RAndOm 7 day aCtiVitieS

evan: "i love you trash can"
trash can: "i love you too evan"
me: :)


the evidence of constantly pulling up on stuff. i have the greatest videos documenting this stuff but it takes so long to load, you'll have to wait but here's two pictures.

Evan's lady, Annabelle at our Ward Activity on Saturday. He must really like her if he let her drive his precious car. ;) LOL

Last friday at Kroger, WAY past his bedtime but he LOVEd the car (second time in one) and loved helping daddy.

"Auntie" Loretta came to visit on Friday! ;) Evan was soo happy to finally see her. She lives in Virginia now but used to work with me at Tangerine. We miss her here in Tennessee so much but she loves Virginia too (don't blame her, I've been before and it is great).

"'tude". i think aunt lisa will like this. ;)

Up LATE.

Here's our little munchkin who was put to bed 30 minutes ago. I admit, I've been trying to put him to bed awake but tired so he'll put himself asleep. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Not only is he not asleep, but this is what he's doing now...

Maybe my favorite part is when Evan smiles because I'm playing with the wind chime. ;) So cute. No one can resist such a cutie baby smiling. ;) I hate that he is asleep right now so I can't hug him so tight right now! ;) he he he.

going for walkies...

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Memorial for a friend...

This is a huge reason I post. Today is the one year anniversary of the death of a friend, Ginger who inspired me to post about my family and also others. Like me she was also one of 11 children and our families intertwined though our childhood years, including a time when Ginger dated one of my brothers for a time and I even did her hair. She is missed but her brother Jason and his wife posted her eulogy on their blog http://detmerfan.blogspot.com/2008/08/why-blog.html
I have been thinking a lot about her these past two months and even found myself wandering again to her family blog that she posted her last post, just the night before she died. It was a perfect post to reflect the love of a mother of her calling as such. http://jasondgingerd.blogspot.com/ . I am grateful I knew her and know her family. They are wonderful people of whom I look up to.
We miss you here on earth Ginger Dee. Thank you for caring for us from heaven. We love you.
The Stuteville Family

the ZOO!

First of all, this is Friday, the day before the Zoo when I needed to shoot a new buddy picture of Lauren and Brooke with Evan. It is WAY easier to take a photo of him laying down on his back. Any other position and he is OFF! ;)

I LOVED the Nashville Zoo! It was an unnaturally beautiful summer day so naturally EVERYONE in Nashville said, 'Great Day for the Zoo!" ;) Well, we'd never been before even though we'd been invited many times by multiple people and we lived 3miles from it when we were first married. lol. Saturday morning we left the house to take something to my friend Lindsey's House and we planned to go shopping for nothing important. We were just looking forward to a day together till we walked outside and BAM! The reality of what a nice day hit us and Mike suggested the Zoo. I jumped on it! Matt and Nanci and the girls have passes so we called to see if they'd want to go too (seeing as they can never get enough of us and want to be anywhere we are ;) he he). They rearranged their plans too and met us there (thanks for getting us a discount!). It was packed! The parking lot was ridiculously packed and as 'small' as I heard this Zoo was, I was a little wary it would be too crowded. As I stepped into the Zoo, I was immediately impressed with the natural beauty! I couldn't believe it. The pathways were generous for the zillions of people there and all the tree growth was offering great shade and beauty (i LOVE nature). I want to marry that Zoo I loved it so much. I can't wait to go again and if any of my relatives with kids (or without) visit from California, I'm totally taking you, so get pumped. Anyway, it is a 'small' Zoo with not as many animals but it's perfect for kids with a short attention span and Moms with heeled flip flops on (didn't know we would be going to the Zoo when I was accessorising, lol). It has an Old Homestead on the property that you can tour, all the big animals anyone wants to see, a carousel (! ahh! i wanted to go on it secretly but my family would have teased me. by family, i mean Micheal - the party pooper.) big huge grass area you can relax on or eat at, misting stations for hot days, a humongous jungle gym for kids and more. The best part, you can bump into old friends! It was great to see Tony and Enghell Johnson's Family! It's probably been 2 years sadly and they only live in Smyrna (20-30min away). We also saw Shannon Hairr and Emily and the Rosiers! Kim R. finally got to meet EVAN! ;) Anyway, I can only speak for myself that I really enjoyed the company at the Zoo and the Park itself and look forward to having a membership. If you don't love the Zoo yourself, I'm sorry, it was great for me and my monkey. Here's the proof below....

Evan's inspiration...

