a warm thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving with my parents in St. George.  It was such a nice weekend.  There were no expectations, no schedule...it was very relaxing.  

We stayed up late talking and watching movies.  We hiked around lots of BIG red rock.  

James and I took my parents bikes out for a ride.  It was hilarious.  I'm insanely out of shape.  

We took part in Black Friday shopping on Thursday night at Wal Mart.  Ah!  I love Black Friday!  

We ate lots of yummy food.  I probably gained 40...no, more like 500 pounds.  

And we all bought some of these chairs shown in the picture.

3 months

Yesterday she turned 3 months.  I love her.  

I remember my mom talking to me about having her second child.  She was so worried about loving the second as much as the first.  She didn't know how she could give more love.  And then she saw that second child and her love exploded. (her words...awesome, huh?)

That's how I feel about this little girl.  I love her more than anything.  And yet I love Porter more than anything.  It's amazing.  It's also amazing being a mother.  I know I feed you a lot of cute pictures and funny stories.  But it's not always like that.  Sometimes it's hard...really hard.  But when I look at beautiful pictures of my children or take the time to tell funny stories about them, I realize how lucky I am.  My life is good.

my man

It's November.  And everyone keeps blogging about what they're grateful for.  So, I've been thinking about what I'm grateful for.  And most of those things wouldn't be possible without this sexy man right here:  

Because of him, we have an apartment to live in, food to eat (guys...I love food) and clothes for my cute babies to wear.

Because of him, I have two BEAUTIFUL babies!

And because of him, I get to stay home and be a full time Mom to those babies.

James, I love you!  I'm grateful for you.

P.S. I'm also grateful that he fixed the faucet and the garbage disposal last night.  I broke them both.  Do you know how hard it is to do dishes with no disposal and a faucet that has no pressure?

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I lost the camera for a week.  It was in the case, never thought to look there.  

We were sick for two stinkin' days.  Ugh.  James slept in our bed and I laid on the couch while Porter had the best day of his life.  He did whatever he wanted, and I let him. :)  If you have ever been sick in your life, don't come to our house.  Because without a doubt, we'll catch it and we'll be sick.

I very much want these boots for Christmas.  They're from Target...aren't they beautiful?  Please, Santa.

Porter went to nursery on Sunday.  He did great.  I worried the whole time.

Paige smiles and laughs all the time.  It's so cute.

We're going to St. George for Thanksgiving.  Oh my GOSH, I can hardly wait!

halloween

I was really excited about yesterday.  Right when we woke up, I started talking to Porter about Halloween and how we were going to get candy!  After breakfast I put my kids in their costumes.  And then we started.  There were a ton of businesses that were doing trick or treating and my goal was to hit as many as we could.  I met up with my friend and her twin boys.  She outdid me on costumes...everyone loved their costumes.  Can't blame them :)

We walked on Main Street trick or treating at the little shops.  This wasn't as fun as I imagined.  It was cold and windy.  As soon as Porter received a piece of candy he wanted to eat it, even if he was already munching on something.  And pulling kids in and out of the stroller was...awful.  

After naps, we went back out to a retirement center.  Now that is the place to get candy!  All of the residents were sitting outside their door ready to hand out candy.  It was great.  Porter loved it...a lot.

When James got home from work, we went out again. (ha! I know, I'm crazy.)  We walked to a few houses and called it good.  

 

And guess what?  Porter can now say "candy".