{Big Girl}

All of a sudden my Baby Girl is grown up. She's nearly crawling [it's hard for her to get that belly off the ground...]. She's talking/babbling up a storm. She's got the quirkiest sense of humor. She's a social butterfly. She loves to eat. She's starting to feed herself. She can entertain herself. She's the best.

We got Evette some new clothes for our trip up to the northwest. All she has is summer dresses so we figured we might want to have some warmer options for her. Today was a bit cold today as well so she got to try out some of her new clothes. I got her dressed and just about died at how cute and grown up she looked - I mean look at those jeans!

 I love this baby girl!

I feel like this is a very "McIntosh" face - especially in the eyes :)

Here's a McQuay face :)

This is a very Caitlan/Brenden face! Am I right?

PS - don't you love her little chair?!

Not always smiles - this was one of the pictures before her nap and lunch when she was not quite so smiley - still cute :)

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 Once upon a time I had the cutest baby in the world.

This is a true story.

The end.

The other day we stripped Baby Girl down and threw her in the sink to play. Now that she can sit up on her own she enjoyed it a lot more and I didn't have to play "hold on to the slippery baby"

She kept wanting to chew on the faucet and that grossed me out...

So we tied a clean dishcloth around it lol - also fun to play with 

Check out this face... oh man.

Look at her blondie hair in this picture! I think we are finally on the upside of the baldness. It's coming in nicely - blondeish with a bit of red in it - who knew?!

Am I lucky or what?

Just watching the world go by...

"One of the greatest discoveries of parenthood is that we learn far more about what really matters from our children than we ever did from our parents." - Boyd K. Packer

{More Easter}

And more about Easter. Since we are in the middle of packing and moving and finals the Easter Bunny wasn't planning on visiting our house.
Thanks to a gift basket from one of the husband's former employees and an Easter care package from my mom Evette got an Easter basket anyways :) It was filled with candy for her parents and bunny ears for her. Also, I magically put her in Easter pjs the night before and didn't even mean to. I mean, they're pink and yellow stripped with a little chicky on it and little chicks on her feet. Whammo [apparently this word works for 'words with friends' - thanks, Scott]

 

Ps - my mom is the best and sends us packages all the time for various holidays. Halloween, Valentines day, Thanksgiving... it's the best. They're filled with little goodies and toys and decorations. Mostly it's just fun getting mail from someone who truly loves you and not just another credit card company.

I am secretly nervous about what will happen to my care packages when we are no longer students living so far away from my mom. Will they stop coming!? I'm not sure what will happen. 

{Easter with the Family}

We spent Easter Sunday with my Grandparents in Heber and a bunch of aunts, uncles, and cousins!

We had a delicious meal and had a great time visiting and playing with everyone.

 Evette's been doing this frowny face a lot recently and it makes me laugh

 the sibs & spiderman

 wrestling with the grandpa!

 Oh man - I'll miss this guy when we move

 chasing grandma with the bunny ears!

 Grandma didn't want to wear them :)

 this is a great shot!

 Grandpa's flowers

I hope your Easter weekend was as wonderful as ours!