Spencer will always be Spencer!

One of his new favorite games is ticket to ride... we haven't taught him to play the full game, but slowly we are molding him into a full fledged game player. He mainly loves to line up all the little trains on their tracks... it's who he is...

Just like this... Spencer loves to organize and line up his toys. He has always been particularly good at putting things in just the right spot. He gets really frustrated when Landon comes through and wrecks all of his things. I know I can count on him to put his toys away in the right spot and fix things that are miss placed or disorganized like our shoe closet!

Close Encounter with a T-Rex

We went to this really awesome animatron dinosaur exhibit. Spencer loved every minute of it. To be honest I thought it was pretty cool myself.

Can't take my eyes off the dinosaurs.

Activity canter after seeing the dinosaurs...

Pretty cool looking!!

What little boy wouldn't love this!! We searched all over this summer for cool dinosaur exhibits, and this one came to us!!

Idaho State Fair

The boys checking out the big farm equipment.

What is that?! And does it really belong in a petting zoo?!

More strange animals at the petting zoo.

We went to the fair with our friends the Nestler's. We had a great time walking around and hanging out. However, by the time dinner came around our kids were all tuckered out and wind blown, so we decided to skip the greasy overpriced fair food and head for the Olive Garden. I must say it was a delicious alternative, and it was a lot easier to visit around the table!

Summer Highlights

Going to the Rodeo to watch Mom's Cousin Kevin calf rope! Spencer got to ride on the horse (GiGi) and has talked about it ever since!

Our garden looking pretty green and lush! I couldn't wait for tomatoes - and then they came and we had a huge overabundance! Would you like tomatoes on your ice cream?!

Spencer and friends at the Zoo.

All on board!

The lone pear! We call it the pear of youthful life, or the forbidden fruit - seeing as there was only one.... we babied that pear all year long, and then final picked it and brought it inside to eat... long story short we forgot about it and it went mushy! After all that we never even had a bite. I guess we'll never know if it would have lengthened our life or not :o(

Father and Son Camp Out!

Nick and Spencer's first Father and Sons camp trip!

The fat lizard!

Waterfalls...

Bridges...

Cute smiles...

Spencer and his buddy Jackson Pruett handing out. They were little buddies.

Nick and Spencer having fun and making memories.

Trip to Southern California

We have been wanting to visit Chad and Sarah for a while, so we extended our family Reunion and stayed in Southern California to play with our College buddies.

Audrey and Spencer caught in the closet serenading each other on the ukulele. Kissing cousins? -I think not!! They just kept making up more and more songs. They were so cute.

Alex and Spencer at the San Diego dinosaur museum. What a blast!

Out to lunch for a fancy Sea Food dinner. It was delicious and I think we all ate way too much!

Chad, Alex, Audrey and Sarah Tibbitts

Nick and Spencer watching the 3D movie at the museum. T-Rex is way bigger and a lot scarier in 3D! It was awesome.

Dinosaur heaven... this was our big amusement (mind you Spencer choose the Museum over Sea World and Disney Land) - I think he made a great choice. It was way less expensive and he LOVED every minute of it. This was the coolest place for a 3 year old dinosaur extremism!

Dinosaur bones!!! AWESOME...

Tibbitts Family Reunion...

We went to a reunion that included Jen's Grandparents on her mom's side and all her Aunts, Uncles, and cousins + all thier kids. We met in Hemet, California where we spent our time visiting, swimming at the Jergensens pool, playing at the beach, and enjoying good food and games. There were many laughs shared and also tender moments. We ended with a testimony meeting and took time to remember our Uncle Rod who passed away less than a year ago from cancer. Although not everyone can always attend these reunions this was the first time it did not feel complete. Rod is still on our hearts and their family is in our prayers.

