Christmas

It was another fun Christmas at our house. I really need to be better about taking pictures of stuff we do I didn’t take pictures of any of the places we went, parties we went to or activities we participated in. What I did get is some great pictures of the kids opening and playing with their presents on Christmas morning.

Lucy got a combination of Avengers and My Little Ponies for Christmas, both were a big hit for her.

My parents also got her this princess tent which has been a lot of fun for her.

It took Jack a few presents before he got the hang of opening them but once he did, boy look out. He even helped himself to opening a few presents that we were giving away.

His favorite present was this lawnmower that my parents got him. Jack loves lawnmowers and has made sure that the grass is really short in our house since he got it.



Ariane and I got Denver Broncos jerseys for our signature Christmas present.

They are having such a good year that it seemed like the perfect gift.



I hope your Christmas was as fun as ours and I’m sorry that your favorite football team is not as awesome as the Denver Broncos.

Halloween

Since it’s about half way through November I thought it was about time to post our Halloween pictures. Following up on last year’s Jack-in-the-box costume Jack went as a Jack-O-Lantern. I’m thinking of dressing him up as donkey next year, let me know if you figure out why. Lucy went as a rock star

And I was Wolverine, though I got asked several times if I was Elvis. Seriously, did Elvis have claws like this?

I’m thinking of using the side burns next year and wearing a sequined jump suit with it, but will probably just think I’m Wolverine.



We had a pretty good October; we did a lot of fun activities with all kinds of friends and family. We took a hay ride with my Mom at the Pumpkin Patch so the kids could pick out a pumpkin.

We went with Grandma and Grandpa Evans to the Black Island Farms Fall Festival and had a good time going down their huge slides, playing on the hay and eating doughnuts.

We also went to Boo at the Zoo at Hogle Zoo with Grandma and Grandpa Evans and Aunt Rachel’s family.

Jack was really impressed with the monkeys, gorillas and orangutans, but then who doesn’t love primates? Basically you wear a costume to the zoo and trick or treat.

It was cold, but still a lot of fun.



We also made a couple of trips to Lagoon for Frightmares with Lucy’s friend Mia.

On Halloween Lucy got to wear her costume to school and had a costume parade for the parents.

We carved the pumpkins for the kids, Jack could really care less about it but Lucy had a good time.

I then went out trick-or-treating with Lucy and Ariane and Jack stayed home to pass out candy. I have been enjoying Lucy’s candy over the past few weeks and can’t wait till next year.

Star Wars Day

I don’t know how many of you knew that last Friday was an international holiday but it was Star Wars Day. According to the people at starwars.com, the official website of the Star Wars movies, May 4th has been designated as Star Wars Day. You may wonder why that it is, well its May the fourth, as in May the fourth be with you. It’s a play on words, if you don’t get it then think about it for a while. We celebrated the holiday by having my brother in law John and his wife Liz come over for a Star Wars Day party. We all put on our Star Wars shirts.

We had a light saber battle in the back yard, Lucy wore her Jedi Padawan costume and Liz wore her Jedi master robe.

After our battle we went inside and played with some Star Wars toys.

We didn’t watch any of the movies, since there are six I worried that picking just one to watch on Star Wars Day would make the other feel bad, so in the interest of fairness we did not watch any of the movies. We did play a very competitive game of Star Wars Trivial Pursuit, which I won. I can’t wait till next Star Wars Day.

Easter 2012

It was a fun Easter this year for us at our house, with three families to try and visit it gets a little crazy but it sure is fun.

Lucy went and colored Easter Eggs with the Evans family. Here she is with her cousin Kira.

And here is Aunt Rachel with an awesome hairdo and radiant smile.

I sure am glad this picture can be put on the internet.

There was also an Easter egg hunt with the Stevens family. Uncle Jeff was in town for Easter and Aunt Chelsea brought her kids down for the event.

Arianes mom bought all the kid’s yellow “Despicable Me” minion’s shirts, even the babies.

When Lucy finds an egg she likes to make a show of it by holding it over her head and singing a high pitched “AHHHHH”

Sunday morning Lucy found her Easter basket and all kinds of goodies inside.

Jack also had an Easter basket that was full of baby food and some new outfits, as well as the ABCs of “Star Wars” book.

Lucy needed to check out the book first though before it was good enough for Jack.

Everybody got some new shirts for Easter as well.

We sure are a good looking bunch.

The Easter Bunny hid the eggs Lucy colored at my parent’s house for her to go find.

Her favorite egg is the Perry the Platypus egg.

Since it is the celebration of Jesus Christ’s triumph over death, it seemed appropriate to take some flowers to Larianns grave.

Lucy complains from time to time that resurrection sure is taking along time. We all have faith though that it will happen some day and we all be together again as a family, just maybe not as soon as some of us would like.