Beautiful Baby

I have been in a scrapbooking phase. It's fun but I hadn't found anything exciting to scrap about Lily until I found this quote, "You've got the cutest baby face." It was PERFECT, because Lily does have the cutest little face ever. I know I biased because I'm the momma but she just makes you want to kiss her everyday. Even as a 10 month old she's got such personality. When daddy comes home from work she just throws her arms up in the air and starts talking as fast as she can to get his attention so he will pick her up. It's adorable.

So cute and girlie. I love it. Christmas is flying towards us and I can't wait til Wednesday night when we can actually put presents under the tree. 5 more days!!!

Gingerbread

This holiday season because Owen is getting to a fun age where we can do more we have been trying to add some more fun and serious into Christmas. This is going to be our first Christmas staying a home to open presents and Owen is already excited, which makes me excited because the last 2 years he has been to little to understand presents and wrapping paper. He has helped me wrap presents, he is in charge of the tape so there are always a few extra pieces here and there.

We decorated a Gingerbread house. It was my first time and Owens as well. It went so much better then I imagined it. For $10 we had a wonderful family evening. Owen actually wanted to decorate and he would tell me where things were going to go. He only licked his fingers and when a candy wouldn't stick where he wanted it to he would lick it and try again. Here is the finished product.

It was loads of fun. We have also started reading scriptures as a family with the Family Book of Mormon from Deseret Book. Owen loves the pictures and it breaks down the chapters into easy to handle sections for the kids. Every night before we go to bed Owen gets excited to get the story, which weighs so much that it's funny to see him carry it. After we read its time to say prayers and he doesn't understand why Lily gets to play and he has to fold him arms and be good. I hope that the little things we do now stick for the long run.

Snow

Growing up in California we didn't have many chances for snow days so it's fun to see Owen loving it so much. He used to walk outside look at it and then go in but now that we've pulled out the snow gear he's been making bum prints and digging in it. We can only go out when Lily is taking a nap because she is against the whole idea of cold but its fun because that is a fun alone time with Owen.

Here we go again. . .

My goal for this month was to blog more to keep everyone up to date but well sickness overcame the Porterhouse after Thanksgiving and I have been covered in snot for days now. Owen I finally getting better, Lily was wheezing yesterday but it's gone today and I finally got a chance to sleep mine off the last 2 days and feel so much better.

Lily is getting so much better at crawling and Owen has realized that she can get to everything and is trying to find a place where he can play without her. She won't have it and has developed a whine when he runs away from her. It's kind of funny to watch.

This years Christmas card wasn't going to have a picture due to the colds but we were playing in front of the tree the other night and I got the best picture of Owen and Lily so it had to be the Christmas card picture. Thank you photo shop because I was able to edit out the glistening snot from under their noses. The first few made it out today and hopefully I will gather the rest of the addresses soon.

Merry December!!!!

Thanksgiving

Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone and it was very thrilling. Lily now has her bottom teeth after what seems like years of waiting. And with those teeth came the ability to army crawl. She is finally on the move. She is still quite frustrated with the fact that it isn't efficient but she on her way.

As those who were with us saw potty training went on pause for Thanksgiving but the second we were home again we were in full swing he hasn't had any accidents since Grandma Porters house. We even had a breakthrough this morning Owen woke up at 6:30 am went to the bathroom and went back to bed until almost 7:30! I was so excited.

As every Porter family gathering goes my kids came home with colds and Lily is miserable. She barely slept last night which meant we barely slept last night. And since the FDA says that babies don't benefit from cold medicine and parents overdosed and killed there kids there is really nothing I can do for her which is very annoying. Hopefully she gets better soon.

Oh and we did go day after Thanksgiving shopping there were no deaths at the Walmart we were at but people were crazy enough to break the glass case housing the video games.

Best buds

We don't know why they love to play with each other they fight over every toy, chair, snack imaginable but they love each other.

Back on track

I finally started scrapping again after a long pause. I overloaded myself last time and now here we are. I started this page and then realize how late it was closed it without saving and I was so mad because i had edited pictures and everything and didn't save a thing. So I started it again and the page was the wrong size so here is the third draft of Lily.

Isn't she so cute. She could be in the worst mood and then you put her in water and she is all smiles.

Success!!!!

