3 months

Emma's 3 month pictures

One happy Boy!

For Christmas Andrew got a snow plow for his Deere from my parents and his. He got it just in time for the two big snow falls we just had. Andrew had a lot of fun clearing the driveway.

My parents also sent Andrew the world's best beef jerky. Within 48 hours of receiving the jerky it was all gone!

Christmas with The Brown's

Payton, Graham and Emma reading the "B" book
Payton and Emma hanging out
Emma's Christmas outfit

On Saturday the 22nd we got together with Graham, Kristy and Payton for an early Christmas. We had a very nice brunch with and egg bake (it was delish!), coffee cake, fruit and peppermint coffee. Graham also made peppermint hot chocolate....it was AWESOME!

Busy Weekend

Jaime, Mike and Emma
Joe, Jill and Emma

Joe....well......being Joe......

Friday I went to a cookie exchange with my playgroup. I had to make 5 dozen cookies! It actually wasn't that bad and the cookies I made looked pretty good too. It was fun to get an assortment of Christmas cookies, but not have to make all the different doughs!

Saturday my college friend Jaime and her husband Mike drove up from Bloomington to visit. We went out for lunch at Panera and then came back to our house and visited for a few hours. We had a great time catching up with them and I really appreciate the fact that they drove all the way up here just for us! Also, Mike got to hold Emma for the first time, and it was his first time holding a baby EVER. He looked like a natural!

After Jaime and Mike left we headed up to our friends Joe and Jill's new house. They just built a townhouse in Elgin and it is beautiful! Joe and Jill hadn't seen Emma in a while so it was nice for them to get to see her. Jill made chili and garlic sandwiches (YUMMY) and we played Catch Phrase, which reminded me of college and those crazy days. Then it took us an hour to get home because we had freezing rain-yuck!

All I want for Christmas....

Well, Emma can't tell Santa what she wants quite yet, but she did get to meet the big fella for the first time. Pulte had a family outing last weekend that included breakfast and pictures with Santa! Of course Emma had no idea what was going on so she didn't cry when we handed her over for the pictures.

Playmats ROCK!!!!!!!!

Emma is EXTREMELY fond of her playmat with the hanging animals. She will lay on the mat for quite a while and coo and bat around the animals. We have affectionately named 3 of the 4 animals, Ellie the Elephant, Raffe the Giraffe, and Perry the Parrot. It's so fun to watch her enjoy herself and it gives you a couple minutes to get stuff done :)