A big day for all of us!

August 14, 2012 was a big day for all of us.  It started out with Evan going to his first day of preschool.  Josh and I dropped him off and got him settled.  He was very excited.  Then Mom and Dad were off to the hospital for our scheduled c-section.  Evan's picture says:  Today I am a big brother.  He was so excited and couldn't wait to hold Jake.  Gram and Gramps picked him up from school and brought him to the hospital where they waited patiently for us.
Evan is a good big brother and he loves Jake very much.

San Diego, Mission Beach, Sea World and San Diego Temple Part 2

We went to Sea World Saturday.  The first thing we looked at was the dolphins.  The date was actually the 16th but my camera wasn't set right.



Evan watching Shamu swim upside down.



The sky tower

Blue Horizons show.  This was Evan's favorite show because it had dolphins in it.

Evan evan got to ride Shipwrek Rapids.  He wasn't quite tall enough but they let him go anyway.  He is 41 inches and he needed to be 42.  He is the one in the left upper corner with Josh.  I coudn't go on any rides because I was pregnant but that is ok.

Evan touching a star fish.

Evan was excited to see the shark exhibit but once we got in here he wasn't to sure about it.

Bayside Skyride.  I actually got to ride this one.  It took us over the bay where we
could see boats and other watertoys that people were enjoying.

Evan at Sea Lions Live just before the show started.

One Ocean-  This was one of the shows that we watched Shamu.  By this time of the day we were hot so we sat in the splash zone.  As Evan would say, "Shamu got us wet".  But it felt good.

Evan and Josh riding the Elmo ride.  I promise evan was on there too.

Playing in Sesame Street Bay of Play

Going on Wild Artic.  There was a part where you could go
into a pretend ice cave that a polor bear would sleep in.
You could hear the noises of a polar bear. Evan didn't want to
anything to do with this.

Evan with his light up sword at the Shamu rocks show.

Colorado New Year with Grandpa

I had fun taking pictures with my new features on my camera. I thought this sunset turned out pretty cool.

We went to Bayfield Colorado to see my Dad. It was also a good chance
to take Evan to play in the snow for the first time. We had a lot of fun even though
there wasn't any fresh snow.

Evan loves putting the snow in his mouth and climbing through it.

Evan and our cousin Hayden both playing with the technology.

Evan and Dad got stuck in the snow bank.

Evan going getting ready to go down a little hill all by him self. He called the sled his board.

Looking for hills to go down.

Mom, Evan and Grandpa Tim having a good time.

We are glad that we got to go spend time with my Dad. We had a fun time playing in the snow and spending time together.

Train Trip to Ogden

We decided to ride the train from Woodscross to Ogden. This was the easiest way to get to Ogden for a short visit and also do something that Evan would enjoy. I think he had a good time on his first real train ride.

Evan hitting Pinata

We went to the Vaterlaus family reunion this year. Evan got to do a lot of fun things. There was a bounce house, he made his own rocket and shot it off about a 100 times, and he got to hit the pinata. He even waited patiently for his turn.

Backfloating

Evan is backfloating. I go swimming with him during his lessons. He is now getting to the point where it will do whatever the teacher wants and will do nothing for me. I think it is time for the big boy class.

Evan is back floating

Today Evan had swimming lessons and I really didn't want to go today, I don't know why, but I am so glad that I did. Evan has his good days for swimming and bad. Today was a good day. He did almost everything without crying and the biggest surprise of all was that he back floated all by himself. It was toward the end of the lesson where we have them swim to the teacher and then roll over to a back float. The first time Evan made it to a count of 5. The second time he made it to a count of 10. The teacher then says lets do it one more time. He then called over another teacher (the one in charge of advancement) over and had Evan do it again. He made it to 10 again and then tried to roll back over to get the wall. He got a ribbon that says "I back floated all by myself today". I am thankful that heavenly father did this for Evan today and for me because I would have been sad if I missed him back floating. I wish I had a picture but unfortunately I don't so I put a picture of the ribbon.

Fourth of July!

Last year we didn't watch fireworks so this year we decided that we needed to go watch them for Evan. So this was Evan's first experiece watching them. At first we sat in the back of the car to watch them.

At first he wasn't quite sure what was going on. He watched them intently at the beautiful colors filled the sky.

He also sat on Josh's shoulders.

I was trying to figure out how to get the best picture and unfortunately some of them came out blury.

I think it was a fun experience for him. We have to thank Sylas and his parent's for letting us watch from their house.

Our Trip to St George

Evan was using the map to tell us how to get there.

Arwen and Isaiah were helping with Evan.

Evan was so tired he decided to take a nap by the pool.

Evan Loves playing in the pool.

Evan in his swimming hat. He was worn out after playing at the pool.