Happy Birthday (yesterday) Emery Kate!

Emery Kate....Happy 2nd Birthday!

I love you so much! you bring SO much joy to your daddy and I each day!

Thank you for your excitement about life....it is amazing.

Thank you for being the BEST big sister to Molly...she is so blessed!

I love how each day you are learning new words and we are able to communicate so well...I hope we are close for all of our days together on earth!

I love how you crawl in bed with us in the middle of the night and take up my whole side of the bed...even though I am hanging on the edge, I do love it.

I love that you like to be on the run all day like your momma...if we have been home for awhile you say "mommy, let's go!"

I love ALL of your expressions.

I love your dimple.

your smile.

I love you.

EK's Egg Hunt 2nd Birthday -part 2

We had an egg hunt for Emery Kate's second birthday party! Her actual birthday is this Wednesday the 27th! Since Easter was later than usual I took advantage! Having all the Easter decorations and ideas made this party so fun and so easy! It was a blast for me to plan and I think Emery Kate had a really good time!

Aunt Jenny&EK

Putting Eggs in her basket. Once she realized there was candy in them she just wanted to open them and get the candy out!
Sweet Riley getting some eggs of her own.

Me & EK

Duncan got into the egg stickers :)

the kids on the hunt!

Emery Kate is VERY into Duncan right now. During the party she wanted him by her side the whole time. It's pretty sweet. I hope they are always close like this.

The cupcakes!

EK blowing out the candle.

Molly had a blast at the party.

Is Ainsleigh not so cute!

Molly had a friend at the party...little Katie is only 3 weeks younger than her!

Felice is too cool for school in her shades.

Sparrow decorating some hard boiled eggs! She did a great job!

Molly was getting a little hot. Those cheeks were pink. I think she has some Conlee in her. Mary B! Proof that Alex came!

After everyone left we piled in the NEW BOAT my parents got for the lakehouse. Blake and Jason picked it up on Thursday so it's in our garage. It is so nice...we are SO excited to use it. Thank you SOOOO much mom & dad!

You can't see EK, Dunc and Jayden b/c they are playing inside the boat! EK has been talking about the boat all day!I love this picture of Jayden.the back of EK's adorable dress.

What a fun day with friends and family!

EK's Egg Hunt 2nd Birthday -part 1 (mostly the decorations)

We had chalk outside the fence so when the men put all the eggs out the kids were able to play with sidewalk chalk.

the party favors
I found this tutorial on Martha stewart that showed how to make these out of envelopes. It was cute!

We had stickers for the little kids to decorate with and a table for the older kids to decorate hard boiled eggs!

I was proud of myself for putting the eggs in the vase with the tulips. I thought it was so pretty!

My dear friend Stephanie made their adorable outfits for the party. They looked SO cute. It was perfect. Thank you SOOOO much sweet friend! Wish you didn't live in Alabama so you could have been here. Did not get the best pic of them together.

Aunt B...

we MISS you!

HE is RISEN!!!!

my easter bunny

same outfit, attempt at same pose

EK above, Molly below

it's fun seeing her in EK's old outfits.

Molly is 3 months old!

Sweet Molls is 3 months today! I'm loving every minute with her! Smiles with bath time

there is a lot of this during the day...

and this... and there's lots of this too.

I am truly blown away by the love EK has for Molly. She is never jealous, includes her in everything, and gives her more hugs and kisses than molly knows what to do with. It melts me. I hope Christy was that excited when I entered the world :) I really couldn't be more grateful that the Lord chose me & blake to raise these two girls. i.am.blessed.

I definitely think this time I am not rushing her to do the next thing like I was with EK. I am just enjoying her being in the stage she's in. They grow so fast.

This last pic is for MB b/c we talked to her this morning and EK did her "excited face" for her.