Apple Harvest Festival at Carter's Mountain!!

As most of you know, life gets busy! At the beginning of September I made plans with my mom that we wouldn't make too many plans for the weekends in October so that we could catch a lot of the festivals that take place around VA! Well, by the time October came I realized that we had made plans for EVERY weekend and none of those plans included a single festival:( That reality made me pretty sad, until I realized that on October 10th our plans were for the mid-afternoon....my sister in law, Tiffany's, baby shower. And since we had to come into town for it, it turned out that we were able to catch the Carter's Mountain Apple Harvest Festival this year! The only setback to my great plan was that it was COLD and RAINY! But we (Mommers, Dooders, Micah, Emily and I) braved the yucky weather to drive up to Carter's Mountain so that I could get some Apple Butter, some Apple Donuts and stand in line for 15 minutes in the drizzly mist to use the lovely Porta-potties that they have out front!! It was definitely a memory made and one that we won't soon forget!

Looking back on it though, I will say it was worth it 100%. We all got to spend some time together, Emily got to attend her first of many Apple Harvest Festivals and we got to spend a nice, but rainy Saturday afternoon together as a family!

Here are a few pictures to document our memories.........

Emily enjoyed sitting High Atop the Pumpkins in the Patch!!

I always love to cuddle with my Girl!

Daddy was having fun too, holding Emily and an Umbrella and all! I sure love my Micah Cordon...he is so supportive!!

Had to get a shot of the "Good Hair Day" that we were having!

Mommers and Dooders with their little Emily Marie!

What's an Apple Harvest Festival if you can't get a Family Photo in front of the Gigantic Pumpkin?

It's Official ~ We Now Have a Crawler on our Hands!!!

This afternoon while we were at Mommers and Dooders' House for a Yummy Sunday Dinner, we were all sitting around the living room watching Emily play! And then all of a sudden.....she was CRAWLING!! Mom had bought some fun books for all the grandbabies to play with and Emily REALLY liked them! Enough to crawl all the way across their living room floor to play with them! And here are two video clips we got to capture these precious memories!! Look out Baby Proofing at the Grays - Here comes Emily Marie!!

Enjoy the Videos!!

Baby Proofing 101!

As most of you know from our last post, Emily is ALMOST on the move. So Today and whenever you read this we are looking for your insights and wisdom on baby-proofing! Anything will help I am sure. In a matter of a few short hours or days she is going to be all over the house! Exciting and Scary times all at the same time!! Can't wait to hear your Words of Wisdom!

We LOVE this laughing Little Girl!

Here is a cute little video of Micah and Emily's new game! They just played it for the first time together tonight! Looks like it is a HIT!!! Enjoy!

18 Weeks and Growing!

We keep losing track of time, but nonetheless we wanted to take a few photos to capture the moments of this 18th week of our 2nd pregnancy! Things seem to be progressing well. I am feeling good....tired, but good. I am enjoying my maternity clothes, there's nothing like maternity pants! Just this past week I have started feeling the baby move every so often inside of my tummy! What a great feeling that is! So comforting! And once again, brings back all the memories of when I was pregnant with our little Emily, which I am sure every pregnancy will do!
Micah is being such a supportive husband and daddy. He works hard all day at work and when he comes home he is always willing and able to take care of Emily so that I can rest or make dinner without a baby on my hip:) He brings me snacks when I get hungry, even in the night time he will get out of bed if I ask him too! What a sweet husband, I am so blessed to have him as my eternal companion!! He is truly the man that my dreams are made of!
Without further ado here are a few pictures that we took today and a cute little video of Emily showing off her piano skills!!

18 weeks pregnant and starting to show!

Can't miss a photo opportunity with my little princess....especially when she's got such a cute outfit on!! (Thanks to Aunt Jessie, Uncle Tanner and her Cousin Eliza for picking it out for her....it fits perfectly!!)

Here's the video of our little Baby Mozart in the making, getting some tips from her Daddy along the way!

It's Family Dinner Time Once Again!

Friday night we got to go to Mommers' and Dooders' house for the monthly family dinner! And it was a great evening spent together with family, everyone was able to be there except Josh and Ellie and their family and Jay and Stephanie and their girls. We had a yummy dinner of Chili Bean Soup and Corn Bread and we got to play with the little girls a lot and watch them play with each other which was even more fun! And we all got to "ooh and ahh" over little Colton and of course, get in some snuggle time too!

