Jake's 5 Year Class Reunion

Jake had his 5 year class reunion this August! He's officially joining the old people club!

More pics from the Lande Family Vacation

Dawson, Jake and Emily's Godson

Jake hanging with his Godson

Jake and Dawsey Frosty

Summer Weddings & Lande Family Vacation

A few weeks ago Jake and I were at our best friends' wedding. I was the Matron of Honor and Jake played Usher! We had a blast!

This past week Jake and I went to Mahoney State Park in Ashland, NE with my mom's side of the family (the Lande's). We had relatives from California and Japan! It was a VERY hot and humid week but we still had fun!

We played with our Godsons, swimming, mini golf and a few pool days!

Dawson, Our Godson

Lande Family

Leap of Faith

Yesterday was the most stressful and exciting day for me. In the past few months, I had begun taking the necessary steps to make sure I was on target to take a giant leap of faith and become a full time business owner with Expressions by Em. This last week was the week where I took that leap of faith. On Tuesday, I talked with my supervisor/boss and put my notice in...in hopes that they'd still contract out to me...which would help Expressions HUGE! Preparation. Prayers. A talk with the CEO were the last pieces of the puzzle. Things went semi-according to plan. I put my notice in with to my direct report, the CEO, and we came to the agreement that for the interim they would contract design services to Expressions by Em! Prayers were answered and my last official day as a working business girl and closing a chapter to my first full time job will be May 28, though technically it will be June 1 but vacation got to be used!

Jake and I are both so excited for this next step and to see where the business leads us both. After all it is a family business now! We hope that you all will refer us to your friends, family and any companies you may know of that need web, graphic, print or multimedia design! The website will be updated very soon and you can always check out the Expressions by Em blog or Facebook Fan page! We'd love it if you stopped by!

Please continue to pray for us as with freelance, in my mother's words, it is feast or famine! We have been seeing this to be true but with your support, prayers and love we know that this was the right move for our family and our future!

VHS to DVD

As Emily continues to expand her business we wanted to let you all know about what services she can do for you!

Have old home videos on VHS? Looking to keep those memories up to date with technology? Contact Expressions to convert your old VHS tapes to DVDs! Let us help you preserve those special moments that you want to cherish forever!

Expressions by Em

Emily has been actively pursuing her dream of being a full time small business owner. She has been doing free lance web and graphic design work for many years (since 2004) now but is ready to break free and do this as a full time career and business. Which means we need your help!

If you have any friends or family that are getting married, graduating high school, own their own business or know of any businesses that are in need of marketing expertise, pass Emily's name on to them.

We hope to have a new website up very soon with Expressions by Em's full service suite of offerings and other information. We also have a Facebook Fan page, a blog and Twitter. Follow us on all three!!

For more information or any prospect leads you can pass on contact us at em@expressionsbyem.com or 515.836.8276

Please pray for us as we embark on this new adventure in our lives!

www.expressionsbyem.com

Quality Time with Our Godsons

We're so lucky to be the Godparents of Dawson and honorary Godparents for Carter. They are so fun. This past weekend Jake got to go toy shopping with Carter! Here are some photos from this weekend and Christmas!

Carter playing a little Guitar Hero!

Jake and Dawson's mini photo shoot!

Jake and C Man!

Dawson

Carter and Em