July 2011

Spencer likes to sneak out of his bed and fall asleep in random spots around the house, so I wasn't too surprised when I went to check on him one night and he wasn't where he was supposed to be.  I was surprised though when I found him asleep like this in the spare bedroom. Crazy kid!

 Amanda and I took our kids to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point.  I had never been, and I wasn't sure how the boys would feel about looking at dinosaur bones, but it turned out that the museum was having a birthday party for itself and they had a pirate theme going on with games and crafts for the kids.  It turned out to be a lot of fun!

 I was super excited for Matt to FINALLY and officially turn 30.  I usually don't mind that I am a little older then him, but I'll admit that the fact that I was in my 30's while he was still riding out his 20's was giving me a bit of a complex!  The boys made him a fabulous cake and made some super cute cards and we celebrated Matt Speirs style.

 Another trip to the Children's Museum with Amanda and her kids.  There is so much to do there that we usually don't end up making it through the whole thing. 

St. George July 2011

The boys and I went down to St. George to spend some time with Grandma and Grandpa.  The boys had a great time hiking, fishing, swimming, playing games, etc. despite the fact that most days it was over 100 degrees outside.

 When we went fishing Spencer got his pole in the water first, and while he was impatiently waiting for us to get Carter's pole in the water he kept saying he thought he had a fish on his line.  Finally I told him (unbelievingly) to go ahead a reel it in.  Wouldn't you know he did have a fish on the end of his line - he was pretty proud.

 Luckily the fishing was pretty good and it wasn't long until Carter had caught one too.

 We decided to head up to Zion's to do some hiking as well, and a little goofing off.

 We tried to spend as much time as we could in the water because it was soooo H.O.T.

 This pretty much sums up how we all felt at the end of every day.

4th of July

We had another great 4th of July.  The best part? Spencer decided he was ready to take off his training wheels!  It was so fun to watch him learn to ride.  He did manage to run into that flag a couple of times, but other than that he was a pro!

 Next we went to Grandpa John's house for that annual Magna parade and BBQ.  It's always a lot of fun.

 And of course, as is tradition, mom took the boys down the parade route to hand out Popsicles to confused people on the sidelines.  We also went to the fireworks later that night, which the boys loved.  All in all it was a great day!

End of Preschool - May, 2011

 The boys last day of preschool - so sad!  I can't believe that they are done with preschool, it went so fast.  They got to have a little ice cream party and do a little program. 

 Everything was going so well, until it was time to say goodbye.  As we were waiting to get their picture taken with their teachers Spencer suddenly burst into tears and had a total meltdown saying that he didn't want to leave preschool and he didn't want to move on to kindergarten.  He was almost inconsolable, I didn't really know what to do.  As I was trying to make him feel better I felt so bad for him I started to tear up, and when I looked up I saw another mom and one of the teachers tearing up.  It was so sad to see how broken hearted he was to be done with preschool, he was crying in this picture.  Carter, on the other hand, was happy as could be to moving onto kindergarten.  It took a while, but eventually I convinced Spencer that it was going to be OK because he would be able to go to the same school as his cousin.  He thought that meant he would be in the same class as his cousin, but I figured the fact that Bridger is two grades a head of him would be a conversation best saved for another day.