Picture Updates (Obviously mostly Cambree!)

Our little bug is growing up quick... She can now sit up in shopping carts and high chairs!

We also got her a new swimsuit in preparation for our first hot Utah summer!

She also has started to notice guys... Especially older married guys. We have quite a few friends that whenever she sees them her face just lights up and she looks so in love. I caught her posing while hanging out with my friends husband the other day and it was so cute!

Cambree is on solids... she really likes rice cereal and sweet potatoes!

$1000 dollars later and this is the only physical reminder I have from my kitchen accident.. Ugh!

Cambree has no clue how to take a bottle.. She refuses to suck on the nipple and usually just chews on the wrong end.

Hanging at church with Daddy!

...And she didn't last long!

She loves to chew/suck on anything she can get into her mouth!

That's it that's all!

xoxo Car

Momma came for a visit

This past week has been a wonderful one. My mom came down from Canada for a visit and spent 10 days with us here in Provo. It was so nice to have her here and it just made my heart sing seeing her and Cambree together. When I was pregnant, I remember telling Ryan how excited I was for my parents to have a grandchild. I truly believe that children are a gift from God, and they can bring so much joy to a family! Cambree has done just that, and it is the sweetest thing seeing the special bond she and my mother have!

We had a jam packed 10 days full of shopping, good food and lots of laughs! We took my mom to Temple Square to see the Salt Lake temple and she was also able to go to a session of General Conference, which is a conference where leaders in our church give talks and speeches... Very inspirational!

Cambree was loving the sunshine while we were at Temple Square!

Mom was such a help around the house, and she especially loved getting Cambree all clean and ready for the day - I think Cambree may have loved it too!

We went to see one of Ryan's football games and my mom shot a pic of some of the wives. I am so grateful to have made such great friends while here in Provo!

Getting all 3 to smile at once was just too hard!

My mom and Ryan also made it out to see one of my rugby games!

My mom left on Sunday to head back to Canada. She only made it about 4 hours to Idaho Falls when she had to pull over because of a snow storm. She decided the next day that the weather was too bad to continue on, so she headed on back to Provo for visit round #2! I think that she was inspired to come back because 2 hours after she arrived at our apartment I had an accident with a knife and sliced my hand open! I was trying to separate frozen hamburgers with a knife and I slipped and stabbed myself right in my hand really deep and our kitchen floor was covered in blood. I had never seen that much blood before and I was really scared. I was so grateful that she was there and able to watch Cambree so that I could head out to the hospital!!

My favorite part of the story was that she was so flustered about my accident that she couldn't remember how to use a phone and kept on pressing the Instagram home screen and saying "I don't know how to use this! I don't know how to call Ryan!" She must have pressed the home screen 5 times until I got frustrated and walked out of the house and headed over to the neighbours, I knew that they would be sane! She finally got a hold of Ryan and apparently said, "Carly cut herself! You need to come home! She's bleeding everywhere!... And now she's run away!" Haha 

I ended up getting stitches and a shot and $1000 later I was back at home, only a little worse for wear :) I am so grateful we have such wonderful friends and neighbors who were there for me in my time of need! They also came over with a pizza and coke (My fave!) and spent the evening with us - They are the best!

All in all it has been an eventful trip, and I will sure miss my momma when she goes back home!

xoxo Car

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April 7th 2013.. Cambree rolled over front to back for the first time!! My mom, Ryan and I were all there to see it... My little baby is growing up too fast!

Springtime - Through the eyes of my iphone

Don't you just love technology? I carry around this tiny little handheld device in my pocket that connects me to everyone I love. It helps me chronicle my life through videos and pictures and enables me to share it with whoever I want, wherever they are! Here's a peak into our Bevans life... Through the eyes of my iPhone photo album!

We've got a little bunny running around...

I wanted to take some pictures of Cambree for Easter this week and nothing seemed to be turning out. The lighting was all over the place... Cambree wouldn't sit still...And I was totally lost trying to change the manual settings on my camera. Anyways, here they are. I know in the end all the matters is that I have pictures of Cambree to cherish in the future!

Through most of the pictures she was pulling down her ears so she could do this!

I could just see her thinking "Okay Mom.. Stop.. This is getting embarrassing"

Photoshoot For Love Day

I bought a snazzy nice camera last year and have only used it a handful of times. I am the worst for that.. Getting into a new hobby or interest and dropping it a few months later. Attention span of a nat, I tell ya! Since Valentines Day was coming up I thought it would be fun to do a little shoot with my number 1 love bug... Cambree!

{Beware.. I have no idea how to use this snazzy nice camera of mine... I just experiment :) }

 I love this little cheesy grin of hers :) Makes my day!

As well behaved as our little bug is, she is human. And eventually after over an hour she got sick of me pestering her... Except I thought her cry was so cute that I continued to take more pictures... Just a few ;)

We finished off the day with a nice warm bath to wash off all of the kisses! By then I think she was starting to think her mom is a little crazy!

Xoxo! Car

Miss Domestic

Last Saturday I was feeling pretty homemaker-y and I decided to get my kitchen all in order. This post is to chronicle that yes, I can be a kick butt house wife. I have my moments.. And this was one.

Our family is the worst for being lazy when it comes to making meals, so I decided it was time for me to stock my freezer with ready to eat food. NOW. 

We have been crazy over sweet potatoes lately and I have been trying to think of new ways to use them. I shredded up a few to make Sweet Potato Hash Browns to put in our freezer and use as a quick add on to eggs for breakfast!

I cooked 12 (12!!!) cups of brown rice and quinoa and put them in individual serving bags and put them in the freezer. I got the idea from Trader Joe's (LOVE that place! I have been known to force my family to drive an hour and a half to find one when we are on vacation in AZ since they don't have a ton of locations) anyways they sell individual pre-cooked brown rice bags that all you do is throw them in a pot and re heat or microwave them for 3 minutes and voila! rice is ready! (As opposed to waiting 45 + mins for brown rice to cook on the stove.. which I obviously don't have time to do seeing as I'm a stay at home with 1 baby who sleeps all the time)

I made an olive oil spritzer to replace my non stick aerosol spray can (They are filled with tons of chemicals including petroleum gas, propane, and butane... No thanks!) I got the idea from Pinterest, and yes the picture I pinned was 100x cuter than this humungo spray bottle but hey it was a dollar at the dollar store and we are on a budget my friend!

Okay so I might be turning into my mom but a HUGE pet peeve of mine is when I just get back from the grocery store and I've stocked the fridge with tons of good healthy food and Ry wanders into the kitchen and complains that there is nothing to eat (Are you kidding me!) So I decided to make a list of things we have to eat, so that I don't have to hear the phrase "There's nothing to eat" again. I've been updating it after I go grocery shopping to add/take off items but for the most part I buy the same types of things so it has worked out good!

Our Pinterest recipe of the week this week was this Vegetable Tian which I had seen pinned and repinned by everybody for months! The flavour was awesome but I wasn't sold on the recipe just because the vegetables turned out slightly mushy. The recipe can be found HERE

On a side note...

Our sweet little Cambree bug had her 2 month shots last week and after hearing everybody's horror stories I was ready for a long day of tears and a fussy baby.. But she did awesome! She cried for about 20 seconds while they were giving her the shots and then SHE FELL ASLEEP! She slept most of the day and that was that! We are so lucky to have such a good little girl.. But it kind of scares me because I worry the karma gods are going to curse me with a little devil baby next time around!

Anyways, thats all from this domestic diva!

Car :)