I know everyone wants to know this we went to Walmart today and it was so scary Owen didn't wear a diaper. While going through the store he said potty so I went as fast as I could to the bathroom expecting Owen to be a mess and he wasn't he held it until he was on the potty!!! I was so excited and he was clapping for himself and the other women in the bathroom clapped and said Good job he was so proud.

Now if anyone has any advice for nap time and bed time that's our new issue. Every time he gets into bed he has to go potty we go nothing happens, we do this 3 times and then finally I make him go to bed and he immediately wets the bed. ADVICE PLEASE!!!

Lily's 9 months

Today Lily is officially 9 months old. I can't believe it. It seems like yesterday she was born, she can only be a few months at most. But she's so cute and a joy and blessing in our lives. Even for Owen she is important. He hates to hear her cry. He's the first one there to check on her when she wakes up. Whenever we leave the house he stays by sister until someone gets her. Owen also wants so much to help take care of her. If he has a snack Lily (Lay-e in Owen speak) needs one to. It's so cute and frusterating at the same time because yesterday we had some cheese and Owen had a stick and Lily had little cubes, of course Lily dropped half of her cubes and Owen wanted her to have some more so he gave her his stick and she tried her darndest to eat it but when I came over to check on her she had it shoved in the side of her mouth and she was trying to eat around it.

We had her 9 month check up today and she is 28 inches tall and 20 pounds of pure cuteness. We talked to the doctor about the lactose problem and he told us that with luck it will pass we just need to try dairy every once in a while so she can have exposure to it but she still needs the lactose-free formula. When she gets closer to a year we have to start adding milk little by little to her bottles and see how it goes from there. Hopefully we won't encounter many more problems. Otherwise she is healthy and doing great.

New Layout

As you can tell I was so ready for Halloween to be over. I tried to be all artsy with my new layout but well its almost there. We are still pulling ourselves together since my parents left. Lily has made it difficult with her ever constant yelling. She is the loudest baby ever right now, I love her but I'm awake right now because of the peace that is in my house. I just know she is going to wake up at 6 again and throw me off.

I'm so excited for Christmas this year. Owen is finally getting old enough to know what's going on and we actually have the ability to get stuff which is new. Of course it's so hard to get something for Chet under the tree because either he buys it or he knows I bought it. I was going to get a monitor for our computer because we have been using a hand me down one which was probably one of the original monitors in existence but my dad used it once and got fed up (so what if the color changes if you bump the desk or its so small that web pages don't properly load or Chet favorite it's technology was so old that it didn't support the images from new programs) and went out and bought us one and said Merry Christmas. Now I have to think of a new thing for Chet that I can actually pick out myself. And with his fishing, hunting, camping hobbies I am at a loss (which is probably what he thinks when I make him go into craft stores with me:)). Well it's past my dead line to go to sleep so type at you all later.

Happy Halloween

Well for Halloween we went got Lily and Owen dressed up as Tinkerbell and Peter Pan with all sorts of layers underneath.

We took pictures with dad before he left for work. Ironically we were all wearing green for the occasion. Lily is in a bad mood because she is teething. Owen was a trooper with teeth he'd get 2 at a time a not even make a fuss, Lily's life is ending. She yells if you look at her wrong. I just want the teeth to come in.

We met up with Gene and Lisa so Owen and Cole could Trick or Treat together. Owen was all for everything loved going to all the houses, up to all the people. Cole wanted to eat the candy, and the wrappers. By the end he was in the stroller just holding out his elmo bucket and Owen was still running around holding up his bag that weighed to much for him to carry.

I'm BACK!!!!

Sorry for leaving you hanging so long ago. I've been trying to pull things together around my house and well if you know the troubles of our house a little project turns into 50 trips to home depot and all I wanted to do was paint Lily's room. It's all ready just waiting for daddy to decide what he wants to do with the wall texture.

My parents are here we are having fun. Although we can't decide what to get Lily for Christmas. Owen was so much easier. Her favorite toy right now is the Magna Doodle pen and she gets so mad at Owen when he tries to take it away from her. She starts shaking and then she squawks like a bird ready to attack. It's so cute.

When we finally get Lily's room done I'll definitely post a picture which reminds me we finally got our hard drive unfrozen and I was looking through it, great movie showing how much Owen loves Mommy.

