Halloween

This year for Halloween I thought it would be fun to try and make a costume for Isaiah. It was a lot of fun and turned out pretty cute, or at least I thought so. It was a lot more cute in person watching him waddle around in it. :)
I realized that Halloween was on Sunday this year and was wondering if there was even going to be an occasion for Isaiah to wear his costume. Luckily the ward had a trunk or treat so we decorated our trunk and put on our costumes and went to trick or treat in the church parking lot. :) We had a lot of fun trying to decide how to decorate our trunk and I think our trunk turned out really awesome. If they would have been giving out prizes I think we would have one first place. It was really disappointing when we showed up and not too many other adults were dressed up with their little kids. Also there were a lot of people who didn't even dress up or decorate their trunks. So maybe we went a little overboard, but we had a lot of fun in the process. Oh well. Live and learn I guess. We have never been trunk or treating before, so I guess we aren't really to blame. I just wish people would be a little more festive sometimes though.
I know none of our costumes really go together, Isaiah was a giraffe. I was a black cat, and Casey was Nacho Libre (sort of.) Once he saw that hardly anyone else had on costumes he took off his mask. So I didn't get any pictures of him in his costume. I'm just glad all our costumes were really cheap, so it didn't really matter much. :)
I was really amazed at how well Isaiah did wearing his costume. I thought for sure he would be ripping the horns and ears off of his head, but he kept them on the whole time. Prior to Halloween I had been letting him wear the head band...trying to get him used to it. I would tell him that he looked cute! Then he would run over to the mirror and say cute. I guess it must have worked because he just loved waddling around in his costume all night long. I was also really surprised at how much he actually liked the trick or treating. I didn't think he would really get into it that much since he is so young, but he loved holding his bucket and going around getting "snacks" and "treats." I gave him a few pieces of candy throughout the night and he would say "mmmmm." I guess I was wrong to think that he was too young to enjoy Halloween because he sure had a lot of fun. We even got him to say "Haween". I wish we would have gotten a video of it all. Enjoy the pictures.

Isaiah ready to go trick or treating!

He couldn't wait to get out the door.

Waiting for all the fun to start.

Daddy somewhat in his costume.

I think he was searching for the jungle. :)

Happy Halloween!

Momma and Zaya ready for trunk or treating

Our scary trunk!

We had a tombstone that said "RIP Mr. Bones" and "This man died in this car"

Zaya taking a break from trick or treating. We put him in the stroller because he likes it and wouldn't run off. :)

Another scary view of our trunk.

Baby Giraffe and his daddy

Little Man and Pumpkin Carving

On Saturday we took a little trip up a little ways north to Floyd Lamb park. It is a really nice park here in Las Vegas that we had never heard of or been to before. It cost $6 to get in, but there were really nice ponds for Casey to fish in. It was a beautiful day to sit outside on the grass and watch daddy fish. I loved it because being there felt a little more like Idaho with all the trees and grass. It is the nicest park I have been to here. Isaiah enjoyed being outdoors, pushing his stroller, chasing the ducks and geese, seeing all the puppies, and learning how to fish. :) He is already so much like his dad. 

We finally went and got Isaiah a new church outfit, because he is getting so big that his belly was sticking out of his other one. I think he is so handsome. I am surprised that I actually got a good picture of him smiling, because it was time to go down for a nap. Our church is at 2:00, right when Isaiah goes down for his nap. This makes for a very interesting time at church and one exhausted boy and parents by the time we get home. This past Sunday Isaiah was so tired that he fell asleep on Daddy's shoulder as he carried him in from the car. Poor boy. It will be nice once he can finally go to nursery next month.

This year we decided to wait a little closer to Halloween to carve our pumpkins so that they would still look good on Halloween. I remember the last time we lived in Vegas we did it a few weeks before and by the time Halloween got here our pumpkins were starting to get all mushy. I am not sure if this was because it is hotter here or what, but hopefully they will last at least a week this time. :) I am pretty proud of our work. Isaiah really likes the "punkins" as he calls them. He loved going outside to see them and wanted to do it all night long. I think he liked the candle lights inside because he started crying when I blew them out and told him that the pumpkins were going night night.

Something Isaiah is constantly doing is rearranging my  shoes. He will move them all around on the shoe rack, stack them on the toilet, and bath tub. The thing he does the most though, is stack them like this on the bed, and it just cracks me up. He will put them on the bed, then take them back to the shoe rack, then put them back on the bed, then throw them on the floor. It seems I am always looking for my shoes. I'm just glad he likes playing with some of the things we already have so we don't have to buy him so many toys. 

