A conversation with Spencer

Spencer was looking at an orthopaedics book of Kyle's. Kyle asked him what he was doing.

Spencer: I'm reading this book so that I can learn to go to work when I'm older, like you.

Kyle: Do you want to be a Physician Assistant or a "real" doctor when you're older?

Spencer: I'm going to be a big stud like you when I grow up.

The latest happenings...

We finally decided to paint Spencer's room. This is a before picture, just getting ready.

During...
And the finished product. We are actually very happy with how it turned out. The blue is actually a little darker than it appears in these pictures. It took us 5 1/2 hours on Saturday and when we were done, Kyle and I just sat in the room for awhile looking at what we did, plus we were exhausted and couldn't move.

And Spencer loves his new blue room! It's going to be an ocean room and so now we just need some ocean stuff. :) Our next purchase will be a bunkbed though, it's going to be Spencer AND Carly's room.

Don't worry, she doesn't have some horrible skin disease. Just caramel pudding face.

We went to Explora (childrens museum) last week. The kids love it and thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Daniels, we can go anytime now because they gave us a pass for Christmas! Thanks!

I don't know where it went.....

Our kids have developed a sweet tooth just like their parents have. Unfortunately, this attribute has gotten them into trouble one too many times. The following is the most recent court report. The accused are considered innocent until proven guilty.

CASE: Spencer/Carly vs. Parents

The accused (Spencer) was sharing his candy cane with the victim (Carly) one minute and the next she couldn't find where the piece had gone. Luckily the investigation came to a close as Carly turned around to reveal the missing luscious morsel plastered to a tuft of her beautiful hair. After intensive questioning the boy, he denied any fault in the case. Apparently the conclusive evidence showed that the victim carelessly was handling a slippery, wet, hazardous piece of processed glucose mixture. The absent-minded victim lackadaisically misplaced the delectable goody and had no recollection of the whereabouts.

EVIDENCE:

This picture captures both the perpetrator and the victim in one frame.

SENTENCE:

After reviewing the evidence, the jury of 2, convicted both and sentenced them to the rest of the night void of candy.

After dunking her head under the bath water a few times, the sticky nibble released its tenacious grasp and was freed. What a happy day for both child and parent.

Christmas... a little late

We're just running a little behind on the blog, but wanted to share our Christmas. It was a lot of fun. My parents and Jodie came down to spend it with us. I was sick most of the time, so I wasn't able to be as good of a hostess as I had planned, but they carried on without me, and hopefully had fun.


Our fun Christmas Eve wasn't as fun for the kids as we had planned... they didn't even want to act out the nativity, so us adults did it by ourselves. We laughed almost the whole time so it probably wasn't as reverent as it should have been, but it was fun.

Carly did more crying on Christmas Eve than she should have.

Christmas Day was fun and the kids were happy. Yay! Spencer got this cool shark tent.

They got a new kitchen set too. They make us dinner everyday.

Carly just chilling on Christmas morning.

A few days before Christmas we went to the "River of Lights". It's fun and the kids loved it.

Again, the "River of Lights"
Us hanging out on Christmas Eve. (She was happy at this time)
We made Tamales on Christmas Eve. They didn't turn out as good as our other batches have... sorry Mom, Dad, and Jodie. Atleast we had lots of other good food to tide us over. :)
All of us dorks on Christmas Eve. We had a group of carolers come to our door and we answered it not remembering what we all looked like.... I'm sure they thought we were the coolest family around!