impromptu party

On Family Day we threw together a party for Penny! All of the Evansons' were planning on swimming at the pool that day, so Andy and I thought, "Hey, why not just get it over with ?!" ( I know it sounds like we don't care, but this is what happens when you are on your 3rd child)

So last second plans were made and it was PARTY TIME!!!

Swimming plus pizza plus a PERFECTLY SWEET ice cream cake that seemed to be just made for Penny and waiting for us in the deep freezer of the DQ.

equals SUCCESS!

That was so easy we might even throw Penny a 2nd 1st birthday party!!

a promise is a promise

I bet you did expect a post that fast! I am just that cool I guess.

I just wanted to share some of my latest creations...

As well as headbands, I also am dabbling into blindfolds...

ok ok ok...

Well it's been just over a month since my last post. I guess I should get my butt in gear and start doing more posts, or not, we'll see... I wish I could stay off of Facebook for more than a month, that would be an accomplishment wouldn't it!?

The past month has been a month of teething sorrow in our house, poor little Pen Pen, she is by far the WORST teether we've had. She's CAH-RANKY! earaches, snot face, diaper rash, name a teething symptom, any teething symptom, she's got it.

Fortunately, all days are not bad days. Here's the at home crew participating in one of our famous family movie nights. Penny just can't get over Will. She lights up when she sees him, Aubrey on the other hand is, well, we're working on being nice to our little sister.

Skills such as:

-Gentle patting on the back

-screaming in the baby's face, yes or no?

-Dragging baby aroung the house by the foot of her sleepers, should we or shouldn't we?

-Chokeholding baby , why it's wrong...

Needless to say, when Aubba comes around, Penny gets a little tense.

...and lastly we'll touch on my new love in life, crochet.

I've been cranking out these cute little headbands for young, old and inbetween.

I'm glad I found a little hobby that I enjoy doing. It's always fun to find a new passion and pursue it. Now all I need to learn is how to read those accursed patterns...

p.s. I promise to TRY to blog at least one more time this month.

ketchup

I think I forgot how to blog for awhile. Now I have to do some major recaps.

The best things that happened during Christmas 2010 are...

#1 - We were BUSY, from Dec 24th on we had a family gathering or dinner to go to every night for 7 days straight, we were fed well!

#2 - After Christmas was over Andrew shaved off his beard, Hallelujah!!!!!!

There really are more then 2 things, but since I've just started blogging again, I feel the need to ease back into it slowly. AKA I am too lazy to type right now.

I'll leave you with some cute pictures of our 2 sets of cousins we got to spend time with at the holidays! Those aren't even all of them!

The Aloha Anderson's

The Exciting Evanson's

Stay posted for the awesome adventures that 2011 brings!

be yourself...everyone else is taken

I let my kids dress themselves, this is a dangerous phrase. But I do. Somedays they look great, they can really suprise me! But some days they just look plain ridiculous. I'm sorry, once again no picture of the fashion faux paux's that I'm about to vividly describe, You'll just have to use your imaginations.

Fashion Victim #1 - Will

Today's wardrobes choices were as follows:

• underwear ( i think)
• pj pants with rockstar guitars on them
• blue basketball shorts over top of those pj bottoms
• one superman shirt
• one spiderman jersey
• one matching pj shirt to the before mentioned rockstar guitar jammies.
• fireman gumboots

Will and I even left the house today with that array...

Fashion Victim #2 - Aubrey

• underwear ( i know)
• a dress that was WAY too short
• one pj button-up shirt over top

So amazing. I wish that I had enough confidence to walk out of my house wearing tights with basketball shorts, a swimsuit top with my bra on the outside and a big fuzzy toque on my head with high heels on. Maybe I will one day.

I love my kids, they are awesome. They help me learn things everyday, like WHO CARES for instance and ACCEPT IT. THIS IS WHO I AM. TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT. DEAL WITH IT because World, I'm coming outside with ALL this and you can love me or hate me.

And really who can't help but love kids with that much fashion sense? And whose to say, maybe in a few years shorts over pj's will be all the rage.

Oh, these two...

9 months

Don't mess with her, she's spent time on the inside...

Penny Ray turned 9 months today. How can this....

...turn into this, so FAST?!?!

I like when my kids turn 9 months, they have officially lived in the outside for as long as they lived in the inside. It's just neat to think about.

Penny is crawling, climbing onto short things like boxes and stools and the first step of the stairs. She's pulling herself up to stand by things, she's letting go and balancing. She chews and chews and chews. She has the eyes of a hawk and picks up the tinyest little things off the floor to pop right into her mouth. She's clapping and waving and drool-y. She's sprouting teeth and her hair is getting all luscious. AND in 3 months she will be one year old.

Stop it already!

policemen

We like this video in our house...

What is a Policeman?

Narrated by Paul Harvey