Here's how our first week of the year went! :)
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Thursday, January 8, 2015
#richlyblesseddaily2015 {Week 1}
The first week of 2015 is officially over!! I'm planning to do my daily pictures on Instagram again this year. I loved, loved, loved looking back at all our pictures from 2014! It brought back so many little memories that I probably would have forgotten otherwise.
Here's how our first week of the year went! :)
Day 1: Five years ago today, Daniel asked me to marry him! He is such a precious gift to me and to our daughter. She has no idea {yet} how much he loves her!
Day 2: We celebrated our engagement anniversary tonight and Daniel cooked an amazing dinner for us. Bacon wrapped asparagus for the win!
Day 3: This baby girl fed herself a little bit of pancake with a fork today!
Day 4: Dinner and a movie tonight with my favorite.
Day 5: We got to go see the Rick & Bubba Show today! I love the fact that they aren't afraid to take a stand for Christ! {And I love their hilarious stories, too, of course!}
Day 6: Where did my little baby go? And that's the second step she's trying to climb up...she already made it up on the first!
Day 7: First sleeping picture of 2015...and bundled up a little more than usual on this freezing cold night!
Here's how our first week of the year went! :)
Thursday, January 1, 2015
#richlyblesseddaily2014 {Week 52}
Well, I did it! I have a picture and a memory from every single day of 2014 and I'm just so happy about that. I really want to find joy in all of the every day small moments as well as the big ones. I feel like this little picture project helped me do that. I can't wait to put them all in a book and make a little 2014 yearbook. It's definitely been an amazing year, the best one of my life!
On to #richlyblesseddaily2015! :) Happy New Year!!
On to #richlyblesseddaily2015! :) Happy New Year!!
You can follow along every day on Instagram @richlyblessedblog. :)
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Day 361: Snuggling with Daddy... Snuggle time is getting more rare with this baby girl who always wants to be on the move. She's loving her new Leapfrog table...although I'm thinking maybe we need to go ahead and put the legs on that came with it if she's going to play with it like this!
Day 362: Listening to Daddy play "You Are My Sunshine". Makes me think of my own Daddy playing guitar for me. Oh, and they're both big Daniel Tiger fans!
Day 363: Time to baby proof the cabinets and drawers! I'll probably leave one that she can open with things inside that she can play with...and I'm sure then she'll only want to get in the other ones!
Day 364: We had a fun day with Vanna today! Emery had so much fun that she pretty much refused to nap when Vanna was here!
Day 365: It's SO hard to believe that 2014 is almost over!! This year has been the most amazing year of our lives and we are so incredibly grateful for our little love and the abundant joy that she's brought to our lives. While I'm a little sad to see 2014 end {I'm super sentimental about things coming to an end}, we're so excited to see what God has in store for us in 2015.
Day 361: Snuggling with Daddy... Snuggle time is getting more rare with this baby girl who always wants to be on the move. She's loving her new Leapfrog table...although I'm thinking maybe we need to go ahead and put the legs on that came with it if she's going to play with it like this!
Monday, December 29, 2014
Emery's 1st Christmas {2014}
Christmas 2013
It's true. Babies make everything more fun...especially holidays! Listen, I've always loved Christmas. I mean, loved it. Like, we put up our tree the first weekend of November. But this year Christmas was even more fun!
Most of our Christmas fun started the Sunday night before Christmas. We had my parents and my sister's family over for snacks and Christmas treats. We even managed to get a great family picture where everyone is looking and smiling...everyone except Emery, who looks like she is thinking really hard about something! :-\
Emery got to open her first present that night. She loved all of the wrapping paper and bows!
This sweet girl was a great helper and showed Emery the ropes for her very first time opening presents. She also gave us all the sweetest gifts that she shopped for herself at the Christmas shop at her school. I got a precious heart-shaped pink gemstone key chain that said "Aunt". I love it *so* much.
Nana got a sweet necklace.
And Uncle D and Gampa both got screwdrivers...which Vanna announced right before they opened them! :)
As the night went on, Emery definitely got the hang of opening presents...
