A Little Bit of This & A Little Bit of That

Daddy had the girls one night last week, while Mommy helped throw a bridal shower for Emily

We had a great time celebrating Emily!

The Phenows

The Morans

 Laughing because Kathy said something witty, and Jenny refused to be in the picture

 The Bryans

 Almost seeeeesters

 The Best Aunt and the Best Niece ;)

 Moran Ever After! T-10 DAYS!!!

Separate rooms make them closer...go figure

Sally reading Libby a story before nap time

 Getting ready for the wedding and back to school with hair cuts!

 Freshly cut

 We got to hang out with Lucy a few times this weekend, while her family was away at a wedding.  We can do that now since we're practically neighbors :)

Sally's all about it.  Libby's a bit more timid

 What a man what a man what a mighty good man!   He's become quite the handy man these last few months! Proud to call him mine! We celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary on Sunday!  We'll likely do a date night celebration sometime in September when things settle down a little bit. Love you, Babens!

 We still did our tradition of watching our wedding video and me putting on my wedding dress :)

 Cheers to a million more, years, not kids ;)  Emma was double fisting!

We had an awesome dance party right after this picture, one that I made sure to bank in my memory for years to come!

 Standing up like a big girl!

 We had a morning play date with the Breunig Girls and then we kept Mae for the rest of the day.  She was the perfect buffer.  There were no fights to break up, it was wonderful!

 Quiet time

 Our couches for our family room arrived yesterday! Still waiting on the ottoman.  Our sectional for our basement comes tomorrow! Getting cozier and cozier every day, especially with the rainy day today

 Dinner at DQ, why not?! They were pretty proud I let them order their after dinner treat all on their own

Daddy's rough view of his accommodations for his work conference...

Happy Hump Day!

Double Digits

Emma is 10 months!!!!

She's digging her new pad so much that she's learning something new every day in order to keep up with her Big Sisters and learn to explore her new world!

She went from laying to sitting and sitting to all fours and then what seemed like the next day, she was crawling.

Then the next day she started pulling herself up on things.  She'll even do her downward dog on the bamboo floors with her jammers on, that takes skills!  She mastered standing in her crib when it's time to sleep.  Today at nap she threw her favorite blankie out of her crib and cried until I gave it back...oh great, here we go!  She became attached to her bunny in her crib.  Sometimes I she falls asleep sitting up with her head resting on one of the bumpers. Silly nut

She has one hundred teeth.  Maybe 8, maybe 10? I'm not brave enough to stick my fingers in to look.  She had 3 consecutive nights when I'd switch her from eating on one side to the other and she chomped right on down.  Cannot even begin to explain the pain.  3 nights in a row!! yes, there was blood. Needless to say, she's done with her 4am feeding...

She mastered the fake cry, and is really quite good at it.  Makes you think she lost an arm or something

Now that she's on the move, she's a real treat to try and hold and keep quiet in church.  We're making our presence known in no time :)

Loves when her Daddy gets home from work.  Her sisters can make her laugh the hardest.  She can't get enough of bath time.  Loves to fake cry when you try and change her diaper...even to the point where I was worried her back was hurt or something...stinker pants

The only thing we've found that she won't eat is cottage cheese.  She crushes real food like you wouldn't believe.  So long is the baby food stage, thank goodness :)

She has been trying very hard to master the wave of opening and closing her hand.  She's so proud she finally did it!

She LOVES to give open mouth kisses.

This girl. She continues to get cuter and spunkier and more loveable every single day.  Happy 10 months Emmer Dews, We Love you!

Making a house a home

Part 2 of moving...

on the road that turns in to our neighborhood there are 2 crosses that are lit up at night.  They're made out of fallen trees with the stump that was left behind.  We love it!

Nana and Gramps arrived just in time to help unload our Smartboxes and take over on Littles duty so Mommy and Daddy could get a few things done.

Friday morning Delores came over for coffee and a tea party! So great to see her and catch up! 

Friday morning I took Sally to a playground activity at her new school and then to Target to pick out her school supplies.  It was nice to have some one on one time.  T-19 days until school!!  We're also pretty excited about her bus schedule.  An hour and 15 minutes later than last year! She gets to sleep in!

That afternoon I met Sheila (she wears many hats) to check out Macy's furniture store.  We SCORED huge.  After dinner Reid and I went to Hom to compare and there wasn't much to compare. We headed back to Macy's at purchased all that we had picked out.  Couch, love seat and ottoman for our family room and a sectional for our basement.  Slowly they'll start arriving at our house.  Did you know Macy's is the 3rd largest furniture retailer? Me either.  I guess they're big on the East and West Coasts.  If you're looking for furniture, I'd give them a look!

Homemade Popsicles for snack

Saturday morning the crew got donuts and a donated TV by my Aunt and Uncle--THANK YOU!!

Saturday afternoon we headed to Northfield to celebrate my cousin Brad getting married to Dustee! It was a nice little break for Mommy and Daddy!

 Soooooooon to be Sisters!

 Love these two!

 Great Party guys!

 Gramps tackled sister bath with all 3 at once, what a champ!

 Cheers to some time together!

 Selfie Stick/Photobooth fun!

 What about Brian?!

 Love this one :)

Sunday morning we got to introduce Nana and Grandpa to our new church and where the girlies will be going to school.

They held down the fort again, so Mommy and Daddy could do a run to Ikea and a monster run to Target!

Loading up our cart at Ikea! Love/hate with that store :)

 Nana picked out a new pool for the girls, they love it, thank you!

 Taking a break and swinging at the park after a walk around the pond

 Emma Bee is SOOOOOO BIG.  Thanks for the adorable shirt, Tiff!

 Tea Party, pool side!

 Emma Bee, sweet as can be!

Millionth trip home from Target, at least I had a pretty drive home :)

Thank you thank you Nana and Grandpa for allowing us to get so much done Thursday-Sunday! Can't wait to see you again in a few short weeks!

Gotta run, Geek Squad is on the way to install our TV and we get to Shower Miss Emily today with a Bridal shower!! T-15 days until the weeeeeeeeeeeedddding!

Toodles!