Evan is fascinated with trucks. I asked him today what his favorite truck was. He told me his favorite is a tractor. Although it probably doesn't fall into the "truck" category, you will often find all of his tractors at the "construction site" right along side his other trucks.
Some of his other favorites...
"Giant Excavator" - "He makes big piles of concrete."
"Bulldozer" - "He scoops and crawls at a creep and makes piles"
"Roller" - "It turns, turns, turns"
"Garbage Truck" - "It dumps the dirt and the garbage. The dirt is inside the garbage."
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Christmas
My entire immediate family was able to come down to Florida for the week between Christmas & New Year's! It was a lot of fun, and a little crazy, to have everyone here at once but I'd definitely do it again!
I have SO many pictures but wanted to share a few of my favorites from our time with family...
Fishing with Grandma & Grandpa...
Eating Santa's sprinkles...
Gator Basketball...
Playing in the yard...
At the park...
And New Year's Eve....
I have SO many pictures but wanted to share a few of my favorites from our time with family...
Fishing with Grandma & Grandpa...
Eating Santa's sprinkles...
Gator Basketball...
Playing in the yard...
At the park...
And New Year's Eve....
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Thanksgiving '09
I thought I better get my Thanksgiving Blog done before Christmas gets here...
Evan and I flew in to Chicago the week before Thanksgiving so that we could meet my new nephew, Nolan. We spent the weekend at my brother's house. Evan and Cameron had a blast together and I got to snuggle with the new baby:)
Mom, Jodi, and Pax drove up on Sunday to spend the day and then Evan and I rode back down to mom and dad's house with them. The minute mom walked in the door ALL the grandsons were on her lap...
I was only in central IL for 3 days. My parents are used to having Evan and I for at least a couple weeks when we're in town! But I guess a little time with them is better than no time at all:) While we were at Mom and Dad's house, Grandma & Grandpa Bridgwater came to visit us.
They brought Evan a firetruck which Paxson enjoyed too....
And Grandpa brought a little wood dancing man which entertained Evan for awhile....
I was able to spend an ENTIRE day with my sister! When was the last time that happened? Jodi and Evan started to make pancakes until we realized we didn't have any eggs....oops.
Paxson is hilarious. I love how anytime he sees the camera he automatically offers up his best "cheese"....
We took Pax and Evan to the library where they were both on their best behavior as the lady sang about turkeys and pumpkin pie. We checked out some books and then just ran through the aisles of books for awhile....best part about being at the library, right?
Mom came to Jodi's for the afternoon to watch the boys so we could go see New Moon. I gave Jodi an assigment about a month ago: Read Twilight, Watch Twilight, Read New Moon. She did great...I think she was in the last chapter of New Moon when I arrived! We LOVED the movie and I'm actually going to see it again on Thursday:)
Being in Illinois for only a short time makes it completely impossible to see everyone that I would like to see but I always try to make at least one visit to see my Grandma Edi...
3 Days in Southern, IL....
Amazingly, I have NO pictures of the actual Thanksgiving day. Evan and hitched a ride with Joel's cousin, Jason, and his wife, Andrea, from Champaign down to Tamaroa. Evan did great on the 3 hour car ride except for when I told him Jason might put him in time-out if he kept kicking the back of his seat. After a few seconds of only his lip puckering and tears forming in his eyes....he let out a full-forced cry. It took me awhile to convince him that Jason was really a nice guy. Jason dropped us off at the Searby Cabin where Linda was waiting for all of us to arrive. John, Jessi, Jack, and Josie pulled in only a few minutes behind us and then Joel and Mark arrived from Birmingham about a 1/2 hour later. We had a traditional Thanksgiving Supper "homemade by Publix and Walmart."
On Friday morning we had "Thanksmas" with Joel's parents and brother. Sometimes its just easier to Christmas with one of our families a little bit early rather than trying to cram everything in at Christmas time. Evan and Jack ripped into their packages and Josie worked hard on hers. I think we were all thankful for the gifts that we received and for the time spent with family.
