Summer days

Ky- This is what you would look like if you fell out of the door (again) and land on the cement face first, then had spagetti and green beans and then ate an ice cream sandwich out in the grass and still was about the happiest most opinionated monkey in the world,
Kay- This is what you would look like if you got to eat ice cream sandwiches outside and you refused to wear pants anymore because you couldn't get them off in enought time to go pee pee.
We are alittle trash but we are HAPPY!!

Family FUN!!

My big girl and My big (old) boy

Here's more video of my big girl- warning- you might want to turn your sound down so you don't have to hear how well behaved her sister is. Donny also had a birthday this month- he wanted to come and go and nobody do anything about it, but we had a little birthday party for him and Kylie enjoyed more that anyone. Happy Birthday Donny! We love you!!

The first Steps-

These are some of the first steps my sweet Kylie- She started about 6 weeks ago but mom of the year didn't get around to it til now. She's so happy. She is trying so hard these days to keep up with the big girls.

Meet Cruiser!!!

Kylie has been enjoying her new found freedoms know that she knows that she doesn't have to have sore knees and she can go anywhere she wants- She is my BIG sweet girl. Kate is also potty trained and get a gumball everytimes she pee pees in the potty. We are growing up so fast aren't we.

My baby is ONE!!!

My Baby girl is ONE!! I can't believe she is already one. She is such a sweet girl and happy baby. I am truly one of the most blessed mama's in the world and this really has been such a great year with these sweet baby. I Love you sweet Girl!! Thank you for being mine!!! She makes my everyday so fun, I love that she loves me so much and she makes my heart melt everyday. She is starting to take steps now and she smiles and laughs with ever step.

We had two little mini parties for Kylie, She wasn't too sure about any of it but she did like her cakes. Isn't she adorable.

Her cupcake cake was supposed to look like a ballerina outfit, It was still really good.

I just love this girl!One party was at the park during playgroup, and the other was sunday afternoon with friends and family, Kate, of course, added the Mickey Mouse on the cake.

What do you do when your FORD dies....

You borrow a Chevy to tow you home!!!

It was a super sad day for Donny.

Catch up!! I know I know!!!

We have just been plugging along at life, busy as ever and We (well I) have just dropped the ball when it comes to blogging and or documenting any of it, I would love to say that I will do better but you all know me.
Easter morning was way fun this year because Kate was really excited about everything, she's finally understanding and getting the whole holiday thing and loving it.

Kylie just following Kate around picking up the candy out of the eggs that she dropped, and was so Happy every minute- She's my Happy girl- always!!

Kylie and her first hard boiled egg.

We had alot of fun coloring eggs- they were all very colorful and unique to say the least.

Blog What???

So I know that I have totally slacked in the blogging dept. and other departments as well but I will try harder. I feel like I have been super busy but mostly spinning my wheel. That last few months have been fun and eventful to say the least.

Five- Kylie has five teeth now, she is such a good baby but she did have a hard time with the teeth thing.

Four- trips to California, Oceanside and Sacramento- We had great weather and it was really nice to go and visit friends.

Three- I thinks that there is probably something but my mind is mush and I can't remember what I was going to put here.

Two- New eyes for Donny- He had Lasix and loves being able to see license plates from across the street.

One- New job- I went back to work at the Hospital and I'm enjoying myself alot more than I remember the last time.

This was our trip to Sacramento- we went with Donny's parents, this is Fairy Tale town, Kate loved it there and loved the "ETHER BUNNY"
Kate with some cousins Makenzie, Alanna, Callie

Kylie and her favorite guy- She is Grandpa's girl!

More Ether bunny- she didn't not leave this bunny's side until he had to leave and go to a closed party.

I just thought they were really cute this day- We were already late for church so I decided to have a little photo shoot.

My sweet girl.

4-wheelers are in their DNA. They have no choice to but to love to ride. We are starting them young.

Cousins picture- I don't know what is funnier- The nine little kids that we are trying to get and stay on the couch OR the nine adults that are lined up trying to get a picture.

