Christmas, Christmas, Christmas

We have had a busy but wonderful week celebrating Christmas! Here are a bunch of pictures of what we've been up to.

We visited lots of aunts, uncles and cousins on the 22nd.

Aunt Amy pulled out lots of great toys!

 Getting the little girls together for a picture proved to be a challenge.

 Sharing grapes with Morgan

 Saying hi to Stella

 Evelyn and Morgan did some pajama clean up at the end of the night. 

We spent Christmas Eve with the Almquists. Here's Evelyn working on the elf puzzle, a family tradition!

 Playing with the magna doodle and Auntie Tessa (and Magnus).

 EIEIO with Uncle Dave

We spent Christmas Day at home. Good morning!

 "NO JAX!"

 New wheels from the Nelson family

 Relaxing with some books and Auntie Maureen

 A little face time with the California family

 Merry Christmas!

Christmas Begins!

Last weekend we began our Christmas celebrations with a visit to Aunt Rudy's house. Evelyn's favorite things were...

The Stairs

The dancing figurines that fit together like puzzle pieces

Reading her new book

and, the "meow meow!"

We even managed to get a nice family picture. 

We also finally decorated our tree! Evelyn got the hang of putting the ornaments on, but also enjoyed instructing Daddy on where he should put them.

So Behind!

As we are getting ready for Christmas, we needed to catch up on the past few weeks!

We celebrated Thanksgiving with the Nelsons. Evelyn had fun with her cousins Victoria & Alexandra.

We even got a tuba concert!

Later that weekend the Almquists came to visit. I think these pictures of Evelyn and her Uncle Dan are pretty hilarious. 

 A picture from our Christmas card photo shoot... 

We went to the Kohl Children's Museum for a birthday party... (Becki, does this picture look familiar?)

 Evelyn turned 18 months on December 2! 

Two Little Monkeys

Last week on our day off, Evelyn and I met up with our friends Heather and Addison for a play date at Purple Monkey Playroom. Although the girls don't exactly play together, a good time was still had by all!

Balloons!

Well, we got one smile!

High Pony

Over the past few months, Evelyn's hair has really been growing. Occasionally she will come home from daycare rocking this look:

I'm not sure how they get her to be still long enough to put it in.

Here is a little clip of a typical evening for Evelyn: running everywhere and giving kisses! I tried to get her to share some of her words, but she was much more interested in taking the phone :)

Better Late Than Never!

Just a little late, here are some Halloween pictures.

(The mad picture is because I wouldn't let her hold the camera!)

Jax won 3rd place in the dog day care costume contest! In case you can't tell, he is a punk. Well worth the $4 on clearance at Target :)

Autumn

Here are some pictures of newly 17-month old Evelyn enjoying the season.

We will get some Halloween pictures posted soon!