Merry Christmas 2006

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. We had a wonderful day! This morning started with "Sticky Buns" from Diane - Thank you very much Diane, we loved them. We peeked under the tree to find that Santa had been here and had brought us lots of presents.. our stocking were full and everything was ready for us to open. The boys spent Christmas Eve with their mother and Rob went to get them at 11:30.... Once the boys were here we dug in. We all got a lot of wonderful, beautiful, exciting gifts. Emmalee hung out in her bouncy and watched all the action. The picture of Emmalee was actually taken first thing this morning. It has been a very long day for her and she has tried to get some sleep any chance she gets. We had a delicious meal and now it is time for me to get some sleep... it is only 7 but I am tired. I think Emmalee enjoyed her 1st Christmas and we are looking forward to many, many, many more! Love to you all. Jill and family

ZooLights 2006

As I mentioned in my update from last night, we went to the Phoenix Zoo for our annual zoolights trip. Sarah, Hunter, Deb, Nana Phyllis, Emmalee and I had a wonderful time looking at all of the cool lights.



They had a lot of the same things but they did add a camel ride, a wagon (hay) ride, and some new lights - such as giraffes off in the distance. The trees still danced to music and they had some penquins out dancing... I think it was a tribute to Happy Feet!!!!

It was cold outside so Emmalee was bundled in her nap sack. She seemed to enjoy all the lights - through her eyelids. I think she was just very cozy and warm.

Merry Christmas to everyone and we will update soon... I need to get Emmalee to bed so that Santa Claus can come visit. Josh and Brad are at their mom's tonight they will come send the day with us tomorrow. We love you all! Remember Santa knows who has been naughty and who has been nice! So be Nice! Love always, Jill
P.S. Thank you Sarah for taking the pictures and sharing them with us. My camera batteries died as soon as we got to the Zoo. I really appreciate you sharing the photos with me. You are the best!

Christmas is coming....

I have been very bad and have not updated the blog for a couple weeks. Emmalee is now 11 weeks old and Christmas is 2 days away. I am sorry I will try and do better. We have been very busy shopping and trying to get everything ready for Emmalee's 1st Christmas. We had Emmalee's 2 month pictures taken.

They turned out pretty good. She smiled once for the lady but was not real excited with the whole process....She was wondering where her Aunt Jodie was...... Here are the pictures that I chose from the store, I am going to sign off for now.

We will update with more pictures from the past two weeks (you can see some from our annual trip to zoolights on Hunters Blog at http://huntersday.blogspot.com )

You may have already received our Christmas card but if not here is the family picture that Papa Jim took for us. We love you all and wish you all a very Merry Christmas.

Love to you all, Jill, Rob, Josh, Brad and Emmalee

Two months or 9 weeks

It has been a very busy week for all of us. Last Saturday Emmalee got to meet her Grand Nan and Great Uncle Peter. (Nan is Grandma Rosemary's sister) Peter had a conference in Scottsdale so they came to visit us at our house. It was wonderful seeing them. Emmalee was a little confused because Grand Nan and Grandma Rosemary sound a lot a like. Emmalee then went on a ride to visit some of my co-workers up at Silverleaf spa in Scottsdale. On Tuesday evening Emmalee and I went out to dinner with my friends in the Women's Spinal Cord Injury Support Group. We had a very nice dinner at Macayos and Emmalee got to meet Lisa, Julie, Jennifer, Helga (and Bob). It was a great evening! = ) On Wednesday Emmalee was officially 2 months old. We tried to get her pictures taken but the people at the studio were not very nice we we decided we were going to go elsewhere. On Thursday Papaw turned 85 years young! Happy Birthday Papaw we love you very very much!!! We wish we could have been there to celebrate with you! Emmalee also went to the doctor for her 2 month check up and to get 5, yes I said 5 shots. She received 3 in her left thigh and 2 in her right one. She now weights 13 lbs 1 oz and is 24 inches long. She is growing like a weed. Today (Friday) Emmalee and I spent the day with Nana Phyllis, Grandma Diane, Aunt Julie and Aunt Andrea cooking for the Century 21 RAN Christmas party. We made lots of goodies..... Aunt Julie tried her best to mess up Emmalee's schedule in the hopes of making Emmalee wake up all night. We will see what happens. I am going to go to sleep. Until next time. I have not forgotten to post Thanksgiving pics, I still don't have them. Love Jill and family

All I Want for Christmas.....

Okay, I am bad.. I have not put any pictures on here from Emmalee's First Thanksgiving..( I have not downloaded them from Mom's camera) But Emmalee and I went and visited Santa and I wanted to share the photo with everyone. She was great. She stared at him afterwards like "Okay who are you and how are you related to our family." I will write more soon. Love to you all. Jill and family