Grandpa's Funeral

It is hard to believe that the funeral was a week ago today.... It was such a beautiful day; clear and not to cold. The part of the day that really touched me and my family would have to have been the graveside services- The members of the American Legion who did the military tribute did an amazing job especially the three young men who fold the flag. When they presented the flag to my mother (which my grandfather had requested) we all got pretty teary eyed.

If the week before the funeral we went through pictures to put in a slide show and I found this one I had forgotten about....

It almost seems surreal that all my grandparents are gone now.....

I am so grateful to know 'the plan' and that we can be together forever.

Here are some pictures from the funeral that I swiped from my sister Chelsea's blog

This is the flower arrangement that I made for the funeral and one of the one's I made for the pallbearers. I have done some flower arranging before but it's been awhile and I was very happy/relieved with how they turned out.

Porter & Mom's 8 Favorite Things

PORTER= Red MOMMY = Blue

8 favorite TV shows: Mickey Mouse (Hot Dog!), Backyardagains, That is pretty much all I get to watch but every now and then mommy lets me watch Wonder Pets, Little Einsteins, Go Digeo, Handy Manny, or Charlie and Lola. Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Eureka, Scrapbook Memories, NCIS, CSI Las Vegas, Chuck, Pushing Daisies.

8 things I did yesterday: Got yogurt in my hair and all over the floor, Cleaned Yogurt off the Floor Dumped out mommy's clean laundry on the dirty kitchen floor, Laundry Ate lunch with Daddy at Apple B's where I got to sit in the big boy Booster seat!! Yumm! Took Aunt Chels, Kam and Kars to Sams Club, (Where I stuck to my budget and didn't spend a dime), Visited grandma at work (a garden store) and walked with her in the snow (considered growing my flowers from seed this year but decided I actually wanted them to look nice), took a nice long nap, listened to the second Twilight book while I cleaned, fed the dog with Uncle Ott, cleaned the floor... Again! Gave mom a big goose egg. Managed to not freak out and yell when porter decided to do kungfu and gave me a giant goose egg on my forhead- Gold star for me on patience!

8 things I look forward to: Daddy Coming home, Aaron coming home, Eating, Starting my garden, playing with Ickles, getting the mail, feeding the dog, Porter's Daily Nap!, Milk!, Camping, Playing with Kam & Kars, finishing my massive housewide de-junking/organization project, it getting warm so I can play outside, Remodling our Bathroom, meeting my new cousin Layla, Meeting Layla,

8 Favorite Restaurants: House Salad/Breadsticks at Olive Garden, Idaho Pizza/Cheese Pizza at Craigo's, Salad Bar/Watermellon at Sizzler, French Onion Soup/Mac N' Cheese at Apple B's, Breadsticks/Breadsticks at Little Ceasers, Potato Soup/Mac N' Cheese at Johnny Carinos, CrunchWrap/Cheese Wrap at Taco Bell,

Now we tag You!!!

"I am the resurrection, and the life" spoke the Master "he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." John 11:25-26

We will miss you Grandpa George!
Jan 15th 1917 - Jan 10th 2009

Christmas 2008 Part 2

Here's a few pictures from Nanna and Pa's on Christmas Eve


Porter (looking mischievous) & Cousin Kars
note the shirt- boy was it right on!!


My Mom made these adorable stockings-
They were almost bigger than the boys!

The three Amigo's in their matching PJ's from Nanna

Christmas 2008 Part 1

Both I and Aaron have always loved Christmas- having said that I must say that with Porter around Christmas takes on a whole new meaning of wonderful! It is so fun to see how much he enjoys the little things like getting to turn on the Christmas tree each day. One of my very favorite Christmas moments with him this year was when we went to see the Christmas lights. One of Aaron's clients has a house with 42,000 lights that are all coordinated to music which they broadcast- Porter was fascinated- we let him out of his carseat to sit on my lap while we watched and he couldn't hold still- he kept dancing to the music bopping all over the place and trying to climb on the dash to get a closer view of the light show.

We spent Christmas Eve day at Nanna and Pa's playing games, eating, having a Christmas Program and of course opening presents- Porter was so excited that he skipped his nap(s) and by the time presents came around he was a bit very cranky. I forgot my camera but Aunt Chels got some good pictures which I will have to get from her when her family gets back from their big ski trip.

Christmas Day we planned on sleeping in but the wind was blowing so hard it woke me up early- With that and the snow we decided that if we were going to make it to Grandma and Grandpa J's we better get going- The first road we tried was very drifted and at one point completely blocked and in the process of being cleared by some kind soul out on a tractor. We turned around and decided to try and go North on a different road (It seemed silly because our destination was to the South) fortunately we were able to make it to the Highway and then turned south and things were fairly clear from there.

Then followed more food fun and presents- Porter didn't quite get the whole unwrapping thing but he had a great time helping grandma hand presents out.

Merry Christmas 2008

I am so bad about Christmas Letters that I only got a handful actually mailed..... So for all of our lovely friends and family her is our "online" Christmas greetings:

Merry Christmas 2008

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We hope this season finds you all happy and well. May you all have a lovely Christmas and a wonderful year in 2009.

Between camping trips, hunting adventures, the Elders quorum presidency and his job as the Sales Manager at Yost Aaron kept busy this year. Porter adores his dad and loves to wrestle and feed the dog with him every night.

We feel very blessed that Audra has the opportunity to stay home with Porter, a job she absolutely loves! Last year she started designing graphics for digital scrapbooking and was hired this year to design for an online store. That and Porter have kept her busy but she also found time for lots of canning and her church callings doing the ward bulletin, newsletters and ward website.

Porter has grown so much the year & it has been so much fun to watch him learn and all those fun ‘firsts’. He is a very loving child and more than happy to give out kisses and loves. He loves being outside and adores our cat whom he calls “ickles” He loves to cuddle up on a your lap with a book playing fetch with the dog, and hauling his toys around in his ‘CAT’ dump truck. Porter is definitely the light of our lives & always keeps us busy & smiling

Scrambled Eggs

My little helper loves to sit on the edge of the fridge when I open it- he's usually so good that I didn't even think about it when I was cleaning out the fridge this afternoon and all of the sudden..... I felt really bad because I snapped 'no' at him and his little lip quivered- So I left the eggs for a minute to tell him I was sorry- he calmed right down, walked over to the eggs and kept pointing at them and saying "Uh Oh!" In a very concerned voice-

I guess the lesson to me is don't shout over cracked eggs!