Emme's New Toy

Emily got an early birthday present from mommy and daddy. A Dora car!!! She loves it. We wanted her to try it out before winter arrived. She loves riding it and is getting pretty good at it too! She hasn't quite figured out how to steer so you have to watch her really close! LOL!

Our Sick Girl

So....do you think we've been taking Emily's temperature too often?

Here's my sick little girl all snuggled up with her blankies and babies..and yes...her daddy is letting her play with a hispanic dolly :)

Emily Discovers the Mirror - Toddler Age!

Emily discovered a mirror as an infant, of course, like all other infants. Funny thing is that she still can't figure it out. She put her 2 chairs up against our mirror and sat Doah (a.k.a. Dora) down next to her and set out to enter the world of mirror land....

Halloween - 2009

Sorry it's taken me so long to get some Halloween pics up.

Here's a pic of Kory and I from the Mounds party. Matt Reel is the GM at the Mounds Country Club in Fort Atkinson, so that's where we went. We had a little too much fun....

Kory is just a guy in a powder blue leisure suit and I was Madonna.



Here's Matt's niece Melissa and her hubby Brett. They were a riot!


Here's Howie and one of the ladies...I mean Matt and Brenda :)


And the costume contest winners - Ellie and Tim Reel


Here is Kory with "The Walkers" - it was some old couple that lived next to Kory until he was like 7. I met them...I'm sure they thought we were quite the piece of work! ha ha

We had a great time. Thanks to Grammy for babysitting for us!

Happy Halloween - 2009

We've had a great Halloween! It was much more fun this year having Emily old enough to dress up and say trick or treat :)

Here she is - our little Rockstar!

She's checking out her own outfit! Check out those boots!!

Here we are at the neighbors.

Yum...chocolate from Barb!

Love this pic of Auntie Cece, Emme and Grammy. Such a cutie pie!


We went to Prairie Athletic Club in Sun Prairie for games and fun!

Here is Em picking a pumpkin so she can win a prize.

Here's Grammy helping Em draw the face on her ghost sucker.

It's pin the nose on pumpkin!!

All of us! Had a blast!!

We ran into Chris, our daycare provider - and here is Emme with Caed.

Will post another blog with Mommy and Daddy's costumes and fun party at the Mounds!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

October 2009

It's been a busy month so far and we still have over a week to go! Thought I'd post as we've been busy the last week or two.

Here is Emily painting her first pumpkin. She did an awesome job! It's sitting out on the front porch now.

Here she is all ready to go play outside. What a cutie pie!

This is my new favorite picture. She is such an angel.

This is the best one we could get of her newly pierced ears...yep....I got her ears pierced. LOVE THEM! She calls them her "prettys". She has square (fake) diamonds - they are georgous!

Here is Emily in her jammies with her new princess sparkly shoes....do you think we have a girly girl on our hands or what? I literally had to take those shoes and hide them so she would go to bed that night!!!

Here's Emily today in her cute overalls. She was wearing her headband like that all day. What a silly girl! (note the sparkly pink shoes again! ha ha)

It's hard to believe Emily will be 22 months in just a few days. She is learning and growing each and every day. She is still a little peanut, but is as fiesty as ever! She has her dad's lack of patience and her mom's stubborness - so she's quite the combination of the two of us! She talks non-stop. You can now understand a lot more of her words. She always has a lot to say - gee - I wonder where she gets that from :) She also LOVES being the center of attention and is always up for putting on a show for everyone - gee - I wonder where she gets that from - AUNT KACEY!!! :)

We are looking forward to dressing her up for Halloween this year, so we'll be sure to post pictures of our little rock star!

Our Sweet Little Angel...

Has turned into a terror!!! :)
If you don't speak "Emily"...I will translate for you... "BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE"!!!!!

Pumpkin Patch

We went to Schusters in Deerfield today and had a great time. It was absolutely freezing, so we only lasted about 2 hours, but still had a great time.

Here's Emme and Daddy all bundled up:

(if you look really close in this one you can see Emily has one blue sock and one pink sock - no, I'm not color blind - I just have learned to pick my battles and sock color is not one of them! The joy of raising a very stubborn little girl!)

Here Em is picking out her pumpkin:

Here is Auntie CeCe and Uncle Mike:

Here's Mike trying to get Em to feed the goats...she didn't want to get very close:

Mommy and Emme...BURR!!!

My friend Megan came with her daughter Maddy and here's Kory, Em and Maddie riding the "tractor":

Had to post this picture from yesterday of Em. I was busy cleaning the house and decide to let her "help". First I let her clean the floor length mirror and sliding door with windex. She brought her little stool over and did such a good job. Then I was mopping and she wanted to help, so I gave her my dry swiffer and she literally swiffered the floor for an hour. It was hysterical. I am hoping she has Grandma Bonnie's cleaning genes!!! I HATE cleaning!

Walk for Hope

On Sunday, we walked in the Walk for Hope to find a cure for Breast Cancer. It was an emotional day as one of my mom's clients died on Monday after a 12 year battle with breast cancer. My mom was there for the 12 years of fighting, of shaving her head, and giving her hugs when she needed them the most. What an amazing fighter she was.

Here are some pics from our walk. It was a little chilly down in Chicago (it was actually in Glenview, IL), but we bundled up and had a great walk.

Mom and Emme:

Here is Emme in her shirt that Grammy got her - it says "Find a Cure Before I Grow Boobs", she got so many compliments on it. What a cutie pie!

