Orlando Pics

My mom and I at Epcot.

The Girls after riding a crazy roller coaster.

from left to Me, Megan (cousin), Melissa (cousin), Stacey (my sister)

The girls after riding Tower of Terror.

Mommy Trip

Hello everyone....sorry for not posting in a while. I went on a work/vacation trip and I'm finally settled back in.

Last week I left Charlotte on Monday to begin my work/vacation trip to Orlando. This was the first time that I have left Evelyn for longer than 4 hours at a time. Daniel's parents (Sandra and Clay) came into town to watch Evelyn during the day since she doesn't go to daycare and Daniel had to work. It sounds like they had a blast and that Evelyn was really good.

Monday afternoon I arrived in Orlando with the entire week planned for me. I work for a company called Culminis. If anyone doesn't know whom Culminis is, we are a not-for-profit company that works with user groups and are supported by Microsoft (http://www.culminis.com/). So yes, I sorta of work for Microsoft (they pay my pay check).

Anyways, Culminis each year has a booth in the Community area at Tech Ed. This is a very large event put on my Microsoft each year. This year there was over 9,000 participants. Want to know more....... http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2008/itpro/default.mspx
So Tuesday though Friday I worked our booth at the convention center and attended the evening activities with my fellow workers.

Also, it just worked out to be the same week that my family was in Orlando as well. They were there to celebrate my sister just graduating from college and my cousin turning 21. Therefore, I stayed the weekend to hang out with them. Every evening we went to a Disney park and had a blast. Since we have two family members that work for Disney, the majority of us got in for free. That as a money saver since the parks cost around $75 now. Isn't that crazy.

So after a busy week and long weekend....I'm more tired than ever. Glad to be back home where life isn't so crazy and home with my little girl. Hope you all had a great week. Some pictures to come. :)

Family Dog

This post is for our special pup....Rusty. One October afternoon we went to Petsmart with the Jacksons to look at puppies. They Jackson's decided to adopt a family pup. The one they picked just so happened to have a brother that was there for adoption. After some convincing, we got the brother. So there we are with a new puppy....only 3 months into our marriage.....in a small apartment.....ahhhh. But it was one of the best decisions we have ever made. We just love him so much.

Its taken some time for Rusty to adjust to not being number one. He had been number one for so long and now he had to share his home with a new baby. But now he is adjusted and just loves Evelyn so much. I'm looking forward to watching our two babies grow up together.

Here are some pictures we took of Evelyn and Rusty over that last few months.

Special Dress

In the Jones family, a special dress has been passed from child to child for 40 years. This dress was handmade by a Jones Grandmother and each child wears it when they are being chistened. Since Daniel and I believe in dedicating your baby and allowing them do decide when they want to follow christ and be baptised, we chose to just take pictures of Evelyn in this one of a kind, special dress. The amazing thing is the first child to wear this dress 40 years ago is having a child this summer, so I was able to pass it on to her family last week.

Baby Pool

A couple of weeks ago I bought a pink baby pool for Evelyn. We had planned to go to the beach last week, but due to some crazy circumstances we were unable to go. So on Monday Evelyn went for her first swim. (Thanks Grandma Jones for the bathing suit.)

Testing the water



Not so sure!



Silly face



Kicking and having fun



Big smile

Rolling Over

About a month or so ago Evelyn learned how to roll to her side. This week I finally got it on video. Enjoy!

Race Weekend

Last weekend, my parents as well as Daniel's parents and brother came to Charlotte. The men went to the race Saturday evening and the women went shopping. Here are a few pictures that Sandra took over the weekend.



Evelyn playing in her excersaucer.



Mommy and Evelyn playing on the couch.



Grandparents and Evelyn at Zaxby's