Three Years

I'm a little late...the actual three year mark was yesterday.

I can not believe it's been three years since my beautiful mother passed away! It really feels as if it's only been a year or so. Life has changed so much since the last time I saw her, and not being able to share those special moments with her has been incredibly difficult. My aunt (my moms sister) wrote this beautiful letter about my mom and I don't think I could put it any better. I hope she doesn't mind that I put this on here. I just want to be remember her words forever.

"It's that time of year again when we think of our Daughter, Sister, and Mother - Gina. I know we all think of her every day - in fact a day probably never goes by that someone somewere isn't thinking of her. She was such a vibrant person in our lives as well as many others in the public eye. I'm sure she is missed by many more than just our family circle. But I find she is on my mind more from August through October as I remember her birthday and her passing. I look at her picture daily and smile back at her because I know she is looking down on us all. Let's all take a moment to remember her with tears of happiness instead of sadness. Think of fond memories of her as I know she would want this. She was always so strong. She was a firm foundation in the world around her, and she will always be in our hearts as we look forward to the day when we can see her smiling face in person again. I love her dearly and try to focus on how her sunshine lighted up everything good in life. I hope you will all do the same. Yes, I do shed tears of sadness too once in a while, that's natural - but then I try to focus once again on the happiness she gave me. I loved her good advice, her knowledge of EVERYTHING, her laugh, they way she would brighten my day if I called her and just needed to talk (which I miss the most), and her up-beat attitude."

Yesterday my family went out to dinner then to the grave. It was so nice to be together as a family and be able to remember my mom and share all our wonderful memories of her. After we got home me and Jon watched the video/tribute thing we have of her that was played at the funeral and has some footage on it that we have of that day. Jon had never seen it and it was nice to be able to watch it with him and give him the oppertunity to be able to get to know my mom just a little better, since he never got the chance to know her in person. Oh how I wish he could have met her. I know she would have loved him!

I'LL LOVE YOU FOREVER AND MISS YOU FOR ALWAYS MOM!

08/07/1963 - 10/07/2006

This picture was taken the Christmas before she passed away
it's one of my favorites of both of my parents.

Outted at work

I was outted at work today so I figured I might as well spread the news...

I'M PREGNANT!!

My sister told a coworker of mine (she didn't know I hadn't told my work yet) who doesn't work in my department or building that I was pregnant and she came over and announced a big congratulations in front of everyone. So I guess there was no sense in hiding it anymore. :)

We're both so excited! Definitely a little scared, but I think thats to be expected.
I'm 12 weeks and we just heard the heartbeat the other day, which was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! Jon wants a boy...of course. I don't care either way, except I think a girl would be easier on me (since my family is practically all girls, it's kinda what I'm used to :) ) But all I really care for is a strong healthy baby.

I am using a midwife...I know I know, you're probably thinking I'm totally crazy. Believe me I've heard that plenty of times already. But I know what I want and the experience I want to have and the best place for me to get that is in my own home with a midwife.
Most people say "You're crazy! Do you even know what you're getting yourself into?" Which to me is kind of a silly question. Being that this is my first child, or course I don't know 100% what I'm getting myself into. But if you know me at all, this really isn't that far of a stretch from my daily routine/belief system. And I've always said that I'll use a midwife. So hopefully all will go well so I will be able to deliver at home.

Slacker

I will admit that I've slacked a little on updating. Ever since I lost my camera I just haven't had the desire to post, cuz really posts just aren't as good without pictures! :) But, I figured it was about time that I update atleast a little bit.

We went to Jon's family reunion last month. That was fun, we brought one of my dads campers and got to enjoy the luxury of air conditioning during the hot day. It was nice to see the family and get to spend some time with them.

Jon just recently got home. He's been out of town for the past month and a half doing some work up north. So I've been a little lonely up at the ranch all by myself. So it's really nice to finally have him back.

The temperatures starting to cool down a bit up in Apple Valley. Normally that would be a great thing right, living in southern utah and all....well not so much. The cooler temps bring the lovely MICE! Luckily I didn't see any while I was staying up there by myself, but as soon as Jon got home, they all came out. We've killed 3 so far and plan on getting some cats to help out, but we just aren't cat people, so we'll see how that plays out. I can't wait until we can get rid of them all...they really freak me out!

My dad bought like 170 fruit trees for us to plant up at the ranch. There's apple, pear, peach, plum, cherry, prunes, the list goes on and on. It'll be nice to have all that fruit in a few years. We've almost got them all planted, which has not been an easy task. The water lines have broke about a million times, the tractors broken down, the water lines have clogged. Just about any and every problem that could come about, has. But we've just about finished, so hopefully the hard parts over.

Our cases from when the drunk driver hit us back in January, should almost be done. Thank Heavens! We're so ready to get those bills paid and be able to put this whole thing behind us. Although Jon is still having some back problems and will probably have to be adjusted every so often for quite some time. But none the less, we're ready for it all to be over.

I think that's about it. Sorry theres no pictures or anything really cool. I promise as soon as I get a new camera I'll make sure to post some pictures. :)

Update

It's been awhile since I've update, thats partly cuz we haven't done much :) I still don't have a new camera so this is going to be pictureless for now :( Everythings going fine with my work. It's been pretty boring to be honest. Jon's been out of town doing some decorative concrete up north. He's been gone for like 2 weeks now, which sucks but atleast its work. But since he's been gone, that's partly why I have nothing too exciting to post about, haha.

