Matching Pajama's and Man Time

I made these matching pajama pants for these guys for Christmas. Now that Stetson is a little more aware of cloths and other things he always wants to wear his pants that look like his daddy's when he see's that Spencer is wearing his. Its pretty cute!
He also loves doing anything with his Dad. In this picture they are fixing a tree house for our back porch. (Don't tell Stetson but after he lost interest in the bird house I stashed it in our DI pile.) But at least we have pictures of him fix'n it with his Daddy.

Spencer has to work long hours and if it were not for us living so close to the office there would be many days that Stetson would go the whole day without seeing Spencer. Being as he wakes up sometimes after Spencer has left for the office and goes to bed before Spencer comes home. Those days are hard on all of us.
We are constantly dreaming of a day when that will not occur and Spencer will be able to eat dinner before 7:30pm or 9 and will have more time to play with his little rascal.
That is why when he does get time it is so meaning full to me and them.
It is so meaning for to me because of the break it gives me and it always good for me to see them wrestle around, which is something that is not easy for me to do right now.

Last night we went to the park just before dusk and were playing on a toy set. Spencer was chasing Stetson all around and every time Stetson would run to me to save him. I would set him up back on the toy set and the chase would begin again. They were having so much fun.

I sure am grateful that Heavenly Father designed families the way that he did. A boy needs his Dad just as much as his Mom and we both fill completely different roles.
A Mom needs her man and a few minutes each day to talk with him and share the adventures of the day. Because when you are a Mom there are always adventures to tell!

Summer Vacation

This may be one of the longest post seeing as I have not posted anything for so long.
All of these pictures are backwards in sequence of events but I don't want to change them. So you get a reverse story of what happened on our two week summer vacation.

Story
About 15 minutes after taking this picture the top of our car top carrier that you see in the back ground flew off into the middle of I-15 in SLC.
As well as a lot of our camping supplies that were inside.
Amazing part!
We were able to grab everything off of the 5 lanes of free way and securely re-attach our cartop carrier without any more mishaps the remaining 800 miles that we drove back to Seattle. The car top carrier was not run over and all of our camping supplies were spared any real damage.
The Funny Part
Just 5 days previous to this our cars water gasket broke in this exact location of the freeway.
Six hundred dollars later and thanks to amazing family our trip still continued as planned.
So when we got in the car Spencer said "We are not home free until we have passed... exit"
Stetson was in his car seat watching Peter Pan and wasn't even aware of what had happened.

These are our great friends Ryan & Annette Udell and their daughter Hope. They met us in Huntsville after our Wade family reunion and showed us around town. They also let us walk through a house that Ryan is a foreman of and took us out to dinner.
Stetson and Hope had a great time together as did we catching up with good friends.
Spencer lived with the Udell's in Colorado before we were married during his summer jobs.
They have remained the best of friends to him and now me.
Both are truly amazing people.

Stetson enjoying a water gun at the expense of one of his cousins.
He loved camping in our tent and playing non-stop with his cousins.

One of the only pictures that Spencer and I got together during this trip.
The other one being the first one shown in this post. We are at Bear Lake with Spencers family enjoying a beautiful day at the beach. Evidently with all the extra water Bear Lake was higher than it had been in 20 years. We all got a little too much sun. Especially my man! Stetson made sand castles for over 4 hours straight and had a wonderful time playing with lots of cousins.

This is my oldest brother Scott and 5 of his 6 kids. I was privileged to see them while in Idaho visiting my parents. All of his children have grown up so much. I hadn't seen their family for over two years before this. It is amazing how fast time fly's away from you.

My sister Brittney due date was 8 weeks apart from mine so my sister DaVette and my sister-in-law Cynthia threw us a combined baby shower while I was at home. As you can probably guess from the blanket colors Brittney is having baby boy, actually she already did his name is Johnathan and he is beautiful. And I am going to have a baby girl, supposedly. I had a dream last night that I was going to have a boy. I will let you know for sure when I deliver.

Stetson and I spent 10 days without Spencer due to him needing to work. We missed him greatly but I think that Stetson also had the most fun he has had in a while. He got to play with great cousins everyday. We had family BBQ's went to parks, pools and he just loved playing none stop everyday until he was completely exhausted. Thankfully he is getting to an age that he is better on his own and I didn't have to hover as much.

This is me with my great sisters. Brittney is mother of 5, Davette mother of 3 and I am about to be mother of 2. I wish that I lived closer to these great women.

I am sure that there are a ton of details that I left out but I better run and wake up Stetson before he keeps us up way late tonight.
Hopefully I will post more before our new arrival appears.