We DID hie to Kolob!

I have gone to Girls Camp every summer since I turned 12. It has been a wonderful tradition and I was not about to miss out this year, especially since I have a Young Women's calling. Since Spencer and I are a package deal he was able to be there with me and Nathan was able to get off work to be with us. We were only up there for one day but we had a blast. It was a fun little family adventure.
The camp site was different than the one I have gone to with Paradise Stake every summer, but it was close and still beautiful. It was fun to see the view from the other side of the mountain.
We left at 2 in the morning to be up there in time to get ice cream in Hurricane, UT and be there for breakfast. Spencer is such a great little road-tripper. We are really lucky. We saw lots of cows, deer and beautiful vistas as the sun rose.

Sunrise

Our Ward (Notice Spencer sleeping on the table)

Sunset

Bundled up

So excited!

Breakfast on the porch

Little Green Cabin we stayed in

It was fun to hear the girls' reactions. They were quite surprised to find a baby at camp. He was happy and smiley in the morning and slept all afternoon. I was a little worried that he would be up all night, but he treated his Mom to 6 hours of straight sleep (which was desperately needed after a 1 am wake up time to leave on time). A friend in the ward was nice enough to let us stay in her parents' cabin. It was much more pleasant than having to set up a tent. While we were there he rolled over for the first time. He is growing up too fast for his mommy's tastes but we are so proud of him.

Fourth of July

Husband Blog Post:

Hey folks, Julie has the baby and so I am filling in for her while she takes care of business.  We have had so much fun lately with little Spencer in tow.  We spent the 4th of July here in town with family, swimming and relaxing.  It was a little windy in Vegas that day, and the pool was much cooler than we were anticipating.  It was nice, just not bath water temperature like Julie thinks it should always be.  Spencer was a real trooper and still had a pretty good time.  He has been swimming a few times now and he loves it.  The only thing Spencer did not like was all the wind.  We kept him in the pool for a little while and then toweled him off and got him out of the sun.

We ate hot dogs and took some fun pictures in front of this handy flag.  Super patriotic, right?  We got the whole red, white, and blue thing goin' on.  (Spencer looks super happy because of the wind I mentioned before.)

Julie will be back to update about our Girls Camp trip soon, hope this tides you over until then. 

Blessing

Spencer is growing up much faster than his Mom wants him to. He has already outgrown some of his little newborn clothes. His face and thighs are filling out. The newborn small is fading and he is already a month old! Before I know it I will be sending him off to his first day of school...but we're not going to think about that I am just going to spend lots of time cuddling my little man and ignore all of my housework (ok maybe not all of it because it would drive me crazy, but my standard of tidy may be dropping a little).

This past Sunday we blessed him at our church meetings. Thanks to all those family and friends that were there. Spencer was an angel. He was awake and alert, but didn't fuss a bit. Thinks to Grandma Anderson for letting us use the cute outfit he is wearing. He really is a good little boy and I love him bunches!

Lots of people we love

4 Generations of Andersons

He is such a tease. He takes after his Uncle Richard and does not like the camera. He has such a cute little smile but once the camera comes out it will disappear. I have also been trying for weeks to capture him sleeping with both arms thrown straight up over his head, but even in the midst of a dead sleep he will stir and pull them down when the camera is ready.

I love this little boy!

4 Davis Generations

We had our Davis Family Reunion in Springdale (outside Zions National Park) over Memorial Day weekend. We loved seeing all of our wonderful Family. Amy Made AMAZING t-shirts. The food was delicious. Grandma shared lots of stories and so did the Aunts and Uncles. We had such a great time and can't wait for the next one.

Jacob Hamlin House in St. George

THE SAM AND MARVA DAVIS FAMILY

In honor of Grandpa Sam and Grandma Marva

Soccer! or maybe Capture the Flag...

THE WALL

Soccer Game observers

Great Grandma and Spencer

Fun games provided by Andrew and Alesha

The long lost Uncle

Big kid Games

Post-church with the grandkids

Everyone

Cousin walk

Sibling share

Besties

Picnic in St. George

Pictures

Here are a few better pictures. Thanks to Aunt Amy (and Aunt Linda's fancy camera). I really do have the best son though. We had a talk about needing sleep last night because the previous two nights he thought it was party time and only slept about 2 hours the whole night. I am pleased to say that last night I slept over 6 hours (not in a row, but it was a definite improvement and I would have been worried had he slept that long at one time). What an obedient boy!

...and Spencer makes three!

He's a boy. He's adorable. He's loved and spoiled by everyone.

First Picture of Baby Boy Anderson

We are pleased to introduce Spencer Erik, our May Day baby. He was 7 lbs 6 oz (yes I know bigger than you thought, no I don't know where I was hiding him at, probably in my ribcage) and 20 inches long.

We really appreciate all the prayers in our behalf. He is healthy. Momma is doing well and getting used to never sleeping. Dad is so good with his little boy and being such a good helper.

 

 

First Family Photo

We are really blessed that everything went as well as it did with all the things that could have gone wrong. I didn't have to have a c-section like they thought, Spencer did well even though it was a really long time in getting him here, and Nathan survived not one but two nights sleeping on the chair in labor and delivery. He put his foot down though when they wanted us to stay another night, so the nurse was nice enough to arrange for us to check out at practically the middle of the night. I must say probably the most traumatic part about the whole ordeal was the awful beds. My tailbone has still not recovered.

Being Discharged at 11 pm

We are also really grateful that he didn't have to wait a long time to be named. We are notoriously bad decision makers and were really worried about how important this one was. He only went a few hours without a name. Spencer just seemed to fit. We love our little tiny and are excited for this journey.

Guess that gender

The closer we get to having this baby, the harder it gets to not know if it is a boy or girl, but we are holding out. It is really funny to hear all of the women that come in where I work tell me all about how they know it is a girl because of this or they are positive it is a boy because of that. I do think it is interesting that the first two trimesters nearly everyone guessed girl, then it abruptly switched and everyone was guessing boy and now it is a mixed bag. We will be ecstatic either way. We are no where near being ready though. We decided to do a shower after the baby is born so that we will know the gender. Unconventional...I know, but that is how we do lots of things. This will work well for us. We have some of the basics and will make do for the meantime. We finally got the garage painted (Many thanks to my Dad and family for all of their help). Now the baby's room is not completely full of boxes, just partly. We are getting to where our house is settling in the way we want it. Hopefully soon I will post those long promised pictures of the rest of our house. They have me going once a week to be monitored at the doctors office. I am measuring really small, but the doctor is not too worried. I am a small girl and will probably have a small baby. As long as it is a healthy baby we will be happy. It is really funny to see the expression on people's faces when they ask when I am due. They expect it to be much further away. The official due date is May 2, but this baby has a mind of it's own so I have a feeling it will come on its own time table. Here's a picture of us from our family photo shoot a few weeks ago at my parents. It is hard to believe that in less than two weeks our family photo will have three people!

Thanks to Washington and Lincoln

We had Presidents day off together to work on all of the projects around the house. Ok, mostly Nathan worked on the projects and I helped some. Amy came and painted our baseboards for us, now we just have to do the doors and some touch up and the inside of the house will be done! Nathan cleaned the pesky pigeon nests our of our roof and put up chicken wire to impede them creating such habitations again. He also primed our garage. It smells better already. Can't wait for it to be done so we can fill it with junk. We also organized our office and had a special dinner together. Yum, Chicken piccata and garlic cauliflower with sparkling apple-cranberry juice. Yeah for holidays!