Imagine we would have lost that and when Owen is a teenager and hates me for being 'so mean' I can pull this out and know my baby loves me.

Well everyone is up now so I shall say goodbye for now.

Scrappin crazy

I have got completely addicted to scrapbooking lately and it didn't help that we did some Halloween costume pictures of the kids already. The moment I saw the pictures a scrapbook page came into mind. (Crazy huh) So here is my creation. Thanks to photoshop and Anna.

Circle

Owen has been sitting all day with his magna doodle and drawing circles. Some of them are really good I'm so proud, but he wouldn't even put down the magna doodle for dinner. Drive me nuts the whole meal the magna doodle was 2 feet away and he's pointing at it and saying circle, circle . . . over and over. I would have taken a picture of his last circle of the evening but it looks more like a dragon so we'll try again tomorrow.

Lily on the other hand is still as attached as ever to mom. If I turn my back to her she starts whining until I turn around again and she starts smiling. So hard to be mad at that smile.

On the other hand Grandma and Grandpa Baltezore are coming to visit in October so the countdown has started! They get to see the kids just before Halloween. If they understood what next month meant I would tell them but since they don't I can't tell them until the day before.

This is why I try so hard

I totally stole these from my sister Anna the scrapbook princess but they were so cute I had to. My kids are so adorable huh.

It's so addictive I can't stop

It's true I started digi-scrapbooking and everytime I look at the computer I want to do more. Even now as I type this message I'm jones-ing to start another page. I needed to post some pictures though because I was on the phone with Anna for a ridculously long time today and she wanted to see the joy that was going on around me.

Leaving Owen to fend for himself with his toys and the TV didn't last long. I smelled something funny and I turned around to see my little boy painting his toes because he saw mommy doing it with herself and Lily and he felt left out.

So pretty huh. Also on the pretty front I tried my hand at jewelry making and made Lily a braclet. So cute. It's barely even the size of 2 fingers put together. Owen tried to steal it so we know it's strong. :)

The Fresno fair is a great big fair. . .

If your from Fresno you know that ends, "don't miss it don't even be late." We didn't go to the Fresno Fair we went to the East Idaho State Fair. Lisa has a bunch of pictures that I want to see of Cole and Owen. When I get those I'll probably post some.



It was great we looked at all sorts of stuff we can't afford to do with the house, bought a lot of fatty over priced food, played in the play areas (which owen and cole thought was the John Deere display). We were surprised the man at the display didn't mind the kids jumping all over the tractors. The only thing he cared to comment on was Owen turned the lights on this huge tractor that he could barely climb on.



Chet's favorite part was the petting zoo because of the puppies that were for sale in there. One day we'll get a dog but today is not the day. Our kids are enough.

Have fun!

Yellowstone National Park

After months of saying, "we're going" we finally went to Yellowstone. It was fun we got to see some animals, got to pay ridiculously high prices for food. Fun times!

*** Little known fact *** My mom lived in West Yellowstone for 2 summers when Grandpa Drolette worked for the railroad. Cool huh.

Here's some pictures from the trip.

Here's Owen and I in front of the "stink" pots.

Owen and Chet went to go see this elk while I was in the car feeding Lily. This was the only animal we got out of the car to go closer to because he was across the river. Other people were tempting their fates coming within feet of bison and elks. They even had a family of elk cornered by a hill. Dumb people.

Us in front of Old Faithful before the eruption.

Some tourists idea of a good family shot in front of Old Faithful. Yeah good for Owen maybe we should have taken 3 more and we could have had everyone looking good in there own pic.

Stinkin' great in 08

The slogan this year for the family reunion was PU Porter University Stinkin great in 08. And well since I've been in the family this was the best family reunion. We rented a cabin which with 36 and 1/2 (baby Porter is still a few months off for a visit) people we needed extra space. There was a pool that Owen LOVED!!! He is a fish at heart. But he knows that he has to be in with someone thankfully. Lily was dubbed Tiger Lily because she was growling a anyone who tried to hold her.

We have misplaced our camera we took a picture in the car so it's in there, but with all the stuff moving around it was crazy. We are now headed to Yellowstone so blog at you later.

Uh oh!

I forgot to blog on my Birthday!!

