It has been an awesome day

Today started out great.  We got up and went to the temple to do some sealings.  Got home.  Ran a few errands.  Took Ty to the PO to get his Valentine (that got lost) from Great Grandma Spencer and to sign him up for soccer.  As we pulled away from the curb this is what happened.





It felt like we hit a big hole in the middle of the road, but when i turned around there was no hole.  I thought we just had a flat tire and was shocked to find this when I got out of my car.

They had to stop and divert traffic.  Two cops came.  They were both flabbergasted.  They had never seen anything like that before.   I heard them talking.  One said, "Should I write an accident report."  The second one replied, "NO!  She didn't hit anyone or anything.  What are you going to write up about?!"  I was glad for the opinion of the second cop.  duh.

One of my first thoughts was that I was glad we were only going 5 mph instead of faster when this happened.  That could have been awful!

I first called Nate.  He, of course, didn't have his phone and didn't answer at home.  I then called Jeff.  He came and towed us away.  He had to get dirty today (gasp!).   It pays to have friends in the towing business.

Our Ty the guy has been looking forward to his birthday since..........probably September.  When we would tell him how far away it was he would stick his bottom lip out so far and say how it wasn't fair that most of his friends were already FIVE.



Fun things about Tydon at age 5

* He has a real sweet tooth.  He loves anything sweet and lots of times I will find the chair pushed over to the cupboard where he has dug for something good to eat.  I wonder when he will realize that is what gives him away.  His aunt Caitlin made him a spiderman cake for his birthday.  He was so excited about his cake and kept asking about it. 

* He tries really hard to do what is right.......or he wants us to think that he is doing what is right.  Every time I hear a loud crash or something out of the ordinary he immediately yells, "sorry" or "That was not me.  It was so-and-so"  He hates to be in trouble and all I have to do is point and he runs to the bathroom (our time-out room) crying. 

* He is so solid.  51 lbs of solidness.



* He loves to play with his friends.  His favorites are Summit, River and Tanner.  He frequently prays for them in his prayers that they will be safe so they can play with him (same with his cousins).

*  He still LOOOOOVES super heroes.  Including spiderman.  I keep thinking that he will grow out of it, but it is still going strong.  I do believe he realizes that spiderman is not real and he doesn't try to jump off things and shoot web anymore, but can play for hours with his action figures while dressed as spiderman (or iron man).

 *His favorite number is 13.  He always wants 13 of something, 13 bites, 13 toys, etc.  When it is time to clean up I tell him to go and pick up 20 things.  He says, "How about 13?"  I reply with, "13 things, 2 times."  I wonder when he will realize that "13 things, two times" is actually more than 20.


(please notice the spiderman badge..we were getting some things for his party and he had to have it.  He wore it for his entire birthday party with friends through his birthday.  He sometimes still pulls it out and puts it on.) 

*He really seeks for positive attention.  He loves praise and compliments.  He is a people pleaser and seeks to please. 

*His favorite color is now red.  Used to be blue and green.  He changes like the seasons!



*He thinks that every game we watch, BYU is playing.  If there is a blue team, that is BYU, if there is a white team than that is the one that is BYU and that is who he wants to win. 

*He can't WAIT to play soccer.  He has been practicing and is sure he will score lots of goals.  I am sure he will too.  He is very coordinated and can throw and hit and dribble a ball with little effort.  He is a natural.

*He doesn't know how to be quiet.  His quiet voice is still loud!

We love our Ty the guy/destroyer/Tydon.  He brings such a joy to our home and a smile to my face.  He gives great hugs and I love being his mom!

Things I don't want to forget about Christmas 2011

**The Christmas (party) season usually starts with the Spencer Christmas Party.  Ty was so excited to show Santa his Christmas socks that he whipped off his shoes and stuck his stinky feet in the air!

 
**After a couple of days of pouring over the Toys R Us big toy book, Ty announced that he wanted the bat cave. He then told me that I didn't need to worry about it because he was going to get it. He prayed about (translation: FOR) it and he was going to get it.  Just for the record....he forgot by the time Christmas came and hasn't said a word about it since.

