Christmas = Sitting on the Counter

Sometimes you get to do things during the holiday's that you don't normally get to do. So Christmas morning we were all eating breakfast in the kitchen. And Evelyn got to sit on the counter. She really enjoyed being in the center of all us.

Christmas from Santa

When I was a child, we woke up Christmas morning with one or two toys that we unwrapped and came from Santa. So this year we continued that tradition with Evelyn. She got to walk into the living room to see two very special gifts. Below are some pictures showing her excitement.

Evelyn's first reaction seeing her new toy.

Checking out her new kitchen/living room.

Laughing with grandma.

Lounging on her new couch.

Climbing the couch.

Evelyn is One

Evelyn turned one yesterday! I just can't believe it. I will have birthday pictures up over the next couple of weeks (as well as the Christmas holiday pics). Evelyn also goes to the doctor next week....so an update coming soon.

Happy Birthday Little Girl....mommy and daddy love you!

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.