Juneishness

We took a fun but cold beach trip at the end of May that the whole of the Ellsworth was able to attend. Merlin got pretty traumatized the the 55* water. Too bad its a lot closer than Hawaii Merlin! Mer did brave the water for about a half an hour to surf the itty bitty waves. Everyone else around that got in the water were if full body wet suits except us. Evan acted like he was starving every time I sat him downin the sand - shoveling it in his mouth as fast as he could. I thought he'd start to understand that it wasn't yummy at one point, but he never got it.

Our little Evan is 8 months old!

We went on a long repelling trip to Zion and left Evan with his Aunt Karen. It ended up taking at least 11 hours and included 10 repels of over 1000 feet total! Merlin of course said it was a pretty easy hike, but I on the other hand haven't been so sore in a loooong time. This is the tallest rappel that was like 160 feet.

Anyways summer feels like it is officially here. Which means Evan and I are not venturing out into the blazing 107* weather today- or likey any other day for the next 8 weeks unless there is a pool involved. I did some arands the other day and it felt like I was carrying around a little furnace. Nevermind that he is 26 lb. :)

My Grampa Lewis Odom died last week .:( He'd been diagnosed with cancer a couple months ago and really started to feel pain 2 weeks before he died. We're all glad he's pain free now and is with his sweetheart, but we'll miss him! LOVE YOU GRAMPS!

Zion

So on Valentines weekend our little family and my brother Thomas's family went to Zion to hike angels landing. boy was I glad little Cali was there to slow down the pace! Merlin was wonderful and carried Evan the whole way, and Thomas was even carrying both his children part of the way. The last little bit of the hike was covered in ice so we decided not to risk our lives. It sure is a beautiful site on top!

Happy UNBirthday!

So at the beginning of this week I asked Merlin what the date was. He told me Monday was the third, so I was planning on Wednesday being the 5th. Right! Did I mention that his birthday was on the 5th? So on Tuesday, which is really the 5th, I make all these appointments for dentist, eye appointment, doc appointment and never once look at the current date. AKA his birthday. I only realize it once his mom calls and is like "I need to wish Mer a happy birthday". Freak. So hence today being his unbirthday!

Happy un-31st-birthday Darling!

A New YEAR!

Thanksgiving and Christmas were great. Merlin's whole family came for Thanksgiving, and then again for New Years Week. They started the construction for the basement of our house. We're putting in a stairway for an outside entrance. They only had one landslide, and luckily no one was caught in it.

Evan was blessed that weekend and nearly everyone in our families made. He was almost 5 weeks old. He's a big boy! (He's wearing a 6 month sized outfit)
Evan decided he wanted to open his only Christmas present from Santa a week early in order to get some use before he grows out of it.

Here is a pic of Evan and his cousin Will. Will is 8 months, Evan is two months. He's a little chunk. Poor little Wiliam got his bottle taken away for the picture.

This ones makes me happy!