St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Matty was enjoying the day. He had physical therapy and speech therapy today and he was pretty tired.

As a prelude to St. Patrick's Day we had an impromptu pizza party on Monday night. Grandpa had taken the four oldest grandchildren to the movies and had their traditional Bourbon Street Chicken and then played in the play area at the mall. The Moms hung out at the house with the little ones.

We invited the Dads to come over after work and we ordered pizza.

Kayda is enjoying her pizza.

Matty is enjoying a few moments without his feeding tube. What a cute little guy!

Megan checking out the calendar. Only four more months!

Karen and Kayda

Reddin's ritual after Payton's bath. She gets a free ride.

After the baths.

We have a streaker in the house.

Sawyer and Abby ready for St. Patrick's Day in their sleeping attire.

Sawyer the Entrepeneur

Sawyer is the quite the little business woman. When she came over on Monday Wayne took her out to pick lemons with him. She picked her bag of lemons and then came in to me with the idea of setting up a table and sign to sell her lemons.

At the start of her business

First customer of the day.
She sold $3 worth of lemons and then sat there for awhile longer.
No one was coming to buy her lemons so she came up with the idea of going to neighbors with a bag of lemons to sell. She went to the Slushers and of course Kim bought a bag. She then came in an conned her grandmother out of another dollar. On Saturday the neighbors across the street had had a garage sale and Sawyer had her eye on a very large stuffed dog that had a price tag of $4.

The next thing we know she has brought this dog home. She had gone over to the neighbors and knocked on their door and asked if she could buy the dog. She gave them 25 cents. She drives a hard bargin.

Abigail the Fearless :(

I do not think that Abby is afraid of anything as the following account demonstrates. Friday Carrie came over to visit. Grandpa and Sawyer were downstairs watching a movie. Carrie and I were in the living room talking. Abby had gone outside to play in the backyard. As we were visiting we heard little feet on the roof. Carrie immediately got up and ran out the back door. Abby was on the roof.

She had moved a chair over to the gate...

so she could get the gate open.

Once on the porch she climbed on the tub...

to get to the roof. She did not stay on the lower more level part...

but proceeded to climb to the higher more steep part.

This is where Carrie found her. We all know Abby and if you go after her she runs. Carrie immediately started yelling for her to stop. Did she stop, not Abby but...

ran to the other side of the roof where if she fell it would be straight to the ground. It was definately a scary moment for Carrie. And as we sat in the living room and Abby continued to play outside, we heard the gate open two more times, even though she had gotten a spanking. She might make her third birthday.

February FHE

Last night we had our monthly FHE with those of us who are still here in Arizona. Reddin and Karen were in charge but we had is at my house. They decided to mix it up a bit and have breakfast for dinner. It was a nice idea. We had waffles with different toppings, peanut butter, buttermilk syrup, peach syrup, strawberries and whipped cream. We had bacon, milk, and juice. It was a great evening with a good lesson from Reddin on prayer using pretzels. Liam was so proud of his train jammies that who cares if they are three sizes too big.

Isn't he a cutie?

Wild and crazy girls!

Ruth and Payton doing I don't know what in the basement.

Matty who is almost 4 months old!

Matty weighs 12 pounds 13.8 ounces and doesn't have to have the extra calories anymore!

On Sunday Grandpa got out his 45 year old, newly fixed train set for the M & M children to enjoy. They loved being tunnels and bridges.

More tunnels!

This is just a random picture of Abby watching her "boobie" (movie) in the play room. She doesn't care what she sits on or in. Funny, funny girl!

Happy Valentine's Day! :)

The Evan's Family had their annual Candlelight Spaghetti Dinner (without the candlelight) for Valentine's Day. We missed the missionaries, Travis and Stephanie in Buffalo, and the M & M's. Those who came had good food and valentine treats.

Valentine Mouse from Payton to Grandma Evans

Payton with her valentine tiara.

Matty certainly enjoyed his valentine gift!

Abby checking out the goodies.

Kayda was not excited to wear her sister's shades.

Abs checking out what she got in her valentine bag.

Sawyer with her treats.

Reddin helping Payton with her bubbles.

Sweet little Matty not on Valentine's Day but I liked the picture.

Birthdays

On February 3rd Ruthie turned 6! She was so excited. She had us all over to eat one of her favorite foods, Hawaiian Haystacks, and to enjoy the evening with her.

Here is Ruthie glaming it up with Grandma Holly's present to her.

" I've got to get a really big breath to blow out all these candles on my cookie pile."

I've almost made it!

All the kidlets are excited about the presents.

Wow! What is that and what do you do with it?

Neil found something he was excited about among Ruthie's presents.

"That's great that you are doing so well, but can I play with my present?"

Enjoying the balloons.

A rare moment when Abby and Liam are playing well together.

We'll see you later.

Let me give you a kiss good-bye.

The end of January brought our monthly FHE and the celebration of Reddin's Birthday. Here he is using the rocket stomper to help him blow out his candles, all two of them...a #3 candle and one more to represent a one.

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