About the Evermans

I figured a good start would be how we became the family that we are. Zach and I met in grade school and started to "date" in 7th grade. You know as much as two kids with no car or license can date. We dated all through high school and when the time came to go to college, I decided to stay close to home and go to UNI and Zach decided to go to University of Dubuque to play soccer. I had a really bad first year at college, even thought about dropping out a few times because it was hard with Zach being so far away and I am not the best at meeting new people. Zach then made the decision to come back home to UNI for his sophomore year, I was thrilled and decided to stay there.

Our junior year of college, Zach decided to propose to me by making me go around our dorm doing a scavenger hunt to finish back in my room with him down on one knee. It was a great day. We then got married 2 weeks after I graduated from UNI on May 24, 2008. We moved into a split foyer house in Cedar Falls and began our life together as husband and wife. I stayed at the ticket office as a ticketing assistant, which was a part-time job and Zach was going to school and working for Mudd Advertising. He then graduated in May 2009, and went on full time with Mudd.

We always said that we wanted to wait five years to start a family, but we started thinking that we didn't want to wait. In the summer of 2009, we started to try for a baby. It took a year, but we finally got pregnant in summer 2010. We were so excited! We found out that we were going to have a baby girl in March. Zach was hoping she would come a few weeks early so she would share a birthday with him and his dad. They wanted her to be the 3rd generation born on that day. She was stubborn and decided she wanted her own birthday to herself, I can't say that I blame her. She decided to come a week late on March 22, 2011 at 3:05 a.m., weighting a healthy weight of 7lbs 3oz.and was 20 3/4 inches long. We were very excited but scared at the same time.