Blessing Day

We blessed Evan at church on Sunday, Jan 4th. (happy birthday, Ashley!) My day did it and it was very sweet. She was great and didn't make a peep. Everyone in my family except Andy and Drew (Drew was sick) was there. And although I didn't know it until after, Russell and Jill were there, too. We had the fam over for lunch afterwards. Of course I didn't get any really good pictures. I didn't even think to do it at the church with everyone there and then by the time I got settled enough at home, the boys had already changed clothes. Me and Richard got a picture with her but it wasn't very good so it's not on here.

My dear friend, Angie Martin made her blessing dress and it was beautiful! Thank you so much, Angie. You are so talented! Detail of the front.

The back...look at those sweet little heart buttons!

Evan in her gorgeous dress.

Note: Be sure and look at other posts. I finally got caught up today!

1 month old and Chuck E. Cheese

Evan turned one month on the 2nd of Jan. I've seem other people take pictures like this and I'm going to try and do it. I wasn't so sure about the headband bows before she was born but now that she's here and has no hair for bows, I find myself wanting her to wear them. I ordered a different kind off e-bay this week...I'll let you know what I think.

We went to Chuck E. Cheese one day over Christmas break. Caroline and her kids met us there and then Hudson went home with them to spent the night. These 2 really do have a lot of fun together. Shelby spent the night with us one night during the break but of course I didn't take any pictures. I'm so glad we all live close enough that my kids can know and be close to there cousins!

Our Christmas

Christmas came and went in kind of a blur this year. Maybe it's because we had a baby on December 2nd and I didn't buy the first present until the Thursday before Christmas! I got all the major stuff done though. Christmas cards didn't get done and sent, I didn't bake as much if at all, and we didn't really do any extra activities but that's okay. We enjoyed time with family and it was great! The kids with Richard's parents. We went over there Christmas Eve around 2 and had pizza and presents.

Chandler with one of his favorite presents. It's Hudson's, too but Chan was really excited.

Jill, Evan and Hudson.

The kids...it's so weird not to type "the boys" anymore!

Christmas Eve late afternoon, we went to my parent's. These girls love Chandler (bubba) as they still call him.

Ashley getting some hold time in.

Chandler getting ready to read the Christmas story from the Bible.

All the grand kids with my dad. There are 9 now and I have the 2 oldest and the youngest. Why didn't we make mom get in that picture?

Santa and a scary looking elf came to visit at mom's that night. Evan slept through her whole first visit with santa. Probably not a bad thing! The boys sat on his lap, too but I couldn't get my crop feature to work and there were some images of the elf in the background that I chose not to post. Trust me...you're welcome!

I love the way she's looking at me in this picture!

Evan in her new swing that santa brought her.

So far behind...misc pics

Evan had already changed so much! Looking through these pictures, it makes me so sad that she's already so big. Everybody still says she's tiny but to me she seems huge! As you can see, everyone is so in love with the new addition to our family!

I wanted to post some pictures of the pretty dresses she's worn to church. Jodi Purser let her borrow this one. Gorgeous! I don't think it was very comfortable though :)

This of course is the black dress. It was freezing that day so I put a long sleeve onesie on her but I wanted her to wear it before she outgrows it. I hope she gets to wear it one more time. I can't remember if I mentioned this on here or not but we rec'd the same dress as a gift in a size 6 month...so you will be seeing it again!

Happy Birthday, Hudson!

Hudson turned 6 years old on December 4! I really didn't want Evan to be born on his b'day but I don't think he would have cared. We had his party planned for the Saturday after Thanksgiving but he got sick so we had to cancel it. There was no time to reschedule but he didn't mind. He was excited that his baby sister was coming home on his b'day and as long as he got to go to Chuck E. Cheese, he was fine. Richard's mom took him Friday when he got out of school. My mom took cupcakes to his class at school on his birthday. Happy Birthday, Hudson! We love you! Thanks for being such a sweet boy and loving your family so much!

He lost his 2 front top teeth earlier this month. So Cute!

Evan Faye Morgan

Thank you Caroline for announcing Evan's arrival! Evan is one week old today and we love her so much! You can never estimate the amount of love and other great feelings that a new baby brings into a family. Her delivery was so smooth and fast! It was a great experience and I'm so glad that Richard and I were able to go through that again together. He was a great support to me and I just love his sense of humor (most of the time). He had me and everyone in the room laughing and he just made it fun. He also took great care of me! This was by far my easiest delivery and recovery! I feel so bad for women who are in labor for hours! Thank you so much to all my great family who took care of my family while we were in the hospital!

