The Candler Family

Oh, What a Year!

Oh, what a year is right. You can tell by the fact that I'm posting this 12 month blog in December that it has been a little crazy. The ironic thing is it perfectly describes the life of my little girl as well. She is such a joy, a ton of fun, and nothing short of a true busy body!

The year with Zoe flew by. With Evan I felt like he was a baby forever, and it the time it took to get to his 1st birthday was quite a while. Totally different with Zoe. She has been a big girl since the time she could smile. I'm sure part of this is the fact that she is a second child, but when you combine that with her independent personality, she has grown entirely too fast for this mama!

We can't wait to see how this little girl continues to steal our hearts. She makes me smile everyday, and has such a sweet spirit. Zoe is so smiley, such an explorer, and is completely in love with her brother. Evan and Zoe have really started to play together and interact and nothing is sweeter than seeing the love between these two. They have so much fun together!

I know that I'm WAY late on posting about my 1 year old, but this blog wouldn't be complete without the highlights from her birthday!!

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.