On Saturday, the entire extended Searby family met at the Friendship Church of Christ in Tamaroa to celebrate Granny and Grandpa's 65th wedding anniversary. Someone even brought a recliner to the church for Grandpa to sit in....
Since the whole family was going to be together we went ahead and did the BIG Searby Thanksmas too. Evan and Jack had fun opening their gifts:
Joel, Evan, and I drove home on Sunday...the worst possible travel day of the year. But after 15 hours we were happy to be back in our own home in Gainesville!
Evan and I flew in to Chicago the week before Thanksgiving so that we could meet my new nephew, Nolan. We spent the weekend at my brother's house. Evan and Cameron had a blast together and I got to snuggle with the new baby:)
Mom, Jodi, and Pax drove up on Sunday to spend the day and then Evan and I rode back down to mom and dad's house with them. The minute mom walked in the door ALL the grandsons were on her lap...
I was only in central IL for 3 days. My parents are used to having Evan and I for at least a couple weeks when we're in town! But I guess a little time with them is better than no time at all:) While we were at Mom and Dad's house, Grandma & Grandpa Bridgwater came to visit us.
They brought Evan a firetruck which Paxson enjoyed too....
And Grandpa brought a little wood dancing man which entertained Evan for awhile....
I was able to spend an ENTIRE day with my sister! When was the last time that happened? Jodi and Evan started to make pancakes until we realized we didn't have any eggs....oops.
Paxson is hilarious. I love how anytime he sees the camera he automatically offers up his best "cheese"....
We took Pax and Evan to the library where they were both on their best behavior as the lady sang about turkeys and pumpkin pie. We checked out some books and then just ran through the aisles of books for awhile....best part about being at the library, right?
Mom came to Jodi's for the afternoon to watch the boys so we could go see New Moon. I gave Jodi an assigment about a month ago: Read Twilight, Watch Twilight, Read New Moon. She did great...I think she was in the last chapter of New Moon when I arrived! We LOVED the movie and I'm actually going to see it again on Thursday:)
Being in Illinois for only a short time makes it completely impossible to see everyone that I would like to see but I always try to make at least one visit to see my Grandma Edi...
3 Days in Southern, IL....
Amazingly, I have NO pictures of the actual Thanksgiving day. Evan and hitched a ride with Joel's cousin, Jason, and his wife, Andrea, from Champaign down to Tamaroa. Evan did great on the 3 hour car ride except for when I told him Jason might put him in time-out if he kept kicking the back of his seat. After a few seconds of only his lip puckering and tears forming in his eyes....he let out a full-forced cry. It took me awhile to convince him that Jason was really a nice guy. Jason dropped us off at the Searby Cabin where Linda was waiting for all of us to arrive. John, Jessi, Jack, and Josie pulled in only a few minutes behind us and then Joel and Mark arrived from Birmingham about a 1/2 hour later. We had a traditional Thanksgiving Supper "homemade by Publix and Walmart."
On Friday morning we had "Thanksmas" with Joel's parents and brother. Sometimes its just easier to Christmas with one of our families a little bit early rather than trying to cram everything in at Christmas time. Evan and Jack ripped into their packages and Josie worked hard on hers. I think we were all thankful for the gifts that we received and for the time spent with family.
On Saturday, the entire extended Searby family met at the Friendship Church of Christ in Tamaroa to celebrate Granny and Grandpa's 65th wedding anniversary. Someone even brought a recliner to the church for Grandpa to sit in....
Since the whole family was going to be together we went ahead and did the BIG Searby Thanksmas too. Evan and Jack had fun opening their gifts:
Joel, Evan, and I drove home on Sunday...the worst possible travel day of the year. But after 15 hours we were happy to be back in our own home in Gainesville!
