package from anne

Today we received a fun package from Aunt Anne Morgan! She is so sweet and thoughtful. Anne works for Little Miss Matched (check them out @ www.littlemissmatched.com) and sent Emery a box full of gifts! Emery had a great time opening the box and seeing all her cool new toys/clothes. Here are some pictures from the post-package photo shoot!

Thanks, Anne! We love you!

big girl

Here's a picture of Emery hanging out with Mommy on her day off of work. She is wearing some 6 month clothes, including this cute sleeper. She also "loves" holding onto her "lovies," like this elephant one from Dani and Mitch. We always let her cuddle one when we put her down now. Emery is starting to sleep longer but still gets up at least once a night. But I don't mind getting up with her :)

Emery meets Tucky

This past week was an exciting one for little Emery. First, she started rolling over and has been moving all around in her play box and crib! She finally learned how to roll over that chunky arm of hers that used to hold her back :)
Emery met her great-grandmother and many other relatives from my Dad's side of the family (Aunt Marian, cousins Jake and Emily, Aunt Jan, Cousins Amy and Max). Everyone came to our house for a cookout on Friday night and Emery showed off all her toys and her room. We had a full house that night! Emery got a new babydoll from the Gagrics and she loves it. It makes noises and she just looks at it and laughs. Heres a picture from Friday night.


As you can tell, she was the main highlight of the night, along with cousin Hampton. We sang a lot of silly Majzlik songs including "Emery is the baby of the family" and "Mr. Buddy"

Saturday and Sunday we headed up to Anna and John's house in Hendersonville. We had a wonderful time visiting with all the family. Grandma Tucky sang a Slovak song to Emery. Grandpa Ed aka "Uncle Meat" had a good time with all the kids. Zane played with Asher as usual. Grandma Mary Anne and Anna cooked wonderful food- including homemade pizza. Jake, Emily and Max entertained Emery and had her laughing a lot! She really liked meeting her Pittsburgh family!
We are hoping to be able to see them again at Thanksgiving for Denny and Heidi's wedding.
here are some more pictures of the weekend!

3 months old

Emery is now 3 months old. She is really a happy baby and so much fun to play with. She is really laughing a lot, mostly at her Daddy! She likes to listen to music. Her favorite singer is Miranda Lambert. Daddy plays her songs on the guitar and Mommy sings to her. She tries to sing but it just comes out as loud squealing! I think Emery is going to have the same spunk (and country accent) as Miranda has. :)
Zane took some time off of work this week to stay home and watch Emery. (Grandmommy went to Florida with the youth group from her church.) Needless to say Emery has had a lot of time "hanging with the guys" this week. First she went over to Papa Steve's house and hung out with him, Uncle A.J., Daddy, Pop and PawPaw. Did you get all of that???? She has ALL of them wrapped already!! She has also had several visitors while Mommy has been at work including... Jeff, Ashley, Ryan and Elizabeth. We are hoping to meet Uncle Jamey this weekend. He is coming to visit from NYC. Grandma Mary Anne is also coming to watch Emery on Saturday. We can't wait to see her. I think she will be amazed at how much Emery has changed since the last time she saw her a month ago.

Here's a picture of Emery's new favorite game--- tearing up paper! So Cute!

Back to Work

This week was a hard one since I had to go back to work. I'm also still on night shift, so it's been rough getting back into sleeping during the day and not being tired at night. The work part actually wasn't too bad since I enjoy my co-workers and my job ( most of the time). I think day shift looked out for me on my first night back as well, which I appreciated very much! I received a very warm welcome back so Thanks everyone reading from GHS! Of course I had pictures of Emery to show everyone that walked by me! I missed her but I knew she was in good hands. After all was said and done, I didn't even cry! I was proud of myself for holding it together. :) Now that Im back at work, it doesn't feel like I ever left. I think maternity leave was just a dream.....

