In her swing with a footie onsie (size 6mos) that's a little too long in the legs, but fits every where else. Does that mean she has long arms and a long torso? Or maybe short legs?
Bath time - she seems to just tolerate them right now, but does not enjoy them yet.
Chubby cheeks
Looking at Mama
Startled by the flash
Taken from inside the former "breezeway" after walls taken out and painted white - thanks to Gramma Shell!
Outside the breezeway when the walls were still up and the trim and posts were still blue.
This is not our furniture. These pictures were taken during the househunting process.
Wierd, open bathroom.
during...
after...
Michele, Max's mom, stripped and sanded the door, hours of work, and painted the entryway and the trim of the house. Huge improvement.
A friendlier entry-way.
For some reason there is a garden patch in the middle of the sidewalk, so we planted pansies there.
I think this picture was taken back in April when before we bought the house. God allowed the blue trim in order to save the house for us. Can you believe someone painted over the beautiful cedar door?
JB holding her the day we got home from the hospital.
Gloria looking at her new sister in the hospital, the day Evelyn was born, 2:40 in the morning on Monday, August 31st. This is the same day just much later, around 12:30pm.
The kids and Gramma Shell checking out Evelyn Victoria Bremer.
Mommy holding new baby. I have been blessed with quick, relatively easy, no-complications labor. I think the hard part is bringing them home and getting adjusted as well as being sleep deprived. Painful in different ways. Evelyn is a wonderful baby, sweet disposition, still wakes up a lot at night (every 1-2 hours...ugh!), a beautiful baby girl. Max would tell you that every newborn is ugly, but on the scale of ugliness, Evelyn is a pretty cute one, at least I think so. In fact, I don't think she's ugly at all. Maybe a little scrunched with gooey stuff on them at first, but they get better with each passing day...
Gloria and I got new cowgirl hats! Gloria went to the rodeo as a cowgirl princess.
JB went as JB
Bull, what bull?
Oh, that bull!
JB found a horse with his name on it.
Max, Benaiah, and the base commander, Col Thomas, as well as Gloria peeking through.
Gloria was sooooooo happy to have her picture taken with the Rodeo Queen.
And even more ecstatic to sit on her horse!
We were surrounded by longhorns where we had parked ourselves to watch the cattle drive on base because they stopped at our corner for grazing and so that the cowboys and commanders could mingle with the crowd and get in an interview for the paper. This was right outside Max's office and we had no idea they were going to stop there. The long horns were amazing and surprisingly docile.
Her next to last present, a boot-shaped package. She was relieved to have both of them. I guess she's big enough to handle practical jokes, being a big 5-year-old. Overall, I think she had fun at her princess, swimming birthday party. Mommy was relieved when it was over, but thought it was fun too and glad we did it. Tomorrow is her actual birthday and she has a couple of presents left to unwrap and a promised helium balloon coming to her.
Reading her card and receiving her money - $10!
Studying a very artistic card from her friend.
Can you tell it was a pool party?
Did you notice the balloon under my shirt?
We celebrated Gloria's birthday on Saturday (although her b-day is not until Tuesday, which is my due date for the next baby) and had three families over for swimming, lunch, cake, and opening of presents. This is the cake portion of her birthday celebration. Her face isn't so clean for the pictures, but it's her birthday, she can be messy if she wants to, right?
