April 2010 Happenings:

We took Emma to the "Big park" on Darwin for their Easter Egg Hunt. They have each ball field designated for a different age group. The eggs are just simply scattered all over the field, so no real hunting. But, still fun!

She filled up her bag pretty quickly, which was a good thing. There were SOOO many small kids and their parents!! Afterwards, we stopped by our local Walgreens and had her picture taken with the Easter bunny... Well.... her and Daddy's picture. She WOULD NOT have nothing to do with that bunny on her own! The y were offering a free 5 x7 to anyone who came in. Purty nifty!

While at Walgreens, Nana called and said "let's make a spur of the moment road trip. Let's go see Stephanie and Halie." SURE!!! So, she showed up to get us about 45 minutes later and we girls headed off.

Nana had bought the girls both lavender sundresses with a thin jacket and had brought them each an Easter "basket" filled with lots of cool stuff.

She also had brought plastic eggs with coins and candy inside and we had an egg hunt. They loved that !! They actually had to hunt for them too. :-)

Here is Emma in deep hunting mode...

Still hunting.....

Emma enjoyed playing with Halie's bubble lawnmower so much that she ended up getting one for her birthday a few months later. :-) (somehow that photo has disappeared....)

They had SOOO MUCH fun that day! Was totally worth the 4 hours driving time!! We had a great day with the Egg hunt, the trip to Stephanie's and time spent with family!


Then, it is Easter morning...

Here is Emma with her basket. Band aids, watering can, markers, pencils, among other things...

New shades!!!

and bubbles...

and her Children's Place Easter dress that I found for $1 at Goodwill! Perfect condition and it had the matching panties/bloomers. (Found it at the Back to School sale when all kids clothes were $1 each).

I hot glued paper scrapbooking flowers onto her headband thinking they match and will look cute for today, BUT by the time we got to church she had pulled it off and ate the flowers!!! Glad I got these beforehand...

Here she is posing in the pink cape that I wore for Easter when I was 2. She is much taller than I was. My Mom saved that cape and I have saved it waiting for this day to arrive. And it is too small and it is too warm to enjoy it. Oh well, cute pictures anyway.

The Lovejoy family posing after church ( minus Emma's headband).

Posing with Papaw DeLamarter

Daddy & Emma

Silly Emma sitting in the tree. She is such a cutie! And such a ham sometimes!

Uncle John and Aunt Linda were here for this Easter, celebrating it as an extended family with Grandma & Grandpa D, as well.

Emma enjoying her cupcake frosting.

Mom's yummy chocolate cake and my Lemon Cheesecake. Both were delish!

Aunt Ruth, Mom, Dad, Aunt Linda and Uncle Jon. The Delamarter siblings and their spouses.

Our cutie Easter Bunny!

Emma LOVES to help! You can see her play vacuum off to the left, but she want sot do the real thing!! Let's hope she still likes to help in years to come...

Hee Hee! Wearing Mommy's high heels!! She thought she was so cool!

Later in the month it was Emma's 2nd cousin Isaiah's birthday (my cousin Cyndi's 2nd son). He had a cowboy party, but it decided to rain that day and they moved the party inside.

Halie Dawn

Emma Rose riding the horse.... over and over...

She had a cute bandanna fabric dress to wear, but had no boots... SHE DID NOT WANT TO STOP RIDING THE HORSE!!

Josiah Glidewell

Emma and her cousins: Isaiah, Josiah, and Halie

Here is the new prototype Coupon Binder Cover that I have made (for my coupon addiction):

It is to cover a regular binder to make it look nicer and easier to carry. I searched online and found Coupon Clutch. They make them for about $40. I made this one for free just to see if it would work.

It did and I then made another one out of remnant toille fabric. Mom ended up with this tan one. It has straps to carry it like a tote bag and the flaps to cover the ends so that nothing falls out. I spent about $5 on the new one.

Happy Anniversary Dee Dee and Martin, April 16th , 2010 makes for 5 years together.

Playing Playdough for one of the first times. I made the flower and butterfly for her.

Enjoying the "big park". She loves to climb and slide and swing...

She's so brave! has no fear!

Such a big girl!

Now we're trying out this Playdough business on our own...

She does love to use the dough now. So far she hasn't attempted eating it either... I'm sure that will come tho.

