The Evans

Monday, September 12, 2011

Macie Starts Dance

Like mother, like daughter.... Macie had her 1st dance class tonight. After going to her cousin Taylor's dance show last spring, Macie kept telling me she wanted to wear a shirt like Taylor. Everytime I asked her dance or gymnastics's, she answered dance. They are not supposed to start dance until 3, but since she is so close her teacher let her try it. She loved it! It helps that her assistant teacher is a daycare teacher & also a babysitter. She is dancing to a Cinderella song & using a fairy wand. I will post as the season goes on.

Brayden 18 Months

Wow I can not believe our baby boy is 18 months! He is still not saying a whole lot; mom, dada, ya & ut-o. Dr. Benson is going to call the school district & suggest he start speech therapy. Of course dad & I are game for anything we can do to help him out. So at this point, we are just waiting for a call for the next step. Otherwise he is a very happy little boy. He LOVES to be outside! He LOVES to be where ever his dad is! He is all boy..... getting dirty, trying to take things apart, trying to fix things, playing trucks, riding the 4-wheeler, everything. He has been in the toddler room at daycare since June & will stay there till he's almost 3. It was a nice transition because he was able to be with Macie all summer long, so it went really smooth. And he ws able to do a lot more activites being in the toddler room vs te infant room. Macie has just moved into the preschool room this week! My babies are growing up. Here are Brayden's 18 month stats:
Height; 32-1/4 (50%)
Weight; 26.2 (55%)
Head; 18.5" (80%)

Labor Day Camping

So we headed back to the campground with the "jumpy thing" (as Macie calls it) over Labor Day (aka the Yogi campground in Autin, MN). Our family got there Friday about 3:00 & enjoyed the weather. Saturday morning we were joined by Grandma Nancy, Grandpa Kurt, Auntie Katie & Cousins; Sam, Tyler & Brielle. We were able to enjoy lunch & then some rain moved in.....it turned out to be A LOT OF RAIN..... A FLOOD! Kent figures we got about EIGHT INCHES & in a VERY short amount of time! Grandpa Kurt went from feet on the ground, to feet on a couple 2 x 4's, to feet on a cooler. It was UNREAL! In one area they had 2 tents go under, a car get way too much water & 2 pop -up campers get too much water. So after they were done with them, they headed over & pumped us out. We still had a great time, but to say the least the kids were WET & DIRTY! The kids were still able to do a lot; a paddle boat ride, riding the mini bike, riding the peddle bikes, jumping on the jumping pillow, several train rides, riding the little bikes, just tons of fun stuff. Auntie Katie & our cousins crashed in the camper with us & stayed till nap time on Sunday. We stayed through the day & night Sunday & headed home Monday. It was a VERY wet, but VERY fun weekend!

Our Family - Macie (almost 3) & Brayden (1-1/2)

The kids in the rain at the START of it

Hi mom

Auntie Katie

WATER....

Grandpa :)

Macie & Brayden on the "jumpie thing"

Brayden giving Yogi FIVE

Brrrr

The kids on the train ride

Macie & her cousin Brielle on 1 of Macie's SEVERAL train rides

Macie the puppy

Brayden the puppy

Mom & Macie roasting marshmallows

Our home away from home

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Turks & Caicos 2011-Part 1

This past week my parents took our whole family (14 of us) back to Turks & Caicos. Saturday morning our flight left MN around 5:30, therefor up @ 2:00 AM! We got on the plane, settled in for a nap & they announce there's a light on & we all needed to exit the plane. After some waiting we were allowed to load the plane again, BUT not before enough time had passed that we were going to miss our connecting flight in Atlanta. When we arrived in Atlanta we realized, there were no more flights to Turks & Caicos that day. So.... we were off to Miami! 18 hours after waking up we were finally @ our resort. All in all the kids did as good as could be expected. Macie wasn't too sure about the take off at first. She called it "blast off" & said it was scary, but after 3 flights, got used to it.

We enjoyed the beach & pool Sunday & Monday & just being on vacation. Tuesay we headed over to the waterpark, but just hit one part of the park & the lazy river. On our 2nd trip down the lazy river our trip changed real fast, the winds picked up, things were staring to blow around & Hurricane Irene was on her way in. Over the next 2-1/2 days we spent most of our time in the room. The hurricane came in at a category 2 & left as a category 3! They said the winds reached about 115 mps, but our hotel could uphold 200 mph. We were the only place on the island that had power, because our hotel had their own generator. They still had 3 of the 15 resturants open for food, so that was nice. They had 95 employees that were required to stay overnight & usually have 900-950. Some of the employees that came back to work on Thursday had no house to go home to. By Thursday afternoon they had a couple pools back open & the beach cleaned up, so that was nice. We never were able to get into the waterpark though :( just too many trees down & too much to clean up.

We did have a GREAT time though! The kids loved the Sesame Street people that walked around. The both LOVED to swim in the pools & in the beach & LOVED playing in the sand. I have posted a bunch of pcitures....

Our Family