Eva's 2nd Birthday and Jack's Blessing

Two days after Christmas, we celebrated Eva's birthday. That day also happened to be Jack's blessing day. My parents, Madi and Sam and Megan were all able to join us for the day. Morgan gave a wonderful blessing to sweet Jack. After church, we met back at the Lyons house for food and a birthday party for Eva.

I made Eva a minion cake for this birthday. It was super fun to put together.

 For her birthday, we got Eva a purse with all the fixings (phone, wallet, keys, lipstick, eye shadow and nail polish)

We has such  fun day with these two kiddos. I'm so grateful for both of them and Happy Birthday Little Eva!

Christmas 2015

This year for Christmas break we took the whole family to Colorado Springs to visit Morgan's family. We had planned to just stay in Virginia this year, but after getting all nostalgic about Christmas's past, we decided to check plane ticket prices. We found a great deal and a day later we had booked a flight and I'm so glad we did! Morgan only gets two more long Christmas breaks and then we fall into the regular working schedule so I'm glad we took advantage of the time while we have it. We are spending 20 days out west and then still have 2 weeks before classes once we get back.

I feel like I did a pretty good decorating job on our house this year, but there is something to be said for years to collect decorations. When we arrived at Morgan's house it was clear full of Christmas nick-nacks and twinkle lights and wreaths. We had a week and a half before Christmas and so we watched lots of movies and just relaxed after a long semester.

Here is Eva watching Winnie the Pooh. 

A few days after we arrived, Aleisha, James, Grace and Shay all arrived from Utah. It was so nice to be all together again. We finished up Christmas shopping, and had a grand time all together complete with plenty of sports watching and snack food. 

This Christmas day was probably the best ever. Eva was a little older and more excited about her toys and the whole experience. We got her a doll and a tutu for Christmas.

 Eva in her new tutu!

 I got a 50 ml lens for my camera so I played around a bit. 

 Eva and her dolly. 

 Jack loved Christmas as well, as you can clearly tell. 

 Grandma Lyons got Eva the doll stroller, which really completed the ensemble. 

We got so many treats and so many fun things. Sadly I was not sneaky enough and Morgan found out all the gifts I was going to give him before Christmas, so no surprises there, but Morgan managed to surprise me with these beautiful shoes:

And his mom got me that awesome diaper bag you see in the background.  I'm so glad we decided to make the trip to Colorado.