remember 5 months ago when I did a whole "ode to Thatcher" goodbye forever post? I do... to my credit that WAS 5 months ago. We moved back. Troy went a week ahead to start work and Evie and I packed up and followed. In Thatcher we reside... living happily so come and visit please, you'll love it.
this is us following...

April and Easter

April went by fast for us. Troy spent the whole month job searching, and taking some online classes, I spent a good part of the month stressing about Troy's job searching, the rest and the best of the month is below and it's all about Evie...

Evie's 1st baseball game

Troy loves baseball games and I love Troy so we went with our friends Brad and Val... It was a good time and Evie was perfect. Plus, the weather was great.

Evie's 1st Easter egg hunt

she loved it! or maybe i'm the one that loved it... if she knew what was going on, she would have loved it!

Easter Sunday in her Easter dress. This was after church and before nap time... about 2 seconds before nap time.

good month.

my baby is 1 !

i have a one year old and i just can't seem to wrap my head around it. 1 whole year. she's growing so fast and i think it's gone by in a blink, but at the same time i feel like we've always had her. troy just said to me a few nights ago, "what did we do without her?"...

beats me!

birthdays are a big deal. my mom always thought so. on April 14 we got to celebrate evie's...

spent the day just the three of us, had a party the next night, opened some presents, and ate some homemade birthday cake

we love our 1 year old. how she managed to develop all that personality in one year i'll never know. maybe she's more troy than i thought. she's perfect and im so grateful she's mine.

summer is upon us

my heart is breaking... today in the mid afternoon i went outside and realized that summer will probably be here in a week. i do not exaggerate when i say that my heart is breaking. spring has been here in good ol' arizona now probably for 4 weeks and it is coming to an end. sounds about right. i am not prepared for an arizona summer, i can't even wrap my head around it. the sidewalk that burns your feet, the hot sticky steering wheel that you can only hold onto with napkins out of the glovebox. i am not prepared to spend the next 6 months indoors with the most incredible utility bill you have ever seen. i long for spring to stay. i know that it won't and troy is glad because that means he can go swimming and eat popsicles, both those things mean nothing to me! they pale in comparison to walks and picnics, and the color green! summer is the most selfish of seasons in arizona. it cuts spring short and doesn't even give autumn a chance. im afraid i am the only one who feels this way in my family because evie got a taste of summer today and she liked it very much!

we went to a reception. troy took pictures and i took evie... who had the harder job? i didn't think it was possible but she has gotten even busier. she wants to eat, touch, see, crawl all over, grab, and squawk at everything. i love this whirlwind of a baby!

evie...
she's 9 months old, she has 9 teeth including 1 1/2 molars, and she has red strawberry blonde hair. she crawls like a pro and loves to pull herself up on anything she can get her little pudgy hands on. she loves to copy us when we shake our heads from side to side or smack our lips or clap our hands. she now knows the purpose of a spoon, and anytime she finds one she'll immediately put it in her mouth... if it's a clean spoon she'll become genuinely confused as to why it doesn't taste the way it does when mom's feeding her with it. if your eating something she'll never take her eyes off of you. she's soooo busy! she has the cutest giggles and lately i've been having to work pretty hard for them, but they come out easy for Troy. after nap time she'll sqwauk, yes sqwauk for me to come get her and when I do she'll look up at me and grin. her cheeks are the most delicious thing about her and yes, she's so so yummy!

today we took her to see... bunnies!


first it was this...

then it was this...

she eventually got the idea