HAMME SWEET HAMME: holidays

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Saturday, July 5, 2014

July 4th 2014

Of course our fourth of July started off with this cutie.

We had lunch at a BBQ place down the street and this Mama celebrated the holiday with this tasty sangria.

Yum.

And Emmah enjoyed herself in this giant high hair so much, that she pooped herself...

...all over her festive onesie.

So we did a quick load of laundry after lunch.

Then Emmah, her TiTi [aunt Kaitie] & I headed to Eyes to the Skies, a for-charity hot air balloon fesitval.

Something about hot air balloons are so magical.

After we had some lemonade and Emmah coerced me into giving her my straw,

[she LOVES straws and this one was super fun!]

Ems changed into her jammies and we strolled around waiting for the fireworks to start.

[we didn't have funnel cake though, because the lines for one were massive]

I know, bummer right?!

Nothing more American than a giant, blow-up, American flag, bald eagle & a ferris wheel.

Am I right?

Emmah fell asleep right before the fireworks started but then woke up right as the last finale ended, and caught a glimpse of a firework.

It's safe to say she loved it ;)

Monday, May 12, 2014

Our Weekend + First Mother's Day

The weather in Chicago is finally beautiful and reminding us why we live here.

On Friday, we took Emmah to the zoo for the first time, (she slept the majority of the time) but when she was awake she was a happy girl!

Saturday we went to the arboretum & walked to our favorite ice cream parlor.

On Sunday we went out to lunch and then walked around an outdoor mall and got caught up in a thunderstorm. It was awesome! Emmah wasn't so sure about rain, but after Mama showed her it was fun to take off your shoes and run around in it...she sort of liked it.

Man oh man do I love this little bear more than I could have ever imagined.

I am so thankful I get to be her mama.

I hope all you amazing Mama's had a wonderful Mother's Day!

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Emmah's First Easter

I know, I am all sorts of behind but who gives a hoot. Don't be surprised if you see my Christmas post popping up. In an attempt to keep everything in this blog and hopefully have it printed for Emmah some day, I am determined to go back and write each post that I intended to write!
((including her birth story...(insert embarrassed emoji here))

Easter morning was so much fun. We woke up, got dressed/ready for church and then gave Emmah her Easter basket. Even though she is too little to know exactly what is going on, she did reach for her Easter basket and pull things out which was absolutely adorable.

In her basket was a little laptop, her first Bible, cute jammies, a book, a few headbands and of course Easter eggs! She loves those things. Doesn't take much to make our little bear happy.

As you can see, I didn't include a cutsie, Easter morning family photo because as soon as we got to church that morning Emmah had a blow out all over her white dress.

Oh, an Easter to remember.

He is Risen!