Easter Showers

We had a great time celebrating Emory's first Easter. We spent the holiday in Clinton, TN with Martin's family. We almost had the entire family together...we were just missing Bobby.

 

Emory did great on the 3 hour trip to Clinton. We left late Thursday night, and she slept the entire way. Friday we spent the day hanging around the house. Saturday we left Emory and Martin at home, and we headed to Knoxville to celebrate Josie (Martin's sister) and baby Parker! Some of Josie's friends from high school got together to throw her a baby shower. It was a great time. I can't believe that Emory is going to have a cousin within the next month! Josie looks amazing...all belly of course. She makes all other pregnant women jealous.

Sunday we celebrated Easter at church. This was Emory's first trip to church, I was a little nervous that she would cry the entire time, but I was pleasantly surprised. She slept for the first half of church, and then decided to wake up and cry right in the middle of a prayer. Great timing. After that one minor incident she was a perfect angel. She sat in my lap and watched the preacher, she even started trying to talk to him. It was pretty cute.

After church we had a delicious Easter lunch, and then we made the trip back to Nashville.

 

I do have to make fun of myself a little bit. Everyone knows that I have never been the typical "girly girl", and some of this little girl stuff is out of my league. Well, I wanted Emory to look cute for Easter so we thought a bonnet would go great with her precious Easter dress. When I put the bonnet on I thought "well this thing is not very cute, but I don't really know what bonnets should look like". She wore that weird looking bonnet all through the church service, and when we were leaving someone said "her bonnet is on backwards." HAHAHA! That explained SO much! We turned the bonnet around and it looked MUCH prettier. I'm so glad that Emory has her aunt Mindy here in Nashville to help her with girly things, otherwise she would be in big trouble!

The backwards bonnet. Martin said she looked like a fighter pilot

Yep, still backwards during church

This is what a bonnet should look like!

This past weekend we threw a shower for Dustin and Mindy. I can't believe they are getting married in less than two weeks! We had a great time, and I could not be happier to have Mindy as my new sister-in-law! Below are some pics from the shower. Dustin had been hunting all day and apparently forgot the sunscreen.

 

 

Emory is obsessed with her feet. She is constantly grabbing them, and this weekend she finally got to chew on them. She has been trying for a while, and she finally succeeded.

 

 

 

We have had a fun time celebrating our first Easter as a family, our nephew Parker, and Dustin and Mindy's upcoming wedding!!! Here are a few more recent pictures of Emory