family photos...

guns up!....

Here's what I call the alien picture.Nice profile.
Get your guns up! Yup, we have a Texas Tech fan in utero!

It was very very obvious that he was a boy.

However, I will not share that picture because it is a little indecent.

Enough said.

bugged...

Well I have these cool ultrasound photos that I've been trying to upload all day long. For some reason my computer has decided it doesn't want to upload photos. Anywhere. Blogger. Facebook. Nothing. It's quite annoying. I would describe the photos to "you", but somehow I don't think that would really work...

It's A....

Boy!!
Pictures coming soon....

ducks, drives and parent teacher conference...

Last Friday, Zane was dying to go to the park. So on the way, we decided to stop and 'feed' the ducks at the golf course by our house. The second we pulled off the side of the road to park - the ducks SWARMED our car. It was quite hilarious. They know what happens when someone stops apparently! Zane and Lily had soooo many giggles and screams feeding the masses of ducks. I actually took a video, but all you can hear is ducks squaking and bad camera work from me trying to help Zane avoid being eaten by the ducks that were swarming him to get at the bread in his hands, with an occasional squeal by Lily. Sounds amusing, but it's really not. We will definitely have to go again soon. (and don't tell me how bad it is to feed them in the first place, I already know)

On Saturday we decided we were in the mood for a drive, and we have been wanting to head out to the Mt. Trumbull area. It's just a neat area, and if you keep going you can actually drive to Tuweep a point on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon that you can pretty much step right out to the very edge of the canyon. No rails or anything! (We won't attempt that until our kids are much older - and when I have forgotten how terrified of heights I am). Of course, we knew we wouldn't make it all the way out to Trumbull - it's 60 miles on a gravel/dirt road - which translates to almost 3 hours of driving. But we made it about 35 of those miles! We came to a meadow like area with some really huge cows standing right on the side of the road. So fun. One day we will make it the whole way.

(Just noticed that Zane is wearing the same shirt he did the day before - probably slept in it, and I didn't care enough to make him change on Saturday.)

Today was our first parent teacher conference with Zane's teacher. We are all so lucky that he has such a great teacher. She understands that he may not appear to be listening because he already knows what they are talking about. She said that she will give him a special spelling list once the other kids are working on their words so that he can work on words that are a little harder, and learn the "spelling rules" and things like that. Also, we can request he be moved up on his reading level anytime. He needs to work on his writing because he tends to get "sloppy" (because he gets bored with it I'm sure) and "creative" and he tends to visit too much to finish his work. Great job Zane! We love you!

twinkle twinkle...

Zane participated in the school's storytime festival last night. He chose to do the nursery rhyme "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star". Yeah, I know he was aiming high. Of course, he didn't recite it, he sang it. If I'd thought about, I should have had him do "Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat" from Alice in Wonderland, very entertaining!
It's sort of hard to hear him in this video, but enjoy!

evolution maybe?...

Zane and I have very interesting conversations at bedtime. After the usual, story, prayers, songs, the conversation went like this:

Zane: Did we used to be gorillas?

Me: (totally taken aback) What? Where did you hear that?

Zane: Spongebob (his answer for everything - he watches it a little too much I'm afraid).

Me: Well some people think that we started out that way. But we know that Heavenly Father made us to look like him. Do you think he looks like a gorilla?

Zane: Yeah, he started out like a gorilla, and now looks like us.

I never thought I would have a conversation about evolution with my 5 year old. No more Spongebob (ha!).

ni-night lizards...

I walked outside on Saturday past a bucket that holds various outdoor toys. I heard something shuffle around in there. It sounded MUCH to big to be a bug, so it definitely freaked me out. Of course, I made John look to see what it was.

Poor little guy must have scaled the house and then fallen in and couldn't climb back out. Who knows how long he was in there.

Lily is starting to use words more and more. We love to play this game with her.

Zane: are you ready for ni-night? Lily: (shaking head) noooo

from zane...(he typed this himself)

i want to be a chef everyday I HAVE A COLD ANd I AM scared of monsters IM Done

trick or treat...

What a great Halloween! I got Lily's costume finished at 11:30 the night before, yay me! I was worried she wouldn't wear it, because when she tried on the hood she was pretty upset about it. She doesn't even keep a ponytail or clip in her hair and throws a fit when I try to brush it, so I was pretty nervous. By the afternoon all dressed in her costume, she wore the hood just fine! Zane was an awesome Ironman - and loved to flex his muscles for everyone.

John took off for a minute from work to head over to the elementary school for the Halloween Parade. Zane was very excited to see us there. I remember doing those when I was a kid - and so I wanted to be there for him.

We started off the afternoon festivities by going to John's office to "trick or treat". Zane loves those little plastic pumpkins for trick or treating but I always throw them away because I hate having them around. I tried to get one this year but was too late, and they were gone. So we spent some time when we got back making treat bags out of pillowcases and some orange cord I bought. Zane drew a great picture of a haunted house complete with a ghost, and a storm at the top with lightning. He wrote "ooooooooo" and "scary scary" on it as well. I was quite impressed. I need to take a picture of it.

Then we headed to the annual neighborhood hot dog/chili dinner. It's a lot of fun to see all the kids (and some grown ups) dressed in their costumes. Then it was off trick or treating around the neighborhood. I'm not a big fan of the t or t-ing here because we have no street lights, and no sidewalks - but our neighborhood is pretty calm and there aren't a lot of kids. Last year we actually didn't get a single trick or treater at our house. Of course, we are up on a hill - and I imagine kids don't want to trek up our driveway. However, I think we might have got a half a dozen last night. And - for all you "northerners" just to make you jealous - I was trick or treating in my flip flops, tshirt and capris and was QUITE comfortable. Love the fall in St. George!

I didn't get a good picture of the pumpkins here but Zane did a Squidward (from Spongebob, his favorite) pumpkin complete with a big nose and of course John did the standard Double T pumpkin for "Lily". Go Raiders! (sidenote: they are ranked 7th and play UT ranked 1st tonight at home - watch it, ABC 6:00 pm MT)

My Ironman and his haul for the night.

An adorable (and somewhat saggy and baggy) pink elephant.