road trip

emma and I took a trip to the beach with Mimi and someone has their eyes closed in every one of the pictures. sometimes intentional:


sometimes unintentional:


{if you use a flash on mimi, her eyes will be closed because they are so sensitive. little did she know she would have a child obsessed with photography!}

peanut butter treats!

emma likes to feed the dogs peanut butter.


the dogs very much like for emma to feed them peanut butter.


end of story.

easter blessings

bunny time again!






yeah, we're a fan of the bunny!


and after church, we had lunch at mimi's and had a little egg hunt!


we had left emma's basket at home but we made do!




emma's sweet aunt susan smocked this monogrammed dress for her. it is our favorite and emma would wear it everyday given the choice!




what a wonderful and blessed easter for our family!

celebrating and sliding

guess who is celebrating her fourth birthday??!!??


and guess who else we were SO excited to see??!!??



ava had a HUGE slide and a smaller bounce house at her party. we started with the smaller slide:


And then sweet granna handled the big slide with miss daredevil:


then they took a break:


then we attempted a group picture:


or two twenty:



what a pro!


my little princess needed a little instruction!






sweet, sweet, precious mamaw!


she is so loved!

beyond words.

our sweet cousin, Lindsay is getting married in June and has asked emma to be one of her flower girls. Aunt Kathy and Lindsay stopped by to see if emma fit in the dress that aunt sue made! I'm pretty sure I gasped when I saw it!


just beautiful beyond words.

the zoo for two

okay, I could seriously take this little monkey to the zoo every day and she would be the happiest little girl ever!


And it was just the two of us for this trip and we had the best time and saw every single animal there!


and we also discussed the "hippo" a lot. they were adding water to his pool and he had that big ol' mouth wide open and was making the loudest noise you ever heard. we may be tramatized.






and then we ended our trip with a visit to the goats for a little pampering:




fun times, FUN times!