Who does he look like???

These are the closest pictures I could find in age for us and Tarren. We might be a little older than Tarren is, but they will have to do for now. Isn't Spencer a cutie!!!???

5 months...

Tarren is now officially 5 months old. He is such a good eater that I decided to go ahead and give him baby food. His first baby food was butternut squash and he actually kind of liked it. He ate the whole jar.

He is really starting to grab on to things and put them in his mouth. This would include but not limited to:

Hammers...

Toes...

And Dish Towels.

The Husband Tag

Here you go Morgan..

1. Where did you meet? We met at the singles ward. He was working in Houston for the summer as a Pest Control Salesman.
2. How long did you date before you were married? 11 months
3. How long have you been married? A little over two years
4. What does he do that surprises you? He is always FULL of surprises! The list would go on and on and on....
5. What is you favorite feature of his? Oh there are so many...but I really like his smile and dimples.
6. What is your favorite quality of his? His compassion. He is always willing to help and serve others.
7. Does he have a Nickname for you? We just call each other babe.
8. What is his favorite color? I would have to say blue, but he says red too because it looks good on me.
9. What is his favorite food? Anything Mexican...
10. What is his favorite sport? He loves basketball!
11. When and where was your first kiss? We met on Sunday and he kissed me on Monday. I thought he was leaning in for a hug and he planted one on me. STINKER!! I enjoyed it though. ;)
12. Favorite thing to do as a couple? Play sports, go to games, watch movies together...pretty much just to be together. It doesn't matter what it is we do.
13. Do you have any children? Yes, our son Tarren.
14. Does he have a hidden talent? I would say so. He is able to make anyone laugh.
15. How old is he? Almost 26...yes I am older than him by 8 months.
16. Who said I love you first? He did
17. What is his favorite type of music? Latin
18. What do you admire most about him? What a hard worker he is and how positive he is.
19. Do you think he will read this? Probably not... he would rather me tell him about it.

Tree Fun...

We went down to Pearland yesterday to cut down a tree. The guy is paying Spencer and his brother to cut down this tree. We thought it would be a big tree, but when we got there we were amazed. The tree is HUGE!!! It's base is about half the size of a small car and then it has four big branches sprouting out of it. One of those branches is actually leaning on the house. It grew that way.

This is after Spencer had cut down two of the branches.

When they cut down one of the branches, there was a nest of baby squirrels in there. They took the part of the tree that had them in it and placed in across the street in the forest.

There were times when I could not watch Spencer up in the tree. He was soooo high. It made me really nervous.

There were cars parked in the driveway and the people were not in town...so it was quite hard to get down some of the tree and we weren't able to get down two of the biggest portion. We tried to get down some of the branch on the left and almost dropped it on the truck. It caught in the other tree under it. THANK GOODNESS!!!!

It stopped inches from the green truck.

Spencer enjoyed himself very much! He even took time to make a little something for me.

It was a new experience for me and I got my workout for the week!

IKE!!!

We did not have school on Friday because of Ike. So, I was prepared to spend the day getting ready for the hurricane. Spencer went shopping on Thursday to get us some necessary things. We decided that we should get a generator too. He looked all over and they were out of them at every store. Home Depot over by my work told him they had a shipment coming in at 3 in the morning and they opened up at 6. So, Spencer got up Friday morning at 4 to go wait in line. He was the 3rd person in line. At 7:00, the shipment still hadn't arrived. He decided to call the other Home Depot that is on Fry Road and they had a shipment of generators. He drove over there and was able to get us one. It is a good thing he did because we lost power on Friday night and did not get it back until Tuesday morning. That was the longest weekend of my life. The days seemed to drag on. It is amazing how much I take electricity for granted. Spencer's 2 aunt's, uncle and mom came over to stay with us. We enjoyed Friday evening with electricity. The weather was nice outside and the sky was beautiful.

At 1:00 the power went off. Spencer got out of bed and went out into the rain to get the generator going. He did an awesome job of keeping us safe and staying on top of things around here. After the storm had passed, we only had a piece of our back fence down. Spencer nailed that up and it was good as new. The neighbor's tree was broke in a couple of places...so Spencer got his chainsaw out and went to work.

It rained on Sunday morning and flooded our streets. The Aunts and MiMi took Tarren out to see.

It was another long day on Monday and finally this morning at 7:00 the power came on. Tarren enjoyed having his grandmother and great aunts in town. They gave him all sorts of attention and took him for walks in his stroller. He LOVES going on walks. However, he suffers later with his allergies. He gets way stuffy at night.

He was the only one that got to take a warm bath while the power was out.

Stanton Olympics!!!

For the past three years, we have been going to the Stanton Summer Olympics. It is a group of young married couples that get together for a bunch of different events. We have to dress up with a costume each year. Spencer and I were WonderWoman and SuperMan last year. I always forget to take pictures, but this year I actually took a few. I wish I would have taken more, but I didn't. Anyways, the first year we got first at the summer olympics and the winter olympics. Last year, we got 2nd at the summer olympics and unfortunately this year we got third. We seem to be getting worse each year. This year we had to represent a country that started with our last name...so Spencer and I were Brazil. We got a Brazil soccer uniform. It turned out pretty good.

We went to a high school for the first few events. The events were: ping pong tournament, obstacle course and an academic relay. We did not do so hot after these 3. I did place third in ping pong, but the other two events were embarassing for us. We only had 6 points and were in 8th place out of 9 couples. We went back to the house and had 4 more events. They were: rootbeer relay, golf chipping, underwater holding your breath and small basketball goal shooting. We got first in the rootbeer chugging relay, 3rd in the underwater holding breath and I think 4th in the basketball shooting. We did not place in the golf chipping. I suck at golf. We had a chance to win the entire competition if we would have placed high in the golf, but we ended up with third. There is always next year...

. Underwater breath holding event

Spencer under water.

We stayed the night at Spencer's mom's house and Tarren slept on the big bean bag. I came in and Tarren and Spencer were both sleeping in the same manner.

We went to church on Sunday and I dressed Tarren in his sunday outfit that we bought him. It is a 3-6 month suit and he almost did not fit. He looked very handsome.

First week of school...

So, this past week was the first of week of school. It was pretty interesting. I am so exhausted from it that I didn't want to go anywhere this weekend. I just wanted to stay inside. We had volleyball try-outs for the 7th and 8th grade girls. I am an 8th grade coach, but we have to go to both try-outs to help out. So, I had to be there at 5:45 a.m. and then stay till 4:30 after school. We normally only go 3 days, but it was so hard to decide we had to go 4. I hate doing cuts. We have to pull the kids into our office and tell them if they made it or they didn't. It is so heartbreaking when you have to tell the kids they didn't make it and they start to cry. It is tormenting. I wish we did what they used to do when I was in Junior High...post a made list. This way if they didn't make the team they wouldn't have to try and fight the tears in front of their coaches. You can see it in their faces how humiliated they are that they are crying in front of you. I HATE CUTS!!!! I am not looking forward to when I have to do it again during basketball season. Other than how long my week seemed and the horrible cuts I had to do, I think it will be a good year.