Yay!

A new project begins this weekend. Let's call it 'Goodbye to our ugly living room'! Bron says he has been waiting for this since the first time he walked into this room, before he chose to buy the house. He also says I can decorate and paint this room however I would like, even if the wall color I am dreaming of is a pretty blush pink with white trim. :)

For today, Emmy and I are enjoying all the space to run around in.

Join us in saying goodbye to all of these silly things:

  

Emmy's first trip to the cabin,

I can't believe there is a little over a week left of August. This summer has flown by. The first week of this month (wow, was it really that long ago? ) the three of us spent two nights and two days at the Irwin family cabin. Our first little vacation as a family, just the three of us.

We had a fun time! Emmy loved the river, and all the open space for her to go crazy in. We did call in reinforcements with Granddad. Gram was away that weekend, but he managed to steal away to camp to be with us for a day:) Bron says it was a bit of a reality slap to be there at with a little child to chase after, hehe. He has so many memories of camp, and is now making new kinds of memories in this season of life.

Emmy was too excited to sleep in on our first morning of course,

This was probably 5 minutes after waking, she wanted to go outside right away. What a good Dad,:)

We made Emmy a little fort so that she could stay in one place for a few minutes, it helped, a little.

She was so brave in the water!

Emmy definitely bonded that weekend with her Granddad.

A bath on the porch. She did pretty well with this. And she really needed one!

We spent Saturday night into Sunday at Granddad's house. Here are a couple pictures of  Emmy chasing the cats around. She loves animals!

  

Our one year old!

Emmy has become a one year old since we last posted! We had a small gathering of close friends and some of our family. Here are a few pictures of her birthday party, taken by my friend Sarah on her iphone. Somehow we forgot to take pictures, we were a bit preoccupied with other things:)

 Here are some pictures of her doing one year old things. Climbing into her basket of toys to play with them, and eating a stick of butter when I wasn't looking.

A Visit to the Vile's.

Emmy and I visited my parents' house for the day this week. Dot, Maddie and I are thinking about starting an Etsy together, so that was the purpose of the visit. But, most of the time was spent watching Emmy chasing the dogs and chickens around. It was a very funny and adorable sight. Here's a video of her playing catch with Lucy! She was nervous at first but then was confident as could be.

 

 

Here is my Dad posing Emmy with a flower for a photo. This brought back funny memories of my childhood, hehe.

She was supposed to keep the flower here, but she was too excited about the chickens.

Here she is looking at the dogs,

Another posed by Dad.

The 4th and 5th of July,

 We spent the 4th of July at my parent's house. It was a smaller crowd then usual, but it was a fun time. It was pretty much all girls this year actually!, except for Bron and my Dad. 

My littlest sister Maddie and Emmy. I've been catching myself calling Emmy 'Maddie' alot lately! They are similar to eachother in personality I think. Or maybe I just still think of Maddie as a toddler. (Sorry Maddie!)

barefeet in a hammock.

Here is Emmylou and Delphine staring at eachother, ^ hehe.

And since the 4th was on a Thursday, Bron was off on Friday! So he spent the morning cleaning out our cute little back porch that we've never used since we've been married. I am searching Craigslist every day for a wicker set for this place! I've been too late about three or four times, *sigh*, Oh well! We finally hung up our red Fisher Price swing that I got on a super sale a month or two ago. Emmy had a look on her face like she couldn't believe this was her life!

 It was in the mid 90s at this point, and she didn't seem to mind a bit. We love her sweaty baby curls!