Emma and her friend Camryn
With Daddy holding a sparkler (NYE)
family photo
waking up to see what Santa brought
trying to take Christmas card pictures...she is a HUMBUG!
Whew...it has been a long time. I just don't ever make time to sit down and blog. Let's see where I left off.....Ohhh yes....Halloween.....hmmm a lot has happened between then and now like Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years!! Don't worry you know me...i'll attach some pictures at the bottom.
We had a great Thanksgiving...Mom and Dad came down and helped us unpack some more (no, we still aren't finished)!! We watched MS State beat the hell out of Ole Miss (way to go Dawgs!). We ate, ate, and ate some more and I cooked it all!!
For Christmas we went to childrens mass at St. Patricks on Christmas Eve and then went riding looking at Christmas lights before we came home and went to bed to wait on the Jolly Ole Guy himself....and YES he did come!! Holy COW did he come. Emma's eyes were so big when she came in the living room and saw what he left her. She didn't know what to think....she got a kitchen, food, pots, and pans, and SOOO much more. After we played for a little while we rode up to Columbus to play my family. We had so much fun. I bought my mom a game called Things....EVERYONE needs to own this. It is a GREAT group game. HILARIOUS!! We had a wonderful weekend with everyone and then came back home so Tripp could go back to work for a few days before being off for....
New Years!! We have an amazing group of friends that had a New Years Eve party for the whole family....it was awesome!! Thanks Ben and Charissa for an awesome time! There was a hayride, playset, trampoline, and fireworks!! For New Years Day we hung out at the house....we had friends over to eat supper while Tripp grilled out hamburgers and we watched football!!
Some other things that have been going on at the Ward's house is that we found out we are having a boy!! Emma is going to have a baby brother....so we have been working around the clock the last few weeks to rearrange rooms and get the nursery set up....which still has a long way to go. We did however get Emma a new BIG GIRL BED and she is fast asleep in it for the first time as I write this. We have been piece by piece buying new furniture for our new house so it is starting to look like someone lives here.
We also have welcomed the NEWEST member of the Garton family!! My sister Lynn had a sweet little girl on January 10th!! Sarah Reed Hooker!! Check out her blog for stats and pictures. Although I haven't been able to physically hold her yet...I have talked to her on skype and she already thinks i'm her favorite (although we all new that anyway)!! She is precious and her big sister Hannah Kate is having fun taking care of her real live baby doll!!
In other news...we had a sad time last week when we recieved news that our friend Gail passed away. She was the lady I worked with in which we had the Kick Ass Chemo Party for her when she started her treatment. There is an older blog on here about that party. She was a great lady and will be missed by all!!
On the upside of things Tripp has a birthday next week and so does my mom along with my mom and dad's anniversary so we will continue celebrating through then!!
Well, I guess that is about it... It is way past my bedtime....so i'm turning it in!!
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