Jan. & Feb. 2017

We had surprisingly warm weather for January & February this year so we spent a lot of time outside.  We went to the park, greenway, botanical gardens and burrit on the mountain.  Emma & Lila love to be outside.  We are ready for spring!  Lila got her second bottom tooth in and has been changing quickly.  She loves to look at books, babbles and makes new sounds, loves to try new foods and crawls everywhere!

Dec 2016

In December, Emma had fun helping Andrew & I make sugar cookies for our neighbors & friends.  Emma & Lila enjoyed the lights parade in downtown Madison.  Lila learned how to army crawl this month so her favorite place to crawl to was the Christmas tree which was surrounded by our train and train track that she loved destroying.  Once the track was taken apart she could then get close enough to the tree to reach up and grab the lights & ribbon.  She is a very curious, busy body!  She also discovered this month that she loves to feed herself finger foods, not into the purreed stuff, but she will put anything she can pick up into her mouth!  We drove home to Lincoln once again for Christmas and the girls were surprisingly great on the car trip.  Emma & Lila loved being with family & having cousins to play with!

November 2016

Emma's 3rd Birthday

Fun at the park

Our Christmas tree

Bridgestreet

Watching Andrew cut down our tree

November was a fun month filled with visitors.  Grandma & grandpa came to visit for Emma's birthday. We went to the firework show at Bridgestreet & looked at the lights Friday night.  They took her to 88 buffet for her birthday supper, one of Emma's favorite restaurants, she loved all the different types of food!  We also took her to the park to celebrate. The favorite parts of her birthday were blowing out the candles and eating  chocolate cake!  The week of Thanksgiving Meme, Papa, aunt Heather, uncle Dustin, Tessa & Daniel came to visit.  Emma loved having Tessa & Daniel to play with and Lila soaked up all the extra attention!  We went to the Tinsel Tree trail with them and picked out our trees at the tree farm.  Meme & Papa stayed a little longer and we went to Bridgestreet with them to look at the lights.

October 2016

My shark & kitty

Green Mountain

Pumpkin Patch with Meme & Papa

cow train and pumpkin patch

Stone Mountain

Georgia Aquarium

We spent a lot of time outdoors the month of October enjoying the beautiful weather.  Meme & Papa came to visit the first week in October.  We went to the pumpkin patch with them and enjoyed the day outside.  Emma loved the pig races, petting zoo, bounce house, and slide.  My birthday weekend we went to Green Mountain for a hike around the lake. The last weekend in October we traveled to Atlanta, GA for a mini vacation.  Emma's birthday present was a visit to the Georgia Aquarium.  She loved the dolphin show and clapped and hollered every time the dolphins jumped out of the water.  It was an awesome aquarium.  Our favorite part was the giant whale sharks.  The next day we went to Stone Mountain before heading home.  On Halloween Emma trick or treated at playgroup, then we went to the nursing home I work at to visit the residents.  They loved Emma in her cat costume and Lila in her shark costume.  That night we went to a fall festival where Emma had fun playing carnival games and getting candy. 

Aug & Sept 2016

Emma's new tricycle

Enjoying time with grandma

cousin time

great grandma & the babies

Watching grandpa fly his planes

Daniel loving on Lila

visit from Elly & Aunt Teresa

The girls first trip to the US Space & Rocket center

The beginning of August grandma flew down for a visit.  She got to spend a lot of time with Emma & Lila babysitting.  We took Emma to Toys R Us to pick out a tricycle for her early 3rd birthday present from grandma & grandpa.  The middle of August we made a quick unexpected trip to Lincoln for grandpa Olson's funeral.  It was a sad trip home but good to be with family.  I couldn't have asked for a better grandpa, we will miss him so much!  As soon as we got back from Lincoln, Teresa & Elly flew down for a visit. We went for walks, let the girls play in the pool and went to Bridgestreet.  We enjoyed more time with them!

July 2016

Hanging out together on the 4th of July

Cow Appreciation Day at Chic Fila

Emma had to get her bear and cowgirl hat before going outside

Lila getting better at tummy time

On the Fourth of July we went to a friends house for supper and then watched the Madison Firework show on their driveway.  We had a great view!  Lila fell asleep during the show and Emma loved it, ooohing and awwing during it, then asking for more once it was over.  I went back to work 2 days a week the beginning of July and Emma & Lila did well adjusting to going to Heather's house.  Andrew had to travel to Utah for a conference the end of July for 4 days.  We survived the 4 days at home but were happy to see him when he got back!

June 2016

Great Grandma Hiatt

At the zoo with Tessa & Daniel

Emma decided to dig through the dirty clothes bag on the car ride home & wear them- it kept her entertained!

Emma loves Lila & Lila loves Emma!

Elly & Lila hanging out together

Great Grandma Barry

Great Grandpa Olson

 In June we got to spend time in Lincoln with family & Lila got to meet her aunts, uncles, cousins and great grandmas and grandpa.  The car ride was not as horrible as we thought it would be.  It was a long day but we survived.  While in Lincoln we spent time with family and got to go to the zoo twice.  Emma enjoyed all the animals and got to pet a snake.  This month Lila started smiling and cooing a lot!

Lila starts smiling!

When we got home from our trip to Lincoln our AC wasn't working so we spent the day at Heather & Lilly's house.  Emma loved going down the slide over and over and over again!