Drive In Movie....

Our boys have never been to a movie before and really don't watch many movies at home, but together with our friends the Nichols' we decided that the drive in would be perfect for their first experience!! 

As with most plans involving a 2 year old, a 3 year old, a 4 year old, an 8 month old and a newborn; the dream is often much better than the reality. With minivan pack to the hilt with pizza, snacks, treats and activities we headed to the drive-in in Ft. Collins right when the box office opened t 6:45pm. It was a gorgeous night and we had a blast tailgating and pre-gaming as we waited for the movie to start.

The boys were so excited for the movie to start!! We did not anticipate how late the movie would actually start. By the time the previews were done and Cars 2 actually started, it was after 9:30pm!

John and James waiting patiently, well as well as could be expected!Daddies and boys killing time before the movie.
Even more ready for the movie to start-all changed into pajamas with popcorn!

With the movie starting well after the Haley's bedtime, the movie was a bust.  And not just because it really wasn't a very good movie...  John cried to go home for most of the film while Colin wanted to climb, run, and over all be crazy instead of watching the movie, and then cried once it was over.  (Much like at home...)

Although there are no photos of Cormac or Emerson from the drive-in, they were both dream babies. They nursed and/or slept the whole time and neither one of them made a peep the entire loooong night. I couldn't completely leave them out though, so here they are on their baby date earlier in the week when all of the big kids were at summer camp.

As you can see, Emmy is already a big fan of her first boyfriend, Macky.  I wish she wasn't as cranky as she looks, although this week she has been.  But check out her adorable outfit.  Only the second one I've purchased!!

And a HUGE thanks to Katy for writing this post, taking the pictures, and posting it to her blog so that I could steal, almost verbatim the entire thing!!

Emmy is 1 month!!

I cannot believe our baby girl is one month old!!  So what is she up to?

She's between 20 and 20.5 inches long.  She weighs 9 pounds 15 ounces!! 

She is sleeping from 10:30 until 7:30 waking 2-4 times to eat, (usually 2). 

Emmy is holding her head up really really well.

She is wearing 0-3 month clothes because of her small fuzzibunz. 

Her hair is still very much there and very brown and spiky in the back.

Her arms and legs are both showing her gerth :)

She HATES to be dirty or wet

She loves when her brothers hold her but she doesn't like when they make loud noises.

She grunts when she's hungry

Emerson is always moving when she is awake, which is 3 times a day for about an hour. 

She LOVES to nurse!!  Clearly 10 pounds isn't easy!

 The tongue hanging out kills me!

 Sweet baby Emmy!

 Diva!!

Cute Outfits!!

Yep she's a girl and we love to dress her up.  We actually we just put her in clothes and they happen to be cute!  The whole girl after boys thing is why everything is pink.  ;)

 2 Days old, coming home outfit

 10 days old, an outfit the boys picked out for her.

2 weeks old, the only outfit I've gotten her.  Seriously small leggings

Almost 4 weeks.  Really cute dress, that has matching bloomers. 

Looks like we need to take more pictures as ALL of her clothes are oh so cute!

Fishing Day

Every year we have fishing days at G & G's house, but this is first year that the boys caught their own fish!  Em and I had to stay in the car due to the massive amount of bugs that were out, but Dad, Grant and Katie did a great job helping the boys with their fish!

 John and Seth with the fish John reeled in all by himself

 Katie and Colin with his fish, he's not that into it.

 The boys with another fish, Doo still doesn't want to touch it.

Grant helping Colin learn to cast.

It was a great trip, they fished for well over an hour and were not ready to leave.  We will be heading back soon I'm sure!

Brotherly Love

The Boys are totally in love with their new little sister and ask to hold her all the time.  John started calling her the peanut baby and that has stuck.  Colin gets more gentle with her every day and for that Em is thankful!

 Reading her stories

 Kisses!

 This was the best one, seriously

Silly John pretending to sleep with Emerson. 

We are so happy the boys are doing as well as they are, and that Em is too!  The transition into a family of 5 has been as smooth as we could have hoped and we are so blessed the boys love her so much.  She may not be as thrilled once she is interested in boys...

Hospital Pictures

 Trying on a hair bow

 Little Peanut baby

 Holding the little sister for the first time!

 Firsy family of 5 picture, and this was the best one!!

 The 0 picture

 With Daddy getting ready to leave

All ready to go.  I love this picture!!

First friend & First bath

This is Olivia, she's 10 days older than Em.  They will be friends it's a must...

This is the girls with their mamas.  This mama looks tired.

This is the girls, their mamas and their big brothers.  All are under 5.  Busy busy.

This this Emmy getting her first bath, she's not thrilled.

Like really not thrilled.

This is when we switched to a sink bath because someone pooed in the baby tub...