Christmas Eve

Well, it has been a long time since I have blogged. It is hard to believe how fast the holidays go by. I will try to catch you up on what we have been up to the last couple of weeks.

On Christmas Eve, we went over to my parents house for the afternoon and evening. We had some great food, read the Christmas story and then opened presents. Evie had a great time opening and playing with her new toys. The day was very relaxing, we just enjoyed being together. We put Evie to bed, stayed up and played some cards, and then watched a movie. I think we got home around 1:30am. What a great day!!!!

Here are some pictures of Evie opening and playing with her gifts. Enjoy:)!!

Yes!!! We are.........

Pregnant!!!!! For those of you that didn't catch on in one of my previous blog entrees, we are going to have another baby(and very excited about it)!!! I just went to the doctor this last tuesday and was told that my due date is June 15th. So that means that I am 12 weeks today. I was able to hear the heartbeat and the midwife said that everything looks good. I have been pretty sick for the last 6 weeks, maybe just a little worse than when I was pregnant with Evie. But the last couple of days have been pretty good. So I am hopeful that I have made a turn for the better(I know that Andy would be very happy about that). We wanted to have another baby, but didn't know it would happen so fast. But we are glad that they will be close together, they will be great playmates. We had also really wanted to be in a new house before we had our next child, but God had other things in store. With Andy's new job situation, we just can't afford to move right now and the housing market for selling our place isn't great either. But we are so thankful for the home that we do have, and we will just have to make room somewhere:)

So that is a little update on our family, we will definately keep you all in the loop!

The day after Thanksgiving

On the day after Thanksgiving Andy, Evie and I went down to Macy's along with my parents and siblings. We went up to the 8th flour to see the display of the Nutcracker. They always do a wonderful job of telling the story in picture windows and Evie just loved it. My mom even took her back through a second time because she just couldn't get enough!! Here are some pictures that we took while we were there.

Here we are before we went through.

Evie looking at one of the windows.

Standing by a pretty picture.

Here she wanted to run right over and touch something!

When we were all done walking through the Nutcracker, we went out to get our christmas tree. Every year we have gone and cut down our own. It was pretty cold this year so we all got bundled up and went walking around to see if we could find the perfect one. Evie was wearing a snowsuit that my little brother had when he was little. It wasn't a girls snowsuit, but it kept her very warm:) After we found our tree and cut it down, we all went out to lunch. It was a very long day but we had a wonderful time!

Here we are out looking for our tree.

Andy being silly!!

Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving we went out to my parents house. There were only eight of us, so it was nice and relaxing. We had great food and enjoyed watching the packers win!!!! After lunch some of us took naps and Evie enjoyed playing with grandma's fun toys. Some of them are toys that I used to play with, I guess that means the toys are very old:) Here are some pictures of what our day was like!

A family picture

Evie playing with her toys.

wow..................

I didn't realize that it had been so long since I have posted something. I can't believe how fast time can get away from us. It seems like I just blinked and October was gone. Now we are only 2 weeks from Thanksgiving!!!! There wasn't too much that happened for us in October. Evie started walking and is enjoying her new found freedom so much!!!!! She loves to walk all over our living room and dining room. Andy is still working at his new job and getting used to it. Although it isn't his favorite thing to do, we are so thankful that God brought him this job just in time. I have been feeling under the weather lately, nothing too serious. I guess that is just what happens when you are expecting:)

I hope that all is well with everyone, and I will try my best to post sooner next time!

Here Evie is trying out walking for the first time and playing with her puzzles.

Evie stays with my mom while I go to work, and one day they went to a little farm/orchard. Evie really enjoyed seeing all the animals and just being silly!!

Here she is petting a chick.

Such a serious face!!

Some favorite pictures

Here are some favorite pictures that I have taken in the last couple of weeks.

Enjoy!!

Evie's first haircut

On friday night, Evie got her first haircut. She was going to have her pictures taken on saturday and I thought that it would be a good time to give her her first cut. She did really well, as long as we gave her something to snack on and play with:)

Here we are getting ready.

First cut!

Just a little bit off the back.

All done!