Happy 2nd Birthday Mary Evelyn!

We celebrated Mary Evelyn's 2nd Birthday at home with family and friends.  It was a beautiful day!

Aunt Julie helping Mary Evelyn on her tricycle

Sweet Girl!

Nathan and Fischer 

Ava and Mary Evelyn

Aunt Jan with her Ella and Isabel

Nathan pulling Meme and Jackson

Blowing out the candles on her Abby Cadabby cake!

Nana and Julie

Nana (she was cold), MeMaw and Grandmalu

Opening Presents

Checking out her new presents!

SOOOO Excited about her pinata!

Handsome Jackson!!

Isabel and Jackson - my cousins' precious children!

Grampy and Catherine being silly!

The Birthday Princess!

Wonderful Abby Cadabby Cake Aunt Sharon made!

January 2009

Meme and Bubba at MeMaw's

Mary Evelyn's early Birthday party

The girls visiting Dad at work!

Long time no blog!  I'm on Spring Break and in the process of catching up on my blog.  I didn't want to miss out on our Christmas memories, so here are a few of the favorites!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

This is our Christmas Card picture for the year!

Looking forward to updating our blog over 

Christmas Break!  

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Thanksgiving 2008 and Christmas Decorating

We had such a great time this Thanksgiving and have so much to be thankful for.  As always, we celebrated with Chris' family at MeMaw's house in Heiberger and had lunch in Marion.  Drew, Catherine and Mary Evelyn loved being with their cousins.  We decided to rent an RV this year and that just added to the excitement and laughs!  We were truly the Griswalds.  Chris' sister, Rebecca, her boyfriend, Lane and Morgan, her little boy spent the weekend with us in Birmingham.  

My attempt at photography

Ethan, Grayson, Garrett, Will and Drew

One of her favorite "poses"

1st Cousins - Nathan, Rileigh Anne, Morgan and Meme

The Girls

Silly Catherine

Meme riding Nathan's tractor

1st Attempt at a Tricycle

Catherine riding Nathan's dirtbike

Chris and Catherine

Catherine taught Meme how to decorate the tree

Becca braided the girls' hair

It is Meme's year to put the angel on top!

Fun with Family

We ventured back out to Homestead Hollow last weekend with my mom, sister, cousin Jyl, her 2 little ones, Jackson and Isabel, and my Aunt Jan. Mary Evelyn remembered riding the pony from last time and she was so excited to do it again. Jackson also loved it! Isabel was not interested in riding the pony, she was loving her kettle corn!

Isn't he handsome!

Isabel praying she won't have to touch any of the

animals in the petting zoo!

Julie & Izzie

Julie & Jackson

Mary Evelyn and her sweet Daddy!

Back in Argo, teaching Little Bit something!

Trick or Treat!

Mary Evelyn had so much fun Trick or Treating this year. She understands what candy is now and asks for her "bag" all the time. One of her favorite phrases is "so excited!" We heard a lot of that yesterday. We decided to trick or treat in downtown Springville - it was really nice. It is such a cute little town. Chris came straight from work and ME got so excited when she saw him. I was glad he got to be here - he had to get up at 4:00 this morning to start his annual North Dakota hunting trip with the guys in my family. I was also glad that Nana was able to ride along with us and see Mary Evelyn have such a good time.

This is what she did when she saw her Daddy coming.

Sweet (and a little silly) Grandmalu!

Sharing with her Nana 'T"