17 months

Getting into the holiday season already! We were fortunate enough to have a visit from Grampa and Grandma Sharon in November, and then to spend Thanksgiving with them and Steve's family in California. Lots of fun times, good (sometimes cold and windy) weather, and good memories.

First, Evan enjoyed all his playtime with Grampa and Grandma Sharon. Here we have our little civil engineer in the making, and also Evan wanting to fill some big shoes.

On Thanksgiving we all (or most of us) enjoyed wearing hats my mom sent:

The weather was nice enough to spend a good bit of time outside on Thanksgiving. We had our own version of the family football game, and Evan and Landon jumped on the trampoline for seemingly hours at a time. Evan thought the trampoline was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

One afternoon in California we had a little family field trip, on base, to some place with lots of planes. My brother will probably roll his eyes that I can't describe that any further, but that's what it was, in a nutshell.

Evan for the first time turned into a real little boy on the trip, getting down on the ground, into rocks and dirt, and quite happy about it.

A couple of days after Thanksgiving the whole family trooped outside to help put up Christmas decorations. Evan didn't help too much, but Landon did, and Evan had a grand old time riding around in Landon's cool push car toy.

And, of course, the cousins enjoyed some time just hanging out:

Landon prepares for a future on the runway...the fashion runway, modeling his spiffy clothes.

We took some time out for family pictures too...

First the hosts...

Then the guests...

Then the grandkids...

Then the grandparents and grandkids...