Happy Birthday!!

We are already into May and the Sun has come out of hiding. Spring is finally here! It rained most of the day today. Yay! Not snow. Earlier in the month we had a Thunderstorm. I wish we had more of them. It was fun watching Evan's expression when I rapped him up and took him outside. He really didn't know what to do with all the noise.
We've been so busy that I kept forgetting to get on here. On older news, April 26th was the County Convention. Since Matt and I were elected as delegates, we got the opportunity to go. My Father In-Law was awarded The Ronald Reagan Award for his dedicated service over the years in the Utah County Republican Party.



I'm truly proud of all the accomplishments that he's done and how well he works through challenges. We knew about the award before him. It was a hard secret to keep from him but it was well worth it because of his reaction when he saw his family come on stage with the award in hand. Other details worth mentioning about the Convention is that Evan met a lot of government officials like Senator Bennett, Senator Hatch, Lt. Governor Herbert, Congressman Chris Cannon, Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and many other state senators and legislators. The proud Grandpa took him around to show him off. Senator Bennett made the comment, "Oh, he must be the youngest republican here." He was right!
In other news, Matt turned 24 on the 4th. The Saturday prior, we celebrated by going to West Mountain to shoot guns with his new 12 Gauge Shotgun that I gave him for his birthday. Friends and family joined us.





After trying the shotgun I can now say that I love my small 22 rifle even more! I need more muscle and more weight to shoot that thing. Afterwards we had a yummy BBQ in his honor.

Spring?

What kind of spring is this? I know this is Salt Lakes forecast but it's pretty much the same in Utah Valley. I just got back from Spanish Fork because I helped my parents by picking up Ellen from school and let me tell ya, the wind doesn't help much either. My Grandpa Glover calls the snow “white manure". I agree with him. I'm ready for summer!!

Evan Updates

He's getting so big and cutter everyday. These pictures were taken during the beginning of the month. He's sitting up better at this point but he's taking his nap and Matt has the camera so I can't take an updated photo. This is the first time he's sat-up on his own for a long time without falling.

Front view

He got tired after a while so he wouldn't look at me

Evan is no longer in an infant tub. I'm afraid to let him just lay in the tub so I got him a little reclined chair. He looks like he's relaxing by the pool.

He loves not having anything over his feet so he can chew on them

He actually likes to chew on anything.

Update

I guess it's been a while since I last blogged. It's amazing how much time passes. I guess that's what happens when you get so busy. The past couple of days Matt has been working hard in our yard. I've helped but Matt deserves the praise on this because he worked so hard. It's coming up on a year since we've moved into our home. Through out that time we've been playing with our sprinkler system to get it to do what we want but it's been tricky because it's galvanized. We don't have the knowledge or the tools to fix the pipes so we had to bring in professionals. We decided just to put in a whole new system because we were tired of the hassle. In the long run it will save us a lot of money and we could fix it ourselves. The one thing I love about the new system is that it will be on a timer. All of last summer, I had to go out and turn it on and off manually.

After removing the sod, the hard work was digging out the trenches.

Last Friday, my dad came by and helped before night fell. Saturday, Matt's Dad helped in the morning and than my Dad came back with Joseph. Why this was going on, Nathan and Elizabeth were slaving over a hot grill, smoking Ribs and Chicken. The rest of my family came over for the BBQ but once we were done, it was back to the yard. After all the trenches were dug, Matt and his Dad started putting in the system.

It's not completely finished but close. Since we've been doing this, Evan has been enjoying the out doors. It's a whole new world to him.

Ha!

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Geneology - Vintage pictures

Everyone says that Evan looks like his Daddy. Yes it's true but this is proof that he has my looks too!

2008 Hyundai Sonata

Matt and I decided it was time to purchase a second car. We didn't think it was necessary to have the luxury to have one because I just stayed home and worked. Now that Evan is here, not only is it smart but we were also sick of pulling the front seat forward, lifting the car seat up and pushing the seat back just to put him in because we were driving a two door car. Just opening the door and placing him on his base was the first thing we noticed when we test drove the new car. Four door cars are a beautiful thing! We were going to wait a few more months to purchase one but we couldn't pass up the good deal we got after the dealer lowered the price a $1,000 more when it was already $2000.00 cheaper from the sale price. We've had it for a couple weeks now and we are so happy with it and we are glad we didn't wait.

A Sweet Victory!

We had our Precinct meetings tonight. Matt was determined to be Precinct Chair. He ran against two other men. One of the guys running against Matt ran for Provo City Council and is a retired Fire Chief so he's a well known, respected guy. Believe it or not but Matt won! I was elected as a County Delegate. I seriously have no idea why because I never told anyone my views. I guess they all thought I shared the same views as Matt. I'm grateful because I'm not a public speaker.

Happy Easter!

It was a very quite Easter for us. We didn't do the traditional egg hunts and egg coloring. The Easter Bunny did come though.



Matt has been traveling so much that it was nice to have him home and just relax after church.


Evan in his Easter clothes

Sleep

Evan has been sleeping through the night for a whole month now! Have we ever told you how easy it's been to put him to sleep? If he is still wide awake after he is fed for the night, he will just go to sleep on his own. We just simply put him in his crib. We give him his blanket and he puts it over his head half way and he's out.

Before we go to bed we check on him and we pull it down. We just love this kid!

Happy Boy!

This is what we find when he wakes up for the day or from a nap. So cute!