Christmas 2009

This Christmas was the funnest we've had since we were kids. Our kids were so excited for the big day.  They loved the Christmas lights and decorations everywhere.  They loved the "classic" cartoons and music.  They loved everything.  Christmas morning was fun there was so much magic.  I forgot to take pics with the camera and only took video so if you are interested I'm going to upload them to my Picasa page. Here's the link: http://picasaweb.google.com/porterfamilyemail/ChristmasVideo#

This year Christmas was with my family.  Everyone was able to come and they got here on Christmas.  It was so fun to see everybody.  Our kids had so much fun with their cousins.  They just played and played.  Hailey cried so hard at bedtime the day the final cousins left because she missed them so much (i'm sure part of that was because she was so tired but still, she misses them).

Hair Update

It's been 4 months since Hailey chopped her hair off. I have to say it's growing back very nicely. Hip Hip Hooray! I am no longer embarrassed to take her out in public wondering if people think I chopped a little too much off :)

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Fun Filled Weekend

Even though I pretty much had all of our Christmas shopping done by Thanksgiving and last week we passed cinnamon rolls out to friends and neighbors, we still hadn't gotten the funnest things with the family accomplished yet.  This weekend we finally got to do them.  We started off the day going shopping for five hours in Idaho Falls with the kids.  I couldn't believe they made it that long without a breakdown, but they were troopers and had a lot of fun.

Then we made it to Scotty's in Rigby to get the Christmas tree.  The kids had fun picking one out.  Then off we went to Broulim's to go see Santa.  Santa was great.  (Although there was a little girl there trying to ruin Santa traditions for our kids.....I was ticked!)  They had so much fun and it wasn't busy so they got to sit on his lap for about 5 minutes until they printed off a picture they took with Santa.  Jack did not want to have anything to do with Santa so no pictures of him.

Today we were able to get the tree decorated.  Bo put the lights on.  Thanks Bo, that's not my favorite part.  It was fun but we have a lot of glass bulbs which was a problem. (I have to say when I bought them we didn't have hardwood floors and only had one kid).  Jack broke two. One of them by chucking it across the room before we could get to him. Conrad broke one, and I even broke one.  Needless to say that it is time to get some new ornaments before we slice up our feet on broken glass.  I let the kids put on almost all of the ornaments, so they kinda ended up in one place.  But, they had so much fun.  And it's our family tree; who cares if it's not perfect.  I love it. I love this time of year :)

airbeds4less.com (Fox Websites) Made it on AOL.com's home page

On Sunday a couple of weeks ago, Bo was flipping through yahoo, msn, and AOL.  He does this A LOT just for fun.  It showed airbeds starting at $50.95 and he clicked on it out of curiosity.

 The article was about "must haves" this holiday season with a picture of an air bed and some other stuff.  

He clicked on the air mattress link and realized all four beds were from Bo and his partner Kris's website.  It was exciting to see.

Great job!!!

Thanksgiving 2009

Okay, it's been kind of busy since we got back so sorry it has taken awhile to post. We got to Boise at about 9. It was the best drive we've had with the kids in awhile. We didn't even had to make a stop. Dinner was at Carley and Myles's house this year. Thanks guys for having it at your house. It was a lot of fun. Dinner was delicious!!! Thanks to everybody for making everything gluten free. I know it made things more difficult, but it was nice for me. :)

We girls made watches and ties (I don't have a finished pic yet, but you wash them and they have frayed edges). It was fun, but took a "little bit" longer than we anticipated. But, well worth it. We also went to a BSU game. It was fun, but COLD. Sorry no pics of that.

Here's a slide show of the few pics I took: