Some January pictures

We started taking Sunday selfie's back in October.  I share them on facebook with an inspiring quote.  It's been a fun to tradition to start.  Some of our pictures are better than others.  Here is one of our better ones.

 Stephen and I have such a height difference it can be tricky to get a good picture of us both standing, when I wear heels it helps slightly.  :)

 I love this man and I also love my red pants!  I love the man more though.  ;)

 The boys all ready for church one Sunday.  Tanner does his hair every day for school, but I have to convince the other two to do it on Sundays and I don't even make them do it all the time!

It's 2016!

2015 was clearly not my year for blogging.  I don't know what happened.  I guess it is just easy to share things on facebook since I can do it directly from my phone. We'll see if I do a little better this year.

 In November we celebrated Thanksgiving with Stephen's family (minus Erin).  The day before though, we had a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving with just the five of us.

 Thanksgiving day!

 Grandma knows how to keep the kids entertained.

 Feast time

 Turkey craft Aunt Mandy helped the boys do.

 We also finished reading The Book of Mormon as a family in December!

 We saw lights on Temple Square!

 We celebrated Christmas and Vance's birthday with his parents and sister, Kimberly before we headed to Washington.

 We got snow!

 We spent Christmas in Washington with my entire family! 

 We didn't do anything for New Year's, but take this picture and go to bed.  :)

Christmas 2015- extended family

Christmas this year was so wonderful being able to spend it in Washington with all of my family!  Here are some extended family pictures along with the origami quilts Stephen made everyone. 

The best women I know!

My kids with their Porter Grandparents.

Silly faces (Tanner must have gotten confused. ;))

Here we all are in one picture.  Phew!

My immediate family.  Love them all!

My parents with their grandchildren as of 2015

My Mom was so cute.  She made all the grandkids aprons (and their mom's too).  Each day she had a fun Christmas activity that she did with them. 

Drawing on mugs! 

Glen and Eric showing Tanner how to relax?

Grandpa entertaining Porter and Gigi with his tablet.

Christmas Caroling time!

Just missing Holly's family who went with us as well after visiting her in-laws.

Eric's cute little family.

The kids thought this was pretty funny.

Rose and Eric must have been around whenever I wanted a selfie.

I loved the way my parents tree looked!

Christmas morning!  Gigi, must have already made it to her presents.

My kids are hams.

My parents with their origami quilt

Glen with his origami quilt.  He got something different because Stephen thought the others were too feminine for a single guy.  If you look you can see a white Y for BYU.

Eric and Tami with their origami quilt.

Holly with their quilt.

Rose and Durf (yes, that's what I call him) with their quilt.

Christmas Morning

Merry Christmas!  We started the morning with cinnamon rolls so how can things go wrong?

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Vance's Tenth Birthday!

It is hard to accept the truth, but Vance is now ten years old!  How could it be ten years ago that I became a mom and my world changed forever!  Vance wanted an owl themed birthday so I did my best to fulfill that while we were in Washington.

 My parents were kind enough to take us all to the movies.  Vance has been excited to see The Peanuts Movie.  It is so cute and clean.  We all enjoyed it.

 Here are all the birthday signs we put up.

 He was very excited to get a watch and I was excited for him to quit asking me the time!

Happy Birthday Vance!  We love you so much!