Updates

We had a great holiday season. Christmas was fun. My favorite part of all of Christmas was Porter opening presents. Even if he wasn't the person doing the unwrapping he was totally engaged. He would say "wha-sis-it?" Super cute! He is talking so much. Using sentences and only getting better. He knows colors, shapes, can count to 10 in english and spanish, and is now super super interested in text. He is always asking what something says. He is really into spelling his name. He spells it...P O R T O R. We are really trying to teach him that it's portEr but then he just spells it P O R T E O R. He's a little confused but for a barely 2 year old, I'd say he's one smart kid!

His birthday was fun. We had family over for cake and ice cream. He didn't really understand why there were Mickey decorations and a whole bunch of people there, but he did have fun.

Back to Christmas, Dave, Veancha, and Kairi were able to come out on the 12th and they stayed until the 27th. It was so nice to have them. I loved watching the kids feed off each other. They were teaching each other things and talking to each other the whole time. It was a sad day when they left. We got to have our whole family together this season. Janae got home from China on the 17th. I was so happy to see her. I had missed her so much. She learned so much about herself and had an awesome time teaching in China. My dad didn't have such a great Christmas week. He went in to the ER with intense pain and stayed overnight. Christmas Eve he had surgery to remove infection caused by an abcess bursting. He wasn't able to come home until the 26th so it made Christmas a little wierd not having mom and dad at home. We were able to go visit them in the hospital on Christmas and we celebrated with the family on the 26th. I am just happy that he is okay. Still recovering from surgery, but doing well.

Work has been super busy, with me being management I feel like I live there. I am always working or unfortuatly always thinking about work stuff. I love my job, but am super busy.

I am 24 weeks in 2 days. I am super excited to have another baby. I love being a mommy and nothing else brings me more happiness. I want the baby out. This pregnancy has been a little hard for me. I feel, I don't know the word...guilty for being pregnant. Well, I don't feel guilty one bit, but when I am around people who have lost kids, I can't help feeling like I need to hide my stomach or something. I don't feel like too many people are excited for me. I know people are, My mom, dad and sisters are super excited, as for the rest of my families, they have had a hard year in losing kids. I feel like I try to be sensitive, but it's hard to be excited and talk about pregnancy around them. So, in turn, I feel like I have been hiding my ever increasing (kinda cute) growing tummy. It is so fun for me to feel the baby moving. I love knowing that soon I will have another little boy to bring us joy. At least both me and baby have been healthy. :) I am happy about being pregnant, I've been waiting for a long time to get pregnant. It's been a struggle to get pregnant, and I can't let people being mad at me make me feel any less excited about my baby.

Anyway, the holidays were fun and even better was to have a little bit of time off work. :) I love this time of year, to see family and to eat good food. Play games and relax. Now it's the New Year, which means back to work...and back to trying to fit any type of exercise in...ha ha!

It's a BOY

We found out that we are having a little BOY! We are super excited. We both wanted a boy but we both swore it was a girl. In the ultrasound, the doc said it was a boy and we both looked up at her and said "are you sure"? Both of us were VERY surprised and excited. I am happy that Porter will have a little buddy to play with.

Grandma Woffinden

My grandma Woffinden died this last week. She was 95 and lived a GREAT life. She was loved by alot of people. My favorite memory of her was that she always played alot of games. One time I was over at her house playing a game with her. The game we played was where she thought of a number and we had to guess the number and whoever was closest got a small piece of candy. I remember that almost every number she thought of I guessed it right on! She said "How do you keep doing that?" Grandma was pretty competative when it came to games and didn't like losing. :) She is also where I got my love for music. She played the violin for over 70 years and taught herself the piano and organ. Played for years and years and years. Even at 95 she still played in the Chapel at the temple every week. I love her so much. I am not sad, although I will miss her. I am happy that she got to reunite with Grandpa. He's been waiting for her for over 30 years. I sure love her and can't wait to see her again.

Porter's photo shoot

Cute New Pictures

Janae

So Janae has been in China teaching English to Elementary school kids for about 2 1/2 months now. I miss her. I sometimes find myself getting emotional at how much I really do miss my little sister. But then in the other hand, I couldn't be more proud of my sister for what she is doing than what she is doing now. I am so happy to have her be in China doing something that is needed and something that she can learn so much from. I love you Jonesy!

We went with my parents and siblings to October Fest and then we went to the site where they got all the granite for the Salt Lake Temple. It was alot fun. Cold, but fun.