Camp Trip

Ember's FIRST camping trip!!

We recently traded in our little tent and got some store credit and upgraded to a bigger tent and wanted to try it out and take Ember camping for one night with just our family before we went with others in case she didn't enjoy it! We shouldn't have been worried because she LOVED it and wants to go back ASAP! She loved getting to go to the bathroom on the ground like Maci does ;)

And it just so happened to be that we went on Father's Day weekend which was the perfect way for Dustin to spend the day/weekend!! 

We got her her own little camp chair and she loved it!

Setting up the tent

Blowing up our new 22" air mattress! 

Our humble abode!

Ember helped Dustin get pine cones and sticks to start the fire!

A panorama view of our campground area

 Hanging out by the fire, eating shelled peanuts, while dinner is cooking

Being silly!

Me and my love!

And had to document Baby Boy's first in womb camping experience with the beautiful sunlight and surroundings!

It was a short little trip but it was really fun for us 4 to enjoy together! And we have had so much rain this June that there were no fire restrictions so we could have a campfire and it was greener than Dustin ever remembers it being in June. Thankful for a good trip in God's beautiful creation! Hoping to make this a more regular thing! 

28 Weeks!

We have made it! The 3rd trimester has arrived!! HOORAY! 

28 weeks down! 12 more to go! 

Family Picture

And a few Pinterest inspired pics to celebrate being 2/3 of the way there!!

Caps for Sale

Well, this book took us a little longer than anticipated to get through. I blame the gorgeous weather and us just wanting to enjoy the outdoors! :) Whatever the reason, we finished and it was fun! This book really is a good one! Fun to read! 

Read "Caps for Sale" every day

Watched the animated story telling on YouTube

Read some complimentary books from the library

We had some alphabet letter upper and lower case matching letter cards with monkeys on them that we used multiple times to keep working on letter recognition (not her favorite) ... I just didn't take a picture of them

We made a mustache on a stick like the peddler in the book. Ember was a little frightened by this... so I used it :) 

We "stacked our caps" like in the book using a kabob stick in a play dough base. Then ate it of course!

I laminated pictures of items from the book and cut them up to create smaller puzzles for Ember to work on (forgot a picture of this too)

We stacked the caps on the monkeys head in the same order the caps were stacked on the peddler's head in the book.,

We played "Monkey See Monkey Do" (no picture since I was busy playing!!) She really enjoyed this game!

Ember practiced her counting skills by counting out the number of coins written on the back of each hat she wanted to buy from the tree.She did surprisingly well with this! 

We made Chocolate Dipped Bananas for a special treat. YUM! YUM!

The fun times continue with Tot School! I am planning to get in a few more books before Baby Brother makes his appearance!! 

Graduation Parties

We recently had the privilege of celebrating our niece, Aly's, high school graduation, and Dustin's brother, Jared's, graduation from pharmacy school! Both parties were at Dustin's oldest brother's house in Verrado. Great to see family and celebrate! And the photo station and props were lots of fun too!! 

Aly's Party

All the decorations looked great!

Ember eating with her cousin at the little kids table!

Our family with the Grad!

Silly girl :P

And we are SO SO excited that Aly is coming up to NAU next year for college. We are thrilled that we will be getting to see much more of her! 

Jared's Party

Jared is now officially a Doctor after years of hard work! 

The proud parents! 

The Evans men

Our family with Dr. Evans

Post party golf kart wildlife search ride! They saw about 10 deer and hundreds of bunny rabbits! 

This month, Dustin, Ember, and I also went down to Tuscan to hang out with Dustin's cousin Matt and his 3 year old daughter Sophie. The girls obviously had a BLAST together!

Me and my girl! She wanted me to sit on a turtle with her! :) 

Lots of great family Evans time in the month of May!