June

 We found out child #2 was a girl! I waited until I was beyond 20 weeks to tell family I was expecting. 

 We had a fun play date with Graysen and Maggie. 

 Playing in the tunnel, and Evelyn rarely fell on her face, even though she crawled head first through most of the playground. 

 Grandma sent these bunny ears for Easter and Evelyn liked to put them on. She knew she was cute stuff and that she could charm Mom and Dad this way. 

 This is how you play in the toy bucket. You sit in it. 

Being "da cool baby." 

The Cabin

 Our friend Chad had a hook-up with someone from work to get this cabin free for a weekend in Sundance. We came up for one night of fun. 

 Huge buffalo head mounted above the stairs. 

 After the girls went to bed, we played this game where the cards tell you to put, "hand to ear," and so on. You end up in a big, laughing, tangled mess. We also spent time in the hot tub outside before we headed in. The guys ended up staying up until 4 am playing various video games on the big screen TV. They finally rolled out of bed at 10 am. Ben remembers it as one of the funnest times he's had with a group of guys. 

 The baby girls playing in these decorative cans. 

 All playing together on the floor. 

 It was fun to watch them all develop their milestones at the same time. They were all crawling around and standing up on the furniture.  

Evelyn was not too excited about this bath. It was a deep whirlpool tub, and I guess she thought it was too far away from Mom and Dad. 

 We took lunch and hiked around the ski area. There were a few patches of snow left, and the trees were all still blooming behind Mt. Timpanogos. I had terrible allergies from the tree pollen all weekend, and had to pop Benadryl to survive. That was the only downside. We had a lot of fun. 

 We failed to get a group shot. So this random one will have to do. :)

We hope to duplicate this fun again sometime in the future. 

Early Spring

 One beautiful afternoon in March, where it was cool, but not freezing. Just warm enough to tease you into believing that warm days are right around the corner. 

At the playground with Graysen and Maggie. 

 Lots of bath time to break up the fact that it is still snowing, even though spring is almost here. 

This snowfall lasted a few days. 

 One afternoon, a putrid chemical smell was coming from the sink drains in the house. A maintenance guy came by, and figured out it was the girl on the first floor dumping her acrylic nail solution down the drain. Really stinky. But while he was there, he commented that we needed a new counter top and sink, as they should have been replaced quite some time ago. So here is Evelyn in our new sink and counter top. I loved it! 

 Playing video games with Dad. 

 We took at quick weekend trip to Grandpa and Grandma Cluff's. Evelyn was being a little mommy-ish. 

 Smiling for Grandma while chewing on her toys. 

 Playing underneath a chair at Tom and Patricia's. 

Crawling around and climbing up the walls by now. 

Easter bunny ears from Grandma Cluff. 

Climbing up to look out the window. This is when diaper changes became more interesting. 

 Being done with her dinner. 

Making a cute stinker face to go with it. 

 Finally getting big enough to play at the playground. She was never afraid to climb all over or go down the slides. 

 By April's end, we could be out in shorts and not freeze to death. This is the time of the year that we finally admitted to ourselves I was in fact pregnant again. It happened a bit sooner than we expected! I wasn't sick at all, but had really terrible seasonal allergies. My eyes were swollen, I couldn't sleep at night due to the congestion, and I was itchy all over. My doctor prescribed two allergy medications and eye drops, and things finally got under control. 

 Climbing with Daddy. 

 Not enjoying the sandbox so much - too gritty. 

On a walk with Mom near the Provo Temple in the stroller Uncle Dan sent us.

President's Day weekend in snow country

 Tyler and Nicole invited us to Tyler's parents for the weekend to enjoy the snow. We bundled up Evelyn and headed out. 

 This was a long hill for tubing, it was fun and no one crashed into any trees. 

Tube train. 

 Aunt Nicole and Evelyn. Kaden wasn't feeling good, so he stayed at his Grandma's house. 

 Tyler and his family have gotten this down to an art. Tow someone behind the four wheeler on skis,  

make sure you're heading for the mound of piled up snow, 

 and fly over the top of it. Easy. 

 Ben liked trying to capture Tyler's brief flight through the air at different angles. You can see the snow cave he helped build at the bottom of the picture. 

 Tyler wanted to sleep in the snow cave. Nicole wasn't so fond of the idea. I was too claustrophobic to go inside. I'm always afraid I'll be suffocated if it caves in. 

Nicole towing Evelyn around in her abominable snowman suit. She had 4 or 5 different layers on I think. 

The weekend we were here was the coldest place we've ever been. The wind howled and the snow blew the first night we were there, and it was said the wind chill got down to at least -30 degrees. A lot of pipes froze and heaters went out, so it saw Tyler's dad (an HVAC repairman), on a lot of repair calls the next day. This was also the trip where we figured out Ben has a cat allergy. We stayed in a room where the family cat had been, and Ben felt like he couldn't breathe all weekend. When he got home, he took an allergy pill, and the reaction went away, so we figured it was the cat and the guess has been proven correct a number of times since.