Latest Baby Update

I went in for an ultrasound today and found out our little boy is breech! Although he still has 3 1/2 weeks to turn, the doctor isn't sure he will! (The little stinker). Anyway, if he doesn't turn we may try to get him to during labor, but if there's any trouble it's straight to a C-section, yuck!
So, everyone pray that isn't the case, because getting cut open terrifies the living daylights out of me! My gallbladder surgery was bad enough and I was asleep for that! I'm just not big on getting cut open, especially while still awake. I know it's probably not that big of a deal, but to me it is, so pray your hearts out and I will too!

Oh yes, the doctor also estimates (key word) that he's already 6 pounds! Hopefully that's an overestimation or he better slow down for these last few weeks! :0) Am I a wimp or what!

Spencer's Crazy Contacts

Spencer has this great eye condition called Keraticonus, which I won't even try to describe beyond it makes his eyesight terrible! Bad enough that he reached the point his glasses or hard contacts alone aren't doing the job anymore.
So, he went to meet with a specialist in Ogden to see about getting some fancy contact lenses called hybrids, which are hard in the middle and soft on the outside. From what we understood this was one of his last options except a cornea transplant (yuck)! To our dismay the specialist had stopped recommending hybrid lenses because too many people were having problems with them. But, he still recommends the "old school" solution they call "piggy back". The idea behind it is the same as hybrids, only you wear two contacts in each eye, wild!
Soooo, that's what Spencer is doing now (wearing a hard contact on top of his soft one) and it is working great!!! Yea! He can see again and this was a way cheaper option than either a surgery or the hybrids, who knew.

Wyoming Winter Wonderland

As we returned home from church on Sunday, the snow just kept coming and coming. The only way Abby finally agreed to come inside was Spencer's promise to take her right back out after changing clothes and getting gloves. She held him to his promise!! My favorite pictures are these when she's still in her skirt and loving life! I'm so lucky to have an awesome husband who is willing to withstand the cold to let her have fun (while I relaxed in the warm, dry indoors).

Abby's first attempt at snow angels!

Once they finally came inside, they had hot chocolate with candy canes to warm their insides.

Children's Discovery Museum

While in Utah for the holidays, we also went to the museum.
Abby was in Heaven! She could barely stay with one activity
because she'd already spotted the next one she wanted to do.

She definitely takes after Spencer's love for climbing
and will climb everything (including trying the walls during Sacrament Meetings).

This horse was definitely one of her favorite parts and she's still talking about it.

Look who's in the dog house!


Melissa and Abby peeking in the "mouse hole".

Happy Holidays!

We spent the "after Christmas" holidays at my parents (the Westwoods). David had our family for Christmas and (with Mom's wonderful sewing skills) gave Abby this super cute apron, also the wicked awesome movie Kung Fu Panda!!

She enjoyed playing the piano every day while we were there, and insisted Landon sit and play next to her.

Grandpa got caught with a popsicle and sweetly shared with Abby, she remembers and talks about it"Papa gives Abby pops!".

"Wake up Papa!"
Sleeping on the floor, with Abby's toys in your arms is never a safe plan if you actually hope to get any real sleep!

Melissa, Richard, David and Jennie were nice enough to always make sure Abby had a controller too, while they played Landon's X BOX. She's pretty sure she's in the lead even if her controller is not connected.

Merry Christmas! (a little late)

We spent Christmas in Evanston which was so fun to be able to be in our own home for Christmas! We went up to the Allreds for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Abby of course was spoiled!!! And, she loved every minute of it. Her favorite seemed to be this lovely bouncy horse and her princess tent which she wants set up all the time!! Spencer and I enjoyed ourselves as well. My favorite gift was an extra special one from Spencer. He put it together completely on his own and called it "The Mother of Two Survival Kit". It came complete with coupons for anything you could think of, from diaper changes to back rubs to a full day where he takes both kids for a day and I get to do whatever I want! He was so creative with it and matched the coupons up with corresponding pictures of things (matches, MRE's, water) that would actually be in a survival kit! He even had an "official letter" describing everything and his own company name (AISI, Allred Indentured Servitude Inc.). How cute is that!

Storytime at the Library

Curious George came to storytime at the library one day and Abby STILL hasn't stopped talking about it. She got to sit on his lap, give him "high fives" and everything! Many kids were scared and wouldn't even go near him, but Abby liked him so much we had to come back the second day to see him again. She could not even wait her turn in line to sit on his lap.


Her other favorite part of story time is the "lemmy sticks" . After they read a story, every child gets two sticks and they use them to dance to music, while they click the sticks, or roll them or pat them on their heads. She loves this so much, Spencer finally made her some sticks of her own to practice with at home.