Vacation in North Carolina

Billy, Jacob, Kim, Evan and I all went to Asheville, NC for a few day for vacation. Kim's parent's met us there. We had a great time touring Asheville and the surrounding area. We stayed at a beautiful campground called Campfire Lodgings. Billy and I had a campsite right on the edge of the mountain and we could walk just a few steps and have a beautiful view of the river valley below. Jacob and Kim stayed in a yurt one night then Jacob stayed with us while Kim, Evan and her parents stayed in the yurt. Evan enjoyed the campsite. His favorite thing was picking up rocks and putting them in various places like the bench to the picnic table. He also enjoyed climbing the steps to the bath house and running round and round the porch that went all the way around it. He had a fun hiking trip on his daddy's back up at Chimney Rock and enjoyed playing in a Hands On Museum for little children in Hendersonville. He and granddaddy Billy had fun dancing on tables outside a brewery in Asheville and outside a restaurant in Hendersonville. And... every morning he ate a big breakfast by sitting in different folks laps and helping them eat what was on their plate.

Favorite Pics

These are some of my favorite pictures of Evan. Courtney took these awhile back when I was outside painting molding for Jacob's old room. Evan was running around under the saw horses and she caught him peeking around the legs of the saw horses.

4th of July

We all celebrated the 4th of July at Aunt Jeanette and Uncle Hubert's camp house. Amy's little girls discovered Evan when he wandered around to where some of the children were playing ping pong. He confiscated the spare ping pong balls and the girls had fun giving the balls back to him when he threw them. They played this game underneath the ping pong table for quite a while. Later they took him in the house and they all played the piano and had a drink to cool off. They kept him occupied most of the afternoon. He loved all the attention.

Camping at Lake Blackshear

Jacob, Kim, Evan, Billy and I all went to Georgia Veterans State Park on Lake Blackshear this weekend. We took our new camper over there to try it out. We got there on Thursday afternoon and set up camp. Evan helped Billy break up the big chunks of ice in the cooler while we finished setting up camp. Thursday night Billy and I took Evan to the playground while Jacob and Kim went to Walmart. He tried out the rocking horse, the car and the baby swing. He liked the baby swing best. When it started to get dark we tried to get him out of the swing to go back to the camper. Everytime we tried to get him out he very vigorously shook his head NO. We finally just had to take him out. When we got back to the camper we thought he would go right to sleep but he was so excited he just went wild crawling all over the beds and giggling. Friday we caught the train at the park and rode it to Plains and back to the park. We rode in the Americus car which had tables and chairs. Evan liked walking up and down the isle. We were surprised that he could walk on the train since it was hard for us to walk the way it rocked from side to side. He also liked having his own chair to sit in!
Georgia Veteran's State Park was great. We hope to get to go back before long. It is a beautiful place to camp.

Swimming in the Pond!

Jacob, Kim and Evan came over this afternoon to help us chop up a huge limb that fell out of one of the pecan trees in the front yard. While we were working on the limb our neighbor came over and brought Evan a birthday present. The gift was a wiggly water sprinkler. After all the hard labor of sawing up the log and carting it all off we were all really hot. So.... first we all tried out the sprinkler. Evan seemed to like it pretty well as you can see in the pictures. Then...we all jumped in the pond....including Evan. He had a blast. The "menfolks" had fun catching minnows and feeding them to Cheese, our cat!. You can see him sitting on the edge of the dock waiting for his minnow snacks!

1st Birthday

Evan had his 1st birthday party this Saturday. Lots of folks came to help him celebrate. Aunt Courtney baked his cake and made him a special layer that was all his own! As you can see from the pics he loved his cake. He enjoyed opening his presents then later in the afternoon relaxed in his little adirondak chair after all his company had left.

The Hunter?

Kim and Evan went for a walk after school one day. By the time they got to our house Evan had conked out. However, he looked so cute and growny in his hunter overalls we had to take his picture!