Congratulations Chad and Sarah!

We went to Utah for a quick trip! We were there about 21 hours total... We arrived at 7:00 Saturday night and had to leave at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday. (Busy Tax Season! Need I say more...) But, it was totally worth seeing little baby Alex! He is so cute and precious! He really does look like he just took a trip to the beach. I was jealous of his tan skin and frost tipped hair! It was fun to spend time with Chad and Sarah, and Spencer had a blast with Audrey! We only wished we could have stayed for a whole week!

We practiced saying the name 'Audrey' and 'Alex' on the way down to Utah. Spencer said Audrey like, "Aw...E" and then when we asked his to say Alex he ROARED like a lion. We kept saying, "No say, A-L-E-X!" Then, "ROAR..." is all we got. Finally we put it together. He has been watching the movie Madagascar quite a bit, and the main character is a Lion named ALEX! So he's Brilliant after all. He knew exactly who Alex the lion was! Every time we let him look at the baby we would say Alex and Spencer let out a roar. It was actually quite cute!


Spencer and Audrey putting on a Rock-n-Roll concert for all of us to enjoy! They played really well together and had a great time. I wish they could play together a lot more.


Holding little Alex made Nick really excited for baby Number 2! Good thing he or she is already on the way. We're so excited! (However, seeing how tired Sarah was and her sleepless nights made me think I've already got my hands full with one!) Too late to reconsider... all-nighters here we come!

Trip to Arizona

We took family pictures while we were there!

Spencer with Grandma and Grandpa Tobler

Nick had a business training in Scottsdale, Arizona....So the Tobler's flew Spencer and I out to visit. We had a party while Nick hung out in meetings all day. Nick was done on Thursday, so he did get to spend the weekend with the family. We had fun shopping, eating out, going to the Broadway show Lion King, being at Caroline's baptism, and Spencer loved the ZOO! He begged to go back and see the Elephants all week!

Christmas Eve Talent Show

Every year the Roberts have a talent show for Christmas. Here is Spencer showing off! He's so cute!

A White Christmas

Spencer loved all the movies on the iphone this year!

Nick and Spencer Christmas morning... Santa brought him a red and white soccer ball, an igloo tent, and little treats and toys in his stocking. Spencer was way impressed! He loved all of his gifts from grandparents, cousins, uncle Nathan etc.

Christmas Eve... new pajamas...thanks, thanks!

Telling the story of Baby Jesus. I insisted that Spencer play Jesus this year. He did great... he sat really quietly and kept saying baby, baby over and over again!

Christmas Eve dinner as a family! It was strange not to be in California with Grandma and Grandpa Tibbitts. We had fun, but we were talking all night about the memories of Christmas' past!

Our New Home

For those of you that haven't seen our home yet...

Here are some pictures we took after moving in.

Standing in Family Room... Office to the Right, hall straight ahead (towards front door), left enter into kitchen!

Looking out from the kitchen...

This is the Kitchen (I guess that's pretty easy to identify!)

This is the Family Room - nice somersault Spencer!

Tobler Family Christmas Drawing

This is the official adult drawing for Christmas this year. We have it on video to capture the authenticity of the event. We didn't want anyone to think it was rigged!

I would just type it out and let you know who you give to, but the suspense is so much better :o) Get excited because you're about to find out who you give to for Christmas this year...

The Art Project!

Sarah brought an art project for Spencer and Audrey to do this weekend. They had a blast, and the parents did too.

The solemn painter... there's no fun and games here - this is serious stuff!
check out the skills!

Major supervision on this one. Audrey painted the Frankenstein and Spencer painted the pumpkin. They looked awesome!

Time for hand prints....

I couldn't keep my arm off of the page :o)

Nate's State Cross Country Meet

Nick, Spencer, Jen, Nate and Stephanie

Nate is a senior this year, so this was his last High School race. We lucked out because they held the State meet here in Boise. Stephanie came down for the weekend and we all went to watch him run Saturday at 2:00 p.m. He ran well and had a best time by 1 second. We were excited for him!
Check out the awesome photography on this beauty of a picture. Notice how clean and clear Nate is and everyone else is a blur :o) Sweet camera moment... Thanks Sarah for letting me use your camera!

Nate and his team at the start...

Nate #415

Go NATE!!!

Happy Halloween

Counting out the spoils... Spencer was already on a sugar high! What's one more sucker right before bed?

Trick or Treat! Chad, Sarah and Audrey came down to visit for Halloween. They were the inspiration behind the family themed costumes. They depicted the Little Mermaid quite well. You just can't get enough of Chad in that crab suite :o)

Strut your stuff... ruff ruff! I think Spencer would have preferred to stay home and dig through the candy pot we had by the door for the trick-or-treaters. Why go out and do all this work when there's so much candy at home? I think we went door to door just to show off our awesome costumes. The parents were more into it than the kids were.

Sarah, Jen, Spencer, and Kara - the Dinner party! We ate the traditional soup with bread bowls and candy all night!

Tobler Family presents...101 Dalmatians!

Grab the candy and go...


The Tibbitts family

Okay - so I have to brag just a little. I couldn't find the right costume, so I made my own... I don't really sew that much, and thus I was super proud of my accomplishment. (Side note: It does happen to be a fuzzy white bathrobe that I stitched on top of, but still creative - right!? thanks Mom for the cleaver idea)