Mother's Day

I'm super behind. This year, I had my first Mother's Day as a mommy. :) The Friday before Mother's Day, Jared planned a romantic dinner for me. It was so cute! He made his own fondue, because we had talked about the Melting Pot and how it would be fun but it's too expensive. So, he took me to this beautiful place by where he works.

 Here's Jared setting up the fondue picnic.

Here's Evlyn eating the picnic table.

Some sparkling cider.

 The place was so beautiful! And, they had music playing so we danced. :)

Then on Mother's day, Evlyn and I matched, and took pictures. I don't really have many good ones, but I like the last one. I love being a mommy to my little Evlyn!

1 year old!!

Evlyn turned 1 year on Friday! On Saturday, we had a small party to celebrate with family. Here are some family pictures my sister Aimee took. :)

 Here's Jared playing with the bday girl and her cousin, Landon.

 haha There's Evlyn confused about the candle. And me in the background filming. :)

 Here's Jared's hand making sure Evlyn doesn't grab the flame.

 Evlyn didn't really want anything to do with the cake, as you'll see in the video. She threw it on the floor first, and then played with it a little.

 Cute picture of Brixton, Mylee, and Evlyn.

 Jumping on the trampoline! Mylee was so cute with Evlyn!

 Aimee's kids love playing with Jared! He always gets a good workout with them too! haha!

 Present time! Evlyn was good at ripping a few presents, with lots of help!

 But, when she opened this ball, that's all she wanted to play with. Here I am opening her next gift.

 And off Evlyn ran to go play with her new ball (Well, she liked the tag better lol)

 And, she also got a new water bottle, which became her new favorite to walk around. She LOVES water!!

 She also got this awesome wagon!!

 Here's all the grandchildren on my side of the family.

 Here's Evlyn's birthday cake! That's a "E" haha it's strange, but oh well. It was a cookie-dough cake, and then normal funfetti cupcakes. I thought the cookie-dough cake turned out soo yummy! I basically did the same thing as the cupcakes for Jared's birthday, but layered the cake so that the cookie-dough didn't have to go in the oven. It was much yummier!

 Here's Evlyn on her real birthday, being cute and happy.

 And, here she is the night of her party, wearing her new pj's!

We all had a great day, and I think Evlyn did too!

Smiles, Prom!

My baby girl is growing up soo much!! She turns a year old next week!! CRAZY!!! I love this little outfit she's in!

 I gave her some whipped cream and she got messy! I realized I try to keep her pretty clean so she doesn't get everything dirty, but I don't want her being scared getting messy. She ate a lot of it too!

 My little smarty pants is too smart sometimes. She tasted a little bit of chocolate, and saw another candy bar on a shelf too high for her. So, she dumped this box of raisins on the ground, stepped on it, and got the candy bar. She walked around the house with it smiling. :)

 She has also started smiling for the camera!! yay!! Here are some cute smiles she gave me when I pulled out my camera.

 On Tuesdays, some of my friends and I go swimming with our children. We call it "Tan Tuesdays". Here's Evlyn in her cute little swimsuit! You can't tell from this picture, but she LOVES the water!! She kept trying to walk into the pool, and when I took her out, she almost jumped out of my arms to get back in!

 More smiles. :)

On Friday, April 20, we went to the Mormon prom for adults (the night b4 the one for the youth.) Our friends Laurice and Mary watched Evlyn for us, which was sooo nice! We had a much needed dance date, and had a blast!!

*Evlyn walk soo well now!!
*As mentioned above, she is a water baby!
*Her hair is looking more red, and will def. be curly!
*Her eyes are changing to look more like Jared's (brown with a little bit of green)
*She loves to carry things when she walks, even things that are bigger than her!
*She loves to watch other kids play
*She is such a good baby!!
*She loves to play peek-a-boo and does it by herself!

Here's a video I took on April 9 of her walking. She's more stable now. :)

1rst Easter!!

Yesterday was Evlyn's first Easter, and my mom got all of the granddaughters matching dresses. Here's Evlyns! And, here's an Easter egg hunt we had with Jared's family. 

 She loved looking around to watch the other children going crazy for eggs. It was hard to get her to look at the camera!

 She figured out how to open it and found gum!! Don't worry, I took it away after the pic. :)

 Haha! Jared snapped this one and I think it's my favorite. It's so funny!

 This is from last weekend, during General Conference. She must've loved it, because she was so happy lol!

 She's getting so strong!

 Happy baby!

 This was at church yesterday. She actually kept a clip in her hair for a little!

*Evlyn is almost 11 months old

*She walks really well, more than she crawls now. 

*She seems like she grows taller every day

*She's such a happy girl!

*Her hair seems really red sometimes, but it's still so short it's hard to tell.

*She's a very observant girl and very smart. She puts lids on containers, the socket protectors in the sockets, and tries to feed us when we're trying to feed her.

*She LOVES baths!

*She climbs on everything, and can wriggle out of everything! (the stroller even when she's buckled, the high chair, and even a straight jacked that the doctor put on her!)

*I  just can't get over how cute she is!