Rumors...

The rumors are TRUE! We are pregnant and expecting baby #2 on November 12th. (Not a day later, that is my policy)

Spring Update

It has been a busy month since Spring has FiNAlLY come! Porter is completely in love with "outside" and has learned that the best way to play is dirty. The picture below is how we usually start our play ground trips and then...

Some how this is always how we go home. *sigh* O well, good thing dirt is a boy's best friend cause he finds it everywhere. Along with spring came the rain but Porter still finds a way to enjoy himself in the bad weather, lucky me.

We celebrated Easter and Porter was much more interested this year. We went to the ward egg hunt and he was walking around signing "candy" all morning. He was upset when he had to stop for pictures (silly mom)!

 He definitely had an upper hand on the other kids because dad hunted with him and found all the hard to reach eggs. Lucky boy!

On Easter Sunday Porter hunted for his Easter basket and he was so excited about what the "rabbit" had brought. Yes, his mouth is full of candy and the giant bubble gun is amazing!  

Here is the long version of him hunting for his bucket (I know it's a bit much but the grandparents are far away). All the furniture was everywhere because we had tables set up for the Easter lunch we had with friends. The lunch turned out great and as usual I forgot to take pictures of the "grownups". Opps...

Happy Spring everyone! 

I'm not laughing...

April Fools is always good fun with laughs after being "got". 

Well mother nature has taken it too far and I woke up to 5+ inches of new snow outside. Not funny, just cruel...

A taste...

We had a little taste of spring this last week and we are hooked! Thursday we took Porter to the park with friends and it was a big hit. He played on the smaller toys for a while and then noticed the "other" toys, the BIG toys. Of course he was curious and went to explore. Needless to say the big slides were much more satisfying and so he played on those till we left. He is convinced he is a big boy and must be treated as such. 

This year vs. last year (much easier to keep tabs on him last year)

                                                                            

Ruby & Porter one year later, still pals.

Now that we have had a taste, we want SpRinG!!! Ironically I am writing this post after Phillip informed me it is supposed to snow a few inches tomorrow. Ahh Someday...

Spring where are you?

I have yet to post about my nemesis "The New England Winter"; probably because I've used all that time moving snow! (Ok who am I kidding, I shoveled once. The other 70+ inches Phillip moved.) But I thought I'd post some pictures to share what we've been enjoying here since January. 

Our first storm about 1/2 way through.

Mid January after yet another storm...

Our front door that we don't use for obvious reasons. 

Porter, like his mother, doesn't get why we hang out in the cold. He does not dig the snow.

But he hung on like a champion and no one was hurt in our sledding adventures. 

Phillip didn't give up on him and took him out again, but the results were the same he just didn't love it. The beauty of this is now it is two against one on moving to Arizona, or anywhere it doesn't snow. 

How'd a girl get so lucky?

You think you are the luckiest girl around when you have a strapping husband to treat you to a great Valentines Day; but it just gets better when you have a miniature to help. I love both my Valentines! (PS If Phillip knew I was posting this picture he wouldn't be too thrilled, so shhh...)

I haven't taken any today so these are from the ward party on Saturday where Porter ripped up the dance floor. Seriously my "too cool" for anything child got out there and gave quite the performance; surprise, 

surprise.

HaPpY VaLEntInE's DAy everyone!! 

One Year...

We have officially survived been in Massachusetts for a year now! It is amazing how much can change in a year. For Example:

Jan 2010

 Jan 2011

"It"

We have been planning Christmas for months and had worked out all the details so it would be a Christmas to remember (the good kind). Phillip's little brother flew in a week before Christmas and his parents were headed in the day after. We had decided to celebrate on the 29th because that would give us a few days to rest once everyone had arrived. The house was decorated, presents were bought, and good food was ready to be devoured. Perfect right? And then it hit; I don't know what "it" is, but it hit hard...

Porter got sick, really sick. The kind of sick were he wanders around crying and being miserable and making sure he makes everyone else miserable with him. Uncle Andy caught the sickness and if that wasn't bad enough, then the storm came. My in-laws got stuck in Denver because ALL flights into Boston were canceled until the middle of the week :( Yep, Christmas was canceled. And if that wasn't a big enough bummer, Porter just got worse and wanted nothing to do with presents so I didn't even get my happy Christmas pictures. Seriously?!?! I sure hope 2011 starts better than this year is ending...

Stranger Danger

So I like to think that I am a pretty decent mother who knows her child fairly well... I know Porter is not the biggest fan of people, any people. So I anticipated he was not going to be a fan of a big jolly man in a red suit with only his eyes showing. So I began prepping him for Santa before Thanksgiving.

We read books about Santa, we watched movies about Santa, we looked at pictures of Santa, we sang songs about Santa; long story short, Santa has been a BIG part of our lives for the last month. And what do I get for my hard work?

On the positive side when he saw him he yelled "SANTA!" so I know he recognized him...

Why I don't blog more...

 I know "not having enough time" is a pretty bad excuse because let's face it we make time for the things that are important to us, but we have been busy lately with a bit more than usual...

The end of October passed in a blur. We spent a day at the temple getting to see three amazing families from our ward sealed. One family in particular is special to us because we had the opportunity to be at their last sealing in Utah when they adopted their first and now the family is complete! That night we hosted a party for the families and had a great time with friends.

Then Halloween came and that meant the ward Halloween Party which I've heard went great. (I honestly don't remember much I was running around like a chicken with no head.) But I do have this one picture to document the day. Poor Porter was so ornery from the crazy day setting up that I didn't put him in his costume. However, he did eat an amazing amount of cheese puffs and that seemed to make the party worth it for him.
The next day we had the missionaries and a few families over for a Halloween dinner that turned out surprisingly good. (I am not an amazing kind of cook but I got lucky)

 

Just a week later we started planning our Thanksgiving extravaganza. It will be our first away from home so we have to make it big, right? And of course a week after Thanksgiving is the Ward Christmas Party. Don't worry, I learned my lesson from Halloween and will not start planning until a week before :) 

In between all the parties I have worked on a few projects; here are the completed ones: 

 And no post about what we have been up to would be complete without a few pictures of my delicious baby. PS It is nearly impossible to take him seriously in this coat and hat!