Mary Lynn & Gary 2013

Hello all,
Things are great and were in 2013 as well. Emalee is 13, Jake is 11, Megan will be 9 at the end of March, and Landon is 5. 

Emalee is in 7th grade.  I have a Middle School-er and a teenager!!  Fun stuff I tell ya!  She made the volleyball team this year.  She never played before except a few weeks of Church Ball last year.  She is in love with it!!  She is going to do club ball this spring as well.  She has also been asked to be in the 8th grade choir instead of 7th and she enjoyed her drama class. She is also on the honor roll and they get to go to Lagoon at the end of the school year.  We never got to do those fun things for being on the honor roll!  I think it is neat they get to. She still plays violin/fiddle.
Jake is in 5th grade.  He played basketball this year again.  He played against Hayden as well.  Hayden's team was first in the tournament and Jake's was third.  He is excited for baseball to start again. He started learning the violin/fiddle again and is enjoying it more this time.  He only fights me a little when it's time to practice.  {wink}  He and I got a snowmobile this year but he has rode it more than me.  Gary has brought him a few times and I think he rides it better than I do too .....  He loves to ride his motorcycle too.  He also got the taste of moving pipe a little bit last summer and is looking forward to all the money he will make this summer moving pipe!
Megan is in the 3rd grade and still wishes she could play every sport. She still plays with a group of boys at recess that tell me she's one of the best football players.  :-) She played basketball again this year.  She was on Hadley's team.  I really enjoyed going to the games with Shawn and Hilary, and Gerald and Tena.  She is playing club Volleyball now and is on Hadley's team again. She can't wait for softball to start either.  She has a beautiful voice.  She sang a solo in Sacrament Meeting in January.  She wants to learn the guitar so I may get her in some lessons.  She is learning the piano from me right now.
Landon is 5 and in Kindergarten.  He hangs out with his Dad a lot and gets into everything at the shop. Even when I don't need Gary to take him he does because Landon thinks I'm boring. It has helped that he is in school half day.  He is going to start T-ball this spring but I'm not sure how he will do.  He wanted to sign up until we got there.  haha
Gary and I are still Farming, substituting, and running the kids around.  I still have a few piano students and Gary snowmobiles when there is snow.  We updated our kitchen this year.  Shawn was so great to do our concrete counter tops for us.  I have really enjoyed them.
I can not wait for the reunion this year!!!!  I can't wait to see all of you who will be there!  It's going to be a blast!!  Thank you so much Josh for doing this Newsletter!!!  Thank you all who write one!  I know that many say this, but not very many families do this and even though we have facebook, the little snippets don't quite help us know about each of the families lives.  This builds on the photos and things from facebook and helps me stay connected to all of you.  I love you all so much.  Thank you!!!


~ Gary,  Mary Lynn, Emalee, Jake, Megan, and Landon Evans

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