Happy Birthday Sam!

We celebrated Sam's first birthday this weekend (it was on the 17th).

Anthony had Thursday off, so we started the fun right away. We went and took a tour of Mrs. Cavanaugh's chocolate factory. Anthony's sister Genevieve and her son Josh came with us.

After the factory tour (it was a very small factory with a very small tour) we went to the Capital again. With Anthony working there, our kids are going to get great exposure to the Capital.

Friday started very early. First, we took the kids to the dinosaur park. They had a ton of fun walking around and finding all of the dinosaurs in the park.


Sam was excited for his cake, but it does not show because I had to take the presents away and make him really mad.

I have been so busy lately, so I did not make Sam's cake. I already feel like such a bad mom for celebrating late, so this was just like the guilt cherry on top.

Sam had a ton of fun with his Elmo cupcake. He was not using his hands at first because he was not sure about touching it.

He ate a bit, and then he started painting on his tray with the frosting.

Then we went outside and did some fireworks. Carson was scared of all of them. He did not want to hold the sparklers and he covered his ears when we did the loud ones. Sam and Zoe were little pyromaniacs and could not get enough.

We went to the a family reunion (for Anthony's Mom's side) on Saturday. It was at a park in Salt Lake.

We made cotton candy for everyone.

Sam is learning the art of cotton candy very early.

Wedding Weekend

Dave and Heidi were married on July 11th at the Timpanogos Temple.
We were up at 6am and did not get home until after 8pm, so it made for a very long day. It was more than worth it though. We are so happy for Dave and Heidi.

Here are the kids looking so cute.


Here are the kids looking um....... Well not so.....you get the idea.





Sam loves to give hugs. Carson is his favorite person to hug.


He always starts to hug and it gets all of the kids going.


Sam liked his tie, but he loved the girls bows even better.

The Silly Ways of Zoe

We love Zoe so much! She has always given us a lot of good laughs. We just wanted to share some of our funnest memories of her and some of the things she is still doing.

Translations (Zoe to English):
Efalint = Elephant
belax = relax
bemember = remember
assmorning = this morning
last day = the other day
qwount = count
bisgusting = disgusting
Anfernee = Anthony
Peter Potter = Harry Potter
Biona and Dohnkey = Fiona and Donkey
D..D..D..Dora = Dora the Explorer
shwimp and cwab = shrimp and crab (Zoe's favorites)
Gordita and Gordito = Ita and Ito (AkA Anthony's parents)
Just nothing = Zoe's response to, "What are you doing?" (When she is up to no good)
I just want something = Zoe wants something to eat, but is not sure what
I don't want anything (with one hand covering her bottom) = Zoe's response when she knows she is in trouble and does not want a spanking

If Zoe is done with her dinner she will say, "I am full and I don't want any dessert." This is because every time she said she was full, Anthony would ask if she wanted ice cream and she would yell, "Yes!" She finally caught on that she would not really get ice cream unless all her dinner was gone.

The other day she did not want to finish putting her laundry away and she needed an excuse. She decided that she would tell me that she was, "out of muscles" and that she could no longer work.

When there was snow on the ground Zoe was always sneaking some to eat. I would tell her not to every time. One day I was putting her in her carseat and she was chewing. I said, "Are you eating snow?" She replied with a look of disgust , "And sand!" as she chewed the dirt. She has since decided that it is not good to eat snow.

On our way home from California once, right after celebrating her third birthday, Zoe had to go potty really bad (#2). There were not rest stops coming up and she was three, so we had to pull over. I helped her go potty and then explained that this was only something we did in an emergency. She was baffled by the term, and started looking around. She saw some garbage on the hillside and decided that she did not know what it was called. Then she pointed to the garbage and said, "Look Mom, an emergency."

Cheating Post

I had a great Fourth of July weekend. So many things happened. Anthony and I sell cotton candy at the parks during the summer. Leah and Josh came up to help us. Leah made a great post on her blog. It was so great that I decided to just post a link to hers. She captured our kids very well.

http://monsivaisfamilyupdates.blogspot.com/2009/07/4th-of-july-weekend.html