a date with friends

We went to dinner with some of justin's friends before christmas, and we had such a great time! It is so fun to be out and about.

Happy 11 months

He is such a good boy, especially when he is sleeping. He is such a precious man, oh I love him!
Porter loves, loves getting into the toilet. The shirt is very fitting. He is also a pro thrower (not a trait inherited from me). He loves balls, binki's, and banging everything on the ground. Did I say he loves banging! Sometimes he will get into my nail polish while I am getting dressed and he will just throw them against the mirror over and over again. It makes such a loud noise that he laughs and laughs. He is definitely a boy!
Porter is a walking machine. He started to walk a little over a month ago but he can really go now. It seems strange to see him walk, because he is so little and my little baby. I will say that walking has not been good for his head, and he bonks it on everything! I do have a gate at the bottom of my stairs because his favorite thing to do is climb up the stairs over and over again. It would be ok with me if he knew how to come back down the stairs, but he doesn't, so the gate is up at all times!

Our Move

Our House.
My Kitchen.
Our living room and breakfast nook. Don't you love my new table, I do! Justin has been really sick today and he didn't want to move off the couch. He told me he feels like death, I don't know what that feels like, but it couldn't be good. So now I have a sick baby and a sick husband to take care of. Good thing I am an awesome nurse, who is always prepared.
The color I picked for my interior walls, it is called blondee. At first I was a little nervous to paint anything but light tan, but I do have an adventurous side and the pale yellow ended up on my walls. I love it!
Master bath
Our new master bath and closet
We said good-by to Travis's house. It was a little sad, seeing how we have lived there for the last two years. It was the only place Porter knew as home. Good luck to Travis in the future! I would really love to put some cute vinyl monograms on my walls. one for porter's room and one for my entry. I hope I win this contest.

Thanksgiving

The Judds came into town over Thanksgiving and I am so grateful! They all helped us move and made a yummy Thanksgiving dinner! On Thanksgiving Morning we all ran a 5K in Draper, The Human Race. We got up early, bundled the babies up, and put on our running shoes. Some people even called me, "the crazy lady with a stroller". I have to admit sometimes I do get a little competative and when there are 3600 participants things do get a bit crazy. Brookie came with us and we all burned a few extra calories in preparation for the big feast!

Twilight...New Moon

Heather, Kristin, Brook, Me, Sadie, and Jenn. We all went opening night to the Twilight saga, New Moon. It was such a blast. None of us are die hard Twilighters, but it was so much fun to have a girls night. I will say that New Moon was a hundred times better than Twilight. I am a Jacob fan! Oh and i saw it again with Justin's mom and Ashlee the day after Thanksgiving. It was just as good the second time around.

Happy Halloween and Happy 10 months

For Halloween we had a get together with the Schanz Family. All of the kids were so cute, but I have to say my pirate took the cake in adorableness. He hated to trick or treat and Justin ended up holding him the entire time. We had a great month, and I am sad to say that the month of October is over. It is my favorite month! The weather, the decor, the fun Halloween activities...everything. Now it is November, so I guess bring on the cold.

A picture of the outside of our house. They gave us the close date as Nov. 18th. We are getting really excited! I even got a new dinning table! A picture will come once it is shipped in.
Justin and I had a real date while his mom was in town over the deer hunt. We had so much fun and thank you to Darlene for watching Porter, even while he was fussy with his first ear infection. Babies are so confusing and how do you know if it's their ears, teeth, or mood? Communication is such a blessing!


Oh my goodness, It has been so long since my negligence in blogging! Porter is growing and changing so much. He loves to destroy everything! Pull out all of my makeup, then throw all of his toys all over the room, then pull the books off the shelf, then take all of the DVD's out of their place, then bang on my pans, then yell for some food, and then do it all over again babbling the entire time . I has a little toy walker that is so funny to watch him cruise around in it, and he has had many first steps and falls. I am not quite sure what to count as a step, foot movement or foot movement that is controlled afterward? Oh, and for everyone who thinks Porter is a tank...at his last doctor's apt he was 17.7 lbs, which is in the less than 5% for his age. He is just a tiny man, but he eats more than any baby ever!

Happy Nine Months

Our trip to Wheeler Farm. Brook said it was more fun for the mom's because we just made animal noises over and over again and the kids just looked at us a little confused.

He actually picked the pumpkin up and threw it away from him and then chased after it.
It was really difficult to get him to look at me with my camera, so this was one of the good ones.
Porter was the bully of the group, and when he wasn't attacking one of his cousins than he was attacking the other one.

Porter loved the ducks until the big mean goose started to shake at us. It was pretty scary!
As you can see Kate loves Porter!


Porter and Sawyer have so much fun with each other and love being friends the same size.
Someday this Frog will turn into a Prince! His Halloween costume is a little too big, but hopefully he will grow into it by Halloween.
One of his bad days...it had to be the teething!
And our new house is a little more advanced than this, but you get the general idea.

Oh my goodness it has been a long time since I have posted. Well, Porter is growing up! Some new achievements for him include: clapping his hands whenever we say "clap" (it gets him excited every time), eating anything he can get his hands on, crawling so fast that when he stops suddenly he does a complete nose dive, standing up to people and furniture and if you tell him to clap he will even stand on his own to complete the clapping, sleeping during the night most of the time until 5:30, I think he is teething and sometimes he gets a little fussy, Justin thinks he can say da da but it may just be his jabbers, and loving his mommy and cuddling her.