chocolate

So this is what Linc looks like when he's eaten chocolate!! I just had to capture this face, it explains his personality perfect!!

10 years

March 10th 2001, I married the best man  ever! The last ten years have flown by. We have had so many great times and alot of not so fun times but I couldnt imagine going through the trials in my life with any one other than this sweet man. We have had 4 sweet kids over the course of 10yrs, I feel soo lucky that Heavenly Father has blessed us with a happy marriage and these 4 healthy kids. My heart is full today knowing how much I have been blessed with. I look forward to the rest of our lives together and making tons more memories together. I love you Michael Porter, more than words can express.

Lyla is 9 months

Lyla is 9months old already!! I have a love/hate relationship with this age. I'm a newborn kinda gal, I love the sweet tiny babies that you can hold all day and they smell good and are so warm. 9-12 months is the worst age to me because they want down and they cant always be down wherever we are and they crawl and put everything in there mouth, they get into just about everything there is to get into. But on the other side I love how she is developing a cute personality and its nice that she is a little mobile to be able to play a little bit on her own. Lyla is so cute, she does this really cute shy thing where she burries her head into my shoulder everytime someone talks to her, but then she will give the biggest grin. She does this high pitched scream right now when she wants something and we arent paying attention to her, thats actually really annoying but its amazing how loud she can get, shes our loudest kid by far..haha. Lyla had her 9month check up on friday and here are her stats..weight: 18.1 lbs (30%), height 27.25 in (75%), head 17.75 (70%), so shes tall and skinny with a big melon for a head..haha maybe shes following in Lincolns footsteps with a big head because his head is in the 95% so time will tell..We are so greatful for Lyla and the fun spunky, fiesty little redhead she is..we love her so much

Valentine decor

I have never been a huge Valentine decorator, so this year I decided to make my house look really cute and full of "LOVE". I love how all of my projects turned out. I always think I am not very creative but I do have some creativity in me. The other day I had finally finished all the projects and put everything in a place and a few days later Bryce asked"mom when are we gonna decorate for Valentine's day?" My feelings were slightly hurt for a split second, but coming off of a holiday like Christmas, it's a little hard to compete with those decorations. Kids are so funny and they really do say whats on their mind.

I decided to add a few pink petals and thought it looked soo cute!

These "love" letters I actually got at a garage sale last year sometime for only 2 dollars for the whole set. They were just the plain cardboard color so I pute cute scrapbook paper on them and they turned out soo cute

I saw these cute wreaths on some craft blogs and the roses were taking forever so I decided to wrap the felt around the wreath and it really turned out cute. The ribbon can be replaced by Christmas ribbon and maybe even 4th of july ribbon. So I will definately get my moneys worth with this craft.

Here is a close up of the roses!

Here is one last craft and the fun thing about these are that they are very innerchangeable(sp), almost all the holidays can have letters that you just paint, glitter and glue onto cardstock then place in frame with no glass.

Christmas Eve

 Ok so I am a little late on posting this but better late than never right? We always have Christmas Eve dinner at our house every year so this year was no different. My sweet mother in law made me some really cute aprons and when Kevin came over he said he wanted to help so he got to wear the cute apron, isn't he just adorable? We made yummy sweet pulled pork and cilantro rice and all the sides that would go into a salad or burrito, it was soo yummy. We had a huge span of people over. There was my mom and dad and sister and husband, then there was my mother and father in law, then we had my brother in law, then we had my sisters in laws over and last but not least Toby and his new family came too. The house was filled up. I love it though, it can get crazy but so worth having everyone together.

Here are some group shots of everyone mingling..lol

Sisters

I am soo greatful and very blessed to have the oppertunity to raise 2 daughters. I love that Bailee finally has a sister, she loves Lyla so much and is a huge help with her, she never hesitates to do things for her. I cant wait for the time that Bailee will teach her fun girl stuff and play makeup and barbies with her. I love these girls with all my heart! They re so much fun

Choices

This story might sound dumb to some people but to me it was great. For a long time now I really have to explain or maybe the right word would be "badger" Bailee into making good food choices. It's not an easy task with her 5 year old brother being very thin and actually eats the healthy stuff and her 2 yr old brother not really worrying about it too much. But Bailee really enjoys her food so it's kind of a battle every now and then. Well, the other day Bryce was going to have an icecream sandwich after dinner and I told Bailee she could have one too and she actually looked up at me and said " no thanks mom, I get to have one at school tomorrow so I don't need one tonight." It was one of those moments that dont happen very often but what I am trying to teach her about making good choices with food is finally paying off. I am so proud of her choices and I hope it continues