This week was also a big deal because Emery went to church for the first time. She stayed in nursery and did great from the report that we got. Our friends Wes and Michele's baby, Leyton Jones, was also in the same room as Emery. I'm sure he was looking out for her! None of those other babies would dare mess with Leyton! :) I was a little distracted during the service wondering how she was doing. But sunday school was such a good lesson, I was able to concentrate more during that hour. It was great to see all of our church friends again. I was so happy to be in God's house and able to worship with such wonderful Christian people! I am excited to see Emery learn about Jesus as she grows up at Taylors FBC.


Heres a funny picture from bath time. We have to share the tub with Huck! He is actually mid-air in this pic.

A very Flynn weekend

This weekend Aunt Beck and cousins Laura and Davis came to visit from Augusta. Emery was so excited to see her birthday buddy (Emery was born on Beck's birthday). She played and played with everybody over at Grandmommy and Papa Abbott's house. She loved to smile and laugh at Davis. She showed him all of her fun toys over there. One time Papa went out to run an errand and he came back with a brand new exersaucer for Emery! She tried it out for a little bit and seemed to like it.

Laura did a great job helping to take care of her and played with her a lot. She came up with several new ab exercises to do while rocking Emery.


Emery also got to visit with her Pop Bailey a lot over the weekend. She likes to look at the fan at his house while he rocks her. One day I want to take her up to Hardees to meet Pop's daily breakfast crew.

I had a great time hanging out, just relaxing and enjoyed the time we had together.
heres a picture of the badger/beaver/groundhog creature that lives in the abbotts yard

Not a one woman man!

Last week, Emery and I went up to visit Aunt Anna and cousins Hampton and Asher. We picked up Asher from VBS where he learned how to use "sparkly scissors" Then the five of us went out to lunch and to the mall. It was quite busy with the three kids but Anna and I gave ourselves an "A" at the end of the day. While Anna and Asher were in the dressing room, a little old Oriental lady who spoke little English walked up to me. I was holding Hampton in one arm and feeding Emery in the stroller with the other. She must have felt bad for me because she grabbed Emery's bottle out of my hand and started feeding her. I figured she was someone's grandma too and knew what she was doing , so I let her! haha. All she kept saying was "Two babies?!?" I think she was totally confused. Emery enjoyed trying out the dual stroller with Hampton. When we got back to Anna's house, Hampton played with Emery while Asher napped. I hate to tell this to Hannah, but Hampton is definitely not a one woman man. One thing is for sure, he loves little babies! I know he will be great with the baby coming to the Hicks House in December. We had a great time with the family and even got to see Uncle John for a little while.
Here are some pictures of Hampton and Emery's Play date.




KISSES!!!!!!!!!!!





WATCH OUT HERE COMES THE BULLDOZER!!!!!!!

wedding 3

Another weekend....another wedding for Miss Emery Anne. This time we traveled to Aiken to see one of my dear friends, Sarah, get married to Mr. Josh Holt. When we arrived in Aiken, Grandma M.A. had a new play mat waiting on Emery. Sorry Asher and Hampton, but this one is PINK! It was funny to see pink at Grandma's house since she has had only grandsons...until now! Emery also had a few gifs from family friends, including the biggest and best play mat I have ever seen from the Garretts. This one we took home with us! She has had so much fun playing with it...looking in the mirror, grabbing for toys and listening to the music it plays. It also allows Mommy a little extra time to get things done around the house. So thank you to the Garretts for the thoughtful gift and I recommend this if you are looking for a good baby gift!



