On September 16th, Mom, Cori and I held a baby shower for Casey in honor of Baby B's arrival. I can not wait for my new little niece's arrival. We are soooo excited for Casey & Mike!
I didn't take a ton of pictures because I was busy hosting, but I took a few beforehand that I wanted to share with everyone...
Our "Ready to Pop" theme - white chocolate covered popcorn and blow pop suckers
sooo proud of the banner I made! Isn't it cute???
Cake area
Love the cake! My friend Nan made it and she did an awesome job!!
Emily started gymnastics last week. She absolutely loves it!!!! She is learning a lot and enjoying spending time with her best friend Keira and her cousin Braenna. They are all in class together.
Em is in the green shorts and pink tank top
Our little gymnast!
Doing hopskotch on the apples
Braenna getting ready to do her somersault
Emily waiting in line
Em doing her somersault
Keira on the balance beam with Em right behind her
Our little Emily started 4K this year. She is officially a preschooler. It is a big deal although for her it isn't too much of a change. She is now the "big kid" at school because her daycare is ages 2 - 5 so the oldest kids are the ones in 4K. She started a new class and her teacher's names are Kayla and Emily. She has completed her 1st week now and is into her 2nd week and loving it!
So far the differences I've noticed is she gets to be a color each day. The color is based on your behavior for the day. So purple is the best color you can be and if you get on purple then they send a note home to the parents letting us know what they did that was so wonderful. So the first 3 days she came home bummed that she was only on green - which is the 2nd best color. So finally on Thursday she came home with purple and she was soooo excited! LOL! Such a little angel she is :) Another thing we need to do is we have a sheet that we have to color a leaf for each 10 min of reading we do together. So we're working hard on coloring leaves. Em is even doing some reading on her own. Just the beginning stages of learning to read, but it's exciting for all of us.
Our camera was kind of fuzzy that day - but here are a few pics and a video that we took. She looked so cute for her first day of 4K.
I also found this cute video of Emily doing the months of the year, days of the week and her ABC's. She's quite the little singer....
Kory and I took a few days off work and decided to take Emily on a little family vacation. We left on Thursday morning for the Three Bears Lodge in Warrens, WI. It's a waterpark resort so we knew she'd have a great time. We all loved it!
Daddy and Em heading up to the waterslide
The outside waterslides. Em and Kory went down these like 1,000 times!
Front view of the resort
It was so hard to get a picture of them because my finger isn't fast enough :)
Here's Em holding her breath as she comes off the bottom of the slide
Hi mommy!!
Swimming like a fish!
Standing in the water
Mommy and Emme
Waiting for Daddy to come down the indoor slides. They wouldn't let Em go because she wasn't 42" yet!!!
We love our drinks! Mommy's was a mango margarita and Em's was a blue raspberry slushie :)
My handsome husband...no really I just had to take a picture of the bedspreads in the hotel and he happened to be sitting there :) We have the same one on our bed at home. Should I be embarassed????
Money for the arcade!!!
Attempting to play basketball...not good at all :( Sorry G!
Never seen an arcade where the prizes come out of a machine. Kinda weird, but she didn't care!
Emme and Daddy at our fish fry dinner
Happy girl!
Loving the waterslides
Coming down the red slide
Jumping and then swimming to mommy
Love this video of Emily. This child was not able to even sort of swim at the beginning of the summer. She has worked incredibly hard to be able to swim like a big girl. Mommy and Daddy are sooooo proud of you buggie!!!!!
Last weekend, our neighbors invited us to go camping with them in their fancy schmancy camper. Em has been dying to go so it was a perfect opportunity. Thank you so much to Kathy, Andy and the boys (Logan, Brayton & Devon) for allowing us to tag along. We had a blast!!!!!
Emily getting her art stuff out in the camper
Here's Andy holding a flashlight out at the campfire so Emily can color. He spoiled her rotten all weekend...she loved every minute of it :)
Brushing her teeth
Kathy, Andy and the boys even have ATV's so we all went riding together. Em loved it and she was able to ride 50 miles with us. I couldn't believe she did so well. She bounced around between Daddy's and Andy's four-wheeler. She even rode on mine and Kathy's for just a bit. It was super dusty, but other than that it was a perfect day for a ride.
Em sitting on the ATV getting ready to unload it off the trailer
Emily with her buddy, Logan - she ADORES him!
My dirty girl...she isn't even dirty yet tho...just wait!
The crew! Emily & Logan, Kory, Brayton, Devon, Kathy & Andy - we were going inside for lunch
Me and Kathy - one of my best friends in the entire world!!!
Emily being a big girl with all the boys waiting on lunch
Yes - this is what my baby girl looked like after 50 miles of ATVing - is she a trooper or what???
This was after she "fixed" her hair
We stopped at a gas station on the way back to the campsite and she got a ring pop. She totally looks like she has eye liner on in this picture but it is all dirt! We used wet wipes on our hands/faces.
Just loved the sand up there! And yes those are kitchen items thanks to Miss Kathy :) I told you she was spoiled!!
Burying her feet
Brayton helping her
Love this pic! We had so much fun!!
The Weisensel family!!!
Em in her camping bunk. She slept in the back room with all the boys. They each had a bunk bed.
Thanks again for having us Kathy & Andy!!! Love you guys!
