The Candler Family: 2012

Fall Fun!

Fall brought fun times for the Candler family. We finally moved into our house, had Zoe's first birthday, Halloween trick-or-treating, and a great time in Terrell for Thanksgiving.

Our Peter Pan and Tinkerbell had a ton of fun trick-or-treating in our new neighborhood. Parker and Weston came with us and he and Evan were so cute going from house to house. David and Evan carved a pumpkin, and Evan being the "bat" lover that he is chose that for the design.

We were fortunate to have 4 days off around Thanksgiving to allow us to spend quite a bit of time in Terrell. Our visits are always too short, but it was nice to have almost a week to visit and relax. Evan and Zoe had a lot of fun with Anya and Papa, and we loved that Elijah and Clark got to hang out with us too! Elijah and Evan played and played, they are going to be great buddies.

Thanksgiving in Terrell

11 Month Highlight for my 12 Month old

I'm way behind. I actually had this done earlier, but just haven't had the time to post it with the pictures. I will be posting her 12 month photos as wells as her birthday party pictures soon as well (and Halloween, etc, etc.)

It has been so crazy, that I'm impressed that I actually got these done in the first place!!!

Preschool Fun

August 27th marked the first day of "real" school for Evan. He has started Pre-K 3 at Ascension Episcopal School is Houston and LOVES it!! So far, it was been one of the best experiences for him. He talks about all of the fun things he gets to do, his friends, his teachers, and always tells me that I pick him up too early!! (I guess that's a good problem)

We love that he only has 7 kids in his class, and his teacher is incredible at making everything a teaching moment for all of the kids. Evan does so well with environmental learning and Ms. Blythe is awesome at it. He is so busy all day at school and they keep them moving and learning. Each day they have different classes they go to, and some they visit more than once. Evan gets to go to music, Spanish, motor skills, library, and chapel during the week. I don't even know how they fit it all in but they do.

His school experience and how much joy he has now when going to school makes all the chaos that we have been through in the last 3 months worth it. It confirms that even when it seems crazy, that we definitely made the right decision.

His teacher sends us such wonderful photos of them, so I wanted to share a little glimpse into Evan's school days.

1st day of school

His friends in his class

One of his daily visits with Zoe. They love seeing each other!

Back to school bash at the school

Celebrating 90 years of Amazing

Okay...so this post is WAY overdue. I have a few that I've been holding onto that just haven't made it up yet. Hopefully I can get them all up this week!! HA

Back in August, my incredible grandmother celebrated her 90th birthday. I know, amazing. We had a little get together at my parents house to celebrate. I don't know who had more fun at the birthday party, Evan or Mimi. He was so excited about the birthday party and loved helping her open presents and blow out her candles.

She truly is one of the most amazing women I have ever met. She is tough as nails, but has such kind heart. The older I get the more I learn to appreciate how blessed I am that God gave me her as my grandma. Don't get me wrong I've always known she was special, but now I realize even more what a big part of my life she's been. It is so special that my children are lucky enough to enjoy her as well.

We love you, Mimi and wish many more birthdays to come!!