Ogden Christmas Village

Last Thursday, our little family headed up to Ogden to see the Ogden Christmas Village and lights. It was FREEZING cold of course, but we had a lot of fun. Porter of course loved looking in all of the cute Christmas houses especially one of them that had a moving train. HE LOVES CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. If you haven't been up there before, I highly recommended it. We had a super fun night. Daddy and Porter had fun playing on the slide after we were finished looking at the lights.

Sugar Cookies!!

Making sugar cookies with my 22 month old son was SUCH A BLAST!! And it was so much fun to see how much Porter got into it, and enjoyed it. We made a HUGE mess, but that just added to the fun. We spent a couple of days making lots of sugar cookies. Here is Porter doing the mixing (and tasting).

Then comes flouring the table and rolling out the dough. I was so impressed by how well Porter could roll out the dough..he was definitely a natural.Then the hard part came..trying to decide on the perfect Christmas cookie cutters.Porter loved cutting out the cookies. And of course you have to make sure to test the dough.
Then, after the cookies were baked, comes the BEST part of all... FROSTING AND SPRINKLES!!
And here are the finished cookies that Porter sprinkled!! :)Making sugar cookies sure wears you out!! And yes, Porter grabbed his blanket, put it on the table and laid down..all himself.. silly, silly, silly boy!These videos of Porter making the cookies are pretty hilarious..ENJOY!!

Gateway Museum with Cousins

A couple of weeks ago, Porter and I took my cousins Tracy and Christine and their cute kids to Discovery Gateway Museum. We have a pass there and go all the time. We love it and were so glad that they were able to join us. The kids had a blast. Here is cute little EmbreeShe is my cousin Christine's daughter and she is 15 months. I can't believe how fast she is growing up. Porter and her are just 6 months apart. She is just a doll. And here is Corbyn. He is Tracey's son and just the cutest kid ever. He is almost 3 and Porter LOVED chasing him around. And here is Tracy's beautiful son Parker. He is just a couple of months old and has the most beautiful big smile ever!! He was just grinning and grinning almost the whole time we were at the museum!! He definitely made me baby hungry! Porter was so happy to have some fun kids to play with. I think the funniest part of the day was when Porter and Corbyn started dancing in the music room. And then little Embree joined in.They were hilarious. Thanks guys for such a fun day!!

Dinner Time Fun

We went over to my Mom's house for dinner last week. Porter and Teddy were hilarious at the dinner table. They didn't have the best of manners, but it was still so incredibly funny!! Silly, silly, silly boys!!

Lights on Temple Square

One of our favorite traditions during the Christmas season is seeing the Christmas lights at Temple Square in Salt Lake City! They are absolutely amazing!! I could walk around looking at them for hours and hours. We were lucky that it wasn't very cold the night we chose to go.It was so much fun to see how Porter reacted to the lights. He thought they were just the neatest thing ever. There was no way that we were keeping him in his stroller to look at the lights, he wanted to run around sooo bad. So Paul and I spent a great deal of the time chasing him..but we had a wonderful time. My favorite part is watching the Nativity scene and seeing the beautiful temple surrounded by lights. Absolutely beautiful!! I hope that we can continue this tradition for a long time.

December Trip to the Park

Even though it is in the middle of December, last week we enjoyed a fairly warm day. I think it made it to the upper 50's and so Porter and I decided to take advantage of it and head to the park. I had been feeling bad for Porter because I have been SO LAZY lately and we had not spent a lot of time outdoors the last couple of days, so this trip to the park was greatly needed for the both of us. We had so much fun that we ended up staying for 2 hours. I think our favorite part of our afternoon at the park was playing in the puddles.



We had so much fun dancing and splashing. The cars that drove past us probably thought we were crazy, but we had a blast. And can you tell from these pictures that Porter LOVES to swing? We had fun playing in the tunnels and jumping in the snow. On our way back to the car, we passed dripping water from the roof of the pavilion. Porter of course had to and run through it a couple of times before I caught up to him..silly boy! So here are some pictures of him wet from the water. The second we got him home, we put him straight in the bathtub.