I love the family dinners because it gives us all time to catch up on every one's lives and we get a chance to talk, which is something I personally don't get to do nearly enough with my brothers and sisters and their spouses!! And I am so grateful that Emily gets to be a part of these family dinners too, because hopefully they will help her have good memories in the future of being able to spend time with her family and bonding!

Without further ado, here are some cute pictures of our evening together at Mommers' and Dooders'......

Emily and Eliza thoroughly enjoyed the new toy that Mommers recently bought for them! They both loved trying to stand up and play at the same time!

They even enjoyed a few moments trying to sit on each other's lap!!

Then there were the other toys that they liked to take turns figuring out!!

Eliza: "Hey, I need to tell you a secret."

Emily: "Go ahead, I'm listening."

Little girls are always interested in the camera!

Emily thinks her Uncle Jacob is SO FUNNY!

She just can't quite figure him out. But she is TRYING!

Here's Emily sportin' Eliza's new cowboy boots!

Mommers and Dooders were trying to get individual family shots of everyone, so here's ours!

All of us girls(Jessie, Me, Tiffany and Danielle) posing for a photo together!

Here we are again with all of our babies in tow (including Gracie Kaye and Baby Gray #2)

Our attempt at letting the 3 babies get to know each other! Colton is definitely getting broken in well!

Eliza is more interested in her Mommy and Emily is more interested in the toy to her right,but at the same time she was making sure that her little Colton was being protected!!

Gotta pat the head, before Mommy takes him away!!

We had a great time and we are already looking forward to next month!!! Especially because by then we will know whether Emily will be getting a little brother or a little sister....Stay Tuned!!

Look Who Just Turned 9 Months Old!!!

Someone told Micah a few weeks ago that you never realize how fast time flies until you have kids ~ and boy is that a TRUE statement! I can't believe that our little Emily just turned 9 months old yesterday! She is so fun and happy and we love having her in our lives to "spice things up" a bit!! She has gotten to be quite the little babbler lately. I love to hear her "talking" to herself when she wakes up in the mornings and from her naps! She really does have quite a lot to say (guess she takes after her mommy!!).

Here are some highlights from Emily's 9th Month:

~ She just went to her 9 month doctor's appointment today. And here are her stats:
* 25 3/4 inches tall (5th percentile)
* 15 lbs. 11 oz. (5th percentile)
* 45 cm head circumference (75th percentile....what can we say...she's got lots of brains in her head!!)

~ She also got 2 of her teeth this month, back to back (one came in on Sept. 24th and the other on Sept. 25th)....we have finally determined that they are her two upper teeth on both sides of her front teeth!!

~ Today (even though this is technically in her 10th month) she pulled up from sitting to standing for the first time all by herself!!)

~ She got to try a lemon this month and LOVED it!! (See the previous post for a video of that one!)

~ Since she got her teeth she also got to try Wagon Wheels and Biter Biscuits, both of which she LOVES!

~ Mainly Emily loves to have fun and smiles at whomever she meets! She loves to take strolls in her stroller and read books and she still LOVES to take her vitamins! She amazes us each and every day! We are so blessed to be her parents and to get to be a part of all of these special milestones with her! Heavenly Father has blessed us far more than we could have ever imagined with our little "Sweet P". We love her so much!

Now for a few adorable pictures of little Miss Emily Marie!!

Emily has come to love her morning bath times! She used to get baths before bed, but since she sleeps so long at night she usually leaks out of her diaper, so she gets a morning bath. That way she can be clean for the day!! I had a good time with her hair today, if you can't tell! She has a little bit of cradle cap and I was using her brush after I washed her hair to try to get rid of it and this was the result!!

Another shot of our happy little girl! She LOVES bath time!


Here's Emily once again with her little bear! She is really starting to love him!

She especially loves trying to eat him!

And talk to him!

Here's our routine shot by her dresser to see how much she is growing! She is almost able to stand by herself!

Just love her expression in this one!

She is admiring her Daddy's face in this shot!

Since it was a nice day yesterday, we decided to venture outside for a few photos! Emily LOVED being in the grass!

Mommy loves to snuggle with her Emily!

Emily was having SO MUCH FUN here! Couldn't leave this one out!!

Daddy smiling with his little princess as the sun goes down behind them!

Our Family shot by our ENORMOUS Butterfly Bush!