Play Time!

 Addison and Sarah played in their "fort" in their dress up clothes, but they wouldn't stop to smile for the camera!

 While Emery and Emily played with their fun toys in the living room.

 I'm not sure what is going on here...

and now Emery is going after Emily!

Swimming Lessons!

 Sarah is taking swimming lessons for the first time.  She loves the water, and so far, so good with the lessons!

 The girls on a stroll. 

 Cute face, obviously talking while I was trying to take a picture...

 and also not staying still anymore...Emily is everywhere these days, and now she's trying to pull up on things.  She especially likes shoes, so that's what she's trying to get here. 

Emily's hair was getting a little too long, and I was tired of seeing it in her face so much.  Even though I did not want to officially give her "bangs", I caved and did it anyway.  Rusty and I actually tried to cut them ourselves last week, but we didn't do such a great job (you can see for yourself in the picture above with Sarah and Emily in the stroller), so I took her in yesterday to have them fix the bangs. Here's the new 'do...I'm not a big fan (too short), but I guess it'll grow out.

Nine Months Old!

 Emily crawls!  She will go a few steps on her knees, but then she just is army crawling.  One thing is for sure:  she doesn't stay still anymore.  That is making it interesting with big sister...

We had to get a picture of Emily with this toy on her head because, well you can see for yourself below, we did that with Sarah too.  Sarah was a couple months younger here though.

 Sweet sisters!

 On the move!  She's making it quite difficult to get a picture of her these days where she's actually looking straight at me and smiling and not moving!  Look how long her hair is getting though!

I think I can!

Pigtail Day!

 I thought I'd try to put Emily's hair in ponytails too, and it worked!  

 She wouldn't look at the camera for a picture, but they are still cute!

 I thought this was a cute picture. 

 They did an early Father's Day craft at Sarah's school, so it gave us an excuse to take a picture.  

 Wonderful picture of them!!  Sarah is all about her dad these days; she loves to go everywhere with Rusty and help him around the house.  Rusty loves it too!

 This is Ms. Lynnette and Ms. Lisa, Sarah's teachers at school.  Sarah's last day is tomorrow, and she has had so much fun this school year.  She loves her teachers and her friends in her class so much!  We really are pleased with her school too, and she will be returning in the fall.

 Emily wants to crawl so badly.  She gets on her hands and one knee but can't get the other leg/knee to cooperate.  She also is scooting all over, and she can sit back up from being on the floor.  She also is getting her first tooth in the bottom front.  

 The signature tongue move

Love her!

Mother's Day

It was a wonderful Mother's Day! 

First Haircuts!

 Last weekend, Sarah and Emily both got their haircuts for the first time!  Heather was willing to do it for us, which was a plus that it was someone we knew.  All went smoothly, and most importantly, Emily can see again!  Sarah's got the big eyes in this picture because the ones we tried prior to this she kept closing her eyes as she smiled.  We told her to open her eyes big, and she took that literally!

 Cute picture of the girls in their chairs!

 About a month ago, we went to a Go Green event, and Sarah got to sit in a brand new recycle truck!

Over the weekend, the girls went fishing.  It was more like Rusty, Ryan and Rachel went fishing, but the girls had fun feeding the fish food, aka, throwing rocks in the water.

8 Months Old

 Emily is eight months old!  She loves to blab to us and roll all over the place.  Emily is also getting up on her knees when she's on her belly.  She's a lot of fun these days!

 Blowing bubbles in her high chair...

Love her!