Our Family Pictures

Okay, so I have wanted family pictures taken for a LONG time. I finally decided it was time to buckle down and do it. As you may imagine, it was very difficult to get everybody to cooperate. This family pic is our favorits because everyone except Conrad is looking. Quite and acomplishment I have to say!! The others are my favorites of the kids.

Kendra Stowell, a family friend took our pictures. She did an awesome job! We are grateful for her patience. Also, the time she took out of her busy life with 2 kids to take the pictures of our family. Thank you Kendra!!!

The kids did much better alone. We got a whole bunch of cute ones.












Kendra also took Hailey's 4 year old pictures. There were so many cute ones, I can't decide which ones to print.

Hailey's 4th Birthday

Saturday the 18th was Hailey's 4th birthday. It was a fun day. She has been anticipating it for at least two months. We made a count down chain like 6 weeks ago.

Grandma Porter came over from Boise. We went to Craigo's Pizza for lunch. And the party began at six. My parents, Trent, Alisa, Kendra and Hailey's best friend Ilzay were there too. She had a blast opening presents and having Happy Birthday sung to her. She has loved playing with all of her new gifts from the party. Thanks for all of the gifts and also all of the birthday cards sent to her. Here are some pics and a couple of video clips from her big day. The one dark clip is Hailey blowing out her candles and the other was a clip we thought was funny (hopefully it isn't a you had to be there funny).

Where has all of Jackson's hair gone?

Looking a Jackson now, you would never know he was born with tons of long brown hair. It's so sad. He now has red hair and is losing it fast. I think blonde hair is coming in. Oh well, he is still such a cutie!! (For some reason his eyes look brown in all of his pics. They are blue.)

Last week was crazy busy!

Okay. So last Sunday was General Conference. We sent the kids downstairs to play so we could actually get something out of it. When they came upstairs they were covered in a gray powder. We couldn't even figure out what it was. Turns our that they found a bag of grout powder left by the builders that we didn't even know about. They were pretending it was flour and making a cake. WHAT A MESS!! I guess it's good the basement isn't finished. You gotta love kids.

My mom, sister-in-law (Alisa), and I picked apples on Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday we made frozen apple pie filling. I am still making dried apples. It was a lot of fun and the kids had a blast watching those apples getting peeled. The pie filling turned out great too.

Friday we went to Utah for Brooke's daughte Rebecca's blessing. The drive there was great. Saturday we spent some time with Bo's cousins from Colorado (who were visiting for another blessing). Then we hung out we my side Hailey had a blast with her cousins. They always love to dress her up. Everybody got a sitter Saturday night and the adults got a sitter. It was fun. We went to California Pizza Kitchen.

Sunday we went to the blessing and had some lunch then left. The drive home wasn't as great as the drive there. We got stuck in trafic in Willard

of all places. There was a bad snowstorm and like five wrecks in a two mile strip. We could only go five mph. But, once we got through there things went much smoother. The 3 and a half hour trip ended up taking four and a half hours. Yuck! The week before, I would have never even thought it was possible for a storm on this trip. I guess we may just go from summer to winter with no Fall. We already went from winter to summer with no Spring this year!

5 Year Anniversary

Okay, sorry I keep adding stuff from way back. But, I just found these pictures and had to add them. Our 5 year anniversary was March 28 and we decided to do sealings in the newely dedicated Rexburg temple. After that we went up to West Yellowstone to stay for a night. This first picture is from our room on the third floor. It is only about 1 hour and 20 minutes from Rexburg and we could not believe how much snow there was still (normally the may have a couple inches). It was as tall as some buildings. Last winter was crazy! When we went to leave, our car was covered. We weren't even there for 24 hours! The drive back was scary too. There was drifting snow most of the way. We still had fun and it was nice to have a little getaway with just us before the new addition to our family.