Six months old!!

Here is a special post for our special 6 month old baby girl!! Time has flown by so fast! It seems like yesterday she was an itty bitty thing that we were dying to take home from the NICU. She came home and was barely 5 pounds, and now I'd say she's about 15! We will get official stats on Tues from her doctor appt.

What can we say about miss Evelyn?? She is a happy, sweet little girl that has a lot of determination and zeal! She loves watching her big brother play and has to put EVERYTHING in her mouth. I mean EVERYTHING. She absolutely loves to take a drink of water from my glass. Maybe it makes her feel like she is a big girl. ;0)  We have dabbled in rice cereal and some bananas and sweet potatoes. Mostly she is frustrated that I won't let her keep chewing on the spoon, we will work on that. Hehe. She can roll both ways now, front to back and back to front! We are working on sitting but she has not mastered that yet. She usually goes to sleep around 9 and sleeps until 4:30, and will then go back to sleep until about 7. Can't complain too much about that! I fear for when the teeth come in though! She smiles all the time, which is something I remember I loved when Logan was around 6 months. Check her out in action!

She is such a special little girl and makes our family complete! We are so excited to watch her grow and learn new things!

holiday weekend fun

Hello,

Well after another fun filled holiday week up in Tahoe, we came back home to have some fun with a little bit of work too. I finally finished the backyard. After new sprinklers, landscaping and laying sod I am finally done with one portion of the back yard. Uffda.... This ground is hard out here. It's been a project since we moved in and this morning I finally finished with the help of Logan and Katie.
Unfortunately, we don't have any pics of this weekend's events. We did a freefall jump into Lake Tahoe which the kids and crowds loved, but here are some pics of yesterday and today.

A Trip to Minnesota!

Hello all! We have been busy bees here getting our house fixed up the way we want and still getting fun time in with the kiddos. Right now Sean is working on getting a sprinkler system working in the backyard so we can sod, and I am still trying to decorate the house a bit. I just made a door window curtain and some throw pillows. We also just bought a large area rug for the living room. Exciting stuff people! Lol, I guess when you are a new home owner it is!  Sean recently had a work trip to go on, so the kids and I decided to take a last minute trip to Minnesota. It was perfect timing with the birth of my sister's baby and some birthdays, so I thought I'd brave flying on my own with the kids. Yikes. It was hard work, but we made it both ways in one piece.  Here are some of the fun photos we took......

Hanging out in the humid weather with Grandpa!

I caught my first fish up at the cabin!

We went to see the Dinosaurs at the Minnesota zoo with a bunch of my awesome cousins!

Molly, Adam, and Cameron welcomed baby Carson!

Allison came over to hang out for a bit before she flew back to Cali!

Cam and Logan in a fire truck at Strawberry Fest.

Logan with a frog over at "Noah's House."

Miss Evelyn learns to roll over!

Next on the agenda is we are heading up to Lake Tahoe in a few days for the Fourth of July festivities they have there. For a few years now the 129th has provided entertainment for the public by jumping into the lake from the C-130s and helicopters. Sean is jumping, so it should be a good show! We are also going to try to head to Minnesota AGAIN the following week so we can attend a wedding. Busy summer, can't believe we are into July already. Off to bed, much love to you all!
Katie