Spencers Wrestling

We signed up Spencer for wrestling this year. It, we found out, is a very busy sport. He had 2 matches, and 1 practice every week. Spencer did very well. He tried hard and he is very fast. His favorite part was practicing with his Dad. Spencer and Chad would "train". They would watch Rocky, and then do situps, pushups, jog and lift weights. Then Chad would teach him some moves.

Spencer had a tournament mid December and they wanted him to wrestle 3 times or more. Well we could barely talk Spencer into wrestling more then once during the weekly matches, so how were we supposed to get him to wrestle all of all of this at the tournament. He did end up wrestling twice and he pinned the kid on the first match and he lost the second match. Spencer had lots of fans support him the whole time. Me, Chad, and Kaden(of course). And then Grandma Nancy, Grandpa Frans, Grandma Rowene, and Grandpa Billy, Gracie, Maggie, Chase and Cassi too. Thanks so much for all your cheers. Sufficeth to say we dont know if he will be doing this next year, it was not his favorite sport but he was a good sport to try it and not give up. We are very proud of him.

Hallowen Pictures

Sorry I have not put these pictures on until now. First of all my camera chip broke first of all so my pictures were lost but with the help of Jeffrey we found them again. Then our computer has a virus so it would not let me even into my blog. But as you can see we had a great Halloween, our favorite trick or treater was Emily and she made our night. Her Stephen was gone so she was kind of sad, so we tried to cheer her up.

Sorry this is upside down, sometimes we do not know what we are doing when it comes to computers. Anyways Kaden loves Teletubbies so my mom made him his own little teletubby costume, custom made for him the color blue with a Y on the head(hmm I wonder what that stands for?) Anyways he had so much fun going door to door with Brother and Dad.

Spencers dreams came true at Disneyland and he wanted the dream to live on at home by being Obi Won Kenobi for Halloween. And boy did he play the part well. He loves everything Star Wars(we'll see what christmas brings). Theres a little baseball in him too(how can there not be, coming from Vest blood) He the Halloween parade at school with all his budddies and especially all the treats he saved while brother ate all his in one night and later wanted Spencers.

Chad had the funnest of all, he is just a big kid at Halloween. He especially loved wearing Spencers BYU helmet all over the neighborhood to show his support for his favorite team. What a hotty!

Disneyland/Playoffs/Ocean

Our trip to California was so fun we spent time at Laguna Beach it was so warm and fun the boys loved it. Spencer loved the waves Kaden loved building sandcastles. It was wonderous, we definetely want to go again. We were not really prepared with our swimsuits so we got soaked but loved every minute.

WE had so much fun on the toystory ride and In a Bugs land. Spencer and Kaden loved the water hole there they stuck their heads and their whole bodies in the water I think it was their favorite part of California Adventure, they did not want to leave.

Disneyland was decorated so cute this time of year and the characters were in costumes it was a great time to go. We are so glad we went we want to go again soon. Maybe every couple of years.

Grandma and Kaden were definetely whiped out each night, as you can see we kept going till we dropped.

Spencers favorite part was Jedi training. And "WOW!" it was so cool. Me and Chad were so proud of him he knew all the moves and he even got ot fight Darth Vader. At the end of the day he was telling Grandma all about this and that it was his favorite part. He even said "My dreams really did come true at Disneyland" We thought that was pretty cute.

One of Kadens favorite parts was going to Mickey Mouses house and after that all he could talk about was "Mickey Mouses House" Except he cant say his S's so imagine all that with no S's it sounds pretty funny. But we think hes pretty cute anyways.

Our first ride at Disneyland was Star Tours and it was so fun we went on it twice. Me and Chad also enjoyed space mountain, tower of terror and California Screamin. Chads favorite was Soarin over Califorina.

Kaden loves Buzz lightyear now.

Playoffs was so awesome, that was one of Chads highlights. It ws his birthady present. It was a great way to start off an awesome. We had fun seats with all you could eat goodies and drinks. WE had a great time watching the Dodgers and the Phillies.

Dawson my new darling nephew

This is exciting news my nephew Dawson Teancum Christensen was born on September 18. We are so hapy to have the little cutie in our family. He was in the hospital for a few days with pneumonia so it took me a while to spread the news I wanted to get pictures to go with my blog post so here it is. He will be the second boy in the Christensen family to carry on the name. We are very excited to have another boy in our family to play with(but we could use a few more girls in the future too). That makes me a little baby hungry myself. Now we look forward to another little boy in the Vest/Lee family. We love you all.

We have had a great fall so far , full of fun new things. It is getting a little cooler which is very nice. We have lots of news in the Vest family. Spencer started kindergarten, he totally loves it and little brother wishes he could go to. But he has fun staying home with Mom. We exercise together and read books(that is his favorite thing to do). Emily, Kaden and Spencers Aunt, is engaged to marry the greatest guy ever Steven Covey. They will be married December 26 in the Salt Lake Temple. Our Kids just adore him and Kaden calls him "Baby". Also BYU football has started and you know how obsessed Chad is with this. We are all really excited this year about this especially because Steven plays on the team. We had a yard sale this fall and it was great, but hard work. The kids loved it. Spencer and Kaden bought a lot of their own stuff back with pennies. And Spencer was so funny, he got mad at the cat and said if he did not shape up we were going to sell him at the yard sale too. On a sad but wonderful note, My Grandpa passed away on September 16 he was 94 and ready to go. He lived a great long life. My Grandma passed away about 18 years ago. So he has been alone for a while now,he loved to work hard and visit with family and friends. He loved gardening and playing his harmonica. We will miss him, but we all rejoice in his reunion with Grandma. They are now "running through green fields together hand in hand" quote given by My Dad in his closing remarks at the funeral.