Well my birthday came and went it was packing day for the family reunion so I was super duper busy. My present from Cheddar was 3 roses for the 3 birthdays we have spent together. Oh so cute. Such a happy birthday.

Happy Birthday Cheddar!

It's official the Cheese is now 26. We celebrated by spending time with Jace, Grandma P, Gene, Lisa and Cole. One more birthday done one more to go!

Happy Birthday Grandpa B!

Today is my dad's 60th birthday. Happy birthday dad hope it was a good one even though you are so far away we still thought of you. To celebrate since I am a few states away I celebrated the birth of my newest nephew Jace Porter. We get to meet him tomorrow!!! I'm excited babies are so much fun.

Made by ME!!!

So I made a bow for Lily and of course had to have a photo shot. Chet called it 'Big and Flashy'.

I thought it was super cute.

Happy Anniversary!

It's official we have made it 3 years. It doesn't even seem like that long at all. It's amazing how much our lives have changes in just 3 short years. We got married, had Owen, Chet finally got a job that was worth something, bought a house, and had Lily. We're on a roll. I just can't wait until it's us saying whoa it's been 30 years our kids are married and we finally have time to ourselves. :)

As for our weekend. I made it 42 1/2 hours without the kids then I missed them to much and we went back for them. I am tired of people saying I don't trust my in-laws with the kids because so far they are the only ones who I've trusted with the kids overnight.

Friday and of course a hitch

To begin we had Lily's 6 month check-up yesterday. She's doing good. She weighs 18lbs and is 25 inches tall. Otherwise in perfect health. Yeah for Lily. I had to take Owen with us and he wanted to be the one being checked. Then when all was said and done he wanted to leave with the doctor.

And for the hitch go ahead laugh . . . Chet once again got forced to work tonight. Thankfully it was tonight and not in the middle of the weekend. So we're just going to leave when Daddy leaves for work and I'm going to drop off the kids myself and have an evening all to myself. I haven't decided if I'm going to rent a movie, go eat sushi or what. Or just fall asleep and not have to wake up to feed Lily, put Owen back in bed because he's a sleep walker or get Chet to stop talking because he asks questions in his sleep that he is very persistent that he needs answered.

Oh we also have a theme for Halloween this year!!! Anna found Lily a Tinkerbell costume which is to cute. following in the tradition of me being Tinkerbell a million times when I was little. I found Captain Hook for Owen and I'm trying to convince Chet to be Peter Pan. We could go the play route and have me be Peter Pan but why is Halloween the hoochie mama holiday, even Wendy they have a really tiny 'nightgown' so well see what I end up in.

Let the countdown begin

Well we have made it to Wednesday without any major issues. I am again preparing the kids to spend the weekend with Grandma and Ampa (thats Grandpa in Owen) Porter. I'm hoping this goes off without a hitch this time.

We are getting our use out of the swingset Owen tries to run outside after every nap or anytime he goes and sits on the potty. Lily still hasn't noticed it yet maybe she will next year.

Owsye!

For those whose Urim and Thummim is broken today that mean outside in 'Owen'. His joy and need to go outside has been brought on by the new addition to our family.

This was Owen's First look at it.

This was Lily's first impression. (She's not even looking the right direction.)

Here's a hint at what it was. This was the first thing Owen wanted to do. Owen posing for a photo opportunity. He sat there until I took the picture and then showed him that I took it. And well this has nothing to do with the new swing set but I had to show you Lily's jammin' outfit.

Work in progress

I am working on making our blog pretty and well with 2 kids it makes it difficult. You may see a few changes over your next visits so please be patient.

P.S. Lily slept until 6:30 this morning!!!

Hip Hip Hooray!!!

I would just like to thank Lily with all my heart, my baby slept until 6:00 am. Yes we did actually have to get out of bed and play with Owen after that but bless her I didn't have to wake up at 2 or 3 or 2 and 3. I was so excited I called Chet at work to tell him my news and he wasn't thrilled. I blame it on the fact that we were supposed to have our Anniversary Birthday Extravaganza this weekend and he got forced to work Saturday we're bummed. It's been bumped to next weekend. Hopefully all goes well.

