Thankful

Our Smiley Guy

Hiking in Holcomb Valley

Evan likes to stick out his little tongue! He's silly!

We are all very thankful to have a home and to be home. The fires came closer then ever before causing the whole neighborhood to evacuate. Fortunately or unfortunately for us we were away in Big Bear for the weekend. Although it was nice to get away and visit with family it was stressful when we heard of the fires. We watched the news for updates and Saturday evening Dan and his dad tried to get home to help out, but where not allowed to enter. We wound up staying in Oceanside until Tuesday. Yesterday our phone and internet came back on. The area is still only open to residents. The utility companies are working very hard to restore things to their previous state. The firemen are still present in our neighborhood.

On Saturday my dad didn't evacuate with my mom. He stayed and helped put out various fires in the neighborhood, including two that were on our property. We are thankful for his efforts. Thank you to all of you that offered your homes, food, prayers and help. We very much appreciate you.

3 Months!

WOW! Our little guy is already 3 months! Evan is getting pretty big. Evan is becoming more and more fun with each day. We just love our little guy. We had a birthday party for him at our friends Doug and Michelle's house. We had one huge cupcake for the occasion.
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Lots of Firsts

This past week was full of firsts for Evan! We had a very full week. It started off with Dan's birthday. We all went to Renaissance for Dinner last Sat. night. It was a good time. The musician wanted us to put Evan in the tip jar so that he could take him home to his wife. We weren't going for it. :)
My mom had her right knee replaced on Monday. It was the first time Evan has been to the hospital as a visitor. He did great all week. He knew that his job was to make Grandma smile. He had no problem doing that. :) He made all of the hospital staff smile too!
On Friday Evan had his first Halloween. He had lost of fun things to wear. Great Grandma Nielsen sent him a cute Halloween onesie and Pumpkin suit and Dan and I got him a little bear outfit. We thought that was appropriate since we call him our little bear. He was a pumpkin at the hospital and then wore the bear outfit around to the neighbors houses. Actually, there was only one neighbor home that we knew. But they loved seeing him.
That was a full week to wrap up October.