Green Battles!!

This last week I have been bombarded with the essence of green, in many color's I might add. Coming out of either noses or eyes... I wanted to take beautiful pictures of my children that displayed the sure essence of the color's but then decided that just to make a good blog, I did not want to degrade my children. And say ahhhh!! Attack of the killer slime!!! Noah in particular looked as though he got punched in both eyes and his insides were coming out of his nose! Yes! So instead these are a few pictures of the two of them that I took prior to the illnesses. Hopefully your winter has been shy a few good battles of some green... stuff.

Bathing Beauties!!

There is something to be said about the joy you share remembering the fun that you had, on bath night, with your siblings or by yourself. We all have these priceless pictures of our childhood's and probably enjoy even more taking them of your children. Emily and Noah love, love, love their bath night rituals. And even more they enjoy the fun of getting their pictures taken in the bathtub. The moment I start running the bath water I hear Emily come running and soon to follow the gleeful delight of Noah crawling behind her and realizing that he too gets to enjoy a nice warm bath for his next moments of entertainment. I am fond of bath nights! Children seem to calm themselves during this ritual, making it all the more wonderful to lay a warm, cuddly, content child down for that night's rest.

Laundry DAY!!!!

The feel of wind in his ears, his grip growing tighter and tighter as he flies across the room, and the squeal of excitement from Emily when she hears her brother laugh. They had quite the afternoon of this. Who knew that you could find a thrill ride in doing a full weeks worth of laundry with my baby blue eyes.

Blast From the Past

When we first moved into our old house we had a few of the young adults over. Just a few of the very entertaining pictures we found from that night in 2002. And oh my goodness I look at my hair and think what was I thinking. Look at how long it was. Of coarse the only thing that makes it ok that I had that long of hair is that my husband loved it, loved it.

Miss Katie and me.

My brother in law loving to sing, and show off for his not yet blushing bride Elisha. Who got married soon after in 2003. We had quite the night if playing, wrestling, laughing, and even running up to a local park and playing tag. The fun you have when your young.

What the holidays looked like.

"I need to say good night to my cousins" ,"I need to go wake up my cousins", " I would like to please play with my cousins", these were just a few of the phrases that were heard by Emily on our Holiday and here are some of the few pictures that came along with being with the cousins.
Dress up and play-doh where just a few of the fun things that we got to endeavor in, with the cousins... and Grandparents.
Jacinda, Zach, Deanna, Emily and Noah five out of the eight Fleming Grandchildren.
Noah loving his time with Grandpa.

We needed to get our little one dedicated so on December 21st, Noah Bradley Fleming was dedicated. Steve's parents got to join us for this which blessed us greatly.

Noah and Emily got to meet a lot of their cousins this year. Which is so fun since I remember greatly all the fun that we had growing up visiting our cousins, we loved it. So these are my cousins twins, that are only days behind Noah in birthday. We had to let them all play together.

With all the Christmas festivities we got this year, it makes Emily talk about it everyday still. We are a family oriented type so we had Christmas with as many of the families that we could. First my family in Helena, MT. Then with Steve's family in Canada. The pictures that you saw above. What I love in pictures taken of Christmas morning is the sleepy eye look, caused from the excitement to get up and open presents no matter how late you went to bed the night before. It is seen a little in my hubby and I, but I missed taking a good picture of them cause I was too busy enjoying every moment, actually out from behind the camera.

Laughing...

It is the best of the best medicine. One of the many good things that happen when you get together for the holiday's is get to laugh and have fun for some of the time. It makes for the most fun when you are not really in the mood for Christmas. And any pictures that might capture that are the best even if they are not perfect, the picture of people laughing brings joy to my heart, and hopefully yours as well.

Whether you are giggling or your mouth is opened as wide as it possibly can, with no sound even coming out (which is how the evans girls laugh most of the time) no matter how you may do it. Just do it, a lot, the next few weeks or years whatever you prefer.

My Friend Heather!

It was Heather's Birthday on the 11th of this month, so we took her out for dinner. Jakers is always a fun place to go. For all of you that don't know, she lives with us and we get to enjoy that beautiful smile daily. Happy Birthday Heather, oh!!! Merry Christmas too.

Noah got to get in on the fun too. We had a fun girls night out that always turns goofy, which makes it that much more fun. The friends in this picture are (from the right) Rachel and her son Isreal, Debra, Marissa and Debra's daughter Eliana, Heather, Kassie, Noah and I. We closed down the place. Ha Ha.