Arizona Christmas 2014.

     We had the most wonderful Christmas in Tucson this year! All the Moeller siblings were there and we partied ALL. WEEK. LONG!

     Nate and Spencer and I left Saturday afternoon about 3pm to drive down. We figured we'd stop and sleep party way but try to do most of the driving in the late and early hours while Spencer slept. We decided to take the "shortcut" through Nevada since the weather was supposed to be nice and it would save us an hour or so. Spence did awesome and slept most of the ride. The only time he'd wake up and cry was when we stopped. At one point about 2am we tried stopping in a grocery store parking lot but Spencer cried, it was too bright, and we never could get comfy so off we went. We tag teamed it the whole way down and by the time we reached Phoenix at about 8:30am we were going crazy from lack of sleep, caffeine, and a baby who really didn't want to be in his car seat any longer. We made it to Tucson around 10am and took wonderful showers and got to lay down for a bit. It was the greatest thing ever!

     Nate spent the week hiking and hunting and hanging out with the boys. He also had time to make the plaque for his elk antlers to be mounted on. I spent my time hanging out with the girls, shopping, lunch, going to the park, and fighting Spencer to PLEASE sleep!!!

    Spencer spent his time NOT sleeping at all and keeping everyone else awake, playing with his cousins, going for walks in the stroller, pushing the girls bikes around on the back patio, wearing Ella's shoes, and eating everything he could. A cute story about them, Spencer LOVED Ella and she was so good to him all week long. When we were at the temple before the sealing we got there before everyone else so we were just walking around looking at all the Christmas lights and decorations the temple still had up. Eventually the Adams walked around the corner as we were walking toward it and Spencer sped up his steps and tried to say "Ella!" and ran to hold her hand. It was adorable!

    I was terrible at taking pictures all week long so these are from Pam posting on faebook, but some of our highlights included family pictures, family 5k, Christmas jammies!, getting to be at the temple for the Alldredge sealing, and of course all of Pam's delicious meals! We ate like champions all week long.
     We had such a great time having everyone all together and can't wait to do it again!

Nate reads to Spencer.

Spencer has a book called Toddles- that's me!
It's a rhyming book about body parts.
Part of the book reads, "I have two hands to hold, two arms to cuddle...and two legs to jump up over a puddle."
I just overheard Nate reading it and his version was ferocious!
"I have two hands to hold, two arms to cuddle...and two legs to curb-stomp you into a puddle!!"
Yikes, at least it wasn't before bedtime I guess?

Top 10 of 2014.

2014 was a good year, here's a little recap:
1- my little brother came to visit us in PA and we toured around Washington DC, Lancaster, PA and Gettysburg, PA.
2- Nate and Spencer and I went camping in April in northern New York so we could visit Palmyra, NY.
3- We saw Niagra Falls.
4- Nate got a job that brought us back to Idaho and closer to our family.
5- On our move west we stopped in Nauvoo, IL and saw my great Aunt Sue and Uncle Pete.
6- We did lots of fun outdoors things in Idaho in the summer, yurting, huckleberry picking, hot springs, swimming in my parents backyard.
7- I started trying to be a runner and ran my first 5k and 10k.
8- Nate shot his first deer and elk.
9- Spencer turned 1 and slept through the night (even though it only lasted 2 weeks...)
10- We put an offer on a house and if all continues to go well we will close in February!

Tell your friends...blogs public again :) some people were having issues with not being able to access and rather than troubleshoot I figured I'd just open it back up for a bit and try again going private later :) enjoy!

Cousins.

    These are my parents only grandchildren- 4 boys!
Lincoln-5
Porter- almost 3
Spencer-1
and Everett-2 months.
These were taken at Katherine Albertson Park in November.

we think this one looks like a paparazzi shot, we're famous and Nate is our security guard

can't help but crack up at this one.

every.

single.

time.

Holiday Parade.

     November 22, our friends asked Nate and I to run Thanksgiving turkey relay with them. It was 2 miles each and you had to guesstimate your total time when you signed up for the race. The winner was whichever team came closest to their estimated time and each member of the team won a frozen turkey! It was a super fun race but we ended up running too fast and beat our time by 2 minutes and 47 seconds which was enough to take us out of the running for 1st place.

     I also made us all embarrassing headbands of turkey legs to wear, and then promptly lost mine so we are one short in all the pics ;)

     The race happened to be the same morning as the Boise holiday parade so my dad was nice enough to take Spencer to the parade with his cousins!

Dream Catcher

     Nate and my dad decided they wanted to try their hands at tanning a hide starting with the hide from Nate's elk. They've put a lot of time and work into it, and I'm not sure what its supposed to look like but I don't think I'm going to want it hanging on my wall any time soon...

    One of the first things they had to do was stretch it (at least I think that was the purpose?). They took the trampoline apart and tied it to that. It looked like a giant spiderweb or a giant dream catcher. Thus, the perfect photo op was born!

(these are the deer antlers, Spencer's trying to look like a jackalope.)