Yamboree Fun!

In the past month, I haven't blogged much, but we've been having all kinds of fun! Back in October was Gilmer, Texas' very famous YAMBOREE!! As usual, the entire Spencer family gathered for the big festival of fun, fair, parades, and yams.

My parents came in early to watch Kanyon ride at hippotherapy Friday morning. After that, we stopped for a little BBQ lunch......(pardon klp while he stuffs his face)

then we headed to the fair grounds to see the livestock show and look at all the animals and crafts.

q ended up crashing somewhere between the steers and goats

Clay and Mo's crew joined us too and we made the rounds inside the building

including the free popcorn the kids enjoyed feeding to each other

Then we went back to Nanny's to hang out with all the cousins. Here is qsp with cousin Nathan

Saturday morning was the parade. Our friend Ty brought bleachers for us to sit on. It was very fun, comfy, and showed just how serious we are about this Yamboree stuff. Here's our whole crew.

Again, q's first Yamboree was a little tiring.

However Kanyon's first corny dog did NOT disappoint!

Gay Gay with a few of her g-kids

After Saturday naps, Me and Kory and my brothers all took our kids back up the fair to ride some rides.

A rare occasion when our double stroller was JUST a double.

We stuck with the classic for Kanyon's first ride. Good ol' carousel. He enjoyed it very much!

Then Roselyn wanted to ride the "Bear Affair" so we rode that with her. Again, klp loved it.

And maybe the highlight of the evening was the motorcycles! Nolan is VERY in to motorcycles right now so he'd been looking forward to this ride. It was perfect for Kanyon and he was able to ride all by himself!!! They were LOVING IT!!! Shortly after, the light rain we'd been in the whole time turned nasty and a major huge storm blew in. We made it just in time!

More fun with cousins...here is klp with Jay

And my amazing grandma playing on the floor with Kanyon. He loved driving his tractor on her legs.

Rachel took these cute pics of qsp and KLP

Right before we left, we thought it would be a good idea to get a picture of Nanny with her great g-kids. Nolan thought it was a terrible idea. It didn't really turn out that great.

since we had such luck with Nanny, we went for Paw Paw and Gay Gay with the kids. Another unsuccessful, but funny pic!

Q's 11 month post....late.

Here's the info on the 11 month old MIGHTY QUINN!!!

4 teeth....2 front teeth are particularly huge.

eating lots of real food and less baby food.

nursing 3 times a day

prefers the army crawl, but I think he does it just to play tricks. Yesterday he went into Kanyon's room and I was watching him (he didn't know it) and I watched him crawl all the way across the room on all 4's!! Haha!!

Pulling up on EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING. I've had to child proof things at a new level. I've been child proofed for a while with klp, but now that q pulls up standing, that's higher than klp, so he can reach more things!!!!

was FINALLY sleeping til about 8am until daylight savings time. Bummer. We're still working our way to later mornings. BUT he wakes up and audibly sucks his thumb....very VERY audibly. But he continues to be a happy waker uper!!

Loves LOVES the magazine basket

hates to be told No, but he's figuring it out

Takes 2 naps and I nurse him and put him down about 8:30. This "new" schedule means that he and big bro are never asleep at the same time. My housework/blogging/cooking prep/feeding myself/bible reading/making phone calls with out tons of background noise/showering has taken quite a hit, but oh well. The synchronized naps were good while they lasted.

As you'll see in the next pic, when we lay him down in the bed, he immediately raises his legs up. That makes him impossible to effectively cover up. We cover him up with his legs raised and when he eventually puts his legs down, there goes his covers!! Good thing he has chunky legs to keep him warm.

The wrinkled nose smile is sooooooo him:

I'd be lost without him.

All is well!!!

I've been trying to figure out a few things on my computer that have kept me from blogging. I am still figuring them out, but I think I can at least post now. With my lack of blogging, I've had several people ask "is everything OK???" Yes! We're all fine and i have lots and lots to catch up on!

In the mean time, we're just.......

enjoying blueberries

and looking forward to Thanksgiving!!

More to come........sometime.

Crackin' me UP!

Kan Man has been killin' me today!! I have laughed at him so much and all of this funny-ness before nap time!!

I'll share with you a few of the things that have had me giggling today.

I picked him up from school this morning and he had this headband on. He pointed to it and said "iiiiii" translated: "hat" He looked so funny and cute wearing it. I laughed every time I looked at him. (another bit of humor in this picture...he's pointing telling me where to put Quinn. He wanted q to sit by him. Or he wanted me to put Quinn down and then he would ask for me to pick HIM up! We know his tricks.)