Friday, November 6, 2009
Camping
Kelly did such an awesome job blogging our camping trip that I'm not even gonna attempt to top it. Go to her blog by clicking here and then you can enjoy the couple extra pictures I posted below:
In addition to tie-dying to get ready for our trip, we also baked cupcakes and decorated some for Halloween and some for UF....
Superman and Supergirl...
Kelly forgot to tell about the animal invasion we experienced on Saturday night. Its quite normal to see deer running around the campgrounds during the day but you gotta watch out for the armadillos at night!!! They were not scared of us and would come right up to our camp looking for food. This one thought the remaining steak juices were appealing and decided to help himself. I know, gross huh? We were sure to burn off all the armadillo germs in the fire before we made our toast in the morning!
In addition to tie-dying to get ready for our trip, we also baked cupcakes and decorated some for Halloween and some for UF....
Superman and Supergirl...
Kelly forgot to tell about the animal invasion we experienced on Saturday night. Its quite normal to see deer running around the campgrounds during the day but you gotta watch out for the armadillos at night!!! They were not scared of us and would come right up to our camp looking for food. This one thought the remaining steak juices were appealing and decided to help himself. I know, gross huh? We were sure to burn off all the armadillo germs in the fire before we made our toast in the morning!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Pumpkin Patch
When we turned into the lane at the church Evan said, "The sign says pumpkin patch!" I guess on the 3rd trip there he even had the sign memorized. He wasn't too excited about posing for a picture...
Of course he smiled when his buddy, Asher, sat next to him...
Pulling each other in the wagon is always a highlight at the patch. Megan wasn't looking where she was going and ended up sitting on a pumpkin...
As if the bounce house and pumpkins weren't enough, there was a tractor to sit on too! Evan probably would have sat on that thing for an hour!
Our good friends Ben & Kyra took Evan to "Trunk o Treat" at the Pumpkin Patch last week. If you're on facebook you can see her pictures of Superman (Evan) having lots of fun!
Evan Jacob Searby
2 years, 2 months
2 years, 2 months
Of course he smiled when his buddy, Asher, sat next to him...
Pulling each other in the wagon is always a highlight at the patch. Megan wasn't looking where she was going and ended up sitting on a pumpkin...
As if the bounce house and pumpkins weren't enough, there was a tractor to sit on too! Evan probably would have sat on that thing for an hour!
Our good friends Ben & Kyra took Evan to "Trunk o Treat" at the Pumpkin Patch last week. If you're on facebook you can see her pictures of Superman (Evan) having lots of fun!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
The Last Two Weeks
We've been busy the last two weeks !
Believe it or not, we were in the pool just over 2 weeks ago! Evan loves the pool and is getting braver and braver with his water wings...
The rain cooled things off a little...
Evan decided it looked like fun after a few minutes of hesitation...
Joel and I attended our neighbor's wedding in St. Augustine. Thank you to Lou and Kelly for tag-teaming the babysitting duty! We didn't know anyone (except the bride and groom) at the wedding so we really just spent time together and enjoyed our private cocktail table...
Playing outside is one of Evan's favorite things to do. We borrowed a big firetruck from one of our friends so that has given him something new to do this past week.
The fire-fisherman?
Believe it or not, we were in the pool just over 2 weeks ago! Evan loves the pool and is getting braver and braver with his water wings...
The rain cooled things off a little...
"Wear my rain coat"
"Daddy doing?"
Evan decided it looked like fun after a few minutes of hesitation...
Joel and I attended our neighbor's wedding in St. Augustine. Thank you to Lou and Kelly for tag-teaming the babysitting duty! We didn't know anyone (except the bride and groom) at the wedding so we really just spent time together and enjoyed our private cocktail table...
Austin & Melissa, Just Married!
Playing outside is one of Evan's favorite things to do. We borrowed a big firetruck from one of our friends so that has given him something new to do this past week.
"I spray you!"
"Gotta put out the fire!"
The fire-fisherman?
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