Emily's Fun Begins

Last night the girls and I drove down to Seymour. This morning only Audrey and I left. Emily gets to stay with Nana and Grandpa for an entire week! It will be interesting to see how Audrey does not having her big sister around telling her what to do, pushing her, etc! It will also be nice for me to only have one child to care for.

August was supposed to be the one dropping Emily off yesterday, but the weather didn't cooperate so we had to rework our schedule. I was so proud of Audrey, she did an excellent job being good both there and back! She did make it known though when it was lunch time :)

Have fun Grandpa & Nana!!

Christmas on the Road - Part 2

After the get together with the Kuehn's, we then headed to my parents house for the remainder of the weekend. It is about a 4 hour drive. We were spoiled with Emily, because whenever we went on road trips she would just sleep the entire time. Not so with Audrey! She sleeps for maybe an hour and then has to be entertained and/or she is a grouch. We managed though. And of course, nothing a LOT of goldfish can't fix!! The car seats are a mess when we are finished, but it is worth making the troops happy.

Christmas morning we woke up and opened presents.

In case you are wondering... the top left pic of my sister opening the dog treats are not for Audrey! They are for Daisey - not pictured!!

Thanks for all of the great gifts and a fun weekend.

Christmas on the Road - Part 1

Christmas Eve morning we headed over to August's brother's house to celebrate Christmas with August's side of the family. We started out with breakfast and then the presents. The cousins always love hanging out together. Grandma had a surprise for each of the grandkids inside her mailbox that played music. The kids loved it! Emily ended up with a dog and Audrey ended up with a pig. Thanks for the presents everyone!

Christmas at Home

I know I'm really late posting Christmas pics, but here we go...


We did our family Christmas on the 23rd since we were going to be away from home on Christmas. The girls really enjoyed opening their presents. Emily was our official get the presents under the tree girl. This year we also never bothered to get out an extension cord or power strip, so someone had to get under the tree to plug and unplug the Christmas lights. Emily was delighted that we chose that job for her!


Audrey couldn't wait to finally open presents. She had 2 presents in particular in the days leading up to this that she kept bringing me. I was really happy though that for the most part she left the presents alone. I know when my brother was a year old, my mom put the Christmas tree and presents in the play pen! Here are some pics of her opening presents.





And then of Emily...