Utah!

It has been way too long since I've posted! I have been meaning to post about our trip to Utah (which has now been over a month ago!). I wanted to get some pictures that my sister-in-law gave us on a CD but for some reason the CD drive on our computer is no longer working. So here are a few pictures we got from our trip with our camera.

Our trip was great! There is always so much to do when we visit and it seems like we never have enough time for everything. But we did get to do a lot of fun things.


One day we went on the Heber Creeper with Bryce's mom, Kylee, and Jaxson. I don't think Spencer ever realized that he was on the train, but he loved seeing the train when we got off of it!



We also spent one morning at the zoo. Here is Spencer with his cousins Kaleb, Alek, Kylee, and Jaxson. Spencer was a little grumpy for the last half of our visit. He was really ready for a nap. We decided to save riding the train for last. As we were walking to the train Spencer fell asleep. And he was out of it. I kept trying to wake him up because I knew he'd love the train but he wasn't having it. So we are waiting in line and the train comes by and blows it's whistle and Spencer sits straight up and starts saying "train! train!" and then fell back asleep as soon as it was gone! He did this a few times until we pulled the camera out to take a video.


We also went down to Provo on Saturday and spent the day with my sisters because it was Jenny's birthday! We hiked the Y. And yes, we hiked all the way to the top...or close to the top anyway. Or maybe not even close to the top. Spencer is pretty heavy in one of those carriers and isn't quite ready to hike the Y on his own yet.


We also went to the BYU football game. It was pretty hot so Spencer, Sarah, and I decided to leave at half time. Bryce stuck it out until the very end of course.

On Sunday we got together with all of Bryce's family. Here are all of the cousins! Aren't they such a good looking group? Spencer had a lot of fun playing with everyone while we were out there.

Everyone again...except Spencer? Actually you can see him on the ground if you look close. He decided he didn't want to sit on the wall anymre and so jumped off!

Perhaps I'll have to update this post later when we fix our dumb computer.

I have really been terrible about taking pictures lately. So these are the only other two that aren't from either our trip or Spencer's birthday.


Spencer loves wearing his backpack around! Doesn't he look so big? Like he's ready to go to school or something?

And this was right after his nap. He had some crazy hair! Shortly after this I gave him a haircut. And cut it too short again. I do that everytime! Someday I will figure it out and he will finally have some good haircuts! Maybe that won't be until he learns to sit still though...I guess we'll see!

Not too much else is happening in our lives. The stomach flu has made it's way around our house. Except with me! And hopefully I don't get it. Spencer was up all night one night throwing up like every 5 minutes. It was awful. And we didn't know it was the stomach flu yet and he just happened to eat a little dishwasher soap out of the dishwasher that night. So we thought it was from that. It was a very long night! But everyone is pretty much back to normal now.

Two!

Two years ago today Spencer was born, October 7th at 10:54am. Don't worry, I won't retell everything I remember about his birth...you can read that here if you're interested. :) It's hard to believe he used to look like this.

Spencer on his actual birth day.

He really is such a sweet and fun little boy and his mom and dad love him tons. He is really growing up fast.

We had a great day celebrating. First Spencer woke up to a decorated chair and donut holes (thanks to Grandma for the donuts!). He was so excited about his chair that he didn't want to sit in it, just wanted to be able to see it.

Grandpa sharing his banana with Spencer at breakfast. Spencer wasn't too interested in any of the fruit we tried to give him at breakfast. Grandma also got him some strawberries, which he usually loves, but all he wanted was donuts! I can't really blame him either.

My sister Jessica always does this for her kids on their birthday, and I stole it because I think it's such a cute idea. So last night we taped a few "2's" to Spencer's door. I had to give him the iPod to make him stand still for a few seconds so I could get a picture, but even that didn't work too well. He is definitely two! And we're still working on holding two fingers up. It's either one or all five right now. :)

I decided to make a train cake for Spencer's cake since he's obsessed with trains right now. I thought it turned out pretty well. I used this cake and frosting recipe and it tasted pretty delicious as well. It took a lot of time but was totally worth it.

Spencer really loved it. So much that I couldn't get him away from it. It's a good thing I took pictures right after I finished decorating it, because he decided to make his mark on it (which you can see in a later picture). And when I tried to take him away from it because he was messing it up he got pretty upset with me. He's definitely obsessed with trains. :)

Before we had cake Spencer got to open all his presents. He got some great new clothes from Grandma Stacey and Grandpa Jeff, new tracks and train cars from Grandma and Grandpa Gaisford, a train flashlight and DVD from Aunt Julie (which was definitely his favorite of the night), and a backpack, letters for the bathtub, and a car toy from mom and dad. He also got a few presents that we opened in Utah from Grandma Barbara, Grandpa Glen and Suzette, and Aunt Sharayne, Aunt Trudy, and Uncle Chad. So he definitely had more than enough presents and has plenty of new toys to keep him occupied for a few months. :)


Bryce went to walmart yesterday with the money his Grandma and Grandpa Gaisford gave us for Spencer's birthday. Needless to say I probably won't be sending him to get presents unsupervised again. :) He ended up spending more money because he couldn't decide between two different track sets, so he just decided to get them both. And he confessed later that he was really picking out new toys for himself, not so much Spencer...although he knew Spencer would enjoy them just as much as he would. And when we opened up all the tracks it was Bryce and my cousins Jack and Austin who were setting up the train and playing while Spencer was content to just sit and watch the older boys have fun.

After presents we sang happy birthday, blew out the candles (with a little help from Grandpa)...

*and notice the smushed "enc" in his name, that was his mark.

and ate cake!

Before putting him to bed we took a little video of Spencer and asked him how his day was. He was a little distracted with his new toy, but I'd say he had a pretty good day.

We sure do love our little Spence!