Sunday's storm (May 25, 2008)

Right when we thought the storm had passed, we heard a constant "rumble" and watched as the earth became completely still and a bit green-like. Then the hail began falling from the sky and we ran to the basement to take cover. This was the tornado that hit Hugo, near Mary and Lance's house, where 200 or so houses were hit or destroyed, and one 2 year old baby died. :(

Our house is a bit dented, our NEW roof
probably needs to be replaced again, and our plants are destroyed. There are leaves everywhere, but luckily, we are fine and our house is too.
Here is Evan holding a piece of golf ball size hail.
"Can we get the sled out, Daddy?"

Lochness Park

I took Evan to this park on Saturday to get his 2 year photos taken. These are some that I took. We'll see how they compare to the professional's photos.

2nd birthday....party #1

Evan didn't understand the concept of "his" birthday. Therefore, I had to open all of his presents! Thanks everyone!
Evan's grandma, Miss Jenean, made this awesome, huge birthday cake. I got to be two years old all over again.........I had to blow out Evan's candle! (He doesn't understand how to blow yet.)
Cake and ice cream...........mmmm. Yummy!

Evan and his little buddy, Easton. I love two year olds and their hugs!

mamamama's day

Evan calls me "Mamamama."

For mother's day, we had lunch with Ben's family, and dinner with my family. Before dinner, we went over to the park at Golden Lake Elementary for the first time this year. Evan was so proud of himself that he could go up the steps and down the slide all by himself. I think I was prouder!


Evan loves wagons. This is the old (vintage!) Radio Flyer GT we had when we were kids. It's just not the same, or as safe as our newer wagon. It's quite shallow. Evan's wagon is deep enough to have a door and two benches!

And can you imagine that my dad would go running with us kids in the wagon??!!

karate lessons

A few weeks ago, we had Katlyn and Kiana sleep over. In the morning, Kiana had karate lessons, so we all decided to go with to see what it was all about.

Here's Katie with Evan. She loves holding him. Sometimes I think she thinks Evan is her doll.
For some reason, Evan liked going over to all the colored tiles and touching them.
Here is Ana, closest to the camera in the blue. I was amazed how much gear they put on to "fight."

Evan's teachers

These two women are Evan's teachers. Therese (left) is Evan's occupational therapist. She works with Evan once a week. Vivian is Evan's cognitive teacher. She works with him every other week on more 'academic' type activities/knowledge.

Evan has grown leaps and bounds this past year, and we give a lot of the credit to these two amazing ladies.

At our conference tonight, we decided to add speech services to Evan's schedule. He'll have a few sessions this summer, and then a speech therapist will work with him more often beginning in the fall.

unbelievable deer crossing

Ok, this is nothing about Evan, but I had to post it. If you look in the middle of the trees, you will see five light brown specks. These are deer crossing our frozen lake! We have never seen this before....and Ben has lived on this lake almost his whole life!

This happened on 4-14-08....and our lake is melting as I type!

The Banker

Evan likes to put Grandma's money into his bear bank!

Easter 2008

Ben played in a hockey game on Easter Sunday, so my whole family piled into the van and headed to the Schwan's Super Rink to watch. Here are Kara and Teagan with Evan and I. Ben plays on the same team as Kara's husband.

Here is Evan trying to get the sparkly blue shell off of his Easter egg.

The Easter Bunny (aka: Grandma) spoils Evan!!

Spring Break 2008

We went to visit Ben's parents and grandparents in Cape Coral, Florida for spring break. We saw a Twin's game the first day we were there, and Evan got his first major league ball!!!

Here we are at a beach in Cape Coral. Evan didn't really like the water, but he loved playing in the sand!!!

Jim, Emily, and Reese (our Minnesotan friends) came over to swim and eat out. Reese and Evan decided to trade hats!

Evan's last memory of Florida: a big bear at some store in Sanibel. We saw Captiva and Sanibel during our five hour flight delay on our way home. It rained the entire day :(

Thank you, Brad and Jenean, for the best vacation EVER!!!!!!! We loved it!