Grandpa is always the life of the party!

Easter egg hunt went over well, The little ones loved to find them and open them and then drop them down after they got the goods out of them.

Didn't I say that grandpa's the life of every party.

Photo shoot with Grandma Jean and her great grand babies.

I just can't get enough of this girl-- She is at such a fun age, she is learning new tricks and she is almost always super smiley

Totally how I Feel!!

I know that my mom doesn't agree at all but this is how I feel especially after days like today!!

I picked up these magnants 5 times and little miss just kept taking them off and throwing down, it was quite the game.

This was my day today, a good mother would have loved her babies, I just filmed them. We had quite the morning.

Truly is the Happiest place on earth!!

Doesn't this picture say it ALL! Kate was the happiest girl ever, She loved every minute we spent there. She was is Heaven. She was says that she loves the princesses the best, but she stares at this picture of her and Minnie everyday. She can't wait to go back and I don't blame her. Thank Sarah for letting come and stay with you we had a blast. We owe you guys big time.
Kate was in awe of the princesses she didn't want to leave their side.

Kate loves Ariel the the most.

We were waiting in line for the new Woody ride- which was awesome!!

Cute Kids UH

Kate and Kylie got crowns from the under the sea ride.

Donny hasn't been to Disneyland since he was a little boy and he won't admit but he had just as much fun as Kate and I.

Kylie and her friend Brooke. Is was fun to see them playing together.

Kate's Gym Class!

Kate love her "nanastics" class. She loves the Trampoline the best but she getting pretty good on the bars and balance beams. You got to love this girl.

She's my big Girl.

She is my sweet girl who loves that she can get around and get into her sister's toys. I love this girl.

Playing catch up!!!

So I know that I have been a lame blogger lately so I am trying to play a little catch up. We have had a great Holiday season and Life has been pretty great and really busy. We are finally getting over the winter cold and flu and hopefully done with all of that yuck. We got a swing set for christmas and now this is how I spend a good chunk of my day, doesn't matter how cold it is outside she is always game to go swing.
She's so adorable isn't she, I just love this girl.

Cousin Jamie was a great babysitter and loved little Kylie too.

After Thanksgiving dinner

Kate found a friend

Family Pictures Donny loves to take family pictures

We went out to sand mountain when Sarah and David came in to town. The kids played in the sand and loved riding quads. Donny was so proud of his girls that they loved riding.

Kylie is crawling. She loves her new found freedom. She has been crawling for a while but I'm a slacker mom who can't get the video to load so I'll try again later.

Christmas, Birthday, and PUKE oh my!!!!

This is Our Family Picture for 2008, Kiersten you did an amazing job. Thank you so much. Let's just say it has been one hell of a week! I will try to sum it up for fun sake so try to keep up. First Christmas at grandma's in AZ was so fun. Kate still hated Santa when she saw him but after christmas morning when she figured out that the old red guy brings toys she wants him to come back. I have christmas pictures on my other camera so I post them later. Donny got a fabulous new camera from me and I love it he has not taken a picture yet. Christmas night Kate's eye got all swollen and gunky all of a sudden and I put her to bed thinking I just got some lotion in it but NO she woke up with her I swollen shut. I took her to the hospital early that morning and she had double eye infections double ear infections. Later that day she started throwing up ( I was hoping it was her medicine) But no she puked all night all over me. I changed my shirt 18 time is one day. Thanks mom for doing 100 loads of laundry of bedsheets, clothes, jammies and everything else in your house, staying up with us all night and then letting me get a nap every afternoon. It was wonderful and and I'm grateful for all you did. Kylie was teething through all this and tried to be her sweet happy self but she had horrible diaper rash and just kind of misable. We got well enough to fly home and got home sunday about 1230am, to a clean house (dishes done, laundry folded, toys picked up) Thank you so much Grandma and grandpa. It was wonderful of you and wonderful to come home to a clean house. Monday, My Kate turned two, Donny went snow mobiling and I stay home to play with the girls and get her party ready. Monday night we had a little dinner and party for Kate. Donny and I felt pukey all day but thought it was all in my head. Well donny puked all over my kitchen floor during the party and this will go down as "Kate's party that Donny puked at" Donny went to bed right then and there. After I got the girls down I started throwing up and then Kylie woke up about a hour later throwing up. I felt so bad for her because she didn't even know what the heck was going on. We are finally all over it and I got my house cleaned (well sort of) and lysoled and sheets changed and hopefully have the stomach bug out of my house. I hate cold and flu season. I am glad that we all done with it and all feeling better. Thanks for listening.Christmas morning Kylie just crawled around in all the paper and tried to eat all the bows. Oh yeah she crawls now. She can now get everywhere she wants to go. It's pretty cute but it means my baby is growing up.

