Our new addition. Miss Ansley Patricia joined our family on St. Patricks day. The girls love her and she has been so much fun. I can honestly say that we feel like our family is complete. Through all our problems we were ment to have this little one and feel very blessed.

Been Awhile!

So.... it has been like a year and a half since I have posted, yes i am a little behind and very lazy. I can honestly say that our life has changed alot since our last post. To begin: Last January my parents came to us and told us that they wanted to move to St. George permanantly and if we wanted to buy their house. Only thinking of thwe house aspect we jumped on the oppertunity. It took us 3 months to sell our house and at the end of April we moved into our new house. Sad to say that we sold our house to a lady that i referr to as "HAG", that has pulled out all our yard bushes and trees, painted the inside of our beautiful house a grandma pick and put up doilee curtains. Moving into my childhood house was a little weird at first, but it was remodeled in the last 2 years and we have done something in every room to make it ours. It is no longer my parents house. Adjusting to having them gone has been very hard. We try to go back and forth every other month, but that doesnt make up for the stopping by to say hi, going out to lunch, coming over for dinner, going golfing or losing our only sitter. I can honestly say it has been one of the hardest thing for me to adjust to. Even harder being the only child and not really having anybody else. But it makes it so much more fun when we do get to see them, and I love going down to the warm weather for a free vacation!

In July to our surprise we found out we were pregnant. For those of you that know us, we had a failed IVF 2 years ago, and last March were told by Pats Dr that we medically could not have any more children. We resined ourselves to that, sold all the baby stuff and started planning our life with our 2 beautiful girls. Apparently you cant always beleive what a dr says to you. We are so happy to say that we are adding another little girl to our bunch and are very excited about it. Everyone keeps asking if we are going to try for a boy, but it takes us on average 3 years to get pregnant if we are lucky, i am 32 so that would make me like 36 before I even got pregnant again. We feel very lucky to have been blessed for some reason with this one. So sad to say, I am getting snipped, very hard decision, but I dont thing I could handle a nother surprise.

In November we got the news that one of our best friends had passed away. It was a very difficult time for all of us in our little group. It really made you look at your own life and the time that you need to spend with your family.

In December they found some melanomas on my mom and we discovered that she had skin cancer. In removing one of the melanomas on her leg she, it got very infected with an infection like flesh eating disease. She has spent several weeks in the hospital and a couple of surgeries to get it taken care of but she is getting better. She is still doing test for the cancer on her organs, but we can only keep our fingers crossed and be optamistic. It has been very hard because she is far away and I can just see her and hug her. Having this and the pregnancy and not having her here has been so difficult. I feel very alone alot, but am lucky that i do have a good friend that I can lean on and talk to.

Pat and the girls are very ready for the baby, Danica calls it her baby, but I am not sure I am ready. It took alot to adjust to nowing I wasnt going to have another baby and alot to adjust to having another baby. I am looking forward to Pat being a dad again and my girls being big sisters, but a little apprehensive of the change in our little family. You get in a grove, then things change but only for the better. Looking forward to this next chapter in our lives.

Update!

I know that it has been a while so I thought that I would do an update on the Spencers. We are doing great. We went to Moab with all our friends last month and had a great time. On our way home the rear end of Pats truck went out and we barely made it home. It ended up costing us $2000 to fix, which was cheap thanks to our friend Shawn. So that took up all the money we had saved to get a new roof. I told Pat that when the roof starts to leak we would just go and get dry in his truck!

As some of you may know, we have been trying to have a baby now again for almost a year and a half. We were told that the only way we could was by IVF, so we tried in May. It was not any fun at all. The day after the retreival we got a call that we had 10 fertilized eggs and that everything was looking great and we were set for a transfer on Tuesday. We then got a call on Sunday from the doctor and were told that none of the embryos had devided like they were supposed to, and by Tuesday they had all seized, they dont know why and it doesnt happen often. I have to say that was one of the worst moments in my life. After a very difficult week, we have decided to try one more time. If it doesnt work again, then I will have Pat get fixed and we will be done. I dont want any 40th birthday surprises. I guess that God always has a plan, and it will either happen or not. We are very happy either way.

On a more positive note, Danica is almost potty trained. We bought her some princess panties because that is what she is inot right now, and a princess sticker book. The first day was a little ruff, but she tells us when she has to go and hasnt had an accident for a while. My hopes are way up, this is very hard and very time consuming. But Olivia from watching sister i think is kind of getting it, so after a while we will try and work on her. I dont know how people do more than one kid at a time. I would gladly pay somebody to come to my home and just do it for me.

My goal is to try and keep this updated better this summer, Good luck to me!

Professional Hockey Player!

Last friday Pat played his first hockey game at the E Center! His team played against the Girls National Hockey Team, and I was hoping that the girls would kill them, but no the boys won 10-1. It was a really good game. It was alot of fun to have the whole E Center to ourselves and to see Pat on some professional ice. I think he was really in awe over it. We had a great time, and the girls were pretty good, just not good enough!

Turning 30, and 9 years of marriage!

So, a couple of weeks ago i turned 30! It has been kind of a hard transition for me. When my dad called to wish me happy birthday, he told me that a 3rd of my life was now over. How sad! I dont feel that way, but i still remember when I thought that 30 was old. I even thing that my grey hairs have multiplied. I am very excited for the next faze of my life. Pat and i recently found out that we wont be having anymore kids. It was very hard to hear, but at least there wont be that disappointment every month. I feel like now we are on to a new chapter of raising our kids and truly starting our life together. I couldnt ask for a more wonderful man to share the rest of my life with. We have been together for 15 years and married 9 of them. We have been through alot and it has all only made us stronger. I am looking forward to spening the next 30 years with my husband and 2 dbeautiful children. I am now excited to be thirty. I finally think that I am an adult! Yay!

Santa Claus?

Let me tell you about our trip to see Santa Claus. We have never taken the girls to see him before. We have a friend that always dresses as one at a Christmas party, but other than that, Olivia has never really seen him. I saw that Santa at the mall and thought that he looked pretty good. So after our Christmas pictures on our way out Pat and I decided to let the girls see him and pay the crazy amout of money to get their picture taken with him. First, we walk up and notice that the Santa has a lazy eye, if you look close you can see that his eyes both go different directions. Next, Olivia is just at thr start of the red carpet and just starts crying and grabbing at me. Then I sit her on his lap and she calms down but she wont look at him and will not smile. Next is Danicas turn. She is quit at first then we put her on his lap and she just curls into this ball and just starts screaming bloody murder. Her face is so red and white she is scrunching it so had. Pat and I of course are just laghing our asses off. The lady takes the pictures and asks if we want to see it, and I tell her no because it doesnt matter and it is not going to get better. We take the girls off of hus lap and amazingly enough, they are both better. Carzy! So, we wait to get in the car before we look at the picture, and OMG we both bust up laghing harder than I think we ever have before. It is the perfect first picture of the girls with Santa!

Family Pictures!

It is finally time for family pictures. It is always such an ordeal. We get the girls there and they look cute, the the lady has to take a phone call that takes 10 minutes. By the time she gets back Danica has torn her head band out and Olivia is trying to strangle Danica. You would think that it would get easier as they get older but it doesnt. But we did get some great pictures!