Sugar Cookies

We have a really fun Halloween tradition with my family. We get together the week before Halloween & frost sugar cookies! It is so fun - and everybody is always so creative! Derek really had a lot of fun with the cookies. I frosted a few for him & let him decorate them! As you can see- he also decorated his head with frosting! Who needs gel, huh? I can't remember why he was pulling this face, but I thought it was cute! He really had a lot of fun with the cookies, frosting & candy!

Decorating a cookie!

It was fun because the whole gang was there! (Grandpa isn't in the picture, but he was there too!)

My mom always gets so many goodies to decorate the cookies with! And of course we eat a bunch of the treats before they ever make it onto a cookie! Thanks again Nanny, we all had a lot of fun!

What a fun little boy!

We just have so much fun with Derek! He's SO sweet! These are just some fun pictures that we've taken recently.

We tried his Halloween costume on the other night - just to make sure it fit. Isn't he a cute baby batman? Also, we bought these little pumpkins for him & he has had so much fun carrying them around! More pumpkins.

He lined all the pumpkins ("pumpies" as he calls them) up on the couch & then climbed up there and pointed to the tv and said "Football!" So, he & the pumpkins are ready for the game!

Derek got my Nintendo DS out of the case and turned it on and got the stylus out by himself! I didn't know kids this young could play video games, ha ha!

Scooter's feet were cold and so Ryan slipped some of his socks on Derek's feet - and he loved it! He wore Ryan's socks until the next morning when I got him dressed!!

Cousins

I took this picture a few weekends ago when we were all at my moms house! I love it when Mauri & Scooter play & have fun together! I have fun memories with my cousins and I'm so glad that Mar and Derek are friends! Derek loves to see Mauri! He finds pictures of her at our house and he will carry them around and say "Mar Mar!" And he is always super excited when we go to Nanas and Mar Mar is there too!!

A Sweet Surprise

Yesterday morning I stepped on the scale in our bathroom, and lo and behold, my weight was half of what it usually is! Yay hooray! Scooter had pushed something that changed the weight from pounds to kilograms. I am really half tempted to leave it like that. I know that nothing is really different, but I sure liked seeing the kg number rather than the pounds! Tee hee!

Got Milk?

Sometimes after the milk carton is empty, Derek likes to play with it! I thought this was so funny! I wonder where he learned to do that.... tee hee!

It is just SCARY...

...that I have lived in this town for most of my life and I never knew that it was a celebrity hang out spot! Seriously! Several weeks ago we were driving somewhere & I saw Jack Nicholson driving a dump truck! How incognito is that? Then, the very next day Scooter & I were driving home, and we saw Hurley from "Lost" - riding a bike! Wow.... Okay, when we got closer I realized that not only was it not Hurley, but it was a girl! I sent out my silent apologies as quickly as possible!! After seeing those two, okay, that one celebrity, I have been keeping my eyes peeled when we are out & about, and we have spotted: ZZ Top driving by Walmart, Zac from the show "Bones" - we also saw Cory Snyder the baseball player (I'm totally serious about that one!!), Dwight from "The Office", Duff from "Ace of Cakes", Dennis Quaid (both of those celebs were seen by Aubs at work!), and Ryan and Aubs have seen Sayed (Sayeed?!?) also from "Lost" at the gym they go to! How amazing?! So, if you live in our town - keep your eyes open and you might just be surprised who you see! Hollywood can't keep their secret hideout a secret very much longer! Tee hee!

The Aquarium

This past weekend we went up to the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. We have been wanting to go check it out for a while, so it was really fun to be able to go! Scooter was really excited to see the fish!

They had this fun play area - and this nice lady offered to take a picture of all 3 of us!
They had these little benches that kids could stand on so they could see the fish! It was really cool, and Derek loved being able to stand there & watch the fish! I just thought this picture was too cute not to post! They had this "Utah Water" area - and Scooter had fun leaning through the fence!
I love the bright colors of these fish!
Scooter & Daddy checking out a big fish!