Thank you!

Thank you to everyone for your love and support during this last month when Maggie Sue was born. We are very grateful for everything! Dinners, visits, posts, messages, gifts, love and care. We love you!

All is going very well at home. Baby Maggie is healthy and sweet. Tommy loves her and is growing up fast, speaking new words every day. Mommy and Daddy are frequently sleepy, but sleep is a worthwhile sacrifice for family! :) Small price to pay for such rich and rewarding blessings!

Tommy's Birthday Party

Happy New Year

2010 has come and gone. What a joyful year!

Dear friends and family,

Thank you so much for the love you've shown us this past few months! To be surrounded by so much encouragement, excitement, and support during such an amazing time as bringing a newborn into the world is priceless. Every gift, baby shower, "congrats", comment, phone call, email, visit, dinner, house cleaning, and service with such a big smile has contributed to an exceedingly joyful time in our lives. I thank you from the bottom of my heart! Receiving a precious baby from our Father in Heaven has overwhelmed us with happiness. We will always remember this time and how precious and sweet it has been. We love you and thank you all for sharing this joy with us!

And baby makes three! Chapter Three: Tommy tales

Hugs and Snugs with Tommy G

written by Mommy and Tommy Dunn

Bear hug

Snuggle bug
Squirmy worm too
It's me
Tommy G,
baby, that's who!

Don't cry
Cutie pie
Cuddles any time
Day, night
Outta' sight
Rain or sun shine.

See this
Gimme kiss
Maybe a bunch
Let's snack
We should pack
Mommy's milk lunch!

I drool

Puddle. Pool!

Mommy does too!

Don't tell
Get the mail
Package for you!

Grunt, chirp
Hear me burp?
Warthog wants more!
Big yawn
I'm king kong
Lion shaped roar!

I cry

Don't know why
Doesn't last long
One dose
Hold me close
Sing me a song

Ho hum
Change my bum
Wiggling free!
Cold air
Under there
Watch out! I pee!

Let's race
Make a face
Now let's count sheep.
Big sighs
Cross my eyes
Falling asleep

Night night

Wrap me tight
Sing me a tune

Quick nap

In your lap
Wake up real soon!

Guess who

Peek-a-boo
Bug in rug here!
I'm stuck
Rubaduck,
is the coast clear?

New toy
Monkey boy
Play with me please!
I stretch
You go fetch
binky! Don't tease!

Hiccup
Little pup
Panting for air
That's me
Tommy G
Cuddly bear!

Chapter Two...3 months later

Sunday mornings are nice. We take our time getting out of bed. We read. Then we cook omelette's and french toast!

Omelette's with mushrooms, onions, tomatoes, avacado, salt and pepper....YUM! French toast with cinnamon, vanilla, powdered sugar, syrup, whipped cream, topped with sliced bananas and blueberries...DOUBLE YUM!!

Sunday mornings are just so nice.

We go for a walk, three quarters of a mile to the church house, and say hello to neighbors. We smell the blossoms in the trees and comment on the nicely manicured lawns. We agree that other lawns are very poorly manicured and we wonder who lives there. Then my eyes tear up...nothing serious...just a very bright sun that's melting my makeup. We laugh about it and I say I should have brought sunglasses.

"Oh brother," I dab at the tears with the back of my hand, "how's my makeup?"

"Not so good." he admits. "There's a big black smudge on your cheek."

"How about now?"

"Still there." He licks his finger and rubs it off. "Got!"

We say that a lot. My colleagues from China never say "Got it!" Instead they always say "Got!" Sometimes they'll even write it in emails "GOT!" That's the best! So much energy! Incase you were wondering if they got it, wonder no more. They GOT!

Sometimes it rains while we walk. I have an umbrella. We love the rain.

Three months married and we still cannot get enough of each other. Every week day at work we stare at the clock wondering when it will finally be time to go home. We pack weekends full of anything and everything together from early morning tennis, garage sales, house cleaning, pruning the rose bush, baptisms, to movies and parties at night.

We are very happy and so grateful to all of you who supported us during our wedding! Thank you!

Chapter two is even better than chapter one! We wonder what we ever did to deserve starring roles in this saga! Life could not be better.

Seven days!!!

Um...so Adam and I are getting married in seven days. CRAZY!!!!!!

I'm so excited! I can hardly stand it...I just want you all to know that Adam is the greatest guy I've ever met! It's hard for me to believe he is real in fact. I am constantly asking him, "Where did you come from??" I just can't figure it out because I've never met anyone like him.

We are thrilled to spend a lifetime together. Bring it on life!

Now...you're probably wondering how this love came to be. Wonder no more. It all started late on a Saturday night in the check out lane at Macey's grocery store.

Of course I have a cart completely full of breakfast foods and I begin loading it onto the conveyor belt. Up walks two young men and the first thing I notice are grass stains on his shorts. I look up and see him. Wow those eyes! I keep loading the conveyor belt as if he didn't faze me. He did though. I finish loading the items and walk over to the counter. How could I leave it at that?? What have I got to lose? Everything and nothing! So I throw a glance over to him and intentionally hold his gaze for a moment. Nonchallantly I begin to look away in order to open my purse.

"That's quite a lot of breakfast food you have there!" He chimes in.

That's all I needed. He is interested! My soul smiles satisfied.

We begin chatting about happy things like breakfast, dancing, where I live, ultimate frisbee and then he asks, "Do you come down here often?"

No. Never. Ha! But I would if... "Depends on what's going on?" I solicit.

"Well, we play ultimate frisbee every Wednesday night. You should come!"

"Oh cool! I'd love to. Let me give you my email and you can let me know all the details..." Was that too eager?

"Oh just give me your phone number!" Phew, I was fine.

"yeah of course!"

We completely stall the line, mesmerized by each other's charm. By now Macey's has faded into oblivion and all I can see or hear is him.

We exchange numbers, the dream fades and the bustle of Macey's customers come back to life. I walk to my car. *Sigh* Thus ends chapter one, day one, of the emily-n-adam sagas.