December already...where does the time go????

It's been a little over a month since my last update. Emery is growing into her own little person now with her own likes and dislikes--and she is not scared to let you know! :) Trying to prepare for Christmas and back last year before I had her, I kept telling myself "my kid will not be spoiled" but it is seriously hard to limit the toy buying when there is just so much cute stuff out there! Throw in an awesome sale at Target and I think we have enough stuff for her birthday in February too! Don't tell her but I bought her a super cute Laugh and Learn Farm...err..I mean Santa is bringing her...lol, a Little People Farm House, a wooden push/pull wagon and several other things. I think I am more excited than she will be! The house has been decorated since right after Thanksgiving with the tree up and some presents already wrapped. Anna from Squeezebox Photography came by to snap some 9 month pics/Christmas family pics for us and they came out fantastic. They will be added to our Christmas cards this year for sure.



Here's one sample....

It seems like time just flew by this past month....Thanksgiving was great...especially since it wasn't at my house this year (just too much going on for that!). My mom--aka Grandma B--had it at hers and all the Jones family came out for the big day. Emery got to wear her "My family is thankful for me" bib and Mommy got to make an extra special cake for cuz Alyssa--love doing that each year!

Here's a pic of cuz Alyssa and Leanna with their birthday cake: And of course, Miss Emme in her bib:

Lots of fun activities planned for the Christmas season....already had her first visit to Santa and it actually went pretty well. Santa came to our neighborhood and we did get some good pics--no smiles though :) She takes Santa very serious! Hahaha! We are going to see Santa again on the 19th and will meet up with some friends: Sam and family and Natalie is coming with her family. Hopefully we can all do a quick lunch afterwards. This past weekend Emery and I made a Santa plate for her to put out cookies for Santa each year. We used her footprint for a design so it will be fun to see how much she goes from this year to next.

That's it for now...will update soon!