Growing up

Owen is starting to get closer to the potty training stage. Almost every time he went potty today after he was done he'd walk up to me look me straight in the face and say 'i poie'. So we'd go upstairs talk about please tell me BEFORE. He loves to go sit on the potty. I think he just likes to be able to tell me where to go and I can't say no. My little boy is growing up.

Lily is getting cuter by the day. She is bound and determined to move on her bum. She'll see something she wants lean for it and if she's to far away she sits up shakes her body for a few seconds kicking her legs and then try for it again. She could do this forever I feel bad for her after a few minutes and move it closer. I'm so scared that she's going to start crawling soon. My baby girl can't grow up.

Tiger Lily

Pictures of Lily

Before I get shot down in a masked raid for not posting pictures here are some pictures of Lily. Owen was taking a nap when they were done so I'll add him in later but her is Tiger Lily playing with her favorite toy a stuffed elephant rattle.

The Zoo

Amazingly Idaho Falls Zoo is not that bad. We went yesterday just to see if it was worth it since we've only driven by a few times. It was nice not like San Diego zoo but still better then we all expected. Owen and Cole were interested in different animals of course. Owen's favorite were the itty's or any cat like creature. He would see a new one and yell itty!!!! The monkeys freaked him out. One of the monkeys would sit in the window right at the boys height and Owen would stand there as long as the monkey didn't look at him once the monkey looked it was all over he'd run away. Of course after the fact we realized we should have brought the camera, next time. Cole lost track of everything once he saw that there was a snap on the stroller he could play with after that we were hard pressed to get him to notice anything.

Sorry it's been a while.. . .

We just had a bit to much excitement going on here. Owen tried to dose himself with some Benadryl. Luckily he is a bad pour and most of it ended up in the carpet, but we took him to the ER since we didn't know how much he had actually given himself. If you didn't know Benadryl in the correct dose is supposed to calm you down and in overdose is supposed to give you a high. Well, the regular dose of Benadryl gets Owen hyper so he was bouncing off the walls. When we got to the ER he had looked at all the toys in a matter of seconds and admired the fish. Thankfully the ER was empty and we got called back after that. Owen got to drink some chocolate flavored charcoal which looked like tar going in and out. My favorite quote for the day came from Chet who said, "How is it after all that Benadryl his nose is still running." Well OK it was second best to,"You know if Lily keeps farting like that shes going to have a hard time finding a guy."

On another note Lily rolled for the first time!!! We are so proud and for the last few nights she only woke up once again I'm so happy.

We've got a sitter!!!

Lily's personal best for sitting unaided is now 5 minutes!!! I know everyone loves her in her little purple chair but so much fun. She just can't get to excited because well when Lily smiles she uses her whole body and ends up tipping over. I would have a picture but Chet stole the memory card to my camera. :(

We are now completely back to normal since the vacation and Trev and Chantal's visit. It took a while but we got a little backed up. Now as August comes upon us we have anniversary (12th), Chet's birthday the big 26!!! (17th), my birthday 24!!! (20th) and somewhere in there Baby boy maybe J.R. Porter is going to be born and we get an overnighter with Coleton! Yeah another boy cousin for Lily and Owen!

4th of July

Happy 4th!!! It doesn't feel like a holiday and I guess this is what holiday's at the porterhouse are going to be like since Chet doesn't get most holidays off. The kids have been crazy lately since were really haven't had a normal schedule in almost a month. I nearly forget the Lily is getting older and she is not a newborn anymore. She is trying to learn how to move although rolling over is not her goal. She'll lay on her side with her legs completely twisted over but if you try to get her to go the rest of the way she'll turn to the other side. During tummy time today she did however get her knees up under her and push forward just a little bit. :) It's so scary she's going to be mobile before i know it and I'll have to be so much more careful.

Owen is so cute, he is learning new phrases. The other day he wanted to run away from the doctors office so he took me to a chair and said, 'Momma sit' and then ran for the door. He is now 3 feet tall and 30 pounds. he is also officially done with shots until Kindergarten. Just the mention of Owen and Kindergarten in the same sentence made me cringe, my baby will never be that old. OK he will be and I'll be excited and scared all at the same time.

bec

I've lost it

I tried to make my blog cute and have now made it ugly. :( If anyone can help me make it pretty again please help. In the process I also lost other's blog sites so if you want to help me with that to. Thanks.

