Our Sweet Prophet

I absolutely love this picture of President and Sister Hinckley...they have to be totally thrilled to finally be together again! We love you President Hinckley...

For My Annie

My sweet sister Annie, who was tagged by our cousin Laura, has now tagged me! As I was contemplating whether or not to participate, I came to the conclusion that this will probably be good for me considering my 2007 was pretty...memorable. So I'm to write 7 things I've learned in 2007 and 7 goals for 2008.

Things that I've Learned in '07

1. The Lord has a plan for me and Morgan even if its not exactly what I had planned.

2. I am married to my perfect match. I fall more and more in LOVE with him everyday.

3. I find my greatest joy when I'm cultivating my home. I can't wait to spend my days there.

4. I love taking pictures. I wish I had more time to spend learning and taking more of them!

5. Morgan and I have really great friends! I hope we all stay really close...

6. I strangely enough enjoy watching Morgan play XBox

7. And lastly, I have learned to live in the present and be totally thrilled to be there :)

My Goals for '08....

1. To get working on all the little things bugging me about my house...

2. To plan my primary lessons before Saturday night.

3. To take vitamins more consitantly

4. To do my visiting teaching!!

5. To make more goals....

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 :)