Andy and Amanda Rigby

Your butt is big!

2010-08-09T20:46:00.001-07:00

So I almost forgot about the funniest part of the trip out here. On the last day of the drive after a pretty long break from driving, I took Evelyn to the bathroom right before we got back on the road. I went too the bathroom also, and when I pulled down my pants and sat on the toilet Evelyn looks at me and says "Mommy, your butt is big." After a second of stunned silence I laughed and said, "yeah, I guess compared to yours it is pretty big huh." Oh the innocent honesty of children, I still can't stop laughing about it.

Welcome to Nashville

2010-08-05T18:32:00.000-07:00

Well we made it to Nashville. It took three days of driving, one hotel from hell and some interesting rest stops but we finally made it. the first night on the road we stayed in Sidney Nebraska at the Fort Sidney Inn, and it was quite honestly a nightmare. The service at the front desk was horrible, and the room was smelly and dirty. After we got to our room and saw how bad it was my father in law went to the front desk and asked them to have it cleaned and the man running the place just told us to leave. He wouldn't even give us the name of the owner so we could complain, he just told us to take our bags and leave. The room was so nasty, it clearly hadn't been vacuumed in a very long time, Andy said he even saw a nail clipping on the floor. The toilet had urine and hairs on it, the sink had hair on it from a mans razor, the bathroom floor had hairballs in the corners and the shower was so gross, none of us dared take a shower. In the morning as we were getting ready to leave i noticed a brown clump of something stuck to the door frame. It was seriously the grossest thing ever. I cried myself to sleep. The remainder of the trip wasn't so bad, we stayed at a much cleaner La Quinta the second night, and were able to go see the Liberty jail, where Joseph smith was kept for about 4 months, and also went to the visitors center in Independence. I had been to the visitors center in salt lake so many times, it was quite an interesting change to go to some that had so much church history linked to them. We made it to Nashville Monday night, and got everything moved into the condo Tuesday morning, and the air conditioner broke shortly there after. The hvac guy finally came today and got it fixed. It got up to 91 degrees INSIDE yesterday, so we went and checked into a hotel. Needless to say our nerves are fried and hope that our life in Nashville improves over the next few days.

So much attitude

2010-07-25T21:57:00.000-07:00

Evelyn has so much attitude, i don't even know how to handle it. She gets frustrated with me and Andy and talks to us like we are complete morons, and when she wants to do something herself, and thinks we are trying to stop her she starts yelling, usually at me. When this happens she wont listen to a word I say and then I get frustrated and start yelling and then it's all down hill from there. The other day she wanted to put cream on her own bottom so I told her to hold out her hand so I could put some cream on it, well she just started yelling at me, i tried to explain that she could do it herself, and that I was trying to give her some. She just kept yelling, and I started yelling and finally I just threw my hands up and said I was through, i walked out of the room and shut the door. Evelyn can open doors herself, but when she loses her temper like that she doesn't think rationally, so she started screaming and pounding on the door. I opened the door and picked her up and she kept yelling at me so I said it was nap time, and put her in her room. A while after she settled down and got quiet I went in there to check on her. She had calmed down and was playing quietly so I sat down and started talking to her about how it's not nice to yell and how nothing is accomplished by yelling, and that if she won't yell at me I won't yell at her. She looks up at me with her gorgeous blue eyes and says "and no hitting too?" I just laughed and said yes no hitting either. Apparently the billion times i told her not to hit she actually heard me, she just chose not to listen. Anyway, about ten minutes after our discussion, she started yelling at me over some meaningless thing, but this time, I kept my cool and didn't yell back. I thought it was 13 year olds that acted like this not 3 year olds.

Been a while

2010-07-15T13:33:00.000-07:00

So it has been a long time since I last posted and a ton has happened! Evelyn will be three in two weeks, and she is completely potty trained! It is fabulous to not change diapers. We are moving to Nashville a few days after Evelyns birthday and we are all really excited. Andy got into Vanderbilt for their MBA program and he was also awarded some awesome scholarships. We are renting our house to a family and we are supposed to close on a condo in Nashville at the end of the month. I
I have been doing alot with photography and i hope I will be able to continue with it in Nashville. I have been posting all of my photo shoots on my photography blog rigbyphotography.blogspot.com I have been having alot of fun with it and have noticed a ton of improvement in my work. I have been crazy busy trying to get everything ready for the move. I haven't been able to sleep very well because when I lay down at night my brain starts going a billion miles a minute thinking about all I have to do, but surprisingly I haven't been too tired during the day, it must be adrenaline or something like that.

