By Small and Simple Things...: April 2018

Well, it turns out that Eva is a little thumb sucker. With the exception of Bonnie sucking on her tongue, none of our other kids have been "suckers". It has been so fun to watch Eva navigate her fingers up to her face, then get her thumb into her mouth to suck on it. This new talent has been quite helpful when it comes to her soothing herself in the middle of the night.

My girl is always all smiles when she wakes up from napping.

Eva likes to hold the "bottle" and she will even pinch and punch me while she eats!

Sweet little spit-up face

Another sweet nursing photo

At the beginning of April, my brother and his wife had a sweet baby boy named Deklyn. It was a hard labor and delivery, in which they eventually did a C-section and sliced open my sister-in-law's bladder during the surgery. They had to do the C-section because he was too big to get pushed out. He looks just like my brother and is such a cute chub!

The 4th graders had to do a project on a county in Idaho and Uriah got Teton County. We had fun putting together this poster of cool things to do in Teton County.

Eva sitting on daddy's lap

Here's a picture I snapped of Eva sucking her thumb. It is something we see almost every time we go to check on her at night or during naps.

We bought some fruit trees to finish off our backyard orchard. We crammed a peach tree, plum tree, apricot and nectarine tree into our van and drove home with sticks in our faces.

More pictures of Eva sucking her thumb. It's just too cute!

KyLee wearing daddy's sunglasses.

More thumb sucking. She has even started falling asleep on the play mat while sucking her thumb. She would usually stay asleep for about 15 minutes.

I used to think that Eva wasn't getting very big very fast, but now that I'm working full time and leaving the house every day, she seems to be growing faster!

She's getting a few pudge rolls, but not many.

Daddy sent me this picture while I was at work. Sweet Eva sleeping on the play mat again.

Eva at church on Sunday. I got this cute outfit at Wal-Mart and just had to put her in it, and she is wearing the headband grandma M made her for her blessing day.

Our chickens have been naughty and were flying out of their pen and laying eggs outside the coop. We stumbled upon this nest by the garage that had about 10 eggs in it.

At the movie theater seeing The Greatest Showman and Eva slept the whole time.

Big brother Uriah with Eva

Daddy snoring away with Eva

Elder Arganarez was being transferred so he came over and made us a fried dessert from Argentina.

We will miss you, Elder!

Eva lying on the bathroom floor while mom does her business.

Phoenix and Roman came to spend some of their spring break with us and they went to church with us. They both borrowed some of Uriah's clothes.

The weather warmed up and our chickens got back into the swing of laying eggs. Yummy!

We built a big pen for our baby chicks (instead of using a cardboard box). The kids loved helping us build it, especially Roman and Phoenix.

Who doesn't love baby chicks??

Bonnie holding a chick.

KyLee liked them too.

My silly girls with sticky gems on their faces.

Beautiful double rainbow at the McCurdy house.

One of my best friends from elementary school was getting sealed to her husband in the St. George temple, so we decided to take a family trip through Utah during the kids' spring break. Here is Eva in her car seat being happy on the road.

KyLee smiling at me

Jordyn being a dork.

Daddy and I got married in the Jordan River temple almost 13 years ago. The temple had been remodeled and, while we were driving through Utah, we stopped to take the kids through the temple open house. It was so special to be able to walk through the temple and feel the spirit there, and to remember why I chose this temple in the first place. I even got to look into the room where we were sealed together for time and eternity.

This is the view from the front of the Jordan River temple.

We took the kids to temple square to show them around and to see all the cool buildings and sites.

Statue of the restoration of the Aaronic Priesthood.

We took the kids into the old tabernacle. They were pretty impressed by the organ. I told the kids that mommy and daddy sang in the tabernacle together in a high school choir when we were younger.

This is one of my favorite places to go on temple square. The kids thought it was neat, too.

The new conference center can hold more than 21,000 people and is the largest stadium in the United States and could fit a 747 airplane inside. When we watched conference in April, the kids were excited to say that they had been in that building.

View of the temple and temple square from the top of the conference center.

The kids on the temple steps.

We went to The Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy, Utah. The kids loved it, but it was expensive.

We went into the butterfly enclosure and a butterfly landed on my shirt, so the kids had to take turns holding it.

The penguins were my favorite. They were lots of fun to watch and one even swam around really fast and did flips and showed off for us.

We went to a pizza place in Orem. I can't remember what it was called, but the food was so good and it was affordable! If we ever travel through there again, I will definitely go back.

During the first half of our trip, we stayed with some friends I have known for a long time in Orem (Capps). They were so good to us and the kids loved them.

While we were in Utah, Elder Gonzalez asked us to go see his mom, who lives in Provo. She was so happy to see us and gave us lots of food and talked to us for a long time.

Sandi did Bonnie's hair so that it looked like she was from the 80s.

We stayed our last night with my friend Michelle in Mesquite, Nevada. I went to her temple session and sealing and the St. George temple is such a beautiful place. It is an amazing piece of architecture and has so much history and I hope to get to go again some day. The weather was so warm that we didn't want to go back to Idaho because we knew it would be colder!