I just love this picture :)

For Christmas Eve we went to Nate's parents home and did a wide variety of activities.

**At the Jones' on Christmas Eve the boys learned how to quilt and enjoyed it!

**Also on Christmas Eve we had a production of the birth of Christ.  Ty was Joseph and Kace was a wise man.

**We can never get together with the cousins without an all out wrestling match.




**We opened presents from Ryan and Donene.  All of the kids were absolutely thrilled with their new PJ's and monster slippers.  They were hilarious to watch.

 

**We then came home and did our own thing.  We thought of our "gifts to Christ", read scriptures, put our presents into our piles and then read a children's Christmas story.

 

**Both boys were so excited!  It makes for a fun time for mom and dad as well :)

**Kace asking if it was okay if he came in and jumped on us (Nate and I) in our beds in the morning (Christmas morning). I said, yes. At approximately 2:10 I hear a MOOOOOooooM in a loud whisper. I open my eyes and there is Kace two inches from my face. I have him go back to bed and promptly lock the door. He woke up again at 6:30 and then I let him in :)

 I love this picture as well!

**For as long as I can remember growing up dad said the LOOOONGEST family prayer EVER before we got to go into the front room to look at our stuff.  We carry on that tradition :).  I don't think it is as long as dad's prayers were though.  I always take a photo of them right before the run downstairs and for some reason they think it is great to pull a mad, sour face.

**The week before Christmas Kace had decided that he wanted to just peek into the front room, get ready for church, go to church and then we would open our presents.  A great thought, but we knew it wouldn't happen that way.  As a family we got a 4-wheeler.  The idea was to have a tube and the kids could ride behind the 4-wheeler.  We also got a plow to go with it.  For those who know where we live, you know that this was something we really needed (well maybe not NEEDED, but it took FOREVER to shovel snow, and we had to wait for a kind neighbor with a tractor to plow out our road).  Kace got some legos, games and Ty got some transformers and super heroes.  He is all about the super heroes right now.  

**At preschool Ty made Nate a tie.  He was SO EXCITED to give it to him because he knew his dad, "was going to love it SO MUCH."  He was right.  Ty is always so proud when his dad wears it.  It is cute.

 

**After church we came back home and played.  The boys rode on the 4-wheeler, ate garbage, built legos, watched a movie, built bionicle super hero guys and just had fun.  In the afternoon we packed up and went to Grandma and Grandpa Andrew's home.

**Kace got an awesome Justin Bieber poster from Heidi and Clayton.  As a side note......he HATES Justin Bieber.  He was so mad when his music teacher made them learn and sing "Never Say Never."  HAHA  They also got him a spy gear set, which he loves.

**On Christmas Kace learned how to blow bubbles.

**Ty was SO excited to give Brandon a saw.  He thought of the gift all by himself and bought it by himself as well.  I wish I would have gotten a picture of Cort and Kace and the gift Kace gave to him.  Kace also thought it up and purchased it himself.  It was a steering wheel and rear view mirror cover.

**Ty was so excited to get some paper money from G-Grandma Andrew.  He was so excited that he promptly ripped it.  As a side note, Ty has been wanting paper money for a long time.  I have tried to tell him that he has to do JOBS for it, and not just one dinky job, he has to really earn it.  Therefore, he hasn't done anything to earn it, so he hasn't gotten any.  This is why he was so excited to get paper money.  He bought an iron man :)

 **I wish I would have taken a picture of what Kace bought with his........it was a pet bird.  A finch to be exact.  He bought it from Pet Smart on Monday after Christmas and on Wednesday it was dead.  We now have credit to Pet Smart. 

**I designed these awesome shirts and had them made.  Pretty awesome if you ask me!  Nate did not approve.  He doesn't think hatred is healthy for my celestial soul.  I, however, would like to say that for the record......I DO NOT HATE.  I DO NOT WANT ANYTHING BAD TO HAPPEN TO THEM, I JUST WANT THEM TO LOSE EVERY GAME THEY PLAY.  There is NOTHING wrong with that. Right?!

**Also, it is a rule for me that on Christmas I do NOT do my hair and do NOT put on make-up.  Others didn't see it that way.

