Christmas with the Evans Family in CA

This year we spent Christmas week with the Evans Family in California. We had a great time visiting and celebrating the birth of our Savior. Pictures include our Christmas celebration in both Greenville at Scott's parents and in Grass Valley with Scott's extended family. You also get to see pictures of Noah's second debut at a shepherd in the toddler pageant!

Tubing in Greenville!

Noah had his first snow tubing experience in Greenville at Grandma and Grandpa Evans's. He wasn't quite sure what to think at first but by the end he was cheering as he went down the hill...so cute!

Santa Claus came to town....

Actually he came to our house! So, we took advantage of the free photo opp!

Mom's Turn!

It snowed again! Overnight and this morning we got about 5 inches of snow which is very unusual for us here. Noah and I went out and built his second snowman...I must say I am proud of my 33 week pregnant self:) Noah loved it and even helped out this time. However, I must admit that the snowman lost his head about an hour and a half later...notice that the one Scott built is still standing in the background of ours a week after it was built! He is the contractor! Also, we must credit my mom for the snowman's face of broccoli, carrots and a red pepper... her contributions!

Family Center

A couple of months ago Scott built a beautiful piece, "The Family Center". It now stands in the foyer of our church and is used to display various pieces of literature focusing on marriage and family. It stands about 7ft tall at the peak and has crown molding accenting the top (currently partially covered by the garland:) I am so proud of Scott's God-given abilities to build and create beautiful pieces of furniture!

Sugar Cookies and Snow!

We had our first snow (and maybe only snow...) of the year! Noah was excited to see the white stuff on the ground and wanted to go out and play in it first thing this morning. I think Scott felt the exact same way! They got bundled up and Scott built Noah's first "noman" for him!

The other day Noah and I made sugar cookies together. He did a lot of the work. He had fun pushing down the gingerbread man cutter, putting the dough on the tray...and then eating the cookies!!!

Decorating the Tree!!!!!

Today was the day Scott down the lights and ornaments for our Christmas tree (thanks to the Browns!). Noah had a great time helping hang the lights and decorations. When it was all done we turned out the lights and ate dinner by the lights on the tree!

Noah and mommy setting up the nativity scene!

Christmas Tree Time With the Browns!

Our friends, Jim and Jami Brown, invited us to their place to pick out a Christmas tree! Noah had a great time running around with the dogs, throwing sticks to them and getting reacquainted with Jim and Jami. We found the perfect tree in no time! Thanks Jim and Jami for the gift of our tree!

We will work on decorating it tomorrow...lights and ornaments!!!!

Gingerbread House!

Thanks to Grandma Evans for the gingerbread house kit! Noah and I had quite the challenge today, or at least I did, in putting it together:) My biggest challenge was trying to put it together faster than Noah was eating the frosting and candy! All the colors of candy must have looked pretty exciting to him. It has created a little bit of a challenge in keeping him from eating off of it continuously...and sneaking pieces from it too!

Pay careful attention to the picture on the box showing how it is MEANT TO LOOK!

Step one...eating the icing while mommy tries to "glue" it all together! Notice the frosting in his face?

Step two: deciding which candies to eat next...

Step three: eating the candies off of the finished product...

So it doesn't look exactly like the picture on the box...but it tastes pretty good if you ask Noah!