Dancin' at The CEC.

Last Friday, we took Emaline and Kaya to Chuck E. Cheese for a fun lunch. We hadn't been since Emaline's birthday last September, so Nana figured it was about time we treat her to some giant mouse fun. Here is the little video I took of her gettin' her groove on:

The Work in Progress...

My excellent friend, Robyn came over and did a great job painting the baby's room for us. She really has the magic touch! The color turned out really well and I think when all the furniture and bedding come together it should look really cute. The colors for this time around are black, white, green and bright pink. Also, Josh has really been working his butt off to try and fit all this into his schedule and he already put up baseboards and is working on painting the door frame and remaining trim.

In the meantime, I have purchased many new things for our arriving bundle including a leaning bookshelf (black), some wall shelves (black), a personalized chair (just like Em's), some bedding accessories and tomorrow probably going to get a new window rod. Exciting stuff!

Party Weekend!

Last weekend Emaline and I were invited to two birthday parties and I was invited to my good friend Sarah's baby shower. So needless to say, it was a very busy weekend!

We started the parties off with our friends Maddie and Wes Wood's Carnival themed birthdays and it was so fun, even though we didn't get to stay as long as I would have liked. Mel and Steve did a great job setting up and decorating with games and prizes in each room of the house and then rotating. The food was complete with corn dogs, popcorn, cotton candy and lemonade. I really think Emaline enjoyed herself playing with the other kids. She got her face painted and played a game called Elefun with a couple other kids. This is really just the start of my social butterfly's career. Thanks to Jacki for capturing these moments:


Later that night I got to go to my friend, Sarah's baby shower hosted by our friend Carrie. It was a very nice, laid back and intimate gathering which was great for catching up. I could sit and talk with these girls for hours and hours at a time, but unfortunately the babysitting fairy couldn't wait that long :-) As for pictures, I could shoot myself in the leg for not remembering to bring a camera, but there will be plenty of pics of the new little St. Cin when the time comes.

On Sunday, we went to Emaline's cousin, Kaitlin's 10th birthday party. Grandma Audrey came with us and we got to visit with Aunt Angie and cousin Maddie. Emaline had a great time running around with all the older girls--I think she was the youngest one there! (besides her other cousin Morgan who is 4 mos.) She had a great time helping hand out the gifts to Kaitlin and dancing around in front of everyone. Gotta love the attention getter...she also helped herself to heaps of chips and dip and chocolate cake. That's the breakfast of champions my friends. It was a busy weekend, but very fun and can't wait for our next party!!

Finally, a Word on The Baby's Room

Okay, so we definitely have finally got all the wallpaper down in the baby's room. Josh has been doing a great job at fitting this stuff into his 5-day work weeks :-) I'm really excited that the walls aren't going to look as bad as I thought they would after I gouged the heck out of them scraping away. Josh has primed the finished walls and painted the ceiling, so now just have to get ready to paint with color! We went with green this time around and hope it turns out looking okay, the name is "evergreen glen"....so we'll see. Here are the first pics of all the paper being off. I'll post more as we get our bums in gear.

This is what the paper used to look like:

New Year's 2009

Emaline and I spent a very low key New Year's with my family at my sister Stephani's 2nd annual party. This year it was mainly just us, but Craig, Adham's friend, decided to join us as well. It was exactly what I was looking for in the way of a New Year's celebration because it took the least amount of energy from me! We played games, ate lots of yummy sliders (thanks to Adham and his new grill pan), watched countless episodes of The Twilight Zone and chased Emaline around the house. Obviously, the only one that didn't make it to midnight was Kaya and we all had champagne and sparkling cider (me and Em) while watching the fireworks go off in Stephani's neighborhood. Needless to say it was super cold that night and we didn't last long outside!

We called Daddy at midnight to wish him a happy new year and give kisses through the phone and luckily he wasn't too busy to answer. Thankfully, it was a pretty easy night for him too :-) Maybe one of these days he won't have to work that night. We got home roughly about 1:30am and Emaline was a real trooper. This girl loves to party...as a matter of fact she asked me when she woke up this morning when we were going to another party! She won't have to wait either since her and I are going to visit friends for a post-NY shindig tonight. We again were glad to spend time with family and friends and hope that everyone had a great start to 2009!