Maybe her future is in pet grooming?

So after the Barbie haircutting incident, I hid all of the scissors. Emma managed to remember that there was a tiny pair of scissors in a compartment on the front of my embroidery machine, under a cover. You see where this is going....

this is what the horse looked like before-

Here is after...

After the grooming session, there was hair everywhere! I rolled the vacuum out of the closet and gave it to her. I stood there while she vacuumed all of the hair. I should also mention here that she's not a huge fan of loud noise unless she is generating it. She was not thrilled to be vacuuming the hair, and needless to say, she hasn't tried to cut the hair of anything since. It's been almost 2 weeks.

Out with the old, in with the new...

So today, Emma summoned be to the bathroom. I squatted down to be eye level with her because she was trying to tell me something. She stopped telling me her story and said this:

Emma: Mommy, sometimes your knees crack.
Me: Yes, sometimes they do. It's because mommy is getting older.
Emma: Yeah, then we'll have to get a new mommy.

Bathing Beauties

We were so lucky to be able to travel down to Panama City Beach with Chad's aunt and her 2 youngest daughters. It was a little wild at times with 4 children ages 5 and under, but we had a great time. The weather was much warmer than it was in Tennessee!

Here is everyone dressed and ready for a day at the pool. Victoria is on the left and Samantha on the right.

We took the girls to a kiddie amusement park one morning when it was a little overcast. The spinning ride was definately a favorite. Believe it or not, not one of them got sick!

Here is Emma on the pre-school go-karts.

She wasn't a huge fan...especially after she ran into the track wall.

One thing she did LOVE-the sand!!!

These are pettiskirts that Santa found for the girls. We had a blast playing on the beach with them, and of course I had the camera in hand. Take a look at that sassy little girl...is this a glimpse of the future?

Having fun in the sand...

I'll leave you with this one. Does this not look like an ad for something?

P.S. You may wonder why most of the pictures are of Emma. Madelyn won't look at the camera, and Emma is a camera hog. So, so typical!

Louisiana Trip, Part 2

I caught a fish, and it was this big!!!

Madelyn wanted to kiss the fish, but she settled for petting it!


This was our first fishing trip with the girls. They had so much fun. It helped that it was a stocked pond that has so many fish, you don't even have to bait the hook. A very special 'thank you' to Vickie and Cecil for letting us fish their pond and making more memories with our girls.

Our Louisiana Visit, Part 1

The Easter bunny brought these
really cool sunglasses since he knew
that they would need them for the
long trip. Man that rabbit is smart!

Emma and Madelyn met their cousin, Nathan,

for the first time. They loved holding him even though he wasn't thrilled. Now if only they could be that sweet to each other...

Emma plays with her clawless crawfish before he went for a swim in
the red waters of a big stainless steel pot. Don't worry, he did get to swim in nice clean water inside the house, on the kitchen counter, in a giant measuring
cup before he met his fate.








Emma LOVED eating crawfish. She perched herself at the head of the table
and managed to eat them without getting her hands dirty. Everyone at the
table peeled them for her. She's a smart cookie!








Josh, Emma, Zack, Matt, & Madelyn had so much fun together. It was amazing to watch these "tough" boys entertain our little girls!








On to Baton Rouge to meet our friends and their children, Greg, Tonya, Connor, and Mary Catherine. We walked FOREVER all over LSUs campus and reminisced about our college days there. We walked through the quad during class change. I'm afraid that this time around we were not mistaken for college kids! Boy did we feel old!










By late afternoon, the girls had had just about all they could take and went to sleep before we left campus. They were able to take a nap while we drove to one of our favorite restaurants for dinner.











Part 2 will have to wait...the girls and I leave for the beach tomorrow! And just maybe, I'll have this blogger thing figured out!

She just might have a future cutting hair!

Wedding Day Barbie recently visited Salon Emma.

This is what she looked like before she sat in the chair:

This is the cut that she left with:

At least is wasn't her own hair, right?