{Life in pictures}

Helping Daddy with some projects outside

 Planting the garden! [which we'll probably have to replant due to crappy cold weather and hail a few days later.....grr....]

My hyacinths that I planted last year! I love these!

Evette's got some skills! Scary!

Trip to the park and lake on a warm-ish afternoon!

First smile caught on camera! Isn't she beautiful!

Playing dressup! 

 Bathing beauties

 Bathroom selfies because we're looking cute for church!

We got a play kitchen! Evette loves it!

And just practicing that smiling business!!!

{Family Zoo Date}

Before Sean finished up his parental leave we decided to take advantage of the warm-ish weather and take a trip to the Fort Worth zoo! We'd never been before because it's kinda far away compared to our Dallas zoo, but we decided to make the trip [especially on half-off admissions day] - and it was well worth it! It was amazing! It's smaller than the Dallas zoo, but they have more animals and the exhibits are closer together, which was nice. 

Our first real use of the double stroller - it was awesome! Evette loved being able to get in and out of it to go look at all the animals.

 

 Family pic!

 Kissing picture!!

[For Valentines Day Sean compiled a movie for me off all the pictures of us kissing! Every kissing picture taken of us {that we have} into one movie! It was so fun to see! Funny observation - we hardly took kissing pictures {or any pictures of us, really!} after Evette was born! So we decided to make more of an effort to get pictures of us, kissing or not.]

We splurged and spent $1 on a Popsicle stick with bird seed on it so Evette could feed the birds [cue melancholy music...]. Best $1 ever. She absolutely loved it!

It was such a fan family date! Evette was pretty great and Miriam pretty much slept through the whole thing! While we will visit the Dallas zoo more frequently due to location, we will also visit the FW one in the future - great stuff!

{Miriam's Blessing}

Last weekend we had Miriam's baby blessing! We had some family come into town for that special event. 

Grandma and Grandpa Binns came down to Texas to visit family and we scheduled the blessing so that they could be there! Here is Grandma Joyce with Miriam Joyce! 

Besides the Binns, we had my family, Sean's family, and Brenden, Natalie and Baby James travel up! They all came up Saturday afternoon and we all went out to eat together that night.

Hanging out at the house after dinner!!! Some of my favorite ladies :)

Studying optometry with Uncle Dan

Grandbabies!!

Sunday morning we got all dressed up and ready for the baby blessing! 

Here is Miriam in my baby blessing dress! My sweet Aunt Janice made it for me when I was a baby and Evette was blessed in it as well!

 Doesn't she look like an angel?!

These girls melt my heart. I love seeing them together. 

They are already the best of friends.

Sean gave Miriam Joyce a sweet blessing and the spirit was quite strong.

We also were lucky to have Uncle Eric and cousin Emily come to the blessing, too!

Here is everybody right after church

 After sacrament meeting we headed back to our house to enjoy lunch together

It was great to be able to spend time with everybody!

My family was able to stay longer on Sunday so we just hung out - it was nice! 

Auntie Rachel being awesome.

Grandma is awesome at playing dress up :)

We felt very blessed and loved to have so much family there to support us and help celebrate Miriam's birth into our family :)