Rosemary Beach Florida 2009

We spent the week in Rosemary Beach, Fl with my parents, grandma, great-aunt Joanie, my aunt Caren, and my cousin Catherine. It was a very relaxing week filled with bike riding (my parents joined us on an 18 mile bike ride, I was impressed with them!), playing in the sand and ocean, swimming in the pool, playing cards, and EATING!

Moser Visit and Cousin Julie's Wedding

Aunt Ali, Uncle Mike, Benny, and Nattie were in town for Adam's cousin's wedding. It was a quick visit but we had fun spending the day at Grammy and Pop's house on Friday. For some reason, the only pictures I took were of the three of them in the bath tub. I think Ben and Emma spent a lot of time playing together and the rest of us were just sitting around with Nattie relaxing!

We had a great time at Julie's wedding. The bride was beautiful and so was the entire wedding. Emma had a blast on the dance floor. Hopefully she will continue to like to dance, since her dad and I are more of observers!

The Bride To Be....

My good friend Stephanie is engaged to be married to Adam's good friend Dave (I set them up!). They are getting married in San Francisco December 1st. We are excited to go and be part of their wedding. We had a shower for Steph with all of our work friends Oct. 4th. Emma was a big (not really, more of a terror!) help to Steph with her gifts. When the shower was over, we had pumpkin muffins all over our house from Emma that day. It was hard for me to keep track of her and host a shower! Oh well, we have a good vacuum!

Six Flags with the Reid's

Adam's cousins were in town for a weekend in St. Louis so we met up with them at Six Flags for the afternoon. Emma had fun playing with them and riding the rides. It was nice for her to have someone her own age to do things with! Between our two families, Emma has a ton (at least 50 added together) of cousins. It is just too bad that we do not live near any of them!

Rombach's Pumpkin Patch

We took Emma to the pumpkin patch in early October. She had fun picking out all of the pumpkins for our front porch! She also was fascinated with the "haunted house" that you had to walk through to get to the pumpkin patch. I do not like to be scared so I hope she is not going to be into scary things!

Emma's Haircut

This was Emma's second haircut of her life. I am trying to keep it manageable without cutting any of the curls. So far they are still intact but they are beginning to look like a mullet in the back so who knows how long they will stay! She sat so still in her little booster seat!

Park Pictures

Old pictures, but I am posting them anyway since I am so behind. (You can tell they are from six weeks ago since Emma is in summer clothes!) We took Emma to the park for a picnic and to play on the playground. She got the biggest kick out of her Daddy on the zip glider but he wouldn't let me post that picture!

A Much Needed Update!

It is a much needed update, but here are a few of the things we did in August! We did take a weeklong vacation with Grammy's family to Michigan though there are not any pictures on here to show! That will require some more blogging time!

August 25, 2009 - Emma and the Cardinal Game
We went with Grammy and Pops to the Cardinal Game to watch them play the Houston Astros. This was Emma's first game of the season (she went last year) and probably the last! She was actually very good, entertained with snacks for the first few innings and then walked around the entire stadium with Grammy for the last few! Here are a few photos. We didn't take too many photos because we had so much junk with us (packed to entertain Emma) that it was hard to get to the camera!

August 30, 2009 - Eckerts
A few Sunday's ago, we took Emma to pick apples at Eckerts. It was a little chilly outside but Emma had a great time. We were the ONLY ones picking at the time so Emma was able to run around and act crazy without us having to coral her! Eckerts has three different locations in the St. Louis area. This was our first time at this particular farm (the Millstadt Farm). It had this lookout area that you went up and could see the entire downtown skyline!

Grammy and Pops took Emma to Botanical Gardens last week. It was a PERFECT day in St. Louis. The weather was awesome and they got some great pictures!

July Update

Here are a few of the things that went on with us during July..............

Since we live close to Six Flags (seven minutes away!) we thought it would be a good idea to buy a season pass. (Actually, this was my idea. Adam hates amusement parks!). We have officially used our pass three times and probably will not be buying one next year. It has just not been quite the amount of fun I anticipated. Anyway, Emma has enjoyed the rides she is eligible to ride. She LOVED driving the moon cars! Here are some shots from our first time there.

Early in July, my grandma and cousin Catherine came for a visit. We went swimming in our neighborhood pool, went to Six Flags (twice!), went shopping, and ate lots of food! Here are some of the pool pictures. Catherine is such a huge help with Emma. I am hoping that next summer she just moves in with us!

Emma and I spent some of last week in Farmington since we had some family visitors from IL. Emma loved playing with all of her cousins. We leave at the end of the week for Michigan where we will get to spend time with all of her IL cousins. I know Emma is going to have a blast. I can't wait to see how she likes the sand!

Adam's birthday was July 11. Emma and I celebrated it on July 27th! (We were busy around the time of his real birthday!) I attempted to make a fruit pizza for him but the crust overflowed in the oven leading to a burnt smelly disaster. We had ice cream with fruit instead. Happy late birthday Adam! Next year, we will try to be on time!

Finally, here are a few shots of Emma in our backyard. It is hard to get her to smile outside because she is so distracted by everything she sees!

My Cute Girl

In case you don’t have time to read any of the numerous post below (I understand if you get bored!) here is a quick shot of my favorite girl. I love this photo of her!

Fourth of July 2009 and Visit with the Moser’s

We spent this past week in Farmington with Adam’s family. It was a fun relaxing week. Emma loved being with her cousins Ben and Natalie. She was fascinated by her cousin Benny and loved laying (on top of!) her cousin Nattie! Here are some pictures from the week!

We spent an afternoon in Ste. Genevieve with Adam’s grandma Marie, and of course, we did a photo shoot! Here are some pictures from that day!

Natalie and Emma had two matching outfits so we dressed them up and took a hundred pictures! If we lived closer we would probably annoy the two of them with making them wear matching clothes all the time!
We started the holiday off at my mom’s house for her annual Fourth of July Party. We only stayed for part of it, enough to devour our first meal, and then headed back to Adam’s parents. It is convenient to hop back and forth from the two houses since they live down the street from each other. Here are some shots at my parents.
Here are some pictures from our second annual “Flag Photo Shoot”…..

And some pictures from last year (Emma was only three months old! She has changed so much!)

Finally, some picture of everyone watching fireworks. We got there early to get a good spot so we had to entertain Emma with food. This should explain why she looks a mess in every picture! Thank goodness she has a great appetite, it buys us a lot of time!