Dance Videos, plus one more

Audrey started dance classes at the beginning of October. She LOVES it. I mean LOVES it. She is so attentive and tries so hard to do what is right.

The class age range is 5-7, but Audrey is not 5 yet which makes her the youngest in the class. I think the oldest girl in the class is pushing 8.

This first and second video is of her in her second week. It's the princess walk of the class. They go down the path and "perform" the things that they had been practicing. Every week the teacher adds more things to the princess walk.



At the end of the first video she goes to sleep and the next princess wakes her up. When she wakes up this is what she does next. She's doing bunny hops. (start in first position, jump over the hearts, and land in first position) This is her take on them. Remember it's her second week.



This is from the week of Halloween. They were all able to wear their costumes to class and they did a little Halloween dance. You really can't hear the music very well but it's still darling. Audrey is on the far right in the Rapunzel dress.



This is a preview of the classes Christmas dance. They are going to perform it in class in the coming weeks. It's the Chinese dance from the Nutcracker. Audrey is the one behind the pole, but you can see her is the mirror. Seeing her do this made me think that she would really really enjoy the Nutcracker. We are hoping to go in the next few weeks.



And here is one last video. It's not of dance but it's her playing in the water fountain at the gateway.



Enjoy

Halloween

I totally forgot that I didn't post about Halloween and our adventures during that month.

In September we bought Audrey costume. She wanted to be Rapunzel and if we didn't get it early we wouldn't be getting it at all. I originally thought that I was just going to make the costume but after looking at the pattern ($16.00) and looking at the fabric (about $25) and then the time that it would have taken to sew the dress (3-4 hours) the $45 from the Disney store wasn't sounding half bad.

We ended up getting her some light up shoes and the Rapunzel wig. I think the total for everything was like $65 or so. Not bad (at least I didn't think so).

About a week before Halloween Audrey was getting watched by Patricks mom and he decided he wanted to go to something haunted...we ended up going to the haunted forest in American Fork. In hindsight we should have payed the $5.00 extra to skip to the head of the line. We stood in line for over an hour and then the forest took over and hour to get through. It was a ton of fun and really funny.

*when I get in a scary situation I tend to start to giggle about it and I was just giggling the entire time.

You weren't allowed to touch the actors but there were a few times where they were so close to me that I wanted to reach out and tickle them. It was pretty great. I had never done the haunted forest before.

By the end of it we were pretty much done with the whole thing and felt that it was about 15 minutes too long. But we are old fogies and I bed the teenagers didn't think it was long enough.

On the Sunday before Halloween (the day before) we went over to my moms to carve pumpkins. Audrey of course wanted to carve a cat.

 

Audrey's is on the far right, mine is the jack, the happy face is Collins brother Justins, and the far left pumpkin is Katherine and Collins. By the time we got to Patricks pumpkin we were all carved out and never carved his. 

Hail to the King...pretty cool huh?

On Halloween we went trick or treating around the neighborhood and that was a ton of  fun. Here she is in her costume.

 And here she is trick or treating. 

This past month we also got a piano here is Patrick and Audrey singing some church songs and Audrey singing making up her own words to the song.



I guess that is it for now.

It's a Girl

So baby number two is a little girl. We have no names picked out. Which is sad, so we'll have to figure it out soon. Here are some adorable pictures of our little monster who should grace us with her presence at the end of march/beginning of April.

She is measuring about a few days behind. I'm not worried about it because Audrey was petite. No 10 lbs babies for Lizzie (knock on wood).  

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.