THE EVELAND'S

Our baby boy!

2011-05-26T12:54:00.000-07:00

Kaleb LeRoy Eveland

Born MAy 24th 3:49am

7lbs 11oz 20 inch long

The latest happenings

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Carson fixing his music table

On Wednesdays I take Carson to the high school so he can play in the pool. He is usually the youngest one there, but that doesn't stop him from having fun!

Enjoying some ice cream... yummy

Some how Carson found blue food coloring in the pantry. Luckily he only really got it on himself. I wonder who was supposed to be watching him... Austin!

Lately Carson has loved playing basketball. We got this toy at Good will and since we got it he loves playing with it. He even points out all the basketball hoops he sees when we go for walks outside.

The past couple days have been really nice, so we took advantage of the weather and played at the park.

It's been a While

2010-12-13T20:33:00.000-08:00

It's been a while six my last post so I decided that it was time to post again. Since last time we have moved to Arlington, WA and we are apartment managers. Some days we hardly do anything with that, and others it feels like all we get are complaints from the tenants. Austin is working for ACCA which is a funeral home and really enjoys doing that. Some days we don't seem him at all because work is really busy. In January Austin will be going back to school full time so he won't be working as much. Hopefully we will see him more.

Carson has grow up so much in the last few months. He is still a very active little boy and talks all the time. Most of the time we have no idea what he is saying. Some of his most common words are; all done, here you go, what's that, bubbles, no more, ready, night night, bye bye, ball, bath, no, yea, blocks. He is also learning to count. He will sometime repeat 1, 2, 3 and hold up his fingers for 1 and 3 but he skips 2. Lately Carson has been pretty picky with what foods he likes but his favorite food is still spaghetti, I can get him to eat that all the time. He loves playing catch, being thrown around by daddy, building things with his toys, reading books and playing Xbox with daddy. If we would let him he would take baths all day. He loves to play in the water.

We finally went to the Dr today for his 18 month check up. He is 29 lbs (85%) and 33 inch (75%).

It's fun watching him grow and learn. We can't wait to see what he will be like as a big brother. I guess we will find out in May. I'm due May 23rd. We are really excited and in a few weeks we get to find out what it is. They will be 2 years apart and hopefully Carson won't be the jealous type!

We went to a Mariners game a couple weeks after we moved here

Baseball player for Halloween!

Carson likes to go to his room and read his books on his bed.

The Saturday after Thanksgiving we went on the Santo train to go see Santa.

Carson wasn't a fan at Santa, but with his cousin right there he was able to tolerate it.

He really loved the train ride though.

Carson would not take a picture with Santa. I'm surprised that he isn't crying

in this picture but it was fun to get a picture with Santa as a family.

Update

2010-05-19T17:38:00.000-07:00

So this is going to be a long post. A lot of things have happened since my last post. We have been busy busy busy. A couple weeks ago we found out that Austin will be done with school at the end of this semester, so at the end of July we will be moving to Washington and Austin will start Mortuary school in September. We are really excited and now are just finalizing details till we move.

Happy 1st Birthday

2010-05-19T17:22:00.000-07:00

On Sunday Carson turned 1!!! He is growing up so fast. We celebrated his birthday on Saturday at Austin's work. Valerie, Keagen, and Chad came to celebrate with us. We went bowling, ate pizza, had cake, and opened presents. Sunday he had a few visitors that stopped by to wish him a happy birthday too.

A little about Carson...

Weighs 22 lbs
31 inches tall
Has 6 teeth
Loves books
Loves being outside
Always happy
Gets into everything
So close to walking!
Favorite food- spaghetti
Loves climbing all over daddy

Georgia

2010-05-19T17:14:00.000-07:00

At the beginning of April Carson and I took a trip to Georgia to see my parents. It had almost been a year since the last time that we saw them. We had so much fun spending time with them. We played at the park, went to downtown Atlanta, did lots of shopping, and even took a little trip to Savannah so that we could go to the beach. We were sad to leave them and wish that we lived closer.

