Catching up!

With everything going on and then I got sick (AGAIN), I am way behind in my blogging. So this is my attempt to get caught up. Below you will find three posts on what has been going on in Emmaline's World!



Happy Reading!!!!

War Zone?

Monday evening, we heard a really loud noise, just as the strong winds came through. We went out on the back deck and this is what we found.............................

Does anyone need any firewood? ;-)

Happy Birthday Leah!

On March 12th, our great-niece turned 3.

Her party was on Saturday, so we piled in the car and drove north for the week-end. We stayed with Steven's oldest brother, whom we don't get to see but a few times a year. It was great to see everyone and we had a blast watching Emma and Leah play.

Cinderella & Snow White

Simon says...........Trying to hit the pinata with a blindfold on while keeping the little princess bag on her arm.Leah had lots of help opening presents!

After a hard day of partying and playing the girls are all ready for bed in their princess nightgowns (or jammie dress as Emma calls it) with their milk in their princess cups. Leah even has her princess blanket!

Making "funny faces" at lunch on Sunday. And no - we did not ask them to do this. They came up with it all on their own!

Emma and Leah with Marshall (this is Steven's brother).

Snow Angel

We have been very fortunate this winter to have had very little snow. I say this as someone who grew up in New England and snow was pretty much a constant in the winter. The first couple of times it did snow this year, it was only a little bit. Unfortuately, for Miss Emma, we were not able to take her out to play in it. By Sunday, March 2nd, when it was in the low 70's I thought that we would have to wait till next year for Emma to get a little bit of snow playing in. Then on Friday it began to SNOW!!!!

When we woke up Saturday, it looked like a winter wonderland. Now I will say again, I don't like snow. I have had my share of it. But I was actually excited about it. I knew we didn't have to go anywhere, it was supposed to warm up again the next day and I could take Emma out to play!!!!

Her daddy taught her to make snow angels, and she had the best time.

Mommy's perfect little snow angel ;-)

After lying in the snow - she realized just how COLD it was. She didn't like the cold, or her pants getting wet from the snow, but she kept getting down there to make more angels.

Romans 8:28

" And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

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I came across this scripture while visiting a friends

profile on Facebook.

It has been a very stressful and emotional week and this was a great reminder that it will be okay.

God has a plan and is working it out right now - we just have to love Him and continue to follow Him.

So, We Thought We Could Dance

I would like to say that the above picture is of Steven and I..............but, obviously, it is not.

I would like to post a picture of Steven and I dancing..............but, obviously, I have not.

I mentioned a few weeks ago that we were taking Ballroom dance classes. The class consisted of us, Barry and Jill, Scott and Bethany, Shannon and Susan, and Tristan and Abbey. It was fun to learn something new with a group of people that you already knew and also knew that they would love you no matter how dorky you looked trying to pretend that you had rhythm. I discovered that I apparently left most of my rhythm back in my 20's.

My big plan was to take my camera to the last class and take lots of pictures. Our last class was last night. Or I guess I should say, it was supposed to be last night. But our instructor, scheduled her new class to start last night at the same time our class was supposed to be. Needless to say, it was not a pretty sight. The end result is we will not be getting a last class, but will be receiving a refund for the one hour and 15 minutes that we were not instructed.

I have to say though, that even with all the drama that took place with our instructor, I had fun. I would have liked to learn more.................I feel like I was given all the dance steps with no instruction on how to put them all together.............oh, yeah..........that is what happened. We had thought about taking the next set of classes, but we are going to have to find a new instructor first. So I guess for now, we will just continue to practise the steps we have learned and one day we will figure out how to put some of them together.

So............5, 6............5, 6, 7, 8..............................and remember, if you are doing the cha-cha, it starts on 2 :-)

Dreams do come true

Emma had a great time at her party! She had been asking me for days if she could "open my party", like it was going to come gift wrapped or something. I decided to cook dinner, which you really should not attempt if you have worked most of the day (like I did). We had spaghetti, meatballs, garlic toast, frozen fruit salad, and my sister-in-law made a pasta salad (Thanks Bethany!). And of course....there was CAKE!...................yes, you read that right......spaghetti! I ask everyone to "dress up fine" and then fix something that is slippery and red. It is one of Emma's favorite foods and I was pretty sure she would eat if I fixed it (she hasn't been eating too good since she got sick) and actually, it wasn't too messy. The kids all did really good with it.

I was going to post a few pictures, but I couldn't narrow it down, so ....

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I need to say a special thank you to my Dad. He showed up, calmed me down, ran errands for me, helped cook dinner, did all the dishwashing and loved on my girl and me lots!!!

Apologies to the Ballards for Logan getting locked into the toy room with the lights turned off. Poor little guy!

All in all, it was a great evening. Good food, good company and happy children. It really doesn't get much better than that!