...and continued to enjoy the boxes and bows! :)
The next day we had our annual cookie baking day at my mom and dad's house. My mom, sister, sister-in-law, nieces, and nephews all get together to bake, decorate, and eat tons of Christmas cookies! And I didn't take any pictures of us with the cookies! I only took these pictures of Emery playing with one of her favorite toys at Nana and Gampa's house.
She *loves* this jack-in-the-box and tries to say "uh oh" every time the clown pops out...except it comes out like "uh uh". :)
On Tuesday night, we did one of my favorite Christmas traditions...getting Starbucks and riding around looking at Christmas lights in our PJs. We call it Jammy Cocoa Christmas! Daniel and I have always done this tradition, but we started calling it Jammy Cocoa Christmas last year. It just sounds more fun, right? :)
We got a few pictures by the Christmas tree before we headed out.
She had to try and grab for a few ornaments. :)
Ready to go!
Christmas music on Pandora! I think Michael Buble Holiday is my favorite Christmas station ever!
It was a rainy night, so Daniel had to keep his eye on the radar. I'm telling you, I think he was a weatherman in another life. He loves it. We even went to an all day storm watcher training seminar one year. I remember nothing, he remembers everything. Anyway...
We ran through the Jim 'N Nick's drive through for dinner...
Then we were off to Starbucks!
Just for fun, we did this Christmas light scavenger hunt. We found almost everything!
Emery was awake part of the time, but hardly made a sound. By the time we got home, she was out! I think it's so funny how she wiggled her hat all the way around!
Of course, she woke up when we got her out of her car seat. She threw herself a little party in her crib...
But she fell asleep before too long.
Daniel and I spent the rest of the night watching Home Alone...one of our favorite Christmas movies.
We didn't do much on Christmas Eve except go to our church's candlelight Christmas Eve service. I love this service and Emery did great at her first one!
She started to get a little restless toward the end, but it was nothing a few Puffs and an empty Mentos gum bottle couldn't take care of! ;)
We snapped a quick family picture when we got home...
Then we read Itsy Bitsy Christmas {seriously one of the *sweetest* children's Christmas books!!!} to Emery and let her open one of her presents.
She was worn out and fell asleep with her feet poking out of her crib rails!!
We fixed her feet and she fell right back to sleep with that little booty in the air! <3
Then we got to play Santa for the first time! So much fun!!
Ready for Christmas morning!!
Emery woke up nice and early and we could barely get her to sit still for this picture!
She definitely enjoyed more wrapping paper and bows!
And she seemed pretty excited about her presents, too!
She didn't hesitate trying out her new Wubbanub...
Although she did take a second to inspect it after she tried it out. :) It was like she realized all of a sudden that it looked different than her other ones.
We played, rested, read, put together toys, and played some more before it was time for Emery to take a nap!
While she was sleeping, Daniel and I exchanged gifts and...wait for it, started taking down all the Christmas decorations! I know, it's crazy, but for us, when it's over, it's over. We put it up early so we can enjoy it for a long time, but it comes down on Christmas day! We've never taken it down in the morning before, but we both got kind of crazy and decided to go for it. We were so glad it was done when we got home that night!
We headed over to my parents' house that afternoon for Christmas lunch. Emery was super tired...she barely slept for her first nap. I think she was too excited about all of her new toys! Thankfully, she took a good nap once we got to my parents' house!
Emery had a great time playing with all of her aunts, uncles, and cousins!
We had our annual Dirty Santa gift exchange...always good for lots of laughs!
While we did that, Emery had her own little party by the Christmas tree!
What a precious first Christmas we had with this sweet baby and our family! I'm so thankful for moments and memories like these!
It's true. Babies make everything more fun...especially holidays! Listen, I've always loved Christmas. I mean, loved it. Like, we put up our tree the first weekend of November. But this year Christmas was even more fun!
Most of our Christmas fun started the Sunday night before Christmas. We had my parents and my sister's family over for snacks and Christmas treats. We even managed to get a great family picture where everyone is looking and smiling...everyone except Emery, who looks like she is thinking really hard about something! :-\
Emery got to open her first present that night. She loved all of the wrapping paper and bows!
