Our Home

We are official Spanish Fork, Utah residents. We love our new house and the town our house is located in. I don't think a day goes by that I don't tell Spencer how much I love our house and neighborhood. It is right next to a fun city park and running trails. It is also walking distance to the new elementary school. The house is so great. There really isn't anything I would change. In 13 months a new stake center will be built almost across the street from our house. We love it!

We also love Spanish Fork. It is an arts and family centered town. Almost every weekend there are fun city activities or music festivals. I have even joined the Nebo Philharmonic Orchestra. It has been fun to be involved in that and start playing again. Oh I forgot that we are in walking distance from the library and a great Shave Ice shack. I love this town.

Halloween 2009

My kids both thought they were going to be spider man for Halloween. Adam was a little bit sad. My Mom bought them costumes in Oman and sent them but they never came. I hope the package is not lost. Adam was a little disappointed. He ended up being fine with the same dinosaur costume that he has worn for the last 2 years. This would be his 3rd Halloween in the same costume. Lincoln is a monkey but Spencer said he looked more like a ewok. Of course Kami dressed up as Bella from the Twilight Series. (jk Kami we bugged her about this all night, there is a strong resemblance wouldn't you agree?)

Our Halloween started out with a ward party, then trick or treating down main street of Spanish Fork (I love this town!), then we ate dinner from a pumpkin, James and Amber Family came and we went trick or treating all over our neighborhood and then onto their new neighborhood, then of course we had to finish the night off with free black jack tacos from Taco Bell and 50 cent corn dogs at Sonic.

We had quite the Halloween. I spent much of the day trying to get Lincoln to stop crying about having more candy. Trick or treating was quite the time. He wanted to get the candy at each house but then he would go crazy and throw the biggest fits when he didn't get to eat every piece. We had a lot of fun with James and Amber and kids. Thanks for coming down to hang out with us. They are soon to be our neighbors. We are excited.

Long Drive in the Car

We took a trip to CA for Spencer's cousin's wedding. Lincoln fell asleep with his leg up on the arm rest.

Pictures found on my camera

Spencer and the boys were obviously playing with the camera sometime. I found these funny pictures on it.

Dollar Store Sunglasses

Adam got these sunglasses at the dollar store. Lincoln and Adam spend a considerable amount of time each day sharing/fighting over these glasses. It is about time to get Lincoln his own.

More Lincoln

One of Jeff's mission companions left this at my house. It is cowboy hat from Peru. Lincoln liked it a lot. What a funny boy.

Lincoln Eating Spaghetti

Lincoln gets embarrassed easily. He gets so messy while eating that I just had to take a picture. He is trying to hide while I take pictures. This upset him a lot. Maybe I should have stopped taking pictures.

Cute Picture of the Boys

Abby took this picture of my boys. I love it! Thanks Abby

$2 Tuesday

We went to a crazy 2 dollar tuesday at Thanksgiving point. Adam was so excited to go! He is always interested in dinosaurs. When we got there and he started looking at the bones he said, "Mom, dinosaurs are real?" I told him yes, but they are not alive anymore. He said, "Mom, I'm scared I want to go home." He said this over and over but then at the end of the museum he said, "that was fun, can we come again?" What a funny kid. He wasn't acting scared. I think he was too busy bouncing around trying not to pee his pants. Anyone that knows Adam knows he has to go every 10 minutes and I am not exagerating. I usually don't take him in inconvenient places like an extremely crowded museum until he tells me he has to go now! We had fun.

Lincoln Playing

Lincoln loves to open up the bottom of my china cabinet and get

different salad bowls and things and play with them. He loves to fill them with toys or but them on his head. It is very noisy on the tile floor.

Lincolns First Steps

Lincoln is such a sweet boy. He definately can walk now. He chooses to crawl more because it is faster. One day I was playing with him and he decided he was going to stand up all on his own. If I tried to help him he would get very mad. He spent the next 30 minutes trying over and over and over. He is now a pro. Way to go Lincoln...

oh ya, sorry about the dirty shirt. I swear it didn't look that dirty when I took the pictures...the joys of a 1 year old. Hey, I look the same way after a day of eating with him.

Jeff Is Back!!

This has been a fun summer! It all started with our computer breaking. It is finally up and running again so maybe I will post more. We can't believe it but Jeff is finally home. It has been so fun to have him around again. It's amazing how missionaries return more mature and with more life experiences but overall they are the same old kid that left! Love you Jeff.

Lincolns First Birthday Cake

Lincoln loves balls so here was his cake and cupcakes I made.

Lincolns Rash

Baseball

My Mom bought Adam a baseball and bat. He used to tell me that he wanted to have a spiderman birthday party. He now says he wants a baseball birthday party. (his bat is spiderman though)

More House

Latest picture of House...

