Christmas 2013

     We had a great Christmas this year.  We spent 12 days in Utah with our family and enjoyd every minute of it.

 Opening Adilynne's Christmas jammies.

Adilynne reading her new Christmas book in her Christmas jammies.

 

 Christmas morning!

 

 Adilynne went right for the stockings.

 Once she found the animal crackers in her stocking she didn't care about anything else, besides eating them.  She has her mouth full of them in this picture.

 

 The 2013 Olsen Family Christmas Day Picture

 Adilynne was loving all the treats at Great Grandma Olsen's

 Opening more gifts at Great Grandma Olsen's

     We had so much fun Christmas day and were very spoiled.

Adilynne's First Snowman

     On Christmas Eve we headed outside to build Adilynne's first snowman.  She wasn't so sure about the snow and being cold.

 

Curious about what dad was doing.

 David can't ever just make a normal snowman.  We called this creation a "muppet snowman."

Evans Christmas Party 2013

     On Saturday December 21, 2013 we had our annual Evans Family Christmas Party.  It was fun as usual with lots of laughs.  We had a delicious dinner of soups and an assortment of desserts.  I love potluck meals with lots of choices.  The kids did a talent show, we opened gifts, and sat around and visited while the kids went crazy.

 The whole fam.

 Playing with the dump truck.

 We had a paper airplane contest.

 

Happy girl.

 Bryce LOVED his Genie shirt from David.

 

Adilynne got a Little People doll house from Cordy.  She loves it.

Bellevue Botanical Garden Lights

     I kept hearing from people in our ward about the Christmas light at the Bellevue Botanical Garden and how pretty they were.  We decided to head out there and check it out for ourselves.  We weren't disappointed! 

 Adilynne all bundled up and ready.

 This was my favorite display.  Grapevines and grapes in a basket.

 

December 13, 2013

Thanksgiving

     I finally received my Washington State Dental Hygiene license about the beginning of November.  David had told me that if I worked at least 3 times before Thanksgiving that we could go to Utah for Thanksgiving.  I took the challenge and within about a week I had 5 days of work lined up before Thanksgiving.  We were going to Utah!

     We left our house on Tuesday November 26 at about 7:30pm.  Adilynne was all snuggled in and ready.  She didn't know what was coming and wasn't very happy 2 hours later when she realized she wasn't going to be sleeping in her bed.  She finally fell asleep about 11:30pm and slept until about 1:30am.  Between 1:30am and 6:30am she screamed and cried.  It did help to keep David and I awake.  She finally fell asleep again and slept for the last 3 hours of the drive.  She wouldn't take a nap when we got to Grandma and Grandpa's and she didn't sleep much that night.  Needless to say, David and I were exhausted!

She loves to play in the car!

It was sunny and warm while we were in Utah.  It felt great to be outside and play.

 Darby ride!  This was Adilynne's first ride with Darby.  She didn't show any emotion but I think she liked it.

 Playing in the toy basket at Grandma and Grandpa Olsen's.

 Riding the horse.

Thanksgiving Dinner!  Yum!!!

Cousins playing together.  These 3 loved to spin around in the chair together.

It was so funny to see what would change during their rotation around in the chair.

So funny!

 Cute girl.

 All the cousins love this dump truck.

 Grandpa Evans and Adilynne

 

Crazy David.

     We loved our time with family during Thanksgiving but we didn't have nearly enough time.  We left Saturday night and drove through the night again.  Adilynne did much better this time and slept the whole way.  

Halloween

     We had a fun Halloween!  We went Trick-or-Treating with some of our friends from the ward and then went back to their house for hot chocolate and apple cider.  Adilynne didn't understand what was going on with Trick-or-Treating but she loved being outside at night.  That girl will do anything to be outside.