This sweet girl was a great helper and showed Emery the ropes for her very first time opening presents. She also gave us all the sweetest gifts that she shopped for herself at the Christmas shop at her school. I got a precious heart-shaped pink gemstone key chain that said "Aunt". I love it *so* much.
Nana got a sweet necklace.
And Uncle D and Gampa both got screwdrivers...which Vanna announced right before they opened them! :)
As the night went on, Emery definitely got the hang of opening presents...
...and continued to enjoy the boxes and bows! :)
The next day we had our annual cookie baking day at my mom and dad's house. My mom, sister, sister-in-law, nieces, and nephews all get together to bake, decorate, and eat tons of Christmas cookies! And I didn't take any pictures of us with the cookies! I only took these pictures of Emery playing with one of her favorite toys at Nana and Gampa's house.
She *loves* this jack-in-the-box and tries to say "uh oh" every time the clown pops out...except it comes out like "uh uh". :)
On Tuesday night, we did one of my favorite Christmas traditions...getting Starbucks and riding around looking at Christmas lights in our PJs. We call it Jammy Cocoa Christmas! Daniel and I have always done this tradition, but we started calling it Jammy Cocoa Christmas last year. It just sounds more fun, right? :)
We got a few pictures by the Christmas tree before we headed out.
She had to try and grab for a few ornaments. :)
Ready to go!
Christmas music on Pandora! I think Michael Buble Holiday is my favorite Christmas station ever!
It was a rainy night, so Daniel had to keep his eye on the radar. I'm telling you, I think he was a weatherman in another life. He loves it. We even went to an all day storm watcher training seminar one year. I remember nothing, he remembers everything. Anyway...
We ran through the Jim 'N Nick's drive through for dinner...
Then we were off to Starbucks!
Just for fun, we did this Christmas light scavenger hunt. We found almost everything!
Emery was awake part of the time, but hardly made a sound. By the time we got home, she was out! I think it's so funny how she wiggled her hat all the way around!
Of course, she woke up when we got her out of her car seat. She threw herself a little party in her crib...
But she fell asleep before too long.
Daniel and I spent the rest of the night watching Home Alone...one of our favorite Christmas movies.
We didn't do much on Christmas Eve except go to our church's candlelight Christmas Eve service. I love this service and Emery did great at her first one!
She started to get a little restless toward the end, but it was nothing a few Puffs and an empty Mentos gum bottle couldn't take care of! ;)
We snapped a quick family picture when we got home...
Then we read Itsy Bitsy Christmas {seriously one of the *sweetest* children's Christmas books!!!} to Emery and let her open one of her presents.
She was worn out and fell asleep with her feet poking out of her crib rails!!
We fixed her feet and she fell right back to sleep with that little booty in the air! <3
Then we got to play Santa for the first time! So much fun!!
Ready for Christmas morning!!
Emery woke up nice and early and we could barely get her to sit still for this picture!
She was after that elephant!
She definitely enjoyed more wrapping paper and bows!
And she seemed pretty excited about her presents, too!
She didn't hesitate trying out her new Wubbanub...
Although she did take a second to inspect it after she tried it out. :) It was like she realized all of a sudden that it looked different than her other ones.
We played, rested, read, put together toys, and played some more before it was time for Emery to take a nap!
While she was sleeping, Daniel and I exchanged gifts and...wait for it, started taking down all the Christmas decorations! I know, it's crazy, but for us, when it's over, it's over. We put it up early so we can enjoy it for a long time, but it comes down on Christmas day! We've never taken it down in the morning before, but we both got kind of crazy and decided to go for it. We were so glad it was done when we got home that night!
We headed over to my parents' house that afternoon for Christmas lunch. Emery was super tired...she barely slept for her first nap. I think she was too excited about all of her new toys! Thankfully, she took a good nap once we got to my parents' house!
Emery had a great time playing with all of her aunts, uncles, and cousins!
We had our annual Dirty Santa gift exchange...always good for lots of laughs!
While we did that, Emery had her own little party by the Christmas tree!
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