Paij and Sydney were little Muchachas at Grandie and Papa's ward party last night. The passed flowers out to all the pretty Senoritas. They were so cute and had such fun!

Happy Birthday Ivy!!!

Ivy with her flowers from "DADDY!" (he wants to be the 1st man in her life to give her flowers)




I can't believe Ivy is 2 years old already! That has zoomed by. We had a little cake and ice cream party on Monday. She is in a fun stage right now. She was hysterical to watch opening her presents, she was absolutely elated. Laughing and hyper, so funny we all cracked up. She is learning lots of new words and understands so much. I am always glad when you can communicate better with little ones. She wants to "go" everywhere with whoever is leaving, she will go and get her shoes on and grab her little purse, and say "me, go?" and if I answer correctly, she'll just laugh and giggle, it's so cute! She hates nursery, she cried so hard at church a couple of weeks ago, that she threw up all over her dress! Luckily I am almost positive she missed the teacher, and just got it on herself. The next week she sat on my lap for all of the young women's meeting, so I guess we'll try that for awhile, she's so cute, who cares, right? Anyway we LOVE our little Ivy, and we are so blessed to have her in our family!!

Our youngest....his 1st time on a quad. Check out his eyelashes, I'm jealous!!!
Our oldest....in his new riding outfit he got from Santa Claus:)

We had our 4th annual ice skating event on New Years Day. It is a fun tradition we plan to continue. The kids have SO much fun, and are getting to be quite good on the ice!! Even Carson did AWESOME! I of course with the other mama's (and my dad) stayed off the ice with the little ones and tried not to freeze!! What a fun memory!! p.s. thanks for the scrap book page, MOM!! love it!!

Christmas at the Porter house was wonderful!! We had happy children, and enjoyed family and friends all day! Thanks to Aubrey, this darling vanity is now in the girls room, (owned by Paij). She did such a great job, I was grateful for her talent!! We after much thought got a flat T.V. for the front room, it totally makes the room feel HUGE!! We are so grateful for such great family and friends who we share such wonderful memories with!! I think I need a new camera, the pics are not that great, but it is what it is:)

Happy B-day Syd

Sydney is such a sweetie, and so special in our family. She is quite the teaser, and is very silly at times. When she was little, she always wanted to be in a fancy dress, and digging in the dirt, making potions, and catching bugs; strange combination, but her. She at just barely 9 months never took a nap again. She was up at 7 and up till 11, no prob. She wasn't grumpy, just very, VERY busy. She was quite the climber, and would get into EVERYTHING. She exhausted all my patience. I knew she was just curious, not noddy! (that came later);) She at just barely over a year could climb like you wouldn't believe. She could climb in and out of her crib, we finally said what's the point? She loved her binkies, and always had 1 and usually had another in her hand or in sight. She is a great student, and has some really nice friends that she likes to play with. She loves riding her ripstick that she got for her birthday, and is very good at it. I love you Sydney, and especially love your laugh, it's contagious! On her birthday, I made the obligatory cake, almost gagging at the thought of another treat, with so many goodies on the kitchen counter. She loves it though, as we all do on our birthday. I hope you had a great B-day Syd!!

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Christmas morning was so wonderful! All the kids were happy. After a bit I asked Carson if he had fun, he said "Yes, I love Christmas," I told him I do too. I said, "did you like all your presents?" He said "yes!!!! but I thought I was on the naughty list":) I tried not too laugh and asked him if he was naughty, and he said, kinda. I told him that maybe Santa just knew he would be better next year;) What a sweetie!!