Tummy time!

The other day we were having fun during tummy time and took some pictures.




Looks like she's doing an army crawl!


Chubby cheeks!


Here she is saying, "mom! I'm finished! Pick me up!"
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Easter/mother's day

Ok we wore the same outfits on mother's day as we did on Easter.... Ok ok, Evie was wearing an adorable Jean dress on mother's day for church. She drooled on her Jean dress so I took it off and then Jason suggested we take a picture, and I put her in her Easter dress.


Backtrack to Easter: we had a wonderful time! Jason's parents were in town and had a wonderful Easter dinner! Evie's first Easter basket was really fun to put together! She got a bunch of books, a bouncer (which she LOVES), headbands, sunglasses, the easter dress, pink and purple pacifiers, toy story three, tangled, and some wiggly toys to hang on the carseat! She got spoiled!!!! (for the most part we just got her things that we would have gotten her anyway, or already got, and waited until Easter to give them to her)





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Swimming!

Around 5 pm yesterday (Saturday) the weather was super warm, perfect for swimming! We got all dressed in our new swimming suits, (Evie also wore a swimming diaper and awesome hat) took a couple of pictures,








and headed to the swimming pool right behind our apartment. We sat next to the pool and I dipped my feet in.... Way too cold for her first time swimming. I dipped her feet in the water and she jerked them out really fast verifying my reaction to the water. Instead of swimming in the pool, I filled up the bathtub with warm water and we went tub swimming for a couple of minutes instead!

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Sister Mills!

First of all my sister left for her mission last Thursday! Evie and I went to Utah for her mission farewell and got to fly back to Denver the same day and around the same time Janna flew out to Chicago and then on to London! (I will post on our trip to Utah later). I just wanted to let everyone know I have been updating Janna's blog with her mission e-mails, so if you want to know how she's doing jump on over to

Janna's blog

And while you're clicking on links, check this one out:

http://ccimaginephotography.blogspot.com/

(The extremely talented Courtney Campbell took both pictures featured in this post! She's AMAZING! I mean look at these pictures! Beautiful models and amazing photographer = phenomenal pictures!)

p.s. Court, I hope you don't mind me "borrowing" these pictures from you, they are amazing!

Zoo!

We went to the zoo today! A couple of ladies in the ward have zoo passes and go to the zoo once a month. We decided to join them... The weather was so nice and we had a blast!



Some monkey's swinging around!


This is Evie's buddy! I would put of the shade on her car seat and stroller so so wouldn't be blinded (like in this picture) and Enoch would come over and peek through the small space between the two shades. It was probably the cutest thing I saw while at the zoo.




We saw the orangutan's. One came right up to the glass and pressed its face against it! In the very back was the mama and the baby and I had to zoom in pretty far to get this picture.

They did a demonstration with the seals and it reminded me of sea world.
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Baby blessing

Evalynn was blessed on Sunday March 13th at my parents house. Jason's parents were able to come down for the blessing and we all had so much fun. It's always great to get together with family.

We went to Tucanos on our first night in Utah. Here is Janna helping Evie "rock climb"


Tan & Evie just hanging out on the couch.



Jason's dad, Jason's mom, Evie, & Jason right after the blessing.


Evie, me, & Jason right before the blessing.


My mom, Evie, me, & my dad right after the blessing.


The blessing was so special, very beautiful. It was really incredible, and I feel so blessed to have the family that I do.

Evie in her blessing dress. The sweater & booties (not pictured) were made by a sister who was in one of the wards my dad served in on his mission. Last summer my family was able to go to Ireland to visit his mission and they stayed with this family, while they were there the sister made this tiny sweater and the booties for our baby. It was so nice of her, we have yet to meet her in person, but I'm so grateful for her and these beautiful items!



Right before going to the temple we visited my grandma, aunt Amy & a couple of cousins.


My grandma Eva & Evie. Evie is wearing mittens that were made by my aunt Rosemary! (she also made a hat, which is just as adorable) They're gorgeous, and I love them!



We went to the SLC temple on Tuesday evening. We planned on doing a session, but ended up doing some sealings. It was the first time we had been back to the SLC temple since our wedding! It was great, and thank you to our babysitters, who sat in the waiting room and walked around temple square while we were in the temple.



Another picture right before going to the temple.





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Baby's first flight

I am writing this in the air, it is Evalynn's first flight! We got to the airport checked in and went through security very quickly, I guess that's what you get for flying out at 7:10 am. We got to our gate about 10 minutes before boarding, got the carseat gate checked and waited to board the plane. We decided it would be easiest ton wait until after everyone had boarded so we wouldn't have to climb over people. The man checking our tickets told us there were plenty of seats and we could just take the carseat onboard with us. We got on the plane and I let the flight attendant know it was evie's first flight, that I knew we should have her suck on a pacifier or bottle during takeoff to help with the ears popping, and if there was anything else we should do. She told us the same thing and that her carseat needed to go next to a window. She then called to the back of the plane to see if there was an empty row in the back for all of us to sit in. The gentleman in the first row offered us the entire front row of the plane, so we started to get settled in, after thanking him of course. The flight attendant from the back came up and kindly informed us that FAA regulations prohibit infant carriers in the front row, so we prepared to go to the back. Two women in row four gave up their seats so we didn't have to climb all the way to the back. We thanked them and got buckled in. Take off was great, we put the pacifier in her mouth and she was completely fine. Fell asleep quickly and has been sleeping since. After the beverage and peanuts were cleaned up, the first flight attendant came over with this card for Evie's scrapbook. She also brought over some wings to put in her scrapbook.




I'm finishing this post back at home. Our flight home was also great, she just slept through the whole thing. We loved our trip to Utah and I will make a post all about that trip later.