He put this bowl (that DID have apples in it) on his head and said "iiiii" ("hat"...remember?)
Oh, the woes of a booty scooter......
(the great thing about this picture is he got up in the walker without ME! I just heard him in there asking me to "go" and this is what I saw! He's been doing that a lot more and we are so happy. He still needs help actually walking but we are closer and closer.)

Lunch with his gun. It was a must today.
He has been LOVING this flashlight lately. I'm not kidding when I say he plays with it for HOURS. He used to just look at the lights but now he's figured out how fun it is to find dark places and shine the light. He has so much fun and it just makes me laugh to watch him play, find cool new places to shine his light, and click the button on and off.
This is a fav spot. Behind the door of our entertainment center. I wish he'd go ahead and snag those dust bunnies for me while he's under there.
If our afternoon is as funny as our morning, maybe I'll have another post tonight! :)

Seen this before???!

Its fun to see Quinn do things or wear things that Kanyon did. I ran across some pictures when I was going through my old hard drive. Here are a few that I especially liked.

klp ALWAYS put his leg up on the stroller...(by the way, the NG tub....YUCK! that was horrible. I hate even seeing it!)

Kanyon-17 months

Quinn-8 months

My aunt and uncle live here so we go over there a lot. This is the walker that they used with their 3 boys (the YOUNGEST is 19).

klp-18 months
qsp-8 months
Classic Superman PJ's. klp flying with the cape

klp-21 months

qsp-7 months (so maybe I should've let him wear these a little sooner. Pardon the exposed belly. )

Labor Day

This post is way over-due, but I don't want to NOT post it. The pictures are out of order and they don't even come close to covering the amount of insanity and fun that we had that weekend. It has become a tradition in recent years for Labor Day to be a Spencer/Green extravaganza! Dee and Susan are some of my parents' very very best friends and though we never lived in the same town, we grew up vacationing and visiting each other. They are the best of the best and its SO FUN that now our kids are getting to grow up and play together like we did. We missed Matthew and Jessica and their 2 little ones....maybe next year.

Here goes.....

Me and Nolan after his bath

Dad with his grandsons...minus Quinn. Clay and Maurine still can't seem to come up with any children to contribute to the grandson pictures! :)
Eating out on the driveway Saturday night. Notice Kanyon stealing Avery's food. ALl the other kids got up to go play and he was still scooting down the row eating off every one's plate. YEAH FOR THE EATER!!! We were all cracking up as we were have to tell Kanyon....KANYON the boy who hated eating, to stop eating other people's food!

There were LOTS of mule rides

Lots of SMILES!!
Quinn is an art prodigy.



Even the best artist have to stop and take a rest. Thank you to sweet cousin Landry for the love.

This is Eric and Amber's son Easton. He and Quinn will probably be roommates in college. For sure.

We spent most of the day Saturday out at the lake at the land. It was a perfectly gorgeous day!

Yummy watermelon!
Eat up Kan man!! He LOVED it! At this point, he'd only been eating for maybe a week. How's that for a "meal" Cheetos and watermelon out of a pie pan. Whatev.
Paw Paw taking Aelyn, Landry, and Avery for a ride
klp headed for the jet skis. Notice his scoot mark tracks. I just love it.

out of order.....klp chowing down he ate TONS of watermelon!

I think this was his first jet ski ride
Remember Quinn the artist? He doesn't just draw, he is in to sculpture too. Sand sculpture especially.

KLP took klp for a spin on the tube.
This pic cracked me up. klp looks like a grown man.
There was fishing back at the house on Sunday night....lots of perch catching!
More Mule rides!
The weekend was a whirlwind of laughing, crying kids, nursing babies, diapers, fits, holding each others' kids, visiting, catching up, eating, and overall insanity! It was so great. So much fun! We are so glad Dee and Susan and Eric and Amber (with 3 young kids!!) made the LONG LONG drive from Childress!!!!

Here is the "kids" The parents being my parents and Dee and Susan:

Luke and Katie (Norah and Elliot) Dean....not Spencers or Greens, but we love having them!

Adam and Doodle (Caden and Tate), Eric and Amber (Aelyn, Auburn, Easton), Clint and Rachel (Roselyn, Nolan), Me and Kory (k and q), Clay and Maurine (Avery, Landry, Mallory). Yes, thats 14 kids and the OLDEST was Aelyn who just turned 4. WOW. The kids really did do great!
This moment was SOOOOOO "this weekend". We were trying to take the group picture and all of a sudden, Caden decided to spit out all of his goldfish into Adam's hand.....nice.