Beautiful.

the Monkey is coming out, he's been inspired. ;)

Lynx that kept posing for everyone.

Please forgive my strike on wearing makeup but here's the crew... struttin'.

Stuteville men 'before'....

... and 'after' when the 'monkey' in Evan is unleashed! LOL! ;)

Love birds.

TWO BEAUTIFUL NIECES in a Bamboo Forest. ;)

Our Brooke didn't scratch her name in this bamboo, cause that would be a big no no/vandalism, but look what a beautiful picture of our Niece! :)

Our Monkey was literally trying to climb the bamboo. I tried to capture it on video but it's not very impressive 'live'. Still he was killing us with his energy!

First time drinking from a fountain! He REALLY did it and it was a shock that he really tried to lap it up. One thing he likes lately is when I let him have some of my water from a sport top, even though he doesn't really like the water part really. ;)

I've changed! lol.

Michael with his favorite animals in the petting part of the zoo. ;)

One last visit to the Meerkats before we leave....

NASHVILLE ZOO!

It is such a beautiful day out in Tennessee today that when we left the house to run an errand... We decided today is a perfect day to go to the Nashville Zoo... for the first time ever! Mike's lived here all his life & never been (although, it's not a big zoo & has only been there since he was maybe a teenager, but still, never been?). Anyway, we're excited also cause we're meeting the fam there! whoo hoo! Feel free to join the fun! ;)

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I just back posted shannon hairr photography photos on June 16th for evans 6th month but shoot was taken at 8months. :)

9 months old

At Evan's 9 month check up which was yesterday on his 9month birthday ;)... he was given a gold star! He surprisingly ONLY weighed 20lbs 15oz and 29in long! That places him in the "50th-75th percentile" (what ever that means) for weight and 75th percentile for height. Good job Evan! The only wha wha wha point is at the end of the appointment, we pointed out again that our perfect little son has a lopsided head! ;) It's just from sleeping on the same spot when he was a baby we think but we have an appointment at Vanderbilt to explore our options. Yes the speculation is that he could have one of those sweet helmets. :). It would really be esthetic but having clients who have lived with misshaped sculls, I know it would only benifit him in the long run for his self esteem so we are willing to look into it. So, there you go, no big deal, we'll tel you more about it when we have our appointment next month.

We have enjoyed this past month especially cause he's changing so much and so fast. SLOW DOWN!!! He's 'scooting' faster than ever and as of today he's walking in his walker (albeit, not in a straight line. he favors the left -we'll have to change that. lol). Teething like crazy! With four teeth on the top and four teeth on the bottom he is constantly chewing on his fingers, poor guy. I suspect there will soon be even more! yikes! Anyway, he's even more cooky than usual with his personality exploding. I will try to post a video of him the other day trying to eat my shoe (after getting smacked in the face several times by smokey's tail) and when I took it away, he screamed and proceeded to have his first tantrum! It was soooo cute! In the video he next appears to move on to get the CD's he's not allowed to have only to see that little stinker was really off to get the shoe mommy just took away from him! Can you believe that?! The only thing missing from this scenario is him turning around to shoot me a dirty look. lol. Anyway... Evan is trying to talk a lot and moving all over to get to his brothers, Smokey and Oliver who only run away. Hopefully one day they let him catch them cause he loves them very much. We visited our friends Denise, Amanda and Allison the other day who have a house full of cats and dogs. They were all very interested in Evan and Evan LOVED all of them, especially the dogs who he apparently found HILARIOUS as he 'belly' laughed at them for a good 5+ minutes straight and only stopped cause we needed to go. He thought they were the 'cat's meow' and my camera was in the car so I didn't capture it. Sorry!! We'll have to come back over to recreate it. ;)

Aunt Jenalyn, eat your heart out. ;)

6 month photos taken at 8 months ;)

Here we are again with pictures from Shannon Hairr Photography! At 6mos Evan wasn't yet sitting up so we postponed his shoot and ended up taking them after all his finalizing in June (instead of april). So this is what you get. It was his G.Q. look and blessing outfit. Not sure when we'll take his 9 month or if we will but it's ok if we wait. ;)

On my way to see

On my way to see harry potter! Eek! Thanks kyle & amanda for watching evan ;).

Blueberry Patch part 2

Vaccinium Corymbosum: Northern highbush blueberry

Some of the friends that were with us pickin' blueberries....

Stacey and Simon's pictures turned out so cute I couldn't help to put up two shots of them. ;)

Getting sleepy...

Sleepily playing along with mommy...

Asleep...

AWAKE!!! ;)