Handsome Isaiah in his new church clothes

My Handsome Boys!!

Isaiah ready to fish at  Floyd Lamb Park in Las Vegas

Isaiah learning how to turn the reel

 Isaiah thinks its fun to put our shoes in a line, on our bed, every day

Pumpkin carving at the Davis home

Casey's Pumpkin

Rachel's Pumpkin

Spooky Cat and Head with Bugs

Fall Fun

We have been trying to find some fun things to do here in Las Vegas. We went down to the Belagio gardens and the Belagio fountains a couple weeks ago. These are probably my favorite part of the Las Vegas strip. I love it because it is free, and they are always changing the gardens so it is so fun to see what they are doing every season. I guess being a horticulture major probably has something to do with why I love it so much. I love the huge flower arrangements they always have there. If I ever have to work outside of the home this would be something I would love to do!

 Isaiah liked the fountains and probably would have danced to the music had it been a more upbeat song. He was also just getting better from being sick so he was still not quite back to himself, but he still had a good time because he loves riding in his stroller! Knowing our way around made it much more enjoyable for us too...we didn't get lost in any smoky casinos or walk around forever trying to figure out how to get where we wanted to go like we used to do when we lived here before. To me this is probably one of the only things I would recommend going to the strip to see unless you have a lot of money to see some of the neat shows here. Here are some of the pics. we took.

Dad and Zaya in the Belagio gardens

Zaya and I inside the gardens

They had an orchid greenhouse this time. There were hundreds of varieties! Loved this!

Standing under the streams of water

Zaya liked putting his finger in the water stream.

Beautiful fountains!

Fall Floral arrangements

They were all so big and beautiful!

I couldn't get enough pics. :)

At a pumpkin patch.

Wish I would have been thinking and dressed Zaya a little more fallish.

Cute and happy in his wheelbarrow.

Getting excited for Halloween.

Photo shoot with mom

Our little guy is already 17 months old! Can't believe it!



My growing boy!

Isaiah sure is getting big. I just can't believe he is already 16 months old. It just seems like yesterday that he was a newborn. He keeps mommy really busy and helps the days to go by much faster while daddy is at work. It is so funny lately when he wakes up in the morning, he looks at me and says, "Mommy? A daddy?" Like mom, where is dad? So I have been telling him that daddy is gone bye bye at work. So the other day he asked me "Mommy? A dad?" Then he answered his own question by saying, "work" which sounded like "wook" because he can't say his R's very well yet. It was so cute! You can sure tell he misses his daddy. Every time Casey comes home from work Zaya runs over to his daddy all excited. Then he runs back to me and hugs my legs and then he runs back over to his daddy and starts jabbering. He is such a funny boy. I just love him to pieces.

Yesterday I made brownies for FHE and I tried to get Isaiah to lick the spatula. At first I held it toward him and he said "No" and pushed it away. So I tasted it and told him it was really good like cookies. So then I handed it to him and he sat down on the ground and started eating it. These are the pictures I got of him.

                                                                        Enjoying his treat!

After I took the spatula away. Poor boy.

It was so cute! I am sure he is always going to be begging for cookies or a D'nack or G'nack (which is how he says snack). The more he wants a snack the more loudly he enunciates the D or G. It cracks me up! What a silly little boy. He is starting to talk so much now. Here are some of the words I can think of that he is saying:
Snack: G'nack or D'nack (Fruit snacks are his favorite)
Popcorn: Botter
Cookie
Airplane: Aipane when he says it really fast and is excited it sounds like Appy. He says this every time he sees or hears an airplane, or every time we are in the car and he thinks he sees one.
Button: Butty although today he was starting to say Bunton. He LOVES buttons. He thinks light switches are buttons too. He even turned the lights off on us in Relief Society our first Sunday in our new ward. How embarrassing! He says "I see Butty" anytime he sees something he thinks is a button.
Beep: He loves anything that beeps, especially the microwave.
Teeth: Dee (He loves brushing his teeth).
Yogurt: Yogeet
Applesauce: Appsauce or Assauce
Milk:  Miulk
Water: Wateey
Bubbles: Bubbles bubbles
Duck
Bath
Book
Look: Nook
Outside: Ouside
Shoes
Puppy
Kitty: Titty
Blankie:  Bankie
Night night: Nigh night
Boo
Remote: Mote
Get You
Get it
Monkey
Hi
Hi Five: Hi fi
Bye Bye
Umm: He likes to hold the phone up to his ear and walk around the house saying umm then jabbering like crazy then every once in a while he will throw in another ummm like he is thinking and then start jabbering again. It is so cute it cracks me up!
Up:  He says this if he wants down or up.
Out:  He says this when he wants out of his car seat or high chair.
Ball
Nose
No!
Piano: Miano
Smile: Mile He says this when he gets a hold of the camera. For the longest time I couldn't figure out what he was saying, then I realized he was saying smile!

