Emma's Christening

A Christening is the gift of God's grace and love, the celebration of a precious new child in His world. It is a time to give thanks for the beautiful blessing of life. God blessed us with Emma to cherish and to love and we committed to raise her as Godly parents, to show her His way all our lives. What a Celebration!!!! We had such an amazing day. The preacher revolved the entire worship service around her christening- exactly why I wanted to go "home" to do it...so sentimental!! We didn't take pictures during the actual christening, but I have LOTS of other pictures to share!!!!



Getting Emma ready for the big event!!!









And on to the luncheon...





Jack basically ran around and ate cookies all day:))



My very handsome nephew Will!


Emma is showing off her new teeth!!:)


Bryan's family came down from Kentucky for the special occassion!! Somehow Grandma Carter escaped the pictures...hmmm


These are our special friends, minus Trudy...She escaped the pictures as well!!


My Mom, Dad and sister Tiffany...who Emma looks just like!!!


This is Bryan's mom, Linda(Grammy)!!


Bryan's Dad and brother Chad.. Still no Grandma Carter:(


The Vance and Lott crew, minus a few:) Notice my other handsome nephew Tyler in this pic- the little guy!:)


Sweet, sweet girl!!


The blessing of the Lord be upon you... Psalm 129:8

Happy, Happy!!!

Jack and Emma are really interacting these days!!! Emma giggles and giggles anytime Jack comes around- she thinks he is the funniest thing in the world!! Jack doesn't stay around for long, but the short times he does play with her I try to take it all in!!:)) We're having a ball!!

All Well- Knock on Wood!!!:))

What a Week!

Emma has been a sick little girl this week!!! I took her to the doctor on Monday with a slight temp and a horrible cough! Dr. Smith said she had bronchilitis again and an ear infection, so he started her on breathing treatments and antibiotics. By Wednesday things got worse, with her temp spiking to 103.1!!!! Needless to say, Bryan and I were frantic, so we rushed her back to the doctor and this time we found out that she had RSV! I'm still really not sure what the difference in bronchilitis and RSV is, but nonetheless she had to have a decadron and a rocephin shot:( As painful as it was for her, it was just as terrible for us!! We thought things would certainly get better after that, but on Thursday night she was up all night screaming in pain every time we tried to lay her down... so we knew it must be her ears!! So, of course we were back to the doctor first thing Friday morning and she had to get a second rocephin shot- he said her ears looked terrible!! She has been a little better this weekend, but thank goodness we have a follow-up appointment tomorrow to see how everything looks!! I've never felt so helpless as I have this week, but hopefully we're on the mend now:)!!


If bronchilitis, RSV and an ear infection aren't enough, she's also cut not one but 2 teeth...Poor little thing:)


I took this picture today! This is feeling good!!:)


She has started doing these crazy sit-ups in her bouncy and in her swing- she is a strong little cookie!!