Happy Holidays

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas. I'm going to take the rest of the holiday week off, but expect several post of holiday pictures. He is one great photo of Evelyn eating marshmello cream for the first time.

What a day!

Yesterday was one of the most craziest days of my life. For the last couple of weeks we have been looking for a new car to replace the blazer. It had been acting up and we knew it was going to die any day. So about two weeks ago we found our dream car....2004 Nissan Armada. It had everything we wanted...black, 4 weel drive, towing package, navigation system, dvd player, leather, power lift gate.....I mean everything and best of all it had an amazing price. So we had it transfered from the Carmax in Memphis, TN to Charlotte. But here is the catch....it could take a couple of weeks go arive and we had a car that was dying.

So, last thursday the blazer got to the point that it wasn't safe to drive. Daniel started it up thursday morning and it just sounded really bad. So he worked from home that day and I drove him to work on Friday. Justin Evans came over Sunday to fix the car and confirmed that we should only drive it to Carmax when our new car comes in.....ohhhhh.

So now to the crazy day. Yesterday we left the house a few minutes before 8am and drove to Daniel's work near uptown. Then I drove Evelyn to Gina's house in Kannapolis so I could go to work and get some things done. After dropping Evelyn off I went to work (church office) in Concord. Got some work done and then drove to the movie theatre at Concord Mills to give them an updated staff list. Then home for lunch. After lunch I drove to walmart in Concord to pick up a perscription and then back to the house. My sister arived and wanted to do a little shopping....so back to the mall for an hour. At 3:30 we proceeded to Kannapolis to pick up Evelyn, then to uptown to pick up Daniel, and then home. While driving home, Carmax called and said our car was in. Awesome!!!! More driving!!!

So got home and ate some dinner. Went outside to load into the Blazer and it wouldn't start....ahhhhhh. After using the Malibu to jump start it we were finally on our way and praying that the Blazer didn't die before we got to Carmax.

We made it to Carmax, spent 2 hours buying a car, and finally made it home around 9:45pm.

What a day! What a beautiful car.....just in time for Christmas! The great thing.....no payments until February! Time to recover from Christmas :)

And the best thing about the whole day....Evelyn was a trooper....I think she spent a total of 3 hours in the car yesterday! We won't talk about how many hours I was in the car :(

(pictures to come soon)

Evelyn is Walking

Evelyn has started taking a few steps at a time. I tried to put a collection of videos together in one video but I couldn't get it to upload. So her is the best single video I've got.

Notice I yell at Rusty at the beginning...he like to get in the way of Evelyn walking. I don't think he likes the idea of her being so mobile (first rolling, then crawling, then walking).

Bag Baby

While visiting family on Thanksgiving day, Daniel decided to entertain Evelyn by putting her in the diaper bag. As you can tell....she had so much fun.

Chocolate Gravy

It's a tradition in the Perkins family to have Chocolate Gravy Thanksgiving morning and Christmas morning. This year Daniel's parents were visiting us during Thanksgiving and we all sat down for the famous breakfast. I know it sounds weird, but its chocolate on fluffy biscuits is just amazing. This year Evelyn got to participate in the chocolate festivities. Below are two pictures of her eating Chocolate Gravy for the first time.

Thanks Sandra...it was ohhh so good.

Fun with Mick

A couple of weekends ago, we went to hilton head for my Nana's birthday. While there, Nana gave Evelyn this teddy bear. This is the first Micky teddy bear and we named him Mick. So when Daniel's parents came to visit us for Thanksgiving Sandra got a great picture of Evelyn playing with Mick and Grandpa Clay.

Thanks Nana for the wonderful bear. Evelyn just loves it.

Holding the Bottle

While Daniel's parents visited during the Thanksgiving holiday, Sandra was able to capture Evelyn holding her own bottle. You might think I'm crazy, but this is a big accomplishment for Evelyn. I have been holding her bottle for her for 11 months. Starting with 8 feedings a day, down to her current feeding schedule of 4 bottles a day. Thats 1,710 bottles being held by me, Daniel, or other family member/friend. Wow....thanks to all of you who held Evelyn's bottle.

More pics to come from our Thanksgiving week.