Our baby's last year before TEEN

Ugghhh, I'm terribly behind on posting...sorry! Things have been busy here as usual, but school has been NUTS so I'm just not getting the time on the computer I'd like. Anyway, first and most importantly as I catch up...Emilee turned 12 on September 15th! Yikes, it's nuts to think that she's two thirds of the way to 18 or only has 4 years til she's able to drive...holy moly time needs to slow down a bit!

Here's Em posing with her gifts. Notice she's holding a cell phone to her ear. She's been DYING for one for the longest time, and we finally broke down and gave her one. It's an old one we already had (with a cute new cover thanks to ebay lol), added to an account we already had, plus a texting package of course. Boy oh boy is she a happy girl as she was the absolute LAST kid we know to get one. We had a blast giving it to her too. We put it in a gift bag, turned ON, and put it in her room the night before her birthday. Joshua leaves for work about 5:30am, so at 6am he called her new number and it rang (playing Happy Birthday that we'd downloaded onto the phone) and she answered that thing lickety split lol. She came into my room grinning from ear to ear holding her new phone shortly after!



Birthday cake with friends and family...


Painting pottery with her friends...


Happy Birthday, Freddy-girl!!