Jamie and John's Blog

Emma is 18 months and Leah is 3.5 years old.  Casharina took these beautiful pictures of the girls.  Leah was a darling angel and Emma was running around and trying to avoid the camera at all cost.  They must work it out before hand that only one child will behave during photos. Taking the girls to have their pictures made makes me sweat and my patience is usually edging toward zero before we even walk in the door. I am very impressed by anyone who can get a decent picture of a child.  Casharina did a wonderful job! We're having a great fall so far! We went to Nitro to celebrate the Grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary!  That was fun and we had family photos made with the grandparents and the entire family.  The next day we went to Gritt's Farm and walked through a corn maze and enjoyed each others company. Next week the girls and I are going to Corbin to go to the pumpkin patch with the Baker crew!

We celebrated Leah turning 3 and Emma turning 1 at our house in March.  The theme was Frozen, but Leah just had to wear her Ariel pajamas!  They had fun playing with thier cousins and friends and family.  For Easter, we went to Dana and Chuck's house for dinner and to hunt easter eggs.  The weather was perfect and the girls had a blast!  Here are some pictures of the girls in action.  John just started a new job with Coke working with Wal-Mart accounts across the state.  He will be traveling several times a month and is very excited to be out of the office and back in sales and working with a team.  I have decided to go ahead and take a few years off from teaching to stay home with the girls.  John and I have always talked about me staying home and the time seems right so we are going for it.  This is the Baker family at Holden Beach. With 6 kids ages 5 and under, it was pretty much chaos all week.  We had fun but Leah pretty much hated the beach.  She would get to th