Iron Chef Night for Relief Society!

The competition begins!
Cooking with Melanie and Brenda

The Team!

The rolls! TALK ABOUT YUMMY!

THE DISH!

THE AWARD!

The secret ingredient that we had to use in both dishes was...

COCONUT!

It was alot of fun and I am sooo glad that I went.. This was out enrichment night!

Jenny Comes to visit!

Well good times happen like usual when these guys come to visit! Look how much fun we had!

I am sooo glad you guys came to visit!

Swim party in my backyard!

While the girls were content to swim in the little pool... the boys... went slippin slidin' they did every move that Ammon did.. and when is was his turn.. the all began to chant.. Ammmon! Ammon! Ammon! It was so much fun to watch!

Family Photo time!

Aaron checked the "RED" camera out from the University and we played around with it all weekend! It was pretty fun.. except for the fact that it always began to rain shortly after we broke it all out! oh well better luck next time hun!

Lagoon!

Caitlynn, and Kaitlynn cruisin for a date! yikes! still a little too young for that girls!

Our good friends Max and Jamie!

Their daughter Jessica dancing... ( thats why we were all there)

Caitlynn and Kaitlynn drivin the boat!

Both boys were upset because they didn't want to drive the pink boat.. but it was the only one left! lol!

This makes me laugh soooo hard.. the worker trying to help Ammon out but.. don't worry he already had it all figured out!

Max when you see this... well what more can I say this is my favorite picture! LoL!

All in all Lagoon was a wipe out marathon day! But the kids had a blast and were so happy that they got to on so many rides!

My birthday!

Need I say more?? I am one yr older yippeee!

Children's Museum!

Ammon takes Mcall on their first date! hehehe!

Ammon climbing the rock wall... I would say he's doin pretty good!

Cait and Ammon go for a horse back ride!

Giddee Up!

Ammon decides that he wants to try the farmin' life!

Mcall, Liv, and Cait all makes some music together!

Emma, Ammon and Cait all try the life of a construction worker out...

All in all I would say the kids really had a good time at the Children's museum.. to bad my camera sucked and half of my pics turned out blurry... oh well next time..

The begining of much needed updating..

The Adventures of Cait and Livvy continue...

This time the setting is in the mountain by the river... ok seriously.. I am not sure how good I feel about them eating this blade of grass.. especially since I was not present for this event.. I have no idea where is came from and what animal had gone to the bathroom on it..? Lol I know.. either way I think these girls musta been getting hungry or something.. Liv looks like she's about ready to eating stick she is holding!

Lazy... to be or not to be...??

Well I am sorry I know I am just being plain lazy in updating my blog. We are just so very busy. We are currently trying to just get the summer going which seems to be harder than I thought. We had friend from Parawon visit followed by friends from Cali visit.. (at some point I will get those pics posted)Aaron took a trip to Colorado to see his dad who isn't doing very well health wise. We have Ammon's birthday coming up followed by Aaron's. Amidst all of this I am having some health issues. Not fun.. Long story short.... Originally we thought I was expecting again.. I am not. However, my dear friend aunt flow has decided to behave in a strange manner. So I went to see the doc.. he has ran some tests and yet again they show normal.. tyroid normal.. pituary.. normal ( they thought I had a tumor) they have thought maybe I miscarried... I now have to have a mammogram.. apparently some on my symptoms could be signs of breast cancer.. ok ok ok ... don't get all freaked out here I am ok.. I am sure that my test will come back fine they always do.. it seems to usually be an oversite of some nature or the other. Anyhow, in lou of all my headaches, nose bleeds and symptoms of being pregnant but not.. things have been a little haywire around here. I will try to be better and get the rest of the fun things we have been doing up on here. Soon I promise!
Our new house and neighborhood has been great and we are really loving it out here in Saratoga. So all is well in Spencer land.

As of lately!

Ok so I know I have way lazy in keeping my blog up.. so here is what we have been up to..
Currently we are working on our yard, we are digging up grass to make a new flower bad.. when its done it'll kinda have a rocky mountain feel to it. I have forgotten how much time yards take.. although I have to admit I am kinda enjoying working in the yard it wears me out and makes me soo sore, but the results are worth it.
Aaron will be going to Africa this summer for a month and then his schooling will be all finished up. Yeah! I am sooo PROUD of him, he has worked so hard! Thanks hon for all your hard work on our behalf!
Moi.. well there is not much to say there. I just had my birthday.. oh goodie I am one year older, at some point I am sure I will get the photo's from that uploaded on here. We have yet to start my salon in the house yet.. I can only begin to imagine the work that is going to take, but maybe in the fall we will start it. We shall see.
Ammon he is turning 4 here in a few weeks. WOW! that goes sooo fast! I can't believe this time next year I will be registering him for kindergarten! Anyhow, he is still way in to action figures.. ok ok mostly just spiderman which he has been obssessed with since I can remember( I blame Aaron for this)
Cait... well what more can I say other than she is 2 going on 16. Lol! She is so smart, and I think that she can out eat her her big brother any day of the week. I am begining to think she will eat us our of house and home long before Ammon does. She is all potty trained.. (I love that)
So I guess pretty much for now this is what we are up to. We are keeping super busy and that I do love. As much as I used to look at work with such hardship I now am looking at it like it makes my life nicer and happier. The little things aren't such chores anymore. I guess in a sense being a mom isn't so bad and being home gives me the chance to make life great for my little ones.. and that makes it all worth it.

