A Mothers Love

The past couple of weeks I have come to realize how much I miss holding Evan. Ever since he started crawling at 7 Months he never really wanted to be in one spot so I could only really hold him when he was nursing. Once he was 10 1/2 months that was taken from me because I was drying up so he was on the bottle. I could still hold him but he was such a wiggle worm (and still is)that it was hard to get those cuddles in. Now that he's getting older it's been harder to get him to take his afternoon nap so it's more of a quite time for him in his bed. Yesterday was one of those days and since it was coming up on 6:00 I went to go get him. I guess he finally fell asleep right before I went in because it looked like I woke him up. Usually I would hold him after getting him from a nap but he would only let me for so long before he wanted down but yesterday he went back to sleep in my arms. He hasn't done that forever and since I missed holding him, I let him sleep for a little bit while I rocked him. I couldn't stop looking at him because he was so peaceful. I hate it that he's growing up but life doesn't hold still so I need to remember these moments and hold on to them. I just hope that there will be more times like these in the future.

More of Evan's Entertainment

Evan has been opening different things for awhile now but he's just learned how to climb into things. Recently I was putting my make-up on and doing my hair and next thing I knew, Evan was in the bath tub. It scared me even though he was fine but what if he does it again when I'm not there and he hurts himself? Well I got him out and he did it again and he did it without any problems. When Matt came home we had him do it again to show him but he never did it and hasn't done it since which is good. This morning he was in the kitchen while I was in another room but I could hear what he was doing. He loves opening the draws of our oven and I don't know how to keep Evan from opening them so I just don't put anything in there. I went in to check on him and I find him inside of one just sitting. I took pictures of course and video taped it since Matt is gone.


Another thing he's new at doing is closing doors after he goes in a room and when he realizes he cant get out he starts to knock.

Video's of Evan

Evan get's more fun with every coming day. Here are a few video's of him from Valentines Day. This one is of him dancing

and this one is him sharing a flower with everyone and just being silly in front of the camera. It's a little long because he was being so funny. Hope you enjoy them.

Evan

Not a lot has been going on because we've been sick the past two weeks. Matt and I both got what's been going around but one after another and we're just praying that Evan doesn't catch it. Since it's been a while since I last posted I wanted to write about something and there is nothing better to write about except Evan. He turned 15 months today! Time has been going by so fast! Earlier today I was going through old photos of him and I can't believe how small he was.



Him today!


Peace!


Since he's 15 months, here are 15 facts about our little Evan.

1. He's a clean kid. I mean this in a way that he cleans up his toys when he's done with them. He sometimes will put them away before even playing with them.

2. He's afraid of the vacuum. When he sees it getting pulled out, he runs and hides. We find him in his closet.


3. I know this is normal but I was hoping this will come later in life. He figured out how to take his diaper off.

4. He loves lights! Whenever we walk into a new room he's always pointing at the lights saying, oooo! Sometimes he will say light but in baby talk.

5. He really has red in his hair. People don't always see it but he does.

6. His favorite thing to watch is Baby Einstein A Day on the Farm. Nothing matters in the world when it's on.

7. He can entertain himself. It makes it easy for me to work at home.

8. It's so easy to put him down for his nap or to sleep for the night. All we have to do is get him ready, say his prayer's, kiss him goodnight and tuck him in.

9. He loves animals. His first word was kitty.

10. His favorite word is Yeah! He uses it for everything especially when he knows he did something good.

11. He's the biggest wiggle worm at church. We are working on it so we're not counting down the Sundays to when he's able to be in the nursery.

12. He loves car seats for some reason. When he sees one he has to go and touch it.

13. He loves to mimic us when we sneeze. He recently learned how to fake cough as well.

14. He loves to share with other baby's. He will give them his toys to play with.

15.His favorite thing to do is turn around in circles and act dizzy because he knows we're watching.

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Randome Pictures of Evan

Before and After

It has been a crazy week. After living in our home for almost two years we finally updated our bedrooms. We painted, replaced light fixtures, light switches/electrical sockets, added molding and we paid someone to install carpet over our ugly hardwood floors. Matt’s mom helped us throughout this whole process. She helped prep the rooms for paint, helped paint the main color, helped Matt with the molding so I could go to a Baby Shower and she watched Evan for two days so he could run around because our living room, kitchen and hall had all our things from our bedrooms. It would have taken us longer than a week to get this done if it weren’t for her. Thank you so much Mom!
Here are some before and after pictures of our work for your enjoyment.

Our Bedroom
Whoever painted this room last did a horrible job. You cant see it in the pictures but half the trim was painted so it was half white and this ugly beige color. Walls were different colors so the paint was differnt and the application was just bad. They missed spots. They also took out the molding and never replaced it so you can see the plaster underneath. Take my word for it that it was bad.


The floors are a different story. Gross!


After






Evans Room
His room had the same problems as ours

Before




After





Since we put carpet in our bedrooms we put carpet down in the basement bedroom as well. We replaced the carpet down there over a year ago but didn't put any in the bedroom. Our next big project will be our kitchen. I'm excited to get going on that.

Josh and Melody

Congratulations Josh and Melody on getting Married this morning. It was a great honor to be there in the Temple with you. Melody you are and looked so beautiful and Josh you looked handsome. We are really looking forward to you guys moving to Provo in the Summer/Fall. We hope you find a place in our ward so we can see you guys all the time :).

Welcome Cadence

I want to welcome Cadence Smith into this world. He was born January 11, 2009(today) at 9:03 a.m. He weighs 6lb 14oz and 19 inches long.

We got to vist him and his parents this evening. He is so precious!

Merry Christmas!

We had a wonderful Christmas Eve and Christmas. We spent Christmas Eve with my family. We had a wonderful meal followed by the tradition of reading in Luke. My younger brothers and sisters role played it. After listening to my father and watching the kids we got to open Christmas gifts from one another. We did this a day early because Elizabeth had an early flight to San Diego Christmas morning. Evan was spoiled of course.
Christmas morning was spent at our home. Evan is still a little too young to know what was going on but we were excited to see what he will do when he sees the presents under the tree. Before we opened any we had breakfast.

Evan loves pancakes
Here are some pictures from our morning.

This is Evan seeing his Elmo Chair from Santa for the first time.


The first gift that was opened was a camera so I could capture the rest of the day without using my phone.

Much better quality! Thank you sweetheart!
Evan was really excited for Christmas.

He loves his chair. Elmo talks and it turns.

One of Matt's presents was a new wedding ring from Mrs. Clause. He accidently lost his a month or two prior.

Evan next to his stocking

Last year he was the same size as his stocking (maybe even smaller). It's fun to see the difference just in one year.


We made our way over to our friends, Austin and Amy, for a gift exchange before we headed up to Spanish Fork to spend time with Matt's Family. Michael wasn't home yet from work so we went to my parents to see what they got and played some games with them. We gave my mom the old school Nintendo system with her favorite game, Mario 3.

She was in heaven.
When Michael came home we got to open more presents. Evan once again got spoiled. We're glad we didn't buy more than the chair and blocks because he is set for next Christmas! Thank you everyone!
Here are some more pictures of our day.






Merry Christmas!!!