Emmy has had a plethora of opportunities to spread her special brand of Emmy love lately. She went out to her very first sit-down restaurant for a dinner with all of the VIPs from Nick's new brigade. We had our "exit strategy" in place should she have a meltdown mid-dinner, but that was all for naught as she slept through the whole outing! She stirred just once while I was signing the check...We could not have been prouder of our little miss! She joined us for a lunch "steering committee" meeting for the battalion-she also slept peacefully for the duration of this gathering (we are so grateful that Nick's Battalion Commander and his wife have six kids, so they are very family friendly!) This past Saturday she got to cuddle with a bunch of ladies from our Family Readiness Group at our Welcome Brunch! :-)
We celebrated Superbowl Sunday with our wonderful friends from our church group. At this time, we held our second annual "Chicken Wing Throwdown". It started last year when our good friend and group leader, Ryan, was talking up his wing recipe. Never having made chicken wings before, I felt compelled to give Ryan a run for his money. Our buddy, Mike, joined in the fun...Ryan crowned himself to be the winner (we didn't have the whole judging aspect of the competition figured out so Ryan assumed that he took the prize).
I was overly-ambitious in my wing preparation this year...I didn't factor in breaks to feed Emmy (minor problem). So, sadly, we were unable to stage our boycott of Ryan's wings as we had previously arranged with our groupies (all in good Christian fun), because I came running in with my wing platter an hour after kick-off :-P. Once again, Ryan claimed victory for himself...
I didn't watch a single play from the Superbowl, instead enjoyed our first "play date" with the littlest babies in the group!
Dane (4.5 months), Lauren (4 months) and Emmy (7 weeks)
Turns out Lauren and Emmy are football fans.
Auntie Annie has such great fashion sense! ;-)