Jon's best friend, Bryce Lindhardt (no relation I promise, but it's pretty ironic that his best friend and wife had the same last name), came home from his mission last week. He served in Montana. We went to his homecoming last sunday, he gave a really great talk. Jon is definitally loving having his best friend home.

This saturday we get to go to the grand opening of the brick oven. My little sister kimi works there and gave us the hook up :) thanks a bunch kimi! I've never eaten there, but Jon absolutely loves it, so I'm pretty excited to go.

Next weekend is the Evertsen family reunion. That'll be pretty exciting. Another weekend of camping. But we'll be in the trailers again so we won't be roughin it or anything.

I just went out the lunch with my girl friends yesterday: Jacy, Tami and Jade, thanks for a great time girls. I love it when we can all get together. We went to 25 and Main, I'd never been there either, and I really liked it. I had the Penne Primevera and it was absolutely wonderful!

Well I think that's about it, not much else going on in the Evertsen household.

Back to real life

I got back from my family vacation on Sunday. It was a lot of fun. We were gone for 10 days, which actually felt like a really long time. My dad had just recently bought some 5th wheels, so we took those and went camping. Heres what we did:

Friday - Sunday: We left for Bryce Canyon. Spent all day saturday there and left sunday morning. This is also the location that I lost my camera :( Go figure I lose it on the first day of the trip. I'm pretty upset about it.
Sunday: We drove to Cherry Hill in Kaysville.
Monday: Cherry Hill waterpark
Tuesday: Hoogle Zoo
Wednesday: Lagoon
Thursday: IKEA (and yes we did practically spend the whole day there) We also drove to our next campsite down in provo.
Friday: 7 Peaks Waterpark
Saturday: Tubing down the provo river and visiting the Meilsoe's. We had some minor difficulities when going down the river. Me, Jon and my dad all made it all the way down the river just fine, but Stacie, Kristel, Eric, Courtney and Mikey had a case of a sunken ship (or I guess raft would be more fitting :) ). They got wrapped around a pole of one of the bridges and were all pushed "overboard". The river was moving pretty fast so Kristel was dragged down river a ways before she was able to get out, and they all lost their shoes. Such a traumatic experience for them all. haha
Sunday: Drove home.

Since I lost my camera, I don't have any pictures to post. But I'm gonna try to get some from my dad. Hopefully I'll be able to buy a new camera sometime soon. HUMPH, the joys of life!

4th of July

We went up north for the 4th of July this year because Berkley was getting blessed on the 5th. It was a nice mini vaca before the next vaca this weekend!

Me and Jon just after Berkelys blessing

Fireworks!

This is a better picture it just didn't have the fireworks in it so I had to put both


This is in Gma & Pa Sheriff's backyard, it's absolutely beautiful (the backyard not the pic of us :) )

The woman of the hour... Berkley Lynn Aston in her blessing dress (she wasn't very happy at the time)

The Aston's (Berkley obviously wasn't enjoying the picture taking)

Grandma and Grandpa Sheriff's backyard. He takes such good care of the yard. I've never seen a yard look so beautiful. Imagine a wedding here, it'd be perfect!

I'm excited for my family's vaca. We switched it to up north instead of Cali. We're going to 7 Peaks, Timpanogos Cave, Cherry Hill, Tubing down the Provo river, the Hoogle Zoo and lots more fun things. Can't wait for the break from work.

Lake Outing

The fam went to the lake a while back. It was nice to relax a little bit although I did get a little burned :/ . Heres a few pics of the outting.

Me and Kristel sitting in the shade. Her hair was a little bit of a disaster so she had to wear the wrap around her head. The next picture is an example as to why she preferred to wear the wrap.

This is no joke either. We didn't touch it before we took this pic. (and Kristel, I could have been really mean and put the fatty pic up, but I'm so nice that I settled with this one :) )

Me and Hanna on the Molecule.

She didn't enjoy it that much. But atleast we got her out there.

Look at how cute Evie is! She was so content with just sitting on the beach in the waves.

This weekend we're going up north for Berkleys baby blessing. Then the following week is the Lindhardt family vacation. I'm excited to get away and not have to worry about working or anything. Oh and later this month, I think the last season of Prison Break is coming out on DVD...I'm SO excited!

Family Pics

I finally got the pics of my family pictures back in April. Some of them are really similar, but it was so windy that we only got a few good shots. I think I decided that I'm going to take more pics of us for our 1 year anniversary tho.

Update

I figured it was time for an actual update. Not much has happened. Jon's been working a lot. Actually I feel like I haven't even had much of a husband this past week. But I guess I can't really complain. I would much rather have him love to work and be gone at work, then out playing all the time.
I've been hanging out with 2 of my sisters a lot lately, Kristel and Stephanie. Both of their husbands work at DRA with Jon. So we're all husbandless at the same time :) But other than that, I've just been reading and dancing. I'm loving going to the dance class. It's great excercise and helps me get out, instead of just lounging around.
Jon's loving living at the ranch. It's a little far out there for me, but he loves it so I'm ok with it for now. I def don't think I could do it forever. All in all things are going good. Nothing too interesting tho :)

Newest Addition

CONGRATULATIONS are in order for my sil Delecta and her husband Daryl. They welcomed their beautiful baby girl, Berkley into the family last night (well technically it was this morning). Mom and baby are both doing great. I didn't take any pics cuz Zeffie had that end covered, but I'll be sure to post some pics when I get them from her.

Congrats Lexy and Daryl!!