we were in st.george

I'm that girl who wishes she lived next door to her parents.  But the next best thing is having your parents live some place warm and exciting!  Every couple months I feel the need to pack up my babies and drive that awful long drive to St.George.  Warm weather, my mom's yummy cooking, my parents playing with my children - totally worth it.

This past week was even better because my one sister came with her kids for the whole week!  And another sister drove up for the weekend.  It rained the first part of the week, but we still had a good time.

we really missed james!  porter was so happy to see him today!
*thanks rachelle for the pictures. still no camera.

our dance parties

I like to dance, alot! I like to jump around and bust out my moves as if I'm the best dancer around. Therefore we dance at my house. This is our favorite song right now. Paige sits and laughs. Porter copies all my dance moves. And me...well like I said, I dance like I'm part of a dance crew.

(videos of our dance parties to come later...that camera isn't working. Suck.)

my wednesday

We had a friend come over this morning.  At first Porter was not excited.  But after a few minutes, the two little boys were laughing and crashing their toys into each other.

My kids napped at the same time.  I laid on the couch and watched 24.  (Quick side note - where the heck was I over the last 8 years?  Why wasn't I watching 24 with the rest of the world?!  I wish Jack Bauer was my Dad.)

Two old coworkers came over after naps.  I miss them.  I miss a lot of the gals I worked with.  They were hilarious.  But, guess what?  Totally don't miss working.

My kids make me so happy.  Paige smiles every time I look at her.  Her gurgles and coos are adorable and Porter could hold her attention for days. Porter can say so many words!  He is definitely my child.  Right when he wakes up, he says, "eat, eat" And throughout the day I hear that word a lot. 

Oh and after a week and a half of not turning on my camera, putting the whole thing in a bowl of rice, opening up all of the compartments, pulling out the battery and memory card...it still doesn't work.  But I found my old digital camera from college and the washed memory card still works.  Silver lining.

crap

I was doing laundry - like I do everyday.  I started moving the clothes from the washing machine to the dryer.  I grabbed a handful of clothes and underneath them was a phone filter we had gotten in our start up package from Century Link.  I laughed and thought, "Porter must have thrown this in the pile of clothes?  Good thing we don't need that."  I pulled it out and then saw something else at the bottom of the washing machine.  The other phone filter?  I wish...

I washed our dang camera.  I almost swore.  Not at Porter but at myself...almost.  Think it'll dry and miraculous work?

just a picture

If you're not smiling...you should be :)

coco motion

We've wanted one since before we were married.  James's parents had one and he loved it.  He introduced it to me one morning and I instantly loved it.  After we combined all of our gift cards from our wedding, (wow...I wish I had that much on a gift card again!) we were determined to buy one.  But it was the middle of the summer and I'm convinced they only sell them around the holidays?  We were sad.  We didn't see them the first or second Christmas we were married. 

BUT...A few days ago I was walking around Wal Mart.  I had a small list of items to buy.  And I try very hard to strictly to my list.  Or else I come out with handfuls of children's Tylenol (just in case, you never know!) or a discounted outfit for one of my kids.  But as we were walking, I saw it.  The freaking CocoMotion.  There was a huge display of them at the end of an aisle.  I saw the price and almost screamed.  Because I was positive they used to be more expensive.  I didn't hesitate.  I didn't even blink an eye.  I grabbed one off of the shelf and happily put it in the cart.  When Porter examined the box, I said, "Daddy will be so happy!"

And he was.  And we've been having hot chocolate almost every night.  Hot, frothy, DELICIOUS, hot chocolate.  You should go buy one.

new job, moving, and christmas

So I know it's only been a few weeks since my last post, but it feels like forever!
(there it is again, my obsession with dang blogging.)
And in the last few weeks, a ton has happened.

About two weeks before Christmas James was offered a job with Boeing.  He interned with them over the summer in the Engineering Dept. which was awesome.  And then they hired him on for some temp work in the Fabrication Dept. and now...they hired him on full time.
We were so excited! 

We packed up our townhouse, said good bye to Logan, and moved into a little house in Davis County.  Yeah, you read it right...a HOUSE!  There is so much space, and a backyard, and a basement with more space.  I love it.  Even though I'm so happy about this new house and job....I miss Logan, terribly.  I miss my friends, my playgroups, the library, the fact that I was 5 minutes from EVERYTHING, and I miss the slow pace way of life there.  I didn't realize how busy it was outside of Logan. 

(Pictures of the house will come later...still trying to make it look INSANELY cute!)

Our Christmas was awesome!  I tend to worry about having to travel around on Christmas day.
I grew up just spending the day at home eating food and playing with all the new stuff we got.
But we had a really fun day.

The kids got new jammies on Christmas Eve, (geez where did that start?) we had a delicious breakfast, opened presents, got ready and drove to James's parents house.  We had lunch there, opened more presents and then drove to my sisters. (see...the traveling) We ate more food and played games.  And then finally...we went home and crashed.
It was fun to see as many people as we did and wow...my kids got so many new toys :)

And that's it :)