New Year

The holidays are over and we are home and getting back into our regular routine again. For Christmas this year we drove to Utah to spend time with Bryce's family. And yes, we drove! All 17 hours there and back. I was really afraid of how Spencer would handle it but he did really well, much better than we expected. My parents got us a DVD player for the car for Christmas which we received before our drive. I don't think it would have gone as well without it, so we were really grateful for their present! Spencer watched way to much TV during out visit because not only did we drive all the way out there, but we were always in the car for 20-30 minutes to drive somewhere else.

While we were in Utah we were able to go to a few of the family parties Bryce's family always has. In the nativity at one of the parties Spencer was a shepherd? Or some kind of animal? I'm still not really sure what he was...Bryce told me he was one of the shepherds but he looked more like an animal. Not that he really participated though. He was too busy going up and down, and up and down, and up and down the stairs!

Spencer during the nativity.

We were also able to eat dinner and then see the lights on temple square with Bryce's dad and Suzette which was really nice. It was an extremely cold and busy night on temple square so we didn't walk around for too long. And Spencer was exhausted. He was pretty exhausted the entire trip. We were always up a little later and he didn't get as many naps because we were busy going places and doing things. He fell asleep in the stroller almost as soon as we put him in. And here is the proof:

All bundled up in his warm coat.

On Christmas Eve we spent the night with Sharayne (Bryce's sister) and her family. They were so nice to invite us to stay. Spencer had fun opening presents and playing with everyone's toys. He had to play with everyone else's because I didn't want to actually open his toy because I knew we'd end up losing a piece. I know, what a mean mom right?!

Here we are Christmas morning!

Spencer has a serious obsession with getting into boxes.

Example #1: and this box was from Kylee's present...not Spencer's. We did not get him a Hello Kitty gumball machine.


Example #2

We were really glad we were able to spend the holiday in Utah with family. And we made it back to Oklahoma safely even with all the blizzards in the midwest.

We still got to spend some time with my family that came to visit in Oklahoma. My brothers, John and Paul, were home and my older sister Jessica and her family stayed for a few days. We basically traded places with my little sister Chelsea and so only got to see them for a few hours before we left for Utah. But Spencer had a lot of fun playing with all of his cousins. I took too many pictures of Spencer playing with Olivia and Aislee. I just thought they were so cute together! haha.

Sunday dinner. This is the easiest and most efficient way to feed/clean the children.

Bath time!

It was so fun to see everyone. We tried to take a picture of all the grandkids since this is the first time they have all been together. It was quite an experience. Thanks to photoshop we ended up with a pretty decent picture of them.

And this is the last picture I promise. This is how I found Spencer one morning. We finally figured out that Bryce must have had a pen in his shirt pocket when he put Spencer down for bed and it somehow ended up in the crib with Spencer. He drew all over his face and his sheets. Thankfully he didn't poke his eye out, although judging from the pen marks on his face he came pretty close.