Locked In!

Ok here is my scary experience...
Aaron came home a little early today to work on yard stuff and finish up final projects and stuff So after I finished mowing the yard and I went inside and took a shower. I wasn't in long but Aaron had fallen asleep while I was in the shower. I had put the kids in front on cartoons with snacks. Well I got dressed quick and went to check the kiddos...( we all know my children have a mind of their own) when I got down stairs Cait was still on the couch.. eating frozen rasberries mind you... upon me asking where she got them... she said" Ammon get them for me I hungry!" I questioned her further while taking away the frozen rasberries.. "and where is your brother" she then says "outside" now my kids playing in the back yard is not uncommon.. but usually they ask or should I say tell me. So outside I go... nope he is not on the play yard or the sad box where he normally is... I go to the side yard.. by now I am begining to panick! I am yelling loudly AMMON WHERE ARE YOU? I go back in side to check the basement... still yelling for AMMON TO COME OUT! By now I am like Aaron I can't find Ammon! I go to the other side yard but no Ammon... just as I am about to turn and go back and search the upstairs ( sometimes Ammon finds it funny to hide from me) I hear crying and a " mommy help me I am stuck" and I stop. I say ok Ammon where are you " I in here!" more crying " help me mommy" It then dawns on me that he is in Aarons car in the trunk... I try to open it and well its locked.. So I run inside get the keys and out he comes! WHew! I thought I was going to loose it! Now, the interesting thing here is that the car was locked! Aaron and I have no idea how he got in there? When we asked him he said " I push the button and get in there" we have no cue what he is talking about.
I am just sooo glad that he is ok ! Whew! much relief!

Easter Family Pictures!

We decided to attempt taking some family pictures on Easter morning.. ok ok by the time we actually got to take them it was after noon.. oh well.. anyhow, I think that they turned out somewhat nice and I am pretty happy at how nice we all look!

Easter was alot of fun this year! We really enjoyed it!... now if I can ever get Aaron to download the easter egg hunt footage you can see how much fun the kids had finding eggs.. if not well maybe next year!

Easter Morning!

The kids found their Easter Baskets that the Easter Bunny left them! Can you tell by their faces that they are happy about it?

Easter Weekend continued!

Caitlynn and Liv have been becoming fast friends. Friday night they got to have a sleep over and they had so much fun! These are some cute pics that Aaron snapped the next morning!

Easter Weekend!

Josh and Cait coloring Easter Eggs! Poor Cait she was soooo tired that night!
Check out this... Ammon trying to color the Easter Eggs with just the color on his hands!

Caitlynn shows off her colorful hands too after finishing up with Grandma!

Grandma and Cait intensly trying to figure our what color to do the egg!

Ammon concentrating!

Liv coloring as many eggs as she can! wow! look at her go!

Cristi helps Liv with her first Easter Egg!

The Fam all coloring Easter Eggs together!

Ok well I guess I will give a little back ground on this... The Friday before Easter we all got together and roasted hot dogs and smarshmellows with our fire pitt. ( first use since moving here) it was loads of fun.. by the time we were done it was getting late but the kids still wanted to color Easter Eggs. It was alot of fun! The kids had a blast and after cleanup was finished Ammon and Caits cousin's all got to spend the night here at our house!

A new Chapter of Life..

Ok so they always say when one door closes another one opens. Buying a house has been this crazy roller coaster ride. So many times when I thought we would be moving and it didn't happen. So many houses looked at, some many plans made over and over again just to have the door shut in our faces. Well, here is what I learn from this whole experience.... I have to learn to be happy with what I have and the stage of life that I am in. Wishing it to change just doesn't happen. There is and has been alot of blood sweat and tears that have gone into making this happen for us. But after a lot of things happening alot of fasting and praying, alot of things that did happen for us along the way. We are now in our new house. That doesn't mean its perfect now that we are here to this point.. it just means that working hard is going to have to continue, and praying that the Lord will continue to bless us. Life is never perfect, there will always be something standing in the way... but with a lot of hard work and a little help from up above anything is possible. Us moving and being in our new home is living proof of that.

So at this point we begin a new chapter of our lives.. Aaron and I have been married a little more than six years now, we have been blessed with two sweet children that we love so much, Aaron will be done with school at the end of the year and have his degree in digital media, Aaron is currently working for a company that has been really good to us. I am still working at Mastercuts but hopefully now being in our home some new doors will open and I will be able to put my salon in and work for home and stay home with our kids all the time ( hopefully the potty training with Cait will pay off here really soon). We have been blessed beyond what I think we deserve sometimes, but I know that we are where we need to be.

So this is the only pic that I have of the house so far.. so enjoy I am sure I will post more later on!

In Closing!

Ok well so we finally closed on our new house. We are really excited but we can't move until Monday due to a couple of minor complications. Its going to be a little bit of a head ache... so for those of you that can help please feel free to we are in need of trucks and or trailers to help us move... so if you know of anyone please let us know....
We should be having a house warming party here before to long.. I think somewhere after we get all un packed.
So the madness will go on with packing a cleaning till all is done and moved! Oh well this is life, we are really excited about this new stage we are entering into.
Thanks for all your love and support!