Playing at the park

Fun in the pool

More pictures from Georgia

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Downtown Atlanta

At the light house after we climbed 178 stairs

Carson LOVED the Beach

Easter

2010-05-19T16:47:00.000-07:00

I think that I was more excited for easter this year than Carson was. He really didn't know what was going on but I think that he had fun finding the easter eggs. Austin's work had an Easter Egg hun on Saturday and then the Easter bunny left eggs for Carson to find Sunday morning. We had fun watching Carson crawl around to find all of his eggs.

Bye Aunt Bailey

2010-05-19T16:41:00.000-07:00

At the end of March Aunt Bailey went to the MTC. We were able to see her for a couple days before she left. We miss Aunt Bailey living so close, but happy that she is serving a mission.

Mema and Carson

Aunt Bailey

Disneyland

2010-05-19T16:32:00.001-07:00

At the end of February we were able to visit Austin's aunt and uncle and go to Disneyland. We had so much fun. The weather was perfect, and we couldn't believe how much Carson actually enjoyed it. He loved all the characters.

9 Months

2010-02-17T20:46:00.000-08:00

I can't believe that it has been nine months already. Where has the time gone? Life is busy these days but we are enjoying everything. Carson is growing up so fast. He is 20.5 lbs and 29.5 in. and he gets into everything. Just recently he started crawling and now it seems like I can't leave him alone for a minute without him getting into something and he is starting to pull himself up on anything he can. He is developing his own personality more and more each day.

-He loves to play with and eat shoes

-Loves Loves Loves baths

-Doesn't ever stop babbling

-Likes eating his finger foods ( I think that's what really got him to start crawling)

-Doesn't ever sit still

-Waves bye bye

-Claps when he watches mommy clean

-Loves playing with daddy

-Always happy and full of smiles

Christmas 2009

2010-01-08T16:04:00.000-08:00

This year we spent our Christmas in Washington with Austin's family. It was good to get away from Rexburg. We enjoyed making and decorating cookies, spending time with family, and celebrating the birth of our Savior. I think that this Christmas was more fun for me because of Carson even though he didn't know what was going on and we ended up opening his presents for him anyways. I'm looking forward to him getting older and being able to explain why we celebrate Christmas and him enjoying the holiday season. We are looking forward to the new year and seeing what 2010 will bring us.

Carson didn't know what to think of Santa

Reading the traditional Christmas Eve present

from my parents

My favorite present

My Little Santa

December Fun

2010-01-08T15:54:00.000-08:00

December was a busy month for us. Austin had lots of projects at the end of the semester for school so Carson and I didn't see him too much. We also went on a little trip without him. We went to Salt Lake City to see the lights with my sister and her family. It has been a few years since I have been to the temple during Christmas time to see the lights and have wanted to go back for a while now. It was fun and the weather wasn't too bad. We also went to Thanksgiving Point during the day ad went to the dinosaur museum. That was fun to look around.

Happy Halloween!

2009-10-31T22:24:00.000-07:00

Carson is growing up so fast. In a couple weeks he will be 6 months, time flies! We weighed him about 2 weeks ago and he was 14 lbs. He just starting eating solids a couple days ago. He has only had green beans but he loved them. He kept pulling the spoon closer to himself, I guess I wasn't fast enough. He is getting better everyday at sitting up by himself. After a few minutes he falls over but its getting better. He has rolled over a couple times but hasn't cared to roll over much since then. He is such a happy and playful little boy. He loves to babble too.

Going for the candy already

Trying to eat Henry's cookie

Pictures

2009-08-23T19:08:00.001-07:00

so serious

Such a big boy

one fist just isn't good enough

Tummy time

playing with his toys

Little Update

2009-08-18T10:20:00.001-07:00

We are in Washington for the rest of the summer. Austin has been working for a funeral home here in Washington for the past couple weeks. This is the same company that he is going to work for when he graduates. They needed some extra help, so here we are till school starts again.

We tried taking Carson to his first baseball game last weekend, but the Mariners were playing the Yankees so the game was sold out. Oh well, maybe next time.

Carson is growing and growing. He is three months now. Yesterday we were out running around and out of no where he just started laughing. I have never heard him laugh like this. It was so cute and funny. It last for a few minutes too. We are sad that we didn't have the camera with us. So our goal is to make him laugh so we can get it on camera. So far he hasn't laughed like that again, but that's not stopping us from trying!

