Christmas Present and Christmas Past

Embree Claire at 8 months, as herself

Embree Claire at 8 months, as Frosty

Sidney Kate at 7 months, as herself

Sidney Kate at 7 months, as Frosty

And I believe this was my first post on the Lil Venable Fam blogspot...
For Comparison purposes...

Bathtime Baby

Embree Claire has moved to the big girl tub...I may have blogged this before...but it's so my favorite thing! It was a Christmas gift from us to Sidney Kate her first Christmas...so the age difference is Embree Claire 7 months and Sidney Kate 8 months.

Look-at-all-that-HAIR! We haven't used a hair dryer once on ECV...SKV was using it since month 1. Ah the many sweet differences in these little ones.

Halloween Flashback

Since I didn't have the blog when SKV was this age...I thought I'd do a SKV Halloween Flashback.
Her first Halloween-as a cow

Moooo

Visiting Grandma-sure do miss her. SKV has found pictures of her recently and asked who she was. I remember Grandma always saying to her "You won't remember me." Well, my job is to make sure she does.

First porch picture at Uncle Keith's...there are a lot more kids these days!

hahaha-favorite picture...Addison was a skunk-it appears as though she sprayed SKV!

Boo!

Our little Boo!

Do they get any cuter? I could just eat her up in the mornings, so sweet and cuddly!

Here is Sidney Kate in the same shirt...oh how time has flown by! I loved her morning hair-always disheveled.

Today we got BOOed! Oh the fun of getting BOOed!
Someone surprised us with a treat at our doorstep. Our mission was to BOO 3 other kids. We had soooo much fun doing this! After dinner we got bundled up and snuck out into the night, via a vehicle, and BOOed some friends. New tradition to add to our list!

Awww
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Mabry Mill 2011

Every fall we venture to Mabry Mill for some pictures...I always love the pictures we get. I stress out every year...getting ready, picking outfits out, getting out the door-but we always get awesome pictures. We don't have a photographer take them, we just take Kevin's trusty tripod and let the camera do the work. Somehow everyone ends up looking at the camera, even without a crazy person jumping around behind it.
Here is an outtake...

We stop at the same spot on the way up and every year we always comment that we should stop at the place after this one-it has a cool rail fence and nice overlook. Maybe we'll remember next year.

Then comes the mill shots...we normally go in October but looking ahead Kevin realized that we would be busy most weekends...eh hem football. So we went in September. Turned out to be a rainy Saturday and it was PERFECT! Nearly no one was there so we took our time with pictures and didn't have to worry about folks in the background. September might be the new plan!
All this started with Sidney Kate, so naturally I wanted to remake all her first shots with ECV.
ECV at 5 months.

SKV at 5 1/2 months...ish
*I can see them looking more alike as ECV grows...and yes, I threw this one in there just to depress everyone - time as flown by!

SKV LOVES her little sister-loves!

Super hard to get ECV to look at us after the above shots...she was intriqued by the leaves, ground and...well, everything but us. :)

Hilarious! I should have a caption writing contest for this...feel free to leave a comment with your caption. :)

Awww...I know you're thinking it...awwww!

Thank you random passerby-you rock!

I haven't done anything to this picture but it looks like a 70s tinted shot. :)

SKV 18 months and 3 1/2 years...well almost 1/2

The end...till next year!

Embree Claire's 1st Football Game!

Wolfpack in the house!!! (We're not actually sure if they are in the house this year...have you seen them play?)
Keeping our first game tradition-we took a family picture before the first game. Embree Claire has the idea down...just look at the camera. :)

It was a super hot day but she was a great sport, took a brief nap during the tailgating part and an even shorter one during the game...one that I don't know counted.

Papa and Gran Mary with 2 out of 4 grans.

That's one happy baby!

Another duplicate shot...see SKV's first game shot below.
Embree Claire's 1st Game-2011

As much as I love the Peanut Shell at times-both games were just too hot for it to last too long.
Sidney Kate's 1st Game-2008

Look how much this child has grown in 3 years! But let's not talk about it...she cheered like she had a purpose! She was hollering "Let's go NC State Wolfpack" when everyone else was wondering why they even came to the game. She was really excited to be there. She had her Howl Towel flying and her Wolfpack fingers going. She's quite the trooper!

This is the look of "Can you believe they are playing like this?!"

Things got so bad she figured she'd just so to sleep...for like seconds! Maybe 10-15 minutes...she did great too! Smiled at everyone and played the content baby!