SURPRISE!

Evan and I threw a surprise birthday party for Evan's older sister who turned the big 3-0 and his younger brother Patrick who became a menace to society at age 26. Patrick was in town for a week so we thought we would give them a surprise when they stopped by to visit. All the guests (me and Evan) hid and yelled, "SURPRISE" when they came inside, needless to say since both of their birthdays had past they were surprised.

Evan and I decorated the birthday sign, cute right?

The rough housing started almost immediately after the kids walked through the doors, lucky for them they have two young very cool uncles. "Flour Tower" Kinda like Jenga. Whomever makes the coin fall has to pick it up with their teeth. Little Wade kept making it fall, but Uncle Evan was willing to pick it up for him.

See how many cotton balls you can stick to your nose with Vaseline and blow off in 45 seconds...one of those games that is more fun to watch then actually participate in;)

It's a Norby family tradition. Honestly I was a little skeptical of the whole concept of giving someone a straight pin while being blind folded, but Evan assured me that his mom let them play the "pop the balloons attached to the ceiling fan while it's on" game, so I obliged.

Sara and Patrick with the special birthday plates.

the "other" birthday plate. I saw these at Target and couldn't pass them up. Really? Come on

Blowing out the candles on the self decorated cup cakes
Presents!

Playing dress up the next morning after our walk to the duck pond and before swimming in the pool

Easter

Evan hunting for his Easter basket.

He found it!!

After General Conference so friends from the ward came over for some Easter dinner. My family doesn't have any traditional Easter food, but I like ham. So I cooked up a ham and we had a very tasty pot luck. Good thing I invited some good cooks.

Landon and Ashley Winget

Cameron and Amy Earl
Kristin and Bryan Anderson and Steve and Grace Lyon

Aimee and Kyle Nay

Biggest fear comes to past

4-6-10 This is how the morning went...
-Alarm goes off...I turn it off
-Evan comes in to the room and guilts me out of bed, "oh, I'll just walk to school"
-I'm asked " did you hear those cats last night?" "No" "They were so loud, I wanted to hit them with a baseball bat" "good thing we don't have a baseball bat!"
-As I'm slipping me flip flops on Evan asks if I've seen his keys. I tell him to look out on the back porch since they were in a bag with his cleats from his flag football game the night before. (I already have that mom instinct, where you just know where missing things are, except for Evan's wedding ring, still can't find that)
-Evan grabs his keys and we're out the door.
-Evan begins to say our family prayer as I'm driving down the road (with my eyes open) then he pauses..."what is that smell" "I don't know, (I think, "I hope he's not talking about my unbrushed teeth") then I respond, "Did that cat pee on your keys?"
-Evan unrolls the window and sticks the keys into the air. He hastily finishes our family prayer and we are at the gate to school. He assures me to will clean his keys immediately. I love yous and he's gone
-I laugh as I drive home, only because Evan is petrified of Cats ever since a Microbiology lecture they had on the dangers of Cats and their poop. He has told me on more than one occasion that our future children are not to play in sand boxes for fear of disease.
-rest assure all the sports equipment has now been washed and is now drying...Hope we don't die.

Fast as lighting

(Evan is the blurry black shirt on the right)

Evan loves being active. He is currently playing on an intramural flag football team and a co-ed soccer team (that I play on as well). I tried to get some action shots of him playing so that our future children will believe Evan when he tells them how athletic and fast he was before they were born (that's why he says we need a video camera).

1st Day of Spring

The first day of Spring is my favorite non-holiday to celebrate. I spent all morning doing some "spring cleaning." Then as the day neared it's end I informed Evan we were celebrating! I convinced him to move the dinning room table out on our back porch and I served "spring chicken." It was a perfect day for an outside dinner. This is my sorry attempt to capture the gorgeous Arizona sunset. It didn't work, but look at my cute my "spring" hair accessory(it's a flower).

WORK

I had a patient say to me the other day, "your job seems boring, do you like it?" That questions caught me off guard and with my boss 15 feet away I said the first thing that came to my mind, "yes." Then I went on to explain that although it may seem boring, it is a fairly easy job and I get to chit chat with all kinds of different people, some old, some young, some whiny, some grateful all kinds of colorful people. Which lead me to think of all the people I get or HAVE to work with throughout the day.

Last week I had an awful experience with an active young retiree. It was the patient's last visit so I wanted to make sure he knew exactly how to do his exercises so he could continue to do them correctly at home so I spent more time with him then I usually would have done. Apparently I said or did something that offended him, because before he left he approached my boss, who was in the middle of the open facility with other patients and coworkers around, and pointed directly at me and said, "she is condescending. She does not know how to talk to adults and be respectful." I was flabbergasted. My jaw dropped to the floor. My heart sank into my stomach. Was he really talking about me? I look toward my coworkers and give a look with my eyes, he's joking right? Then he continues to belittle me in front of everyone in the room. I swallow the lump in my throat and sincerely and honestly apologized, not knowing what I did but obviously offended him, because he had such strong feelings about my behavior.

I managed to keep it together until after he left, but not much longer. I headed to the restroom and cried the ugly cry. The I hope no one can hear me- snorting- snotty-puffy eye cry. I emerge praying I can keep my emotions inside instead of rolling down my checks, but once my coworker sees me and gives me a hug its all over once again. She assures me she can handle the patients until I can get it together. So I hide out in the laundry room for a while, until my boss discovers me. Oh no is she mad? Will I get written up? Will she make me write an apology letter? No none of these things. She assures me that she has faith in my skills and that she is not upset, "these things happen" she says. Even though I am relieved at her response I still cry one more time in her office, before I finally pull it together for the remainder of the day (until I tell Evan after work and once more when I recount the events for my mom on the phone that night).

Then again there are great days like today when a sweet, skinny, old lady from New York with a thick accent thank you for all the wonderful work I'm doing for her. She starts to give me an analysis of "kids these days" and let's me know that girls in high school and the way they dress, "with ther' boobEEs hangin' out, no wonder boys are so horny!" (if you didn't laugh try saying it in a New York accent).

Just another day

The day started out with a light work out...then headed to Royal nail for a pedi (ok not typical, but it's almost spring and it was my birthday so I spoiled myself)
After going to the library to pick up a couple books I made myself a tuna sandwich and headed to the pool for some sun and reading. I convinced Evan to study by the pool with me by playing the "birthday card." Here he is practicing his knot tying skills.
I went to the mall with the intention of buying a "nice" shirt to wear to dinner with Evan and ended up with this super cute dress. It was on the clearance rack for $10.99. Steal right? When I went to buy it it rang up at $6.99. That is a birthday surprise I can live with!

My mom and dad bought me a fire proof box! yeah! I've wanted one since I was about 13. I have a fear that my house will burn down and I'll loose my birth certificate and pictures. You can tell how old a person is by the gifts they receive...I also got a pizza cutter and cute scissors to put in my purse to cut coupons.

Evan took me to the Cheesecake factory. Both of our meals were really yummy. I ordered "Linda's fudge Chocolate Cake" to go and Evan got a turtle/carmel type cheese cake.