Monica's Baby Shower

My Mom and I helped plan a baby shower for my brother, Jeff, and sister-in-law, Monica.  They are expecting a baby girl in April!  We coordinated across 4 states with Monica's mom, Peggy, and sister, Marcy!  The shower was in Minnesota and was tons of fun!

Here are our party favors!

I made more of my yummy cake pops!

Here's Monica, me, and my Mom!

A fun cake!

Monica and Jeff with the diaper cake my Mom and I made!

My mom, dad, Monica, Jeff, and me!

More Food Adventures

I've been experimenting some with raw foods and I recently bought a dehydrator.  Here are some of my first attempts!

Sweet Potato chips made in my dehydrator!  These were rather bland...I lightly salted them, but they need more flavor next time around!  Chad and the girls didn't really like them!

An assortment of sprouted beans!  These tasted very earthy.  I added them to salads and scrambled eggs.  Next time around I need to make a smaller batch...they grew pretty big!  I keep forgetting to toss a few into my smoothies!

These are chocolate tarts...made without any dairy or baking!  The main ingredient in the chocolate is avocado!   These were my favorites...probably because they are a dessert!  My dad even liked them and he has quite the sweet tooth!  ;)

These were a close runner up and maybe even tied for my favorites!  These were also made in the dehydrator and tasted like the insides of an Almond Joy candy bar...only even better!  I think I ate half of these before they were even fully dehydrated!

These are dehydrated kale chips...these have a yummy coating on them and were actually pretty tasty!  I think I'll use the same coating on my sweet potato chips and see how they taste!

Half Birthday Fun

Makayla celebrated her half birthday, Feb 2nd, at school!  We had fun making birthday treats to take to her friends!  I was amazed at how much Makayla helped me to make these treats!  Our project spanned several days as the paint and glue had to dry!

Here we are painting clothespins!

Next we had to decorate each clothespin with glitter glue and add eyes!  Makayla had fun using the extra glitter glue to make designs!

Here are our painted and glittered clothespins!

Here's our final project....clothespin butterfly trail mix!  Makayla even picked out all the ingredients for the trail mix and helped me fill the bags.  Although she and Lydia both discovered that they do not like the pastel colored marshmallows!  :)

An up close shot!

Evers Family Christmas

Due to our travel to Michigan this year, we celebrated Christmas with the Evers on New Year's Eve!  We enjoyed brunch together and spent the afternoon together!  Here are a few shots of our fun day!

Cousins!  Addison, Makayla, Brielle

All the Evers Cousins with Nana and Papa

Here are the girls opening gifts!

Lydia loved her new Minnie Mouse dress and Belle Nightgown!  She had to put them both on immediately!

Makayla showing off her new doll clothes....she hasn't figured out how to put the gifts next to her face so we can see her!  :)

Ooh, Makayla got her very own camera...she's been asking for one of these for a while!

A shot of the entire living room

Baby Erin...the newest Evers!

Me and Chad

Grandpa and Grandma Evers

Lydia couldn't make it through the whole party without a little snooze!

Winter Nature Hike

While visiting my family in Michigan, we went on a winter nature hike!  The kids loved all the little forts along the trail!

Makayla, me, my Mom, Lydia, Monica 

My Mom, Monica, Lydia, Makayla, Me, Jeff 

Sandoval Family Christmas

This year we traveled to Michigan to celebrate Christmas day with my side of the family!  We celebrated with the Neubeckers on the 23rd, the extended Sandoval's on the 24th, and my immediate family on the 25th!  Lots of partying and fun times seeing everyone!

My cousin, George, with my brothers, Steve, Pat, and Jeff
George's wife and 2 daughters were also at the party!

Lydia with Uncle Jeff

My Uncle Joe and Aunt Debbie.

Some how, I didn't end up with a photo of my Aunt Rose and Uncle Ron, but they were at the party too!

My Uncle Jim and Aunt Aleatha

My cousin Andy and his wife Kelly.  There 3 kids are in the next photo!

Here's my Grandma with most of her great grandchildren!  I like this photo!!

My cousin Jennifer with her husband Cleat and their 2 girls and my grandma!

Our family with my Grandma!

Makayla and Lydia with their Christmas PJ's!

Auntie Monica and Uncle Jeff (and Baby Sandoval)

Our family on Christmas morning!

Here's my entire immediate family!  I really like this photo too!