Spencer Clan!: A Beautiful Day In January!

Last week we had some amazingly nice weather. Crazy nice weather for January. According to the radio we were breaking records with a high of 22 on one day and then we had a couple 18. That's nice! So I made sure we took advantage of the nice weather.

On Monday after I picked DJ up from school, we had lunch and then decided to go for a walk. Well, he wanted to ride his bike on the pathway and I ran behind him. It was good exercise! We went down the pathway to the bridge that the kids loved to catch minnows at in the summer. DJ wanted to get in to catch some! Ha ha! But I talked him into staying on the bridge! I love spending time with my boy.

He loved watching the water and he was trying to decide if that was a beaver dam in the water. So funny!

My boy on his bike!!!

What a handsome dude!!! Love that he is wearing my skiing helmet! Ha ha! He has a big head.....or else I have a small one!

When the kids got home from school they went outside to explore and play. It was perfect! I ran out to the house to put some laundry in. I love that I can do laundry out there. No more Laundromats for this girl. That was such a pain and lots of money. It was a good day!

Oh, totally off topic, but I decided to write this down. It was just too funny and embarrassing....plus this is my family journal!!! I drive bus every day. The past couple weeks I've been trying to eat healthier and have focused on drinking lots of water. Well it was my first day drinking water all day long. I was doing good! I told DJ to go to the bathroom before we left and I went too. Away we went. We picked up the kids at the school. By the time I was pulling away from the school, I was dying. I had to pee so bad. Like really bad. I didn't know what I was going to do. I was trying not to think about it and just drive. Luckily, there wasn't a ton of kids on the bus and it was an easy run. I dropped more then half off and I was in so much pain......I just had to pee. Seriously, I was seeing yellow!! ha ha! I drove past my parents house and pulled into Rassmussen's (my cousins old house). I dropped off 5 kids there and that left 6 left in the bus. I made a quick decision to go back to my parents. I roared into the driveway, put it in park, turned off the bus and took the keys out. The kids were looking at me and I jumped up and said, "I'll be right back." And I RAN!! I was in and out in 30 seconds. Oh my, relief!! The kids didn't even care, 4 of them were playing a game together and the older 2 were zoned out with their ear buds in their ears. Wow!! Hopefully, that will never happen again! Ha ha!

On Tuesday, DJ was excited to go play at Zach Baker's house while I went driving bus. Somedays, he's so good with coming on the bus but other days he's crying and it's the end of the world that I take him on the bus. But the funny thing is, once the kids get on he always has fun with them. He's made some friends on there and it's fun to watch! So I try to set up a play date for him once in a while. He had a blast with Zach. They were outside digging a big hole when I pulled up. Zach's little brother, Preston, was running around in his swim trunks. Ha ha! It was pretty cute!

I picked up the girls from Steffeson's and they asked if Mia could come play and I said yes. So we came home got a snack and had everyone go bathroom and get their boots on. I bought myself some boots too. We decided to go out and enjoy this nice weather. We got out there and the kids went straight for the puddles. DJ went and got stuck again. But he didn't freak out this time! The had fun splashing in the puddles too!

Richard came flying up on the quad and DJ and I jumped on. The girls were running down to the creek. I got off and started taking lots of pictures!! DJ loves to fly around with his dad. He thinks it's so fun!

Richard flying down the lane!!

DJ climbing on!

Hanging on tight.

The girls running down to the creek.

Richard went across the creek and was exploring.

He got stuck in the snow drift but eventually got out!

The girls started going right into the creek and I kept telling them not to go deep. Guess who went deep enough to fill up both boots?? Come on guess?!!! Ha ha!! Yup, it was Abbi! I wasn't even surprised. I just laughed! Oh well! They had fun playing in the creek.

All the kids playing in the creek.

Love this boot picture!!

DJ and Cadence in the back and Abbi, Mia and Brianna all in purple!!

Richard flying through the creek!

So serious!!

My handsome boy!! Cool picture with the creek as the background.

My happy girl, Cadence!!!

Love this picture of Brianna.....so pretty!

Abbi didn't want her picture taken so I got a cheesy smile from her!! ha ha! Still pretty though!

Then the girls walked over to the old corrals and wanted to explore that. DJ got back on the quad with his dad and they went flying around. Richard found the bulls and I was waiting to hear DJ scream!! Ha ha! But he didn't, he was laughing. You just never know with that boy!

Playing in the corrals.

Cadence climbing over the fence!

Abbi was trying to clean her muddy pants!!

Running back up to the house.

DJ and his dad flying by me and waving!! So cute!!

As I was walking back up the hill, I noticed how cool the clouds looked over the house. It was just so nice out. So I took some pictures of the sky and house. Have I mentioned that I love my new camera!! I really want to take a course to learn more, but I still love taking pictures!! So fun!