Landon, Jen, Grandma and Grandpa Tibbitts, Nick, Spencer... Sunday morning before church coming over to visit and see their new home. It was beautiful :o)

Spencer picking a bag full of treats out of Great Grandmas pantry. This was a fun. Spencer quickly caught on that each time he came over to see Great Grandma and Grandpa Tibbitts he could grab a candy bar out of the closet! This was way awesome to him!

Landon Stephanie and Great Grandma Tibbitts in the Candy closet...

Great Grandpa Tibbitts with Landon and Spencer

Nick, Stephanie, Kristi, Landon and Derek

The Tobler family with my Great Uncle Myrl. The boys got to reach into Uncle Myrl's money jar and keep what they could hold. This is a long standing tradition of Uncle Myrl's and it was fun to see all the little grandkids gathered around him. Uncle Myrl throws fake coins and buttons into the jar as well, which are worth a $1. Landon stuck his hand in and only picked out one thing - but it was a fake, so good for him.... he ended up with whole $1.

Nick and Spencer at the beach. It was a cool day at the beach. Everyone that went into the Ocean said it was warmer in the water than out of it!

Cute Landon boy at the Beach!

Happy Birthday Spencer!

Spencer is officially 3 yrs old!

The dinosaur birthday cake! Special request by the Birthday Boy!

We had a day of dinosaurs! Dinosaur pancakes for breakfast, got dressed in dinosaur clothes, 3D dinosaur puzzles, dinosaur chicken nuggets for lunch, we frosted dinosaur cookies, did art with dinosaur stickers, watched Dinotopia and ate Pizza for Dinner, opened presents with lots of dinosaurs, played with the dinosaurs gifts, he even went to bed with new dinosaur pj's and blanket.... are you getting the picture yet?! It was the best dinosaur birthday ever!

Spencer got his cast off on his birthday!! It felt really weird to him and he held his arm still for quite some time, but he was happy to have movement back!

Nick helping Spencer put his puzzles together!

Happy Father's Day!

My handsome Tobler Man and boys!!

I got together with some friends in the ward and we made matching ties for our husbands and sons. They were so cute all match-ie match-ie!

Spencer and Landon!

Crazy Cute!

The Official Cast

Waiting for the Doctor to check everything out.... Jen praying for a miracle - I really didn't want to have Spence in a cast for 6 weeks of the summer. I was already disappointed that we would have to cancel his swimming lessons.

The dinosaur bone in Spencer's arm! The confirmation that he truly did have a broken arm.

Spencer waiting to get his BLUE cast. He looked a little worried when all he saw was white gauss being wrapped around his arm. He requested blue and was really excited about it!

Here it is... the handsome blue cast. So far I wasn't in any of the pictures and Nick asked if I was trying to pretend that I had nothing to do with the broken arm. He thought I was trying to distance my self by only taking pictures of the boys - Like it was a guy thing and mommy has nothing to do with broken arms. So here I am...

The blue cast and the little cautious boy :O)

Funny, but not funny story - I was over at a friend's house for a meeting the morning before his appointment. I brought a movie over for Spencer to watch, but after a while all the little kids wanted to go outside in the backyard and play. He felt really left out, so I told him he could join with the exception that he was not allowed on the trampoline. Three minutes later I see him jumping on the trampoline. The doctor of course warned me about further injury until he had a hard cast on, so I quickly ran out and told him he wasn't allowed to jump, but he could walk around on the grass. Another three minutes go by and I see him trip, land on his arm and scream out. I ran to pick him up, but he wouldn't stop crying. I quickly said good-bye and headed home. I think he was crying more about leaving his friends by this point than the arm, but of course I was still being a protective mother....

All seemed fine, but no kidding, when we met with the doctor he said a simple cast would do the trick for about three weeks unless he had re-injured it since the first x-ray. I mentioned that he fell on it, and he said it probably didn't do anything unless he cried out etc. (Huh - do you think crying for a whole 20 minutes falls into this category?!) Dang - another x-ray. Luckily the 2nd x-ray showed no displacement, thus no surgery and hopefully he will get his cast off on his birthday when we go in on the 23rd.