This is poor pitiful Pearl, This is her double eye infections, double ear infections So Sad uh!!Kylie is her oatmeal bath, trying to ease away some of her misery. Happy birthday to my sweet girl. I love you so much, even when she acts like a two year old. She was been such a fun girl to raise. She has such a special spirit and tender little her. She loves to laugh and now loves to talk and say so many new words. She is my best little friend. I love you Kate.She had a spongebob cake in AZ that none of us ate because she didn't have an appetite yet and we ran out of time to have a party. She had a Mickey and Minnie cake at home and she sampled it before the party started. All her littel friends at her party had a great time showing her how to play with her new kitchen. She loves to warm up her bottles for her babies and make MICKEY SOUP for her Grandma. This is what my house looks like now almost all the time and Kylie crawls into the middle of all of it. Kylie enjoying a little oatmeal. I don't think any really gets down she just spits it out all over the place. She's not really into food yet.

P.S. So to make my great week better, Kate threw my cell phone in the bathtub while I was bathing Kylie the other day, so I have no phone numbers so if you ever want me to call any of you again or you think I might need to call you again even if you don't want me too I need you to email me or call me or leave it on my blog so I can save it in my new phone. Thanks a ton.

Warm weather and fun!!

The Porter Girls
We tried to take some cute pictures but Kate wasn't having any of it. Kylie on the other hand was hamming is up- She is the sweetest girl.

The Party bus!!

Kylie got to come to dinner- Lucky Girl!!

Our cousin kaelie helped me in the bath tub with the girls.

Everyone loves this sweet Girl!!

This is a love-hate relationship at it's finest. These two didn't know if they were best friends or enemies.

Thanks to Aunt Heidi for the matching jammies- We had a fun PJ party-

So I know a major catch up is necessary but the holiday season's are crazy right. Well I have been out and about since the beginning of December. I have been having a really good time but we haven't been on a schedule much and not alot of down time so blogging has definately on the back burner. I went to AZ for my Grandma's Mannings 90th birthday party and all of my brothers and sister came and we had a great catch up week. Since we were all here we celebrated my sister's 40th birthday by giving her a make-over and renting a party bus and taking her to a nice dinner. SO FUN UH!!

Then I took off to my old stomping grounds Oceanside, CA to see my old friends. It was so fun to see everyone. I miss that place so much. I got to go to the ward party and see the ward and rememer the great friends that I left there. Then Off to Palm Springs with the Asay's, Harrison's and Pinon's, (a trip that we planned month's ago.) Oh yea- and I got to see my husband again and my girls got to see their daddy. We had a great time just hanging around, getting a massage and pedicures. Can't beat that uh!! So here are some of the pictures that are on my mom's computer- Best I can do at this point. Merry Christmas to all-

Happy Halloween!!

It was a busy week of Parties and fun. Kate had a busy agenda everyday this week and got to dress up alot and loved every minute of it. She was Minnie Mouse for Halloween but she also had some princess parties to hit up so she had to get attire for all occasions. Kylie was a pea in a pod and could have really cared less about the whole thing. (she hasn't been sleeping well so she wasn't in the party mood.) We also go a little pet kitten on Friday which I'm totally not a cat person or even an animal person, but she is actually really cute and Kate loves her, maybe even alittle to much, and even more surprising Donny loves her the most. I thought he would have been mad at me for getting her but he lets her sit on his lap and takes her out to play and talks to her in baby talk. It really cute but totally unexpected. Who would have known.

