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.

Tent City

Over Labor Day the Schanz family had an awesome camp-out. What do you call 7 huge tents, 5 crying BABIES, no running water, crawdads, dutch oven cooking, German board games, Justin singing solo's, washing your hair in the stream, a fly swarming outhouse, and Jacob's professional shooting lessons? My kind of fun in Bone, Idaho. I wish I would have taken more pictures....a hint to Tim, the photographer, to make copies for me...because we really did have that much fun. Being dirty is fun momentarily, but when it comes right down to it, I love being clean!
What baby doesn't love to get into everything? He loves anything and everything I have, and I am hoping that he will continue to love to brush his teeth as he gets older too.


I know I have mentioned on here a couple of times how much Porter loves to eat, but he really does love to eat! He now has these really hard teething biscuits that you chew on and they slowly disintegrate. Well Porter devours the biscuits as you can see, and the mess is left behind...He gets a couple of showers a day.

Almost Framed

Updated photos of our new house. We are very excited! Also my friend, Annalisa, has a coupon blog, www.slavetosave.blogspot.com, and they have some giveaways right now if anyone is interested.

Happy 8 Months

8 months old and all ready such a big man! Achievements: crawling super fast, laughing at raspberries on the belly, pulling himself up to everything, getting into the salsa jar and having a very hot mouth, clapping his hands, sleeping through the night, eating anything I put into his mouth, staring at the blow dryer wondering when it would turn on, and loving his mommy (and daddy too). Such a wonderful boy!!!
He couldn't resist the leaves, they looked to good, and he had to try them out.
Porter loved it as much as I did. Well he really likes food, probably his favorite thing, so maybe he liked it even more than I did.


Porter is now 8 months old and we had a great celebration with the mystery melon. We went to Reams a couple of days back and they had a funky melon , we talked to their produce man and he said, "there are so many names for it, we call it a specialty melon." Or in my words, the mystery melon. It looked so intriguing that I just had to buy one, and I am sure glad we did. It was so delish!

The cookie lady

Well my neighbor growing up is known for her amazing cookies and makes them for all occasions. My sister teases me lately and tells me that is who I have become. Justin loves fresh chocolate chip cookies and we almost always have dough in the fridge to make them. I wish Justin would crave something like broccoli instead to help with our overall sugar intake, but what do you do. This is Justin's Mom's recipe, and they are super good. Enjoy!

2 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup butter
1/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1 package, 4 cup serving, instant vanilla pudding
2 eggs
1 package, 12 oz size, semi sweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Mix flour and baking soda. Set aside. In a new bowl, cream together butter, sugars, pudding, and vanilla. Add eggs. Blend in flour mixture. Add chips and nuts. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 for 8-10 min.

We now have a garage

The house is definitely coming along, and the framing is flying by. I am sure this picture is outdated seeing how it was taken 4 days ago. The more I see our house progress, the more excited I get. It will be nice to finally have a place of our own.
Porter loves new feelings, especially on his feet. He was making a funny face when touching the rocks. Amber was telling me today that she thinks her baby is cuter than my baby, but I would have to disagree. I am one of those proud moms that think my baby is the ultimate.

We are definitely getting our use out of our baby hiker. We hiked part of Timp on Saturday. Originally we wanted to go on a short mini hike, seeing how Justin was hiking with 20 extra pounds, but we couldn't find the trailhead of the mini hike so we headed up towards Timp. We hiked up for about an hour and then turned around, but the tour guide at the bottom said we went up about 100 flights of stairs. Not too shabby.