new phones

So for Valentine's Day, Jean and I got new phones and have joined the ranks of smart phone users. I am having quite the learning curve unfortunately, but am slowly picking it up. I have downloaded a few pics we have taken to prove that I can figure somethings out!! =)

Needless to say, we love to have Spencer photo shoots! Sorry that I have been slacking on posting lately!!

Power outage fun!

Spencer loves flashlights and had a great time during our power outage!

Slacker...

So I opened up the blog and saw the last pics of Spencer and thought his hair is NOT that short. I then checked out the date and realized that it has been awhile since I posted and now my kid is quite shaggy and desperately needs a haircut...Haircuts are such drama though that I have been avoiding it and now Jean thinks that Spencer has a Beber hairstyle, which I promise is not on purpose. Any tips for making haircuts less dramatic?? And I will post again soon...

Oh, I love this two year old!

Happy Birthday!!

Spencer had a great day and is excited to be TWO!

And ps, the boy LOVES balloons!!

winter wonderland!!

Utah knows how to begin the season right!!

Look how deep the snow is!

Spencer decided my gloves were more effective...

Silly kiddo is weary of the snow. He wanted to be rescued and refused to walk through the snow. Weirdo.

This is as close as he will get to my snowman, it freaks him out a little.

Hope you are enjoying your winter too!

Happy day!!

So today is our anniversary. Four great years!! Jean is so perfect for me, that sometimes it feels that he was never not in my life. I am a lucky lucky girl! When we were engaged we used to joke with each other that the other was the lucky one, but I have been proved wrong (not the first or last time) and it is not him that is the lucky one, it is me. No doubt. I will list only a few of the things that I love about him. Jean is so patient with me, but will still call me on my crap (which I don't always enjoy, but need). I love the little things that he does for me. The random text message he sends telling me he loves me a lot, and then denying that he sent it! =) How he will tickle my back. How he kisses me even though he knows that 9 times out of 10 my lips will shock his (Guess we still have our spark!! haha). I love how he loves Spencer so much that he can't leave the poor kid alone. I love how he is such a hard worker. I love that he loves learning and is interested in the most random things. I love how generous he is. I love how kind he is. I love how he can fix anything. I love that last night he tore apart one of Spencer's favorite little toys to fix it and now Spencer is one happy camper. I love that he makes me laugh. I love that he is grateful for me. I love to hear him speak Portuguese. I love how loyal he is. I love to hear him laugh and see his smile. I love the wrinkles around his eyes when he laughs. I love how he cuddled with me in my hospital bed and never left my side. Anyway, I could go on and on but I will cool it. Jean, I love, love, love you and always will. Happy Anniversary!

What are you grateful for?

Apparently Spencer is grateful for swimming. Random, as he has gone swimming only a handful of times. Guess I need to get my butt in a swimming suit more than once a year....sorry world.

It's hard to get homework done

when Spencer wants to play! As you can see, Spencer has set up his toys all over Jean's work station!

School bus

He loves to ride his school bus all over the house!

urgh...

Don't put pink bows on me!!!!

truck shirt

This is the shirt Spencer wants to wear everyday!!

He loves himself a good truck!!

Halloween

This year our neighborhood did trunk or treating at our park, in the rain (though I must have snapped these pics in the few minutes it wasn't raining)!! We didn't last very long, but Spencer enjoyed himself.

After Spencer got a handful of suckers, he was more interested in taking off to the slides instead of getting more loot, he didn't quite catch on to the concept.

Our cute little dinosaur/dragon?!?!

Nothing is complete without his sippy cup and blankie....

Happy Halloween!

Working on being nice

So we are working really hard to teach Spencer to not be so forceful with other kids, i.e. pushing, hitting, knocking over, tackling, etc. (though we should probably work on not laughing when he says that he did....I promise, we usually don't do that. It just caught us off guard in this video when we had just had a heart to heart with him!)

I ask him this question daily after picking him up from daycare. Don't worry I also ask the teachers and get the accurate stories. Gratefully, he is getting much better at not doing these things.

I love my guys!

Okay, so I like this one of Spencer sleeping because you can kind of see how he sleeps with one eye a little open (like his daddy). Cute, but mostly weird. And it is beyond me how he is comfortable lying all funky on wadded up blankets...

We have a lot of studying going on around here and Spencer doesn't want to miss an opportunity to be with Daddy.

Until Jean gets distracted and smothers the little guy with love. Spencer is not so much a fan of that...I think he knew what was coming in the previous picture. Keep an eye out for Daddy!!!

Peace is once again obtained! Truce for now.