Quote of the Day

I read this and thought it was entirely appropriate for today:

“Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time, and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.”

This quote was from Andrew Jackson (United States President #7), to a group of bankers in 1832. It seems as though this economic crap has been going on for quite a long time.

Until next time,
Eric.....................

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween to you all! I hope everyone has a fabulous Halloween, either during trick-or-treating festivities, or at a party. Eric and I will miss dressing up and going to Halloween parties, but this year will bring new experiences with Harlow. We are taking her trick-or-treating so we can have extra treats during movie night.... j/k. Stealing candy from kids is mean.

Bats!!!!!!!!!!!!

I should start by saying this is NOT a bird, its a BAT. Yes, a bat. Because of my great photography capabilities, I was able to snap a picture of bats while we were at Lake Powell. They begin coming out around sunset, and once it is dark, they fly all around. They are friendly supposedly, and we should all really believe that because Christian Bale was a Bat-man and he was friendly!!! I know my rationale is a little off, but I will say the bats never bothered us.

Davanza's

Davanza's is our FAVORITE pizza place in the entire world! Davanza's now has 3 locations I have heard, one in Salt Lake City, and 2 in Park City. Our favorite though is the one that is located right off of Main Street in Park City because our good friend Jesse is the manager at that one. Their pizza is really really good, so if you have not gone already, you need to go. The pizza is just very distinct, and I know for a fact they use wine in the pizza sauce, so that is one of the many secret ingredients that produces the perfection that is the pizza at Davanza's.

The history behind Davanza's is that it is one of Eric's previous employers. During High School Eric worked their and made Pizza. I know, I know, can you believe it, Eric a pizza maker. He and most of his hockey buddies worked their during High School.

One of our first dates took place at Davanza's. When Eric brought me there I thought "Okay just another pizza place", but I was wrong, very very wrong. Davanza's is the BEST! The real goodness comes from their fry sauce that you use to just smother everything from the pizza to the fries with.

Harlow in a fountain

This pictures was taken on August 30, 2008 in Lake Las Vegas. We stayed at Eric's parents house in Lake Las Vegas for 3 nights on our way to Lake Powell. The water in the fountain was cold, but Harlow didn't even mind, she loves playing with water.

For those of you wondering, yes, I did have to paste that bow on her head since she doesn't have any hair, but I promise you it is very safe and painless, so don't worry. In fact hospitals do it too.

We had a really good time in Lake Las Vegas. We went to the Hoover Dam while we were there and even went to the Rio in Las Vegas. Goes to show you, having a baby doesn't prevent you from doing EVERYTHING!

Lake Powell Trip

We just got back from our trip to Lake Powell. We got on our houseboat on September 2nd, and then got off on September 8, 2008. Here is a picture of our houseboat the "Indian Summer". We went to Lake Powell with Eric's parents Pat and Melissa, Eric's grandparents, Jim and Shirley, and gunnar (Pat and Melissa's dog) and Skeet.

We had so much fun. The water levels at Lake Powell were 30 feet higher than two years ago, and the water temperature was 79 degrees, so warm. The weather was also perfect. Here are some pictures from our trip. Enjoy!


Harlow trying on her life jacket for Lake Powell











Me and Harlow playing in the water on the first beach we docked on the first day in Lake Powell. Harlow is wearing her cute little rash guard her grandma bought her.






Eric getting into the water to go spear fish, with his spear. Its this big stick that has 3 spears at the end, as you can see in this picture. At the other end is a rope that you release once you have the spears angled right above a fish, and once you release, it shoots down on the fish and spears him. Pretty barbaric if you ask me, but it works.






Eric and Harlow in the ski boat going out for a ride.













Me and Harlow getting ready to go play in the water. Harlow in her cute little cherry swimsuit.











Me wakeboarding


















Eric wakeboarding













Pat and Skeet out on the water relaxing, sharing a bud light.













Me and Eric











Shirley, Melissa, me and Harlow (The Ervin girls)











Me knee boarding

Melissa's Barbie Cake

For Melissa's birthday while we were on the houseboat, I made her a barbie cake. Here it is! As you can see, the actual cake (the part you eat) is supposed to be decorated like a dress, Barbie's dress. The decorating clearly did not turn out that wonderful, but I blame it on the heat at Lake Powell. The red stripes were actually little flowers lined up underneath each other, but because of the heat, it all just kind of melted together and thus, the stripe look. But I saw this cake decorating experience as a trial, since beginning when Harlow turns 1, I am going to start making her these kind of Barbie cakes for her birthday. When I make her her very first one, in 6 more months, my decorating should have improved by them. I will post pictures of it when I make it.
Although the decorating didn't turn out the way I wanted, the cake was a success, and everyone loved it. Especially since I made it a "Pastel de Tres Leches" (3 milk cake) meaning the cake had sweetened condensed milk, heaving whipping cream, and milk, all added to the cake to make it a wet cake......... My Favorite!

Harlow crawling

Some of you may see this video and think "that is not a crawl", but I would beg to differ. It may be a jimmy rigged, army crawl, scooch of a crawl, but nonetheless it is a crawl. Here is Harlow crawling to get to her olympic mascot toy that her grandpa pa gave her. As you can see she is growing so fast and making progress in her development. Im happy about it, but sad too. I feel like she is growing so fast and soon she isn't going to be my baby anymore. Isn't she a cutie patootie?

Sorry if you can't understand what I am saying, since it is in Spanish. Basically Im just calling her to come to me.