Duncan's First Birthday

Duncan celebrated his First Birthday in June.  He was owning the hat at first, but got a little embarrassed.  He sleeps out on a big bed now.  No more kennel.  We are all still getting used to him being able to roam around when he wants.  He is extremely mischievous and requires constant supervision. Getting better with age though.



 Emerson gave him his gifts in a black cat bag.  She thought that was funny.

 Took him about 10-15 minutes to tear them all to shreds.  Oh well, it was his birthday and they were his gifts after all.

6th Birthday

6 years old...WOW.  These are the few pictures we took.  I will have the ones from her party up in a week or so...or when I have time.  Ok, let's be realistic.  It may be more like August after school starts.  This is the birthday girl when she woke up.  The hair never disappoints.  It seems the birthday fairy left balloons all over her room during the night.  She is still talking about that!

 She had the option to have Mandi come stay with her at home or to come to work with me on her birthday.  She chose to stay with me.  Kaka cut her flowers from her yard and had her presents waiting when we got to work.

 She asked for a Slinky and a Scooter and she got them both. She is the most excited about the Slinky.  AND The Fresh Beat Band tickets we gave her.  They are coming here in October. 

 As is the tradition, we get her a cookie cake on the day of her birthday.  She gets to have whatever she wants for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And the tradition continues, donuts and chocolate milk for breakfast, junk for lunch and pizza for dinner. 

The Birthday Party...Coming Soon.

Always in cheerleader mode

She's got pretty big dreams of being an LSU cheerleader. Just sayin...

Kenilworth July 4 Parade

While I was still at work and then home working on a little girls 6th birthday cake, Denny took Em to the Kenilworth Parade.  They hung out with Van Robinson, Val and Gabe to watch the parade and have hot dogs.

Later that evening, The 3 of us went and watched the fireworks at CCL.  It has gotten to be our July 4th tradition.

The girls

Emerson, Isabella and Avery all celebrate July birthdays.  As part of Bella and Avery's birthday celebration, they each got to bring a friend and come spend the day in big B.R. at Blue Bayou and Dixie.  Em opted to skip a day at Disney Dance camp to be able to spend the whole day with her sisters, Bella and Avery...and those other 2 people they brought along...Ha. They had a great time together as always.  Hoping we get to see them before school starts back in August!



Not sure why I dont have any pics with Bella, but I guess we had enough of those from the beach.  It was Avery's turn I guess.

Summer Pics- Em and Ri

As always with our crazy summer schedule, I am always behind on posting.  Lots going on around here.  House for sale, Em in lots of camps and fun summer activities, work, Em turning 6 years old and now we find ourselves with only 4 more weeks of summer before school starts again.  Exciting to be entering 1st grade for sure.  Here are a few summer pictures that I have not posted.







EMERSON and RILEIGH

EMERSON and FINLEY