Hello? Grandma?

Ervin's new "game" is talking on his "telephone". He and Lizzy talk to each other and to grandma, daddy, mommy, whoever, on their remote "phones".

Every day Ervin's vocabulary increases! He is becoming quite communicative! He is also learning to use utensils at the dinner table, as well as the value of a napkin. Unfortunately, when we try to take pictures of these skills he immediately stops and becomes camera shy.

This morning we made a wonderful discovery. Ervin has a NEW TOOTH! This brings the total to 5. Hooray for Ervin!

Happy Halloween!

We had a great Halloween this year. The festivities started on Thursday when Uncle David and Daddy helped Lizzy and Ervin decorate their pumpkins. We found these cute Mr. Potato Head brand pumpkin decorating kits at Target for the kids to use this year. They are relatively easy to put in and it is DEFINITELY less mess/less time/more fun than carving for the kids.

Now to costumes. Grandma made Lizzy a beautiful Cinderella dress, and Ervin was a dinosaur race car driver. Mommy was Team Owner and Daddy was Crew Chief. Zak made a great race car to decorate our wagon for Ervin to ride in during trick-or-treating. Uncle David helped again by finding the graphics needed to decorate the car with sponsors. Zak got many complements.

For trick-or-treating this year we participated in the Springville City Safe Halloween up and down main street. It was packed with people and a lot of fun. It was fun to see all the different costumes on all ages.

Scarecrow Festival

Yesterday we went to the Scarecrow Festival at Thanksgiving Point. Wow! It was packed with people and games and fun.

Lizzy had fun on a few inflatable slides. She then turned her attentions to the free games and won a plastic spider ring. We then started the long wait for the "train" ride. Ervin didn't want to get off he was having so much fun. Then we watched Robert perform with PALS which was so much fun to watch. Afterwards, Lizzy tried her hand at the fishing game and won a frisbee with the Scarecrow Festival logo on it.

All in all a great experience. Thanks to grandma for taking us along!

One year older, and wiser too

Happy Birthday Daddy! We had a Batman themed birthday party for daddy, complete with door banner. Daddy asked for one thing for his birthday-a bike trailer to haul the kids. Even as we speak, he is putting it together for it's big debut tomorrow after work, as he doesn't have school.

Ervin got excited at the sight of the lit candles, and mommy ended up singing solo, but all in all, Zak had a great day!

Daddy is awesome

Daddy went to take the written CDL test this week and he passed with flying colors! Apparently he had to take 5 different tests as a part of the written CDL test. Hooray for Daddy! All that is left for him is the driving test, so wish him luck!

We went to breakfast this morning as sort of a celebration. Ervin got his first taste of scrambled eggs and pancakes. Of course we ordered his own, since he is such a good eater. He ate lots of eggs and almost an entire silver dollar pancake! The best part was nothing made it to the floor, it all went in his mouth with miniscule amounts ending up in his lap. Hooray for Ervin!