Monday, November 23, 2009

My little Aaron




This is driving me insane. Where is my blog background?!?! It disappeared but it's still there in layout. I've even removed it and reapplied but still nothing. How irritating. I love my Thanksgiving back drop and can't even enjoy it right now. =( Anyway, I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited!!!! My twin Stacey and her hubby Matt and my baby nephew Simon are in Vegas and I'll be there is just a couple hours!!!!!! I am so excited I think I just soiled myself. =P (We'll miss you Michelle!) As for Porter, he is such a mini-Aaron. Found some toddler pictures of Aaron and it's my Porter with curly hair! These pictures are "Morning Son" pictures, or pictures taken right after he wakes up. The other one is a precious moment with cousin Presley. These two could also be nicknamed "Mini-Miriam" and "Mini-Aaron".

Saturday, November 21, 2009

SANTA!!!!!!

Porter saw Santa at the Jubilee of Trees!!! Not sure what he's asking for here but it's too cute. The rest of the time he cried (too close to nap time) and I have pictures of that on my camera but I'm glad the photographer caught this moment.

Porter holding a manly football; had to make up for the doll (even though this pictures was taken before). This child is precious, cute, funny, handsome, smart, curious, active, and just plain perfect.

Thanksgiving goodies










Gobble, gobble, gobble. Got together with two of my bestest buddies to have some good ol' fashion seasonal-holiday-festive fun. We made these turkey cupcakes and Oreo turkeys. How fun is that?! I'm LOVING house-wife life and not working. Allows me to spend all my time with my precious little son and to do little fun things like this that I never had time to do with studying or working. It's the little things in life.


This is my favorite Thanksgiving goodie...Porter-son!!! I love this sweet snuggly kid. He is getting so active and fun. He loves to play in the dog food and dog water (he squeals in frustration when I stand between him and that), moving furniture (he is constantly pushing around his Leap Frog table or the kitchen chairs or bar stools), and he just loves his puppies, his Daddy, and milk.

Have to put in another plug for my friend and visiting teaching companion; she made these CUTE cards for Thanksgiving. Her info is in a Halloween post.







When I went to pick up Porter from my friends house (she babysat him while I attended my sis-in-laws hip hop dance concert which was AWESOME and she was AMAZING!!!), he handed me this baby doll. I think he wanted me to put it to bed cause that's what you do with tired babies. Look at my poor buddy! So tired.


And for all you Twilight fans, I took pictures of the "New Moon" tree at the Jubilee of Trees. Porter and I went for a NICU reunion and he had his picture taken with Santa (not posted) and he cried. It was 30 mins from nap time...too close.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Time Out for Me....coming up!


I am sooooooooo excited!!! Time Out for Women is coming up in a few weeks! I am so excited; these are the tickets. Aren't they beautiful?!
Tomorrow I am off to Kentucky, so this is probably good-bye for a few or two!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Long live Ramsies!

The hunt is over!!! We have husband/daddy back home. :) Aaron didn't get anything but he did bring back the jerky from the last deer he got, so first time to try deer meat. Ramses was going to be the name for the buck he got, but since he got nothing Ramses lives on. Told Porter daddy was off killing Bambi; hope that doesn't emotionally scar him, not that he's ever watched "Bambi"...
This is my latest bargain. I love a bargain and deal more than anything when it comes to shopping. I feel ripped off paying regular price. This is an extra car seat I got at a garage sale for $4! It's only 3 years old and will work quite nicely for those "You have the car with the car seat so what am I supposed to do?" discussions.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Cards, the Red Neck & Porter news

My visiting teaching companion is awesome! We do great together and I just wanted to show you the last card she made. I thought it was the cutest thing! I love it! The green block says "Witchin you"... and the inside said something like "...a Happy Halloween". And the little cute witch is all raised up; just too adorable to not share. Here is her info for anyone who wants some cute stuff made:



Now & Forever Memories Invitations, cards, Announcements & Scrapbooks
Now also doing vinyl lettering
Tiffany Ireland

This is Aaron's look to go hunting. He came out and I said "Why hello Earl". Does he not look like such a red neck!?! AHHHH!!! Who is this man?! He said they will be doing a lot of red neck things and thus needs to look the part. I'm just confused; thought I left anything like this back in Kentucky. Anyway, I think this is his 4th year hunting and he LOVES it and looks forward to it every year. It's a man's right of passage...supposedly. Someday he will be taking my poor innocent baby son Porter, who will probably be defiled by the smell of unshowered men. Blah!




Porter has been having a bit of a teething week and today was a little tiny bit rough for him. Tylenol (not the name brand recalled stuff), teething tablets, baby Ambisol, frozen binki's, Popsicles, and some essential oils (that's a new one my wonderful neighbor gave me to try for him; they're awesome!!!) all help the little guy to make it through the pain. Isn't he the most pitiful little thing?

He just gets cuter and cuter and cuter. This past month he has become attached and accustomed to having his blanket ("blankie"), binki, and teddy when he goes to bed or nap. He also had a bottle of a couple ounces of milk just before he goes down and sometimes when he gets up. He has even started giving me the hint that it's bed time by going to get his blanket and bear and bringing them to me, then he reaches his arms up to be picked up. Soooooooooooooooooooo cute!!! Then when you go to get him out of the crib he has to unload everything in the crib before he gets picked up. This kid is too much fun.

Anyone who knows me knows that I loooove shopping at DI (Deseret Industries). Well I had fun tonight trying hats on Porter and I ended up getting this one. So cute and so fun!

Love + Halloween

The same day we made the pumpkin cakes we also made these spider cupcakes. I am having so much fun!!! I love my friends, I love my family, I love my husband, I love my son, I love my puppies....love love love love!!!

This family picture was taken at our ward party by Aunt Miriam (Porter's aunt). I love it! The background/props turned out so cute! (Wish I could figure out how to make it bigger here.)