Christmas Blast!

Blast! Seems to be the best word to describe Evelyn's Christmas. She really enjoyed herself. She had a Blast!

It was great to see the excitement in her eyes and hear it in her voice, whenever we spoke of the Christmas parties to come. She had a party at pre-school. Then as usual, we had the Wright family Christmas on Christmas Eve. We had just our little family gift giving on Christmas morning and then in the afternoon we had the rest of the family gift giving.

While placing Evelyn to bed on Christmas Eve, she asked me how Santa was going to get into the house since our fireplace has a glass front. So cute! I told her he would find a way. In the morning, Evelyn came into our room and asked if Santa had put presents under the tree. She then went flying down the hallway to the tree and exclaimed, "Oh, yes! Santa left presents under the tree." Then proceeded to immediately ask to open them. We had the video camera ready!

Here are some pictures from her events.

Evelyn in the Christmas Spirit

Evelyn has been very busy helping the family prepare for the Christmas Holiday.

Evelyn went with her Grandpa (Pa Pa) and me to cut down a Christmas tree this past weekend. We spent awhile browsing through the beautiful trees, trying to find the perfect tree. After bringing the tree home, Evelyn started off the decorating by stringing ropes of beads on the tree. Evelyn really enjoyed placing other decorations on the tree and actually did a very good job of placing the bulbs in different areas on the tree, but mostly near the bottom branches.

After the tree was complete, Evelyn was subjected to a photo shoot, trying to get the perfect shot for our Christmas card. Evelyn also posed for a few shots with Grandma and Grandpa.

Here are some pictures, displaying Evelyn in the Christmas Spirit!

Evelyn re-cap

House building, movie going, the holidays, work, dance class, pre-school, etc...are keeping Evelyn busy!

The other night I was putting Evelyn to bed and she wasn't falling asleep to my story like she normally does. So part way through a second story, when she moved around in the bed, I looked at her and said "Seriously? You are not asleep yet?" So after the second story was over I informed Evelyn that I had things to do before I went to bed so I was going to leave her to fall asleep on her own. Before departing her room, I stated "I am going to wash my face and brush my teeth and then I will be back to check on you." Well, after I got sucked into watching "Desperate Housewives" for about 10 -15 minutes, I went back to Evelyn's room to check on her. No surprise that Evelyn was still awake! When I told her that I still had to brush my teeth, she replied with, "Seriously?". This made me laugh inside, but outwardly I said "What did you say?", so she repeated "Seriously? You were gone for a long time and you didn't brush your teeth?" I had to chuckle, told her I was sorry and that I would brush them and be right back. I did just that, returned to her room and kissed her goodnight. She soon fell asleep. I guess I cannot tell her that I will be back to check on her, because that keeps her up waiting for me to return!

Over the last couple of weeks Evelyn has made countless cute crafts at pre-school and recently started telling me what she is learning at dance class is a secret. I hope this is because they want to surprise us with their talent at the Spring Recital, not for any other terrible reason!

Evelyn has been out to the house building site many times with us, even once asking to go see the house since we hadn't been there in a few days. She understands that building a house takes time and she is able to see it all coming together. We have more pictures to post today.

Evelyn made home-made butter in her pre-school class and made a Native American vest out of a brown paper sack.

Evelyn understands that Thanksgiving, getting a Christmas tree, getting more snow, etc...has to happen before Christmas is really here, but that doesn't stop her form constantly saying..."I want that" to every commercial she sees on television!

Evelyn and I went outside yesterday and built two snowpeople. Yes, I said snowpeople because we actually built a boy and girl. Evident in the pictures I will post today.

Evelyn got really silly with her cousins Alexis and Courtney the other week, once again, you will see in some goofy pictures within this post. Not sure what to explain about the pictures...they were just running around with scarves and old fashioned hand-fans.

Now for some pictures!

Movie Go-ers

Evelyn and I have been busy with movie theaters lately!

Andy was out deer hunting the other weekend and this weekend he has been roofing our house with a friend, so Evelyn and I have been passing time by seeing new children's flicks.

Last weekend we went to see "Madagascar 2", with 4 of Evelyn's friends. The movie was very cute, with lots of laughs.

This weekend we went to see the Walt Disney movie, "Bolt", with 2 of Evelyn's cousins. The movie was very cute, with lots of laughs, and a touching story.

Until next time or when a new children's movie comes out!

Evelyn: The Halloween Dragon!

This is actually only the second Halloween that Evelyn has participated in...by trick-or-treating. It is not the first time she dressed up though. This year she went as a Dragon.

Evelyn was around 8 months old for her first Halloween. We dressed her as Piglet and she helped us pass out candy from our front porch. On her second Halloween night she started a swim class. We dressed her as a Giraffe, yet figured she didn't know any difference between trick-or-treating or not...so we didn't take her to any houses. For her third Halloween - we did take her trick-or-treating. We dressed her as a Lady Bug and we went out with our nieces, so they could "show Evelyn how it's done"! This year we repeated the trick-or-treating in my nieces' neighborhood and dressed Evelyn as The Halloween Dragon.

School Picture!

Evelyn Wright

Preschool Picture 2008-09

3 1/2 years old

Soon to be...Evelyn's House

Exciting news on the Evelyn "home front"...which is a new home! We are in the process of building a home on the three acres of land we purchased many months ago. Although we experienced some obstacles right from the start (even before the hole was there!), the construction has started and is continuing. Andy and I understand the process will be complex, yet luckily Evelyn's only view of building a house is labeled as...fun!

Evelyn has already picked out colors for the house. She would like purple in her bathroom and she wants red and pink walls for her bedroom. We are on board with all her color choices, we just want to be careful with the amount of red and pink in her room!

Here are some pictures of the exciting home building process, Soon to be...Evelyn's House!

Evelyn's Dance Class Visit

Many of you might remember that Evelyn started taking a dance class weeks ago. The class is called "Baby Stars" and there really isn't a set type of dance style she is learning. Essentially the class is meant to teach 3 - 5 year olds the basics of dance, coordination, beats, etc...

Two weeks ago was "visiting day" at dance class, which means parents and grandparents were able to watch the class. I was able to go and it was so cute and fun to watch Evelyn. Here are some pictures of Evelyn's Dance Class Visit.

Evelyn and Reagan - Stars of the Baby Stars class!

The next three pictures make me smile since the pictures truly represent the way dance class went for most of the girls. They would all be asked to do a pose, but all would complete it on their own schedule. First Evelyn laid flat and Reagan did the pose. Then Reagan laid flat and Evelyn posed. Finally, both girls did the same pose at the same time.