Thanksgiving Break

Well we just returned from our great holiday vacation.

This year we drove down to Hatch and spent Thanksgiving with the Nash family. We ate massive amounts of delicious food, played games, watched movies, and of course played BINGO!

Our family tradition includes playing Bingo as a family, and every time you get a bingo you get to pick a prize. Then once the prizes in the middle run out, it really gets interesting and you start stealing from each other until someone gets blackout and ends the game. This year Corbin ended up with a new toy, Caleb got a BYU tee shirt, which he wore for the game today -Go BYU!!- and we got a new dominoes game. I also ended up the coveted mystery prize which ended up being a cute stuffed moose full of Jelly Bellies.

We had a lot of fun and really enjoyed getting to see everyone--Corbin even let Chad hold him for 2 whole minutes before crying the last day we were up there, a new record!

Here we are getting ready to eat.

Here is Corbin, getting ready to eat.

And here is Corbin eating. How fun.

Apparently we did not feed the boy enough, because as soon as Grandma turned her back he crawled over into the fridge and started rooting around. Big Trouble Bean!

The day after Thanksgiving we drove down to good old Cedar City and stayed with Caleb's family. We played Clue, the DVD version, which was pretty fun once you figured it out, watched The Bee Movie and got to see Aunt Mel and Uncle Ron from California. It was so relaxing and we all had a great time. And of course we all watched the big BYU verses Utah football game (although some definitely payed more attention to the game than others of us :) it was cool to see BYU pull it off under pressure at the last minutes, go Cougars.

Packers...Boo

Matt gave Corbin a Greenbay Packers outfit for his birthday, which Corbin wore today.

I actually took him out in public with the thing on... but I made sure to keep my distance from him, so that no one would know that we were together. I wouldn't want to be associated with supporting that horrible team.

However, Corbin unfortunately seems to like it, he is smiling in the picture... we will have to work on that.

Birthday Boy

After family dinner at the Lloyds’ today, we decided to celebrate Corbin's upcoming birthday. I made him his very own soccer ball cake with a bowl of ice cream on the side and we all watched him dig into it.

He also got a lot of really fun presents, he was pretty cute opening them. I would have to start tearing the paper, but then he seemed to get the idea and helped to rip it the rest of the way off.

The only problem was when he opened the little water soccer balls from his Grandma Lloyd first and only wanted to play with them, losing all interest in opening the remaining presents.

Oh well, overall it was a really fun night, thanks to everyone! We will post more pictures of the whole shindig later.

Learning the Fun Way

Today I decided to let Corbin try to feed himself with a spoon. He had peach yogurt for breakfast, with some cereal added in to make it thicker, so that it would stick to the spoon better.

He actually did surprisingly well. Of course food ended up EVERYWHERE, but he did get most of the food into his mouth and most surprisingly he used the spoon the whole time.

Overall I was quite impressed.

Haircut

Today I gave Corbin his first haircut. It was getting a little long in the back and starting to curl up at his neck, so I trimmed it up for him.

It was also my first time giving someone a haircut, so here is his "After" shot.

No, it actually turned out pretty good, and he looks like a little stud. Although it is hard to really see the difference in this picture.

Halloween

Last night for Halloween our family got all dressed up as farm people. Then, since Corbin can't really eat any candy, we drove him around the valley visiting family and friends, showing him off in his costume.

Here are pics:

Mom the Pig, Corbin the Cow and Dad the Farmer, we look a little ridiculous, but that’s okay.

Here is Corbin with his cousins, luckily Brynn (the Octopus) was well behaved the whole time and we distracted Corbin by letting him hold a pack of smarties, still in the wrapper, long enough to quit crying and take a picture, but Colton (Yoda) and Trey (a Jedi Knight) were having a hard time. We probably should have taken this picture at the beginning of the night instead of the end, because by this time all of the kids were coming down off of sugar highs, were getting tired and were upset that their parents wouldn't let them eat any more candy (which is hard for a little kid with a huge basket of goodies sitting in front of him to understand). Oh well, they still look cute.

The bean with his uncle Matt, as a blind ref.