Evapaul Petite

Nic and I have opened up a new esty shop!
we'll now be making customizable modern birth announcements-
buy them here

yay!

I sent Gabrielle Blair [aka design mom.. kind of my idol] my letter to daphne before she was born and was thrilled when she emailed me this morning saying she published it! Gabrielle is pregnant with #6 and posts stories of growing families every wednesday. if you're currently pregnant, i would guess you won't be able to get through ANY of the posts, they are so emotional. I'm not nearly as hormonal but it's still hard for me :)
Go check out Daphne here!

Baby Evie we love you already!!!

After years [literally YEAAAAARRRRSSS] of desperately trying to conceive/wanting a baby so bad it hurt- my brother Christian and sister-in-law Errin are pregnant at last and found out tonight that their baby is a lady. I couldn't be happier for them (though i would have been just as happy if he was baby Espen instead of baby Evie) to quote sweet Errin:

As much as pregnancy is a struggle (and Lordy, how we know it is a struggle), I love it. I love every minute of it. The heartburn, the crazies, the constant peeing, the sore beebees, the round ligament pain, the nausea, the hunger, all of these are reminders that I am taking part in a miracle.


I'm so happy for your miracle!

[this is Errin practicing her baby skills with little Dotter]

can't wait for daph and evie to be crazy cousins together!!!


Errin & Christian are coming up for my graduation (walking at graduation) next weekend and I'm so happy. I'm planning on giving them all the hand-me-down clothes they can handle.
Oh, and another thing I think is super cute- Daph's middle name is Ryn, after my grandma Kathryn. And Evie's middle name is Kate! Both after Nana (I'm assuming :) and I think that is super adorable. We all love grandma Pedersen too- I guess Edith is just harder to pull off.

ravioli lasagna

real simple is one of the greatest magazines ever. i love it so much.
they gave me the idea for this fabulously easy dinner.
it was so simple and so delicious.
i think you'll love it.

i used a weird size pan (because it's super old and teal and awesome) but I'm sure you could use pretty much any size casserole pan.

put 1/3 of the sauce (i used a whole jar of spaghetti sauce, you may need more if you use a 9x13 pan) on the bottom of the pan,
put down a layer of defrosted cheese ravioli then more sauce (i added italian sausage to the sauce because i had some left over from another recipe that i needed to use up) then a layer of mozerella cheese, then more ravioli and finish with more sauce and more moz cheese.

bake at 425 for 20 minutes.
I finished it off with 3 minutes under the broiler because i like the cheese to be a little crusty.

seriously SOOOO easy (and much cheaper than buying lasagna noodles and riotta cheese) and nic and i both loved it.

are you going to make it?

everyday daphne #8

shirt target $4. i love girly shirts that aren't tooooo girly. (no need for the word "cutie", "daddy's little princess" ect) i like the little puff sleeves and scalloped collar.
skirt old navy $4 [50% off clearance is the best]
leggings $5 target
chucks.

i know i say this every time but she's looking so grown up!

RANDOMEST pics from my iphone

i finally plugged my phone into the computer last night and just had to share some random shots from the past 8 months or so. enjoy :)

we're the librarians at church. this is what we do.


saw this bus matchbox car at daph's friends b-day party. wanted to steal it. didn't.

not a very personal personalized licensed plate?

showing daddy daph's new hat on a windy rexburg day.

took this pic for my old dorm roommate emily, our dorm was the one next door but i parked in front of this one. i don't think i ever sent it to you em. here it is.

i remember i was shocked by her naughtiness at this point. HAH! it's gotten a lot more crazy around here. also, i miss those pj's.

i cannot believe how much daph loves animals. they got right up to her and she loved it.

we got a lot of old clothes from nic's grandma to sell in our etsy shop. i though this was a skirt but NOOOO. just giant, supppper wide 70's pants.

trying to show ashley my new (at the time) hair cut/color.

yum. lobster.

really exciting thing to get in the mail.

wow broulims. thanks for the general discount.

daph's first kids meal. i didn't feel like sharing my meal with her that night.

wow. what an ambitious photographer- $130 to shoot a wedding. bet she's good.
new sunglasses.

los pockets!!!!


more pockets. showing aunt ashley the cute dresses she bought her.

daph loves dora so we got her the map/backpack. she even says backpack backpack
(always twice)

everyday daphne #7

we wish it was spring (for real..)

shirt old navy $8 [bought this is 3-6 months and loved is so much we had to go back while they still had it and buy it in 6-12 months. now i'm wishing we had 12-18 but it's way too late]

shorts $3 target. [nic calls them her dora shorts]
leggings .50 from DI
chucks.

not related, this was the other day but just a couple super cute pics of daph :)