Family Pictures

We finally got our family pictures taken by my super sweet cousin Jerika. She did a great job even for it being pretty last minute, but I wouldn't expect anything less.

Aiden, Our super cute buddy!!

Oliver in his super cute hat

Trip to Blanding

When Nick got home from Afghanistan we decided to take a weekend trip to Blanding. We left the first weekend in November. This was a first for David, since he has never been past Price. He was very impressed with how large Blanding was. Not really, I had told him how it is pretty isolated and how you have to travel quite a ways to get anywhere else. We had fun though visiting Grandpa and Grandma Meyer. We wanted to go on this little trip so that Grandpa could meet our boys since he hasn't been able to yet.

We left Saturday morning and got to Blanding around 6:30 p.m. Grandma wasn't homes since San Juan made it to the semi finals in football so she was off to watch. We had a good visit with grandpa when we arrived and made him some fattening dinner since he's been sick and needs to gain some weight. I showed David around the house a little bit and showed him the scary basement. We actually went into the basement the next day but didn't make it very far in since there were a million cob webs. Gives me the chills just thinking about it :)

On Sunday we took a drive to Bluff. Nick drove and we all pilled into the green van. We drove around the pioneer cabins and up to the cemetary. Grandma had told us about the Hippies in bluff and we did see a few of them, well their Prius's there. Grandma then showed us the land that she owns and then we made our way back, the long way. We drove through the reservation where the Navajo have all of their oil rigs. It was weird to see them, there were a ton of them out in the middle of no where. The road we were on was very wavy and at one point Nick made the entire van bottom out, it gave me butterflies. 

We got home and relaxed for a bit until dinner. After dinner grandma invited all the relatives there to come on over for some dessert to see us. It was great visiting with everyone since we don't get to see them very often. 

 The next day we headed back home which always seem shorter then traveling to Blanding. We made it home safe and sound and the boys did so well on our trip. They slept just fine and didn't get car sick or anything. They mostly just slept which was fine by me.

Oliver enjoying the ride :)

Aiden looking as cute as ever!
Thanks Grandpa and Grandma for a successful and fun trip.

Christmas Time

We love Christmas time at our house. I have been listening to Christmas music since Halloween. I know some people hate when you start listening to Christmas music before Christmas, but why?Christmas music puts me in the happiest mood. It makes me cheery, and excited for the season to come. I start to think more about others, and about family and the memories we make every year. I know we should give always but at this time it seems easier to give. I love the warm fire, and cuddling up in a blanket with some hot cocoa. I love getting all bundled up to go outside. I love thinking about Christ and all he has done for us. I love the spirit of Christmas. I love getting together with family and forming a closer bond with the ones we love. I LOVE DECORATING for Christmas, the lights, wreaths, mangers, snow flakes and everything red and green. I love the snow blanketing everything white. I love making things for others. There are so many things I want to make this year for Christmas but I know I can not get it all done so I won't do it all and I will save some of the things for years to come. I love the traditions our families have.

One of my favorite things we use to do on Christmas Eve was drive around town looking at everyone's Christmas lights. When I was younger I think they were just magical to me. We then would come home and my dad would read us the story of Christ's birth and he would use a manger scene that he made himself out of wood. My parents would then give each of us a present to open and it was always an ornament. They use to give us pj's until we got older. I have liked this tradition because now I have those ornaments for my own tree :) We love this time of year and the joy it brings to us everyday. We hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and remembers Christ, after all he is the reason we have it in the first place.

Halloween: Thing 1 and Thing 2

This year we had a lot of fun with Halloween. David had a great idea to dress the boys up as Thing 1 and Thing 2 from Cat in the Hat. Their costumes were super easy and very cheap which is definitely a plus for me. I made their hats with blue boas glued to a beanie. I just wrote Thing 1 and Thing 2 on an old white shirt with permanent marker and  loosely stitched them onto onesies. The socks on them are actually mine that worked perfectly to cover their legs and keep them a little warm without taking away from their costume.

When we first tried the hats on the boys we had them sitting in their bumbos facing each other. We put the hats on and they just started giggling at one another, It was so funny to watch. We had a lot of fun visiting family showing off our cute babies. They had fun as well on their very first Halloween. 

Oliver and Aiden as Thing 1 and Thing 2

The boys with their great-grandpa Riggs

Grandma and Grandpa Spenst

We decided to be Mr. and Mrs Cat in the Hat!!

LOVE IT!!!!

My Cute Babies

Here is Aiden and Oliver in their Sunday outfits. I just made these onesies but they are far from perfect. I had a little trouble bonding the pieces together but with some advice from my expert mother I finally got it right. I think they turned out pretty good but I would love to just design some ties on Photoshop and silk screen them onto onesies, that would be fun!!!

