True Story

Logan woke up from his morning nap his usual happy self.  Since we were in a hurry to leave somewhere I set him on the floor to grab the hair gel (a dude's gotta look handsome) came back and did his hair.  I left to go put the gel away in the bathroom and hear Mara yelling, "Logan fall over!"  She is very protective of him--so naturally every time he falls over she gets me to fix it.  She is very concerned. 

Anyways, I go to open their door (Mara always shuts doors, I think she might be OCD, but that's another story) but I can't.  The little guy fell over right in front of the door.  I can only open it a crack.  I find this hilarious.  No one is hurt, everyone is happy, so I find the humor in the situation. 

Hmmm...now what do I do?  I pull myself together long enough to ask Mara to grab his legs and pull him towards the chair.  I can see her determined little face and she's says, "k mommy".  After a few grunts she goes flying with a sock in her hand.  Do you have a visual yet?  Trust me, it's better if you imagine what it looked like.  I convince her to try again, and sure enough after some grunting she goes flying again with the other sock in her hand.  Without any direction (because I'm laughing so hard I'm crying) she starts again.  She doesn't fall--but gives up saying, "Logan too heavy." 

Meanwhile Logan is just as happy as a clam.  Talking and laughing.  Mara's antics are amusing him.  In Mara's defense I don't know if I could drag someone that's only two pounds less than me.  :)  I've run out of options.  So I sit in the hall and wait till he wiggles enough that I can wedge the door open.  No joke, I haven't stopped laughing since this all began.  Finally he wiggles enough that I can open the door far enough to wedge my arm in there.  I'm able to sit him up and open the door. 

I learned my lesson.  Never set a tree stump--I mean Logan in front of the door.   

Truly inspirational!

Family Pictures

I think I've mention before how spoiled I am.  Let me clarify.  I have an extremely talented aunt who loves to take pictures of my kiddos!  How lucky!!!  This February I got to learn just how hard getting one good picture in two hours can be.  Freezing cold+twoyearold+baby=not the best picture taking experience.  But somehow she managed to get some good ones!  THANKS A MILLION!!!  I now have pictures of Logan hanging up along with all of Mara's.  Not to mention some family pictures. 

Hahahahaha!

Fun @ The Park

We're still trying to take advantage of the good days and head to the park!  Me and Logan usually chillax on the blanket while Sean and Mara run around and play.

Does this picture not crack you up?!

Random Fun

Everytime Mara watches Tinkerbell she has to wear her tutu.

When we went to Logan's follow-up appointment we found out that he had the worst ear infection the doctor had seen in quite a while.  We had no clue.  He had been a little somber at times, but not sad at all!  He is so easy going, it's bad sometimes!

At his six month well check the doctor was concerned about the cough he had been having for four months.  Sure enough he was also wheezing.  With a family history of asthma he was concerned.  So we started breathing treatments four times a day, and a liquid steroid twice a day for five days.  It was at his follow-up appointment for this that we discovered the ear infection.  We were instructed to give him the inhaler is we feel he needs it during a coughing fit or if he's wheezing again.  Poor dude.

Daddy showed Mara a new place to hide!  The laundry hamper.

We always grew up with the tradition of Easter outfits.  So we had to take pictures of the kids in their new clothes!  Well, they weren't "new" because they were worn to Brandon's wedding, but they worked!  Taking pictures of teh two of them together is nearly impossible.  So we got seperates.  The picture on the sofa was the closest we had to a good one together!

Easter with the Millers

Inbetween conference sessions we had an egg hunt at my parents.  My dad was working (like he has to every conference weekend) so we missed him lots!

All the goods.

That face is priceless!  She was so excited the entire time.  Running around like a crazy girl.

Mara is in love with Max.  She lost her spot as oldest grandchild, but she doesn't seem to mind.  She's just excited to have a kid around to play with while we're at my parents.

Easter Morning

Easter morning Mara and Logan came down to baskets from the Easter Bunny!  He brought Mara Alice in Wonderland, and Logan a new fun toy to play with sitting up!

These sunglasses were given to Mara from Grandma Evans.  While I went back to sleep (I had a killer migraine the night before so after baskets I went back to sleep) Sean entertained the kids!  The glasses actually fit Logan better!

Easter with the Evans

Getting together with the Evans is always a blast!  It's hard to coordinate with everyone's work schedules though.  So this year we got to celebrate Easter on Saturday with everyone!  Minus Nick.  I guess we'll probably never be able to get everyone together at once, but it was close.

Grandma and Grandpa Evans hid the Easter Baskets.  Mara thought that was pretty fun.  Then they got to hunt for eggs. 

Mara pretty much adores these two boys.  She talks about them all the time.  They are very good with her!  Super patient.  Can't wait for everyone to quit being sick so we can hang out more.

