Should you really smile this much....

the day you have surgery? You'd think this kid was at Disneyland with all the smiles he gave all day!

HE was so excited to get to play with SPIKE the dinosaur!!! of course now he asks daily if we can buy him NOT!!!! that thing is tooo much money for a little guy's toy.

look closely and you can see him licking at the flavoring. They let him smell some samples and pick which one he wanted, when he smelled rootbeer he said pop i want pop. the lady thought it was so funny, he's just a smart kid, and my kid!

Does this look like someone who just came out of anesthesia?

of course he was only under for a very short time but still.

A Day Out (outside that is)

Porter needed a walking stick after he saw Abbey with one.

I had so much fun playing with my camera, I need to take a class :)

Some good looking guy I found to take photos of

Tucker and Porter looking at the pretzels they apparently were sharing with nature. 

And here is my favorite photo of the day, it just turned out PERFECT if I do say so myself.

doesn't she look cute in that hat, I made it to match her coat

oh I like how this picture turned out too, although I wish you could see him holding my hand a bit more, the white jacket doesn't help in that area.

Porter moping as he was denied access to that lovely puddle. I wish I had caught his face as he saw it and approached it while looking at his dad to make sure he wasn't being seen. 

So tired after all that walking and shoulder riding.

Mr. Imagination

Porter has such an imagination these days he's not even himself!!! just yesterday he was so many different people/animals here's a rundown.

• snake
• bug
• Scooter (from Fly me to the moon)
• Dash (from Incredibles)
• Wall-E & apparently I was EEEEEvvvaaa
• Chicken Little
• Mr. Incredible
• Little foot (oh the whole family has names to go with this one!!!)

I know I'm forgetting some if you can believe it. It sounds cute, and well it really is but.... when I say "please go get your shoes" he looks at me and says "say  Chicken Little please go get your shoes" and of course he can't move until you've said it. this goes with saying thank you or love you or what ever.  And frankly I have a hard enough time calling him Porter and not Tucker or Abbey and I'm supposed to remember what other name he has  :)     and I don't even know who I am anymore...Am I Eva or Mama longneck? I think right now I'm actually Julie since they are all in bed!!!

Ice cream and strawberries **EDITED****

HMMMMM

 ****EDIT*****

The ice cream maker is a cuisinart. it is sooo simple, you just freeze the container and put it on the machine and you have ice cream in 25-30 minutes!!!********

We went to our friends for their son becoming a deacon. They have recently moved here from South Africa and well lets just say the ice cream there is not made of cream. Are you ready?? It is made from vegetable oil. YES you read that right. DISGUSTING. She said that after about 2 bites you would get this awful film on the roof of your mouth. So.... I decided to take home made ice cream. okay it was really Tim's idea. I had bought the berries and cream to make short cake for V-day and when he saw it in the fridge he said oh we're taking ice cream on Sunday? 

Here are some pictures to make your mouth water. 

With quite a few people there from S.A. it was gone in no time flat, and now I want more!! but I lent out the maker to our bishop and his wife who are thinking about buying one.

and thanks Jas and Dani for providing the hardware to make it happen.

I had a brilliant idea while slicing the berries... well I thought so, use my egg slicer!!! it was so fast and easy. don't know why I never thought of it before. My mom taught me to just add some brown sugar to the berries and they make their own syrup after sitting, it's soooo good. SPRING where are you???? of course we haven't gotten any of the snow this time so I can't complain.

Spill

did you know that if you drop sour cream this can happen?

Abbey thought I was pretty silly for taking this picture, I guess it is, but did you get a good laugh? I was just glad the tub landed up and not DOWN!!!

And here are some random pictures. Just playing around with the new camera.

11 and counting

Well I never did a cheesy anniversay post and guess what I'm not doing one now either =) I will however show you the REALLY cute shoes that we bought after dinner on our night out together. We went to McGrath's which we had never been and it was really good. Thanks to great friends who volunteered to watch the kiddies (newly potty trianed kid and all, he was dry when we got back 4 hours later, wahoo, only day 3 too)



Oh and I bought myself a new clock (LOVE Rod Works.) The one we had up here was  a wedding gift, don't get me wrong it was still nice but I was just ready for something new and updated. I've been doing a little too much retail therapy must stop!!!

Sickies

Here's my 2 little sickies, these pics are from mid Jan. Abbey had it the worst she missed a whole week of school and her sickness started on a Sat. Poor little thing couldn't keep anything in her body. Porter was back and forth and not too bad but he was extra tired as you can see.

Tired?

After a LOOONG day of shopping with the family this little guy was bushed!!! He wanted to eat a "doughnut" AKA a cinnamon roll from IKEA. I thought he was awfully quiet just as Tim whispered "come here" and there he was still ready with his fork and completely asleep.
I thought for sure the camera's flash would wake him up but it didn't even faze him. he slept for a good 3 hours and woke up at 8:30 PM all you mothers know this is not ideal. BUT... he went down again at 9:30 I guess his little body was still recovering from his nasty ear infections from last week when his temp on average was 102 and 2 trips to the Dr.

Great saying!!!

So I'm going through things today and found this GREAT saying so i had to share it with you all

A friend is a like a good bra.

Close to your heart,

hard to find

& supportive!

I do have some posts coming, we've had someone sick at our house for the last 4 weeks and the baptism and just life I guess and the best is no more diapers, who'd of thought with all that's gone on lately that that would have happened. I'll post more later but had to share my new favorite saying!!

8 is Great

Tucker was baptized yesturday and it was a wonderful day for him.

So many family and dear friends came and supported all of us it was wonderful. It was so nice to have people who love us with us that day.

Tucker and Abbey sang a song together and it was the sweetest thing I've ever heard, they did it perfect which I must say was a miracle. The best part was hearing Tucker give Abbey instructions during the prelude music.

We had a great time together afterwords and it made the day even better.

Blogged

I don't know how many people know about Blogged it's a website that backs up your blog for you. The first blog to back up is free and then of course there are all sorts of upgrades you can add if you want to. It saves your pictures, comments (without names :(   ) and of course whatever you have written. It's nice to know that if blogger ever loses my stuff someone else has it (doubt that would happen but you never know!)

just thought I'd share with all my friends. I will post something fun again someday I promise :-)

Heaven

So I was talking with the little guy this morning and asking him where he came from. He had just asked me where I got something and then he asked if I bought it at Wal-mart. So I asked him where he came from. After awhile he understood what I meant and pointed to himself and said "you buy me?" I laughed and told me he came from my tummy. He said he and Tucker came from my tummy and then he looked at me and said.

"I was scared in your tummy."

why I asked

"because you eat me."

oh how do you explain it to a 3 year old. it was pretty funny. We covered the whole Heaven a little bit but eventually just changed the subject cuz he wasn't getting it.