Evelyn's First Birthday

Happy First Birthday Evelyn!! We made an "Eva" cake (from Wall-e, one of our favorite movies). That's what I wanted to nick-name Evelyn before she was born, but the name hasn't really stuck (yet). Every time I try to call her that Jensen corrects me and reminds me that her name is Evelyn! I've noticed him calling her Ev sometimes though. Usually when he's mad at her.



MMMM, yummy!!



We had a double celebration with my Dad since his birthday is just before Evelyn's birthday. It's still so great having them close by to do all these fun celebrations together!

Skiing

We took a long weekend over in West Virginia and went skiing again at Wisp because it was so much fun at Christmas. It was a cold day, but at least it was sunny this time.


Pizza Boy.



Ryley and Grandma riding the "swing."


Jensen and Daddy on the "Big Boy" hill! After a couple of runs on the bunny slope that boy wanted to ride the "swing." So we went ahead and took him up the chair lift and he came all the way down, stopping and turning all by himself! And he did it twice! What a champ!


Ryley and Grandma ripping it up! Ryley's going pro next year!


Evelyn kept everyone in the lodge entertained
and kept my dad on his toes (bless his heart for volunteering to be the babysitter for the day!)

Christmas

We spent Christmas in WV with lots of family! It was so fun to see my sister Jess and Adam with Olivia and their new baby Benjamin! My brother Jake came too with his fiance Jenny. We didn't get to come down until Christmas Eve and we made it just in time to talk to Jared on Skype since he's in Chile on a mission.


Lots of cute pajamas!


We love Grandma and Papa!


Best Buddies!! Evelyn and Benji, Ryley and Olivia,


and Jensen and uncle Adam.



Fun on the ice pond. We tried ice fishing but didn't have much luck. I had fun dragging the kids around the ice with the sled though.




We went skiing at Wisp. It was a really cold, windy day but the kids were champs and did really well. Me and Ammon even got to ski a little bit too by switching off with Grandma and Papa in the lodge.












Everyone got lots of fun presents. Even Papa, after a week of hard work got what he wanted.




Santa clause came to town!


Mega Bubble Bath!!

Rock Climbing

We've discovered an amazing rock climbing spot just north of us in Pennsylvania called Chickies Rock. Some friends took us up there and taught us how to do some traditional climbing. The kids loved to run around and play at the base of the rocks. We had a blast and can't wait to go back. Too bad it had to get cold. We can't wait until spring.

Thanksgiving

I didn't get many pictures at Thanksgiving. We went to my parent's house in West Virginia and had a great visit. The food was amazing. Evelyn loves turkey.

Fall Fun

We love the east coast with all it's trees and lots of leaves! Playing in the leaves is one of the kids favorite activities. Ryley begged me every day after school to make a leaf pile. The school schedule has been tough on her because it cuts way down on her play time and she's still getting used to that. Not as much fun. When we finally had enough leaves on the ground the kids went all out jumping through them and rolling around. There's so many ticks around here that I always worry about getting them, but how do you stop a kid from playing. We have pulled our fair share of ticks off of each other in the last 4 years that we've been here. No sign of lymes disease yet, but we'll be lucky if we get out of here without it.



Yet another Halloween costume for Evelyn. It works well as a snuggy warm outfit.


Where is Ryley?

Halloween

We need to do some major catch-up work on the blog. Here's our Halloween in October at the Pumpkin Poseys. Ryley was a black cat and Jensen was a tiger. Evelyn was a kitty cat and a pumpkin cause we had two cute hand-me-down costumes and of course we had to use them both.








Ryley's Ballet class. I thought the twister costume was cool.


He looks pretty scary huh.