i am convinced this baby girl looks like me.  here are some photos of me as a baby followed by a couple of evy.  what do you think? 

we definitely have the same slightly crooked chin and the same strip of hair growing down the tops of our heads.

6 months

so...little miss will be 6 months old on friday.  she is still a tiny peanut (4% for weight and 5% for height) and has not even grown out of her 0-3 months size clothing yet.  i can't even begin to tell you how amazing this little girl is.  she has absolutely changed my life and changed our family forever.  the biggest development for evy is that she is now eating her first foods.  the first meal went something like this...

mom, this is weird...

why is this happening?

wait a minute...

i love it!!!

she took to eating like a champ and loves every bite. so far she has had rice cereal, oatmeal, applesauce and butternut squash.  i am having so much fun with it and am determined to make all of her food for her instead of buying it at the store.  she is working on sitting up and using her voice...she has become very giggly and squealy!  because the weather is so nice we have been taking lots of walks together to pick up the boys after school.


sy had his cub scout pine wood derby a couple saturdays ago and we all had so much fun.  he and his daddy created a great looking byu car (sy named his car "cougar roar") and it turned out to be the 6th fastest out of about 33 cars.  he did well enough to qualify him for the district race in april.  he won 2 trophies...one for having the fastest wolf car in his den and the other for coming in 3rd for most artistic.  this was all a big surprise for daddy who while working on the car at 3:30am the morning before the weigh in caused some damage he would classify as "major".  here are some photos of the big event.

the car...

the boy and the track...
                           

 the dad and the baby...

the sad baby...

just the baby...

the baby with suspended drool...

the younger brother...

the car ready to race...

the boy watching his car race...

 the boy accepting his trophy...

 the crew from our ward...

a happy boy...

the boys have both started music lessons, soren chose piano and sy chose guitar.  they will be starting baseball and t-ball soon and we are really excited for that.  we have had a great month and are looking forward to our easter vacation in palm springs!

the goings-on

here is our monthly update (i can't seem to blog more than that these days).  we are all doing great...craig is as busy as ever, the boys are loving school and are excited to start music lessons (sy guitar, soren piano) next week, and i have decided to relearn all the french i took in school with the ultimate goal being a big family trip to paris!  here are some photos...

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what we've been up to...

cleaning up christmas

 nerf wars

 chilly walks and lots of smiles

manly adventures with daddy

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas this year, only made sweeter by our new little evy.  We spent Christmas Eve with some good friends in the area and had a fantastic dinner.  Here is a slide show of all the fun...

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Thanks to everyone who made this Christmas a great one.

nativity movie

here is the nativity movie that the primary in our ward put together.  sy is a shepherd (he has a blue shirt on), soren is an angel (back row with a halo above his head) and little evy is the baby jesus.  you see her a lot but the cutest is at the end in the group photo he is sitting up in the cradle.  you have to look closely to see her in the bottom middle of the picture.  enjoy!

Merry Christmas...

 

Much love to all of our family and friends.  We are so thankful for all of you.

Love, 

Anne, Craig, Sy, Soren & Evelyn