Didn't you know Snow White rides a quad.

Kate at the ward party!!

Kate's first boyfriend Of course it was a dog. She followed this little boy around and made him hold her had. They were really cute.

Kylie was already to go trick or treating and lasted about 2 minutes in her stroller and then she was fast asleep.

I didn't stage this picture I promise ( I don't really want the cat by my baby) But I thought it was cute.

This is how Donny chills now, with the kitten on his chest or shoulder SO WEIRD uh!!!

More Choo Choo pease!!!

Every morning when Kate woke up she said "ride choo choo" it is all she talked about all week, so we went toLattin Farm again for the choo choo. She ran to the cow train and rode it 8 times in a row, and everytime it stopped she just said "more choo choo pease" She loves the the pumkin festival and would live there if I would let her. At the end of the day she got stung by a bee on the face and she screamed until I asked her if she wanted to ride the choo and she quit crying and said "yea" She is still made that the bee bite me but still hasn't had enough of Lattin Farms.

My Little Pumkins

This is where Kylie was hanging out, while Kate was playing. She liked pulling the grass and putting it in her mouth. Where did I get these girls. She was a good sport all day.

It's hard to see but this is her little swollen face about 8 hours later. I think she might wake up with a black eye. She'll look tough.

What a FUN weekend!!

Saturday morning I wanted to do something fun but we just knew that Fallon had nothing to offer. We were wrong. We first took the girls to Wal-mart to get new bike tube so we could go on a ride and found the walmart parking lot busting with fun. They had fire trucks, helicopers and Mcgruff the crime dog. Kate got balloons and stuffed animals, she was so happy. Then we went to Lattin Farms to the pumkin festival and we all had so much fun. Kate was in love with the cow train (and yes the cow car is named Annie) She rode the train probably 15 times and they had a petting zoo and hayride out to the pumkin patch. The weather was awesome and it was just a great family day.

Donny's perfect pumkin!!!

Lainey and Kate are quite the little friends.


These tough guys and their strollers. Also proof the Kylie was there with us. She just chilled in her stoller like a good girl all day.

More of the cow train!!!

I don't know who had more fun Kate or Donny!

BURRRRRR COLD!!

Last weekend a cold front moved through and it was freezing. We woke up Friday morning and this is what we saw. Kate wanted to make a "now man". Pretty crazy for October.

BA BA is Brokee

Kate is going through some real growing up pains these days. Yesterday she bit the tip off her bottle during nap time and so I used that opprotunity to throw our babas away. She did it willingly and the told everyone that her baba was brokeeee. Last night was our first night without and it wasn't the smoothest night, she missed it tons and now she is in her bed (for naptime) crying for mama and dad. I don't really know what I'm doing here so if anyone has any advice and on how to take bottles away I'm all ears (and no that is not an excuse for big ear jokes). Thanks and love you all-

I heart San Francisco!!!

So I don't really love San Francisco but it is a fun place to visit. Last weekend we went up there and met our great friends for Oceanside and had a ball. It was so fun to get away and see the sites and be with friends. They babies got to make the trip with us but they bigger baby stayed home with Grandma and grandpa and aunt Shelly (she wasn't so excited to see us home, she loved being the center of their world for the weekend. So Happy anniversary to David and Sarah, Happy Birthday to Amanda and So good to See Cassie and Ryan again.
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Big Girl Kylie!!!

Kylie at almost 4 months

Kylie has changed so much this last month. She has the sweetest personality and she has been the best baby (even better than Kate, hard to believe) She just started rolling over and she laughs out loud at about anything, she just loves anyone to talk to her and she'll flash that cute little dimple. Got to love this sweet angel. I know I am truly the most blessed momma ever to have two sweet girls.