My Birthday/Matt and Courts BIG DAY!

I had the best birthday this year! I got to spend the morning in the Temple with my family watching my brother marry the girl of his dreams! Then we headed to Tuscon for the reception. It was so nice, the food was great, the company was even better! We decided to stay the night there that way we didn't have to drive back so late. So we got a hotel room and had a mini birthday get away as well :) Its official now, I can have a horizontal license and Matts a married man! yay!

Mexican Christmas/Families Helping Families

The Pews, along with a handful of other families, started an organization three years ago called "Families Helping Families" where families from here go down to Rocky Point during Christmas and build a home for a family there. The first year there were about 5 families that went and they built one home. The second year we had about the same amount of people and again built one home...but this year we had probably close to 20 families coming and going throughout the week and we built 2 homes!

Day one on the job and the only day I have pictures of!


These little kids live in the "house" next door to the ones we were building

Unfortunately Morgan and I could only be there to work one day because we had to make it home for Matt and Courts wedding festivities:) As always, it was a great experience and we loved spending time with our family and friends!

Also, if you're interested in participating in "Families Helping Families" in the years to come...let me know! :)

Family Pics

The Saturday before Christmas we had our "Porter Party" and took family pictures! My sweet husband bought me (us both) a new camera for my birthday :) I LOVE IT! Morgan took this picture....I'd say we're getting pretty good at self portraits

This is my ever growing familia!

My personal favorite :) This turned out so much cuter than I expected!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MORG!

Monday was Morgans 23rd birthday!! We had such a fun day...we both ditched work :)And just hung out with eachother all day...we did some Christmas/birthday shopping, went to lunch at Mangos :), walked around downtown Mesa, came home so Morg could play a little XBox, took a little nap and then went to Cheesecake Factory for dinner with the Pew crew (and Matt and Courtney) :) It was just such a nice day...I wish everyday could be like that! I can't count how many times i think to myself throughout the day how grateful I am to be married to this boy! I love him with my whole heart...aw...i'm one lucky girl:)

California

This weekend Morgan and I took a little trip to Stockton, California for our nephew Aysons blessing! We flew out on the new airline out of Gateway, Allegiant Air. Its a smaller airline so we got to do things the old fashion way (as you can see in the picture above) :) So while we were there we did the whole San Francisco thing because I had never been. IT WAS A BLAST!!! So here are a few pictures from our travels :)

The Golden Gate Bridge

In the background is Alcatraz and a very cool looking pirate ship!

The Pirate Ship Arrr...





Then we stopped by the Ghirardelli factory...

For hot chocolate

And ice cream YUM

Then we hopped back on the Trolly (which was sooo fun) and headed home...

And of course Morgan couldn't resist taking a picture of this....enough said? All in all, we had such an amazing weekend! Thanks to Janie and Tory for letting us sleep in your family room! We has so much fun hanging out with you guys and sweet Ayson pants :)

Our Weekend Apart...

This weekend Morgan, his dad and brother Jake flew to California for the weekend to watch the ASU USCLA game with a few of the "beach week" guys. They left late Thursday night so they could play some golf (40 holes) on Friday before the Saturday game. He "says " he had a lot of fun but I don't really see how thats possible since I wasn't there...;)

So while Morgan was in California, I took off to Show Low to spend the weekend with my family for my nephew Tates 4th birthday

The weather was beautiful!! So Tate, Corinne, Courtney and I decided to go on a little bike ride. Notice how excited Corinne is about having to borrow her younger cousin Porters bike :) She said she "felt stupid riding a little boys bike" and she didn't want people to see her. We told her that no one cares and that she actually looked cute on it!


So we set off

But didn't get a half way down the street when she just couldn't take the humiliation anymore! So we stopped to talk about it...i tried riding the little bike so she could ride the big one but she couldn't even get on the big one and i just about broke the little one! Sweet Taters said to Annie "here mom, give Corinne my bike, i'll ride Porters" but that didn't go over real well with Corinne...so the solution?? Corinne rode on my handle bars and we had a 10 minute bike ride instead of a 30 minute because her legs and bum were going numb. So we just came home and hung around....

We played outside in the cold! (notice we're wearing sweaters!)

Then got the chitlins bathed after a long hard day of play...

And soon, they were OUT

Then we got up Sunday morning and headed home. By this time I am SOOO ready to see Morgan.... Also, Maddy noticed she had her FIRST lose tooth during breakfast so she worked really hard the whole way home to get it pulled so she could show her mom and dad...

She didn't quite make it by the time we got home...but when they came over for Sunday dinner it was GONE!! Yay Maddy!

Then FINALLY I got home to Morgan! We went over to my parents for dinner that night and the babies (Isabella and Olivia) were soooo happy to see him as well! They're so cute...everytime they see him its always such a big deal they SCREAM "MORGAN!!!" like they haven't seen him in years haha they sure know how to make a guy feel special :)

Better Late Than Never!!

Yes...we do have Halloween pictures! For starters...here is Morgan and I dressed up as "Old Farts". We went to a Kyle and Savannah's Halloween shin-dig the night before Halloween and had a BLAST! We also won the money game!! YAY!! Thank you to those of you who played! P.S. Although in this picture you can't see...Morgan is wearing his token Velcro shoes :)

Here are two of our sweet niece's, Corinne as a Senorita and Maddy as an Angel...

Aren't they beautiful....