Happy Father's Day!!!

Happy Father's Day to the most loving, fun, giving, and hard-working dad we know! We love you!!!

 

We did this photo project with my PEPS group, and it turned out really cute! I printed the photos and put them in a three-photo frame to spell out "DAD". Easy, cute, and personal Father's Day present, and Mat loved it! He got a couple other things, too, but I'm pretty sure this was one of his favorites. Hope everyone had a wonderful Father's Day!

Watch Me Grow: Looking Back!!!

She's grown up so much! I feel like I need to pinch myself sometimes, doesn't quite seem real:

It's amazing looking back at these photos, and I am so glad we worked on this little project. It is so fun to see where we started and where we ended up. Evelyn is looking less and less like a baby and more like a little girl every single day, it almost takes my breath away how quickly the last year has gone by... we're so excited to see where the next year takes us, and hopefully time will have mercy enough to slow down a bit, but I'm thinking it's only going to speed up from here. *sigh*

Watch Me Grow: 12 Months!

This is *thankfully* my last monthly update... Evelyn spends most of the time I'm trying to take her picture during these sessions running around and trying to eat her little stickers, I can barely get a picture of her without her ripping them off. Good idea when she was little, not so good as of now. :)

Currently Evelyn is crawling, climbing up and down stairs, and walking along furniture like a pro. Just this week she took her first steps with a walker and we're pretty sure that her walking days aren't too far off. Currently favorites are books (she loves being read to, as well as "reading" to herself), dismantling any attempt that I have made to keep the house somewhat organized, and playing with her water table and new car that she got for her birthday. Favorite foods of the moment are strawberries and blueberries, chicken nuggets, broccoli and sweet potato cakes, and Pirate's Booty. Evelyn's newest trick is constantly giggling and laughing to herself, at what we have no idea, but it is the cutest stinking thing! Melts my heart every time. Hope you enjoy this month's photos!!!!

#1

 We met you a year ago today, little one... I didn't think it was possible to love you more than I did the very first time I held you in my arms, but my heart must have grown 10,000 times since then. You have taught us to laugh harder, live bigger, and love stronger than we ever new was possible. Thank you for the joy you bring to our lives, you are truly a special and amazing little girl... we wouldn't be the same without you.

For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.

My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.

Psalm 139: 13-16                                       

One Year Wonderful

Evelyn isn't quite one year old yet (her birthday is officially Tuesday), but our friends and family gathered today to celebrate our little girl's first birthday... completely unreal! We had her party down at Mukilteo Beach Park, which turned out to be a perfect location. We had a lovely sunny day (I've been checking the weather report every single day for the last two weeks), and enjoyed some yummy food and even better company. 

We had a great spread for our rainbow-themed birthday:

"Rainbow" skewers! Thank you, Pinterest!

And of course, a rainbow cake!

Which Evelyn dove right into!!

We had such a wonderful time celebrating with everyone... it's hard to believe that a year ago we hadn't even met this happy, sweet, darling child yet. It's amazing how much one little person can change your life, and how far we've come as a couple, as parents, and as a family. We are looking forward to celebrating many more birthday parties, although hopefully time will be kind and slow down just slightly until then. I know Evelyn had a lot of fun, and is probably already looking forward to more cake on Tuesday! :)

Who's child is this???

Can't possibly be mine. We are sooooo over teething...... And she only has two. :P

Piggybacks

Just dying that Evelyn loves to ride on her daddy's shoulders!!! I think Mat has been dreaming about this day since Evelyn was born! How stinking cute are they?! I see lots of piggyback rides in our future!! :)