Bringing Baby Home!

Luke and Nana Julie came to the hospital to help bring Emmalyn home for the first time...you can see from the pictures below that she loved her carseat for the first time. Since we have been home she has grown to like her carseat which is a great thing since we live pretty far from everything!

Emmalyn Grace Allsup Arrives!!!

Emmalyn Grace was born at 2:17 P.M. on Friday, May 8, 2009. I had a c-section, and despite a rough start with the spinal, everything went really well. I am having a good recovery, and only stayed in the hospital for 2 days. My mom has been here with us taking excellent care of "her baby" cooking, cleaning, and basically slaving away from dusk till dawn! It is so much help to have her here and she is keeping me in check and not letting me over do it!

Emmalyn is doing great! She is gaining weight and is already over 9 lbs. Luke is a great big brother and is so gentle with his baby sister. When Luke first met his baby sister, he brought her a baby horse that he picked out for her. He is always bringing it to her to "play with" and makes sure she is never too far from it!

BIG belly!

These pictures were taken 5 days before Emmalyn was born...check out that big belly! The "experts" tell us there is probably a 9 lb. baby in my belly...we shall see!

...and the winner is...

We have settled on a name...Emmalyn wins!!! Our choice was pretty much made for us since big brother Luke REFUSES to call the baby anything but Emmalyn...but also because we like name! As of right now, since I am playing catch up with the blogging, Emmalyn has arrived, and we are so happy to have her with us!

Easter in NM

We had a great Easter in New Mexico visiting with Harley's side of the family! The trip started off with a stop at Grandpa Tim's house where he had brought home a bunny and a bunch of colored chicks! Luke thought they were great! He liked the bunny, and thought the chicks were pretty interesting, but wasn't too keen on holding them for very long!

We had a great time dying Easter eggs at Nana's house...Luke's favorite thing about dying eggs was eating them and taking the egg and saying "crackle, crackle, crackle" while banging the egg against something, cracking the shell! Then his second favorite thing was eating the hard boiled egg he just broke to bits! Dad didn't mind him breaking the eggs too much because Luke was really good about sharing!

On Sunday morning we went to church and the to have lunch at Aunt JoDee and Uncle Robby's house! We had some yummy steaks with all the fixin's and enjoyed eachother's company. Luke and Shelby hunted easter eggs and had a great time looking around the yard!

Cowboy Days!

When we vistited Las Cruces in March for Adam's 4th birthday, we went with the Springler Family, and Gramia to the Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum for their big Cowboy Days event! The kids saw a cow milking, went through a "petting zoo", made crafts, got their faces painted and had a great time learning about cowboy culture!

Here Lauren and Luke climbed up on the fence to check out some big Long Horn bulls in a pen. The both were amazed at how big the horns on the two animals were! We finished up the afternoon with Luke getting a ropin' lesson from one of the kids from NMSU rodeo team...we had a great afternoon and a great time together!

Dressed up and ready to go!

I am terrible...I have neglected this blog for months, so I am going to back track a little and try to catch up with all that we have been doing since March...yikes!

Here is a picture I just had to share of my handsome cowboy dressed up and ready to go to church! Luke is such a great kid! He is so easy going and well behaved. We are truely blessed to have him in our lives!!! We have been keeping him with us in church (vs. sending him to the nursery) and he loves the music that "Mr. Frank" (Frank Hernandez, the worship leader) does every Sunday. Luke sways and "sings" and with the music and with some bribery...snacks...he stays quiet all through church!