The Grinch House

On our way home from the progressive dinner (see post below) we stopped by the Grinch House to watch the show. I was hoping Emery would be a little more excited about it than she was but she was pretty tired so she sat quietly in her carseat and watched the lights.

3 Part Dinner

My dad has been sick so instead of the usual family dinner at my parent's we did a progressive dinner. Our house was first for pizza.

 

We went to the Nickell's next for dessert and a show provided by the kids on their tin whistles. 

And the last stop for hot drinks was at the Kerr's apartment.

16 Months

Emery turning 16 months was on our christmas tree hunt day so those pictures are posted below. I didn't have any other pictures from that day so I just pulled some pictures off my phone of her recently (sorry for the low quality on some of the photos). Her new words this month are: please, thank you, peek-a-boo, love you, poop, baby, choo-choo, and sticker. I feel like she suddenly actually "plays" with toys and stuffed animals now and it's really fun to play with her. One of her favorite things right now is to wrap a baby up in a blanket and carry it around.

 

She picked out this Rudolph while we Christmas shopped.

 

Playing peek-a-boo on our way to get the mail.

She has fun putting clothes over her head and walking around blindly trying to find me.

Christmas Trees

Everyone spent the night at my parent's house Thanksgiving night. In the morning we had some yummy waffles and slowly got ready to go on our Christmas tree hunt.

 

Mom and Emery got festive.

These sweet girls are best buddies.

That night we put up our tree and decorated it.

 

Jonah taught Emery how to put ornaments on.

 

She enjoyed playing with the ornaments on the ground.

After we finished the tree we left to run an errand and when we came home we discovered our tree had fallen over. Our stand wasn't big enough for our tree so we had to get a new one the next day and redecorate.

Thanksgiving

We ran our traditional 5K Thanksgiving morning. Micah decided to run with us as well (instead of going on the walk with Grandpa and Grandma and the rest of the grandkids). 
 

 

Jonah vulonteered to make a turducken! He worked on it most of the week and sewed it up at my parent's house on Thanksgiving day.

It turned out beautiful.

 

We didn't get to spend time with the Trevinos this year which was sad but no one had any big plans and some people ended up being sick anyway.

Millions of apples

We got a chance to go up to Calvin Crest recently. We have worked up there off and on for several years and love the area. This particular trip was nice because we got to experience a couple of our favorite things about camp, apple picking, and fall colors. Calvin Crest was fully dressed for fall and the colors were wonderful. Joining us in this adventure was family friends the Gists, the Nickells, the Starbucks, and Sarah. We started by picking apples and visiting, which was nice. Especially watching the kids run around and hang out together. Then we proceeded to make cider, which was a hard and involved task. Joel, Isaac, and I took turns running the cider mill with occasional help from a couple of other people and it was a workout. The kids were great helpers and enjoyed washing apples in the tub and filling the hopper. Altogether it was a great trip!

Sorry for out of order pictures, we are experiencing technical dfificulties.

Emery enjoyed trying to eat the apples.

Washing the apples.

Straining and collecting the cider.

The finished product!

15 Months

Emery is now 15 months! She continues to be a sweet, silly girl and fills our hearts with so much joy and surprises us with her brilliance. She likes to say hi a lot but not when people are paying attention, example while we're in the grocery store she says hi to people as they go by. She always waves at cars when she hears them or if they pass by. She put on a pair of pants all by herself for the first time this week (daddy gave a couple verbal instructions but that was all)! She loves playing outside, her cousins, going to Grandpa and Grandma Chandler's house, reading books, pushing things, buckling buckles, sticking things in holes, baths, and coloring. She has been teething a lot! I'm not sure exactly how many teeth she has now but it's somewhere around 12 but soon to be more.  Her new words for this month included: ouch, eww, honk, boot, booty, quack, and bonk.