Emery's 1st Santa Visit {2014}

We had the best day today! Daniel took the day off of work and it was so nice to spend the day together. Emery had her 9 month check-up this morning at the doctor and we have a very healthy baby! Other than the shots, it was a great visit. Those shots seriously break my heart. She's as happy as can be, no idea what's coming, and then it hits her. She does this crazy cry where you can't even hear anything at first...you just see it on her face. It's awful.

Anyway, on to happier things! We came home so Emery could get a good nap because we had plans to take her to Bass Pro Shop to see Santa this afternoon! Her nap was cut short thanks to a delivery person ringing the doorbell when they put a package on the porch. WHY do they insist on ringing the doorbell?!?!

After a quick run through the Starbucks drive through for Mommy and Daddy, we were on our way to Bass Pro. They have the cutest little set up and we were there early enough that we only had to wait about 10 minutes. She was very patient... :)

Then it was our turn! She was very serious at first.

Then she started to notice him...

And it was over from there.

He was a very sweet Santa, but I think it was the beard that did him in.

Secretly {I guess not so secretly}, I'm happy to have this picture. It's a classic Christmas picture in a child's life, in my opinion. ;)

She was fine as soon as I picked her up!

I love those two cute little teeth!

After the Santa scare, we headed to the carousel!

After today's experience, I'm pretty sure we'll be riding the carousel any time we're near one. She *loved* it!

She checked it out for a minute... I love how she held on to the pole!

Ready to go!!

She started to try and pull herself up on that pole!

Happy girl!!

This was my favorite part... Her head is blurry in these pictures because she kept shaking it back and forth with the music!! Seriously one of the cutest things ever. I loved it so much!!

Riding the carousel with Mommy. :)

After all of the fun at Bass Pro, we headed to Chick-fil-A for dinner. Can I just stop for a minute and say how much I love Chick-fil-A? Love. It.

Emery sat in a high chair like a big girl and ate her dinner.

And then played with the empty baby food pouch the entire time Daniel and I ate. She loves those things, and I have to say, it made our dinner pretty easy since she was entertained.

Thank goodness for sticky place mats!! Silly girl...

I'm so thankful for this day with my precious little family! Emery is making me love the Christmas season even more than I already did!!! :)

  

#richlyblesseddaily {Weeks 45, 46, & 47}

Here are the last few weeks of #richlyblesseddaily2014! A lot has happened!! I really *cannot* believe that there are only a few weeks left in 2014. This has easily been the fastest {and best!} year of my life! I am so glad I decided to take a picture every day this year. {I got the idea here.} I've already had fun looking back at all the little {and big!} moments and memories we've made this year.

Have a wonderful week!

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 Day 312: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
{This is seriously one of my favorite pictures ever!}

 Day 313: We had a wonderful time celebrating our sweet Vanna at her birthday party today! She turned 6 yesterday!

 Day 314: Emery got to try on some of her Christmas outfits today!

 Day 315: Christmas decorations are done! Now to clean up all the glitter! 

 Day 316: Santa baby. She was NOT thrilled at all about the hat and this was the only picture I got where she wasn't screaming!

 Day 317: I thought I had her in a spot where she couldn't reach anything, but I was wrong! She pulled the fruit basket over next to her and was having the best time with some apples!

 Day 318: Eight months old today!!!

 Day 319: This girl LOVES to play peekaboo lately! She goes wild in her exersaucer when I cover her up!

 Day 320: She is surrounded by toys and has been playing with these tubes of lotion for the last 20 minutes!

 Day 321: When her hair looks like this, it means she had a good nap!

 Day 322: One Wubbanub just isn't enough.

 Day 323: Thankful for these two and how they love each other.

 Day 324: Reading her Christmas pop up book! This girl LOVES some pop up books!

Day 325: Our sweet little pumpkin!

 Day 326: Date night at El Barrio!

 Day 327: First time riding in the cart like a big girl today!

 Day 328: First walk in the stroller without the car seat! She kept leaning to the side so she could see me through the screen.

 Day 329: She's left the tree alone since we put it up, but she's getting a little closer to it every day!

 Day 330: She backs herself into this little corner all day long...then she cries when she can't get out because she can't move forward yet!

 Day 331: Happy Thanksgiving! Emery decided to crawl on her first Thanksgiving! I couldn't be more thankful for these two loves of mine!

Day 332: Emery is venturing off the carpet now that she can crawl... And she finally discovered the ornaments that I put on the bottom of the Christmas tree for her.