Life & picture updates

 We finally got our kitchen table done and purchased some chairs to match! Ryan also finished the tile! Yay! So happy about that. It looks so good!

This is once everything was torn up. A blank canvas :)

This was when it was almost done 

DONE! And so beautiful!

 

What it looked like before. It was soggy, sticky and had a weird smell. So glad we got it out. Emma makes it look pretty good though ;)

And here's our pretty table that Ryan sanded, refinished and polished up. It's so pretty 

This is what it looked like before 

This is after it was all sanded.

HUGE improvement. Seriously. Ryan amazes me.

Here are some other pictures of things going on with us :)

St Patricks day:

We made green waffles with mint chocolate ice cream on top once Emma was in bed (so mean I know). We don't eat like this very often, but when we do we go all out ;) We also celebrated pie day. Needless to say, we've had out share of deliciousness for a while!

Emma doesn't mind getting dirty very much anymore. It's so fun, I really do love it when she gets messy. The dirtier the bath water at the end of the day the better!

Sad picture of the day. 

Time outs have been helping Emma with her tantrums a lot. When she does something she knows is naughty I just put her in a corner and tell her she's in time out and she has to stay there for 2 minutes. And she does. She knows what's up. She hates it but that's a good thing :) her tantrums are letting up a little bit. 

My girl loves playing basketball after I'm done working out at the gym. I let her run around the gym, she heads straight to the basketballs and she just runs around with them until she can't run anymore. Sometimes she'll throw it and we'll race to it to see who can get there first. She almost always wins, of course, and she loves it.

We watched Frozen for the first time finally! Laying on the clean laundry. We loved it. We even sing the music together :) I wish I knew how to put videos up on here. I have proof that she sings :)

Here are some other random pictures of us recently. 

I wanna take a selfie!" ;)

Ready for church. 

Our silly cat Tia.

Hanging out with the fridge in the living room. When the tile was a work in progress.

That's all I've got for now. Kind of random, nothing big too life changing has happened. But hey, it's our life and we love it. :)

Fall

Well, summer is officially over. It's hard to believe it's October already! This summer was full of hiking, swimming, spending time with family, traveling and being home with my little family.
I'm sad it's over. Time slips away so quickly..
However, I absolutely love this time of year. The colorful leaves, crisp air, sweaters, pumpkin roll, warm soup, hot chocolate and cuddling. It's definitely got it's charms.
It is strange going through this time of year without attending school. I spend my days doing things that need to be done and things I want to do. Ryan has morning classes and a bunch of online classes and a night job a few days a week, so he's home for most of the day--it's really nice.



EmmaLee is growing so fast! In two days she will be five months old. She sits up on her own, rolls around, giggling, and squealing. She can grab things easily now and brings everything to her mouth. The front of her shirts are always plastered to her skin because of all of her drool. Her lucious dark hair has thinned out and a thick layer of blonde fuzz is taking it's place. So at the moment she looks like she's balding, but I'm really excited she's going to be a little blondie. :)  Her eyes are green. She's beautiful.

I love being a mom. Having a baby whose face lights up whenever you walk into the room and will snuggle in your arms and fall asleep cuddled next to you... Such a blessing.

She has such a fun personality; there's never a dull moment with her around.

She loves our cat Tia. She gets so excited when she sees her, she tries so hard to get over to where Tia's sitting. It's so cute. 

Tia manages to always stay just out of reach. Once Emma learns how to crawl though, Tia's going to have to work a little harder to evade her.