Spencer's 2nd birthday

So these are more pictures of Spencer on his birthday weekend. He loved Jungle Jim's and I was going to make him an Elmo cake (which is his favorite thing nowadays - anything Sesame Street) but it didn't happen......yet. I still plan on making it, but since Grandma Bowler and Grandma Woodbury were in town we decided to just get one for now so they could be there.

It really turned out nice because we went to a birthday party for a family member of Grandma Woodbury's and when we were there we sang to the birthday boy (Grandma's relative) and Spencer was singing until it got to the name part of the song. We have been singing "Happy Birthday dear Spencer" all weekend long and when it didn't happen he looked around at all the people there and was so confused. So Grandma Bowler told everyone that his birthday was the day before and they decided to sing to Spencer. It was so cute (I cried) and Spencer was elated. He just beamed at all the people singing to him. Then when we left they gave us a birthday cake to take home for him. It was so sweet of them and that's how we got the cake.

On a much sadder note: Grandma Woodbury started feeling ill on the way home from that party that we took her back to our place and Jason gave her a blessing. She slept fine (she says) until around 5:30am. Vicky was out on the couch and heard a faint voice calling her name. We then got woken up around 6:30 asking if we could help get Grandma Woodbury in the car to take her to the hospital. She was in the tub soaked when we went upstairs and we ended up calling an ambulance. Her blood sugar (she has diabetes) was all over the place and they regulated her heart and that also was irregular. She spent the night at the hospital and she went home the next day. She is a strong woman who we love dearly. That was a very scary situation. She is such a terrific woman with such a great personality. When we got to the hospital she was in such good spirits. We love her so much & Spencer just adores his "Gamma W". She is doing fine now and hope it stays that way.

More Jungle Jim's playland

These are the bumper cars. He laughed so hard when he ran into another kid. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.


We played skee ball and Spencer cheated just a little. We did get a lot of tokens this way though.

Jungle Jim's Playland!!!

Grandma Woodbury and Grandma Bowler drove up to spend time with Spencer on his birthday weekend. It was so great having them up here. It was so sweet of them to drive all the way up here for us. So we took Spencer to Jungle Jim's. It's really cute. All indoors and it's like an amusement park just for little kids. Spencer had a blast on all the rides. He was such a good kid there too. I was so shocked at how well he obeyed.

This is a little jungle safari ride that Spencer rode four times in a row. It was really cute how he just sat there when the ride was over and waited till it started again. As you can see it was really empty when we got there. Perfect for Spence. Once we left it was pretty busy. We went at the perfect time.
This is the bumper cars they have there. We had to wedge the diaper bag over the peddle so Spencer could just steer. He ended up just going around in circles, but if you saw his face, he didn't care at all. He loved it!!!!

Spencer's 2nd birthday

This is the batman/superman cape he got from Grandma Hale.
Da da da daaaaaaaa!!!
This is a mitt he'll grow into eventually. Grandma Hale got it for him.
Dad and Spencer playing with his new train set.

Spencer turned 2!!!!!!

This is Spencer's present from us. It's the cutest little bike. He loved it until he opened up the gifts from Grandma Hale. She got him a superman/batman cape, mitt with ball, and the cutest train set. It teached him his letters and plays songs. We had a great day. It was very low key, we just let him open up presents and he had a blast playing with them all day.


He took time out of playing to hug his little brother, Lincoln and me. He's so lovey.

More pictures at Alisa's office

Isn't he so reverent.
Kickin' back!!!!

"Alisa's job isn't so hard", said Spencer.

Lunch with Aunt Alisa downtown

Spencer, Grandma Hale and I all went downtown to have lunch with Alisa. We went to the Nauvoo Cafe in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. We had a really good time. Spencer was so excited to see Aunt Alisa. These first pictures are of Spencer while we were waiting for Alisa to come from work.


These pictures are in Alisa's office (as you can tell by the name plate). Spencer loved sitting in her chair acting so professional. He worked really hard scribbling on all her important papers and every time the phone rang he's say "Hello". See he's all set to go to work. I don't know if his notes will be as legible as Alisa's though.

Dinner at Alisa's house

We had a great time with Alisa at her house for Sunday dinner. Sharon L. was in town from St. George and so we got together and had a blast. Jen came with her cute kids and Mom Hale, Jason, Spencer and I were all there. Spencer wouldn't leave Leah alone (as you can see). He loved playing with her and her little sister. They were so cute together. Thanks Alisa for letting us come, it was fun!!!!

State Fair

We went to the State Fair and there was a Tigers of Asia show. Spencer loved seeing all the different kinds of tigers. Jason, Mom Hale and I likes the show too. It was really neat. I couldn't believe this show was at the State Fair, they did a good job.

Labor Day weekend fun!!!

We decided to go camping over the weekend with Spencer. He had a blast!!! He kept smelling the air and saying "Ahhhhh". It was so cute. His favorite part was to throw sticks in the fire. (I know, SHOCKER!!!! He's such a boy)

We had a great time. The campgrounds were in Little Cottonwood Canyon (not that far from home) and it was so nice. We definitely will go back.

The weather wasn't all that great. It was great when we got there and set everything up and then once we got in our tent that night it started raining pretty hard and didn't stop till morning. So we had a musical night in that tent (I mean with the rain on the tent). But the weather got better in the morning and by mid morning everything was pretty much dry. We had a good time and Spencer is definitely an outdoor boy. We are looking forward to going back. It's a gorgeous canyon.

Spencer relaxin' in his pool.

Can you believe at all these elk? This is a property really close to Mom's house. They have tons of elk and they all have huge antlers.
Spencer of course wanted to pet them.

Grandma Gorringe's funeral.

After a long day in a suit, Spencer wanted to just chill.