Parties, Parties, Parties

April was a party month for the Evans. This was a much better month than last year at this time. We did our partying at the hospital and at Carrie's waiting to go to the hospital. It has been a year since Wayne had his heart attack and open heart surgery. I'm glad that he is where he is this year.

Picture of the before mentioned "Hot Rod" Party of Trevor's. This is before a lot of people got to the party.

The weekend after Trevor's party we had Kayda and Payton come spend the night so Reddin and Karen could get up early and go to Pat's Run. I just happened to be watching Marcus and Megan's children that night so we had a party with the kidlettes.

What else would you do on a Saturday morning at grandma's besides watch a movie?

Have candy!

That same weekend we had a cousins party at Jeanine's. Ben and Kristen were here from Utah with their family so we got together and ate and played games. Such a fun time we had with everyone.

That Sunday we had Wayne's birthday celebration with cake, pie, and ice cream. Wow! I'm glad that he was here to turn 60!

Grandpa and his girls.

A year later we tried again for pictures with all the grandchildren. I think Collin did the best!

Last year in July with all the grandchildren.

Part of Trevor's party was going down this wonderful ramp into the pool. Reddin decided that the children would love to go down it into the grass. Here was Liam's take on the whole thing.

Weddings and Parties

What a weekend! On Friday Megan's little sister Hillarie married her RM, James. They had the reception at Cardon Park and what a fun time we had celebrating with the Bradshaws. They have been good friends since Travis and Reddin became friends in the sixth grade. It has been fun watching Hillarie grow up and going to Disneyland with her and Holly a couple of times. Good times we have had with Megan's family.

Hillarie and James

In-laws, Callie and Marcus

Everyone had a good time on the dance floor

Marcus was even rocking out.

The best were Abby and Liam

Dancing King title had to go to Liam . . . he has some great moves!

The next day we went to Makutu's Island in Chandler for Wayne's birthday. What a fun place that is. It is like McDonald's playground on steriods. It is a three story high jungle gym with tunnels, tubes, zip lines, and slides. The kids had a blast and the adults had a great time also.

View from the 3 and under area. Grandma Holly and Callie and her kids came to play with us also.

The M & M's

Abby thought she died and went to heaven. We didn't see much of her all day unless she was streaking by to go explore another area of the jungle.

This was such a great place to play.

Reddin and Karen and the girls.

Even the Grandma's joined in the fun.

Abby and Liam back dancing.

After we had all the fun we could stand and were pretty hungry we ended up at Marcus and Megan's house and Holly brought over reception food that she had left over. What a feast we had. We went from there to Countryside Park to party with the Hatch family. It was so good to see everyone and visit. Of course I didn't even think to take pictures. When that was all done we went home to have 200 young adults in our backyard for a "Hot Rod" party. Fun times with the Evans!

Easter Fun

What a fun Easter we had this year. I love it when Easter lands on General Conference weekend. It makes for a crazy hectic weekend but it surely is fitting and makes for a wonderful Easter Sunday.

Here comes the Easter Bunny! Isn't she cute?

First we were spiritually fed by watching conference then we were physically fed. Waffles, yum!

Everyone gets their fill of waffles, peanut butter, buttermilk syrup (candy syrup), strawberries, blueberries, and whipped cream.

Matty gets his brunch.

Of course we had irrigation that day also! Only a few got wet!

Here come the Reddin and Karen Evans to join the party.

Intense egg coloring going on here.

What color should I use?

More intense work.

Everyone gets into the fun.

Busy getting the eggs ready for the bash.

Mine's almost done!

Finding the hidden eggs.

Matty gets the big one!

Everyones basket/buckets are full.

Dumping out the goodies.

Enjoying the goodies.

Fun with the bubble wands.

The Fourth Annual Easter Egg Bash under way.

Championship round.

And the winner is....Trevor

Who said that kids are not toys!