December in a nutshell........

Here are some highlights from the last few weeks:

Building gingerbread houses for FHE. Cameron kept sneaking the candy though!

At the Flink family Christmas party, December 12th.

With Grandpa Flink (I think he's 88!).

Me and a really cute little boy!

Kyle wearing the little hat and booties that great-auntie Lori made for him. So cute! I took a lot of pictures that day; he was in a good mood.

Our family acting out the nativity story on Christmas Eve .

The brothers sitting on the stairs in their Christmas jammies. On our way down to see what Santa brought. Tradition!



Seeing the two-headed dragon that Santa brought!

Cameron wearing the dinosaur claw slippers he got for Christmas.

With the blanket Great Grandma Tuttle made (dinosaur pattern, of course!).

Kyle and Elmo!

Cutest pictures ever!

My friends, Sara and Missy, recently started a photography business and took some pictures for us. They do such a good job and I'm anxious to get the CD from them with all the shots! Here are a just few of them.

Soooooo cute??? Yep.

In other news, we had the best night/worst night since Kyle was born a couple nights ago. He slept for almost 9 hours straight!! Amazing. The worst part was that I couldn't sleep. How frustrating! But we're praying for more often nights like that; it was good for Kyle. He is growing like crazy. He had his 2 month check-up last week and is in the 65-70-75 percentile for height/weight/head circumference (I don't know which is which though). He's 12 lbs, 13 oz. and 23 inches long. Big kid! He's getting rather chunky, which is a change for us. Cameron was so skinny, and never had a double chin, that we can remember! We all love Kyle's smiles (no way around that rhyming, huh?). It's cute to watch and hear Cameron's voice go up two octaves when he talks to him and tries to get him to smile.

We had our nine year anniversary on Tuesday....crazy! Time flies. It's been a good nine years though, and many more to come. We went out to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, and of course had delicious cheesecake for dessert. Thanks to my fam for watching the kiddies!

Last night Mel, Kar, my friend Lana, and I went to the midnight premier for New Moon, and we had a great time. The lack of sleep hasn't caught up with me yet...it will probably hit pretty soon though! It was fun to have a girls' night out. So a big thanks to Aaron for taking Kyle during the night. And as I write this, Kyle's zonked out in my arms, but if I try to lay him down and rest, can you guess what happens? Yeah, he instantly wakes up. So I'll just have a numb arm and get stuff done. :)

Kyle Patrick Spencer has arrived!

The newest member of the Spencer family is here! Finally!

And I'm finally getting around to writing about it! I've been a tad busy. :)

My doctor had scheduled me to be induced at UVRMC on September 10th . The baby just wasn't coming on his own, and since it was 5 days past my due date I'd about had it! I called the hospital that morning to see if they knew yet what time they wanted me to come in. They said they were really busy, so I really didn't have any hope that they were even going to call me back that day. I figured I had a free and boring day ahead of me, so Cameron and I went to the Legacy Center to walk around the track a million times trying to speed things along! I was pretty depressed, so then my mom and sister Kar took me to lunch at Zupa's. Delish! Anyway, the hospital called a few minutes to 3:00, and said they were ready for me. Yay! Of course, every day up 'til this day I was super prepared--had a clean house, took a shower, had my hair done, shaved my legs (mostly just 'cause that makes me feel better), but of course that didn't happen that day. I was frantically getting little last minute things done, which I was trying to avoid; oh well!

Anyway, I met up with Aaron at my fam's house and dropped Cameron off there. We got down to the hospital about 4:00, and then they gave me the pitocin around 4:45. I started having contractions after a while--not fun!--got the epidural (Aaron was a good sport through all this, since he missed the pre-epidural stuff last time), and my water broke maybe around 7:30 or so. Finally things got going around 8:30 and I called my family to bring Cameron down so they'd all be there as soon as we had the baby. I started pushing at 9:20, and out he came at 9:37! He was all squishy and sort of chubby-looking, actually, and didn't look a thing like we expected. Mostly we thought he'd at least resemble Cameron a little, but he was definitely his own little person. Very cute, nonetheless! They got him cleaned off a bit, weighed him....And I was shocked that he was 7 lbs. 12 oz. That's huge to me! He was also 19 1/2 inches long. And he had a cute little cry. We let Cameron be the first to come in and see him, and it was a very cute little moment. He was so excited!

He was also the first one to hold him. It was pretty cute, and I'm glad he's so excited to be a big brother.

