time to leave Lulu's house

We took a lovely picture with my grandma before heading home.

Emberly and her facial expressions-priceless.

Lulu and Emberly make dinner

Lulu (or Grandma Peaches, as I like to call her) and Emberly made dinner together.

Emberly is always up for helping and especially likes to help in the kitchen.

Ready to go in the oven.

Lulu with the great grandbabies!

Happy Thanksgiving

Mark is only watching here, but was totally amazing while playing Just Dance 2 with Morgan. It was really fun to visit family for Thanksgiving. Emberly was rather nervous the entire time we were here, but did partake in some dancing with Morgan and Koltan.

Happy 3rd Birthday Emberly!

In all the excitement of Emberly's party yesterday, we decided to have her open her gift from us on her birthday. We got her a 6 piece doll furniture set-which she loves!

She was so excited about it!

Happy birthday to our beautiful, sweet and caring little girl. It's hard to believe 3 years has already passed us by. Emberly has grown into this amazing little girl who is more kind, caring and responsible than I could have ever imagined. She tells us all kinds of fun stories and her imagination is taking off. I love her honesty about everything and how at 3 years old she has an opinion about everything.

Just over 3 months and is trying to eat the johnny jump up.

Our cute little Kyprian.

Busy playing with her new toys and wearing some of her new clothes.

Emberly's party

Mark gave rides around the gym. The girls LOVED it!

and then it was Mark's turn to ride. I was amazed that they actually had the blanket moving!

Here's Emberly opening her first present and Ella is opening the gift she brought. Emberly didn't make it past the this present. Papa gave her the Little People nativity set. Emberly was so excited to open it and play with it, she didn't really seem interested in the rest of the gifts people brought for her. It was a good thing Ella was there. Most of the picture we have are of Ella opening presents and showing them to Emberly-who continued to play with her brand new Little People. Emberly received a bunch of cool things, for which we are grateful.

Emberly turns 3!

We got a family picture....unplanned, but we all coordinate!

Emberly loved her purple butterfly cake!

Papa and Kyprian

Emberly loved blowing out the candles on her cake, one by one.

She thought her cake was the coolest thing ever and loved having her birthday party at church in the gym.

Ella, Emberly and Carolyn all enjoyed eating cake and ice cream together.

Bedtime

Kyprian was busy making all kinds of noises tonight.

Emberly, sweet as always.

Time to Shovel

This was the first snowfall of the season which actually required shoveling. Emberly was pumped to go out and shovel. Mark on the other hand-well the look on his face says it all.

Photographer Emberly

Emberly had some help taking this one, but then ran off with the camera and took some of her own pictures. I think they turned out rather well.

bad time for pictures

Emberly told me she didn't want her picture taken.

Little does she know, the picture still turns out even if you're hiding behind your hand!

My sweet little boy. Kyprian cooperated quite well for pictures today.

Although, moments after this picture was taken, he spit up all over Mark!

At least there was some cute bonding time caught on film.

Pudding

We very rarely have pudding at our house.

Despite the fact that she doesn't eat it much, she's really good and cleaning out the container.

"Don't even think about trying to get some of my pudding!"

Tummy Time

After Emberly and her birthmark experience, I didn't know that you could lay babies on their tummies and they would actually be happy. He's such a happy little guy!

Don't forget to say your prayers

I went in to check on Emberly after she had gone to bed and this is how I found her laying.

She had fallen asleep while praying.

Donuts for breakfast

Mark thought it would be fun to check out Mell-o-Glaze and have donuts for breakfast. Emberly was so excited about getting to pick her own donut. Of course she picked one with purple sprinkles on it. She sat in her own chair and watched tv while eating.

We tried out the snowsuit today-he's not quite sure what to make of it yet.

Don't worry buddy...soon you'll hate it...and the cold weather.

WINNER!!

my awesome little guy

taking a nap!

Water Park of America

I scored a couple free passes to the Water Park of America when we signed up to receive the Sunday paper. We waited until Emberly was big enough to ride the slides. She loved it there!

We brought our lunch with.

Kyprian also enjoyed his time there....by napping.

Although Emberly isn't really a fan of being splashed in the face, she really enjoyed the water slides and playing with Daddy.

He carried her up 10 flights of stairs to go on the raft slide with her-TWICE!

I only did it once.

She loved it!

Little Momma

It's so fun to watch Emberly take care of her babies.

She's such a sweet and caring little momma.