These two studs are two months apart.  Dylan is older.  I'm so glad Logan gets to have cousins his age.  I always wanted that!

Mara was always so proud of herself when she found an egg!

A Whole New World

Since Logan figured out sitting up about a month or two ago...it has opened up a whole new world of TOYS!!!  He's in heaven.

Logan has been a stinker about standing.  We joke that he's just too chubby to hold up all his weight!  But he has finally mastered that skill!  Our favorite part about him standing is that now daddy gets to do this with him!!

Logan thinks he's pretty hot stuff.  And let's face it, he is!

Joy in the Journey

It is absolutely crazy how happy I am.  I have the best life.  Two adorable kidlets, and one amazing husband. 

Life is really hard.  Super stressful.  At times I admit that I can't find the positive in the situation.  We're poor, we never get to see Sean between work and school.  BUT we are happy.  Crazy, eh? 

I cannot believe how much we've grown through these past few years together.  It's literally taken me three years to figure out all of this housewife stuff, but I think that I'm finally getting the hang of it (although, I know I'll be thrown curve balls every now and then)!  I'll be the first one to admit that I thought that being a stay-at-home-mom would be the easy way out.  Man, was I wrong!  I didn't realize all it took to keep a house in order, food on the table, and kids happy.  Literally a full time job.

Infact, I often joke that I work three shifts a day.  So I pull a triple. :)  I work a day shift which consists of the day to day stuff like taking care of kiddos, making meals...ya know the usual.  As soon as the kids are in bed my night shift begins.  This is where I clean, more so than just the picking up messes through out the day.  Once that is complete the graveyard shift begins.  Getting up with newborns, or calming the two year old with the nightmare.  Granted, I am one lucky girl because Sean has always been amazing at getting up at night too! 

I will also admit that at times I think to myself, "it would be so much easier to go to work".  Not that it would be easier because I know that working moms have a bigger load on their plate because they have to do all the mommy work and their job work.  Just that it would be nice to get out of the house without the kids, and that having the money would make life much easier.  Every family's situation is different, but for our family this is the road we have chosen.  I can honestly say that I love it. 

I am so grateful for Sean.  He works his little tail off.  I cannot even imagine the stress that's involved with going to school full-time while also working a full-time job.  He is definitely my hero.  I know he's working so hard so our family can have a better life.  He is such a hard worker. 

When we started down the path of school and having children, I honestly thought that everyday was going to be so hard.  That I would just close my eyes and hold my breath and hope it was over quickly.  Oh, don't worry, I still want it to be over, however; I have been able to find the joy in the journey.  Which for me is a huge feat. 

Going stir crazy!

First of all let me say that I am SO annoyed with blogger right now.  Took approx 12 years to get these pictures on here, then I can't put them in any type of order, and now it won't let me align my text to the left. 

Just had to get that out there.

We are all losing our minds over here at the Evans household.  With only so much space to move about I feel like all the toys are going to cave in on me.  So as much as possible we try to get outside. 

 Hold your breath because I'm about to say something I never thought would come out of my mouth...but...I'm actually sorta kinda liking Sean's schedule right now.  That is because he is home in the middle of the day (for about an hour mon, wed, fri).  So we often get to go to the park with Sean.  That has been very nice. 

Our favorite outside activities include, but are not limited to: Bubbles, sidewalk chalk, slides, taking naps on the grass, bringing a picnic, climbing (or trying to climb) trees, tossing the frisbee aka keep away from Mara (don't worry though, she thinks it's the coolest game ever, plus it helps her take a fantastic nap later :).  

I enjoy Utah.  I love living here.  I expect crazy spring weather.  So we just try to take advantage of the good days.  I've been trying really hard to stay positive about the ups and downs in the weather.  However; I don't think it's been working as good as I thought because the other day I opened the window only to see snow.  I told Mara, "Look Roo, it's snowing!"  To which she replied, "NO, RUUUUN!!!!"  And she took off running.  Have I mentioned that she is kinda sorta a drama queen?  I love those moments.  Most of the time.  While I'm at it I might as well post another Mara funny that happened today.  While shopping at Target I held up a darling outfit for Mara and told my mom, "isn't this beyond cute?  I wish I could get it right now."  Mara looked me right in the eyes as seirous as could be and said, "then buy it".  Make sure to insert crazy teenage sounding annoyance while reading that oh, and picture an eye roll or two.   

 

Ok, now blogger won't let me insert text inbetween photos.  GRRR.

I guess they are all pretty self explanitory.  One thing I will say is that Logan is the easiest baby in the world!  While at the park one day it was his naptime and he just cuddeled up to his blankie on the ground and went to sleep.  Adorable.  He is growing up way too fast.  He's been rolling from back to belly for about a month now, and is also enjoying the view from an upright position as he is now officially a sitter!  Seriously where has the time gone???