Potty Training!

2010-04-30T15:30:00.000-07:00

So Evelyn decided yesterday that she wanted to go to the potty, which was awesome and she did really well, only 2 accidents including overnight! Well this morning she went into the bathroom and went potty again and then wouldn't go again. Over the next couple of hours I asked her about 3 times if she needed to go potty, and she kept saying no. When she started throwing a fit over something trivial I walked away from her. A little bit later she started crying even harder and I went to see what the matter was. Well she had had an accident, and peed her pants and was upset over it. I started getting her wet clothes off of her and when I took off her rain boots I realized that the pee had run down her legs and pooled in her waterproof rain boots! I laughed so hard and poor Evelyn was just crying and looking at me like I was really mean, but it was so funny I really couldn't help it!

washington trip

2010-04-18T23:01:00.000-07:00

Last week Andy, Evelyn and I went up to Seattle for Andys UW interview. While we were there we were able to get together with some friends that we haven't seen in a while, and we had a lot of fun up there. Seattle is such a beautiful place, I couldn't get over how green everything was. While we were up north we stayed with Andy's brother Jay and his wife Camille. Andy's parents and sister Lyndee came to See us since we were only three hours from their town. It was a fun trip and I got to take pictures of Madison, my 6 month old niece while we were up there. She is such a smiley and good natured baby, she made it easy to get some good pictures of her.

Khloe retake

2010-04-09T21:04:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the pictures from Khloe's photo shoot. She is such a cute little baby, and we had fun taking these pictures.

Whats my options?

2010-04-08T07:09:00.000-07:00

When Evelyn is throwing a fit about something, usually the snack or drink she gets, I set it on the counter within her reach ad tell her to take the snack, drink, item etc. or don't. "those are your options" I find myself saying frequently. Last night while trying to get her settled down for bed, she was really wiggly and and wouldn't settle down. After some warnings i finally told her she could either cuddle with her dad or get in bed, and that if she didn't tell me what she wanted i would decide for her and that decision would be bed. After a couple of seconds she said "whats your options?" meaning what were her options. I was laughing so hard I couldn't even answer but fortunately Andy was able to keep it together. I need to be careful of what I say around her.

2010-04-04T12:27:00.000-07:00

Evelyn was so excited when she saw her easter basket this morning. She kept running around the house flapping her arms like wings saying "I'm so happy, I'm so happy" and this was before candy! She was so excited about her "gardening tools" that her and Andy went out back to play in my dad's garden.

Kylee retake

2010-04-03T06:48:00.000-07:00

So I decided that I hated the pictures I took of the babies last week. I called the moms and told them I wanted to redo the pictures. The weather has been horrible so yesterday was the first day I could take any with natural light. Khloe and her mom couldn't make it so we will redo hers next week, but here are a few of the ones of Kylee and her mom, Kendra. There is more to come, but I think these more up to my normal standard and I am really happy with them.

Flowers and a bow holder

2010-04-02T10:58:00.000-07:00

The other day it was stormy and ugly outside so I went to the craft store for entertainment. I came home with a bouquet of silk daisies that I disassembled and rearranged into hair clips. I love how they turned out, but I had way more than Evelyn needed so I gave some away. I realized that Evelyn now had so many hair bows and flowers that I should have something to organize them better so I made another trip to the craft store and this is what I now have hanging on Evelyn's wall. I love it!

I had some old silk flowers at home, and since the creative juices were flowing so freely I decided to make as many barrettes as I had clips for. The arrows indicate the ones I made.

2010-04-02T08:17:00.000-07:00

I added a page to my blog where I will be putting archived photos. I will add more as I get them edited, and many new ones that I take will also end up there, so take a look and tell me what you think. Most of my pics are obviously of Evelyn since she is the main reason I wanted to get better at photography.

evelyn easter pictures

2010-03-29T07:58:00.000-07:00

I took some pictures of evelyn in her easter dress yesterday and I love them. She wasn't in the mood for pictures so I only took a couple. My outside pics turn out alot better than my inside pics (the babies were inside) so I should work on that. Tell me what you think.