I'm a dork

So it took me awhile. . .

We have been officially back for about five days now and I have started 'blogging' probably five or six times but I get a sentence in and duty calls . . . or screams however you want to picture my kids getting my attention.
The trip was great. Driving actually wasn't that bad. We actually met the United States nicest truck driver. We should have called in on that number on the back of his truck to tell him how wonderful he was. We were on a 2 lane strip of nothingness in Nevada where not only is it only two lanes but its also rolling hills, when we get to this line up behind a truck. Thinking oh no were going to be here forever we settle in. We soon notice that every chance a car has to pass they actually do. Wondering how this is coming to pass we start paying attention. The trucker is actually signaling to the car behind it every time its clear. We were only behind him for a couple of minutes. Truckers if you ever read this follow his example!!!
We spent some quality time at the beach freezing our little bottoms off. Lily got to view Pismo through a car window since we drove onto the beach it was very convenient. Owen didn't even care how cold it was all he cared about was that we were playing in the biggest sand box he had ever seen. He didn't care for the water at all, if we took him towards it he promptly ran away. Of course he did eat a lot of sand under the 'supervision' of his father, I was off shopping for sweatshirts for the adults because we were so worried about the kids that we forgot our own. Back to the sand. . . don't worry he threw it all up.
Chet went 'man camping' with my brother in laws. He made it back safe and sound which is great. I have to applaud him since the guys thought it was weird that he wasn't burping and farting like they were. He picked up a new hobby though he wants to start hiking more. I think he just wants to find something 'outdoorsy' that I enjoy so he'll try anything. I'm just glad with so many little ones I get to ease into anything. :)
Our last big hurrah in Cali was San Francisco. My favorite Chet quote was 'I have never smelled anywhere this good before." This was as we were passing doughnut, ice cream and chocolate shops. We ate at Bubba Gump Shrimp and it was delicious!!! We were there with my ole' Provo buddy Lauren and her son Gavin. She recommended the Aquarium under the Bay which was great. Chet, Gavin and Owen were very impressed. The best quote from the aquarium was when a school of sardines swam over head and Gavin yelled 'Watch out guys, BIG fish!' This also came from the kid who says, 'that's big, dos big.' Thank you Dora for confusing the younger generation its not to big its dos big.

Bec

Cali Vacation Part 1

Cali!!!

So we are leaving today and in true Baltezore style I am awake at 5 am. We all got it from my dad, vacation is like Christmas you can't sleep the night before and if something makes a noise towards morning your up and there's nothing you can do about it. Since I can't sleep anyways I'm trying to get the bills and downstairs aspect of the morning all taken care of. Once Chet gets home the true party will begin and hopefully without much struggle we will get out the door today. I already got gas, so yes haven't even walked out the door and this trip has cost us $100.00, blessed van.

I don't know if I'll type at you in Cali but until then Love ya!
Bec

This is just funny

How to make a Rebecca

Ingredients: 1 part competetiveness 5 parts silliness 1 part empathy

Method: Add to a cocktail shaker and mix vigorously. Add sadness to taste! Do not overindulge! How to make a Chet Ingredients: 5 parts success 3 parts ambition 3 parts joy Method: Stir together in a glass tumbler with a salted rim. Add a little cocktail umbrella and a dash of lovability

3 days!!!

We have 2 days left of Chet working and right after he gets off we finish packing for California!!!! If you have seen us this week everything seems normal until you look at Owen and Lily's outfits. I've started packing for them so of course all of there cute stuff is coming with us and whatever is left is what they wear. It's great I just laugh because it's like I've been putting off doing laundry you know when you get to the last of the clothes and you wear 2 different socks, or pants that you only wear in the house. :)

Today was Lily's 4 month check up. She's doing great. She weighs 16 lbs. Yippee! The doctor says she's doing good and she is showing signs that rolling is coming soon!


Anna for you.

Giggle Mania

Apparently Lily finds people jumping on the bed hilarious because when she saw a little girl doing it last night she couldn't stop laughing. It was so cute. We kept making Sydnie jump to see if she'd laugh again and she would it was great. Except all that laughter gave her gas and she was up all night needing me to rub her head and hold her hand. That's all she wanted. so i got her comfortable and laid down next to her and for 3 hours that's what we did. Any change she would squeal. It was exhausting but finally at 2 am when the Tylenol, gas drops, rubbing her tummy, pumping her legs all kicked in she finally allowed me to go to bed. It was beautiful. But of course Owen woke up at 7:30 on the dot. It feels like someone has placed an alarm clock in there with him. Ever constant . . 7:30.

