Merry Christmas

Because we are so lucky to have our adorable Evie, we did a Christmas card this year and mailed them out to family before we left for our North Carolina Christmas. 

(Woot woot!)

We just had to show pictures of our sweet girl :)

 Unfortunately, we are still poor students and our budget only allowed us to send our cards to family, but we wanted to wish all our friends Happy Holidays as well so...

Happy Holidays from San Francisco!

 Here is a brief summary of 2012...

Twenty Twelve has been a wonderful year of new experiences for our little Youngberg family.

Our sweet Miss Evie Mae just turned one on December 3rd. This year has been so fun to see her experience everything for the first time. She is crawling everywhere, can stand up by herself, but is taking her sweet little time before she takes those first steps, which we are perfectly happy about 

Evangeline has grown up fast and wants to do everything her mama and dada are doing. Jeff calls her a good “Lil’ Mama” because some of her favorite things to do are rocking, feeding, hugging, kissing, or singing (“Ahh”) to her baby dolls. She also is an avid reader of any book or magazine; however, she is partial to Paula Deen magazine and is especially interested in her dada’s business books lately.

While she does love singing along to Frosty the Snowman (“bump bump”) and she still loves her Kindermusik songs, Evie has also become very fond of her dada’s music, Mumford and Sons and Fun., and loves to dance/sing to them.

Evangeline is also a huge talker! We won’t list everything, but our favorites are “Dada bye-bye,” “cheese,” “the baby,” “wa wa ba ba” (water bottle), and “num num num num” (yummy).

If you were reading this and wondering why I was only talking about Evie then my job of capturing 2012 in a nutshell is done. It was the year of Evie. But for the few of you that want to still know about Jeff and me, please read on.

Jeff thinks he is really a dentist since he started seeing patients in UCSF’s dental clinic this year. And maybe he is since he has given me an exam and a cleaning. I was told to stay away from the candy canes

And me…well I’ve been loving being a mama to the most fun baby in the world, which I feel sums up my year quite nicely.

Love,
Jeffrey, Whitney, and Evangeline

 

...and Merry Christmas from NC :)

Minus Natalie's family :(

Does the tree seem tall?
Well it is.
Twelve feet baby!
That's how we do it (in NC).
What a great childhood memory.
Had to get my fill...

Evangeline loved getting her Christmas pjs on Christmas Eve plus her Christmas socks...

This is how we lured Evangeline to her presents Christmas morning...

 and it worked like a charm :)

And she loved opening presents again...

(she'd had a pre-Christmas Christmas in SF with Jeff's family. After her first birthday, her pre-Christmas, Christmas Eve at Nana's, Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandpa's, and Christmas day, this girl has got the present opening thing down.)

 but even a one-year-old knows that the bigger the better!

 Can you tell I was tired?
Late night at Nana's.

and

Evangeline has loved seeing Nana!

What a Happy Christmas!

One year pictures...

 Miss Evie Mae had to get some special one year shots for the books :)

 

What a wonderful first year!

1st Birthday Party

 For Evangeline's 1st birthday, we had a party showing all her favorite things.
We tried to kept the food baby themed (mini cupcakes).
The best party about a December party is we were able to have hot chocolate with candy canes and with whole milk (it is a baby party after all).

A girlie reading canopy because Evangeline has been a reader since the beginning.

Most people don't believe us when we say this, but she just looks at books, page by page, all day every day. 

Her dada calls her a baby nerd. But we love nerds :)

You can't tell in the picture but on the window is a glitter lettered birthday sign :) You can't have a girl party without glitter right?

 Evie Mae has always loved train rides in her Target diaper boxes, so I made them look a little more appealing to her other baby friends using our Christmas and her birthday wrapping paper.

 

 In her reading spot before the party started. Her Grammy and Papa Chris arrived to find her reading books by herself in her canopy while we finished getting things ready.

 Having fun getting hugs from Lily.

 The last activity center for the babies was a mirror. Evangeline LOVES mirror play and always has. She has a full length mirror on the back of her bedroom door and she'll sit and talk to herself forever.

 She was so excited to have her bestie, Eden, come. 

Here she is trying to touch Eden (as usual). She kept trying to kiss her at the party. 

She loves Eden!

 Laughing with Lily.

We used battery powered lights so the babies could safely touch the lights. 

 

The babies had so much fun ripping the trains apart and tearing down the lights and pom poms, which we knew would happen so it was fun to watch. The lights lasted longer than anticipated :)
Babies love ripping things apart for fun, so
It's not a baby party until things are getting ripped apart!

We gave away bubbles to the kids who came since Evie loves bubbles and still is figuring them out, and what baby/kid doesn't love bubbles.

The things I did for me were the colors of the party. I tried to use a lot of pink and teal since my favorite book as a girl was called the Silver Slippers and the book is pink and teal. It even came with a silver slipper (ballet slippers) necklace. LOVED it! It was all about a ballerina. I tried to use pink pom poms to make it seem more ballerina-like. I just love anything to do with ballerinas + little girls. I'm still fascinated by ballerinas. I'll give the book to Evangeline when she's a little older I think.

Evie had a blast at her party and had so much fun with all her friends.

She is so lucky to have such nice friends and we were so happy to have everyone come celebrate in our 550 sq ft one bedroom home ;)

1st Cake

Our Miss Evie Mae loved it!

And this is how it looked after she was through with it...