{Lest We Forget}

One of my most favorite people in the world, one of my former Young Women leaders, shared this poem on her blog today and I loved it. She is wonderful - the most sincere person I have ever met. She always knew what to say or when you needed a hug.

Read it - it's good.


"Lest We Forget"

She came tonight as I sat alone,
The girl I used to be...
And gazed at me with her earnest eye
And questions reproachfully:
Have you forgotten the many plans
And hopes that I had for you?
the great career, the splendid fame
All the wonderful things to do?
Where is the mansion of stately height
With all of its gardens rare?
The silken robes that I dreamed for you
And the jewels in your hair?

And as she spoke, I was very sad
For I wanted her pleased with me...
This slender girl from the shadowy past,
The girl I used to be.

So gently rising, I took her hand,
And guided her up the stair,
Where peacefully sleeping, my babies lay
Innocent, sweet, and fair.
And I told her that these are my only gems,
And precious they are to me;
That silken robe is my motherhood
Of costly simplicity.
And my mansion of stately height is love,
And the only career I know
Is serving each day in these sheltered walls
For dear ones who come and go.

And as I spoke to my shadowy guest,
She smiled through her tears at me.
And I saw that the woman that I am now
Pleased the girl that I used to be.

-Author Unknown

Love's Labor's Lost

Roughly a month ago, Heidi and I made a bucket list of all of the things we wanted to do in Provo before we struck out for the South, many of which focused on taking advantage of the rich sources of entertainment offered at BYU that we've been neglecting.

Tonight, we marked one of those items off of our list: we went to a play at BYU, Shakespeare's "Love's Labor's Lost". This production, however, was no standard Shakespeare - it was mostly his original text set in a 1940's wartime cantina. The dialogue was very witty and, when I could follow it, quite funny. Heidi and I had a great time.

Here's a trailer they made to advertise the show:

And a couple pictures from when we went on stage to dance to some live big-band music during the intermission!

It was a great show. We loved it! Great date.

PS - Special thanks to Mary Lyman for babysitting for us tonight. She did a wonderful job and it was evident that she had a lot of fun with baby. Thank you!

{St Pattys Day Party!}

We decided to throw a St. Patty's Day Party - mostly because we have green carpet and it seemed appropriate :)

We invited over the Sandersons and the Rileys - unfortunately I was lame and didn't get a picture of all of us together....but here are some pictures from the party

Baby Girl and I painted our nails green, o'course

 

We also made little tissue paper pom poms for festiveness. They are now hanging above Baby Girl's crib - she loves them!

 

We had corn beef and cabbage, traditional, and the Sandersons brought over a delicious spinach strawberry salad - no pictures of that either.

The Rileys brought chocolate covered mint oreos - holy deliciousness. The only reason we got a picture of this delectable piece of goodness was because it was the one left over and we caught a picture of it after the party :)

 

I made this fruit tray for our after-dinner-during-games snack, thanks Pinterest. Who knew that marshmallows are absolutely wonderful with grapes? I didn't - but now I'm converted.

After dinner we played a couple St. Patty's day themed games and our friends were good enough to humor us and play them with us. The first one was one that we learned at a friends birthday party a few weeks ago. You play in teams of two - one person holds a piece of paper on her back and the other person holds a marker steady against the paper and directs the other person how to move in order to draw a picture - then we switch and vote on the best one.

We all tried to draw a leprechaun - here are our efforts :) It was super fun.

We also played a couple rounds of scattegories with St. Patty's day prompts such as "A Leprechaun's name" and "Kiss me I'm _____" and "Something you find in a bar" and a "Lucky charm" It was surprisingly fun!

It was fun to catch up with a few friends that we haven't seen in a while!

Hope you all had a Merry St. Patty's Day!

{Momma's Dress}

Once upon a time I was a baby and my Momma dressed me in cute clothes.

 

 

Now I'm a Momma and I dress my old baby in my cute baby clothes. Circle of life, my friends, the circle of life.

...and that, o'course, calls for a photo shoot. :)

 Giving Auntie Caitlan the ol' stink eye... What a character!

{Update on Baby Girl}

Evette loves to drink out of my water bottle. I'm not sure if she gets any water out of it, but she sees us drink out of it and she wants to drink out of it, too.

All my windows and mirrors are covered in slobber and baby finger prints. Baby Girl loves to watch cars drive by and to give the mirror baby kisses.

Evette has turned into quite the little scooter. She can now rotate a full 360 degrees on her belly and move around a little bit as well. The other day I left her sitting up next to our coffee table and a few minutes later I come back into the room to see her halfway under the tale. Ha! She's so cute.

Baby Girl tried watered-down apple juice last week or so for the first time and LOVES it. She can hold her own bottle and she just curls up and chugs away.

Evette also loves to chew on daddy's face 

And she thinks it's funny :)

Evette had her first real fall the other day. She was sitting on the counter while we were making dinner and tipped over, hitting the edge of the crockpot [not turned on, thank goodness] right between her eyes [I know I know... bad mom of the year award - I got it]. After a bit of screaming and crying she was just fine. She had a little mark, but I iced it while she napped and it went away just a few hours later.

It didn't slow her down too much!

Baby Girl loves going to the park. We take trips down to the park frequently and sometimes we are even lucky enough to have Daddy come with us!

{1st tooth!}

On Sunday morning the husband is playing with Baby Girl and out of no where he says "She has a tooth! I can feel it! Evette has grown a tooth!"
WHAT!?! It's true, my friends. Baby Girl had her first tooth come through Sunday morning - it's her left bottom front tooth [or is it bottom left front tooth? or front left bottom tooth? or left front bottom tooth? how many different ways can I arrange those qualifiers?] Anyways - it's there and it's adorable.

She has been her wonderfully content self this whole time as well. She hasn't been particularly fussy or waking up in the middle of the night or anything. The tooth just came in and didn't seem to bother Baby Girl one little bit.

I tried to catch a picture of it today. HA! These are a few of them - no, you can't see the tooth in any of these. You're just going to have to take my word for it.

Thank you, fellow moms, for your concern, everything is still going well in the world of nursing :)

{Rugby and Car Wash}

Saturday was a wonderful, wonderful day!!! In the morning I went to my book club and then we got ready for the rugby game! [We love rugby]Woot woot! First home game of the season! We were stoked. Scott came with us, too. The weather was beautiful - great day for a game. Unfortunately, Little Miss Evette did not enjoy the loud clapping or screaming or jumping up and down that Momma and everyone else was doing - she got pretty scared. So I went down off to the side and we stood by the gate and watched the game from there. She was a good sport!

It was a great game and we totally killed them :)

The rugby game cut into Baby Girl's nap time a little bit and so her schedule was a little bit off for the rest of the day. When we got home she did not want to take a nap, so we decided to wash the car instead! Like I said, it was an absolutely gorgeous day so we went outside and played in the water a little bit.

She absolutely loved being sprayed with the water, not directly, obviously, but she would just get in fits of laughter thinking it was the funniest thing in the world. She is such a ham!

It was a great great day!

Sean is in a photography class and had to take some epic pictures for class and that's why there are so many awesome pictures from this day! But don't be fooled - I took some of these as well!