Pictures

2010-03-26T19:08:00.000-07:00

I have always loved taking pictures, even when I was little and couldn't take a decent picture to save my life. Well, over the years I have gotten much better. I have taken classes, read books, articles, and mostly practice, practice, practice. I'll take any chance to improve my skills. I decided recently to take my photography to a new level, and have spent a lot of time practicing with my camera and playing around on Photoshop. On Monday I took some newborn pictures of some darling little cousins, Kylee and Khloe. Shooting two babies at once is great because when one was grumpy the other one was happy and vice versa, so the waiting time was greatly reduced.

I love this shot of Khloe. She was being kind of grumpy so unfortunately we could not get the Binky out of her mouth but it turned out really cute anyway.

I had so much fun taking pictures of these little girls. I will be taking pictures of their other little cousin soon so I will post those pictures then.

This picture of Audrey I took last year but i recently went through my old pictures and played with them in Photoshop and I really love how this turned out.

pumping?

2010-03-11T19:26:00.000-08:00

This morning when I went in to Evelyn's room to wake her( I know, how awesome that I have to wake my two year old instead of the other way around?) and to my surprise she was already awake with her jammies unzipped down to her knees. Evelyn has recently discovered the joy of undressing herself so I didn't find this surprising. I laughed though when she offered up the reason why she was partly undressed- To feed stacey, her doll, of course. She then proceeded to nurse her stuffed mickey mouse, and then put her dolls play sippy cup up to her chest and then gave the doll the sippy cup of milk. Do you think maybe she was pumping? I do. It's amazing how she will hear or see something just once and mimic it months later.
She also surprises me with how she puts together a sentence, sometimes she sounds more like 22 than 2. Tonight while I was making dinner she noticed that the bag of suckers was almost empty and says to me word-for-word "I believe it's time to get more suckers mom" What kind of 2 year old says that honestly? I don't where she gets this stuff.

"It was funny"

2010-02-03T13:35:00.000-08:00

I buy shampoo and conditioner in the really big bottles and then put it in smaller bottles for the shower. This morning I was refilling the little bottles and my big bottles were almost empty so I had them sitting upside down. I had left the lids off of the little bottles thinking they would be fine for a little bit. well I forgot about them and went into the bathroom a few hours later and looked into the tub where i saw a ton of my pricey shampoo in the tub spilled from the little bottle. As I was trying to salvage what I could, Evelyn walked in and asked what I was doing. After i explained what i was doing I asked her if the dog knocked the bottle over and she confessed that she had done it. I asked her if it was an accident and she looked at me like I was completely crazy and said "no, it was funny" I was so mad about my shampoo but I couldn't help but smile. What can ya do?

"i got pregnant"!

2010-01-06T12:52:00.000-08:00

Evelyn is full of it today! after my shower i opened the door and called out to Evelyn to see if she was ok. she came into the bathroom and saw my bare stomach and said, there's a baby in there. I told her there was no baby in my tummy, to which she responded there's a baby in my tummy. I asked, really? and she responded, "yeah, I got pregnant." LOL

careful mom!

2010-01-06T08:37:00.000-08:00

I love being a mom. Evelyn makes even boring things fun. This morning I was cleaning her room and she wanted to help me remake her bed after i changed her sheets. The next thing i know she has built a fort on her bed where she hung out while I vacuumed (she is a little scared of the vacuum) She stayed in her fort while I was washing the little hand prints and other typical toddler marks off the wall. While i was cleaning the wall around where she taped up some pictures of her friends Bethany, Jessica and Rachel, she says to me very clearly and oh so seriously, "be careful of my pictures mom." the look on her face was priceless. She looked so concerned and her eyebrows were raised about to the middle of her forehead. She is so sweet and fun to be around. I love moments like that.

Blue Milk?

