13 Weeks and about our Month

Today I am 13 weeks. I am officially out of my first trimester. I really hope the morning sickness goes away now. It's been non stop for the past 6 weeks. Seriously, this baby does not like it's momma.

It's been a jam packed month of fun for the Spencer Family. Its a long post but tons of fun stuff. It you read just one part of the post read the part about the Alpine Loop near the bottom.

For Labor Day Weekend we drove down to Las Vegas to visit the Craftons. It was our first family vacation in over a year. We did some shopping, but mainly we just sat around and enjoyed our time together. Audrey and Tyler were inseparable the full 3 days that we were there. They just ran around and around and around. One fun thing that we did was we ended up going to the Tournament of Kings a the Excalibur. It was lame and AWESOME at the same time. The kids loved it.

 Here is the three of us - with a little instagram magic. 

 And this was our Czar/Champion of Russia for the evening - he cheated and was kicked out of the competition (GO RUSSIA)

Audrey and Tyler playing with their light sabers

 The gang

On Friday the 9th, Karen had her final Surgery. It went really well the surgeon said. It didn't take as long as they thought and the scar is smaller than the size of a nickle. Not too shabby. This Surgery was at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. I've never been to that building before now. It was beautiful. I mean really just gorgeous. I should have taken more pictures of the Hospital but I didn't want to look like a tourist in a cancer hospital. I mean really.

 This was the view she had from her hospital room.

If she had been on the other side of the building she would have had a view of the entire valley. I thought the being right up on the Mountain was better.

Then the next weekend was the BYU vs. Utah Football game/blowout. We are in love with our tickets. Great seats next to some really awesome fans. I enjoy being in the cougar club seats and not the student section. Patrick misses the student section. 

 BYU Marching Band

 Amazing View from our seats

On Thursday the 22nd was the Jimmer Allstar Game at the Marriot Center. That was TONS of fun. It was great to see some amazing players on the Marriott Center court. Audrey had a blast and was such a good little sports fan. 

On Friday the 23rd was the BYU vs. Central Florida Game. Mom agreed to watch Audrey for the game but at the last minute decided she wanted to go to the game. So she got herself and Audrey a ticket. 

The Game started at 6. I ended up leaving the office at about 4:30 (I told patrick to go as early as he wanted I would just go with my mom and Audrey) It took me over an hour to get from UVU to my place, to the day care and up to my moms. So we didn't leave moms until after the game had started. 

Normally we park about a 1/4 of a mile away from the stadium but I didn't want Audrey walking that far. The plan was to get as close to the stadium as possible and then drop the two of us off and then Mom would back track to our parking spot. 

We pull into the Paleontology Museums parking lot and low and behold there are about 15 spots open. Another car had just pulled up and was trying to figure out if the lot was open and if we could park there. We figured it was okay but we were all a little nervous about it and then a State Trooper pulled up and we asked him if we could park in the lot. He didn't think it would be a problem and then he himself took one of the spots. So we stayed. I have never parked closer to the stadium than that. AMAZING!

You can see the lights from the stadium just around the corner of the museum. 

There was plenty of space by Patrick and I so Mom and Audrey hung around us the entire game. When there was about 10 minutes left in the 4th Audrey announced that she was tired and wanted to go home. And I was starting to feel pretty sick. So we packed up and walked out to our AMAZING spot and drove home in zero traffic. Not a bad Game day. Not bad at all. 

Then on Saturday the 24th Andy and Gretchen Blessed their little girl Addalyn (Addy) and yet again Audrey spent the day running around with her Cousins Tyler and Cozy. We also got to meet Betsy's new little boy Mason. Such a cutie and looks just like his dad. 

Then Yesterday before the Craftons drove back to Vegas we drove the Alpine Loop to see the changing leaves. It was such a pretty drive. We put Tyler in the car with us and the two little ones just had so much fun looking out the windows and looking at everything together. They were trying to see who had the cooler/better things on their side of the car. At one point we had the American Fork side of the Alpine loop to our left (audreys side) and a steep slope to our right (tylers side). Audrey was saying "look at the mountains over there" and tyler said "look at the MOUNTAIN right HERE." It just went back and forth pretty much the entire time.

 

Near the end of the drive Patrick began talking to the two and somehow it came up that it would be silly if boys wear dresses and Tyler admits that once he had a dream that he wore a dress and Patrick (busting up of course) says "Oh, does your dad know about this?" and he said no and to not tell his mom and dad because they would laugh at him. Sorry Tyler I spilled the beans.

You would think that the end of this crazy busy month would be over but alas, I have a sealing I need to go to in the St. George Temple this weekend.

Thanks for reading.