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My 10-year high school reunion

Here is a picture of Richard and me at my high school reunion last weekend. It was interesting to see people from high school again. If you haven't gone to yours yet, I urge you to go. I really didn't want to go at first, but I'm glad I did. The old clicks still exist (I stuck like glue to mine) and I think I talked to the preps more over last weekend than I had the entire time we were in school together. However, I owuld like to believe that everyone really wants to know what you are doing, where you are living, etc. Well, at least I wanted to know. I wanted to compare.

New pictures!

I can help pack!


Are we ready to go yet?


Hanging out with Mommy and Spike (my dinosaur).

8th grade and 10th grade reading lists

I am updating the current reading list for the required book report my 8th and 10th graders have to do during the fall semester. In my opinion, the lists they have need to be updated. I have a lot of freedom at the Ed Center, but I don't know what I can and cannot change about the course just yet. I am hoping that once I present these lists to the principal, she will not make any changes. Here are my lists (if you have suggestions for additional books, please post a comment).

8th grade reading list:

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

10th grade reading list:

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Eldest by Christopher Paolini
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Forward mobility, Check!

"From God, the Machine" - A Studio Thesis by Richard Swayze

Thesis (cont.)

Thesis (cont.)

Double Decker

Here are some pictures from my weekend in Oxford...

Happy Family

During our walking tour of Ole Miss.

1st playdate

Here I am with my new friend Vivian Vasilyev. I just call her Vivi. I am 13 days older than Vivi. I can't wait to see her again in August when Mommy and Daddy take me back to Oxford for Mommy's high school reunion.

Look how cute I am!

So Ross doesn't have to look at Corrie twin anymore...

To see more pictures of Carter, go to his blog! :)

Corrie's twin

Corrie's twin came into the office today. It freaked me out and I couldn't stop looking at her. Let's compare the two. The first picture (acquired from facebook) is a picture of the girl from today. She is on the left.



Now, here is a current picture of Corrie (she's on the right for those of you who don't know her).



Isn't that amazing?! This girl is even an Ole Miss graduate. Strange, huh? It's like Erin having a class with Emily M. Welch while we were in school. My name is Emily N. Welch. The other Emily was only a year younger than me.

Everyone has a twin. Have you met yours?

Fun at Aunt Erin's house

Check out my video (it's long but worth it):

Look at me!

Here I am enjoying squash, one of my favorite vegetables, and a day in the sun!

other baby

That other baby won't come play with me!!!!

The baby's bedding is going to stay!

After much discussion (and I appreciate the help from y'all), I have decided that the bedding is going to stay the same until Carter moves into a "big boy" bed. Maybe by then he will be old enough to tell me what kind of a room he wants. :) I can only imagine what he will want to put in his room then. :)

Should it stay or should it go?

Lately, I have been thinking that I should have taken more time to create Carter the nursery I think he deserves. I spent months agonizing over what to put in our little girl room and we spent a lot of money to create the most wonderful designer nursery. When we had to redecorate for Carter, the urgency to have a finished nursery set in and his nursery was completed in 2 days, compliments of Target. I now want to change his nursery completely. But who am I redecorating for? Will Carter even notice that his bedding has changed? I think I’m just trying to be an equal opportunity mommy. Everyone gets the same quality stuff. If I do for one, I should do for all. What do y’all think?
-Emily

4 months old!

Mommy and Daddy have finnaly taken new pictures of me! Haven't I grown up SO much?! Who do you think I look like?