Gifts

My sweet friend, Nikki, from work and I have been exchanging gifts throughout the year. We started last year when none of our coworkers wanted to do a secret santa gift exchange. We were totally bummed that no one wanted to do the gift exchange so we started giving gifts to each other and we kept it up all year long (Valentines, Birthdays, Easter, Halloween, ect). Nikki is so sweet because she always includes something for Emma. I love bringing home a gift from Nikki that Emma can open, she is always so excited. After we open the gifts we call Nikki at home and thank her for the gifts. Emma has gotten pretty good at talking on the phone and leaving a message saying thanks. Emma got a book today and we called Nikki and she said "Thank you Ms. Nikki, I love the book, it's great." It was so sweet.

Cooking Class

Emma's friend Katie invited her to go to a cooking class. It was a lot of fun, they made pancakes, fresh strawberry syrup, and hot cocoa. Then they got to eat it afterward!

Sweet Boy

Boy, do I sure love my little man. I love him so much sometimes my heart physically hurts. Which I'm so happy about because I didn't love him this much when he was born. How could you not love this face?

Pumpkin Picking

A local farm had a pumpkin picking event. I took the kids and Emma got to pick out pumpkin from the pumpkin patch. Did you know the pumpkin vines have itty bitty sharp little stickers on them? Well, take my word on it. Anyways, we also got to ride on the trailer pulled by the tractor. I think that was Emma's favorite part, we rode the tractor 3 times, and we probably would have done it more if I would have let her. It was fun. I love doing fun things like this. I hope Emma looks back one day and remembers how much fun we had.

This is the pumpkin we picked, pretty huh?
Look, a grey pumpkin, isn't that unusual?

Family picture (Wow, I look tired, oh yeah, I forgot we had spent about 4 hours at the park that morning with some friends)
We also got some yummy delicious hot chocolate, see our chocolate mustaches?
Tractor ride

Fresh Okra. It was a little late in the season so it was borderline edible but Emma liked it. I didn't know it grew on long stems.

Jackson had fun too!