Zoo Trip

Donovan and I went to the Los Angeles zoo today. It was so much fun! The sun was out and it really warmed up today. There was barely anyone at the zoo and the animals were all out today. Donovan really loved getting to see all the different animals (especially the ones he knows from his books) !

Donovan enjoyed picking up all the different colored leaves on the ground.

He got so excited when he saw the Chimpanzees. He called them "monkeys" close enough!

Here he is pointing at the chimps on the rock.

The tiger was walking around growling!

I loved the color of these leaves!

He playground was probably his favorite part of the whole trip!

Riding the Alligator!

He gave the alligator a kiss. He's a sweetheart.

I love this photo!

DeVard family News

I am very happy to announce that we are expecting our second baby! He or she is due on June 14 2009(my grandpa's birthday!). I'm 13 weeks pregnant and very excited to be expecting again. Things have been going well so far, although I have been way more nauseous this time around that I ever was with Donovan. I'm hoping the tiredness wears off soon and I get some energy. Jane took these photos for us recently and I just love them! I think Donovan is going to make a wonderful big brother (he just has to work on sharing first :) ).

Check out my shirt

I'm so excited

Yay!

Halloween

This year for Halloween we decided to dress up as Peter Pan characters with our friends the Foresters. It was so much fun! Donovan was Peter, Sterling was Captain Hook and I was Wendy. Zoe Forester was Tinker Bell, her Mom Leah was Tiger Lilly and her Dad Tyler was a Lost Boy. These pictures were taken at our Halloween party at church. I really love dressing up for Halloween and taking photos. I also want to include some photos of Leah and I taking Donovan and Zoe trick-or-treating Saturday night. I'll add them soon.

PS- Sorry for the lack of posting. We just moved to a new apartment a few weeks ago and just barely got internet.

Catherine if you are reading this thank you agin for taking these great photos!

Group Photo

Silly shot

Peter Pan and Tinker Bell share a Halloween kiss!

Donovan our little talker!

So thanks to Leah and Tyler we had the use of a video camera this weekend and I took this cute video of Donovan. He has been saying a lot of words lately and I really wanted to capture some of them on film. I apologize is advance for my loud comment at the beginning. I was very excited Donovan figured out how to wear sterling's sandal. :)

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(This is Donovan's new trick taught to him by his Uncle Scott. Thanks!)

Sorry about our long period of no posts. We have been busy people. Some of our reccent highlights include...

My Mom coming to visit last month ( and spoiling us the whole time!) This picture was funny because my Mom had just taken us on the train ride at Griffith Park and Donovan liked it so much that he cried when we had to leave. Hence his pouty face.

We also ha a great beach day at Newport beach. Donovan has been getting braver and braver with the waves at the beach. It's cute but a little scary. We had so much fun having my Mom out here! We can't wait to do it again!

Our next fun thing was that Donovan and I flew to Seattle for a week. My brother who has been working in Kuwaitt since January decided to take his two week vacation in Seattle last month. I found some great ticket prices online and away we went. It was wonderful getting to see and talk to my brother after him being away for so long.

One of the most memorable things on the trip was going sailing with my Dad, Stepmom and Scott. We all had so much fun! We sailed to an island where we anchored the boat, took the dingy over to buy some groceries and look around, later came back to the boat to grill Salmon and then got rocked to sleep by the waves. Here is one of my favorite pictures of the guys while we were sailing.

We also went to the LA fair last month. We took Donovan's best friend Zoe and our good friend Jane along with us. The only thing that dampened our fair experience was the fact that it was 100 degrees outside! Much too hot for two toddlers. So even though we didn't stay very long we still really enjoyed ourselves. We learned several important lessons at the fair... 1. Toddlers may be deathly afraid of goats. 2. Sterling should remember to bring his sunglasses so he doesn't have to wear women's sunglasses. 3. When posing as the farmer and his wife make sure to give yourself a neck.








I can't forget to mention that Sterling got promoted! He is now a Senior Associate at PWC. I am so proud of him! He works so hard and I'm glad that is getting recognized. Also he has passed 3 of the 4 parts of the CPA exam. Yay! He is taking the last part either in October or November and we can't wait for him to be an official CPA!

Last but not least we are moving! We have been wanting to move to a two bedroom apartment for a while now and finally found one we fell in love with. It is still here in Arcadia, which we are thankful for because we love our ward and friends. The big moving day is October 17th and we can't wait! If you have any extra boxes bring them over!

Dono does Disney

On Monday we went to Disneyland with Kathleen, Leah and Zoe. We all had so much fun going on rides, walking around and even watching the Playhouse Disney show. But the most fun the kids had was when we let them run around together in an open sitting area we found. They had a blast! Mostly Zoe would run around and Donovan would run after her yelling. Then every once and a while they would stop to babble with each other or kiss. They even found a pond with some ducks to watch and yell at. They really enjoy the simple things in life. I think that's a good lesson to glean from a couple of one year olds.