Me before going to the hospital at 3am on Tuesday, December 2, 2008. My goal was to work on the first of Dec and then be induced after that. Everything worked out perfect!



Richard with Evan just moments after her birth. She had him wrapped from the first moment he saw her! He kept joking that there was still a chance she would be a boy but he loves that baby girl!

These boys love her so much and are so helpful! They ask to feed her and hold her and they just hang out and look at her all the time! Hudson says about a hundred times a day, she's so cute! He tells me I had a pretty baby.

This is the dress I picked out for Evan. I love it! Richard actually requested that his picture be taken with her and he hates to have his picture made! He's also requested that we have some family pictures done soon! What is it about little girls?

Now a note about her name:

We had the name Evan picked out but could not come up with a middle name. Even in the delivery room, this was still being discussed and we just couldn't come up with anything. While I was delivering her, Richard's mom got a phone call that Richard's grandmother (dad's mom) passed away unexpectedly. Her name was Mary Faye but she went by Faye. So that's where the name Faye came from.

ANNOUNCING

Evan Faye Morgan
December 2, 2008
11:16am
7lbs. 1oz. 19 1/2 in. long

Mommy and baby are doing fine. Chandler and Hudson are two very proud big brothers. As you can tell in the picture Hudson LOVES her already!

Valoree will give more details soon until then we will let her enjoy and love on her brand new baby girl!

Love-Caroline

Baby Update

Well, I just thought I would give a quick baby update. I went to the dr last Thursday, the 20th. I was 2 cm dilated and the dr offered to induce Tuesday. I really wanted to try and make it past Thanksgiving so I turned that offer down. I know a lot of people are against inducing but I'm all about it! I'm still hanging in there and go back to the dr Monday afternoon so hopefully if I don't have her before then, we'll schedule it one day next week! I think I'm pretty much ready. Can't wait to see her and hold her. We know her first name is going to be Evan but we're not sure about a middle name. Wish us luck!

Halloween, birthdays, and more

We had a great but busy Halloween weekend! Thursday Oct 30th was my niece Kaitlyn's 1st b'day. Her party was Saturday and my parent's house. All the grand kids were there and Elizabeth requested that they wear their Halloween costumes. They had a good time playing together. My dad (well, Chandler ended up driving) took them on a hayride at a park down the street.


Colt falling asleep in the swing. I sure am going to miss my Sundays with Colt when my baby gets here. He is such a cutie and I LOVE getting him to sleep every week!
Drew on the hayride.

My dad leading the kids in Old MacDonald had a farm....He's such a nut!

Chandler and Hudson getting ready to drive us around.

Happy Birthday, Kaitlyn! She loved that cake and didn't hesitate at all to dig in!

All the cute grand kids in their Halloween costumes.

On Halloween night, my fam and my parents went to Caroline's neighborhood to trick-or-treat. She cooked some yummy potato soup...still need the recipe by the way...and Chris took us around the neighborhood on the hayride. Some other neighborhood kids joined in. The kids had a good time. Richard said Chandler was too old to go and ask for candy but he dressed up and went along for the ride.

John Evan as a UPS driver. He did everything he could to keep me from taking his picture!

Hudson (hippie) and Sydney (black cat). Yes, she posed like that on her own!

Hudson the hippie. He's been this before but he couldn't decide what he wanted to be and literally picked this about 30 min before we left.

Chandler was Slash (guitarist from Guns N Roses) How cool is that? He came up with this on his own. (Please excuse the garbage in the background!)

We had a great weekend celebrating! Also, this same weekend, 2 girls from work through me a baby shower. I didn't feel like I needed one but they wanted to do it and it was great. I got lots of girly stuff! My favorite gifts were an Alabama stroller, cheerleading outfit, and black and white gigham diaper bag. Thanks so much Jennifer and Janice and everyone that came! She'll be here in 4 weeks or less and we still don't know what her name is going to be!

Sydney's 5th b'day was Nov. 6th. She had a party this past Saturday at the Quad. She had a "tailgating" party. The kids had fun getting tattoos, decorating megaphones, and learning some cheers from cheerleaders. Everything was decorated really cute! Happy Birthday, Sydney!