Easter 2011

Easter started this year with pictures with the Easter Bunny. This is a shot of Emily while they were taking her picture - thanks to Aunt Marisa for telling mom about a great Groupon deal to get the pictures. They had about 20 seconds to take Emily's picture before she decided that she did not like the Easter Bunny. One of the shots that we have was really cute, Emily was just screaming. It is too cute! I am sure in later years that Emily will not agree, but we think it is!

This was Emily's second Easter, however last year she was only a few weeks old for Easter. So, this year was the first year that she could really participate in the festivities.

We started with decorating the empty Easter eggs at Grandma and Grandpa Trevino's house for the annual Easter Celebration, the one where we crack them and either there is flour or confetti inside...........

Grandma was having a blast with Emily coloring the eggs!

Mommy and Emily decorating the eggs. Aren't her pig tails just too cute, thank you Auntie Lori for trying them.

Emily really like putting the egg in the color herself. She cracked a few of the empty eggs because she would get so excited!

This is one of Emily's final products - perfection if you ask me......

Daddy got his chance too!

At this point Emily discovered that she could dump the liquid color all over the place - it got everywhere!!

Grandpa getting his kisses in!!

All the kids enjoying the festivities!!

All the adults filling the eggs - some flour, some confetti and some a combintion of both!!

Then it was the day of the celebration, Emily loves her shades (she is even good at leaving them on her face -- well sometimes)!

Emily taking off on her first time to find eggs.

Emily getting her first egg of the hunt.

She would pick them up and THROW them in her basket. Just like she does with all her toys. She loves to pick them up and throw them!!

Everyone before the Trevino Egg Hunt!!

Aunt Marisa, Emily and Daddy ready for the hunt to begin!

Ready, set...............................Go!!!!!!!!!!

And they are off!!

Photo Shoot

Yesterday (May 14, 2011) we did a much needed photo shoot. We needed some pictures of Emily at around 1 year old, plus we had this really cute Easter dress we wanted pictures in. So, I found a Groupon for The Picture People, we got an amazing deal and some great pictures. Grandma Trevino met us there so that we could try to get some good smiles from Emily (we figured if there was someone there with us that Emily knew we would get better smiles - I think it worked).



We scheduled the shoot for 11:00 a.m. thinking that Emily would take a nap in the morning like she usually does, then we could head over for pictures with a well rested little girl. Well, Emily had other plans and she slept in until about 8:15 a.m. So, by the time she ate and got her bath it was nearly time to head for pictures -- so no nap for Emily. I was so worried that she was just going to be a tired and grumpy girl by the time we were ready for pictures. But Emily is always ready with her smiles, as she likes to prove over and over.

Emily was all smiles for all of her pictures.

Sweet girl, we hope she knows how much she is loved!!

This is the picture we got the most of....... But it was a hard decision!!!!

Our happy little family!!

Cheese!!!!

This is one of my favorites!! I love the look on Emily's face!!

Sweet girl! We got this outfit for her first birthday from Lois (I work with her). Lois was so excited to hear that we were taking pictures in this outfit. I had planned on having her in cute little white sandles, but couldn't find them when we changed her in the studio -- we found them in the car later... But, I think they turned out better with her cute little bare feet instead!!

Emily is 1!! I still can't believe that this little girl is alread a year old -- where has the time gone?!?!? Seems like just yesterday she was too small to fit even the preemie clothes that we had for her, she is still a petite little girl, which is good because she has TONS of clothes that everybody has bought for her and this way she gets a chance to wear them all.

I love the way that her feet are crossed here, too cute!

Once again, all smiles for the camera!

This little girl is so used to her picture being taken, even stangers in Cancun wanted to take her picture!!

Relaxing....... We had a fun afternoon. After pictures we had lunch with Grandma Trevino at Red Robin, did a little shopping and got this little one home to take a much needed nap -- poor thing was so tired!! She did good at her photo shoot, though!

4th of July with the Trevino Family

The Fourth of July is such and important holiday - it is hard for me to express the love that I have for this country. We are so lucky to live in the land of the free and the home of the brave. My Dad instilled in me a great sense of patriotism. He taught me to love and deeply respect this country and I hope that we can instill the same things to Emily. I am so greatful for our founding fathers who had the courage to place God at the center of everything this country did - our politicians of today would do well to remember this idea as well. Everywhere you look Government is asking us to remove God from everything and I think that is why we are in the turmoil that we are. Our founding fathers knew what they were doing when the established this country with God as their partner and knew that with God, all things are possible. I am so greatful everyday for our troops who willingly put themselves in harms way to defend this country and our freedoms. I LOVE this country - LET FREEDOM RING!!!!!

This is our 4th of July celebration with the Trevino family. First we attended church because the 4th was on a Sunday this year and then we headed to Grandma and Grandpa Trevino's for a BBQ, swimming and fireworks.

This is Enrique as he was setting off the fireworks. Emily was mesmorized by them, she didn't even cry - a few times she jumped from the sounds (but I do that sometimes too).
Rayne, Paige, Christian and Sierra watching the fireworks.

Grandma Trevino, Emily and Darla waiting for the firework show to start.

Grandpa Trevino, Daddy, Darla, Grandma Trevino and Emily at the neighborhood celebration at the park right behind Grandma and Grandpa Trevino's house. The Anthem association does all kinds of celebrations in this park for the community. It was complete with a bounce house, all kinds of food booths and of course water games.

Our patriotic Family!!

Grandpa Trevino always finds cool hats to celebrate the holidays, here he is with his Patriotic dreds.

Grandma and Grandpa Trevino trying to entertain Emily.

Rayne, Auntie Lori, Sierra and Paige. Auntie Lori has a application on her I-phone that distorts pictures to make you look chubby. We all took a turn having our picture distorted - even Emily.

Emily getting her picture taken to be distorted.

Emily and Uncle Evan - Evan always has so much fun with Emily. He is so much fun to watch with her, he will make a great Daddy someday. Uncle Evan just lights up when he sees Emily.

This is Daddy enjoying the swing in Grandma and Grandpa Trevino's backyard. There is no better way to celebrate our Independence day than with family, friends, BBQ, swimming, fireworks and a nap.

Auntie Lori, Darla and Lulu enjoying the sun on the 4th of July.

Christian enjoying the family and fun on the 4th.

Emily's New Pool

Emily got a new pool on July 5, 2010. We decided this would be a fun way for Emily to cool off at home during the HOT summer days in Las Vegas. Grandma and Grandpa Blackburn came over for dinner and then we all went outside to watch Emily in her new pool. Daddy had fun playing with Emily in her new pool and Mommy had fun taking pictures of it. Grandpa Blackburn took tons of pictures too. We all kept laughing and giggling - Emily had a blast. We are hoping that this will help transition Emily so that she will enjoy swimming more next time we are at Grandma and Grandpa Trevino's house. Emily really likes her baths now - which has not always been the case so we are hoping that she will just kind of think that this is a really big bath tub. Emily gets a little fussy in the evenings so we are hoping this will help during those times. It is so much fun watching Emily with all of these "firsts" - we are enjoying her so much, we don't really recall what life was like without her - amazing how fast we just forgot what is was that we used to do.