Its been a while!!

Well I thought I would catch you up on whats been going on with the Porters. Last week I had an enrichment activity(craft) at my house and that was soo fun. I was actually surprised at how many people showed up. It was a little stressful but We got through it.

Then over the labor day weekend we went camping with my family and the kids had a blast. I dont care to camp too much but it was actually somewhat enjoyable(maybe i shouldnt admit that...dont tell mike..hahah) anyway it rained pretty much the whole time we were there but i love, love, love the rain so it was nice. There was a little boy named Reed that was there that was a grandson to one of the families and he was 6 and him and bryce played soooooo good together. It was really nice not to have to entertain him. But bailee on the other hand kept asking me "mom, what can we do now?" I told her " Bailee we are doing it, this is what you do when youre camping...nothing" thats why i hate it so much, everyone just sits around and stares at the dirt. Or maybe i just dont know how to entertain myself. Bu all in all it was a fun trip.



Something else that we are looking forward to is my next ultrasound. Its thursday at 8:30am so that will be fun to get to see baby Lincoln for an extended period of time and get to see all his measurement. then on the same day at 11am bryce gets to go to his first day of preschool!!! we are so excited for him and know that he will be such a good boy and learn so much from mrs. kerry!

Doctor appt today!!!

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Well today we went to another doctor appt today at 9;30 this morning. I get soo nervous before my doct appts that i feel like i need to use tha bathroom or i need to throw up. But this appt went really really good!! I had an ultrasound first and the baby was 3 times the size it was 2 weeks ago, its absolutely amazing what our female bodies can do. Anyways, they did all the measuring and she asked us if we wanted to know what the gender was and of course we said yes. We werent sure they would be able to tell because im only 16 weeks but the anatomy was there. There was definitely some junk in between the legs, which means.... its a boy!! we are so excited! Bryce went with us and got to see the baby on the screen and couldnt believe that was the baby in my tummy. But then we had to tell the dreaded news to Bailee who was very insistent on it being a girl. so we picked her up from school and had Bryce tell her, she of course didnt believe him and we had to tell her it was true. So her response was, " well, mommy when you have the next baby then that one can be a girl." So I guess she's not gonna give up on the idea of having a sister. We are gonna name him Lincoln so its fun to know and be able to call him his name and say he or him and not it or baby. Everything else in the ultrasound went great and theres no complications at this time. I go again in 3 weeks for my big ultrasound where they actually measure the legs and arms and check the face and head. we are extatic that everything is going so awesome, any prayers or thoughts that anyone has had for us is truly a blessing and we are very grateful

Bailee's first day of first grade!!

Well today was the first day of school for Bailee. She was not too excited last night when we would talk about it but she was excited to pick out the first outfit(of course)! So this morning mike left for work at 5:30am and he saw that she was already awake!! holy cow she was gonna be tired today.So the kids came and got me about 6:10 and we started our fun day. I could tell she was a lot more excited today to go to school. She actually let me take some cute pictures of her and she even posed for them. Last year for kindergarten she wanted nothing to do with taking pictures or even talking about school the first day. So this was a nice change. I definetley missed her today but the house did stay so much quieter with only Bryce and going to walmart this morning was a peice of cake when you only have one kid asking for toys!! haha Of course i counted the time to go pick her up and was so excited to see her at the end of the day. She said she really likes her teacher and she even made some new friends but she didnt know their names! we are so proud of her and cant wait to see her grow this year.


ps. She started piano lessons last week and is doing pretty good with them. And I started lessons too. I figured I wouldnt be able to help her if I didnt know how to play at least a little bit, its pretty fun to learn something new.

Meet the teacher

I know its been a while since i've posted. On thursday night bailee and I went to meet her teacher. She had been talking about it allllllllllll day, so we finally got to go and it was exciting because this year now that she will be a first grader, she gets to have her own desk! Im sure it makes her feel like a big girl because she gets to actually take her own crayons and pencils and a box to keep it in and she doesnt have to share with everyone at the table like in kindergarten. So I think it will be a fun year for her and I cant wait to see her progress this year. She like hers teacher alot and as much as she says she doesnt want to go to school on monday, I think she is actually excited deep down inside. We love you Bailee and mommy is gonna miss you while you are gone all day.

Another update on my family!!

Well on Tuesday we had a very busy day. First we started the day off with well checks for both kids that started at 8;30am and both kids are doing great. Bailee is in the 90th percentile for her weight and the 50th percentile for her hight, which is just soo crazy because from birht she wa always soo tiny and short and now shes finally filling out and growing taller. Bryce is our twig, he is in the 10th for his weight and in the 25th for his hight. So its kinda hard to feed my kids because one doesnt eat at all and only eats fruits and vegetables and the other is a total carb eater, so i have to find a balance for both.

After the well checks we headed straight to the summer movies that we go to every tuesday and 9;45am and Mike stayed home that day to be at all the appts. We saw the movie flushed away, it was cute but not the best. then we went to the mall to eat lunch, then off to the ob doctor for my check up. I thought i would seriously pass out during the appt because this appt was the first time they would check for the heartbeat with the doppler. And it took the lady about 4 minutes to find the heartbeat but we finally found it and it was the cutest sound i have heard in a long time!! Everything is going awesome with baby #3 and i have another appt in 2 weeks to hear the heartbeat again, then 2 weeks after that i get to have an ultrasound to make sure everything is still going good and in the right place. I was soo exhausted by then end of that day that i took a much needed nap.

California

So like i said in my last post that the pictures wouldnt download, so I called Mike in here and wanted to show him what was happening and it never fails, the computer made me look stupid because it worked the first time. We had such a blast in san diego and cant wait to go again. So here our some of our pictures of seaworld and the beach.

This was Gabby with this kids and her family went to seaworld the day we went and we have know them quite some time now and just love there family to pieces. But we wanted to get pictures of the kids showing support for our country.(except Gabby she didnt have any red whit and blue)but this is also when we were gonna go see the 4d movie so the kids had their "cool" glasses on. Bailee is not much of a fan of 3D movies she didnt wear her glasses the whole time because she kept saying it was too scary. But Bryce just kept laughing.

This Beach was very cold that day. We were just about the only people that were in a bathing suit and flip flops. I guess we didnt get the memo that said it was very cold and you should bring tennis shoes and jackets.
I was trying to be a photagrapher with this photo and I think its one of the cutest pictures from the whole trip.
Then heres my little ham. She loves to pose for the camera and kept asking me all week to take pictures of her doing everything. She looks so pretty with the sky and the beach behind her.

Well this was our trip to seaworld! The kids had a blast and so did we. This is our cute family, I thought it turned out pretty good.

This was Bryce at the end of one of our long days. I just looked over and he was asleep in our bed at the hotel and had to take a picture. He is just the sweetest boy. He looks so peaceful.

Computer not working

Okay Jana I was gonna update my blog FINALLY but for some reason my pictures wont upload. If anyone knows what my problem is please tell me but in the mean time I have been doing great and we had an awesome time on our san diego trip with the kids. We went to seaworld and the beach and just had fun hangin out in the beautiful weather. Bailee kept saying "mom I wish the weather could be like this where we live, and i just kept telling her to keep dreaming becuase we live in AZ." But when i figure out how to upload my picts i will load them and give you guys a glimpse into our california trip.