Porter's Birthday

Last Saturday we had Porter's birthday party. Since Joe was leaving on his actual birthday, we wanted to have the party while Daddy was here. It was a lot of fun. Everyone was there, minus Aunt Morgan and Uncle Geoff, from Joe's family anyway. The kids had fun, playing in the dirt, going four wheeling, and playing with all the presents. It was fun to be together as a family and to have fun celebrating Porter's arrival into our little family. He's such a wonderful blessing and I can't thank the Lord enough for him in our lives. He's so sweet and mellow. He's a big ole Momma's boy and loves to give mommy snuggles. He sure makes me feel loved.

Side note--He also had his checkup and he is very healthy. He weighs in at 29 lbs and is 38 inches tall. That all puts him in about the 25%. He's definitely a light weight. I think it's kind of funny that my biggest baby, is my smallest kid. He weighed in at 8 lbs 8 ozs when he was born. I couldn't believe it then and he hasn't stopped amazing me since, and not just by his size. He's gotten very talkative as of late, and anyone who knows Porter, knows that's quite the big deal. Porter has always just gone with the flow and has never really talked much. He just did his thing and was very quiet, however, over the last four months or so, his talking has taken off and now he can be quite the chatterbox. He's so cute and sweet. I love him very much. Happy 3rd Birthday my little Porter Joseph, or as he calls himself PD.

Bryce Canyon

Well, now that Joe is gone, I have a minute of free time. Not that I've been so successful. I started this post last night but was so tired I couldn't come up with a coherent sentence. Not that I can promise that here either. While Joe was home, we went down to Ceder City to stay and spent our time hiking at Ceder Breaks and Bryce Canyon. We all had so much fun, we didn't want to come home. The kids had a lot of fun, and Hyrum and Emma had a blast earning their Junior Ranger Badges at both places. That made the experience even more fun for them.

Hiking was a lot of fun. We tried really hard to make it all the way down the Canyon, but we ended up cutting it short, and going back up. Hyrum was distraught, but between Emma yelling that she had to go the bathroom and Danny wanting to be fed, we had no choice. What we got to do was a lot of fun though.

Yesterday was also Porter's birthday. He turned 3. I will try to get his birthday post up later today or tomorrow.

An Experiment in Business

Well, here is my first bag that I have been trying to sell. So far, ebay is not a winner, however, if anyone of my readers knows anyone who would like to buy let me know.

I also want to preempt the fury of blogging that will most likely take place next week. Joe has been home for the past two weeks and on Tuesday he must return to Afghanistan, so then I will actually have the time to post and will be putting up everything that we have been doing for the past couple of weeks. It will hopefully be quite cathartic for me so I preapologize for how much you will have to read come next week, but I hope to see you all here.

Emma's First Soccer Game

Emma also had her first soccer game this Saturday. She had a little bit of a hard time at first and came out crying, saying she was tired. It took me a bit, but I got her to go back in, and she ended up having a blast!! Since they are so little, they didn't really keep score. They played their little hearts out though, and Emma was good and exhausted come the end of her game. I was so proud of her. She did a very good job, especially for her first game.