Well, that was our Christmas in a nut shell.  I absolutely LOVE this time of year and am always so sad to see it go. 

Two or three weeks late.............A thanksgiving post!

I had it all planned. I was going to do this post at the beginning of Thanksgiving week. Everyone always says all the things they are thankful for, but I had decided to do it backwards. I found this list of.........a lot......of nice things Heidi wrote to me when we were in elementary. I am pretty sure we were contending one with another and this was mom's idea of a punishment.



It is now in my scrapbook because it is SO FUNNY. You may have to click on the images to make them big to actually read them.


Some of my favorites are (and I quote):
*She does not take long on the toylet.
*She is going to be a pritty angle.
*I lick her to be ahead of me in peano
*When she learns how to ice skate she will be good.

Pretty much they are all funny.

As a side note this Sunday we were sitting down after church for lunch and we were talking about what the kids had learned in primary. I don't really remember what the topic was, but Kace said, "Well you can just get divorced and then remarried again." I didn't want to joke around with that topic so I said, "Oh, your dad and I, will NEVER get divorced. We may not agree all the time, but we love each other and will never get divorced."
Right after that Ty chimed in with, "YA, WE DON'T EVER WANT TO GET A DANG HORSE!" hahaha I should probably have his hearing checked.

Our trip to Oregon

I am about a month late, but better late than NEVER right?! My entire family took a trip to Oregon for the BYU/Oregon State game in October.

Kami and I surprised each other by wearing the same jacket. Heidi gave us these jackets a couple of years ago, so we both had one.

We flew into Portland and then drove to Newport where we stayed for a couple of days before going to Corvallis and the game.

The house we stayed at was right on the beach so we spent a lot of time there. My boys (all three of them) of course, loved it. I think both Nate and Kace could spend hours on end searching through the tide pools for whatever moves.

Except for at this moment when somebody (Cort) let Ty fall into a hole in the cold cold ocean and he got drenched.

I really like this picture of my brothers (both still single), Cortney and Brandon. Brandon always says how "tight" they are. I guess this picture proves it.

I am really blessed to have my best friends (other than Nate of course) be my mom and sisters.

On the second day we decided that we should go on a bike ride. I usually love doing this on every trip we go on, but I really should have thought it through. There wasn't a bike for Ty (and I wouldn't have wanted him to ride by himself if there was one) so he was cramped in this tiny trailer. He didn't last very long and I felt bad for him in that blasted thing. I had fun though. Believe it or not this is the first time in my entire life I have ever put on a bike helmet.

Heidi took a picture of Kace and then I found another one of her copying him. I am pretty sure she is making fun of him. I am posting it as proof! haha

We then we to Mo's to have some of there famous clam chowder and everything else they served (well everything else if your name is Nate......I swear he ordered one of everything on the menu. He was very hungry)

We then went to some lighthouse. It cost $21 for us all to get in, it was freezing and the actual lighthouse was closed. We probably should have thought it through and just Photoshopped ourselves into a picture of a lighthouse. Could have saved $20.

The last thing we did that day was go get some Tillamook ice cream. Usually before one orders a parent is consulted to see what is okay to order. Not so for Kace. He just orders. When they handed it to him he said he didn't know a triple scoop was so big!

Ever since Heidi introduced us to Yogurtland a couple of years ago my family LOVES self serve frozen yogurt. It wouldn't have been a family outing if we didn't go have some. This place was SO GOOD (I can't even remember the name of it now), but the toppings were big chunks and they even had little mini cupcakes as toppings. In this picture please notice Nate in the background devouring his sample!!

Nate didn't go to the game because he decided to come last minute, so when he decided to come we decided Ty should come too. He is Nate's flying "companion" so he can fly for free. We didn't think Ty would do super great at the game and it would probably be a waste of two (his and whoever was watching him) tickets, so Nate took Ty and they went to Portland to watch the game at our hotel.

Kace and I had a great time though. All the OSU fans sitting by us got a kick out of Kace. He kept trying to do their cheers. Towards the end he finally got it and they all cheered. Too bad that is all the had to cheer about. GO COUGS!

Brandon is a geek