Weird noises?!?

We have been hearing the strangest sounds at our house for the last week. We have been trying to figure out what it is that we are hearing maybe baby raccoons? Skunks? Bats? We just had no idea until tonight. We heard the noise close so we went to discover. Guess what we found???baby owls!!! Wow:) so so cute and fluffy and little so neat to see.

Camp out time

We went to Pasco and the up to lake roosevelt. lots and lots of laughs. The boys make for great entertainment wherever we go haha:)

Boys: fished, hunted for big foot, swam, stole Ella's chair. Snuggled in the camper. Ryker Ate all the cookies and chips in sight. porter ate PBS every meal of everyday. Mom was the unofficial referee and hair braider of the camp:)

8 is great!!!

We started the day with family breakfast at Carl's jr (our tradition) for frosting biscuits and sausage biscuits and opened the first presents. Duck hunter from Ella and an iTunes card from mom and dad. Lunch time came aroun and porter chose Chinese so we headed to FORMOSA **yum** and of course opened more presents. But I think the greatest part of porters day was when chapman walk picked him up and took him to the mall to buy his very own flat hat :) it was so adorable!!! Over all it was a great day. He also got to have two friends to the movies madagascar 3 and then to Angie's to clean the kitchen sink a huge ice cream dish. And then the weekend came along and all the Seamons joined us for a BBQ and some more cake:)

Porter Turns 7

I have a video of porter opening his very first present I just need to download it. he was so excited to get the last $10.00 that he needed to buy his Ipod touch!

Porter is my little man. He turned 7 this year and he had the best day ever. We had his friends over the Friday before and they all played lightening and then red rover. After all the games the kids all got to cook their own hot dogs in the fire. They had so much fun and for desert porter wanted s'mores. Yummy!! The kids got to roast their marshmallows too. It was so much fun and I was so tired at the end of the day. I didn't get many pictures of that party, there were too many kids and not enough hands. haha. :-)

Basketball

Porter is playing Jr. Jazz this year and he is so excited. We had his first game on the 8th and it was way fun!!! Porter was really good even making baskets. He was especially excited when his friend ended up on his team. I will be excited to see him progress by the end of the season.

Porter and Payton. They look so happy dont they?

Christmas with Grandma Great!

Totaly chillaxing!

we got to see Shauna, Garth and Christian

I asked grandma if she had any idea that Brian would come and fall asleep there. She says Yes, that is why I left out the pillow.

Everytime we go he gets all cozy and has a nap it was too funny.

Playing legos

We got to go to rupert the day after Christmas and spend the day with Grandma and send a little cheer for her Birthday. Porter was so excited about taking his new lego game. So we played and visited all day it was wonderful and homey.

Porter teaches First grade

Porter got the oppertunity to teach class this week as the Resident Expert. His topic of choice

was honeybees. He was so excited to learn all about bees, how they make honey and how the farmers harvest the honey. Our Bishop is such a cute man he was able to come in and help Porter one day this week . He keeps bees at his house and he harvests honey each fall. So he brought some of the tools used and the bee suit for porter to wear and demonstrate. He brought one of the frames where the bees store thier honey. He even brought raw honey in for all the kids to taste. It was so much fun for Porter to have Bishop join him. You could tell that he thought he was pretty cool brining in a guest speaker.

Porter says in the begining. Today I am going to teach you how to harvest honey. This is my friend Mark Firth he is my bishop, well my old bishop. ( that was pretty cute, it got a chuckle from bishop) then he says Bishop this is my class and this is my teacher. he is so grown up.

Very sweetly after that Bishop took over and went on to explain his process. What a great week for Porter. He is getting so big he loved the oppertunity to teach in class. He asked me just this morning if he though he would beable to teach again. :) I sure hope so it was a fun week.