The Spencers

Happy Birthday MOM!

66 years young. We went to Ruby Tuesday's to celebrate mom's birthday. She was celebrating with a bunch of people that she works with so we went along. She has made a lot of very good friends and kept in touch with them since retiring. They seem right nice and friendly.

Happy Birthday MOM!

Christmas at G-ma Pat's and G-pa Don's

We had Christmas at mom's today. It was nice relaxing time. We stuffed our faces full of delicious food and then we openend presents. Then we took turns taking catnaps in between conversations. I think mom puts something in her food because we always fall asleep. Present at the party were the Clayton5, G-ma and G-pa, of course, Missy and her kids, Jerry, Tiffany and her fiance, Francois and Nick and his girlfriend's daughter, Skye. We scored good on presents. Mom always makes us a stocking gift bag plus we got gift cards to AMC theaters and Smokewood Grill, delicious.

DTR Friends

We had our Christmas party with our DTR friends. What a great time. We laughed so hard that our faces and stomaches ached. We have to pinky swear to get together more and pinky swear to no more secrets. Love you, Shannon, Steve, Carmen and Kirk. And the kids were too stinking cute Connor, Cameron, Eskekiel and Andrew. Hope you guys have a Merry Christmas.

Ornament Toss

For Family Home Evening, we decorated this Christmas tree. Parker came up with the brilliant idea to toss the ornaments on the tree and wherever they landed was good. Madison and Jensen seconded the idea. I didn't think it would work but let them do it anyway. It was actually a success. Lew hung the lights and finished the project.

The Golden Compass

Monday night we got to see the Sneak Preview for the Golden Compass. Lew got free tickets from work. Yea! for free. We went with G-ma, G-Pa, Jean and Nick plus all of the Clayton Five.

I was excited because we had read the book for Book Club. We were supposed to go for a girl's night out but I couldn't pass up free or family. Sorry girls, but I still want to go again.

I would give the movie three stars out of five. I'm glad that I had read the book because the plot was kind of choppy and hard to follow. The cinematography was wonderful. The daemons were especially cute and fascinating. The images were right on with what I had imagined while reading the book. The ending was stink-a-rooney.

Madi's 20th Birthday

Today was Madison's 20th birthday! I can't believe it. It was 2o years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play... Sorry, there's a song for everything.

Back to Madison. We started the day by going to the Christmas tree farm to cut down our Christmas tree. It is a tradition we have been doing for many years. (I lost track). We went with G-ma and G-Pa, Nick, Larkin and Skye. We went to the petting zoo and G-ma fell in love with a brown goat and wants it for Christmas. Jensen rode the horse and Skye rode in the horse drawn cart. We went on the hayride and picked out a tree. It is smaller than we usually get, but perfect. We roasted hot dogs and s'mores then stopped on the way home for boiled p-nuts, also a tradition. It was an unseasonably hot day at the farm.

For dinner, we went to Universal CityWalk to the Hard Rock Cafe. Of course we told the waiter that it was Madison's birthday. He made her stand up on the counter while everyone shouted happy birthday at her. HaHa! It was too funny.

We bought her a digital camera for a gift so now she can help me put pictures on my blog.

Happy Birthday, Madi! We love you!