Baby Girl Knight - Making her Appearance

Baby Girl Knight is making her appearance. We wanted to share a few belly shots with all of you.

Saturday, July 25, 15 weeks

Sunday, August 16, 19 weeks (Evan is just too cute here)

Sunday, August 23, 20 weeks - Half Way Point! :)

The Boys! :)

Our Family is so blessed to have the Wisners as friends. I just had to share these adorable pictures of the boys together. They are just getting to be hilarious when they are out on the town. Both usually crack up at the other and try to make each other laugh. Tyler is especially good at this. They still have their occasional moments, usually when Evan tries to grab Tyler and he screams, but for the most part they are the best of friends! :) The below picture we are at a new restaurant in the Fountains, Noodle Cafe; they loved that we were the only people at the restaurant when we first got there and had fun running around and then standing in the booth laughing at each other! :)

We can't wait to see our other good buddy Sammy in a few weeks. They are just all going to be awesome together I am sure. :)

The Wisners also recently surprised Evan with a super cool birthday gift - a little Birthday Boy! It is so cool! :) Thank you guys. Here Tyler is with Natalie handing Evan the card. Evan was so excited!

Here is the Birthday Boy figurine, Evan loves it! :)

Happy 8 Years of Wedded Bliss!

On Tuesday, August 18, Jim and I celebrated our eight year wedding anniversary. We had a wonderful evening. Jim came home from work and surprised me with a dozen roses. Don't you just love the reenacted photos. :)


















This also came with a beautiful card, some yummy sees candy, and a massage and facial! So sweet! :)

I surprised him with a romantic recordable song card from Hallmark - so cool, some new flip flops he had been wanting, a few shirts, his collectible airplane ornament he enjoys from Hallmark every year, and a picture frame/album thing that he had needed for work. He said he loved it all!

Then we got to go out for a fantastic night out on the town due to the kindness of our good friends the Wisners who watched Evan for us. We had a delicious dinner for two at Tahoe Joe's! So wonderful! :)

Happy Anniversary love, can't wait to celebrate so many more wonderful years together! :)

The 1st Birthday Party!

On Saturday, August 8, family and some of Evan's close friends came to help him celebrate his first birthday! It was a great event and we don't think Evan really knew what to think of the whole thing; however, we do know that he had a fabulous time! :) Here is a picture of our family during the event.

The cake was a special chocolate and vanilla cupcake creation from Safeway. Evan also got his own little mini cake for the occasion.

At the event guests were invited to help Evan create a special time capsule and write some encouraging words for him to read on his special day. Here are the Grandma's writing their special notes to Evan. :)

They also were encouraged to play two little games. The first was to be done at their leisure while eating and socializing before the big activities and trying to guess activities Evan can and cannot do at this time. The winner of this game was actually Evan's Great Grandma Shirley. The other game took place with the whole group and everyone was challenged to draw Evan's portrait in one minute or less and then Jim and I picked the best ones. The competition was tough, but ultimately we choose three winners, Grandma Thompson for doing a full body portrait, little Mady for doing the best child drawing and last but not least friend Keone for a life likeness that we thought stood out from the rest. :) Good job everyone it was such a hard decision they were all so good and we know Evan will treasure them forever. Pictured below is some of the group doing their portraits, they were all so focused. :)

After this game was Pinata time! I thought it would be a great idea and found this cool Pinata that I thought came apart by pulling the ribbon off. I thought perfect, the kids will love this. Well come to find out, the ribbons were actually just for decoration. Opps! Jim had to tear the bottom apart. Nonetheless it was still pretty fun and kids enjoyed getting some of the candy. Evan did too even though he didn't eat any. He just pretended to have a Hersey bar and chewed on the bar wrapper. The adults got to enjoy the candy too! :)

Pictured below are Wesley and Stephanie pulling a ribbon.

Here is where Jim had to tear open the bottom and he looked at me like I was so silly.

This picture shows the candy coming out - yippee!

Here are the kids enjoying the loot!

Then came gift time...it was so nice to have all of Evan's little friends there because they helped him to open the presents. Thank you guys, you were a big help!

During the presents Evan also took some time for a quick bottle. :)

Evan was blessed with so many wonderful things! He was a VERY lucky little boy. Thank you everyone so much!!!

