{BYU Museums}

We are a museum going family. I love them, Husband loves them, and we are teaching baby to love them.

BYU has a lot of free museums that Baby and I have been taking advantage of over the past few months.

This is from one of the many trips that we have taken to the Bean Museum:

We took a family trip to the BYU's Museum of Art last week to visit the Islamic Art Exhibit - loved it!

We of course had to stop at the Skyroom restaurant for lunch afterwards - look at that eager face!

Evette and I also visited the Paleontology Museum - we're big dinosaur fans. It was a tiny little museum - perfect for Baby.

Yesterday we went to the Museum of Peoples and Cultures - also very small, good for baby!

They even had this little cave drawing flannel board thing and pot to play with

Grateful for these fun free museums that baby and I get to go explore together. Excited for the adventures that we'll get to go on in Dallas!

{Babysitters}

We've been so blessed living in Provo with a lot of family and friends around to watch Evette. Baby Girl loves her uncles and aunt that she gets to see all the time up here. You should see her face light up when she sees them - she just gets so excited!! 

We've had lots of family and friends babysit for us over the past 7 months and it's been great. I know that Evette has been watched by people who genuinely love and care for her.

Here are some pictures that Dan took over the past few months while he was babysitting Evette:

Teaching about Dinosaurs..

Studying Genetics

  

trying on hats

Uncle Scott babysitting with a friend of his:

Auntie Caitlan, o'course [big shout out to Caitlan for coming by every Tuesday afternoon for a couple hours so that I could go grocery shopping/do the dishes :) ]

  

Aunt Lisa Christensen [not really an Aunt, but a dear family friend]

Shout out to everyone who has ever watched Evette for us [aunts, uncles, great aunts, great uncles, pseudo aunts/uncles, visiting teachers, old roommates, high school friends]  - it means a lot! Evette [and her parents] will miss you all!

{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 :)

{no title}

 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.