Ready or Not...Here They Come

I've been such a slacker when it come to our blog!  Well, I've been a slacker in other things too, but....  :)  I'm still not very thrilled with my actual blog background, but I suppose I shouldn't put off posting just because of that!

I thought about trying to catch up on everything we've done since January, which was my last post, but it is not very likely that that will happen, so I figure I'll start with pictures from yesterday.  That's right, less than a day old!  We got a new camera, which I'm toally excited about, so I took over 100 photos yesterday of Evan while I was trying to figure some stuff out.  So, here are a whole bunch of pictures. Some of the are a little blurry, but I still liked the photo, so I put them on here.  Hope you enjoy!

Lincoln City, OR - January 2011

We made another trip over to Oregon in January.  Gary had work meetings and we added 3 more nights and stayed in a condo on the beach.  It was a nice relaxing trip and we didn't do much because it was POURING rain most of the time.  The rain finally stopped for awhile the day before we left, so we were able to spend an hour or so on the beach.  Not sure what happened with my formatting below...I've fixed it several times and it just keeps messing up!

Evan is always so fascinated by the shells or rocks that he sees.

Nothing like dragging around a stick.

The look on Evan's face cracks me up for some reason.  i'm not sure what he was saying or doing.

I have a picture like this from every time we have gone to the coast.  They are always kind of blurry because they are so far away, but I love them.  It's going to be fun when Evan is all grown to see how he grew each year. 

These 2 pictures are a perfect visual for shy we love going to the coast in the "off" season.  We had this whole beach to ourselves almost the whole time.

What a cute nose!  :)

I love this face!

Hey, this one too!

Mommy, Can You Please Be Quiet...

I was just going on and on to Gary about how I want a Kindle and how I could use my Christmas and maybe birthday money to get one. Apparently I was disrupting Evan's movie because he said, Mommy, can you please be quiet, Woodie (he is watching Toy Story 3) is on the phone! Gary said, Evan that was funny and Evan said, yes it was! :) Gary probably wanted to tell me to be quiet too!!!

Letter to Santa

Rockin' Cousins

We LOVE Christmas Decorating

 Evan set up the Little People Nativity set and Drummer Boy set.  Since he set it up, he will only keep a couple peices on the shelf.  He has been playing with them instead.  I've given up trying to keep the "organized".

 It's hard for someone like me to let a 4 year old place ornaments on the tree, but I did it!  As you can see, all the ornaments Evan placed are in a pretty straight line, go figure.  I'll just add this to the set of line pictures I have of all the things he has lined up.  I've resisted the urge to move these ornaments...for the most part. 

 Evan kept this ornament hooked on his wrist the entire time we set up the tree and decorated.  It was only with coercion that we got him to place it on the tree.  :)

 It's kind of difficult to get a good picture of the tree.  I'm not sure why, maybe the lights.  So, I don't think the tree looks that great in this picture, but I love how it looks in person.  Maybe I'll try taking a picture with the house lights off and see how that works.

Jello Song

Sometime during the night Evan crawled in bed with us.  He does this every once in awhile and it doesn't really bother me.  :)  I think it was around 2 or 3 in the morning.  As we were laying there he said really quietly, let's sing the jello song and then he started singing...the big red letter stands for the jello family, the big red letter stands for the jello family, there's jello, yum, yum, yum, jello pudding, yum, yum, yum, there's taaaaaapioca.  :)  It was so cute!

Snow Boy

It snowed some this morning and Evan came in and said he wanted to go outside.  I told him he needed to get out of his pjs and get dressed before he could go out.  He came back a few minutes later and said he was ready to go out.  I looked at him and he had taken off his pjs...but all he had on were his undies and crocs.  I guess putting on your crocs is "getting dressed".  :)

Yesterday when I got Evan up to show him it snowed, he said, ooooo yummy snow, I'll put my shoes on and walk in it. Not sure what yummy has to do with walking, but I'm glad he was excited.  Maybe that's why today he thought he only needed shoes. 

4 Year Old Studio Photos

Evan and I went to Spokane today and had his 4 year old pictures taken at Tot Shots Photo Studio http://www.totshotsphoto.com/.  We had SO MUCH FUN!!!  It was just the photographer and us and she took LOTS of time to get Evan to warm up to her.  She got some great pictures and I'm really glad we went.  These are my favorite 9 photos.  I love all kinds of candid shots, but I really do love studio shots too.  We even did some photos with the orange background, since that is Evan's favorite color.  Probably won't print any of those to frame, but they will make awesome scrapbook pages.