Back to the wedding- Saturday morning Emery went to the beauty salon to get a sneak peek of the bride and bridesmaids. Then we had lunch with Marlene and Phil Zapp at our house. The Zapps are seasoned grandparents and Emery could tell! She got held and lots of attention from both of them. Later in the evening, we went to the wedding at the Rose Hill Estate in Aiken. I got to see all of my high school girlfriends and we had a blast celebrating together! Sarah was stunning and she had everything planned so well. Emery came and got held a lot by her "Aunt" Anne Morgan. The next morning I went to a bridal shower for my friend, Ellen Chapin, who is getting married in September. It was such a nice time and Ellen got a lot of beautiful gifts. She had to play the same bubble gum game that I had to do at my Aiken bridal shower. :) Not easy...but she was a good sport! Emery stayed home to spend time with her Dad and Grandpop on Fathers Day. Then we headed back to Greer and had dinner with Grandmommy Kay, Papa Steve and Uncle AJ. She loves to mess with Uncle AJ and make funny faces at him. After a lot of playing, smiling and laughing, Emery tuckered out for the night.

Heres a picture of Emery at Sarah and Josh's wedding.

Here is Emery with her Auntie Anne Morgan!


A picture with the bride and groom

wedding 2

Emery has been quite the socialite of Southern society this summer! Two weekends ago we headed to Cheraw, SC for Chris and Megan's wedding. Megan is a good friend of mine. We lived together for two years in college. I was honored to be a bridesmaid in her beautiful wedding. The family, including Grandma and Grandpop Majzlik, traveled to Cheraw for the event. We had a great time getting to know the town of Cheraw and meeting all of Megan's family friends. Emery went to the rehearsal dinner, bridal brunch and reception. She and her friend, Parker Cowherd, were the only two to stay in the nursery during the wedding ceremony! They were both very well behaved from the report I got. I think Parker was watching out for Emery!
Emery also went "swimming" for the first time at the hotel pool. She was styling in her green bikini and flowered sunhat. Our friends Natalie and Clay Putnam gave her the bikini as a gift. Now Zane is already broken into the idea of Emery wearing bikinis and hopefully we wont have a big issue later down the line. :) Because it was so blazing hot, she only stayed in for a few minutes and then Grandma Mary Anne took her back inside to get a bath and pretty her up for the wedding. She enjoyed the music at the wedding and got her picture taken several times and once with the bride herself! We; however, didn't taken any pictures with our camera. Now that we have so much baby stuff to tote around, the camera gets left behind most of the time. Here is a picture of her in the pool. I would love to get a swim suit like the ones I have seen cousins Hannah and Hampton wearing.

it's a girl...

Well it's been a long time since I blogged and obviously a lot has happened in that time..the most important thing being the birth of our daughter, Emery Anne. I figured I'd pick back up on this blog and make it a way for y'all to keep up with what Emery is doing. I hope you enjoy "watching" her grow!
But since this blog was orginally started because of another pregnancy, I just want to say that we will never forget our little Pumpkin!

As of now, Emery is 7 weeks old. We think she looks like someone different everyday. You can all decide for yourselves who she favors...but one thing is for sure..she is CUTE!
She is really smiling a lot now and we even heard a little laugh the other day. She is a happy and well behaved little lady. Thank God for the wonderful gift He has given us. We are so in love with our daughter.

Heres a quick recap of Emery's life so far:

April 14, 2010 at 12:09 am Emery was born! She was born on her actual due date and Aunt Beck's birthday. She came out wide awake and sucking on those fingers.

May 7, 2010: Emery spends the night at Grandma Kay's for the first time while Mom and Dad went to Myrtle Beach for the night.

May 9, 2010: Emery gave Mommy a wonderful gift....her first Mother's day!

May 10, 2010: Mommy and Daddy celebrate their 2nd wedding anniversary!

May 15, 2010: Emery visits Aiken for the first time and also attends her very first wedding. My Aiken girls doted on her the whole time! Oh and she slept through the whole thing even while dancing with the gorgeous bride, Melia.




May 16, 2010: Emery visits her family in Augusta. Davis says she "looks like Uncle Steve." Uncle Cotton, Aunt Beck, Laura and Gene hold her and love on her.




May 31, 2010: Emery has her first Chickfila experience with Uncle John, Aunt Anna, Asher and Hampton and Daniel and Carrie and their children. 6 kids and 6 adults! almost outnumbered!


Which brings us pretty much up to date...