Just for you Shay!

My sweet sister in law shay lives in Ohio and for a couple of months now has been asking to see pictures of our house. So running on "Erin time" I have finally posted some. The first pictures are from this fall, but the ones inside are more recent. I can't wait until all of our far away family can come to visit us and see everything in person.

One more brown eyed girl

As soon as we knew we were buying a house the talk of what kind of dog would go in it began. After searching on the internet night after night we found our little 13 week old vibrant, cuddly boxer. I was not sure if I wanted a dog, this is the first place we have lived with such nice carpet, but I have totally fallin for this sweet little pup. We named her Sooki from one of Emrys favorite childrens books, "The Saggy Baggy Elephant". She fits in so well and is very patient with Emry and Amelia always wanting to be wherever they are. Why not add one more girl, right?

Winter wonderland

Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

a trip to the dentist

"..and never bite the dentist
when he works inside your head
the dentist is your teeths best friend
bite someone else instead."
-Dr. Suess
Today we took Emry to the dentist for her first checkup. I was so proud of her. She got to wear a bib and climb up into a big chair that leaned back when you said "hocas pocas". She opened as big as she could when the Dentist asked her to and SHE even got to take a peek into her mouth. I had to laugh when she put on the glasses, loved it! I can't believe how fast she is growing up. So grateful for that girl!

Happy Girl

Amelia woke up from her nap so happy!

Wouldn't life be great if we could all take a 10 a.m. nap!

Em's 1st hair cut

We took Emry to cookie cutters for her first hair cut. It is the cuttest place for kids. First she was able to pic out a DVD to watch(they had a tv and dvd player at each station). Then they tried to let her ride in a darling little tin car for the haircut, but she wasn't grooving on that so we just sat her on Michaels lap.
She wasn't really sure if she wanted to go through with the haircut, but then the stylist offered her a sucker, and Emry was on board for ANYTHING!





She just laughed and laughed when she got her hair blown dry

Tonight

Tonight michael was trying to get Emry to put on her pajamas but she just wasn't too enthused about it. Then instead of losing his patience with her he put all of the clothes she wore that day on his head. She LOVED this! He was able to then slip her pajamas on her without her even noticeing. Watching him do this reminded me of the 90-10 principle video lauren had on her blog. If you didn't see it, it talks about how we don't have control over a lot of the things that happen to us in life, we only have control on how we react to them. This has left a huge impression on me. Michael could have gotten mad at Emry and forced her pajamas on her tonight and she would have gone to bed in tears and we would have gone to bed feeling guilty, or he could have done what he did and we can now go to bed peacefully. Thank-you michael, I love you!!