This morning after I finished feeding Whit, I was just holding her in my arms and she had turned her head away from me and just stared at something or someone giving the biggest smile and a little squeak of laughter. Just makes me wonder sometimes what angels are around us that we aren’t aware of. I truly believe that the veil is really thin, and people are down her with her at this early age. Well whoever was visiting this morning, she was really happy to see them. What a smile that person got. I tend to think that it’s my Dad popping in for a visit to see how we are doing. This month on the 6th was his birthday. It makes me sad to not have him here experiencing things with us, but it reassures me that he sees them, even though we can’t see him. One thing I am grateful for is the knowledge of the gospel and knowing that families are eternal. I can’t wait to be able to see my Dad again! I’m so blessed to be a parent. Whitney has brought so much joy to our already joyous marriage. There’s a little piece of heaven looking into her eyes! I just hope that I can be a great parent like my parents have been for me!!

Miss Whit as been a little off on her schedule. Sunday night she didn’t go to bed until 4a and woke up again at 8a to feed. That silly turkey! Sadly for Dad he was the one that was up with her till 4a, than Mom took over, so I had a little bit of sleep. We both have been pretty tired lately. She really is a night owl like her Dad. So Monday we decided to be a little mean and keep her awake as much as we could. She was not too happy sometimes when we woke her up. Dad even put her face in water at the sink so she would keep her eyes opened. Torturous I know, but it worked! She went to bed at 10:30p and didn’t get up to feed until 4a, went to sleep 20min later and woke up at 8a. Now that’s what I’m talking about! We like those kind of nights! I feel really rested after that night. Luckily for Dad, I took over that night since he’s been doing homework and staying up late.

Here are some fun pictures that we have been taking lately…



Here is my balancing act with Dad!



Here I'm holding my bottle for the first time. That didn't last very long :)




Here I am in my new bouncer chair! I love it!!

Six weeks already!!!

Since Whitney is 6 weeks already, Sunday Feb. 16th, was her first time to go to church. She looked so beautiful in her dress. Everyone was telling us how beautiful she was and when she went to Young Womens with mom we had show and tell. Everyone was gooing and aahhhing over her. All the girls loved her!! Luckily for us she slept through most of church, so she was a very good girl!!!

Happy Valentines Day!!

This Valentines we made sugar cookies and took them around to our family and friends. Here is little Whit in her cute Valentines outfit! She had a lot of fun with her cousins!

What a cutie pie!!!

Whit is just starting to follow things with her eye's and whenever you talk to her she will start looking. Yesterday, Feb. 2nd, she was a month old!!
Daddy like daughter-they happened to be sleeping in the exact same way!
Her first captured smile! She always smiles and laughs in her sleep. She happened to wake up just as she smiled!
Avery and Whitney-Best friends!
(Avery is Ashley's little girl)
She is always sleeping with her hands on her face or both up above her head!
Here is her first bath at home!











Here is her "little peanut" elephant outfit that she went home in from the hospital.

Whitney Marie Evans

Whitney Marie Evans

Januray 2, 2009

7 lbs 8 oz 20 inches

On January 2nd at 1am I started having labor pains. At 4:30 we went to the Alta View hospital were they admitted me. I was 100% effaced and dialed to a 3. I received an epidural which by the way was GREAT! It was a little weird not feeling my legs. I was contracting for a while and not dilating further so they gave me patosen(however its spelled) to get things moving along. But every time they would give it to me, Whit's heart rate would go down, so they couldn’t give too much. After about nine hours of playing that game and still dialated to a 3, we decided that we would go C- section. We went into the operating room and about 20 min. later out came our new little girl Whitney. During the surgery I could feel a lot of tugging, but that’s about it. The first word the doctor said was “look at all that hair”! She was a cutie! There was no complications during the surgery which was a relief. Russ was able to be in there and film it. What a cool thing to have someone come to you straight from heaven to your arms. I just couldn’t believe that we finally had our own baby!! It was so fun to finally see what she looked like after being in my tummy for so long. After the delivery we went to our room and she had her first bath. It was fun to watch my husband bath our newborn. I had to watch the movie again later because I was so drugged up it was a battle to keep my eyes open. Don’t you hate that feeling when you need to use toothpicks to hold up your eyelids? The hospital stay was not too bad. All the nurses were so nice and were so sweet with Whit. They especially loved her hair-she would always come back from the nursery with a new hair bow and style. The food on the other hand- hospital food…..gotta love it. I was glad to get home and eat my husbands cooking! That boy can cook—lucky me!!

The Air Show in Vegas!!

Russ and I headed down to Vegas for the air show this weekend. We drove down with Jeff, Russ' cousin and met up with his friend Lloyd and soon to be fiance Katie in St George. Lloyd lives down in St. George so we were able to stay with them. Russ loves the air show so this is an annual trip we make!! I actually did pretty good for being 7 1/2 months pregnant. Parking for this airshow is pretty ridiculous!! Last year I think we waited at least 3-4 hours just to get out of the base since they bus everyone in and out. This year we were pretty smart and went in the back way and parked in the lot where most the locals go. The lines to the base were not bad. But the miracle was after the airshow when they were busing people back. We Left right at the end after the thunder birds did their show and got in line. There was a lot of people in line already, so we followed the crowd that moved up in line on the right hand side of the line area. As bad and annoying as that is to some people, man it was worth it. We merged with the left side of the line and right where were were, a bus came and we cut across to get on. We were able to get on the first bus out!!! How does that happen?? Well I think someone was lookin' out for me cause my hips were killin' me and we didn't have anything to eat all afternoon so I was starving!! And funny thing was, when they dropped us off, they were giving out free loaf of bread to everyone as advertisement for a new product. It was good bread and held us over until we got to the buffet we ate at. Pretty awesome!!!

Russ' Favorite-The Raptor

The Thunder birds!!!