Evan's Blessing Day #3

Our third day was packed full of activities!!

Jess made appointments at the Nail Salon. 

Corinne and Shannon and Nancy (Jess's mom) and Alyssa (Jess's youngest sister).

Jess and I got pedicures. It worked out just right for us to have time to talk and enjoy being together.

Here we are on the way out the door to go home - Evan came along too!

Next activity was our Texas BBQ at the Miller's. 

They are very good friends of Scott and Jess's.

 I would say a surrogate Mom and Dad and wonderful friends.

I didn't post pictures of all of the food - there was a lot, but you get the idea. It was delicious. The best steak I've ever had. I'm not a big on steak, but it was heavenly. 

 Scott was pretty excited about it. He is really immersing himself in the Texas lifestyle. They both are actually. It is exciting to watch them blossom where they have planted themselves. 

We lounged around for quite a while to let our food settle and enjoy Evan.

 I think there was still some snacking after dinner because there was all manner of M&M varieties in the house and these two are eating. Fred and Shannon were not at the house before we ate. We had a car rental issue so this was definitely after dinner. hmmmm 

We played games after dinner. Heads Up

 Splendor the board game - This is Nancy, Pernell (Jess's Dad) and Julie Miller playing with Corinne.

 Ticket To Ride - Fred, Alyssa and Rick Miller playing.

and Evan again.......

 Here's the group!!!

By evening we made the decision to take the boat tour of the Riverwalk.

I think this will be one of the my all time favorite pictures of Scott & Jess.

They are so happy!! 

It's beautiful along the river. So many lights and the way the buildings and waterway go together. 

We will want to go again and again on our return trips to San Antonio!!

 After Scott & Jess headed home with Evan, we wandered to the Alamo.

I mean wandered......

 Picture of taking pictures.................

Another wonderful day.

Thank you Scott & Jess for all the planning and preparing for us!!

It was a big long day for them. Learning to navigate with a baby. They did GREAT!

Evan's Blessing Day #2

On Friday morning we headed back to Scott & Jess's. 

Got to watch a little of the morning routine.

Some more auntie marveling.

Shannon is going to have a Relief Society activity about journal and family history so we were    looking at Jess's chat books. She has a fantastic collection. 

Jess does such wonderful types of journaling.

  

We headed over to USAA to see where Scott works. Fred and I have been there before, but he has since moved to a new area with new people and it's such an impressive place. 

Thanks to Jess ~ she was the one to step up and ask someone to take our picture. 

It was very chilly, windy in San Antonio. We were not prepared for the weather. 

It was cold!

Later in the afternoon we drove over to the Temple. 

 This is a rare picture of Fred smiling showing teeth.

Again with the taking a picture of taking pictures.

Evan's Blessing Day #1

Scott made a file of all the pictures that were taken by all of us. 

Hundreds. I've strategically and carefully selected a much smaller handful 

to document our fabulous weekend.

Shannon and Corinne both arranged to take time off work.

They also did this when Scott went through the temple to receive his endowment before his mission.

I think they like their brother. They are very proud of him!!!

Shannon arrived Wednesday night. She had all day Thursday to hold Evan without sharing.

Corinne's flight arrived about 5 minutes after ours. We met at the baggage claim.

Picked up the rental car and drove straight to Scott and Jess's home.

Everyone let me be the first to hold Evan.

 We all fussed over him quite a bit. When Fred took him over, he was so calm.

I really did love the way he just looked up at Fred. It was really sweet.

 See ........

 Right away Scott wanted to get a four generation picture. 

Great Grandpa is 92, Fred (Grandpa) is 62, Scott (Dad) is 28 and Evan is 3 months old.

 Corinne finally got her turn with Great Grandpa looking on having a little talk.

 We took a tour of the house. This is upstairs in the loft.

 Great Grandpa having his turn with Evan. 

 Having a little fun. 

 Okay now.....

 We love taking pictures of taking pictures.

 Wendy Allred from Bremerton has been such a sweet friend. She sewed the blessing outfits for Shannon's two children and had offered to sew one for Evan. I told her I thought that Jess's family probably had that taken care of. She said she wanted to do something so she made this beautiful quilt. She mailed it to me and I brought it with me. It fits perfectly with their jungle theme nursery. 

It's the softest most beautiful quilt ever.

They just love it!!

 Scott is such a wonderful Dad. He does EVERYTHING.

We are so proud of him. 

 These two girls were just baby crazy over Evan the entire weekend.

I expected it from Corinne because she is baby crazy, but Shannon WOW.

 This is what we did.

 It's like we've never seen a baby before.

 Shannon had postpartum depression so badly she just never got to enjoy her own.

 Here is Evan's nursery. It's really so cute!!

 Auntie Shannon. 

 We all met up with Larry and Cheryl Johnson from Bremerton for dinner the first night we arrived. They haven't met Evan yet. 

 It was fun to visit and enjoy some great food at BJ's. 

 We stayed at a World Mark property in New Braunfels. It was 30 miles out of San Antonio, but it was worth the drive. It had three bedrooms, kitchen and two and half baths. 

Very comfortable and fit our needs. 

So that was day one.