She loves playing with her tea set (from Nana) and using her new table and chairs. Check out her many pcs. of art on the walls too. :-)

Some of you wish I would blog more often and sometimes I wish I had kept up with it too, but it takes SOOOO long to upload the stinking pictures! It took from 9PM to 12:10AM to upload these pictures many months ago and I just now got to the journaling part!! Oh well, we are only 10 months behind....

Emma's First Easter

Let me first preface this with- Emma was sick with a yucky cold/cough/runny nose by this time! She started getting it yesterday, and it got worse thru the night.

With that, let the story begin: Auntie Ruth bought the girls matching dresses & socks, as she wanted to see them at some point in matching outfits. We decided to use them as their Easter dresses. They were just adorable! Steph and I found matching hair items at Target. Emma's was a lavender headband w/ bow and Halie had the barrettes with the same bow attached. Steph also curled Halie's hair the night before on sponge rollers. What a doll! Thank you, Aunt Ruth!

We waited until the service was over to take them up front and take pictures by the Easter lilies.
(check out their extremely foofy socks! )

This is a happy picture of Emma, but if you look closer you will see her red nose! Running like a faucet during church! That soft burp cloth was used many, many times as a nose wiper! :( Much softer than using any type of Kleenex or tissue

Emma & her Nana, who looks lovely in her pale yellow. I really wanted the pictures of the girls to be taken in front of the lilies, similar to this one, but they have recently re-done the entire front of the stage and that arrangement was not possible.

Halie Dawn with Nana & Papaw. Not sure why we did not get one of Emma w/ both grandparents.... Hmmm.....

The Lovejoy Family in our lavender Easter outfits. Martin does not willingly wear a suit too often. He had to be cajoled, kinda forced, etc... :) 2 times a year is not to much to ask! Right???

This one belongs a bit later, but slipped in here somehow. Grandparents Delamarter enjoying lunch at the Cantrell's.

Grandma D, Emma and Mommy after church and after our photo session.

Emma and her Easter goodies. What does the Easter Bunny bring a 10.5 month old pretoddler, who dies not eat chocolate?????? Hmmmmm... Ta Doodles (a beginner Crayola product), 2 books, a ducky watering can (for summer play) & Bunny shaped sidewalk chalk.

Standing in front of Nana's rose bushes, a few red ones are in bloom. Notice she is STANDING on her OWN!!!! She just decided this morning that she could do that! A little timid in this photo, but doing it all the same!

We all (Delamarter's, Lovejoy's, Glidewell's, McNay's & Cantrell's) went out to Bob & Gina Cantrell's for Easter lunch. It was Robert's AND Bob's birthday today and they hosted lunch. All the ladies helped with the food and we had a super delish meal! Roast & noodles were Robert's birthday request and Ham because it was Easter! Plus all of the yummy trimmings!

The babies ate their lunch quickly and were put down for naps. After waking we did our Egg hunt. Here Halie is opening her pink Easter 'basket' from Nana. Emma got a blue one, as it is her current fave color. :) You'll see it being used in the Egg Hunt photos.

Emma woke up from nap with a fever. She has been getting sick since yesterday morning, but has had no fever until it was about time to hunt Easter eggs! So, she was clinging to me and refused to eat or drink.

But, we persisted, and got her to participate in the hunt. The first egg we found was purple and she could really have cared less about that, but I prodded her into bending down and getting it. Then, we found this one! A BLUE one! Boy, she was so into that! She picked that one up and began shaking it. It was filled with Sweet Tarts, and made a great shaking/rattly noise.

Here we have found 2 blue eggs! She found a grand total of three! Super for her very first Easter Egg Hunt and she didn't feel so hot!

Here are all three little ones: Emma Rose, Halie Dawn and Josiah Mathew. Josiah is my maternal cousin, Cyndi's son. The Delamarter family functions almost always include the many extended branches of relatives, married, maternal, paternal, etc... Makes for big, noisy, fun get-togethers!

Papaw flopped down on the ground with the kids once they were finished. Halie & Josiah just love him to death!! Emma is slowly coming around. It took her awhile. They say that I was the same way with my Grandpa.

The Cantrell family checking out those eggs. You can see one of their dogs in the next picture. Gretchen is sitting at the base of the tree. She stayed there forever thinking that she had a squirrel treed.

The Lovejoys, at the end of a busy and fun day. Emma looks happy and content here, but in reality she was exhausted. We left soon after taking these pictures.