Here is the whole group. It was Christine & Katie on the far left, then my mom, Me & Emme, Mary Hornish, Casey and Lori.

Thanks to all who donated. My mom's shop Lasting Impression raised $600 towards the cause! Nice job ladies!!

Did Kacey Really Turn 30???

She sure did!!! We had a SURPRISE weekend planned for her! I can't believe we actually pulled it off without her knowing. She knew we were going somewhere - but had no idea where. She was determined we were going to the Dells - until we got on the Beltline and headed south. Then she was sooo confused. She started out saying Platteville? Dubuque? The farm? ha ha We had her fooled!!!

We arrived in Galena at the Galena Cellars Winery for our first stop of the day.

Amy put together a box for her that explained her entire day. It was fun to watch her open it and she was so happy about what we had planned:

Here's Kacey showing off her "30" glass that Amy got for her:

Here is a picture of the girls tasting their wines - we got to pick 6 each:

Mother/Daughter - in their matching jean jackets :)

After the Winery - we went to Wild Clover Spa and enjoyed a treatment of our choice! It was fantastic and very relaxing.

Here is Liz, Alli and Julie getting their pedicures:

After the Winery and Spa - we went to Amy's grandparents house in the Territories - talk about amazing!!! It was so beautiful out in the woods and up on these giant hills. You could see for miles. We all sat around, relaxed and played some games. Then we all pitched in and made a yummy taco dinner.

Here's a picture out the windows of the home:

After dinner - we all decided to go out on the town!! Here's Amy, Kacey and Me all ready to go. Kacey has a "Birthday Bitch" tiarra on that everyone thought was a bachelorette! Too funny!! She'd be like "No - read it, I'm the Bitch" ha ha

Here we are before the girls got wild and crazy! Liz, Julie, Lila and Kacey:

Some guy somehow convinced Kacey and Amy to go sing - they were "trying" to sing 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun'...woah...there are a lot of words to that song!!!

Then the girls put their dancing shoes on!!!

Bonnie seemed to get all the attention from the men!!!

Love this pic of Lila and Kacey! You girls are a riot!!!

We had such a fun time. Thanks to everyone who came and who helped put the party on. We FINALLY surprised Kacey!!!! Thanks also to Amy and her grandparents for letting us stay in their georgous home - it was amazing!!!

It's been a busy few weeks around our house. It's started cooling off here too - so we're enjoying the fall weather.

Here are 2 recent pics of Miss Em:

What's Emme up to now?

Well September has been a fun month so far. The weather has been georgous! I love this time of year in Wisconsin. Over labor day weekend, we went up to Hayward and spend a long weekend with my parents and Casey & Mike. It was fun. The boys got a lot of atv-ing in minus a few atv issues! ha ha I won't go into those :) The rest of us hung out, drank beer, shot guns...oops...did I say shot guns???

It was so much fun! The boys were teaching the girls how to shoot - for those of you concerned - Emme was napping and we were only shooting at a beer can and then a cardboard face that Mike made.

I am not so sure how to caption this picture, but I thought it was hysterical. It's a plastic flower holder...Emme decided it also made a nice hat :)



We also went on a boat ride for the last time of the season. Grammy even let Em drive! She loved it.


Since we got back from Hayward, we've just been busy around the house. Nothing too exciting. Emily is talking more and more. It's pretty amazing how every day she learns new words. We are working on saying 2 word sentences now. She hasn't quite got it down yet - other than "See Ya" - she says that all the time!!


Yesterday we went to Lake Geneva and met some friends at a park. It was really nice to see some of my High School friends and all their kiddos. It was a georgous day too! Emme had fun playing. When we got home yesterday, Em took a nap and then we were playing outside when she suddenly wasn't feeling well. She ended up throwing up out on the lawn. Poor little girl. In the middle of her puking session, the neighbors dog came over and ended up getting a shower of vomit!! Nasty! She threw up another 4 times last night - but woke up this morning seeming ok. She seems a little run down and more tired than usual, but other than that she seems fine. We've been taking it easy all day hoping she continues to feel well. One thing that was kind of funny out of all of this - was that she would take a drink of water out of a sippy cup and then about 15 - 20 min later she would throw up. So then she would make us go get her another cup. We went through about 5 cups last night. So this morning she woke up and was at it again....good thing we have a lot of sippys!!! She is too funny....like it's the cup that was making her sick!



Here is Emme at the park yesterday:



Here is Emme playing at the park with my friend Katie's son, Nolan. They are only 3 days apart in age:


Here are the two newest babies. Kyla is my friend Jen's daughter (the baby on the left), Morgan is my friend Allison's daughter (the baby on the right). Kyla is 5 months old and Morgan is 2 months old.


Here is Mason and Alina. Mason is Morgan's big brother and Alina is Kyla's big sister:

Here is the group hanging out. We had a blast! I hope we can do it again soon sometime.


Had to get a good belly shot of Katie. She is pregnant with twin girls!!! She's 23 weeks along. Can't wait to meet the two new little cuties! We brought her all of Em's baby clothes. Only 5 boxes of clothes -- and that's just up through 6 months!!




That's it so far. Been a good month. Looking forward to the next few weeks too. Gotta enjoy this weather before the snow comes!!!

Here is a video that I promised Auntie Kristen. It's Emme early one morning yelling for Otis. It's sooo cute!!!