Finally, it was cake time.

We stripped Evan down because of the blue frosting it was quite the staining frosting. I don't think he was too into this part of the party. Having everyone stare at him waiting for him to dive in to the cake was all a little intimidating for the birthday boy, also he touched one of the candles :( (Mommy wasn't too smart and put the cake down on his high chair).

He got a little upset and didn't like the mess on his hands either!

He enjoyed just tasting it while Mommy held him. You just never know what one year olds will do or any child at any age for that matter! :)

After the cake experience, he got dressed and then proceeded to play with some toys. Here he is pictured below trying out one of his new ones with his buddy Wesley.

Lastly, here are some pictures of Evan and his guests enjoying the party. Pictured here are friends Stephanie and buddy Wesley enjoying lunch.

Here we are with both our boys! :)

Below are Daddy, Grandpa Thompson, and close friend Greg.

Here I am with Brittney, Evan, and Elmo. :)

Here is Evan with Anna and Keone.

Jeremy and Brittney blowing the party favors together!

This is a picture of Evan and his entire immediate family (top all Grandparents, bottom includes Aunts and Uncles). It was so great to have everyone there to help him celebrate! :) Thanks everyone for making his day so special.

Thank you again everyone for such a wonderful 1st birthday party for our little boy! Evan was so blessed and we are so thankful for your friendships and love! Many blessings to you all and Happy Birthday Evan!

Twelve Months Old/One Year

Evan is a one year old now! Yippee, just wanted to give the doctors stats and activity update at this point.

We went to the doctor on August 10th and Evan weighed in at 20 lbs. and 9.2 oz. and measured 30 inches. His doctor thought he was doing great and developing so well. He was impressed with his steady walking and abundant energy. He wasn't a big fan of the four shots, but he was strong and did great. Once we left the office he was in good spirits! What a trooper!

His activities to date:

He finished up his formula and we started him on whole milk by first giving him half formula and then the milk. Once we ran out of formula he just got the milk. He loves it! The doctor wants us to have him start drinking out of only sippy cups. This on the other hand has not gone over too well, he does not accept that the milk comes out of there too, only from bottles. I am sure we will have to be working on this for awhile. He does us sippy's but only really enjoys them from water at this point. Here he is with a sippy filled with water at Rubios. :) This to him is good.

Regarding food, he is doing so well and has finally started to put things down the hatch and keep them there. We still have things coming back out, but not in a throw up manner, just in a very sweet spit out manner. :) Some of his favorite foods these days include cheerios, yogurt melts, cucumbers, olives chips, french fries, watermelon, crunches, and pretzels. He still has baby food, and tries lots of other foods, but we find most of them just get tasted at this point and don't stay in for consumption. Here is a picture of him below with one of his favorites - watermelon. :) Oh yes he also loves putting the lids back on the baby food containers and wants to help feed himself with the spoon and fork too. You will see these items on his tray as well.

He loves playing and some of his favorite activities continue to be hide and seek, chase, and throwing his ball back and forth. He does so well and just loves to to have fun. He usually gets into hysterics over chase and hide and seek. Jim and I just can't get enough of his little laugh. The best is when he snorts. :)

With being one and over 20 pounds also came the big boy car seat. He loves it and so do Mommy and Daddy! We have much better car rides as he enjoys looking out the window and checking everything out. However, sleeping is pretty funny, he gets the droopy head thing going on.

He also has been enjoying riding in the cart at the stores. However, he would prefer to walk along side of them and watch the wheels and help you push them. So independent already and bullheaded! If he can't do this sometimes he just throws a fit! This particular day he had a blast in the cart. My dad took us shopping at the BX and Commissary and they had the coolest carts. :)

Bath time has been going well and he hasn't been using a bath seat at all. Such a big boy. Another new fun bath activity is sometimes having a bath in the sink. We do this at Grandma and Grandpa's when we stay a little late at their house and it is Evan's bed time. He just loves it! Here he is having a good time!

Our little guy makes us so proud and happy! We get joy from him every day. Some of our other favorite recent activities include when he claps, dances, high fives, does his baby signs, imitates different faces you make at him such as sticking out his tongue, and when he gets engrossed in a commercial or television show song. We love you Evan! Happy 1st Birthday!!!