Valentine's Day

I found a way to FINALLY get Andrew to practice writing the alphabet...to make Valentines for anyone he could name. His list consisted of his grandparents, cousins, uncles, and teachers. After sorting all the Valentines, he asked when we were going to be delivering the cards. I told him that we'd do it Sunday on Valentine's Day. He said that would be "too much TRAVELING for [him] to do that day." Unless we find some Valentines hiding under our couch or in a drawer some where, I think we managed to deliver all of them! And below is a picture of my three little Valentines...

FOUR MONTHS!!

Where does the time go?! Ashlyn is 4 months old and growing so fast! She keeps us super busy, which is why the blog entries are so few. Here's some pictures of the past month or so...

Halloween with our little chunky pumpkin...



Maddie as Tinkerbell


Drew as SuperWhy


4 months old today!!

Ashlyn's one-month pictures

These are the studio pictures we got of the kids last week. There were lots of pictures to choose from, but these are the four I selected...

Ashlyn's Blessing

Sunday we had Ashlyn's baby blessing in church. She was surprisingly well behaved during it, which was a relief to us! Here's a couple of pictures from her big day...

Storytelling Festival...

We made it to a puppet show put on by my sister's mother-in-law. The kids had a great time trying to move these cute puppets on the stage!!!

Miniature Golfing

In trying to train Andrew to be more helpful and Maddie to use the potty on her own, we resorted to bribery. We took them mini golfing after they earned 25 stickers each. They had lots of fun with each other...

Introducing...

Ashlyn Shae Embley was born August 4, 2009. She has kept us pretty busy this last month and we just got time to download pictures of our new little girl. More pictures to come...