I mentioned yesterday that evelyn does fun new things every day. Well she has discovered that if she hauls her pink Ikea stool around the house she can get into a whole lot of fun new things. I heard her playing with something that made a crinkling noise and went to investigate. I found her playing with my birth control, and I had to explain to her that she couldn't eat mommies "special candy" that prevents a baby from getting into my tummy. She looked very confused and a little bummed.

According to my dear sisters blog, I have not updated my blog in quite a while, and alot has happened. Andy came home from his year long deployment at the end of february, i've done a ton of school, got a job, that is going really slow, so I rarely actually work, evelyn turned two, and continues to do new fun things every day.

When andy came home, our neighbors put together a heroes welcome for him and lined our street and filled our yard with flags it was really an awesome sight.

Shortly after andy came home we went and spent some time with his grandma, natalie and quin and then took a weekend cruise to ensenada. I had heard alot of great things about the food on cruises, and i am now wondering if most people don't have taste buds, because I thought it was awful.

I got a new car and evelyn loves to play in it.

Evelyn turned two in july and we had a little party with some family and friends. Quin and Natalie were able to make it ot town just in time for her party and it was great to see them again.

Evelyn currently loves Elmo so I made her this Elmo pull-apart cupcake cake. I was surprised that it turned aout as good as it did.
For fathers day andy got a shop vac and evelyn had a ball playing in it and the box.

We just got back form a trip to lake powell. I have never had so much fun camping( I'm not really a camping fan, probably because I suck at it)

We went with some friends the Fiacks, and they are always so fun. Rob (bottom) and Chris (top) were splashing the wall while water skiing. There were a couple times chris got so close to the wall I thought he was going to slam into it.
Here is where we jumped off the big rock, It looked alot higher standing on top of the rock.

Evelyn is a little bit of a neat freak and the first day we were there she would whine that there was dirt on her shoes and she would walk funny to avoid touching the dirt, but once she realized how much fun dirt could be, we couldn't keep her out of it, she had a ball!