Brother, Sister Love Continues

Evan reading a story to Evie on December 8.

Look at these cuddles and kisses on December 7.

Just recently at the mall playground, Evan helping his sis on one of the climbing structure!

The love between these two is melting our hearts.  We hope they are close like this forever!

Decorating for Christmas

Decorating for Christmas, always a fun task in our home!  This year was even more fun now that Evie could participate and help hang the ornaments.  We did a lot of our decorating the weekend after Thanksgiving. 

Evan holding one of his favorite ornaments this year- our Hallmark train ornament with lights, movement and sound.

Here is Evie in action hanging ornaments.  Don't you just love how they are all ending up in the same location. 

 

Mommy and Daddy had to try to explain to both kids that it was a good idea to space the ornaments out around the tree. :)

I also have to share a silly pic of the kiddos in their matching jammies.  Look at these faces!

Here is Evie seeing what face Evan is going to choose next. :)

This is also an adorable picture of the kids watching one of our many musical Christmas animals perform.  

We are so excited to celebrate Christmas this year with out little ones and love seeing the joy of the season through their eyes.

Visit with Grandma Knight

Grandma Knight came for a visit during the weekend of November 19-21.  We had a wonderful time hanging out with her over the weekend.  The day she arrived we took her to the Roseville Holiday Parade.  Which we attended with our parade buds the Moons.  Here we all are below in our chairs waiting for the action to begin. :)

It was a real nice parade this year with lots of floats, dance groups, bands, old time cars, etc.  Here we are watching some of the fun.  We thought it was considerably longer than years past.  I think it had to do with the weather.  It was chilly outside, but no rain! :)

Evie was enjoying the candy that was distributed by all the parade walkers.  Yummy!

And of course one of the best parts of the parade seeing Santa Claus, who finishes the show.

Also, during our visit with Grandma Knight we went the Mandarin Festival on Sunday, November 20 in Auburn.  This was also a lot of fun.  It rained a bit while we where there, but the kids were loving getting the chance to wear their hoods.  They especially enjoyed this hill full of leaves that they could run and up and down too.

Evan and Grandma got to watch a Magic Show.

Here is Evan petting one of the stars of the show.

Besides having many varieties of delicious Mandarins (which we got samples from all the stations- so yummy!) the festival had free games for the kids.

We all had a wonderful time and will probably make this festival an annual tradition.  Funny story about this picture, right after I took it Evie stood up and bonked her head.  Poor baby girl! :(

First time Roller Skating

Our family went roller skating for the first time on Saturday, November 12, at Roller King Skating and Blading in Roseville with our good friend's the Avakian Family (pictured below- Carrie, Logan and Alan).  We all had the best time, especially Evan.

 Here are Evan and Mommy out on the floor.

Silly boy!  It took him awhile to warm up to the idea of getting out and skating, but once he did he thought it was pretty cool.  However, it was a real back strengthening exercise for whoever took him out because he made you hold him up most of the time.  As seen from the pics below. :)

Our family at the rink.

Jim and Evan going out for a spill.  Another thing to note, they got rid of the wall for most of the floor.  There was only about 1/3 of the rink that had a wall to help those not so stable skaters.

Evie didn't want to miss out on the fun.  She got to try out the skates too.  We actually didn't buy her a pair of her own skates.  For one we didn't think they made them that small, but also because we didn't think she would really want to try it out.  But of course she had to do it!  Here she is testing out Evan's skates.  She was loving it!

We had a great afternoon.  Thanks LivingSocial for the deal and the Avakian's for encouraging us to go. ;)