So at 7:15 am this morning I was sitting in the living room on the love seat reading my scriptures with my book light and all the lights off.  5 minutes later I hear Spencer getting up and sigh because he usually sleeps in until 8 or 8:15 giving me my much needed morning quiet.  I hear him go to the bathroom and hope he will climb back into bed, but a few minutes later I look up and see him sneaking down the stairs quietly.  He gets to the second to last stair and stops.  (Our bottom stair creaks when you step on it.)  He carefully steps over the bottom step and does this spy pose at the bottom.  I am watching all this unfold and trying not to laugh so he wouldn’t know that I am there.  I wait to see what he’s going to do and hear him pull the stool over and he is rummaging around in kitchen.  I say in a rather loud voice, “Spencer!  What are you doing?”  I hear him get startled and he says timidly, “Mom is that you?  Where are you?”  He gets off the stool and comes around the corner and finally notices me sitting on the couch.  We had a good laugh together!

What a funny guy he is and SCARY that he already knows how to skip the creaking step and he is only 5 1/2!!!  We are so in trouble when he is a teenager!

Spencer has been saying, “I want…this toy or that toy” for the last several weeks whenever he sees an ad on tv or in the paper.  We finally told him that he had to ask Santa for what he wanted because Christmas was coming and if he didn’t write him a letter he wasn’t going to get anything.  Tonight he made me sit down with him to write his letter and this is what he came up with… (He dictated and I told him how to spell things, he did the rest.)

One of the many things that I LOVE about Christmas is the childlike innocence and belief in Santa Claus.  It is so magical and mysterious and quite touching!  Love my little guy!

Spencer bedecked himself in Daddy’s halloween costume boots (that are a size 12), found his dress up cowboy hat and rope and was galloping through the house yelling “YEEEEEE-HAWWWW!” at the top of his lungs!  I love my little guy!

Okay so we got snow on October 27th, not just flurries, but snow that covered the grass and dropped the temps 20 degrees!  Spencer went out to play in the backyard with Duke.  He came in and told me he had made a snowman and that I just had to come and see it, so out I tromped and it was cute, then he came in a told me he had made his first snowman a little sister.  He played outside for 2 hours and had so much fun.  I am just not sure if I am quite ready for Winter.

Spencer had a field trip to Pumpkinland at Vineyard Gardens in Orem.  It rained all night last night and most of the morning…we were really worried they wouldn’t be able to go, but right before we left the sun came out and shined the whole time there and then started raining on the drive home afterwards, what a blessing!   We had so much fun!  We were with Hannah Carr, Kira & Olivia and Racquel.  These 4 lOVE being together!!!!  Here are some cute pictures from our adventure in the mud and the muck!