Christmas at the Tracy's

Merry Christmas! I'll start with Christmas Eve, Spencer is ready for bed in his "a little nice, mostly naughty" shirt. I think he may be too excited to sleep (even though he knows all the 'tricks' of Christmas). Good thing he took a sleeping pill...lol It's Christmas morning and Spencer patiently waited till 8am to open his presents. Of course, he woke us up at 7am but, we stayed in bed for an hour, trying to wake up. We stayed up till after 2:30 am the night before watching Mamma Mia. He was sooo excited to run down and see all his presents. He was super excited to get an iPod shuffle, and a wii Nerf game

Not so excited for a men's grooming kit. (but seriously, he is about at that age where he needs it! And glad to get some snow boots, finally, so he can sled with out frozen toes,

Of course, he got some other things, stuffed in his stocking, but all the important things are documented. Except the presents he got from his grandparents.

He got a really cool, super grown up electric powered Razor scooter from his grandpa Jones and Laura. He is extremely excited to put this together and charge it so he can ride around the neighborhood. He also recieved some neat world record books too. (I've been reading these all day)

He also got a really neat tool set from his grandpa Ed, (just in time to help dad build shelves in the garage) and a wii game that he has been waiting for for ages, Thanks grandma Lorilee! Aaron was really sweet and thoughtful this year and although we PROMISED we wouldn't get presents for each other (except for guitar hero, world tour) he gave me 2 pictures sketched by a friend of his. One is of Spencer, the other is of me on our wedding day. They are really amazing pictures. They look so real and lifelike. It was very unexpected and very much appreciated.

I hope you all had a wonderful, marvelous christmas this year. I know we did.

The Holidays...

We started the holidays off with a bang! (of chocolate, that is)... This is me and my mom making our Christmas chocolates and pictures of how they turned out.... Quite delicious if I do say so myself. We started in early November, and have been working like mad women ever since. (We made over 200 boxes...crazy)

YUM!

We also went to our annual Thanksgiving party in Phoenix, AZ, where we stay with the most wonderful, fun, and amazing friends anyone could ask for! We also got to go to a hockey game out there, where Amanda totally hooked us up with a game suite, special dinner passes, (for only the most important guests)

and F-U-N, FUN!

We had a delicious turkey and all the fixin's for Thanksgiving dinner, and as always a great time, visiting and watching our kids really get along!

Merry Christmas to everyone of our family and friends. We have been so busy this year, I didnt quite get to Christmas cards, but we love you all and wish your holidays are as good as ours!

This is me and Aaron at the Neil Diamond concert last week. It was AMAZING and wonderful and sexy. Such a great voice, and a wonderful, entertaining concert!

I was Tagged!

Okie dokie, I was tagged by my friend Shannon. I have to post my 4th picture in my 4th folder in my pictures file on my computer... It is of Spencer during one of the many trips we took to Yellowstone 2 years ago. We had such a great time! If you haven't been, you should really put it on your list of things to do. You could literally spend days and days, hiking, driving around, seeing the amazing animals and watching the beautiful waterfalls and water pots around. Now I tag Lori, Mindy and Ali!

Broken Everything!

Seriously, why does everything have to break. I was trying to get my chocolates done early this year with my mom, but we discovered that our stupid tempering machine is broken. This is a necessity, so when we dip our chocolates, they don't turn white. We just bought it for $500 last year, so why is it broken... we have no idea. So those of you looking forward to chocolates, may have to wait another year, unless we can get it fixed asap.

As if that wasn't enough to ruin my weekend, our water heater broke. So we couldn't do chocolates, even if our machine worked, because we would have no water to clean up. geez.

Aaron, my awesome husband, went to install another one the same day, but has had difficulty getting the pilot light to work, so he went online for some help, and wouldn't you know, that specific water heater has major problems with the pilot light, there is even a class action lawsuit going on about it. CRAZY, I tell you. So back he goes to get another one. (after 2 days of work) and I head to my moms with my son, so we can shower, since we haven't showered for 2 days! gross! (Also, my tire on my car is flat, I still need to fix that, stupid nail.)

On a good note though. Spencer thought the box we brought home with the water heater in it was the coolest thing ever. He has been playing in it for 2 days, and wanted to sleep in it too.

He always has a great positive attitude. I have no idea where he got that from. He must have been switched at birth. lol

The First Snowball...

Spencer was really excited when it started snowing. He couldn't wait to make the first snowball of the season. Although the snow didn't stay very long on the ground, we have cute pictures to remind ourselves how stinkin cold it gets here... lol, and what we have to look forward to.

Election Night

Spencer, being in 5th grade has been talking about the 2008 election for about a month. He is learning about it in his class at school, and his teacher is really involved and has a love of the United States Election and the process it goes through. Spencer has been excited and looking forward to this day for awhile. His homework tonight, which he thinks is the coolest thing in the world, is to watch TV and find out about how the election turned out. He is tracking every state, and the percentange of the votes. So funny. We decided to put a blanket out and eat dinner in front of the TV(which we NEVER do, so this was cool). Below is Spencer eating dessert and watching the election. (Spencer would have voted for Obama, just for the record, he has no idea why...lol)

October

I have to say that this was not as busy of a month as I thought it might be. We did have 4 birthdays to celebrate, one trip to go on, and a holiday to celebrate, but all in all, it turned out to be a pleasant month. Halloween is always fun around here, however, I forgot to take a picture of Spencer in his Halloween costume. Thankfully my step-dad got one, but I will not be able to post it as of yet. He was the "scream" character if anyone wants to know.

Aaron's birthday (36 yrs), and Spencer's birthday (11 yrs), were both this month. Pictures of Spencers birthday are below, however, since we don't really celebrate Aarons birthday, there are no pics. (We did however go to St. George for his birthday and had a blast down there)

Thank you Lori and Glenn for the Bionicles. He was jumping up and down when he got them!!

Aaron and I went to a fun Halloween party, (I was a pirate, he was the Grinch)and I went to a witches night with my mom and sisters in law... That's about it for October, stay tuned for NOVEMBER!!