I'll post some updated pictures of him soon. I can't remember where I put the cord to download them to the computer. I'm looking for it, so hopefully within the next day or so.

Growing little boy

2009-07-26T18:39:00.000-07:00

Carson finally made it to 10 lbs. He is still tall and skinny! He smiles and coos all the time, but I have yet to catch the smiles on camera. Once I get the camera out he knows what I am trying to do and just stops smiling. We went and got professional pictures a couple weeks ago and the photographer was able to get some pictures with him smiling, so at least we have those.

Carson loves his swing and is starting to notice when no one is in the room with him. He doesn't like that so much. He is a fun little boy and we enjoy every minute of him.

Carson spit up all over Austin and got all over him. I thought it

was funny so I had to take a picture of it.

We went to Utah a few weeks ago for Austin's cousin's softball tournament. They live in California so Austin doesn't get to see them alot. It was fun to see/meet them.

All cuddled up after a bath

6 weeks

2009-06-30T14:31:00.000-07:00

Carson is now 6 weeks. He is growing up so fast. He now weighs 8lbs 10 oz, 22 inches long. Tall and skinny. He is still such a good baby. We got lucky with him. We still just get to hang out all day. We have been going on more walk now that the rain has stopped which has been good for me. It's some type of exercise. It is so fun and amazing to watch carson grow.

MTC

2009-06-09T18:15:00.001-07:00

Last week Carson and I went to Utah with my mom and Scott to drop off Scott at the MTC. We left Tuesday morning and did some last minute shopping for Scott before we dropped him off. We also went to the MTC Tuesday night to take a couple pictures because we knew we wouldn't have much time Wednesday morning. Scott was so anxious in the morning to go, he wasn't even hungry for breakfast! He said He had been waiting for this day since January and just wanted to be there. We got to the MTC around 11:30. We just dropped him off said a quick goodbye and that was it. They no longer have the orientation so it as a curb side drop off. My mom said that she had a letter waiting for her when she got to Georgia on last Saturday. He is doing good and likes both of his companions. Hopefully he will be good at writing and we will be able to here more about his mission.

Carson's blessing

2009-06-04T15:24:00.000-07:00

On Sunday, May 31st we had Carson's blessing. Austin blessed him during sacrament meeting and then we went to be with my brother Scott to be set apart as a missionary right after. We did Carson's blessing sooner than normal so that Scott could be apart of it and before my mom left to go back home. My dad was also able to make it, along with Austin's parents. It worked out pretty good for the long distance travelers I think. Of course we had some family and friends here that didn't have to travel as far!

We had a little lunch afterwards. Luckily the weather was nice because I don't think that we would have been able to fit everyone in our apartment. Carson looked so grown up in his blessing outfit. It was a busy day but it was fun share this day with some of our family and friends.

Just like Dad

2009-06-04T15:16:00.000-07:00

We took Carson to watch his daddy play baseball for a little bit. He wore his baseball sleeper so he could match dad. It was good to get out of the house and also let Keagen and Chad run around outside. I'm sure we will have more baseball games to watch this summer.

Austin always wanted a picture of him holding his kids in his mit. Carson is almost too big but it still worked!

Meeting Family

2009-06-04T15:07:00.000-07:00

The last week has been busy with family coming in to meet Carson. He didn't seem to be bothered with all the new people he was meeting. It was fun having family around for a little while.

Carson and mema

Aunt Valerie and cousins Keagen and Chad

Grandpa Knutson

More pictures

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What a sweetheart!

He loves his binki

Spending time with Grandma

Kisses from daddy

It only took a day for him to find his thumbs and he loves it!

Bath time

2009-05-22T15:34:00.001-07:00

Carson wasn't a big fan of his bath. He doesn't like to be naked, or get his diaper changed. But he calmed down the second he got out of the bath and was wrapped up in daddy's arms

Our Baby Boy!

