Pretty Smile!

I finally caught Emma's first smile on film. She is just now getting to where she smiles on purpose!

She is growing up SOOO fast!

You can't really tell, but she has on an ADORABLE mini skirt. She was trying to sleep here and wasn't real happy about getting her picture made!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Our Little Valentine! It still amazes me to see her everyday. We often wonder why we bothered getting up everyday before she came along. It's such a blessing to have such a healthy baby girl. She has already started sleeping thru the night. If you have a baby or are ever going to have a baby, you should read Baby Wise. It is WONDERFUL!

There was always love in daddy's hands..

I love this picture. I saw it done and tried to duplicate it. It isn't perfect, but it will work.

My camera has this awesome function to enhance color.... I like this one!

This one didn't really work out as expected. She kept trying to bury her face in the blanket.

Pretty in Pink!!!

I just love hair bows. I'm not so sure she likes them that much...

I really like this picture. Her little feet are just precious!

Smiling baby!! (A little one anyway) She is just now getting to where she will smile at ya. And it's only every once in a while.

One Month Old

I got this bright idea to take Emma's picture naked. Boy was that crazy. The goal was to take her picture with her asleep. The first 10 times I tried, she woke up. Then, she peed all over the place. Needless to say, the rest of the pictures were taken with her diaper on. After about 10 more attempts, she stayed asleep long enough for me to take a few pictures. Actually, I took about 60. Here are my favorites!!!

Our first photo shoot

I got a new camera just before Emma was born. My plan was to take all kinds of wonderful pictures of her. I should of known it wouldn't be that easy. When I was pregnant with her she didn't like it when we looked at her with ultrasound. And she still isn't crazy about it. But I put the poor child through the torture anyway. I took these pictures when she was about a week old. I used this one for our Christmas card.

Our Baby!

We finally finished moving in our house. That day, Sunday, I also had a baby shower and Donna M.'s house. By the end of the shower, my back started hurting. Which was nothing new for the last couple of weeks. Then Donna, my stepmom, came up and a couple of us went to eat at Colton's for my "Last Supper". I was scheduled for a C-section that next day and wouldn't be able to eat after midnight. I was not thrilled about that. While we were eating my back started hurting even more. When I got home, I started putting the last of Emma's things up in her new room. By about 9 my back was hurting so bad I couldn't stand it. I finally realized that the pains would come and go and would occur about every 5 minutes or so. I called the hospital and they told me to come in and make sure it wasn't anything. I was so embarrassed when we go there, because I just knew it was going to be a false alarm. And I always made fun of people who didn't know they were in labor. So, we got there, and they put the monitors on me and .... sure enough.... I was in labor. AND DIDN'T KNOW IT!!! They told us we would have a baby in an hour. So we started calling our family and told them the news. Emma Nicole was born December 3, 2007 at 12:07 am. She weighed 8 pounds 12 ounces and measured 19 1/4 inches long. I will never forget the moment I first saw her. It was the best moment of my life..... She was so fat and.... red! Man was she red. I think I almost stopped breathing. To me she was a miracle. We had wanted her so badly for so long. I seriously had to remind myself to breathe. (I had a spinal and those things really make you feel weird.) I only got to see her for a minute and then the nurses took her and cleaned her up while Dr. Carlton sewed up my belly. Then Emma and her dad went down the hall to our room so Emma could meet her family. Donna, Delmar, Matt, and Tara were the first ones there. When I got there Delmar and Brian were fighting because Delmar wanted to hold her and Brian wouldn't let him. Then came my mom, Tim, Dad, and Donna. Chuck and Anna drove all the way down from Jonesboro. They didn't get to stay long, because they both had class the next morning... early! Anyway, it didn't take me long to figure out how much this baby was loved. She is very lucky to have such a wonderful family. And so are me and Brian!

This is Emma after her first bath. She DID NOT like it. AT ALL!!!