2009-12-20T18:30:00.000-08:00

My daughter Evelyn is a very picky eater and it shows. At 2 and a half years she weighs in at 22 pounds with a wet diaper. She rarely will eat meat, wont drink milk or even water. I have had to trick her into eating everything except for the 3 or 4 things that she likes. In the morning i make her smoothies and sneak in soy protein powder and ground flax. Andy was clever enough to tell her that water was "cloud juice" and now she loves it. I have been trying to get her to drink more milk to help her gain weight but she just refuses to touch it. Tonight Andy suggested we put food color in milk to see if she will drink it. I put a drop of blue dye in a cup of milk and told her it was blue juice. She downed it and asked for more blue milk. I laughed that even though she could tell that it was milk she wanted more just because it was blue. What a stinker!

Primary program

2009-11-16T21:36:00.000-08:00

Yesterday our ward had their primary program. All of Evelyn's friends are older than her so she kept waving at them on than stand and saying quite loud "there's Rachel" About half way through the program Evelyn decided that she wanted to be with her friends so she started walking up there. I told Andy to stop her but he must have known that it would be funny to let her go, so he did. I was pretty embarrassed at first, but then all I could see was the top of her head bobbing up and down as she walks across the stage trying to find Rachel. It was funny to watch the heads of the bishopric and stake president turn, one after another, in surprise to see her up there. I was trying not to laugh too loud, and she came back a short while later. A little while after Evelyn came back to sit with us, a boy stood up to say his part and got the hiccups. Only a few were actually loud but he was kind of embarrassed and alot of people were quietly laughing. It was pretty funny to see his head jerk back a little with every hiccup, but he did surprisingly well at keeping himself composed.

Winter picture time

2009-11-16T18:09:00.000-08:00

Well it was time again today to go and take some family pictures. We went up Millcreek canyon to the same spot that Andy and I had our engagements taken.

This is Evelyn in her new winter coat which she just loves! she always wants to take it with her even when she doesn't need it.

Evelyn was so cooperative today, I was able to get some really great shots of her.

I set the tri-pod up for this picture, and like I said Evelyn was cooperating really well so it only took 5 tries to get a good one.

Who's lost kid is that?

2009-11-07T21:05:00.000-08:00

Tonight Andy and Evelyn and I went out to get some shopping done. Andy and Evelyn love to play no matter where we are. Tonight at target they played tag and then hide and seek. Here's how hide and seek turned out; Evelyn runs down the aisle and hides at the end, Andy pretends he can't see her but quickly finds her. Next, Andy runs down the aisle and hides at the end. Evelyn really can't see him. She stands in the middle of the aisle, alone(I am in the next aisle not paying attention because I think Andy is with her) saying Daddy? Daddy? Daddy where are you. After a minute my brain tunes into Evelyn's voice and I realize that my baby appears lost. I notice that a woman is standing around trying to find this poor little girls dad. The worst part of it is that Andy was quietly watching Evelyn the whole time from his hiding place four feet away. When I told the lady that we were Evelyn's parents she looked skeptical until Evelyn smiled and said "Daddy"

2 going on 16

2009-10-21T10:54:00.000-07:00

So lately andy and I have been trying to teach Evelyn that big girls go potty in the toilet. We have also told her that if she does go in the toilet we will have a potty party. Well Saturday night she peed in the toilet and we were all so excited. The next morning we had a breakfast potty party with a big breakfast. Now at night when we are putting her to bed she asks to have a party and listen to 'gaga' Which is lady gaga. She also keeps saying 'whatever' with tons of attitude and when we ask her to do something she sighs, breaths out "fine" and slouches away! My baby's a teen already, what happened!?

I have a nephew!

2009-10-14T06:34:00.000-07:00

He was born last night, after a long, long labor, but he's finally here and he's so cute. Last time I spoke to Quin he still didn't have a name. Baby boy smith was 8lbs 4oz. 21 inches long, has lots of curly blonde hair and already needs a hair cut, and he is surprisingly not red or squish faced. I only have pics sent to me on Quins cell so here is one. I am so in love and I haven't even met him yet. It's amazing how two adorable nieces and a handsome nephew can completely own me in such a short period of time.

