Evelyn's fall photo shoot

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.

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!

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?

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!!!

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!!