Emily's Birthday!

Emily turned 4 on December 5th! She asked me for a Hello Kitty cake back in September and she never changed her mind!





I decorated the cake while Emily took a nap and when she woke up and saw it she said "Oh, my cake is beautiful! It's perfect! Thank you Mommy! She repeated those words many times throughout the day.








4 Candles on the cake!


After blowing out the candles.


Opening her Hello Kitty card from Grandma and Grandpa Cutler. She loved the card!


Opening the present from Grandma and Grandpa Cutler


This adorable little baby was in there


Emily seeing the baby in the little bag for the first time


Sharing her baby with Daddy. She has played with that baby a ton since she opened it.


Wearing the owl hat from Grandma and Grandpa


The white hat with flowers on it from Grandma and Grandpa


Emily got a Tangled wii game from Mom and Dad! So far she really likes playing it...with help of course.


Opening another present!


She got Tangled hair!


She has been asking for this hair for a long time so we got it for her!


Look how long it is!


She loves it!


Emily with her Tangled hair and Mommy with the owl hat!


Tangled hair with the flower that glows in it!

November

November was a busy month for us. It started with Emily getting her hair cut.


Here she is the morning of the hair cut. I almost called and canceled the appointment 5 times. I love her curly hair and I was worried that it wouldn't stay curly once we cut it. Emily had been begging me to cut her hair since the beginning of September and I didn't want her to give up on me and just cut it herself so I made the appointment and kept it.


Her beautiful long curly hair


Here's how much got cut off! Emily was very excited about it until she started to miss her long hair, then she wanted me to glue all this back on! She was ok once I told her that her hair would grow back eventually.


Here's the new do from the front. I like it! It did take me about 2 hours before I liked it though.


I think the back looks much better than before.



So sweet! I love having a little girl



Emily in her pretty dress.



Laura turned 27 in November! Here is the present J.R. and Emily got for me. There were actually 5 things in there but they didn't have enough wrapping paper to wrap them all separately. I seem to do that to J.R. a lot.



I got a microwave bacon cooker thing, 2 spice organizers, some Eggies so I can cook hardboiled eggs and not have to peel off the shells when they are done, and a prop for the iPhone. The little prop thing is stuck onto the bacon cooker packaging, it's the little back thing.



Emily cuddling with her Daddy!



Emily and Pebbles. Emily really loves Pebbles and he puts up with her so well. She is always bossing him around. Watch out any other siblings of Emily, prepare to be bossed around when you get here! (this is not an announcement of any kind)



Emily wanted to sit just like Mommy. Too Cute!



Emily and her Hello Kitty stuffed animal buckled in and ready to go!



Daddy let Emily have a ride in the Winnie the Poo airplane on their Daddy Daughter Date!



We put up our Christmas tree the Saturday after Thanksgiving. We decided that we were going to have a small tree this year and we found one that we liked too but when we went to get it J.R. mentioned that he might want a fake tree this year and so we started looking. J.R. wanted an all white tree but I didn't, so we agreed on a frosted or flocked tree but we couldn't find one. About 6 store later and lots of phone calls we gave up. All the frosted or flocked trees had already been sold. Our last stop was Sam's Club for some dog food and milk. When we walked in I saw this tree and told J.R we should get it. It looked nice in the store so why not in our house too, right. J.R. went along with it. When we got it home and in our living room I realized just how big it really was! I never looked at the height of the tree and J.R. never said anything about it so I just assumed it was ok. It didn't look that big in the store! Our 2 strands of light barely covered the tree from top to bottom and we decorated only the front of the tree. Here is what we ended up with...



The tree didn't have a top on it so it was starless for a few days. Emily and I went outside and found a stick that was the right diameter for our star and I duck taped the stick to the trunk of the tree and stuck the star on it. You would never know just by looking at it!


Emily and our Christmas tree! It took me a couple of days but I like the tree now.



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October

J.R.'s sister, her husband and kids came for a visit at the beginning of October! We really enjoyed the visit and Emily loved having her cousins around to play with whenever she wanted to.


Bridgette, Devin and Layne waiting for us outside of Ripley's Aquarium in Gatlinburg, TN.



Wesley was so excited to see all the fish at the aquarium. He was also just happy to be off the plane and our of the car.



A Jelly fish!



A Sea Horse



I don't know what this fish is called, but I call it a weed fish. There are some really odd fish at the aquarium!



Emily, Devin, Wesley and Layne next to a big fish tank after the dive show. You can see the diver above Layne's head.



Emily and Daddy popping up in one of the fish tank tunnels!



Daddy, Emily and Layne in a little cave in the penguin section of the aquarium.



Devin, Emily and Layne hiding from the dog. Pebbles was by the green swing when I got my camera out but by the time I took the picture he had moved.



Uncle Ben bouncing all the kids on the trampoline!



Ben took this picture outside of the International Story Telling Center in downtown Jonesborough



J.R., Laura, Bridgette, Emily, Devin and Layne with some puppets in the store portion of the Story Telling Center.



Devin, Layne and Emily



Devin, Layne and Emily outside of the Lollipop Shop in downtown Jonesborough



Emily on the carrousel at Dollywood



Emily was a great little helper in Food City. She pushed her little basket around very nicely and went exactly where I asked her to go. She had so much fun too!



While J.R. and I were cleaning out the garage Emily buckled her ball into the stroller and took it for a walk in the driveway!



On another Daddy Daughter Date!



All ready to go Trunk or Treating at the church! The round bucket has her Blankie in it and the big bag has a stuffed dog named Fluffy in it.



The back of Emily's Tinker Bell costume. She was very disappointed to find out that even though she had wings she still could not really fly.



The Tinker Bell costume with the shoes!



J.R. turned 30 this year! I got him one thing that he decided he didn't want anymore, so I returned it and got him Mario Sunshine which he was very excited about!



Yeah, Socks! The sad part is, he really was excited about the socks. He only had maybe 4 pairs left that didn't have holes in them.



Emily reading stories to her Daddy and her stuffed animals.