I am sure there are more words he says, but right now I think that is enough, and I can't think of anymore. It seems like he is learning one to two new words about every day now. He really is getting big!

A couple other things that he does that I think are so cute are that he loves dancing to music or any kind of beat. He even dances in his car seat by moving up and down to the beat. It is so funny. The other day we were walking to the mail box to get the mail and a car went past with its radio cranked up. Isaiah stopped walking and started dancing to the music right there on the side walk. It was so funny I couldn't help but laugh.

Also whenever he thinks something is neat or when he hears a noise he likes, he will open his mouth all the way and his eyes get big like he is really exited. It is so funny! Sometimes he will say, "mommy" to get my attention and then do this just to make me laugh. I think he likes the attention he gets from doing this because I like it so much. I think that is why he does it a lot. I will have to get a video of it, because it is really funny!

Okay one more funny story. The other day I gave him some pears to eat for lunch. He wasn't eating them very well. Then he saw the remote over on the table and he wanted it. So I told him if he finished his pears than he could get down and have the remote. So Isaiah thought I said "prayers" instead of "pears" so he folded his arms. He thought I was saying if you say your prayers then you can get down and have the remote. It was so funny! I was laughing really hard.

Well that is all the funny stories for now. Stay tuned for more updates on this silly boy that we love so much!

Summer Fun

WARNING: Because I haven't posted for so long this post and the following post are very long and sum up our entire summer. There are LOTS of pictures. Hope you like long posts. :)

Zoo

We have done lots of fun things this summer. After graduation we had some time before we had to move, so we spent lots of time with Isaiah doing fun things that we probably should have been doing, but were too busy to do. He finally got to spend more time outside with mom and dad! First we decided to go to the Zoo in Idaho Falls. We drove all the way down there to find out it was closed already! So we went and rode the carousel at the Fun Park right next door. We decided to make another trip back to the zoo when we knew it would be open. Isaiah loved it! His favorite was the monkey that came right down to the glass and was playing with Isaiah. He also really liked the petting zoo for the children. He got to go in a pet the goats and sheep. I think more than the animals though, he just loved being able to run around outside and have fun. I was really surprised how big the zoo was and the variety of animals they had. Here are some pictures.

Riding Carousel because the zoo was closed.

Mommy and Zaya

I think he liked it!

Zaya's Favorite Part of the Zoo

Petting the Goats with Daddy

The Cutest Animal at the Zoo :)

I really liked this one.

He thought the spots on the chicken were buttons or as Zaya calls them "Butty!"

Penguins

Huge Tortoises

Tiger

Family Reunion

Also this summer we were able to have the Richard Pieper family reunion. We started off by celebrating Jamie's birthday Chinese style, which was lots of fun. Then we were able to welcome Elder (Paul) Pieper home from his mission to Uruguay on Friday. Zaya liked his Uncle Pauly right away. It is so good to have him back! Then on Saturday we were all able to go to the IF temple and Pete was able to receive his endowments. On Sunday Paul gave his homecoming speech which was great! Afterwards we had lots of family and friends over for a luncheon. On Monday all the guys left for a "boys get away". They went on a big hike somewhere. Casey was sad he wasn't able to go because he had to leave for CA for training for his work. So while all the guys were gone we had fun having girl time. We went to the splash park all of the kids seemed to like it accept for Isaiah. So Jessie, Mary, and I took Zaya over to ride the carousel since he likes those a lot more. Then we all went over to play at the park. It was so much fun to be able to spend so much time with my family before we moved to Vegas. They were all tons of help in getting us packed and moved as well. Thanks again guys. We sure miss you and love you. Here are some of the pics from the reunion. Wish I could have gotten more.

Greeting Paul at the Airport

After Peter received his endowments at the Idaho Falls Temple

Jenny Wren, Ike, Baby Jacob, and Jen

Zaya and I at the splash park

Lucy loved the water, unlike Zaya

Jenny Wren

Ike

Zaya

Mary, Zaya, and Jessie

Zaya

Hannah and Zachy

Baby Jacob

Lucy and Jen

Zaya loved the slide!

He isn't afraid of the swings anymore. :)

Zachy in the swing

Matching monkey outfits we got for 25 cents each! Thought we would dress them up like twins.

It has been a really fun summer!