Nick is Home

My brother Nick came home from Afghanistan on Saturday and it was a really cool experience to be able to see him fly in. It kind of gave me the chills watching the plane get closer and thinking that he is finally home. We dressed the boys in their Camo attire just for this occasion. :)It was fun to see all the family that was able to come. We got interviewed by the Standard Examiner but never actually made it into the article, oh well. We then went out to Chuk-A-Rama to eat which was yummy like always. It was a great day and Nick got an awesome homecoming once he reached Tremonton. He got a fire engine and police escort to my parents house and the neighborhood put flags up along the street and in my parents yard. They were all standing on the street cheering for Nick and waving their signs. We didn't witness it but we saw pictures and it was pretty awesome.

WELCOME HOME NICK!!!!

Aiden and Oliver just waiting to leave. Aren't they cute? :)

The Greener Life

David and I try to think of ourselves as environmentally friendly. We love nature, we recycle, dislike hunting (sorry for those of you who love it), love the outdoors,respect the earth, respect nature and almost all creatures (not the real yucky ones), we try to not buy processed foods
(though it can be tough sometimes, especially ice cream.. YUM!!) we try to make things ourselves instead of purchasing the item, we try to not drive if we don't have to, we try not to use a lot of power, we are naturists and we eat a vegetarian diet. David was vegetarian before and just did it really to be different but now that we want to do it together we realize the health benefits to eating and living a vegetarian lifestlye. As a society we eat way way way too much meat and it is not necessary. We just want to try to live a more simple life and live off the land. If it were David's choice we would live in a shack and be hippies and do everything ourselves but that is not reality so we will just try to live a greener life, so I guess you can say that we are tree huggers!!

David and I recently watched a documentary called Forks Over Knives http://www.forksoverknives.com/ . It explains how too much meat consumed does horrible damage to your body. Most of our health issues come from eating too much meat, and dairy. It was very informative and it is what changed David and I's mind about eating meat. Here is another link I like that explains what meat to eat if you do eat meat because not all meat is the same! http://michaelpollan.com/resources/animal-welfare/.

David and I would also one day love to build a house out of straw bales. It is much cheaper then your conventional building methods and much more insulated. You can personalize it easier without the cost and they are so so cool :)

This is way into our future but that is just fine.

Hopefully by the time we can actually build a home like this we will be able to pay for it all and not have payments.. I am just thinking positively. Notice the solar panels in the front of the cottage style home, we want those too. :)

We also want to have a cool natural pool in our backyard and it looks like this...

and they work like this...

Pretty cool huh? Well we think so :)
Just to clarify though we do support others by purchasing items, we just try not to spend too much on what we don't necessarily need :)

Finally Starting

Well I guess it is about time to start blogging. I have always wanted to but just haven't, mainly from laziness. I always love looking at others blogs so I decided that I better start one as well.
Our lives are as busy as ever. David just started new classes this week which he is excited about since his classes last quarter weren't all that great. He is loving school at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online, in case any of you have forgotten. He will be done next spring, so this is his last year, HOORAY!!! We are excited to see what will happen next when he starts looking for a job. He is still employed at the WalMart DC in Corinne and likes it there for now, it's a job and a good paying one too. He works full time and goes to school full time and is a dad full time so he is a pretty busy man, but he does such a great job at everything.
Aiden and Oliver just turned 5 months Yesterday!!! I can't believe how time has flown by, they are so cute and so much fun to be around. They are pretty happy babies and keep me going 24/7. At their last appointment they weighed 15 and a half pounds and were like 25 1/4 inches long. They are pretty close in every aspect of their growing. We started them on rice cereal about a month ago and they enjoy that. It was a little messy at the beginning but not as much anymore. Although they love putting their fingers in their mouth so that makes things messy. They both have a little reflux but isn't bad enough that they need any kind of medication, thankfully. We just thicken their formula with some rice cereal which helps a lot. They really enjoy us reading to them, and talking too. They will talk back in their own little language and it is so funny. They really are such a joy and a blessing to David we love them to death :)
I am still working at the Logan Post Office but only on Saturday's as normal. I did work a lot when I went back to work after having the boys but since then it has slowed down. Finding a babysitter is hard when you have two to take care of so the less I work the better. I have been busy with the boys, sewing owls, working out and just doing crafty things which I always love to do.


We also moved into a house just a block south from where we use to live on August 5th. We have so much more room and even room to spare, yay!! It is an older home but we love it. We finally have space to keep all the boys stuff out of the living room where we use to have everything plus David's office and my craft stuff. So now David has his own room for the office and I have my own room to do my crafts and sewing. We live on a private lane which makes it quiet and not so busy. We just starting working more in the yard yesterday and it looks so much better with what David has done. I am excited to plant bulbs so that we have some color next Spring. We have enjoyed living here so far and wouldn't mind staying here for a while.
Well there is a little update on our family. I will keep up on posting better so that I don't get too behind :)