Valentine's Day!

We hosted a Valentine's Party at our house with some of the girl's friends. We had cake and juice, did a craft, and exchanged Valentine goodie bags! It was tons of fun!!!

Thanks to our friends Sarah and her girls Avayah and Adalynne, and Melisa and her kids Hadley and Jack for coming and making the party special!!!

Christmas 2009

What a wonderful Christmas we had!!! This was the first year Emercyn really understood what Santa was all about. She was so excited to decorate cookies for him, and on Christmas morning she couldn't wait to see what he brought! Jason and I had so much fun talking about Santa Clause with Emercyn. What a fun time! And since she "got" that concept, we used this wonderful opportunity to talk to her about the real reason for the season.....Jesus's birth! She even said "Happy Birthday Jesus" a few times! :)

This was also Harper's very first Christmas. What a special time!! She was 8 months old, so she was at the age where tearing into the paper and boxes was more fun to her. Jason and I loved watching her!

And of course, I put them in matching pajamas! I let them open their new jammies on Christmas Eve. This will most definitely be something we continue throughout the years.

Because of the massive amounts of snow we had this year for Christmas, traveling became a problem. My parents were stuck in Houston. So we celebrated Christmas with my family on New Year's Day. It was wonderful having all of the "babies" together........all 4 of them!

And we celebrated with Jason's parents on Christmas Day. They were brave and drove in the snow to our house! We had a great time! We really missed not being able to spend the holiday with Jason's sister, her husband Brad, and our cutie patootie niece Lydia. Hopefully that day will come!!

Twinke Toes!!!

In both the Fall and Spring, Emercyn took dance! She loved it! She was in both ballet and tap. Oh my goodness! She is adorable! And she absolutely loves it! And I'm a bit biased here, but I do think she's rather good at it. She's a natural! :) And she has made so many great friends over this past year being in dance. We recently enrolled for this coming Fall semester, and we were sure to enroll in the same sessions as her friends! She's such good friends with some of these girls, we have started having playdates with them. We also all enrolled in a swim class together for this summer. So these dance classes have been a very positive thing for Emercyn all around!

In December, the dance studio had a Christmas recital. Emercyn's class danced to "Frosty the Snowman" (white costume) and "Away in a Manger" (purple). The VIDEO is from the Christmas recital! :)

In May 2010, they had a Spring recital called "Spring Fling". Her class danced to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (blue costume) and "Do You Love Me?" (white/pink/black polka dots)

Halloween 2009!!!

What a fun Halloween we had!!! The girls went as ghosts (which if I do say so myself, were the cutest costumes ever)!! We went trick-or-treating and then went to our church's Fall Festival. The weather was perfect, and the girls had a lot of fun! Emercyn LOVED going door to door asking for candy! And she had a blast playing all of the fun games at the church festival!

On Friday, the day before Halloween, Emercyn's school (Mother's Day Out) had a Halloween party! Since Emercyn's costume was mainly white, I decided not to risk it!!!! So we dressed her up in some of her dance clothes and she went as a ballerina! :)

Updates!!!

So it's been awhile since I last updated the blog! My last entry was the first part of July!! We've been very busy and a lot has happened in those few months!

Emercyn turned 3 years old in September, and Harper turned 6 months old on October 15th! Wow! Time has just flown by!!! We are staying very busy! Emercyn is in Mother's Day Out on Mondays and Wednesday, as well as dance class on Wednesday nights. Harper and I go to MOPS twice a month on Wednesdays while E is in school. Emercyn is loving all of the activities she has going on, and it's really nice for Harper and me to be able to spend some alone time together. We still do lots of playdates, as well as the activities we do with the stay-at-home-mom's group I've been a part of for almost 3 years. So our calendar stays full most of the time! And Jason's Farmers Insurance business is doing very well....it keeps him busy!!

Can't wait to see what this fall/winter has in store for the Looper family!!! :)

3 year and 6 month pics!!!

Aunt Lindsay (my sister) took the girl's pics recently....Emercyn's 3 year pics and Harper's 6 month pics.

Harper Belle!! :)

Baby H!!! She is such a happy and content baby! As you can tell from the pictures....she loves to smile and laugh!!!