Sticker

 Lauren put a sticker on Baby Em, she laughed and laughed. She thought it was sooo funny.

Four and Twenty Blackbirds....

My sweet Lauren said "You da best Mom, you da best!"

 I am soo glad I wasn't home when this happened, I probably would have panicked. I do not like birds. Barry and James were home and they looked out the window because of the tremendous noise the birds were making as they circled the house and swooped in. This scene looks way to much like something from Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Birds" for my liking.

 A long time ago before I knew Barry, he worked for the American West Heritage Center. He got to wear funny looking clothes and build a log cabin. James found his costume(work clothes) in the closet and Barry was a good sport and put them on for us. His sister-in-law made them for him. I think they're pretty snazzy. :)

"Baby make my brown eyes BLUE"

Some days, I am a little afraid that my little Emma is going to have blue eyes. She's already turning heads as it is. :D
They are certainly not going to be like "Lauren's, the landlords black-eyed daughter, Lauren" (oh nevermind)


I know. Sorry.(not really :p) I forgot to rotate the pictures before I uploaded them on here, and then I was just tooo lazy.

 I also was too lazy to arrange them in any particular order. :)

This was our hike the Saturday before Emma was born. Hike on Saturday, baby on Monday. It was fun! (the hike, NOT the having baby part)(okay, the HAVING baby part is fun, not the having of the baby though, THAT was definitely NOT fun)(No. I have NOT forgotten how much it hurt yet.)

I just love it when Barry makes this face for photos. It happens WAY more often than you would think.

Barry took this picture. He had just given her a bath and scrubbed her up all clean.
 
 

Jaundice is finally going away. YEAh!

Kids before church. To avoid swine flu Emma and I sluffed (hahah spell check wanted to change that to sloughed, now THAT would have been interesting.) *Lauren is looking for the little fish Barry told her was in the camera lens. .....Seriously.

The kids after church. (only Lauren's hand is pictured ...sneakily trying to snag her third doughnut.)

 oh yeah! I made those.........if I get three good comments, I will post the recipe. It's not for the faint of heart though...........

 

Have I mentioned I let my babies sleep by me? (gasp!) I don't even own a crib. (oh my!) I have gotten so much crap about it, but HEY it's what works for me, it works for my babies. We're happy, Barry is happily snoring on the couch, the world is good. :)

Emma is a happy baby. She loves to catch my gaze and just look at me.

She doesn't smile a ton, but 90% of the time she just has this peaceful contented look on her face that says, "I'm happy here.".

 I really couldn't love her more.

Christmas

Sorry, 

I wrote a whole blog on Christmas and Christmas Eve and it got deleted. 

GRRRrrrrr.

So this is all you get.

We had some friends over on Christmas Eve and made gingerbread houses, played Christmas pictionary and had some lively games of tug-of-war.

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 I love the smoke coming from James' house. It's actually a snowman, but it looks pretty cool.

 the kids woke up to a big train set, set up all over the living room.

 Somebody ate too much. Look at that belly!

Big foot. Love her. :)