Our Family

Every now and then I get sad about being here in Virgina and feel like I am missing out on what is going on the lives of Texas family and friends. (Thank goodness for Blogs). Then the Lord blesses us with weekends like this past one.

So it got hot here...90s. YAY. So I pulled out the little blow up pool that Mimi brought for the cup cakes at Evey's first birthday party. And well here came the kids. You fill it and they will come. Evey didn't really want to get in...little cold I think. But it was so much fun. Both Saturday and Sunday. We got out lawn chairs and hung out, lots of fruit snacks and popsicles. Sunday, we are hanging out by the pool and all of a sudden in 5 minutes we had an impromptu cookout. Everyone brought something and we all ate dinner together and had ice cream. It was wonderful...aside from church we spend in the whole weekend in our front yard.

Two weekends ago my sister came up for a visit. We really enjoyed having her here. We toured some sites in DC and Alexandria. We obviously don't have bluebonnets here but we do have Cherry Blossoms. We got some really good pictures.

We had a wonderful weekend hanging out with James's family last weekend. We had a really nice Easter dinner. And Evey had fun Easter Egg hunting...

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2 weekends ago Laney came over in her TuTu while Evey was napping....So I told Laney, Evey would come over later in her TuTu. Here is Evey in her TuTu...ready to spend the afternoon with Laney. They were so cute playing together.Sunday, the sun finally came out again. We did some small projects around the house and played outside.

This is my new favorite product. Evey seems to be constantly fighting congestion and the doctors say nose spray and suction will help. It was a little bit of struggle to do this process with the Little Noses nose spray. Now it is a cinch. She actually like this now. I think cause it is a lighter spray. Anyway...try it. We love it now at our house.

Miss Evey is 20 Months old. She is still only 21 lbs, but don't let her size fool you cause she is tough and full of spunk. She is my little helper these days, love to clean up messes (not hers of course), wipe stuff down. She is very good at knowing what is trash and what is recycle. She sings Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Itsy Bitsy Spider, and the E-I-E-O part of old MacDonald. She has so many many words that she uses regularly. We only have a couple of sentences so we will keep working on that. She really like numbers...tu..free..six..seben..nine..ten..YAY!! She loves Baby Einstein, not that interested in any other TV or movies. Except maybe Choo Choo Soul (10 minute show on Disney channel)...if we are having breakfast and she hears it come on...she has to get down to go dance...so funny. She is now feeding herself apple sauce and yogurt with very little mess...been holding back on these cause I could see yogurt go flying across the kitchen. Still a really good eater.

Some of the things that Mommy and Daddy love are:
I love when I get you in the morning and you smile really big and say "Mo-ning". I love when you peak around things and say "HIIIII". I LOVE hearing you say Mommy...most beautiful sound in the world. Daddy's favorite thing is you running up to him when he gets home from work...always ecstatic to see him.

Hey moms...can you please post in the comments what music CDs your kids like in the car. We need to get some for E.

I picked Evey up from school this week and one of the ladies put her hair in a pony tail. It was pretty cute for probably not having a brush or anything. We have got to get her hair cut or something cause it is everywhere.