Hollie Band Concert

Hollie District Golf

Hollie was unable to qualify for district golf but she had her best game ever. On the front nine holes she had 54 with 10 strokes on the first hole. Second nine holes she had a 58 with a ten foot single putt.

So proud of her! Look at her beautiful posture.

Hollie and her Golf coach Mike above this was a good pic of Nate and I as we watched Hollie golf. Thank goodness for a good baby! They made it very clear that there was to be no conversation on the golf course.

Hollie and Lauren

My Girls are so nice, beautiful, and funny.

Loved this pic of Hollie, just before the Homecoming game.

Grandma and Grandpa Evans Come to Visit

Grandma and Grandpa came down from Alaska to visit the kids. They were really good sports, the first night they were here we all went to see Hollie play in the Pep band for her Homecoming game.

Second night Hollie had Homecoming dance:) She is such a beautiful girl! Some guy will be lucky to have her...

While Hollie was out at Homecoming the rest of us went out to dinner at Olive Garden. I loved this pic of the them.

 Lauren and her Grandparents :)



Nathan and Grandpa

I just loved this pic of Lauren so I threw it in.

Grandma and Nate

Always sad to see them go, Nathan was quick to warm up to them. Hoping they can make it back around the Holidays:)

Nate

I come home after a very long two day stretch thankful and blessed that my children are healthy. Nate has made the transition to his big boy room! Mom sleeping on a twin mattress in same room. Sleeping most of the night got up once to eat and right back down.
He says da da now, and is using just one finger to point/ touch objects. Thrilled!

Nathan update 6months

We are now towards the end of Nates 6month he is such a great baby! This month he has mastered transferring a toy between hands, holding two toys and banging them together. He is so cute when he puts the back side of his hand against his mouth and then waves his hand! He eats about one full jar of organic baby food in a day! He prefers to feed himself with a spoon. Has incredible accuracy getting the spoon to his mouth. We usually have two spoons because he is very impatient for the next bite and we were having to wrestle the spoon out of his hand. So now we just trade hom for another spoon. It is cute how excoted he gets when you hold up a full spoon. He can Hold and drink from a sippy cup, usually watered down prune juice. He does not poop well :( after about 4-5 days I have two give a suppository only twice since starting solid food have we pooped on our own despite an all fiber diet?
He sits unattended now and loves for you to sit across from him to roll a ball. Balls are still his favorite toy, right now he has taken to laurens hackey sack! It is cute that Lauren who normally won't share is happy to give this to him.he loves touch and dwelt books as of this last week which is a nice change from reading everyday the gobble gooble moo tractor book. He will walk holding hands between daddy and I, about four steps. Not any further on the crawling:( he will lean forward from a sitting position but hasn't figured out the legs. Great at getting on his knees from a laying position but has no arm strength.
He loves to breast feed and hates when I am not avaiable. This last Saturday I got home after 13 hrs and he saw me walk in the door. He started rocking back and forth with excitement and would take his eyes off me with his cute smile and mamamama sound. He nursed for 20 each side just hitting my face, playing with my strap as I talk to him and recited stories I have memorized. Then later got teary wishing I didn't have to work!
Ok sleeping ugggh I have not broken him of the bassinet ! I am having such a hard time letting go of each stage! Teary now writing how much he has grown, realizing that the girls time has gone by so fast. Well two weeks ago I saw this cute face looking at me ( see pic below)! Tried switching him to the crib but he woke up to feed at 1:30 did not want to sleep. Stayed up til 3:00 when I placed him back in the bassinet he went right to sleep. I am going to try the crib again this weekend. Halloween is almost here Nathan picked out a duck costume despite his dads best attempt at the dinasour, monkey, or dog costume. We went for a walk to see all the decorations, Nathan loves leaves ( see pic below)! We are all up to date on immunizations and last weigh in at 17 lbs 7 oz!

Senior! Homecoming

Thom and I took Lauren, Nate and thoms parents to Fife HS homecoming game! Hollie plays in PEP band and they sounded amazing! Hollies hair was done in a wrap around braid with the school colored ribbons, makep on with school spirit shirt.

So we were at the game 3rd quarter talking with Hollie and her friends......when they say Hollie is being a party pooper and won't go to the homecoming dance with them?hmmm we have been asking Hollie all week to call her friends and go? Hollie said she just doesn't like the dance part, she tends not to see the whole picture. She loves the rest and the girls were having a sleep over afterwards? She excited now wants to go and I have less than 24 hrs to pull this together! Enter Kris and Kenzie :) borrowed one of a thousand dresses from Kenzie, Hollie had a blast trying them on! She and I definitly have different taste in dresses. The ones she likes are way more revealing! Or too long? Then Kenzie did her makeup, she looked amazing. I did her hair. She loved the venue at Emerald Downs, said they had a suspended dance floor. She took pictures this time:) hope to get them soon! Meanwhile here is what I got!

Apple Cup Chelan October 2011

We all traveled over to Chelan for lauren's soccer tournament. Stayed at the Best Western Lakeside, love staying here! Beds are so comfortable I always sleep well and they have a great free breakfast. Lauren and her team did amazing, playing four games total. They only allowed one point in the last game, were never carded. Oh and no injuries. Saturday night the girls ran around the hotel grounds, went to the lake, pool, hot tubs. The adults BBQ dinner outside since it was almost 70 degrees outside during the day:) we even got a little burnt. In between games on Saturday girls played a two hr volleyball game against each other. Other teams would practice inbetween games or go through warm up drills for half hour before a game. Thom and Karen allow the girls to be autonomous and often our girls will break up and work on what they think needed improvement. Looks funny though when the other team is working so hard to prepare.

Hollie's Senior golf

Here is a picture of Hollie and some golf team mates after the last game of regular play! They gave each senior a gift bag with goodies! Hollie was the only senior girl!

Fife harvest festival fun run!

I took the kids for a 5k fun run in beautiful downtown fife! We invited laurens friend Ryan since dad broke his bigtoe kicking a soccer ball ( tomake Nathan laugh). Ryan is the only one that can keep up with miss Lauren! Ryan placed 4th or 5th? Lauren placed 14th! Hollie and I ram the entire race with out stopping! I hadn't run since I was pregnant and miss Hollie just doesn't exercise! Lauren also saw her best friend Taya.

Baby Chaps

Auntie Aimie sent a surprise package! A tiny wooden spoon for nates first meal it was very cute. Babylegs which are the new way to keep their knees from hurting when they learn to crawl! Now my thought is if they don't get sore knees then what is the incentive to stand and walk? So we tried them on and they look like little baby chaps!

First food 9-18-11

Nathan had his first food, banana! He liked the spoon to play with and of course put a small amount of banana in his mouth, not sure about the taste! So ended up feeding him banana the next two days of course trying to follow the rules only introducing one new food a week? Totally forgetting bananas are constipating! Yep Nathan also got his first glycerin suppository 8 days later:(

Hollie Sept 2011

The braces are off! After five years and almost 10,000$, driving to the orthodontist every other month, we have beautiful teeth:) Hollie loves the feeling of having them off. She went and had her teeth cleaned. She does have some cavities. Her top retainer is a invisalign and traditional bottom.

Nathan 5 months

He grew into his Christmas pj too fast and another pic of his award winning smile! I liked the telephone turtle because he almosts looks like a little boy in this one! He did figure out that his turtle could be used to drink the bath water! Yuk