TENNESSEE: I think that this is a really sweet picture of Emma and her daddy. She loves being able to play in the flowers and dirt!

TENNESSEE: Here is Emma on the wooden swing under the tree down by the greenhouses. She has taken a few naps on it!

TENNESSEE: Emma has become quite the farm girl. It is really no surprise to me. After all these tractor rides from Papa and four wheeler and gator rides, she can hardly stand to be inside anymore!

TENNESSEE: For "Uncle Russell's" birthday, he chose to eat at La Cazona, a Mexican restaurant here in town. Emma tried on the birthday sombrero. I think that it might have scared her a little!

TENNESSEE: This is the first time that Emma has eaten watermelon. She LOVES it!

TENNESSEE: Asleep on the four-wheeler...again.

TENNESSEE: Here is Aaron and Emma after a slightly traumatic swim in the river!

TENNESSEE: We took Emma down to the river one afternoon. She won't wear her hat, but she loves wearing her swimsuit!

TENNESSEE: Sometimes Emma falls asleep on the four-wheeler when her Jefe takes her for rides!

We took Emma to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point. We couldn't let her get too close to the flowers because she kept trying to eat them.

Happy Easter! Here is Emma in her Easter dress that her BB bought for her! She looked so sweet in it!

And another Easter dress picture. She has a little bruise on her cheek from falling onto the knob of the entertainment center door. She is sort of crawling, and is getting into everything!

The weather has been really nice lately, so Emma and I have been spending a lot of time outside playing in the grass (well, more like she tries to eat the grass and I try to stop her!).

Mmmm, dandelion stems taste yummy!

Emma has discovered her feet, and she loves playing with them!

I took Emma to have her portraits made, and they turned out so cute. Here is one of the best ones. Notice how she has curled her little toes!

Here is one of my favorites of her portraits.

I guess that every baby needs a bathtub picture, so here is Emma's. Aaron fixed her hair for this picture.

Emma is growing up so fast. This is a dress that she is actually wearing in a picture in the September blog (she wore it on her first day to church)...she looks so different now! I think that this is the last time that she will get to wear this dress, so we had a picture session after church.

I laugh so hard everytime I look at this picture (I am laughing right now, as a matter of fact.) It is priceless!

I don't really have much of a comment for this picture, I just thought that it was cute.

Okay I know that this is like the third picture of Emma in this outfit with this flower, but bear with me cause there are more where this one came from. It is just so cute! I can't resist!

My baby looks so grown up in this picture. She is posing for my pictures!

I think that this is a sweet little picture.

Aaron is teaching Emma naughty things...like how to open the little doors on the entertainment center.

And she was successful in opening the entertainment center.

This is the jumper that Grandma and Grandpa Hale gave Emma at her baby shower. She LOVES it!

Is it just me or does this kid look like she is up to something?

This picture just makes me laugh! Emma is growing out of this little suit and I really wanted to get some pictures of her in it before we box it up.

Here is Emma in her Valentine's Day outfit.

What a cutie!

Dad was taking Katherine to the Daddy-Daughter date night (hence, the tux) and he took a picture with Emma before leaving.

Emma is helping me win a game of 5 Crowns.... I didn't need that card so she ate it!

Here is Emma before church this morning. She is wearing a dress that was mine when I was a baby. Doesn't she look so sweet?

I love this picture! And those cheeks! We are going to call her "cachetas" which is spanish for "cheeks."

Emma let me take so many cute pictures of her this morning!

Here is Ammon, David, Aaron and Emma at the MTC as we drop David off. Don't those guys look handsome all dressed up?

We took David to the MTC last week and here is Emma "doing the honors" (putting on David's missionary tag) with a little help from Aaron.

Lately, anytime I pull out the camera, Emma gives me her best smiles. I think we might have another Janel on our hands!

I know that it looks like I posed Emma for this shot, but I swear I just plopped her on the couch and she fell over into this position. It was so funny!

Emma tries rice cereal for the first time...this is the look that says "What is this stuff?!?"

Emma is about to give her daddy a big slobbery kiss!

Emma love s playing in her "Ocean Wonders" gym that she got for Christmas. She really likes to sit in her boppy and play in it rather than laying on the floor.

This is Emma in her blessing gown. She is sitting on the quilt that I made for her.

Here we are with Emma after her baby blessing.

Emma and Mommy at Opry Land Hotel

Emma and Aunt Kathy

Here is Emma with her Aunt Janae over Christmas.

I have considered nicknaming Emma "cheeks." I don't feel the need to explain why!

Emma met her Uncle Dan for the first time while he was out on a snowboarding trip with Evyn (his girlfriend...I don't have any pictures of her).