Lets get personal, shall we?

I found myself walking into a scary Dr.'s office.  I'm not gonna lie, as I walked through those doors I was more than a little scared by the twitching person in the corner.  Then I looked at the reception desk only to realize that there was glass separating us.  Seriously.  There was a slot at the bottom to slide paper work through, but other than that the receptionists were safely removed from me.

I made Sean come with me.  I went and paid the receptionist an extremely large amount of money and then sat down.  Carefully choosing a seat away from the twitching guy.

How did I end up here?

Life is just so frustrating sometimes.  I've been pretty open about my struggles with depression and anxiety.  It's no big secret.  That doesn't make it any less awkward though.  And sometimes it just gets way too hard.

So guess what?  We're moving.  We're going to rent out our condo and move in with my parents for a little while.   Finances are so tight right now, and if you combine that with my problems it's a perfect storm of crazy.  So this move is the answer to both big issues. 

I mostly just feel bad for Sean. He works so darn hard....  I feel bad for my kids because they love our house and love their friends.  I just took Mara's records out of her elementary school and transferred them to the new one she'll be attending.  We only made the decision on Monday and everything is just going so fast!  Mara was pretty upset.  In fact, her solution was: "why don't you move into grammy's house and me and logi will stay at our house?"  After much talk she has warmed to the idea.  She is happy to be close to "her boys" (aka Kayden and Maddux), be close to Omi's swimming pool, the treehouse, Grammy and Grandpa, baby Lilah, etc...

It'll definitely be interesting.  I'll let ya know how it goes. 

Easter with the Evans family

We left my parents house and headed to the Evans for another hunt.  It was cute.  At the Evans' you have to find you easter basket first!  That is always a fun tradition I think.

Afterwards we went inside for a nice Easter Feast.  I ate waaaay too much that day!

Easter Egg Hunt with my family

To start easter weekend we had an Easter egg hunt with my family.  My aunt Valerie and her family were in town!

 Mara was somewhat obsessed with the chicks that my aunt Marcie brought with her.  It was pretty cute.

 Melissa was showing the kids videos of Lilah on her phone.  If they can't play with Lilah (she was trying to nap) then they have to see her some way!

 Logan was very nervous about the chicks, but wanted to play.  It was a funny combination.

 Uncle Mike was helping Logan during the hunt.  It took him several minutes of standing right there for Logan to finally notice the orange egg on the tree post.  It was pretty funny.

Overall it was a fun quick hunt!  We had some lunch and just chatted outside forever.  I got my first sunburn of the year!

Family Pictures

We got Evans Family pictures taken this year.  It's the first year we've done it since before Sean's mission!  I remember thinking that they were nuts to have me be in the pictures!  I guess it all worked out.  Seriously though, that sure was risky business.

Anyways, here are some of the kids.  I'll post others later, but I simply could not resist posting these.  These 5 kids are easily the most adorable children on the planet.  All of their personalities shine through these photos.  They are all so different, but so similar.  

"The boys" take good care of Mara.  She definitely doesn't have a shortage of boys to look out for her.  Kayden and Maddux have always been so tolerant of her girly ways.  They treat her like an equal and are seriously so good to her.  She is so lucky to have such awesome cousins.

I always wanted a cousin my age.  When Steph and I found out we were pregnant at the same time I was super excited for our kids.  Having them both be boys was icing on the cake.  

We couldn't ask for a better brood of cousins.

     

           

Frienemies

Thanks Alan Smoot for capturing a good picture of the 3 of them.  It's never been done before!

Don't let their innocent faces fool you.  Oh no...these 3 are quite the trio. 

Mara mothers them.

Logan terrorizes them.

and Lizzie frames them.

They are definitely best friends and worst enemies.

They love each other literally to death.