12 more days

Whoa . . . the big Porter family road trip is getting into major countdown mode. 12 more days of waiting 2 more full shifts for Chet. I've started a list of things we need to take with us and I swear its getting huge we have to bring 120 diapers at least! Then not to mention all the clothes, pack and play and toys then were also doing Owen's birthday there. Goodness.

We moved it again. . . .

If anyone knows the difficulties with our TV location you'll laugh now. Chet has wanted the TV and toys downstairs since we moved here. I have not wanted that stuff down here because the office area was free game to the kids and going up and down over and over. Well Chet finally won. We had a hot day and downstairs was still pleasant and upstairs was blazing. It was probably just 70 but with 2 kids, having to hold Lily it was over I wanted to stay cool. We now have worlds longest gate up again (thanks gene and lisa) and Owen is now bound and determined to get over it.

To Anna the scrapbook Princess

This is the first ever Porter scrapbook page. Whoo hoo. Yes it is a little out of order but hey getting one done is a big accomplishment!

New Floor

I forgot the main event of the PorterHouse this week. We finally set out to start the basement project and wanted to buy some drywall so we were going to take some measurements and to our surprise our upstairs bathroom was leaking into the unfinished downstairs one. So against our timetable which is how home improvement projects are supposed to go I've found out we replaced the bathroom floor. Nothing fancy just a vinyl sheet floor but it amazingly without trying looks better then the old peel and stick blue 'marble' tile floor.

Oh the pain . . .

Being a stay at home mom with a newborn you expect long days and long nights but sometimes you just pray for a break. Last night was one of those nights I prayed that I might be able to get some sleep. Lily usually sleeps until around 2 but this time she slept until 3 . . . but instead of awakening to her crying it was Owen screaming. He is getting his 2 year old molars. It's not a very happy experience for him. His screams woke his sister, who knows she could have slept longer. I fed her thinking Owen would calm down. It didn't work out, him screaming kept Lily awake so we all laid together in bed. . . (since of course Chet was at work for the hard night). Yes I did get to sleep until 3 but I think tonight instead of sleep I'll pray for a peaceful night.

Day 5

Usually by day four of Chet working I'm about ready to pull my hair out and I am counting down the minutes until I hear the whirrr of the garage door opening, but there has been a lot of over time at work so we are now on day 5. I think I may go nuts. Luckily we have errands to run today and we won't be in the house all day.

If church wasn't interesting enough already going by yourself with 2 kids under two you start to receive pity. I heard a lot of, oh flying solo today. . . chet's working today I'm sorry . . . but we all trudge on. Especially when Lily spit up on the Sunday school teacher, passed wind during the prayer and then sang with all her little heart during the Relief Society lesson. By the way what would you do with a baby that's not crying but is happily so loud?

Mother's Day

Waking up Mother's Day morning I thought it would completely suck because it was going to be the first time I got the kids to church on time without Chet which meant I was going to have to battle sacrament meeting by myself. Amazingly Owen sat on my lap almost the whole time and colored or read his truck book. And ate snacks . . . lots and lots of snacks. Then went to nursery without a hitch. So I had a peaceful church time came home everyone took a nap and then went to Gene and Lisa's for a BBQ. It was really nice. Then we came home and went to bed. But the greatest part was I got a freezer. Yes that probably sounds like the dumbest present ever but I wanted it soooo bad. It is back ordered until June 4th but it's better knowing that I finally don't have to stack things and unstack every time I want to make dinner. Yippee!

Count down to Cali!!

We have a month until our trip to California to visit with my family and I know I'm excited. The kids are to young to know what they are in for. I'm hoping they sleep most of the way there if not were trying to find things for distraction. So if anyone has any surefire in the car entertainment for a 2 year old tell us.

Happy Mother's Day tomorrow to all the mother's out there.

2008

Here we go!

For Anna who loves to blog!



Here is the new Porter website its just barely started so give me some time I'll get some pictures and more information on what were doing soon.



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