2012 in Review

I really wanted to do one of these for 2011, however it didn't happen and while I'm on a blog roll, I'm going to do this for 2012!

So here we go, our 2012 Year in Review

January - Emma Claire's 2nd Birthday Party

February - Cannot find a picture!

March - Visit to see my brother, sister in law and niece, made over her room and celebrated her birthday

April

May - Playing on the Farm

June - Loving the swimming pool

July - We also moved this month into our new house

July - New House

August - NICU Birthday Party

August - 1st Day of WEE School

September - Regions Family Day at Nashville Zoo with Nannie and Daddy (see below)

October - Horse for Halloween and WEE School Party

October - Pumpkin Patch

November - WEE  School Thanksgiving Program (EC looks like a giant compared to her friends)

December - Christmas Season and Celebrations

We hope everyone has a prosperous and wonderful 2013!  We pray for blessings for each one of our family and friends as we begin this new year.

Love, 

Matt, Emily, Emma Claire

We cannot leave out Boomer!!!!

New Year's Eve

Since Matt had to work on New Year's Eve, we loaded up and headed down to my parents house.  Matt was going to stay the night there since he was going to work in the morning New Years Day and then be back to our house.  We took advantage and had a wonderful time going to dinner with Mom and Dad and then playing at the house waiting on Daddy to get there at 11 PM.  

Emma Claire was so excited, she rang in the new year laughing!!! We just love this precious, wild, spunky, sassy and loving nearly 3 year old!!!

Happy New Year from the Warrens!!! We hope everyone had a wonderful 2012 and look forward to more to come in 2013.

December Catch Up

We started off December by going to see the Rockettes and Emma Claire loved every minute of the nearly two hour show!

The next week Emma Claire had her WEE school Christmas Party and she loved it!  I love seeing her interact with the kids in her class.  She loves going and would probably go every day if they would let her and we love her teacher Ms. Gina!  They did a $5 book exchange and all of the little ones were so excited to get their books.

Emma Claire was wanting to 'read' her book to me

We ended that week with our children's Christmas Program at church.  I didn't get any pictures of Emma Claire singing and ringing her bells, but let me tell you, she would have made the Salvation Army happy!

Santa visited all the kids and 'big' kids after our Christmas program and Emma Claire was one excited little girl this year.

Christmas Eve we spend with my parents.  After waking up and having her breakfast of champions, Cheerios, we were off to my parents to lounge around (hence the PJs) and then dinner, church and our family Christmas celebrations.

This year was a blast and Christmas morning, she was so excited to see her art easel from Santa.

After our Christmas morning celebrations, we then headed over to Matt's parents house for our Christmas brunch and fun.

We then rested and ate dinner at Matt's grandmother's house and once again, we were so blessed to have another wonderful Christmas season with our family and friends!

Blogger Day of Silence

My favorite time of YEAR!!!

I LOVE the holiday season and with Emma Claire this year she is definitely more into it, than years past.  I know she will love to open presents this year and she has been attentively watching me wrap each gift and place each one in her particular order under the tree!

We have a children's book and interactive nativity.  You put the boxes on the tree which are labeled 1-6 (it's called What God wants for Christmas) and you find each box in numerical order and then read the corresponding part of the story.  We did an abbreviated EC version as just talked about each person from each box as she brought them to me in numerical order.  She was so excited when she found in them in the correct order and opening up each present from God.  After we opened all of the boxes, she just sat and stared and would gently touch each piece and then come to Jesus and say over and over, 'Baby Jesus', it was absolutely precious!

We had family pictures made a few weeks ago to be used on our Christmas Cards and wanted to share some of the pictures.  

This week we are taking EC to see the Rockettes and I REALLY hope she will love the show.  I think she will do fine as she LOVES music and dancing.  Hopefully I will remember to get some pictures of her, as I have been so bad about picture taking lately.  We hope everyone is enjoying this wonderful holiday season!

Horsing Around

Tuesday was Emma Claire's Fall Party at WEE school.  They all dressed up in their costumes and she did not want to take hers off after they did their trick-or-treating through the other classrooms. 

And yes, of course the horse costume would not be complete without an ENORMOUS pink bow to top it off!

We Love Fall Y'all

Over the last few weeks, I've actually been home and it's been absolutely wonderful!!! I guess I'm starting to be an old person, but I love being home.  Once Mom, EC and I were back from Portland, that Saturday was my mother in laws family day with her company, Regions.  It was at the Nashville Zoo, so we headed down there and spent some time looking at the animals and enjoying the wonderful weather.  

Nana (Nannie as EC calls her) and Emma Claire checking out the Zebras

 My Daddy (as Emma Claire so affectionately refers to her daddy)  and Emma Claire.  She is a total daddy's girl!

 Happy Girl!

Last weekend, it was wonderful weather yet again, so off to the pumpkin farm we ventured.  She ha the best time pulling the cart around and picking out pumpkins. 

Emma Claire's serious face!  She was over me taking pictures, but I still love this sweet picture of her.  She is so grown up looking in this picture.  I cannot believe in January she will be 3 years old!

We hope everyone is enjoying their FALL.  I just love this time of year and when you come into my house, you definitely know as it's been decorated since September 1st and I always have a fall scented candle burning.