Jeff had a birthday, shout hooray!

He's 24 now - so grown up. :-)

It may not have been the prettiest cake, but he was ready to devour it anyhow. :-)

Halloween

Okay, I am now finally getting around to blogging about Halloween. Jeff and I had a great time putting together our costumes - we made Jeff his big bad wolf mask on Thursday evening! The mask was fully articulated, so when Jeff opened his mouth (really wide) the wolf's mouth opened as well. :-) A lot of people asked us about the teeth - Jeff made them from sculpy clay.


Us together - my costume was nothing special, though very vital to the whole thing -


We went up to SoJo to see all the kids...
Here is Christian as Harry Potter, showing off his puking pumpkin -


And this is a most sincere pumpkin patch.

And the whole little family


Then we went over to the Julian's, where Katie had put together the cutest little Halloween buffet - here are some of her yummy treats -

And more pictures from the night. Unfortunately I only took pictures during the first half hour or so, so anyone who came after that is not pictured..sorry guys!





And I don't know what on earth is going on here...


So Happy Late Halloween, everyone!

Random Art.

Jeff and I made this amazing work of art for my 2 dimensional design class. Be impressed, be very impressed. We dipped rubber bands in paint and shot them at a blank sheet of paper. It was great fun, and a great mess.

We've Got Rhythm...well, sort of.

Martha Graham once said, "Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion." I'd say that by that standard, the Evensen family is a collection of truly great dancers.

Saturday night, while making a cheeseball for the baby blessing on Sunday (more on that later) we had a little Shaun Barrowes playing, and naturally this turned into a little dancing in the kitchen.

Now, earlier that week I had googled Stephanie Birkitt after reading about her relationship with David Letterman. This led me to this video of her dancing -



- so of course, I began doing that dance move - I mean, how great is that? Then I turned and saw my dad doing what appeared to be the same move. This led to a couple of "Are you...?" "Wait, is that...?" back and forth between us a few times.

I mean, I figured I could say, "Are you doing David Letterman's ex-lovers old boyfriend's dance move?" But how awkward would it be if he had no clue what I was talking about? I mean - there was no real way to explain it if he hadn't seen it, so perhaps that would have been a dance-mood killer.

Well, it turned out he was doing the same thing! He had come across the same video while "researching" Birkitt - great minds google alike.

So thank goodness - rather than killing the dance mood, it led to lots of laughter and another round of the "Letterman's ex-lover's ex-boyfriend's dance move".

Everyone can do it! Here is Mom and I -


I believe it has now been inducted to the collection of family dance moves - which includes the following:

Any of the moves seen in this segment from A Charlie Brown Christmas -

Favorite moves include those demonstrated by Freida, Shermy, and Linus. There was this one Christmas Eve (not too long ago, mind you) that we turned on the movie and watched this part over and over again, dancing along as a family.(The over and over again part was courtesy of Christian, who ran up to rewind it every time we finished. And hey - once that music starts, you can't help but dance.)

Another classic move is one brought to us from Dad's high school days. It goes a little something like this -


A recent addition has come from Nils, who explains it this way - "You go up to a group..."
Unfortunately I don't have a photo to share. But it's an easy one! Just put both arms up in 90 degree angles. And...you're done. You can choose to pulse with the music some if you'd like.

And of course, the classic dance move that started it all. This dance move originated with Daniel at a Mariners game in the summer of 2006, I believe. Here Dad, Mom, and Anders do it at the Mariners game this last summer.


I'm sure Martha Graham would be very impressed.

Freddie

Isn't my nephew the cutest thing?

Type Writers.

My little brother Christian has lately become fascinated with type writers. He likes to write little stories and poems on my mom's old type writer. On Monday he showed me this 'poem' that he had written. The 'd' key no longer works, so he decided to substitute the 't' in for it, but the rest of his spelling errors are non-intentional. It turned out really funny and ironic, though I'm sure he didn't mean it to. :-)

1,000 Days.

Today marks 1,000 days that Jeff and I have been together.
We were dorky and figured that out a few weeks ago, and I put it in my phone as an event on the calendar. And then forgot about it. But today it popped up and reminded me - so here we are! And now we get to celebrate!
This was us..1,000 days ago -

(See Jeff's necklace? I convinced him to stop wearing it not too long after that...)
We thought about taking a picture of us today - to compare, but um...we both look really scroungy today since we've just been cleaning and getting ready for going back to school. So we're going to pass on that for now.