Candy makes it ALL better

2009-10-11T20:01:00.000-07:00

Tonight while getting Evelyn ready for bed she started crying and saying "ow, ow, ow" so I started asking what hurt, and pointing at things to see where the owie was and how to make it better. after asking a few questions I still hadn't figured what hurt or how to fix it, so I asked what would make it better. She immediately stops crying and says to me with a straight face "candy" I laughed and called her a faker, at this she laughed and ran off giggling and saying "faker" a couple times.

yummy healthy bran muffins

2009-10-08T21:07:00.000-07:00

So I have been wanting something that I can keep around the house for healthy, quick snacks. The result is this recipe for great bran muffins that are 125 calories each, 6 grams of protein, 4 grams of fiber and 1/5 gram of fat. This is a recipe that I came up with and took me about two months to perfect. Even kids like them. For those of you who have been to the Greenery in Ogden they taste like the mormon muffins there and they are great with a little bit of honey butter.

4 C raisin bran crushed

1.5 cups whole wheat flour

1/2 cups vital wheat gluten

1/3 cup brown sugar

2t baking soda

1t salt

2t vanilla

2 egg whites

2/3 cup applesauce

1 cup unsweetened plain or vanilla yogurt

1.5T cinnamon

Mix all ingredients and bake at 350* for 26 minutes. Yield 16

2009-10-07T13:56:00.000-07:00

For family home evening Monday we took evelyn to the pumpkin patch to pick out pumpkins.we had planed on getting her a small/medium size pumpkin, but as soon as she saw the little pumpkins her face just lit up. she was so happy that she had one just her size.

Today Evelyn got to paint her pumpkins. She had so much fun with it that After she was done painting pumpkins I showed her how to finger paint. She loved smearing the paint around and then realized her hands were dirty, and that alarmed her just a little.

2009-10-05T06:30:00.000-07:00

Well I am fianlly an aunt and I love it. Evelyn and I went up to Moscow to visit the babies and they are so cute. Evelyn was so sweet and gentle with the babies, she would gently stroke their hair and give gentle kisses to the head. Every time she got to hold one her face would just light up.

Emily is Matt and Lyndees Llittle girl and she is the one sleeping in all of the pictures, she is about a month old. Madison is Jay and Camilles, she has dark hair and makes this cute little monkey face where she opens her eyes real big and makes an "o" with her mouth, she is about a week and a half in the pics. And of course theres Evelyn, a pretty little handful.

Debbie and madison

Evelyn's fall photo shoot

2009-09-17T18:27:00.000-07:00

Amanda and Evelyn had a good time playing photo shoot at Gardner Village. Here are some of the highlights.

Evelyn here is sporting her first real hair cut. Our little baby is now a little girl.

2009-08-21T17:44:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-08-20T14:28:00.001-07:00

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!

2009-01-24T14:43:00.000-08:00

Evelyn keeps doing all of these fun new things. It is so much fun to watch her grow and I love anticipating the fun new thing that she will do next. This morning I was cleaning the house and i had the radio on in her room, and since she loves music she was playing in there. When i walked past her room she had gotten the "Daddy Book" ( a scrapbook devoted to Andy) out and was lying on her tummy looking at the pictures saying the names of the people in the pictures. She would point at Andy and say "dadada" and at my dad and say "ampa" it was so cute and she didn't notice me watching so I got pictures(for some reason she stops doing her cute stuff when I get the camera and just tries to take it from me).

I finally got my kitchen clean and took pics. I really love my kitchen, despite the fact that its not quite finished, we are still waiting on some doors.
CAN YOU SPOT THE FOSSIL?

This is my favorite tile and if you look close you will see why.
I'll give you a hint: it's not an animal.
Cant find it?

2009-01-19T21:06:00.000-08:00

Alright so I am pretty much the worst blogger ever! I'll do a quick catch-up. We finally remodeled our kitchen, and it is gorgeous, I am in love. I got to do it my way, with nobody at all telling me what to do(actually people did tell me what to do, I just filtered out the bad and annoying advice). I got maple cabinets with a coacoa glaze and the edges are sanded to give it a rustic look. My floor is slate, and it's so awesome, since it is natural stone, there are fossils in it. My countertops are granite and they are great because they wont scratch or burn so they are basically Amanda proof!! Unfortunately I am not any better of a cleaner now that my kitchen is pretty than I was when it was ugly, and my kitchen currently looks like a dumping ground for everything under the sun. I haven't taken any pictures of my completed kitchen yet but my mother in law took some when she was down here. It was great cause she cleaned the kitchen before taking the picture!!

