UNO

Our Emmy turned one September 10, and drum roll please......

I AM NOT PREGNANT! We did manage a small celebration in her honor, which consisted of our friends the Rustads coming over to sing and watch Emmy rip into her oversized cupcake. My favorite part was watching Trent try to contain himself while Emmy worked the cupcake over. It's probably good that one of us is concerned with the sugar intake and cupcake remains from head to toe. We got Emmy a couple of gifts opened via Sydney and Tate. Emmy's favorite gift is a little glowworm that sings, she immediately goes into "mothering mode" and rocks it night- night.

Rustads

This next picture pretty much sums up Emmy's gift opening.....

Emmy, has definitely been our rock star baby,

she has made the chaos of having three little ones

that are close in age a joy.

A few things that we love about Emmy;

1. She can hang with any program

2. She loves her Sydney

3. Our good eat'n gal

4. Tubby time lover

5. Happy, happy, happy and has the most

peaceful disposition

Sum-Sum-Summer Time

This may be one of my favorite Summer days that I have had in Ohio! I can not remember laughing this hard in a long time. Our friends the Ellis's' hooked us up with a boat outing, we had such a good time. Sydney, had a smile for four hours straight.

Syd and the Smarts chill'n tube style.

Tate finely attempted the water after much coaxing.

The Emmy girl never made a peep, then again... maybe she couldn't.

The Daddy and Em...

This guy has the best stories ever and I am pretty sure he makes my Top Ten Funniest people list. Not to mention he is always nice to our Tate.

This is his "Hot Fox", and I love her because she always keeps it REAL! She also has some crazy good tunes that she keeps on board. Most importantly, she can hang with my sassy mouth out on the tube.

Thanks for the great boating day!

We knew that we had a successful day when the kids asked us to take them to bed at 7:00 pm.

What's your Pleasure?

Two of Syd's simple pleasures in life are....Chocolate & her Swimsuit.

Sometimes I wonder if I should put a whole stop to the "swim wear every day routine" and then I think why? Syd was in such a sweet state of bliss, that I honestly debated on throwing my bathing suit on and joining her for what was left of the chocolate cake batter. (Okay, I was kind of kidding, I really don't fantasize about eating chocolate cake batter in my swim suit..... or at least not often.)