evan, lindsay, nina, elena and esther

Above is a phone picture Evan took yesterday morning when he woke up and walked into the living room. It says "I love daddy". Nina and I cut it out from old nat'l geographics and strung it up, and made breakfast for him before he woke up. I love Nina's daddy. I'm so glad he'll be this little baby's daddy too. After church we joined the Alexanders for a father's day feast - hot wings, homemade mac n cheese, and cheesecake. Good excuse to ignore my sugars for a while.



A couple of posts ago I mentioned a trip to Utah we recently made. Here is the tale. Evan had been there already for a BYU-I art travel thinger, and we met up with him after he'd had two days visiting firms and studios all over SLC/Provo.

Usually when we visit utah we're running around like crazy trying to stop at as many stores or food joints that aren't available in Idaho. We also visit as many people as possible- family, friends and mission peeps. In two or three days we often don't get everything done that we had planned. For this trip I made my usual list and we were able to make three of the family/friend visits, including - mission trainer and great friend Sariah and her husband Chris and two beautiful babies, and my cousins Heather & Ross and their their newborn Oliver and older brother Soren. But we didn't make a single shopping errand or eating out stop (les madeleines, El viruleno, and others -- we'll see you next time). And we were glad! Because it meant that we had a lot of time to relax and hang out with Jaqui & Travis and the Iannones.

Jaqui's sister Stephanie graduated high school and we also attended her sister Bella's baptism. They let us crash and become a part of their big family weekend. It was Nina-heaven - a trampoline and great backyard, a pool nearby, a cat, lots of food, lots of people to love her including new her friend Bella. We escaped the rain in SE idaho and had really warm nice weather with barbeques and bocce ball. Evan stepped away from his BFA project and other work and we spent real time together, a few days after our anniversary. It was just a nice break. On our last day Jaqui & Travis used their mad photography skills on us. The picture posted above is a teaser they sent us. We can't wait to see the rest!

I don't know if we'll have a chance to be in utah again before we move. It's kind of weird to think that we won't be living a 3 hour drive from there. Hopefully we can visit soon to see people and to realize our yet unfulfilled dream of hiking in one of the beautiful places there with a rented llama in tow. One day, we're gonna rent a llama