We were pretty sure that we were going to name him Kyle, but we still wanted to wait and see what the little guy looked like. It still took us a little while to decide--that night I was laying awake (unfortunately, didn't sleep so great that night) and I was thinking about different names, and either I would realize how dumb certain names sounded, or when Aaron and I talked about it and I said the names out loud, they sounded even dumber. Even though they were all good names! They just didn't sound right for him. So we went with Kyle Patrick. To me, no dumbness. That's good.

So here's the sweetest little baby boy born in the last four years:

The chubbiness wore off a little bit, and he's starting to look like he might actually be our child :)

And now he's awake, so this post is over. More later!

I just had a few tidbits I forgot to write about yesterday......


As you know, Cameron is always saying funny things, so here are some of the latest:

• He waits as long as possible before realizing he needs to go to the bathroom, and I tell him to not wait so long that he's dancing. One day he started doing a little jig in front of the toilet, and said, "I am definitely to the dancing point!"


• Cameron looked at our butter dish one night--

And then he said, "It looks like a two-headed piano!"

• Last night we were watching the History Channel, and it was talking about a 70's muscle car. It was saying how powerful it was, how fast it could go, etc. Then Cameron said, "Guess what? If you were driving to Idaho in that car, you'd get there like faster than you thought."

We're still here!

If there's still anyone that reads our blog, I'm sorry I haven't posted anything forEVER. Really sorry! But we are alive and well, just staying busy enough I guess.
And anyone that reads this should probably already know that we're having another boy! Yay. Cameron is excited to have a little brother (and teach him how to do everything). Only 6 more weeks! Time has really gone fast (too fast) for me, and now we're down to trying to get the "spare" bedroom turned into a baby room. Right now, there's nowhere to put a crib, so it needs some work. That's my project for this week; we'll see if any of it gets done in the midst of reading Harry Potter.
This baby sure knows how to kick--he'll probably be a punter for a football team, maybe a boxer, or possibly a really good soccer player. Wow! I don't think Cameron ever kicked this hard--or painfully--so often. But I just remind myself I'd rather feel it than not, so I'm grateful.
Anyway, lots has happened over the summer, like my brother Kevin getting married to Steffany, who is a great sister-in-law! They've been in Colorado for the summer so we've hardly seen them. They'll be back in a few weeks. Yay again!

I'm having some major issues trying to post all the pictures in here; I really don't know what I'm doing. So everything is going to be in reverse!


Over the Pioneer Day weekend we went camping at Flaming Gorge Dam with most of the Spencer siblings. Overall it was fun....A few episodes happened, including Cameron running away from me and having to chase him down, throwing up, and problems with the truck that was used to take the boat up! (And we forgot to take pictures, so this is it)



July 16: My birthday, with a present-opening helper:

Our first family camping trip up American Fork Canyon--July 10-11

Cameron and his little buddy Kason (second cousins?? He's my cousin's son)

Cameron in his first parade, for Lehi Round-Up Days. (June 26-27) Our ward does a float every year--this year they got second place in the contest! I don't remember exactly what the theme was, but it had to do with Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater.

Cameron on his very first camping trip for Father and Sons, June 12-13. He had a good time, and slept pretty well considering it was pouring rain all night! And we know that our tent is waterproof, too. :)

Again, I can't get the pictures to go in the right order. But this one was after the Hill Air Force Base air show--Cameron loved the ear muff things and didn't want to take them off!

The pretend weed wacker was a birthday present, so here's Cameron helping Daddy do yardwork:

May 26th--Happy Birthday #4 to Cameron! He chose "spiral cake" (translated, that's Funfetti/Rainbow Chip) but then only took one or two bites. Maybe next year we'll just have ice cream!

The day before his birthday was Memorial Day, so Aaron had it off. We took Cameron up to Dinosaur Park in Ogden for part of his birthday stuff. It was a surprise--he loved it! He was so excited to see all the dinosaurs and how big they were.

Back on May 23rd, I had another piano recital with my students. All but one were able to make it, which was a miracle since it was a holiday weekend! They all did really well. Cameron played "Mister Mouse" and did a good job. Look at what good posture he has, too!

May 14-17: When we went to Colorado for Kev and Steff's open house, we also went to the aquarium and natural history museum. Cameron was really excited and still talks about what he saw there. Although after we left the museum, I asked him what his favorite thing was (there were a lot of cool things, including an I-Max show about volcanoes) and he said, "I'm really glad I got to see the little paper T-Rex!" Yes, a little T-Rex inside a case, maybe 7 or 8 inches tall. Okay......waste of money! We could've made one of those :)

This is at Kev and Steffany's reception--we didn't get a lot of good pictures, so here's just a few.

And that is our life in a nutshell over the last few months! I'll try and get something else posted before the newest member of the Spencer Fam arrives and I'm overwhelmed with diapers, crying, and no sleep.....