Haaangin Out, Down the Street

(That '70s Show, anyone?)

It's so fun that Evan and Nicole live in Spanish Fork now. They only lived in Orem (20 minutes away) before, but it actually makes a huge difference in just being able to hang out whenever we want. It's nice.

The other day we spent some time outside and walked around the reservoir. 

Nicole colored my hair afterwards (I needed it badly). 

Bella was so tired and after many attempts at Evan and Nicole's house and the pack-n-play failing, Trevor finally got her to go to sleep by driving around. Of course, by the time we got home like an hour later-- she woke up and was ready to play. I think she gets confused with her bedtime when we go out and come back home, but it's so hard because she won't sleep at other people's houses. She knows it's not her room-- anyone have advice on how to help with that at all? I think it's just gonna be one of those constant battles of trial and error.

Anyway, my mom got her a set of toy ducks for the bath and they are seriously her favorite thing right now (Max's too..)

Belle & Bella

It's so fun to watch these cute cousins interact with each other. Since they're both crawling now, they followed one another around the house-- so cute! 

(Their depth perception isn't the best yet, so they bonked heads when they crawled towards each other, haha)

HaHa's 60th Birthday

We celebrated Trevor's mom's big 6-0 at Brick Oven. It was nice because we had our own room, so we could all talk to each other easily. We love our HaHa (means 'mom' in Japanese-- Trevor started calling her that on his mission and it stuck). Lots of pizza and good company.

 Cheesy smiles

 and funny faces.

Lovely Saturday afternoon in Provo.

Oakley is 4!

Our cute niece Oakley is 4 years old! It's crazy to me. She is so sweet and has so much spunk, we love this girl to pieces!

We went to the Provo Beach Resort for her birthday on Saturday-- such a fun place! They have a flowrider, ropes course, bowling, croquet, golf simulators, carousel, and tons of other stuff. Perfect for Provo.

The guys did the ropes course (I was too much of a wimp! We were on the top story watching so I couldn't get a picture to show how high up they were).

Had fun bowling while the kids played in the play area..

Won some prizes...

..then ended the day with some surfing :)

Evan's 31st

We celebrated Evan's 31st birthday last night at Outback with the fam. Trevor and I tried to think of a cool movie or book we could get him, and ended up getting him a Best Buy gift card so he can just pick something out himself. Who doesn't love a gift card anyway? :)

Our favorite part of the night was when Evan looked at the time and realized it was 8:00pm (past the time when he was actually born), and goes "I'm officially 31. DAMN IT." Hahaha. Now we can say he's "in his thirties". Ohh Evan, we love you!

Thanksgiving Point Lights

We just got back from California yesterday and I have lots of blogging to catch up on. Before we left, we went to see the Christmas lights at Thanksgiving Point with Steph and Rick. We hung out at their place and had dinner before-- it's so cute to watch Bella and Belle together-- Belle is 3 months older so she is a little more aware of Bella and will just stare at her.


Bella slept the whole time we drove through to see the lights, which was nice. She is so funny with her hands-- she always has them stiff in different positions and she'll seriously keep them like that for hours! (Oh and that angry look is her being bugged from the flash going off in her face)


After our little drive, we went to go see the reindeer! Oakley was so excited to see real reindeer. (They were actually caribou, but shhh!)


We also went to a baptism for Trevor's friend, Yisenia. It definitely wasn't easy keeping Bella quiet the whole time, but Trevor's co-workers had fun passing her around.

Day After Christmas

Trevor and I had the fam over on Sunday for some homemade Italian soup. Oakley was so funny, she came into the kitchen and said "Cristina, what are you making?" and I told her "Soup!" She got so happy and said "I like soup!! But I can't see it." So I lifted her up so she could see the pot of soup, which had a ton of different vegetables in it, and she goes "Oh.. I don't like that kind." Hahaha the rest of us enjoyed her portion. 

Some of us played games and some of us watched Inception. I was trying to get Bella to go to sleep for over an hour so I was in and out of watching the movie-- I've seen it before but it's definitely one I need to watch all the way through again.