4th of July Festivities

The past 3 years our family has traveled to Utah for the week of the 4th of July. This year we have pushed our vacation back to the end of the month and were left with no plans for the 4th. My brother Pat and his wife were kind enough to invite us all over to her parents house for some fun festivities. We spent the afternoon enjoying great company and good food. The boys had a fun time in the swimming pool. Garrett just loves the pool!
































Since we were in El Monte we were able to light our own fireworks. Pat put on a great show and we also enjoyed all of the illegal fireworks going on all around us. We had a fabulous view just from the front yard! Garrett and Kevin had a good time with the sparklers and the pop-its. Although we were sad to not be celebrating with our Utah friends we had great time with family here. Thanks again to Pat & Des for putting this all together.

Traditions

Almost 2 months again we welcomed our new baby girl Brooke into our family and about a month ago we blessed this wonderful baby. Now I am not the best Mom at taking pictures of my family. I am great at taking the camera places but just fail at actually using it to capture our memories. I believe I have started our own little tradition. For both of my children I have taken the camera to church on their blessing day in hopes to document this wonderful occasion but to no avail come home with nothing. So each time I have dressed my little darlings back into their blessing outfits a few weeks after the occasion to take their pictures. I just wanted to share with you their wonderful blessing outfits. Long ago I decided that I would love to take my wedding dress and turn it into something useful. I have never been one to seen the importance of storing a lovely wedding dress. I mean are you really going to pull it out again and wear it. And do you really think that your daughter is going to wear it. I decided that I would love to have my children's baby blessing outfits made from my dress. With the help of my wonderfully skilled mother, (she did all the work I just came up with the idea) here are the finished products. Now my wedding dress has brought me many more memories and hopefully I can pass these little outfits down to my children's children.

Garrett in his blessing outfit April 2005

Brooke in her blessing gown June 2008

Surfing

The last few years Kevin has taken up the hobby of surfing. It's great because he works so close to the beach that most of his surfing takes place early in the morning before work. Well this past week Kevin and his buddies went surfing at Venice beach. Well to make a long story short Kevin and his surfboard got into a fight with a few waves and the waves won. Kevin's nice surfboard came home in two pieces. Now for any surfer you know that you can't be without a board especially during summer. Within two days of the incident Kevin had himself a nice new surfboard. Kevin's birthday is coming up next month so we agreed that his surfboard would make a lovely birthday gift. Happy early birthday Kevin! Enjoy your nice new board!

Spencer's enter the world of blogging

The Spencer Family is now ready to enter the world of blogging. Thanks to our wonderful friends Debra and Janna for the help on getting this blog started. I have been enjoying many people's blogs for awhile now and have been persuaded by my dear friends to document my own family adventures. I hope you all enjoy our family blog.