Friday, July 24, 2015

Five is Fantastic!

In the blink of an eye, the earth moved around the sun one more time and our funny four-year-old turned into a fantastic five-year-old! We celebrated with birthday fun on his actual birthday, and then a couple weeks later, he invited a few friends over for a dinosaur birthday party.

 Birthday sign in place

Started off the day with opening presents in jammies

The blur of this pictures shows how much jumping and running around we did at the indoor playground

Build-your-own ice cream sundae

 
Strawberry cake with chocolate icing, as requested by the birthday boy
 
Happy birthday to you!

The excited anticipation of trying gum for the first time (since you can have gum when you are five)

Hmm...gum is pretty good

Building new and larger creations now that we have more tiles

Follow the dinosaur tracks to the party

Caution: Dinos Inside

Dinos and dino teeth ready for the party

Binoculars to hunt for dinosaurs

Fossils

Making dinosaur pictures

Pin the skull on the dinosaur skeleton

Musical dinosaur nests

Digging up dinosaur bones in the sandbox

Working together at the dig site

Assembling the skeleton

We found all the pieces!

Looking for dinosaurs

 Decorating a dinosaur cookie





Sunday, July 19, 2015

Family Reunion

A most amazing thing happened around the 4th of July holiday weekend...the entire Evans crew (minus one very-missed family!) managed to gather in the same place, at the same time, to celebrate a milestone wedding anniversary for GG and Papa. What a blessing to be able to all gather together to share in this celebration! Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the weekend.

The reason for the celebration

 First stop - check out the sand

Second stop - explore the bunk beds with cousins

Serious boy

On the move...which I'll use as an excuse for why this is blurry...

Snuggles with Mimi

One of my rays of sunshine

The boys

The joy of building a Lego masterpiece

Very serious about sharing her cookie

A moment of calm on the 4th

This balcony was the site of fun games, good food, and lots of laughs

Ready to go exploring

Isaac seems skeptical of Eli's construction plan

Sisters!

My cell phone camera could not do this orange moon justice

Glow-in-the-dark mini golf

Handsome little guy

Waiting for fireworks to begin

 
Fashionable and great for nighttime wear


Squirt!

Just relaxin' poolside