Happy 3rd Birthday, Emmie!

We have had a fun filled weekend with Emmie and our families. I will post more pictures later, but she had a flower party on Saturday. Her grandparents came and also all 4 of her cousins (Molly, Tate, Mallory, and Leah). Jen and her family were here from Baltimore.

Happy Birthday to our sweet Emmie! We are so proud that you are 3 years old. You are an amzing blessing from our God above!

My belly is growing - for sure!

20 weeks

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21 weeks

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22 weeks

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23 weeks

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Fun in December!

Where do I start, when I have not kept up with the blog? We have had so many exciting moments with Emmie this December to celebrate Christmas and the birth of our Savior!

From Fun in December

We went to church the Sunday right after Thanksgiving to make an Advent Wreath. Emmie's favorite each night is lighting and blowing out the candles.

From Fun in December

We went to an Auburn Alumni pancake breakfast to take a picture with Aubie Claus! War Eagle!!

From Fun in December

We have made lots of goodies and licked LOTS of batter!!!!

From Fun in December

Emmie helped decorate our tree this year.

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Tate and Mally spent the night with us one night and Diana made these nightgowns for them. so cute!

From Fun in December

From Fun in December

We went to see Santa and rode the carousel.

WHEW - so much fun with a sweet little girl!!

To view more pix (since I could not put them all in this post), click on any of the pictures above. Merry Christmas!

Batson Exchange for Christmas 2012

Here is our list for Christmas 2012 from drawing names at Thanksgiving 2011. I am going to keep this on our blog but also try to put a link on the right side bar of our blog too for it.

Giver - Receiver

Maddie - Emmie
Maggie - Michelle L.
Susan - Maggie
Michelle Stanley - Jan
Michelle L. - Michelle Stanley
Sadie - Ann
Aunt Dot - Molly
Ann - Susan
Molly - Maddie
Leah - Aunt Dot
Emmie - Sadie
Jen - Roxanne
Roxanne - Leah
Jan - Jen
Ben - Jeremy
Bob - Steve
John - Will
Tom - Chris
Jeremy - Lee
Rick - Mike
Will - John
Lee - Tom
Chris - Brian
Steve - Bob
Chad - Ben
Brian - Chad
Mike - Rick

"I am Thankful to God for..." by Emmie Long (Part 2)

The wreath is finished and these are the things Emmie has been thankful for in the past 2 weeks (since my past post). It has been very sweet to do this with her and we will definitly do it again next year.

11th: Will and Logan (twins, her friends from church)
12th: bubbles
13th: cupcakes
14th: horses and pumpkins
15th: trees, birds, and "leafes" (as she says it)
16th: Jenny and Nite Nite (her bedtime lovies)
17th: G'Mom/Grampa
18th: Pug/Papa
19th: Dora cup
20th: Mallory/Tate
21st: Mr. Vick (at the grocery store that always gives her suckers)
22nd: Cows
23rd: Molly/Leah
24th: bunkbeds

Happy Thanksgiving!

19 weeks and counting!

Praise God! I am feeling well and doing well. We went for my 18 week ultrasound and found out...

From Emmie at 2 1/2 - the adventure!

We are having a boy, Jeremy "JJ" Michael Long, Jr. He is growning healthy at 9 oz. and about 6-8 inches. With blue balloons, we told Aunt DiDi, Pug, G'Mom/Gram​pa, and Aunt Jen that we were having a boy.

18 weeks

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19 weeks

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Emmie wanted to take a pix with JJ.

From Emmie at 2 1/2 - the adventure!

Click on this pix below to see more pix of what Emmie has been up to:

From Emmie at 2 1/2 - the adventure!

"I am Thankful to God for..." by Emmie Long

From Emmie at 2 1/2 - the adventure!

Since it is a few weeks from Thanksgiving, I thought I would update ya'll on Emmie's Thanksfulness Wreath that we have been doing each day. The first 2 days, it was a hard concept to convey to her. I would ask her "What do you like that you are thankful to God for?" She got it quickly and it has been so sweet to see her answers each day. I ask her (without giving suggestions or soliciting a response) what she is thankful to God for and we write her response on one of her handprints.

Here have been her sweet responses since the beginning of November:
1-butterflies
2-Zoe
3-hearts
4-people - Mommy and Daddy
5-groceries - strawberries, candy corn, and animal crackers
6-the church
7-flowers
8-the baby
9-my big girl bed
10-birds