5 years ago today.......

While the rest of the world is commemorating a very awful day in history, we are celebrating a wonderfully blessed day in our family. Five years ago today, Emmrey Alise entered the world and our life has never been happier. She came to us in a somewhat tumultuous time and as Mark has said she was a "Calming Angel".

Emmrey has just been such a joy and is always putting a smile on our faces. She is the most loving little girl and gives the best "hugs, kisses and squeezes". She is a thinker and is always coming up with these questions and thoughts that blow us away. She has made our job as her parents fairly easy and we find ourselves wondering (hoping) if this will last;) She is happy, smart and just really loves life!! We feel so blessed to be her parents.


Since we had just returned from Casper, we didn't do a whole lot on her big day. It was also Sunday but that didn't bother Emmrey at all. She was excited to get to church and have the kids sing to her. She pretty much planned out what we were to do and when and we were informed the night before that we should remind her to stay in bed in the morning for her breakfast=) So in order to "respect the birthday", we made her choco chip pancakes served with milk and a flower on the side. She opened her present from Grampa Wayne and Gramma Cheryl and loved her new blanket and was hysterical about her new pink pig which she named "Lightning". We had the rest of her presents waiting for her after church...of course we had to wait until she told us how to give them to her;) It was a nice relaxing day today....the party will come later in the week!!
We love you so much little Emmy Boo... we would be lost without you!!!