Merry Christmas!

I am a huge fan of Christmas. I like to enjoy the decorations for as long as possible, so Spencer and I decorated our Christmas tree 2 days after Thanksgiving. As you can see, Spencer was a BIG help.
Spencer likes to load 1 branch at a time. Too bad we didn't have about 500 more ornaments.

Enjoy your Holidays!

Thanksgiving 2010

This year Matt and I hosted the Sandberg family at our house. Matt and I weren't quite sure what we were doing but I think it turned out pretty good (it helped that my sister volunteered to bring about half the food).

My cute parents

Mitch and Cara

Spencer, Matt, and I

Jaren and Callie

(moving in 1 month to Washington D.C. for Jaren to do an internship, we'll miss them!)
Blake and his cute girlfriend, Tiffany

Just cooking some food. Can you believe my sister is almost halfway through her 3rd pregnancy?

Miss Marin

You may notice the cute girl in pink. She is one of Blake and Tiffany's friends, Amanda, who goes to USU and couldn't make it home to St. George because of the weather. She joined right in and was great, we were so glad to have her!

Spencer and Kate

The pie fest. We like to keep the pie to person ratio 1:1.

We had a great time, thanks to everyone who came! I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving too!

The Evolution of Spencer's Costumes...

First we had the hot-dog. Cute, but uncomfortable...

Then came the lamb. Just an all-around failure...

But I think we finally got it right this year. Introducing...

Superman!!!

This little beauty is what has been taking up most of my time lately. This is the first quilt I've ever made (actually the first thing I've even sewed since 7th grade home ec. with good ol' Mrs. Lee) so it's a pretty big deal. I got the grand idea that I was going to hand quilt it instead of paying to get it machine quilted. Big mistake.
Spencer has been keeping busy doing things like playing with his girlfriend, Kate.

Building block towers in his diaper...

and having BBQs in our backyard with cousins.

Our niece, Taylor, was blessed last Sunday.

Playing with his cousins all day wore Spencer out...

But after a good night's sleep he was back to his energetic self.

These next few pictures were taken by my sister-in-law, Callie. The new pics on the side of my blog were taken the same night. Thanks Callie!

This next one is classic Spencer (right Cara?). This is his "I don't care what you say, you can't make me" look.

Well that's mostly all we've been up to!

Why Not?

Why wouldn't you take a nap on the counter?