully they'll put a smile on your face. We certainly had a good time while we were filming! I do have another one that maybe I'll get to post soon but for some reason it is not working correctly. Enjoy!

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Monday, August 04, 2008

Baby Shower

My friends Stacy and Joy threw a shower for me in July and it was absolutely wonderful. It is so nice to have met such great friends here! We had a great time and I am so grateful to have received such wonderful gifts!

Joy made this cake from scratch! I was blown away...she did an amazing job! And it even tasted better than it looked!

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Stacy put together the diaper cake. Adorable!

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Joy, Me and Stacy. I do have a picture of all the ladies at the shower, but for some reason it's not wanting to post! Ill try again later.

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I know I've said this a million times, but thank you so much Joy and Stacy! I had a great time!

Catching Up

OK, well it's official! I need to put up lots of posts between today and tomorrow so be sure to keep checking back. We went to the doctor today and will be induced Wednesday morning! Yay! We're as ready as we can be, but still need to do a few things around the house tonight and tomorrow. Right now, I want to get some pictures/videos posted because I fear they never will get up once Baby Squirt is born.

Back in June, we headed to the Lompoc Flower Festival just to see what it was all about. It was pretty neat but unfortunately we weren't able to stay long. However, we managed to squeeze in a pony ride and face painting for Avery. She was in heaven after her face painting! It was hard to explain that it would have to come off eventually. Here she is hamming it up for the camera, as usual!

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Now that Matt's birthday has been almost a month ago, I thought I should post a couple pictures of his big day. We relaxed, did some shopping and of course headed home for some birthday treats! Cupcakes!