Jeeping in St. George

So we left Friday after Mat got off work and headed for St. George. My cousing Willie and his wife Jessica, daughter Tristan, and son Gibson live right there in Washington, UT. We stayed with them and then all went out Saturday jeeping together. This weekend there was a Jeep convention out there, so there were jeeps all over the place. We just went out on our own, so we didn't have to wait behind tons of jeeps or make different stops -- with the kids it is just easier. Mat and Willie I think had the most fun out of everyone, trying to crawl over anything they could. It is beautiful country and it is fun to explore and see. Dalia and Maty liked all the "caves" as they called them in the sandstone. I think Mat has officially fallen in love with St. George and wishes we were closure -- especially since Willie is spoiled and has the area in is backyard, almost literally. Anyway, it was nice to get out of Vegas, although Mat does make me a little nervous -- I'm always waiting for the next thing to break on the Jeep! I've posted some fun pictures and then Mat will be posting pictures and video with the jeep club sight, with the link below on the right.

Okay, so I've been trying now for two days to upload these pictures with this post, but it won't let me for some reason. So I will keep trying to get the pictures up for everyone. Anyone else had this problem before?

Cache

Cache Norman Spieth

To all our family and friends:

The past seven months has been a rollercoaster of emotion. We found out at the end of July that Britt was pregnant with our third child. On the 6th of November we had our first ultra sound which revealed that our third child would also be our first son. We were very excited and looking forward to having our little boy. On that same ultra sound the doctor had a couple of concerns. The doctor referred us to a specialist which we saw for the first time on November 11th. The specialist said that our little boy had several problems that appeared to be the affects of a disorder called Trisomy 18 “Edwards Syndrome”. The specialist took an amnio to make sure that was problem. At the time we didn’t know what to expect. We only knew that we wanted our little boy to be with us. We scheduled another visit with the doctors to go over the test results and tried to prepare ourselves. On the 13th of November the doctors concluded that our son Cache Norman Spieth did in fact have Edwards, and that the next couple of months would be difficult. The doctors were not lying, we had several more visits and on the 16th of December we found out that Cache was starting to show signs of decreasing growth and that he would probably not make it to full term. Through a lot of prayer and council from the Doctors we decided to early birth on the 29th of December. The only thing we could do was hope and leave the rest to our Father in Heaven. On the 29th the Doctors could not find a heart beat and after a short labor Cache was delivered as a stillborn on the 30th at 11:35 am. Cache was 1 lb 3.6 oz and 12 inches long. We spent the next several hours holding our son and saying good bye. We are thankful to have been able to hold him and see his perfect little feet. We know that things won’t be easy but we are grateful for the knowledge that we will be able to see him again. The Lord never gives anyone more than they can handle and we know that we will make it through.

We will be holding a short grave side on Friday the 2nd of January 2009 in the Alamo, Nevada Cemetery at 3:00 pm.

We would like to thank you all for your love and support and may the Lord bless your lives.

The Spieth Family

IT'S A BOY!!!!

So today we found out we are having a little boy!! We are very excited! Here are a few ultrasound pictures if you can make them out.

His legs completely stretched out and crossed -- and his little toes at the end!

His Feet

It's a boy -- if you can find it.

Here is a better "It's a boy" view.

Face shot -- here he is!

Halloween Delemar Trip

So after trick or treating we headed for Alamo, and them Saturday morning after breakfast we packed up with Grandpa and Grandma Wood, and Great Grandma Stewart and headed to Delemar, with a picnic. We were basically out there all day, exploring different roads, searching for fun little things left behind. I guess I should explain for those who don't have any idea what I'm talking about, but Delemar is a mining ghost town off the road between Alamo and Caliente Nevada. Well, it was fun having Grandma Stewart with us telling stories and helping to figure out "Big Mill" what rusted old things might be. The girls had fun exploring, Dalia

especially loved finding "treasure" mostly old rusted cans -- anything that was rusted was something to her! Anyway here are a bunch of pictures of our outing.

Trick or Treat!

The girls have been so excited to dress up. We were going to go out to Alamo to trick or treat, but Mat didn't get off work in time to be able to make it out there and get the girls ready and eat dinner. So we stayed and supported our local ward at the trunk or treat, and then left for Alamo. Dalia was a princess and Maty was an angel. Dailia was very excited to put make-up on with all the sparkles and of course once Maty saw Dalia with hers she had to have some too! They had glow sticks and we put one on Maty's head by her head band and it worked out great as a halo. When they actually went around trunk or treating, Dalia would very girly like and soft say trick or treat give me something good to eat. Maty at first didn't quit get it, she'd get some candy and them sit right down in the parking lot to open and eat it. After a while though she was all over it. She was so cute saying trick -- you'd have to hear her. Her bag was long and got to heavy for her so we dumped it and gave her a plastic pumpkin that we also had, but it was empty of candy so she set it down and proceeded to walk away. Mat stopped her and helped her get some more candy, once there was candy in it she was happy. Everyone thought they were so cute! And they did behave like little angels it was cute. After we changed them into PJ's, buckled up and headed for Alamo -- mostly to do laundry, since our dryer went out.