The Evertsen's: December 2012

Monday, December 31, 2012

Christmas 2012

Christmas was great this year. We had a christmas party with the Evertsens a few days before christmas then We spent Christmas Eve with the Lindhardts. Then we woke up Christmas morning at our house and had our own little christmas which was a lot of fun since Taegs was old enough to understand and enjoy it. Then we went to my dads house, opened a few more gifts, went to the older grandparents house, then went home and relaxed.

Evertsen Christmas

Lindhardt Christmas

Taegs playing with silly putty

My Christmas tree

Christmas morning at our house

T with all his presents

Christmas morning at my dads

A few days later trying to ride his bike while playing his guitar

Dad took him out to teach him how to ride his new bike and he did pretty good

His very first time trying to ride his bike. I had to stop recording and only take pictures, but he did get better.

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Woohoo

Ellie slept for 7 hours straight last night! (11-6) Merry Christmas to me. I don't think it'll stay that way, but it was nice getting a little sleep. Minus the fact that I was up multiple times worrying about getting engorged. (When I get too much milk in my breasts it makes Ellie throw up when she tries to eat). So sure enough I woke up a little before 6 to pump to reduce my milk and right as I was done she woke up to eat. Now it's 7:00 on Christmas morning and I'm sitting here writing this, waiting for Taegen to wake up. Ellie is back to sleep, Jon just woke up and now it's just a waiting game.
Funny how when you have kids Christmas is no longer exciting for yourself. My excitement is for Taegen and to see his face when he gets his toys. Last night after Taegen went to bed Jon started doing the "santa" thing. He moved our tree out of the corner, arranged all the presents, made a bow for the bike we got T, all to make it look like Santa came. It was so cute to see him all excited to get to be Santa for once. It's fun now that he's old enough to actually understand and enjoy everything.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Merry Christmas

I can't believe it's already December. Its crazy how fast this year flew by. Here's just a little update on us:

In January we were able to be sealed together as a family. It was the most amazing experience to be able to have Taegen sealed to us. Thank you to all our friends and family who were able to join us during that wonderful time. Shortly after that we found out we would be adding another member to our family! We were so excited and we both kind of knew it was going to be a girl, and sure enough on September 30th (8 days late) we welcomed little baby Elizabeth (Ellie) Rae, 8 lbs 9 oz 21 inches long.. She really is an incredible baby. She has acid reflux, but other than that she's pretty easy...knock on wood :) She's now almost 3 months old, and getting so big. She's smiling all the time now and Jon has gotten her to laugh but only a couple times. She has her daddy wrapped around her little finger already.

Jon got a job at the beginning of the year working on foreclosed homes. He winterizes, cleans out and does lawn care/maintenance on all the houses. This job is not something he wants to do forever but has been good on a temporary basis. In fact he found out just a few months ago that his unit in the Army was wanting to re-class him into a new MOS and he was accepted to go to the school in March! So we will be moving down to San Antonio Texas in February for a year for him to get his training to become a Medical Equipment Repairer. We are so excited for this new adventure. Other than work and his monthly Army reserve weekends, Jon loves to spend his time up at the Lindhardt family ranch. He spends almost every weekend up there. He would spend all of his free time up there if I would let him.

I am still enjoying being a stay at home mom to my two wonderful kids. Taegen keeps me on my toes and most nights I go to be completely exhausted from trying to keep up with him all day. Other than taking care of the kiddos I've started to spend some of my time doing random different crafts. For those of you that know me well enough, know that this is a big deal. Ha ha. I am not normally a crafty type person. But for some reason I've taken a liking to them now. Maybe it's all the "free time" I have now being a stay at home mom. In the past few months I've completed a quilt made out of my moms clothes, Christmas stockings and their holders, skirts for Ellie, numerous crocheted projects, and I'm now working on blanket. I never would have thought I would enjoy doing these things.

Taegen is 2 1/2 now and is most certainly a handful. My dad likes to say that if Ellie is anything like him then I'll be gray by the time I'm 30! He loves his little sister. He's always wanting to be right next to her. He loves to help out with her, sometimes maybe a little too much. :) He's already got the big brother roll down, inflicting injuries and all. :) Eye poking is his favorite form of torture for her right now. He is such a polite little stinker though. He loves all the Avengers, Lightening McQueen (or anything Disney's Cars related), Buzz Lightyear, dinosaurs, spider-man, guns and monster trucks oh and dirt! He is his fathers son through and through.

That is what we've been up to for the past year. We hope everything has been great for all of you as well.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

With love,

Jon, Kristina, Taegen and Ellie Evertsen