Happy Birthday To Cory

Birthday Cake I made for Cory. Porter wanted the bunny on it.. and then porter added the circle sprinkles. I put a yummy strawberry cheesecake filling in the center, which was a big hit.
porter was so excited, you would have thought it was his birthday. Below we were trying to get a family shot... but its nigh impossible to get us all looking at the camera with smiles. This was a good one of Cory and I at least!

I am posting this a little late.. his birthday was 2 weeks ago. He is 29 now.. so one year left of his 20's... hope its a great year for him! When Cory and I had only been dating for 6 weeks he had his 24rth birthday. I remember that day well.. because I had been in the ER in the morning for some sharp pain in my abdomen. Turns out i had some cysts that were bursting on my ovary. They had me on lortab for the pain and Cory drove me back to his house for his birthday. His family must have thought I was a big weirdo

since I was out of it from the drugs. To top it off i had written him a personal card that told him how much i loved him and was all mushy and detailed. When he started opening his gifts from his family he read each of their cards aloud, if i was not on lortab i would have been with it enough to tell him to save my card for later. I was in such a daze I didn't think this until he started to read it.. when i told him to stop his family wanted to hear it even more.. ugh. I was mortified. Oh well i guess it all worked out in the end. And now I know that they are read the card out loud kind of people.

In like a lion... and out like a lion!

These pictures were taken on March first. We had a snow storm blow in with huge flakes and they fell extremely quickly. We ended up with about 6 inches at the end of the day! I remember thinking this has got to be the last of these storms!! Well it wasn't.. we had a few more over the next few weeks.

These pictures are from march 31st. Another storm, with a record low for Salt Lake City for this day. We got a total 5 inches of fresh white fluffy snow over 24 hours. I was so depressed... when is spring going to come?

The wheels on the bus...

Porter has been riding the bus to school for a few weeks now. We started the service because Porter kept asking when he could ride the bus ( he would see the other kids getting on it after school). I called the school district and set it up and they said they would call with my pick up time the night before his first ride. We were not home when they called, and they said the pick up time was at 8:20. I think if I was home i would have told them never mind!! His school does not start until 9:10 so that is a really long ride for a three year old... heck its a long ride for anyone! He was already expecting to ride the bus though and once Porter is expecting something you cant change it or its an aweful meltdown for days.. so we got him up an hour earlier than normal and got him on the bus. He is the first drop off after school.. so only a 10 minute ride then. He gets back at 12:15. When he got off the bus he told us that it was a really long ride and he was bored and tired. He said he didn't want to ride the bus anymore, but I thought we would try it for a few weeks. Yesterday he cried and cried that he didn't want to go to school... turns out he just didn't want to ride the long bus ride in the morning. So we drove him to school and he just rode it home. I called the district and the woman said she would have someone call me and tell me if he can just ride after school, and we can drive him there. If not, I think we will scratch the whole bus idea, as really its not that hard to drive him and if the bus makes him not want to go its not worth it.

Here are some pictures of him getting off the first day. The bus comes to the end of our street, by the mail boxes.

sorry to be a slacker in my posting.. the first reason is that I have not gotten my photo software on my new computer yet and the ones that it came with are hard for me to navigate so i have just put off posting because I am lazy!!

Other than that I just have not felt well, so sitting here for too long makes me feel dizzy and I have to lay down for a bit. I have been having a hard time with low blood pressure combined with Anemia which makes me jut lethargic, dizzy, and tired. I also have weird numbness is my legs and feet, and around lips and mouth. Yesterday i lay on my couch the whole day and watched my boys make as big of a mess as humanly possible with the contents of my living room. They are very resourceful and spread it all out evenly... lol.. Anyways I hope that I start to feel more energized soon, as I have 4 months to go and I don't think my house ( or family) can handle a lounging mother the whole time.

Okay off to rest on the couch for a bit... I will try to come back later to get pics up. I have some of porter and the bus for school i want to share. Oh and a big huge pregnant me!

I like green eggs and ham

Well I don't like them, but kids seem to think they are great! I guess I cant get past the color enough to eat them. They had Dr Seuss week at school and they made them one day, so ever since Porter thinks we need to eat them at home too. He was really excited to find out we had the magic coloring to make it work! These pictures were from last Friday, I watch 2 neighbor kids every Friday afternoon/evening. Allen is only a few months older than Porter, and Jennifer is 2. Porter and Allen thought that eating the green eggs was pretty funny so they were having a good laugh.

Oh Boy!

On Friday Cory and I headed off to the ultrasound. We were both excited to find out what we were having this time round. I thought boy, he thought girl. The minute they put the wand on my tummy i knew it was another boy, when its your fourth time around you recognize that penis shot! I even asked the tech if i was wrong, maybe it was the umbilical cord? Nope, its a boy! So the naming war begins.. as we don't agree on any names as of yet. He is a cute little thing, and we enjoyed getting a peek into his world. He kept holding his hands over his ears, the sounds of us prodding must have woken him and he was not too happy! He should get used to it, because he will be coming home to one rowdy high volume house!

I had a small tinge of sadness, not that this one is a boy per se, but that after four boys in a row my odds of having a girl are getting pretty small! I love my boys to pieces, but always wanted at least one of each to have the experiences that come with raising each sex. well and to be honest i wanted to spoil her and buy her all the frilly dresses and things she ever could have wanted! ( you know live through my daughter and all... I always wanted a poofy frilly dress as a girl) Of course if i have a girl now with all these boys she would be a tomboy! Ah well... I guess god thinks i make a good boy mom. We do make some cute little boys. I cant wait to see our newest one, we are halfway there!