This morning, I left evelyn upstairs for like two minutes while I checked something on the computer, when I got back upstairs she had found a tube of lipstick that I thought was lost, dug it out of the tube and covered herself and her dolls with it. She was so proud of herself, but not very happy with me when I was trying to get it off in the bath tub.

Evelyn's current favorite game is to play peek-a-boo. amazingly I was able to get it on camera.

Happy Halloween!!!

2008-11-01T10:53:00.000-07:00

2008-10-20T13:41:00.000-07:00

It's been so long since I posted, I know, so here is my quarterly update!! we are so excited for halloween. Evelyn loves to carry around buckets and bags and put things in them, so I know she will love trick or treating. She is going to be a piggy bank. I got the idea when she swallowed a penny and the doctor at the hospital asked me if she was my only little piggy bank or if I had more at home. I'm in school right now and I hate my classes they are so boring. Granted they are really easy "A's" but I have really hard time paying attention to boring lectures for that long. Hopefully this will be the last of the boring stuff since I start in on my actual major work next semester. All of my classes next semester will be for nutrition and I can do them online so that andy and I can go to mexico for our aniversary and I don't have to worry about missing class. I am so excited I can't wait for next year, better classes, some baby free vacations, its gonna be great!!

Saturday Evelyn and I went to a cornmaze with some friends and had a blast. THe kids loved running around in the corn and we all got into a big corn fight. We were breaking the kernals off of the cobs and throwing them at each other. The best part wa swhen this guy that worked there got on our case about throwing corn and how its agains the rules and it's a $250 dollar fine, and we looked at our tickets where the rules were written and he was totally making it up. When we walked away from him my freiends daughter Jaycee who is about 3 had a hand full of corn and as she walked past him she threw it right up in the air!! we all laughed about that the rest of the night.

Evelyn was so excited when we finally took her out of the stroller and let her walk around the corn maze.
Our group:

Myself, Shelise, Audrey, Denise, Jayce, Chenile, Rachel.Rob, Jessica, Evelyn, and Kelly

Audrey cuddling with her grandpa,
I love this picture of Audrey, it's gorgeous!!
Denise's cornsilk armpit hair!

We also ripped out the kitchen on saturday. We are remodeling the room, so this is what my kitchen looks like. My micorwave is in my basement, my table and fridge is in the living room and everything else is in the garage, it's kinda fun and I can't wait to see the finished product!!

Happy birthday evelyn

2008-08-01T19:44:00.000-07:00

Do to many requests/harrasments to update my blog I decied that evelyn's birthday and our trip to california would be a great thing to spot light. We went to go visit natalie and quin along with my mom and dad. We were able to stay in the beach house of some of quin and natalies friends in beautiful morrow bay. we went to Hearst castle while we were ther which was gaudy except for the grounds, the outside was actually pretty.

Evelyn had so much fun with her uncle quin. He carried her pretty much every where and one night she made him him chase her around for like an hour and she just laughed and laughed the whole time.

this was one of the guest rooms at the castle. every guest room had its own bathroom with a showere, which just shows how ahead of his time W.R. Hearst was.

The statues and the gardens were so pretty. Everything was imported from all over the world.

On evelyns birthday I wanted to get some pictures of what she looked like at one year. We had so much fun.

Who is excited for easter?!

2008-03-20T15:36:00.000-07:00

I AM!!!

I can't believe it is almost Easter. Evelyns first Easter!! Yesterday we went up to Park City with my parents and got Evelyn her first easter dress. I am going to take her to the park tomorrow and shoot some Easter pictures.

Today was such a beautiful day that I took Evelyn in the back yard and took some pictures. I love the sun glasses! They're her superstar glasses!! The sun was in her face yesterday while we were shopping, so my dad bought her a really cute sunhat and those glasses and she suprisingly leaves them on!!

