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Emily—Page One

Emily—Page One

Here I am:  Before Birth, 2 Minutes After Birth, 1 Day After Birth.

Click here to listen to Daddy’s surprise when he discovered I wasn’t the boy he was expecting!

Aunt Lara came to visit me in the hospital, Grandma Juanita decorated our mailbox at home so all the neighbors would know I was a girl, and as soon as we got home, Daddy taught me the proper way to drool.

My first Christmas (1997) started out in Georgia, then we flew to Oklahoma where I got to meet my daddy’s side of the family.

On my first Christmas, I wore the same outfit that my daddy wore on his first Christmas! 

On my first birthday we visited grandma and grandpa in Alva, and my cousins (from Norman) in Tulsa.

In Orlando, I took time out of my busy schedule to pose for this picture with Mrs. America 1998

Posing with Daddy on Bourbon Street in New Orleans .

When I was just learning to talk, Daddy coaxed me to say “Dish!”  on camera.  He mailed the tape, and DISH Network used it in a commercial!

Playing the piano is such hard work that I had to take a nap afterwards!

The waves in Myrtle Beach made me laugh