The BEST man

I have the best husband in the world. I write this because he has done so much for me over the past month, and I need to give him credit. He’s the type of man who gets home after a long day at work, and starts with, “what do you want for dinner?”(And he’s a great cook.) He’s one to do housework without being asked. He constantly gets things for me I’ve left behind, refills my water bottle, does the dishes, feeds the cat, changes diapers, gets up with us in the middle of the night, and calls during the day just to say hi. He loves his little boy and takes care of him whenever possible. Evan is a man who lets me have my own thoughts and nights out, if I need them. He listens to every word, cries with me, laughs with me, and consoles my fears. He honors the priesthood, sets goals, respects me, and puts his family first.
Evan, you are my life. You are worth every second I waited to find you. You have made me the happiest girl in the world. You are perfect and I love you so very much. You have brought so many wonderful memories to my life, and I want to tell you you mean the world to me. Our son has the BEST father! Thanks for giving him to me, and thank you for making my life complete.

Pumpkin or prisoner?

Little P with grandma

My mom has a bunch of newborn size halloween outfits. She had 5 or 6, and we washed them and put one on right away when we went to visit mom and dad for conference. We laughed so hard as we dressed little P in this bright orange "jump suit". He looks like a little prisoner, doesn't he? It's so sad that they outgrow all their little outfits too fast. It seems they only get to wear them once or twice before their britches are too big! He's already graduated from newborn sized diapers. And yes, I cried.

It's a corn party!

Terri shucking the corn

Every year around this time, Evan's family has a corn party. Not to be confused with apricot jamming, salsa making, apple saucing, bean picking, and pea parties. His parents own a farm, and thus, lots of produce. They used to sell lots of it at the farmer's markets, but now, most of the proceeds go to feeding their 9 kids and growing families.


We get together whenever possible (and necessary) to help with whatever it may be. In this case, corn. It's really simple, it just requires doing lots at a time. In this party, we cooked and froze 32 dozen ears, with 60 dozen still left to harvest. The process is: pick the corn, shuck it, wash it, cook it, blanch it, cut off the kernels, bag it, freeze it. We love having fresh frozen veggies all year long. Thanks mom and dad!

Toni and Sarah washing the corn

Dad cooking the corn

Our Cougar

We recently took little P to a BYU football game. We have season tickets every year, and we were looking forward to dressing up little P in his blue gear for the games. The weather was particularly nice for this game, so we took him with us. He slept through the whole thing, even the canon blasts. Gooooo Cougars!!!