Thanksgiving Swing Time

we tried to upload this video yesterday twice, but were unsuccessful - sorry mom. So I tried first thing this morning and it finally worked.

Here's Evie loving her swing time....

Turkey Day Morning!

Evie's Blue Steel look!



Our thanksgiving setting!

This is just the beginning....add shrimp, brisket and turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, creamed corn, homemade cranberry sauce, coleslaw, Pilbury baked rolls and butter, and Old Fashioneds to wash it all down. What a feast!!

Evie had fun on our Thanksgiving morning walk..

Here she is hiding in a blanket!

I like this... her fast moving hands make me think of her as a sea otter smashing an aboloney with a rock

Evie is sick :(

but you wouldn't know it by how she is acting!!

She has a little fever, and we think/hope she is getting better already.

Roxanne came up with a great new game.. putting a burp rag on her head and letting her take it off... babies rule!

so many firsts!

Evie's first painting brought home from school. It's a turkey. Use your imagination.

She has started to stand up, with a little assistance. As you can see from this video, she is a little off balance yet, and easily distracted. Don't worry, no Evie's were hurt in the making of this video.



As you can see from this video she is gaining balance quickly, getting better at it from just a couple days ago when the first video was shot.


She also had her first taste of southern biscuit - hmmm, hmmmm. She likes to duck her head, mouth open, toward the food like a little bird. We're still working on her putting food into her mouth with her own hand.


Thanks for checking out our blog everyone!!

Fun Sunday!

We had a great hike at Spicewood Springs! There is finally water in the spring, it stunk that all summer it was bone dry cause it is a great place to hang out and beat the heat. It is cool now in Spring-fall (Austin's second and shorter season), but it is still a great place to hike at. We broke out the Baby Bjorn like baby carrying device. Evie loved it!! She was so happy the entire time! I stepped on a rusty roofing nail and had to get a Tetanus shot later that day :(

Here we are with Louie (and his friend Louie) at our favorite watering hole.

Louie loved playing in the shallow water but thought that a full dip was just a little bit too cold for him..

We have been giving Evie teething biscuits... here she is discovering that the biscuits can be used as a drum. Evie loves her some drumming...

Finally, here we have Evie reinacting a scene from The Never Ending Story (starring Louie Butters Scotch as Falcor). We dont know where the dramatic arm movement came from in this video, I think she was doing her best Atreyu impression.

Halloween Night

We had an exciting Halloween. First, I worked (not the exciting part), then we went to best buy and picked up a new little computer for me. It's a Gateway notebook. I'm so excited!

I've given up on trying to rearrange the blog so now I'm just titling pictures. Below is a picture of the 3 of us in costume at a party we went to last weekend. (Jack is a detective)

Tonight Evie and I re-dressed up for the trick-or-treaters. We took a walk around the neighborhood first. It was fun, and another excuse to put E in that cute dress again.

Here is EV with her familiar, Priscilla




This is a recap of Louie's night - we took a walk around the neighborhood. He greeted some people who were sitting out to give out candy. He saw them and howled and acted like they were his friends he hadn't seen in ages. He had to go up and say hi, it was hilarious. Then we got back home and, when the kids started coming to the door, we resorted to leashing him to the bedroom door and letting him bark from there. Poor old man, he can't take all that excitement any more.

A better pic of E w/her familiar, and her broom.

That's it! Hope I didn't bore anyone. I'm eager to see other people's Halloween costume pictures!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!

We miss you daddy! Here are some smiles for you to enjoy in California. Love you mucho!!

There was a glitch with our camera today so we lost all our pictures :( We went to a Halloween party yesterday and got some pics of E with her witch costume on. Then, today, we went to a birthday party for Evie's friend, Merritt. They had a great time playing together but those pictures are gone too. Well, we're trying to fix our problem with the camera. In the meantime I managed to get one video uploaded to the blog before it, too, was lost. Enjoy!