I have been wanting to do a triathlon, and my only hang up is that I don't have a bike and I don't want to go spend a ton of money on a bike and find out that I won't ever use it again. My friend Caroline said I can use hers, and I am really excited. I have been swimming to get better and just added running to the program, next week I will start all three, and the training will really begin. I will keep you all posted on how it goes and when I will compete.

Evelyn would not stop picking, and eating the grass.

2008-03-02T10:56:00.000-08:00

Well things have slowed down a little bit and I am so relieved. Last time I just summed up what was going on because I was so overwhelmed with everything going on I didn't want to have to think about what to post. I mentioned that Evelyn walked on her own, and it was so amazing. Andy likes to stand her and get her balanced and then let go to see how long she will stand for and then on the 18th ( My dad's birthday) when he was doing it she just took off, so of course we started having her walk in between the two of us. I'm too scared to do it now though because one time when I was balancing her I thought she was ready and I let go and she fell and landed flat on her face. I felt so bad because usually my reflexes for catching things is really good because I drop things alot but I was too slow this time. So, unless Andy is home to help her she only walks in her exersaucer, which she loves!!

Here's Evelyn walking between us on my dad's birthday

I love this picture of Andy walking Evelyn around.

Last night Evelyn was in her walker(actually it's her exersaucer but I am too lazy to call it that) and I was making cookies(not really, I was putting the frozen stuff in the oven) and I heard alot of noise coming from the walker and then Evelyn started screaming and I looked over and she was RUNNING in circles and screaming(thats her new thing she does when she is happy)! It was so funny I just started laughing my head off which distracted her and she stopped to look at me all confused before she started laughing. I wish I had a video camera because it was so funny that anytime I'm feeling blue I could watch it and I know I'd cheer right up.

This mornign Evelyn had her first big girl bath without the baby bathtub. She was having so much fun kicking and splashing in the water and playing with her ducks. i was loving it too because it was way easier than using the luttle tub. I was jest gettingall of the soap rinsed off and she was lying down splashing when she stopped wiggling(amazingly) and all of a sudden a little pee stream comes flying up and a little yellow cloud appears in the tub, so I had to do it all over again. It was so gross but at least it wasn't poo! I don't even want to think about when I will have to deal with that!!

This is evelyn right after her first bath. I didn't think to take a picture until after the fact so I hurried and drained the tub and grabbed my camera ad snapped some pics so she wouldn't get cold, so thats why there is no water in the top one.

You have to look close to see them, but here are evelyns first teeth!!
She loves having them brushed but she loves to try and do it her self even more. She actually does a pretty good job except she sometimes gags herself.

Evelyn doing her aunt Natalie's napkin trick!!

Its Been so Long!!

2008-02-24T08:06:00.000-08:00

It's been awhile since my last post, I've been crazy busy. Here's whats been going on: Quin and Natalie came down for a weekend, Evelyn walked and got a new tooth, My dad had a birthday, I had two tests which I rocked by the way, and Andy as always has been really busy with work!!

My Pictures

2008-02-05T20:29:00.000-08:00

Here Are some of my pictures for my clas.

Welcome to the Rigby Blog!!!

2008-02-05T19:38:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone!!
Natalie has beeen trying to get me to do this forever and I have had so much fun reading hers that I thought I would start one finally.
Andy gave me a great new camera for my birthday and I have been having so much fun with it. I have about a million pictures of Evelyn cause she is so cute!! I'm taking a digital photography class so I have been taking pictures of stuff other than Evelyn and I'm having fun with that too.

Here is a picture of the temple I took today. I just walked around temple square taking pictures of stuff. It was really nice Just taking time away from everthing and walking around by myself, there is some really pretty stuff there.

Here is a picture of Evelyn wearing a kimono my friend Megan brought back from japan. Every one loved it and said how cute it was. Evelyn also decided she wanted to stand on her own that day, so that was pretty exciting and she has done it a couple times since. Here is another picture of Evelyn, we were just playing here, she has so much personality now, she is really alot of fun.

Andy has been really busy with work so he doesn't get to spend much time with her so when he is home I make sure he spends lots of time with her(Thats really just so I can have a break!!). She say's dada all the time though and Andy just loves it. Even though she doesn't really know what it meas, everytime she says it he comes running. THe best part is that she says it when she is crying so I can just tell Andy that she is calling for him!