2009-05-18T19:30:00.000-07:00

Carson was born Saturday May 16, 2009 at 5:17pm. He was 7lbs exactly, 19 3/4 inches long. He is a beautiful baby boy and we couldn't be happier. He got a pretty big bruise on his head coming out but it's looking better everyday. We came home today and are adjusting pretty good. He sleeps all the time and always wants to be held. Luckily he has family around to spoil him for a little bit. We love him and are excited for our new adventure!

Happy 25th Birthday!

2009-04-30T19:19:00.000-07:00

On Monday Austin turned 25. I had to work all day and Austin has classes, but we were able to celebrate his birthday for a few hours that evening. We went out to eat and got his free ice cream at cold stone after. Austin isn't much of a cake person, so I made him a banana creme pie instead. It was fun watching him open his present and blowing out the candles!

38 Weeks

2009-04-30T19:13:00.000-07:00

Almost there. Only two more weeks! Hopefully no more than that. I am getting more anxious and excited everyday. Things are still going well. Work is getting more tiring but at least it gives me something to do during the day.

North Carolina

2009-04-09T19:15:00.001-07:00

Last week Austin and I were able to do a little bit of traveling. We went to North Carolina to visit my brother brad, his wife Becky and our new nephew Ethan. We had a great time seeing them and relaxing. This was the first time that Austin really got to know them. They were able to come out for out wedding but we didn't get to spend a whole lot of time with them. I didn't do a very good job of taking pictures when we were at their house but I did manage to get one.

We had a great time and it was fun spending time with you!

Washington DC and Mt. Vernon

2009-04-09T18:54:00.000-07:00

While we were out in North Carolina we were able to take a couple days and go to Washington DC. We went to the DC temple when we first got there and then headed to downtown DC and walked around the mall afterwards. We walked around the capital building, went to the union station, saw the liberty bell. That night we stayed at my aunts house in Virginia. The next Day we went back to the mall and spend almost all day there. We spend a lot of time at the Arlington cemetery and we saw JFK's grave and the changing of the guards. We then went to the Lincoln monument, Washington monument, and the Vietnam wall. It was a lot of walking around but it was all worth it. We both want to go back someday to see the rest of DC. On our way back to Brad's we stopped at Mt. vernon. We say Washington's mansion and took a tour of it and went to his tomb, and just walked around his property and saw how he lived.

We were pretty busy for those couple days but learned a lot about our nation's history. It was a good experience for the both of us!

Capital Building

White House

Sitting in front of the Capital building

Changing of the Guards

Washington's mansion in Mt. Vernon

Austin feeding some sheep!

We had a great time and it was a well needed vacation before we become parents!

Baby Shower

2009-03-15T14:51:00.000-07:00

Last Weekend my cousin put together a baby shower for me. It turned out really good. She had great food for us, fun games and I got a lot of great gifts. It was fun to have some family and friends there that I don't see very often. My mom was able to come out too. So we had a big weekend of family and fun. Things are still going good for us. We are getting ready to visit Brad, Becky and Ethan in a couple weeks in North Carolina and while we are there we are going to take a couple days to go to DC and also see my aunt, so we are excited about that. Work is going good, and Austin will be starting school again in about a month. Time is flying by and pretty soon we will have our new addition to our family!

Here are some pictures from the Baby Shower

This is a quilt my grandma is making for us

The Candy Bar Game

Here is a pretty recent picture of me too. I was 29 weeks when we took this.

Thanks again Terressa for putting the baby shower together and thanks again to everyone who came! It was great.

6 Months!

2009-02-03T20:59:00.000-08:00

Well I'm six months pregnant now. It seems to be going by so fast. Only a couple more weeks and I will be in my third trimester. He has been kicking a lot more lately and Austin has been able to feel him too. I think he was taken back the first time he felt him kick but he thinks its one of the coolest things. It wasn't until last week that I noticed a big change in the size of my belly. I feel like I grew over night. Things are still going good and I don't really have any complaints.

My brother also got his mission call last Thursday. He is going to the Belgium Brussels Netherlands Mission (I think I got that Right!). He is way excited and he doesn't leave till June 3rd so he will still be around when the baby is born. I'm excited for that one.

It's a Boy!

