So the days of the little toothless grin is gone. Never to be back.

Two little "teethers."

She can't walk, or even say any words, or eat real food, but I feel she is already growing up so fast! Do all parents feel this way? I know there is ALOT to look forward to, but I feel these baby days are speeding by.  But we just enjoy her at every moment and age!

Halloween

Emilee's first Halloween was a success. We spent the day visiting both Daniel's grandparents, and parents showing off her absolute cuteness to everyone! I just loved her little tiger costume, nothing could be cuter then this little girl. Seriously, look at her; cute!  In the evening I got to give out candy to the cute trick-or-treater's, which was kinda fun to do, a first in our house. Seems like not too long ago I was the kid in a costume, now I'm the mom giving out the candy. How did this happen. Where does the time go?

Daniel also celebrated his birthday yesterday. We had a really fun family dinner full of laughter and good food. He has been a good husband to me, let's hope for many birthday's to come.

7 months

 Emilee is now a 7 month old! I can't believe it. Her favorite things are to:

•  Yell and babble very loudly. Loves to say dada (even though I don't think she knows the meaning or is specially referring to Dad, it's still cute).
• Scoot around doing the army crawl.
• Not sleep through the night. :(
• Smile at everyone, although sometimes she will look at people and cry or every time Daniel laughs, she is usually pretty happy.

She has one little tooth, working on tooth number two which is not so fun.
So basically, she "talks, crawls and chews on stuff" -Daniel

Me and Christy tried on multiple occasion to make homemade Carmel apples. One batch was too sticky and stuck to the wax paper, but still delicious! Gotta love Carmel apples. Next batch the Carmel hardened super hard, but Emilee really enjoyed to suck some sweet Carmel off the spoon. She looks serious about eating, getting both hands on that spoon!

 a recent family pic.  (a picture of a picture with a camera phone so it's not great)

Birthday

So did I mention I had a Birthday (shoot Hooray!) My friends Kristen and Julianne arranged for me to get a beautiful bouquet of flowers delivered. Aren't they wonderful? Daniel got me more beads for my troll bracelet and Granny mailed me a cute sweater and I talked with my wonderful family!

Document for my posterity what I looked like on my birthday.

My Birthday cake in a bowl. I didn't want to make an entire cake because I would be the only one to eat it and that's no good. I learned this in college and it has served my sweet tooth very well through the years. All you do is mix a half cup or so cake mix and water and microwave for 90 seconds and voila.. cake! Just as good as baking it. It has a "26" and a jack-o-lantern on it -fabulous cake decorating skills eh? Or not!

I don't know why this picture is sideways, it's not saved that way on my computer. Sorry. But anyways, Emilee is teething. It has been a rough few days for her, and us too. Crying, waking up a few times at night, but look close in this picture and you can see it, ONE LITTLE TOOTH peaking through. Awwwww

Guest bed

So we have been wanting to get another bed and set up a guest bedroom in our extra room. Daniel found a lady selling a queen bed with mattress and dresser for $200 so we decided to go for it. We picked it up and it looked alright but I knew it could look better. Thanks to Daniel's hard hard work painting we have transformed it into a work of art! "The things I do for you!" he says. It took one day of painting it, and one more day to clean out the junk from the room for it to go in. So that's right- now you have a bed, you HAVE to come visit me now Pops, Dawna, Ben, Julia... Adam!!! Here is pictures:

Before: Drawers the bed sits on top of

Before: Headboard

Before: Dresser

After: Dresser

After: Headboard with new bedding!

After: Under bed drawers

Our Autum Blaze tree!

WE LOVE AUTUM (just not winter!)

cousins

I had to show the comparison of Emilee and her cousin Phineas.  I thought it was pretty funny! Phineas looks uncertain in both pictures and Emilee has mouth wide open in both, one is a scream the other is a laugh. They both look like they've grown up alot in 6 months.