Early Birthday Present

We gave Evelyn her little push/ride-on toy early so she can get better at walking. This is right after we set it up.  She loves it!  You can remove the seat and push the front and back together, that's how we will have it until she is big enough to ride by herself.  She is cruising as far as our little apartment will allow now!  Listen for the little gurgling/rolling tongue noise.  She does this ALL the time and sometimes I  feel like I have an animal in my grocery cart/backseat etc.  It sounds hilarious.  She is actually vibrating her uvula. Chris is really good at this noise but I can't even do it!  Daddy's Girl :)

Clapping and Blowing Kisses

This is Aunt Robyn and I trying to get her to clap.  She does one kiss at the end but it isn't the greatest.  Usually she makes a "mmwah" sound with it.

Evelyn's New Cheesy/Squinty Smile

We can barely get a normal smile out of her these days!  It's all about the reaction, and she knows we crack up when she does it.  I hope to get a good portrait with this cute smile, but I also hope to get one with a normal smile!  Hilarious.

Is this girl lovin' life or what?

4th of July

We had a wonderful long weekend in Silverthorne.  Evelyn loved the parade and fireworks.  Actually she didn't think much about the parade was that impressive.  Except the Dum Dum that she got to taste (picture below).

Pointing at fireworks with Daddy.

Smiling at the bright sky.

Family fireworks picture.  

This was  her first reaction as we were still walking to our spot and they started.  I can't believe she was still awake for it (note her pj's) but I am so glad!  She wasn't scared at all and enjoyed the whole show.

Baby Junk Food

First Dum Dum.  Do not try taking it away or she will throw a tantrum.

First popsicle.  Props to me, I made my own out of 100% juice so this actually isn't junk food.

Trying to salvage some high fructose corn syrup from the bottom of Dad's otter pop:)

Dryer Girl

Evelyn is fascinated with the dryer.  For the past couple months she will pull herself up whenever it is open and proceed to pull all of the contents out one by one.  When I am folding clothes this is helpful and adorable.  When I am switching wet clothes into the dryer is is still adorable but not at all helpful.  One night I decided to make her day and let her sit inside for a minute.

Washington Cousins

While we were in Utah Evelyn got a rare chance to play with her cousins!  They live in Washington, and only 3 out of the 8 were there.  Joseph and Noelle were so fun to follow around and play with.  Spencer was there too but he was only 11 days old.  Evelyn wanted to give him loves and squeezes though.

Utah

Sleeping on her Uncle Dallin in Seagull book.  She drooled in his hair and he loved every minute of it :)

Trying on Grandma's reading glasses.

She learned to blow kisses while we were there.  Here's a smack.

Cute Munchin' Pictures

This is in 2nd cousin Kaia's cool high chair that we borrowed.

Sweet messy face at home back in June.

Riding Trigger

My little brother Preston got this horse for Christmas when he was little and named him that. Evelyn loves to ride him when we are at their house, she bounces up at down by herself and gets all excited, and then she suddenly stops and leans around to try and look at his face.  It is so cute!  This was on Daddy's birthday when Grandma and Grandpa babysat.

Crawling on the tramp at Grandma and Grandpa's.  She has been army scooting for awhile now and crawled on all fours for the first time yesterday.

Cute, don't know where her smile was though.  At this stage I think sometimes she wants me to just hold her and stop mauling her with kisses and squeezes!

Playing at Mom's old park.

She loved swinging!  The face in the back loved pushing her and watching her smile :)

Evelyn crawled over to Molly all by herself for a puppy kiss.  

More tramp.  Chris took this picture, I think the sun looks awesome.

Cutest thing ever.  I think this is the only time that her butt has looked huge :)

This is in Ft. Collins at Carabas.  We were there doing Follett so we ate out a lot on company $.  They brought out "kid dough" after we ordered for Evelyn to destroy/eat/throw on the floor.  Good thinking Carabas!  Every other night at dinner she somehow helped my water find it's way to my lap so this was a nice change.

My USU roomie Natalie was there doing Follett too with her hubby Brian.  They got off before Chris one day so we explored downtown.  They had some neat sculptures and fountains.

He he he

This is my teething face :(  I have 2.

Easter and Phoenix!

I know these are pretty late but I have a very good excuse.  While in Arizona after Easter, my memory card went completely haywire and when I got home no card readers anywhere would recognize it!  I freaked out and ended up paying a data recovery specialist to get the pictures off.  So these are just as expensive as professional pictures but taken by yours truly!  So make sure you oooh and aaah a lot over these cause we went through some trouble to have them!  

Waving from the lovely Kaysville Tabernacle after her first Easter Sacrament meeting.  We learned to wave while at Grandma Tingey's

Excited about her Easter basket before church...out of order I know...if that annoys you brace yourself cause it continues

Kissing her new bunny friend

The layout.  That egg has bubbles in it and we make the cutest video of her watching Chris blow them.. alas our videos were not salvageable from the card so just imagine the cuteness

Playing in the ice water while out to eat

Smelling flowers after church with Mom

Grass!  It was so cute to watch her explore the new texture - and try to eat it.

Sweet face

Enjoying the sunshine with Dad

Grandma Tingey's pretty flower was nearly uprooted :)

Off to the airport we miss you Grandma!!  Evelyn and I flew to Arizona for a couple days where my parents and brothers were on Spring Break.

Playing with the flowers at the Mesa Temple

Sleepiest face ever.  That water took everything out of her.

Munching on an apple in the hotel room

Getting sun screened up 

Splashing in the water fountains.  They had a water park at their hotel/resort place and they had the cutest little pool and fountain area for babies and little kids.  This one was just her size.

I think she wants to follow in someone's footsteps:)  (Grandpa Hill is a dentist)

Mesa Temple fact:  The tiles on the outside of the temple have never had to be cleaned and have stayed shiny - it was built in the 20's.  Neato huh?

Rough vacation moment - picture this - starving in the car - eating baby food - without a spoon on hand :)  What an awesome face.