Party of 4!

Sorry to leave you all hanging. Things have been a bit crazy around here. Matt's busy at work, I'm busy with Emma and church, and Emma is just busy being a toddler :) We finally let the cat out of the bag this week and announced that we are pregnant with #2! We are very excited to become a family of 4 sometime towards the end of August. I'm 10 1/2 weeks pregnant and no, I have not been feeling well. But its all part of the process and I really can't complain too much. Emma keeps me busy so I don't have time to sit and wallow :)

Christmas Pictures

After dinner on Thanksgiving we decided to take advantage of the beautiful afternoon and take some pictures. Here's our little cutie!

How can you resist that face?

"I'm gonna get you Mama!"

 Our family Christmas picture

Thanksgiving

We celebrated Thanksgiving at our house with Megan and James. It was a nice dinner together as family. Its hard to believe that it has been a year already since Megan and James moved here. We are so happy to have family close by and to have them as such a big part of Emma's life. 

Matt carving our awesome turkey.

The fam

Emma holding court over the dinner table.

My delicious, golden brown apple pie. 

Christmas fun

Christmas is one of my favorite times of year. One of the things I am excited about this year is dressing Emma in all of her cute winter/Christmas themed outfits. She has a lot of cute ones that I have been saving until Thanksgiving ended. She's growing so fast, I know that there will come a day very soon when she will want to pick out her own clothes and she won't really care what I want her to wear. 

 It's hard to see here, but she has her hair in 2 cute pigtails

I just love this outfit! The fun red and white colors and the cute little dog are just too cute!

She's on the move so much now that it is hard to get a good picture of her.

Once in a while she does stop for a snack break though :) This girl still loves to snack! Just like her Daddy. We are counting down the days until we leave for sunny southern California to be with our extended families. Only 21 more days!

Busy busy

Emma loves to dance. This may or may not be my fault :) Generally if she hears music playing she will stop what she's doing and dance a little bit until it stops. It is not uncommon to look in the rear view mirror and see her bopping along to the beat while she's in her carseat. 

Emma, like Matt, enjoys snacks.... A LOT. She is pretty good about sharing though and she likes to feed people. Daddy on the other hand, is not so good about sharing his food. He's learning though :)

Our poor attempt at a self-portrait. My cute girl and her pretty blue eyes.

Emma likes to do whatever Mommy is doing. She has called and texted people from my phone, ordered movies on the TV, and now she tries to email people too. Sadly for her, we don't let her play with the computer.

She's as playful as ever and is generally a very happy child. We have been through a very busy season, but are trying to enjoy as much time as we can together as a family. She's growing and changing so fast that I want to remember and cherish this time while she's still little!

Fall in Indiana

Fall has got to be one of my favorite seasons in Indiana. The weather is crisp and cool, the leaves turn beautiful shades of red, gold, and orange, and the skies are bright blue. During October Mema and Papa came to visit and we took advantage of the beautiful fall weather.

We went down to the Huntington Reservoir and took a short walk around.

Emma loves to be outside almost as much as her Daddy.

3 generations of Lomicka's

Mommy and Emma

The beautiful trees

The water levels are pretty low right now because we have had a very dry summer and fall. I am hoping that this warmer weather lasts for a while longer. I am not ready for snow yet!

Pumpkin Patch

This year we went to the pumpkin patch 2 times. One time, Emma and I went with our friends Amy, Josiah, and Julian. The next time we went as a family along with Mema, Papa, Auntie Megan and Uncle James.

Our second trip was on a very blustery day. It was one of the first cool days of fall.

There weren't as many pumpkins this year. The pumpkin farmers were really hurt by the cold spring. But we still found a few to take home with us!

I like this one!

This picture is from our trip with the Spallinger's. It was a much warmer day!