Rollin' with the Wheeler's: October 2011

Friday, October 21, 2011

It's a great pumpkin Emma Jean!

This past weekend Michael, Emma and I ventured out to Farmland Adventures in Springdale to meet up with my good friends The Michaels! I couldn't wait to put Emma down in the pumpkin patch and get tons of smiles. Emma did smile but her new favorite facial expression is confusion...she has made that into an art form!

And I have to say that I like this look too! I do love to see her smile in delight but something tells me she's not confused...quite the opposite, she's taking it all in. All of her surroundings, the smells, sights, sounds and the taste of ANYTHING she can put into her mouth!

Chris Michaels is starting to take pictures too and we were so happy to let him shoot Emma in some of what I think are the cutest photo's ever!

We were even able to get a family shot which is no easy task since both Emma and Michael aren't huge fans of having their photos taken. ;-)

And here are Kristen and I with our little girls! We all loved that instead of Emma and Sara Kate looking at the camera they are enthralled with each other!

Chris took some great photos and if you are in the market you should check him out!

Emma is blessed with getting some hand me downs from Zoe and this time she got some great overalls that just begged to be worn at another pumpkin patch. This time we went to Sequoah United Methodist Church where they have a great set up for people looking for some pre-made photo op locations! Here are some of my favorite ones.

She wasn't in the mood to smile but she sure loved the access to all the hay she could get her hands on! And pumpkin stems! And leaves!! ;-D

I don't know about everyone else out there but I am READY for Thanksgiving! One of my coworkers keeps saying that she thinks Thanksgiving is just 2 weeks away and I wish that was true!! We are going down to Alabama to introduce Emma to Michael's side of the family and I almost can't wait!! Only Saundra (my mother in law) has gotten to see her so far and I just want to show her off! And speaking of Saundra we also have great news. She had some cancer removed from her lung almost three weeks ago and because it was the same type of cancer that they had removed from her colon almost a year ago they took some lymph nodes to do some tests...and they came back CLEAR! So no more chemo or radiation and since she has already gone through a round of that for another cancer this year was are SOOOO thankful for the healing that God has brought her! My list of things I am thankful for are really never ending!!

Well that should do it for now. Busy weekend of wedding coordinating with my bestie Bethany, a visit from Poppy and lots of fun times with Daddy!

Be blessed!

Jill

"Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!"

Psalm 106:1

Friday, October 7, 2011

He's BACK!!!

And we couldn't be happier!

Last week was a whirl wind for us. Michael made great time driving back and actually got home on Saturday at 9. We had a great time with a week off together. Emma did wonderful getting reacquainted with Daddy and Daddy did great letting me rest in the night when Emma woke. And yes I said woke...Emma has been sleeping through the night for at least a month now but for some reason she started waking up. That reason was later realized when we took her to the doctor at 7:30 on Thursday night with 102 temp only to find out she had her 4th ear infection. She has had 1 a month since she was 2 months old so we now have a consultation with Dr. Johnson at ENT of the Ozarks on the 26th. If tubes is what she needs then tubes is what she will get!

During the week Emma went to day care and we hung out together getting to go to lunch, get spa treatments and catch up with friends who are no longer in the area. The week flew by but it was exactly what we needed after 8 weeks apart.

Here are some photos from our week together!

All dressed up for church