Spencer's Open House

Here's a slide show from the open house. To speed it up click on the little "+" sign in the lower left corner.

Spencer is Home!

It's hard to believe, but Spencer is finally home! I think he was pretty nervous - he had that "deer in the headlights" look when he first came down the escalator. There were lots of people at the airport to welcome him with signs and balloons. Quite a few friends came over to the house later. We'll be having an open house tomorrow at 6 pm at our place. I'm guessing it will be a full house. Right now it's 12:30 in the morning and Spencer is downstairs playing ping pong with Nate and Josh and a few close friends. It's so good to have him home safe and sound. Here are a bunch of pictures from the airport. you can click on a picture to enlarge it.

Senior Ball

Nate went to Murray High's Senior Ball on Saturday with his girlfriend Kylie. Here's a few pics.

Ping Pong Tournament

We had a ping pong tournament tonight. Double elimination, games to 13 points. Nate, the young whippersnapper won. There are a few videos below the pictures. To see the video, click on the video, then click on the little arrow at the bottom left of the video. The videos are a little dark because there's not a light down in the basement.

Kristi Loves Snow...Not!

There's not many things I like more than snapping pictures of Kristi when she's shoveling. We woke up this morning to 8 inches of snow and it's still falling. Supposed to be 3 inches more during the day. A snowblower is moving up my priority list real fast!

Family Update

So much has happened in the past little while. Spencer will be home next Thursday, January 24th. Kristi and I have both Thursday and Friday off work. I'm guessing Nate will skip school too. We're having an open house for Spence the day after he gets home for everyone to come by and welcome him home. He speaks at church the first Sunday after he's home. Here's the announcement we sent out.


We've been getting things ready for when Spence gets home. We've painted the bedroom, set up a second bed, washed what few clothes he left behind, etc. Let's hope he still fits into his old clothes! Spence and Nate will be sharing the room downstairs and Spencer has joked with Nate telling him he'll have to be up at 6 am each morning for companion study. I'm pretty sure that's not gonna fly with Nate. Here's a picture of Nate putting the brackets up for the mini blinds after we painted.

Most of you probably know that when Kristi

went in for her 4 month checkup with the cancer surgeon, Dr. Noyes removed a mole on Kristi's arm. I guess the doctor didn't like how the mole looked. Fortunately there was no melanoma, but the results did show atypical cells which is kind of like pre-cancer. If not removed the cells could turn into cancer. So the day after Christmas, Kristi had a good sized chunk cut out of her arm to get rid of the bad cells. Everything went well and the biopsy results of what was cut out showed clean margins, meaning they got everything.

Josh is doing well with his treatments. The treatments that lasted two hours every day are over. He is now in the second week of giving himself shots three times a week (Mon-Wed-Fri). The first night he really had to psyche himself up to give himself a shot, but he's handling it just fine now. He'll be doing the shots three times a week for eleven months.

It's way cold right now. The high during the day barely hits in the low twenties and the overnight low is about 7 degrees. The dogs have to come inside because it's so cold. I think Josh is spoiling Rocky dog too much!

Christmas Break is Finally Here!

The last couple of months have flown by. With all that has happened, Kristi and I often talk about how everything just seems to be a blur. Spencer will be home in a month - it will be nice to have all three boys at home for a while. We went and watched Nate bowl on Wednesday. I'm guessing it didn't make him too nervous for us to be there because he scored 189 and 193. He's a pretty good bowler. I'll try to get some pictures of him on the blog. In the meantime, here are some recent pics from our house. This is what you see when you walk out our front door.


Check out the icicles hanging from our roof! Someone put a live wreath on our front door. We have no idea who did it. Look above the wreath - aren't rain gutters supposed to be for rain?

Temple Square

The lights on Temple Square are a big attraction every year. Kristi and I haven't been up to see them this year, but Josh and Liz went last night. You can tell from the pictures that it's a bit cold. Josh had a good weekend, but I think he overdid it...bad, bad headache and body aches today after his treatment.

Where's Brandon When You Need Him?

This is what we woke up to this morning. It was beautiful. The picture of Nate is a video (click on the picture of Nate, then click on the little arrow).

Kristi's car died (it threw a rod - would cost way more to fix it than the car is worth). We donated it to the Kidney Foundation and they came and picked it up today. Just in time too - when the tow truck driver pulled the car up onto the platform it broke through and oil gushed everywhere.