2009-01-06T17:13:00.001-08:00

Well it's a boy! Another grandson for both sides of the family. We are excited though. Now I can actually start buying baby clothes. My due date is still May 13 and everything looked good. At first during the ultrasound he was a little shy and kept his legs together but it didn't take long for him to let us know that he was a boy. Here are some pictures too. I'm 5 months ( 22 weeks) and I'm still fitting into my normal clothes, but I don't think that it will be too much longer until I have to start wearing maternity clothes. I'll try and do better about getting more pictures taken too!

Christmas

2009-01-02T17:48:00.000-08:00

This year we had Christmas at my sisters. We got to her house on Christmas Eve just in time for the Knutson family tradition of German pancakes for dinner! After dinner the two little boys opened there Christmas PJs and we opened one present for my parents. This year they gave us the Christmas Carols book. Each kid in my family gets the same present each year and we all open it on Christmas Eve. We had fun opening the rest of the presents in the morning and watching the boys open there gifts and then wanting to play with the toys right then and forget about everything else. We were able to stay till New Years Day and enjoy spending the holiday season with family, even though more than half of us got sick. I think my dad and I were the only survivors!

The latest news

2008-12-09T18:09:00.000-08:00

Well it's been a long time since I updated our blog. I'm not really good at remembering to do that. Things are going well for us. Austin is almost done with this semester. His last class is on Friday! Work is going good for me, and I'm still enjoying it a lot. But most importantly, things are going really well with my pregnancy. I haven't really been to sick so I've been lucky so far. We got this ultrasound about a month ago and that's when I found out that I was actually 4 weeks farther along that what I had originally thought. My due date is May 13, 2009 and we find out what we are having on Jan. 6th. We are both really excited and can't wait till may.

Home Sweet Home

2008-09-23T19:25:00.000-07:00

We are living in a basement apartment in Rexburg. It is a one bedroom, but we have lots of room and it's close to campus. The ceilings are a little low so when Scott, my little brother, comes over he always has to duck! Its kind of funny. It took us a few weeks to get everything situated, but we now have it how we like it. The only thing missing is our wedding pictures, but we should be getting them soon!

The Kitchen! We have no dishwasher:(

Living Room

Our Bedroom (The closet is in the right hand corner)

The Bathroom

Trip to Portland

2008-09-23T18:56:00.000-07:00

I'm kind of slow at posting things but I liked these pictures so I decided to post it anyways. It's better late then never. On our way to Rexburg we stopped in Portland to go shopping, go to the zoo, and to go to the temple. We also stopped at some falls right outside of Portland on our way to Boise. They were fun to see. We didn't hike all the way up because we were in our Sunday clothes. Maybe next time we will. We had fun on our little vacation before Austin started school again.

I can't remember the name of these falls!

Hurricane Ridge

2008-08-16T14:01:00.000-07:00

On August 3rd, Austin and I went to Hurricane Ridge for a picnic. Everyone here kept telling me how great of a view it was so it made me really want to see it for myself. The view was amazing and it was a great day too. We were able to walk around on some of the trails and enjoy nature.

Honeymoon in Cancun, Mexico

2008-07-13T22:00:00.000-07:00

Our honeymoon was so much fun. It was the first time that Austin and I have ever been out of the country (except Canada). The resort was amazing, the weather was great, and we were able to go on a few tours and see some of mexico. We were able to see one of the ruins and actually climb the temple. We were lucky that we went when we did because after this summer, they are no longer letting people actually climb to the top. Hopefully some day we can go back and be beach bums again!

Coba Ruins

First weeks of married life!

2008-07-13T21:45:00.001-07:00

The first three weeks of our married life Austin and I were always traveling somewhere. We went from Idaho to Utah, back to Idaho, then to Michigan. We then spent a week on our honeymoon in cancun. From there we went back to Michigan, back to Idaho, and then finally to Washington where we have been since May. We were able to do some fishing when we were in Utah. Austin hates to admit, but I caught more fish!

Our Wedding Day

2008-05-14T15:12:00.000-07:00

The wedding was amazing! We got sealed at 3:30pm and we were the 26th couple to get sealed that day. The weather was great! The sun was shining and it was in the 60s, which is not typical for Rexburg. We just got lucky! Alot of our family and friends were there to support us which made the day even better.