Daniel's 8 months old

The title says it. I tried to post a video but it wouldn't upload. Daniel discovered the piano. At first he would play some notes, then giggle, beat on the piano bench, and then giggle some more. Once we pulled out the camera, the giggling stopped. Joey joined him for a while but it's impossible to get anything of Joey anymore because he is more interested in being behind the camera watching and helping take pictures (he calls he camera a "smile"). Here are pics of the cutey:

it's snow fun

If you're kissing your honey
and his nose is runny
and you think it's funny
it's not.

It feels like that's all it's done in Cedar City lately. We got 5 inches yesterday morning, then another inch later in the day. Today it has snow about fifty times, on and off. When we left for choir this afternoon, we were seriously in a blizzard. Our poor friend had just seen two of her kids off driving back to college about an hour before it started; she was really worried. One kid had called about already told her they had slid off the road just getting off an exit, going 20 mph. Oye. On the way home from Thanksgiving, Nate and I ran into a snow storm 20 mins from home, in Parawan. We finally pulled over and waited at a travel stop for about 1 1/2 hours before getting on and turtle-ing the rest of the way. We had a nother friend tell us that last year she was on the freeway at Cedar City and there was suddenly a white out, everybody just stopped and waited. The wind here gets really bad and Cedar City has worse than average electric service (it goes out randomly all the time) so we've had a few black outs. I can't say I like the snow here, but I know it's nothing compared to what the east has been experiencing recently. This year is the first time I really remembering just wishing spring would come. I could really use some sunshine. Anyway, one fun of it all is that Nate and Joey went out and played and made a snowman. Joey was so cute: troomping around grabbing a dob of snow and then carefully patting it onto the snowman. He loves his snow man. He now sits in his chair at the kitchen table and stares at him, talks about him, and talks to him. When it started snowing today, Joey yelled at the snowman and told him to take cover!

Saint Valy's Day

We had a candle light dinner, Joey tried to blow out the candles the whole time. We ate Milenasas, mashed potoates and cooked carrots. For desert we used some leftover white chocolate (I had to be resourceful) from an Activity day and made chocolate covered strawberries. Then I made these chocolate hearts that I saw on Regis and Kelly. They were way easy and really yummy! I need to try it with regular chocolate next time. You just melt the chocolate, put it in a bag and nip off the end, then squeeze out to spots of chocolate right next to each other. Use the bakc of a spoon to spread the chocolate down into a heart shape, then sprinkle on nuts, toffee, mini m&m's, or whatever you want, let cool and enjoy! Joey got a mega bloks road that he LOVES and Nate got a new shirt that is actually not blue. I got a salad spinner!

What do we do for fun?

Play under the crib!!!

Now that Daniel is crawling, these two have a blast together!

Sunday Fun

So yesterday, Daniel decided to act bigger than he is. He started pulling himself to a stand a lot sooner than we expected. But now, he can walk himself along things, moving from one spot to another (Of course, if they are very close to each other). He moved from the computer chair to the side of the desk and then started to move around it. I'm not ready for this!!!!


Here are pics of yesterday:

I know this one is kind of cruel, but Nate and I thought it was hilarious