July 1 & 5, 2010

Evy eating a popsicle at my mom's. I have been trying not to introduce Evy to sweets to delay her becoming a typical American that overindulges (myself included) but it's inevitable. Treats are just good.


Elena, Kate and Evy

Elena (aka Gangey) and Kate

July 5th. Nelson and Evy at the fireworks show in Lewiston. You know you're in Lewiston when everyone is wearing wranglers, everyone is pulling a horse trailer, there's a man calling out to his 8 year old daughter named Jaylene, and next to you are a bunch of teenage boys recording themselves lighting firecrackers off their heads, hands, mouths and butts.

Babysitting the Baileys June 15-19, 2010

I got to hang out with my niece Amanda and nephew Chase this week while their parents were at Lake Mead. Some things I forgot about teenagers: they love movies, candy, soda, video games, sports, friends, phones and computers. I met these two when they were ages 6 and 3. It has been fun to see them grow.

Evy hanging out like it's normal to have a bow around your eyes.

Only in Logan

Living in Logan, I have noticed, is much different than Salt Lake. For instance, you get fantastic factories like Gossners.


And cute little bungalows such as this from the 50's.


And then there is this little number... It is rented to college students and I think split into 3 different apartments. It just doesn't make any sense.

Here is another view of it. It has anything from rocks, wood, tile, stucco and siding on the outside.

Everyone meet here during an earthquake okay? Yes this is a creek right below it that the balcony is hanging over.

Onto our next one: a flamingo and Christmas wreath in the springtime. Precious.

Genius! A tree converted into a basketball hoop!

Memorial Weekend May 29-31, 2010

We hit the cabin this weekend. Nelson and Evy.


Uncle Leonard came. He insisted on taking a nap at the top of the stairs so he can "hear the noise" while he slept. Leonard lives alone and loves the commotion of people.


When we all got together what did everyone do? Check out each others' iphones. I have learned the Ashworth and Krogue families love the latest gadgets. Nelson and I just looked on because we never have the latest gadgets.


Some good old fashioned technological family time.
L-R Hailey, Karlene, Sara, Pete, Karen, Keith and Ursula. I posed for a million pictures that day so they could all add me to their contact list.


Nelson's aunts Karen and Ursula.

Gene, Rick, Karlene, Ursula, Pete, Keith.

Sara played with Evy the whole time. It was great. Evy was bored when she left.

This will be the only age I will let Evy pose on a motorcycle like this. Chandler, Evy, Hailey.

Sara, Evy, Hailey, Chandler

Hailey, Taggert, Toby, Oreo and Nelson. I can see the next installment of Airbud plays tetherball coming soon.

Holly and Evy.

Beehives on Leonard's property in St. Charles, Idaho. This is for Casey who claims he is going to have beehives someday.

Memorial day afternoon we went to my grandma McFarland Garrard's house for dinner.

Elena teaching grandpa Ray to text. Now who is going to teach Elena to text properly?

Grandma Marion, Aunt Julie, Aunt Jeanne, Holly, Evy, Elena

Evy 8 months May 13, 2010

Matt and Allie babysat Evy last week and took some pictures for me. This is her just a little over 8 months.

A few weeks ago she started giving this huge cheesy smile. I love it. When I got the pictures developed the cashier told me they were all laughing at these pictures. They said usually older kids give these cheesy smiles, not the little ones.

Bald and beautiful.

Washington D.C. May 3-9, 2010

May 7th Stacy and Paul took us around ( I messed up the order of my pictures on accident) This is us by the Lincoln memorial obviously. I can't believe Nelson had the nerve to show up here seeing as he is a descendent of John Wilkes Booth and all. I guess Evy is too. Bummer.


Nelson, Evy and I flew in to Denver May 3rd then D.C. on the 4th. After arriving that afternoon we ate at Union Station, hit the post office museum (zzz...) and walked around the capital. Then my uncle Paul came to get us and we headed to his place. We did a lot of public transportation on this trip. We did the plane, Stacy's car, the bus, the metro and tons of walking.

We are both sooo cute here. It was a long day.

May 5th we went to the air and space museum. I just wanted to introduce Evy to her uniform she'll probably wear someday. Nelson is obsessed with planes (I hate them and have to meditate every time we fly so I don't puke or think of crashing) so we had to go there first. I finally learned how astronauts go to the bathroom in space! Still mad I forgot to buy astronaut ice cream.

Nelson and Evy

We next went to the Museum of American History. I made Nelson pose next to this microscope for my own entertainment since he's a lab nerd.

Museum of natural history. This was probably my favorite museum.

If all goes well this election, we should be living here next.

May 6th Arlington cemetery. So many graves. I can't believe they still bury around 30 people here everyday. There was a funeral taking place while we were there.

Evy sucking on an apple at Robert E. Lee's home at Arlington.
By the way, she was the best traveler ever. She loved every minute of it. We went to the Holocaust museum after this. It was absolutely disgusting in some parts. There were kids on field trips at every museum we went. That day there were tons of teenagers (you're supposed to be over age 12 to enter) and some of them were sobbing uncontrollably at what they saw. Ya, pretty depressing. On our way there we asked for directions. A guy pointed it out to us and said, "The holocaust museum is over there. Have fun! No wait, that's not what I meant..."

Just behind the World War II memorial. Sometimes people we asked to take our picture didn't include Evy in them. Kinda weird. We then went up the Washington Monument. I saw the temple from there.

We went to the Newseum. This was taken from the balcony. The newseum will make you cry. It has the coverage from 911 and the pulitzer prize winning photos since the 1950s. Pretty much every pulitzer prize winning picture was of a tragedy. It was heart wrenching. After this we went to Ford's theatre and to the home where Lincoln died shortly after.

Waterfall near cousin Stacy and Paul's homes.

Sightseeing at night.

May 8th we went to the National zoo. This was our 7th wedding anniversary.

What the? What's Maggie doing here?

Evy meets orangutans.

We finally see the panda.