I know I’ve said this before, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE our church. We are so fortunate! This year as an outreach we had “Christmas on the Mountain”, complete with Santa pictures, kettle corn, hot chocolate, cookies, carriage rides, cow train rides, ornament decorating, and a live nativity. Here are some pictures of Emery enjoying the Christmas fun!
I remember when I was pregnant with Emery thinking about how excited I would be for her to be in little performances at church, and this Christmas was her big debut!! She may have only sang two songs, but it was a huge day! I debated and debated what she would wear, and we practiced her songs all the time. Girlfriend KNEW those songs and motions like the back of her hand. All of the little ones filed in to sing their songs, and Emery just stood there through the first song (Go Tell it on the Mountain). After the first song, chaos ensued…kids were running off the stage and everything, so of course Emery tried to run off of the stage too. I signed no to her and she immediately started crying. Not like whimpering cute crying…we’re talking ALL.OUT.SILENT.CRY TURNED EXTREMELY LOUD SHRILL!! Oh yea, not exactly how I pictured her big debut, but definitely a memory none the less :)
Extremely random side note that I just remembered while looking at these pictures, Emery and Layna traded bows before coming upstairs to sing haha…hilarious!!
Emery also had her very first performance at her preschool (which we LOVE) the Monday after I went back to work. That meant that I only got to go during my lunch, which is 25 minutes long :( BUT I am thankful that her school is in close proximity to mine, and that I got to see it at all. She was singing and doing all of the motions UNTIL she saw me, then she froze and kept smiling at me, but hey at least she didn’t run off…baby steps, baby steps! I unfortunately have no pictures of this, but we do have a video!
At our church we do a baby dedication, and its honestly more of a promise by the parents that we will do everything that we can to raise our children in a home that is Christ centered. This is a really special time for our family! When Emery was dedicated, my best friend’s little girl Layna was also dedicated, and this go round her son Landry was dedicated with Wagner!! This time was extra special though because the Dowdy’s little boy Max was dedicated, and the Shivley’s little girl Ellie was too!!
Brad and I consider ourselves, and our two babies, extremely lucky to have such godly examples to raise our kids around!! We love each of you so much :)
Yes this is a little late, but we’ve been busy around here…more on that to come!!! :) Thanksgiving was full of family fun as usual so without further ado…here’s a picture dump!
Aren’t the kids’ outfits cute?? My mom and Granny made those…I’m lucky to have such talented seamstresses (Grandbess has also made the kids some cute outfits!) We had A LOT to be thankful for this year!
Emery has had A LOT of changes lately, but she has just ROLLED with the punches. I know she’s mine, but she is an amazing little girl! She’s moved into her big girl bed, started preschool, had a baby brother, and now she has given up her PACIFIER!! I was sure this would be a HUGE battle, but when Wagner was a week old I figured that since we already weren’t sleeping why not try it. I told her she was a big girl and that I needed her to give me her paci and I was going to throw them away, she looked at me really seriously, popped her paci out, handed it to me, and said “Okay Mommy, I big girl, baby Wagner use pacis, not Emery”. And that was that (aside from the few hits she sneaks off of Wagner’s pacis when she thinks we’re not looking). WOW! Such a big girl, and I am so proud of her!
Wagner OBVIOUSLY looks like Brad…as demonstrated by this picture…
BUT…don’t you see the resemblance between Emery and him in these two pictures??
We have so much to be thankful for this year!!
Happy Thanksgiving from the Collins family!
