Evan is 7 months old

Evan turned 7 months old on January 20th. It is hard to believe!! He is such a good baby. He is always happy and smiling. He will sit for a few seconds. He has started baby foods. He was loving rice cereal until we introduced some veggies and now he would rather eat that. Just wait till he gets to eat some fruits. I think he will be in heaven! He got his first 2 teeth on the bottom. It is hard to get a picture of them but they are cute!! We feel really lucky that he is a healthy baby boy..

sleepy baby

trying out the jumperoo. He loves it!!

Happy Evan!!

Happy Birthday Jackson!!

Abe and Kaci are our good friends that moved to Phoenix from Portland a few years after we moved here. Abe and Wes went to college together and have remained great friends. Their son, Jackson, had his first birthday party at the Little Gym on Sunday January 10th. Jackson will turn ONE on January 15th. Happy Birthday Jackson!!

Jackson getting ready to show us how he can walk

Abe and Evan

Alex had a blast at the Little Gym

trying out the balance beam

Daddy and Evan

singing welcome songs

Evan got to play too

eating lunch with his friend Olivia. She is in Alex's class at school

Happy Birthday Jackson!!

Zoolights!!

This year we went to Zoolights when we came back in town from St. Louis. I wanted to go when Grammy and Pa were here but Grammy came down with the flu. Maybe we can go next year. I thought it wouldn't be crowded because it was the last weekend. I was wrong....it was really busy but we had a great time!!

waiting in line for the carousel

Alex saw the carousel and said "want to go up and down... up and down"

last year I have pictures of Wes holding Alex on the carousel because he didn't want to sit on the animal. This year he loved it!!

the lights were beautiful

mommy really wanting a picture with Alex

Daddy and Alex watching the dancing trees

what do you think of this light sword?

Evan had a good time at zoolights too!!

Bye Bye St. Louis!! See you soon.....

The night before we were leaving forecasters were predicting snow. This is what we woke up to the next morning!

About 4-6 inches of SNOW!!

We dressed Alex up to go outside in 3 layers of clothes plus his hat, mittens, coat and boots. He could hardly walk outside.

Pa playing in the snow with Alex

It was so cold that morning and the wind was blowing so Alex had enough and said "Bye Bye Snow"

My mom flew back with me to help me with the boys on the plane. I couldn't have done it without her. Thank you so much Grammy. We had a good flight after a great vacation.

Alex keeping busy on the plane

The next morning Katie came over for a visit. We didn't get to see her much when we were in St. Louis because she had the flu too.

Alex missed Moosie dog

hanging out with Grammy before she has to leave for the airport

Wes worked late the night that we came home so he didn't get to see Alex or Evan. They were both asleep. Evan was awake before Wes went to work on Friday but Alex was sleeping in so they had to wait to see each other until Wes got home. The boys missed their daddy.

Fun times in St. Louis

We had a great time in St. Louis. Here are few random pictures from our trip....

trying to keep warm. Brrrr....it's cold here

Judy and Alli hanging out with the boys

Alex wearing PoPo's old hat. He is named after him too

the boys watching a movie together

It was really cold while we were there so for 2 days we didn't leave the house. When we finally took them out we went to the mall. But there was a lot to do. We had lunch at my favorite place, St. Louis Bread Company and then we rode the carousel.

there was also some rides

playing with his new fire truck from Aunt Dee Dee. Thanks Marsha

We couldn't get a good picture of Grammy with the boys. They both wanted to play with her iphone

Evan and Pa

Celebrating New Year's a few days later with Pa

Visiting with Friends

I was lucky to be able to see some of my friends while we were in town. The weather made it tough to get out of the house with the boys so some friends came over to see us! Tuesday morning my friend, Jami, came over with her daughter Morgan. She is a month younger than Alex. Jami also has a daughter, Emma who will be 5 in April. It was so funny to see Alex and Morgan playing together because Jami and I have been friends since we were their age.

Alex and "Norgan" (what Alex called her)

Morgan couldn't wait for Evan to wake up from his nap. She was so excited to meet him. She was all smiles once she saw him.

Evan, Morgan and Alex

hugs for baby Evan

Jami and Morgan with Evan. Morgan was so adorable. She sang to Evan and kept hugging him. She wanted to take him home with her.

Later that night my friends from my old job at Cardinal Glennon came over. We all started working together about 12 years ago so it was great to see everyone with their families now. We have grown a lot!!

my great friend Michael and Evan.

Alex playing with Henry (Staci's little boy)

Amy (left) is pregnant with her 3rd baby. She has 2 girls at home and doesn't know the sex of this baby. Amy (right) had Owen (middle) in August. Congrats to both Amy and Amy.

Alex loved the train track that was set up

Paige and Evan. Paige is going to be a big sister in May. Her mommy is expecting twin boys!! Congrats Jodi and Marc.

Staci and my boys

enjoying dinner

part of the old TCU crew. It was great to see everyone!!

Paige saying good bye to Alex. She is so cute!!