Provo, UT

Just a few things I was missing about Provo the other day (in no particular order):

1) The duck pond. The ducks in our canal just don't get it and stay far away from the kids. Maybe it's time to ditch the canal ducks and head to a park.

2) The Conleys and Brick Oven Pizza. Lemonade, Brian?

3) The Louds and Fudruckers.

4) Our old rent payment - man, those days were good!

Eli is Learning to Walk

Eli is our walking-talking boy! (I'd post videos a lot more if they didn't take so long to upload) This Eli-boy loves to express himself. It's rare to not know what he wants, even though he only has a couple of words. Instead of words, Eli has a complicated set of screams that indicate what he needs. When he's not screaming out, he can be heard babbling on and on for a good hour or so, no kidding! As Joshua says, "When Eli talks he talks so seriously and expressively that I can almost understand what he's talking about!" WE LOVE OUR ELI!

Happy Valentine's Day!

We gave the boys coloring books and new crayons for their Valentine's Day gift. After coloring for a while German says he wants to write Eli's name on his paper. So, he did. German knew how to spell 'Eli' and write the letters (though it's difficult to see), even though we haven't really gone over letter writing. Then he says he wants to write his own name. 'German' is a little harder to spell, so we helped him sound it out and spell, but he did all the letters on his own. This boy loves learning and does such a good job listening to the things we teach him. I can see now why they say that children are so eager to learn; their minds are little sponges. WE LOVE GERMAN!

The Big News...

Joshua and I have decided that we should definetly be saving our money and increasing our food storage so that when the time comes we can afford to feed THREE teenage BOYS! We once saw a young guy at In-n-Out Burger eating 4 cheeseburgers and now we imagine ourselves ordering and asking for a dozen burgers! Oh well - these boys give us far more joy and laughs than the money we would save by not having them.