so cute!

It's just impossible to not laugh along with this video!!

a safe place for Tonka

FINALLY!! Tonka found a safe place to go where Evie can't pull his hair out, poke him in the eye and steal his toys! She still tries though! Doesn't he look so peaceful. Good for you Tonka Boy!

This Ones For Daddy

We sure miss you! Evie can't wait to show off her new skills for you in person! Hope you like the preview. Can't wait to see you this weekend!!

a little bit of everything

So Evie and I are back home in Virginia now. We miss Preston a lot but we are so glad to be home. I was anxious to come home because I have piles of projects I am working on and need to finish so I can move on to another pile of projects. One of my new years resolutions is to make 1 craft each month for my house. Why not right?? It has been fun finding ways to be creative and even more fun making my house feel more like a home each day. I have found myself getting a little crazy though. I say 1 craft a month but it has been more like 4 a month so far. Anyway I am going to try not to get to far ahead of myself for the rest of the year. Here are my month of January and February projects.

month of January

This picture is new so for the month of February I made these orange pillows to match

The other evening I made some cookies and Evie was not going to let me get away without giving her one so I did. She LOVED that cookie! It was so funny watching just how happy that cookie made her. I laughed the whole time. She is so much fun! SO CUTE!!

The other day a friend of ours from our ward gave us a couple new toys! Evie is getting so big and a little bored of her old toys so it was so nice of her to give us some new ones. This is a bouncer. She loves it! She is a good little driver too!! Look how happy she is! Melts my heart!

Evelynn is also already a little ham. The second I pull out the camera shes all smiles! She is crawling now so whenever she hears the camera turn on she turns and crawls right towards it! She is getting so good at crawling and it is keeping me on my toes! She also loves Tonka even more now. He is her number one toy. She crawls over to him, pulls his hair, pokes his eyes and tugs on his ears, which are always sore to begin with, before she decides to take the toy he was playing with away from him. He is so good with her though and very gently gets his toy back. Unfortunately for Tonka he only keeps it for a couple mins until she can crawl back to where he is and take his toy again. They are so cute together!

 

attacking Tonka

got his toy.. again

Valentines Day

We had a very low key Valentines Day this year. Preston is doing some more training in Alabama right now so Evelynn and I have spent the last 3 weeks out there with him. Needless to say, our V-Day was pretty much just dinner. We went to Texas Road House, super early so we didn't have to be there through the rush. Then went back home and ate the cheese cake I made for Preston earlier that day. He loves cheese cake!! We have so much fun just hanging out with our little girl. We were saying just the other day that we know we should probably go on dates without her more often, but we both like it when she is there so much that it's hard to make the effort to find a sitter!! She is so fun to be around!

 

And this is just a funny picture of our silly baby! She looks so cool huh! How could you not want to spend a whole day with this!! :)

6 month check up

Our baby is a healthy little girl. She weighs 15.7 which is somewhere in between the 25th and the 50th percentile and she is 26 inches long with is 50th percentile. She has a little bit of eczema so the doctor gave us some stuff to clear that up but that is the only problem she has ever had in her whole little life. We are truly blessed to have a happy and healthy little girl. She is perfect!

Evie loves her daddy! She is just about to start crawling. She gets all the way up on her hands and knees and you can just tell that in her little mind she knows there is another step after that but hasn't figured out how to get there yet. :) I don't think I am ready for her to start crawling.. she is busy enough with out moving! She is curious about everything. She has started talking.. well that's what we call it. She will grunt at things she want and likes to talk to you. When Preston comes home she will have a 5 min conversation like that with him and then it's on to something else!! She just recently started reaching for other people when you are holding her. She does it to anyone that stops to talk to her which I don't care for to much cause then random people in the groceries store think that she wants them to hold her. I don't like that they take her from me very much.. haha.. but it's pretty cute I guess. She is a social bug! We love her! I can't believe it but she is actually going to be 7 months old in about a week! She is growing toooooo fast! She is more fun everyday and I am the luckiest person on earth to get to spend every minute of my day with her!

6 months old

 It's hard to believe, but our sweet little girl turned 6 months old on January 7th. We are crazy about this baby girl. She is growing so fast and I am finding that everyday I am getting a little more sad to see her grow up. I wish I could freeze her in this stage. She is so much fun to be around. I count my blessings everyday that we get to hang out with each other all day. There are so many things I never want to forget about her at this age. So here is the list of things I don't want to forget!

Evie has a super high pitch screech that she just does all day long. She does it when she happy, wants something, sad, mad and when she knows she is sitting right by your ear!

She loves to put her 2 little hands on both your cheeks when you are talking to her. It's almost like she wants you to know that she is giving you her full attention. It's so cute!

She is sitting up now and that's all she wants to do! She isn't very good yet so I am sitting on the floor right by her for most of my days now! But I love it!

She has been teething a lot but no tooth yet!

She loves anything red. It is always the first color of toy she will go for!

Tonka is one of her best friends. I sure hope I'm above the list from him but there is no way to tell!

Another one of her best friends is her pacifier. It's her favorite toy and it hardly ever just sits in her mouth!

She sucks on her bottom lip. She sucks it in and out and it makes the cutest noise.

Her favorite thing about bed time is snuggling with her blanket. She gets so excited to see it every time I put her down!

She will eat anything you put in her mouth

She sleeps from 7:30 to 7:30 and we LOVE it!!

She is so happy all the time and we love her to death!!

Her 6 month appointment it coming up in a week and I will post all her stats after that. I'm guessing that she weights around 16 pounds but we will see.