There will be stone around the pillars and the stone behind the pillars is not quite done yet.

More Pictures of the House...here you go Amber

Latest picture of the House. There is now color on the outside I will take a picture of that later.

Kids bathroom...

Downstairs hallway 3 bedrooms on right. 2 Storage closets on the left. Kids bathroom at the end of the hallway.

Downstairs playroom.

Cold Storage...

Stairs going downstairs...

Upstairs loft for music and crafts...

Stairs going up...

Main floor... on left, stairs going down, laundry room. On right, half bath. At the end of the hall way is the materbed room and bath.

Living room...

Kitchen. Pantry on the left and storage closet on the right.

Stadium of Fire

We went to Stadium of Fire at BYU for the 4th. The Jonas Brothers and Shedaisy were the performers. It was broadcast to military bases all over the world. We had so much fun. The amaizng thing is that even with Adam's naughty outfit on both my kids absolutely loved it and did not even move the whole time. They sat and watched the whole entire show. Thanks Mom and Dad for the wonderful 4th.



The Jonas Brothers were really good performers. They put on a good show even for the adults. They played a song from the era of my parents and said come on parents show your kids that you still have it. A lot of the adults stoof up and danced with their kids. This is my Dad and Rachel dancing.




Lincoln had a great time. He danced and danced.

My Mom bought Adam this little blue flashlight. He spent most of the concert waving it back and forth in the air.

There is a pre show that we went to. Lots of games and free prizes for us to take home. This is Adam putting a football through a hole to win a prize.

Yes, this is Adam's naught outfit. Everytime he wears this Red Omani soccer outfit he does extremely naught things. Today he was great. He looked like a little gangta with his beads glasses and sideways hat.

We walked to the Stadium from the house my parents have rented in Provo. It was a little bit of a walk but totally worth it because we didn't have to wait in all of the traffic.

Orem Carnival

We went to the Orem Carnival a few weekends ago. Kami bought Adam some cotton candy. After Lincoln tried it we fought him the rest of the time. He loved that cotton candy. Lincoln is getting quite the personality. He knows what he wants and he will do whatever it takes to get it. He is such a funny boy. We had lots of fun!

More House

The plumbing, electrical, and air is now in. They are starting the roof. We are so excited!

Adam and Swimming Lessons

Adam thinks he is so cool everytime he has swim lessons. He walks in there with this little arm swing cool boy walk. It is so funny. I will have to take a picture of it. He is getting so big. We love our Adam.

The house is coming along

Basement...Three bedrooms, a play room, storage closet, and bathroom down here.

This picture makes me laugh. This is the perfect picture of Spencer everytime we are at the house. He is always completely amazed. Of course Adam is copying Spencer because they are twins in almost every way. Too cute. They are standing on the main floor looking up at the 2nd story.

Starting to look like a house...

Colors

I debated for a long time but I finally came up with these as my final colors for the outside of my house. I really like them.

Measuring

We have figured out that Spencer's foot is basically 1 foot. We measure many things with Spencer's feet. This is Spencer measuring our backyard.

The Basement Cementing Is Complete

And The Next Trip

The side walls are up...

Next Step

We try to find an excuse to go to the house everyday. We are spending so much money on gas. We now drive the small car and try to only go every other day. There is always something new. They put the footing in...i think that is what it is called.

Our House

In case you didn't know. We are building an awesome house in Spanish Fork, Utah. We love it!! We basically designed it just how we want it. We have a hard time not going down to the subdivision everyday. We use so much on gas that we are now having to ration when we go down. We were told it was started yesterday so of course we were off to Spanish Fork again. It is so fun! There are only so many pictures you can take of a hole in the ground. We have a lot more then just these. It should be done in 90 days from yesterday. We are so excited! The cabinets are the ones we picked out at the cabinet shop. It was crazy picking out all of the colors of everything. So fun!!!!

Zions National Park Camping Trip

Spencer decided that he wanted to go camping last Thursday night and so we invited our neighbors, Gerald and Mary, and off we went Friday morning. It was so beautiful at Zions. We had such a fun time. Adam actually rode his own bike all the way down this 1 mile long trail (2 mile both ways). He loved it. He wanted to ride more and more. He was so cute. He also enjoyed getting off his bike to climb up the side of rocks along the way. He found a rock that worked perfectly as a slide. He would climb up and then slide down. I hope to go back there again soon.

New York City

Statue of liberty

Empire State Building

We got into the David Letterman Show. It was a lot of fun to watch.

We ate at Ruperts shop. Anyone that watches David Letterman knows about Rupert. He was there working. It was a very good sandwich.