My Baby is One!!

I can hardly believe that our little Emma has already been in our family for a full year! On the one hand, I feel like it was just yesterday that I was pregnant with her, and on the other, I can hardly remember life without her. She is such a joy to have in our family, and it is so nice to add a little femininity to the house. I don't feel quite so outnumbered anymore!! We had a really fun birthday for her. We woke her up for church by singing happy birthday to her, and then let her open a couple of presents. Later that night we had a party for her. Taylor and Austing successfull took over and opened all her presents for her. She didn't seem to mind. She just played with the balloons and wrapping paper. The highlight of Emma's night was the birthday cake. Most babies are a little tentative about their first cake, but not Emman she dug right in. She was shoveling fistfuls into her mouth. At one point she went face first into the cake! She loved it. It was so funny to watch. You'd think with her gigantc appetite that she'd be a little bigger, but she continues to sit at the 1 percentile!! We love our little Emma so much and are so glad to have her in our family. Happy Birthday Baby!!

Vampires, and spidermans, and bunnies, oh my!

Halloween was a lot of fun. Taylor loved being able to dress up and parade around school in his costume. All the kids at the bus stop thought he was pretty scary. Austin, being the candy loving child that he is, thought Halloween was the greatest day of the year. And little miss Emma really didn't seem too phased by seeing all the kids dressed up in weird costumes, she just kind of went along for the ride!

Football Fun!

Taylor just finished his first season of flag football, and Ira just completed his first season of "head coaching". Yes, that's right...Ira coached Taylor's team wrapping up the season with a 3-5-1 record. 3 wins, 5 losses, and one tie. But really it's hard to keep track when kids are running the wrong way and scoring touchdowns for the opposing team. It was so fun though. Taylor loved it and you could tell that by the end of the seaon he was really starting to understand the game. You can see by the pictures that Taylor was a little at a disadvantage being that he was a good head shorter than the next smallest kid, but he loved it anyway. And interestingly enough, he was tougher than most of the big kids. They big ones seemed to be the ones crying every time they got hit. Taylor was the youngest one on the team so I guess it makes sense that he was the smallest! Anyway, it was a lot of fun and definitely kept us laughing at the things that would happen. One time Ira called for one of his players to come in and rotate another kid out, and he looked around for him and found the kid climbing a tree on the other side of the fence...I love the competitive spirit!