Happy Birthday Miss Evie!

"When they placed you in my arms, you slipped into my heart." I think this quote fits so well for this picture. Mommy and Evie first meet!

Our first family picture!

Miss Evie in the hospital after getting all cleaned up!

Evie and her first night home from the hospital!

One week old!

1 month old!

Evie's blessing day! My very talented brother in law Blake Harris took this picture!

2 months. I took this photo with the help of Owen's niece!

3 months. First Smile!

4 months and first time in the bumbo!

5 months!

6 months!

7 months!

First Halloween!

8 months!

9 months and first Christmas!

10 months!

11 months!

12 months!

I never thought that a child could bring such joy to a family, but when Miss Evie came into our lives we felt it instantly! She has the sweetest spirit and fills our home with so much love! She has the cutest smile and laugh and such a laid back personality! We love you Evie and feel so blessed to have you in our lives! This past year has gone by too quickly and we have enjoyed every minute of it! Happy Birthday, we love you!

Bike Ride

This last Monday for Family Home Evening we took advantage of the Beeeutiful weather and went on a family bike ride!

Owen got me this bike last summer when he was in Montana for work. No sales tax. It was a Walmart special! It was cheap, but I am no bike expert so it works for me! I have always wanted a cruiser bike! I love it :)

Evie waiting to go! Yeah, I know you aren't supposed to put a child in a car seat in the bike trailer but don't judge me, I'm not a bad mom!

Party!

This past weekend I hosted a Cents of Style party at my house! The stylist over the party was my friend Kara, and boy, did we have fun!! My house was full of accessories including bags, belts, scarfs, jewlery and shoes! We had a pretty good turn out and I got some super cute stuff! If anybody is interested in hosting their own party, let me know and I'll hook you up :)

This is just a cute picture of Miss Evie's favorite toy at the moment! Grandma Ogden gave this to her for Christmas and she loves to move all over on it! Right now she only knows how to go backwards, I think she'll really have fun when she learns how to go forward ;)

A great find!

So for some reason, I can't upload my other pictures right now, so I will just go with these two for the time being!
I'm not gonna lie. I thought March was going to be some magical month, where everything would fall into place. Half way through the month, no such luck. Owen is having a hard time getting people to call him back about a possible job. I'm sure they are busy, but it probably isn't the best sign. Oh well, I have to have faith that the Lord knows what he's doing! The first couple of weeks this month Evie has been sick! She had, what the doctors thought, was RSV. She didn't need to go to the hospital or anything, but she had a super high fever and wouldn't drink hardly anything. This was the first time in her whole almost year of life that she had been really sick and it was really kind of scary! Her cough went away and then she got a double ear infection. She is now all cleared up and happy as a clam! Thank goodness! This is a picture of her the last time I remember seeing her happy before she got sick:(

I have been eyeing this picture of the temple at Deseret Book for a long time now, but it was so expensive, there was no way we could afford it, especially with out a job! However, one Monday night we went to Coldstone and there is a DB close to it. So I convinced Owen to go inside with me so I could show him this picture I wanted. We knew we were going to get a pretty good tax return and we were going to get a little spending money each. Well, anyway long story short, I got this for 50% off! A little bit of the finish came off of the picture when they opened it up, so they had to sell it for cheap! I was so excited! Right place, right time! (by the way, you can't even tell it is "damaged").

Although things haven't worked out for employment yet, we have continued to be blessed. It's almost like, just when you think the Lord has forgotten about you, something happens that reminds you that His hand is always in your life! Like I mentioned before, we were planning on a pretty good tax return, or so we thought, so you can imagine my disbelief when I checked my online bank account (mind you, how much I HATE looking at it) and there was almost quadruple the money we were expecting! So humbled to know that the Lord is watching over me and my family :)

TAG!

Stephanie tagged me in a blog post the other day! I have never been tagged before, so I am very excited to have something different to blog about.


This is Owen opening his presents from Evie and me on Christmas morning! I can't even remember what I got him! He always outgifts me! So even if I think I got him the PERFECT gift, he gives me a better one :) He's a good husband and I love him! He is also the best daddy in the world! He is so patient and loving to Miss Evie, most the time more patient than myself! I love you Owen, thanks for being the BEST!

I tag Angie, Jana, Kara, Emily and Brindisi

Rules:

1. Open up your first photo file

2. Select the 10th photo.

3. Post it to your blog with the story behind it.

4. Tag 5 friends.

Some of my favorite things..............

I can't believe Evie is going to be 1 in a few weeks! This year has gone by so fast, but we have definitely enjoyed her at each stage of her developmental progress! I have learned that Evie does things at her own pace. While many babies at her age have already been crawling for a few months by now, Miss Evie has barely started getting around! And now that she can, she LOVES it! I believe she is much happier now, because of her continuing independence!

Evie LOVES to eat! She doesn't seem to be a picky eater, let's hope that continues through out her child hood years!

When you don't think your kids are picking up on anything you are doing, or learning anything you are trying to teach them, they surprise you and do the cutest things! Miss Evie loves to clap and wave! She actually has been doing this since November or so and then back in January she started folding her arms all by herself! It is THE cutest thing ever! She loves to fold her arms when we pray over dinner and at family prayer! They really do watch what you do;) She also loves when mommy sings primary songs to her! Her favorite is "Popcorn Popping" She tries to do the hand motions with me.......she loves it!

I love this picture! I got her all warm to go on a run with me one day back in Jan. when it was rather cold out! She loves going for walks, runs or bike rides with mommy and daddy! I'm excited for spring so we can enjoy warmer weather for outside activities!

As we say goodbye to February, I welcome March thankfully into my life! I hope this next month brings us more happiness, good health, sunnier days and especially a good job for Owen!

Baby Shower

My good friend from high school had a baby shower a couple weekends ago and it was really fun to be able to get together and see her! I haven't seen her since my first semester at BYU-Idaho, which was about 6 years ago! Yikes, I feel old! Anyway, Owen watched Miss Evie for me and I was able to enjoy some pure girl time!
This is my friend Jana, she isn't the pregnant one, as you can tell! We were all good friends through out high school.

Me, Aubrey and Jana.

Thanks girls for such a nice time and for making me laugh harder than I have in a long time! I really needed a good laugh...................you know the saying "laughter is the best medicine." And Aubrey, you will make such a good little mommy!! Congrats :)