January 2010

WoW! January went really fast.

For New Years we had Rielly, Tiff, and Keegan over for a small celebration, it was fun and low key for the kids. Zander could not wait to do his poppers out the front door at Midnight.


Zander heard the commercial for Monster Truck on the radio, and he did not stop talking about them. He even made a picture of Dad, Mom, Zander, and Bella watching the monster trucks with his finger paints.



We had a great family night at the Monster trucks, we had fantastic seats in the lower bowl so the action was right in front of us. It was a fun night and Zander LOVED the smashing of the school bus and cars.Zander would not even take his eyes off the show for the family photo.


We have not had much snow in the valley at all this year which has been a little disappointing, so we have to play in the crusty snow that has not melted yet.

As for Jake, he is back to working on his bike. He moved it to his parents so he could work on it in the garage so I don't get to see the progress as much and also no photos for an update. He has so much fun, chopping the bikes and creating his own.

December 2009

It has been brought to my attention that this blog is greatly neglected, so for 2010 I will try and do better. I am going to start by doing a monthly video; we will see how that goes.
December was a great and busy month for us. The best part was how much time we got to spend with family.
Jake took the month off from the bike project, and built Zander a great chopped "Jake Style wagon". His creativity did not get a lot of rest we put him to work on helping us build a Gingerbread house. It was fun to see how both boys got very involved.
Lori had a busy month, with Neptune and Candles, and to top it off this year she started selling Miche purses as well.
Zander grew a couple of inches it seems in just one month, his pants that have been dragging for months are fitting and almost short on him. He loved all the parties and being able to wrestle with more than just mom and dad.
The holidays seemed very spread out this year. We started by celebrating with the Cornwall side of the family on the 23rd, since Bruce and Collette where heading to Montana for an adventure of their own. Christmas Eve was spent at our home with the Zouns, Nikole & Antonio, and Tibby & Iuliana. It was a very fun night, too much food and lots of entertainment provided by Kris. Everyone took a chance at learning to play DJ Hero and a little Tony Hawk skateboarding.
Christmas morning we had family time with the 3 of us, it was a great relaxed morning, Zander knew Santa had come, but he wanted to just lay with mom and dad for a little while. Once we finally went to see what Santa had left, he was very cute, he would not open a box until ALL the paper was off the package so needless to say it took a little while. Luckily there was not snow for Jake, who had to go find his gift of a new rolling tool box out in the car. We topped off Christmas day by spending the afternoon at Opa & LuLu's playing a little more DJ Hero.
It was a great holiday, and we are all grateful for the family and friends we have around us.

Zander at the Zoo

Another great piece of work by Retrospect Studios (HeidI Uhl)

Wild Sunflower, originally uploaded by The Zouns.

4th of July

We had a great BBQ dinner with the family, our own little firework show and then walked just up the street a few houses to watch the fantastic Sugarhouse fireworks. Zander LOVED the fireworks, except the noisy screaming ones.

Dad and Z made a mess with the snakes

LuLu decided to try and go down the slide, Crazy LuLu

With an occasional need of a push, 

Zander has mastered his bike and wants to ride it daily

We hope you all had a great 4th

FiJi Vacation

Our scuba vacation this year was to Beqa Lagoon Resort in FiJi. All I can say is WoW, the diving was incredible, the island was very secluded with lots and lots of green, and our bure was beautiful. We had a beach front bure with its own little splash pool, and Zander loved it, when we arrived the guys were still bringing in our luggage and Zander was quickly undressed and in the pool.

Frank, Jaline, Jared, and Nicole joined us for our long travels to the little island, from LAX we had a 10 hour flight, a 2 hour bus ride, a 1 hour boat ride and then onto little rafts that took us into the island with no dock. Once again Zander was a great little traveler, slept on the planes and enjoyed every bit of the adventure.

As for the scuba diving it was some of the best diving Jake and I have done, the variety of coral and color was overwhelming, and the fish, there were A LOT of fish and so many that I had never seen in the wild only in the aquariums. The best part was I finally got to see the clown fish in there natural environment.

One thing that has been fun about this trip is that Zander is remembering it, since we have been home anytime Zander sees a plane, he says "Mom lets go to FiJi, NOW"

Best Cousins

A & Z, originally uploaded by The Zouns.

Antonio is great with Zander, they are all boy when they get together. Zander still calls him Bea, still not sure where that came from. My dads pond makes for some great photos.