Evie's 1st Birthday!!

The last few weeks have been crazy for us! We've been non stop working, packing boxes, enjoying our last family events, getting ready for our trip and tying up lose ends in Utah. We are officially living in Denver now. We moved last Saturday and so far we are really liking it (other than the fact that I got lost for 2 hours the other day trying to find Costco...) Anyway. I thought i'd catch up on the last few weeks.
First up my mom and Jared came down to help us pack up our housethank goodness too because I have NO IDEA how to pack a house for a move to another state.While they were here we went and saw Aladdin at Tuachan!

... honestly I loved it but I was also kind of disappointed in it too. The effects and 3d were SO COOL but they brought in a lot of jokes about Madonna and Beyonce and "Deal or No Deal" and it really killed the whole "Disney Magic" for me. That and the flying carpet got stuck during the first 10 seconds of "A Whole New World" so they just sat in the middle of the stage on a stationary rug ha ha ha ha it all worked out cause after the song they stopped the show, had Aladdin and Jasmine hope off, a few tech guys ran out, put the couple back on the rug and we got to have round 2 of the song but this time with the working rug! .much cooler the second time. 
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OUR LITTLE STINKER TURNED ONE!!I can't believe how much she's grown this year! 365 days ago she didn't know how to walk or say mom get into drawers, (work my iPad), climb stairs, roll around, and use her hands!and now she does all of that and so much more!
I did this little birthday cake shoot and I was really excited about it!I got the cake all made up cute and got her all ready to go I put her down by that cake and guess what?.. that little girl wouldn't TOUCH that cake!I thought for sure, with how much she gets into everything else, she'd dive right into that cake!!We tried everything! We started putting her little snacks that she loves on the back of the cake and if she picked one off and it had the slightest bit of frosting on it she had a fit! I was shocked. So the way this cake looks in these pictures is pretty much exactly how it looked when the shoot was over. We now refer to her as Miss Priss...

Her birthday is the 28th and we were moving on the 29th so we decided to have a birthday/going away party for her at my In Laws house to send us off to Medical School. I got the house all decorated (thank you dollar store and Pinterest) and it looked SO CUTE! I didn't get a ton of very good pictures of the decor and i'm kicking myself about it.

So many of our friends and family came and it was the best way we possibly could have left UtahWe had 40+ people show up and when all those people starting to sing Happy Birthday to Evie she was just grinning from ear to ear! She LOVED being the center of attention and she totally knew she was too! It was too funny!

Me and my Birthday Gril
.i'm in love.
This little girl got spoiled beyond all reason! The term "showered with gifts" I think literally applies here.

I wasn't expecting other people to bring her presents! I haven't been to a birthday party is so long where you bring a gift I just didn't even think about others bringing her any! Brandon and I got her 3 little things and I figured the grandparents would but it was like CHRISTMAS for this girl! (In fact I still think i'm gonna take some of these and save them till Christmas)She did great though, I was worried she'd be so overwhelmed by presents she be thrown into an early nap time but she just unwrapped everything and as soon as it was opened she'd grab it and run it over to me to show her how it works. Then for some reason she started putting this white box on people heads and just thinking that was hilarious?
This girl was fed more sugar by more people than I think any 1 year old has ever had.She was so crazy! She was running around and saying hi to everyone and just being the biggest show off!

Which eventually led to a massive sugar crash and a good nights sleep...
We are loving Colorado but we already miss our friends and family. 
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I wanted to write a few things about Evie so I can remember them.-She has the wildest, craziest personality!-She says hi to EVERYONE-She likes to take apart her diaper bag and slowly distribute it out to everyone in sacrament meeting-She learned how to walk backwards so we are having a lot of accidents lol-Every time Mickey Mouse Clubhouse comes on she screams like a 13 year old girl at a Justin Beiber concert- She goes "ahhh" when she wants to share your drink (like, the sound you make AFTER you take a drink)-She will do the stairs 10 MILLION times if you'll let her- She gabs on and on at the grocery store- I don't know WHERE she learned this but she always try to give kisses to little boys...- She's a quick recovery kind of girl when she gets hurt- She LOOOVES mom- Is always willing to share your ice cream- Goes crazy for her Uncle Jared- Starts dancing to ANY music, people cell phones, the hymns in relief society, commercials on tv. etc. - She tries to be sneaky already- She loves her sock monkey- REFUSES to hold her own bottle! She can drink out of a normal cup all by herself but will starve to death before she'll hold her own bottle.- She loves to sit on people's faces? I have no clue why but if you lay on the floor she's gonna come sit on your face and bounce...

Well, we leave for our Europe trip tomorrow so get ready for that post in about 3 weeks!!until then CIAO!!