Thanksgiving and stuff

We had a fun Thanksgiving! Grandma Worwood, LaraLee, Mom and Dad Daniels came. The food turned out good and it was fun to be together. (I do want a rematch in Disney Trivial Pursuit though!) We were glad that they made the long trip to be with us for Thanksgiving!

Kyle the mighty turkey carver

Mmmm.... Prunes for Thanksgiving!

Spencer got spoiled with attention from everyone. He loved it!

Carly and Grandma

We went to the Natural History Museum before Thanksgiving.

We put up our tree already. Can you tell who put up the red and gold bulbs?

Carly watching me and Spencer play tag.

Playing dress up. Hey, nobody gets left out in our household!

Lions and dorks and cute kids, oh my!

Miracle of miracles, Spencer just fell asleep on the floor. So I will take this time to update the blog. He never falls asleep on the floor in the daytime, but we should never question miracles...

I decided to rake up some leaves and Spencer had fun in them. Then I raked them up again...

Spencer and dad showing off their dorky ties

Cute Carly in the bathtub. She's getting so good at sitting up on her own!

This is Carly at our trip to the zoo. She is such a happy girl !

Spencer at the zoo. They got this new play ground thing that is pretty sweet! Spencer played on it for a LONG time and just loved it.

The zoo again.

Trick or Treat

Here are our little trick-or-treaters. We had a really fun Halloween. We went to a ward party and actually met a couple of people. Spencer did all the games: cake walk, golf putting contest, fishing pond, throwing a ball at a stack of bottles... he loved it! Then we went trick-or-treating. We got home and Kyle took Spencer around the neighborhood while me and Carly stayed at home and opened the door for all the kids. We had a lot of kids come to our house, it was so fun! Anyway, Spencer loved it and wants to go trick-or-treating again tonight!

She is the cutest bunny I have ever seen!

Aargh!! Spencer doing his best pirate face

So cute!

Spencer with his goatee

Don't they look excited about trick-or-treating?

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.....

We decided that we needed to show Spencer what carving pumpkins was all about. We bought 2 pumpkins and went to town. Spencer loved digging out the "guts". We then attempted to mutilate the pumpkins and they actually turned out looking pretty much like we had planned.

Spencer kept asking for a knife so we finally just gave him a dull screwdriver and had him help poke the carved pieces through to the other side. He still somehow managed to smash his finger. He was ok though...

Just the 3 of us. ( it was too late for Carly.)
I already know what you are thinking.....amazing huh?

We have been thinking about going into the pumpkin carving business.
Here is the finished product. Spencer was fasinated by the whole process and he loved blowing out the candles. I sure hope they last until Halloween......

Kelli's Wedding

We just got back from Utah after attending Kelli's wedding. It was fun to see family and get to spend some time with them. It was a short trip, but we're glad we went. It's always nice to be home and sleep in your own bed though. And the airlines finally found our luggage, so everything is getting back to normal.

Swimming at the hotel

Hiking and stuff...

Kyle got off of work early Friday so we decided to head up the Sandia Mountains for a fun little trip. We hiked around a little bit and had some snow fights. (Spencer loved throwing snowballs.)

Anyway, it was fun to just go do something.

Kyle and Spencer braved the hike up high, while me and Carly stayed down below.

Doesn't she look so funny? Gotta love the headband

Me and Carly

Our family looking at the view from the top

Spencer after his last haircut.

Fun Times

Well, we are moved in mostly. We love our house! Anyway, just wanted to share some pictures.

This is Katie (on the right), Kyle's sister. She took first place in the state championship for Tennis doubles. We are really excited for her and proud of her. Now she starts basketball season where she is the starting point guard. (She's awesome at basketball too!)

And this is the sport of naked bed jumping. Spencer is already a champion at it!

Kyle and Spencer had a boys night out last night and went to the UNM vs Wyoming football game. Spencer loved it! They had hotdogs, watched fireworks, and Spencer loved dancing to the band.

We went to a pizza place here called Dions and had a tour of it for Spencer's preschool. He got to say his name over the intercom, helped make pizza, and got this free t-shirt. His favorite part of the whole thing was watching the men throw the pizza dough in the air.

Spencer loves our new backyard.

Just a picture of the football game. The Lobo's lost, but we don't really like them anyway, so it's okay. (Go Utes!)

Moving

We're just having fun packing... doesn't it look like fun? We closed on the house yesterday, so I guess it's official. We get the keys today and we're excited to get going. Mom and Dad D. and Katie are on their way to come help us. YAY!

Spencer helping us tape boxes... this isn't even half of the boxes- yuck! Moving is kind of crappy.

This is a blackwidow that I killed a couple days ago... it was in our entryway. We've had quite a few of these things this summer. I hate them!

Carly getting ready for her bath

Carly in the bath. She's at the stage where she just loves the water. It's so fun to watch her kick and scream. There is nothing better than a baby in the bathtub!

I don't know what Spencer was doing here, but by the look on his face, he was probably up to no good.

Professional photographers here....

Just wanted to post a few pictures we've taken this last week. Nothing too exciting going on in our lives right now, just getting ready for the big move. We finally have all of the paperwork and things done, until we close. Other than that, life is just fine and we're enjoying the end of the summer.

This is a picture of a recent storm that was brewing- there were tornado warnings and everything... it was awesome!

Our cutest daughter ever!

We played photographers today and this one is my favorite picture that we took!

We had a box of our old papers that we were trying to go through, and Spencer decided to take them out and play slip and slide with them... he had a ton of fun! We had a ton of fun cleaning it up...