Cousins

Porter and I are at my parents' house and are able to visit with all my siblings and their kids. Here are some cute pictures of all the kids.



Enjoy Daddy. Can't wait to see you in a couple of days. I miss you.

Lots of Fun

For Thanksgiving my parents and two of my sisters came to Riverside and we went up to the mountains to stay. One night there was this really big storm: thunder, lightening, and hail. It was right over us and the only person that slept through it was little Porter. We woke up to a few inches of snow and so I just had to get a picture of Porter in it. Thanks Christina for our great family pictures. They turned out wonderful.

This is Porter and Jill. Jill is the daughter of Job's best friend growing up and they came down for the thanksgiving holiday. While they were in town they came over for dinner and to play. It was so cute watching the two of them together. She is 14 months old.

This is Porter's new favorite thing: the army crawl. He is so good at it. He does it every where and is starting to get into everything. It is pretty amazing to see my 6 month old scooting all over. He went to his doctor's appointment and weighs 17 pounds 6 oz and is 27 3/4 inches tall. He is getting his first tooth as well. It's sharp so beware.

Here is Porter with his cousin Marley. Porter and Marley love each other so much. Marley makes silly faces (like the one in the picture) and sounds and Porter just starts to laugh. The try and "box it out" as well. They are so cute together. Marley will get on the floor and play with him as well.

On the 6th Job's brothers and the families went to the Newport Beach temple. It is a new monthly tradition to teach the grandkids the importance of the temple. While we were there we sang Christmas songs. One of Job's nieces wanted to sing her favorite Christmas song (a song she learned in primary) but no one knew what the words were. Instead of singing a different song, little Jordyn stood up from where she was sitting and started to sing her song out loud, for all to hear. When she finished her song she then said "does everybody know it now". This first picture is of Job's brother and his youngest daughter looking at the nativity. The next is of our little family.

We went to our ward Christmas party tonight and Porter was able to sit on Santa's lap. Surprisingly Porter didn't cry. I think it was the big white beard and the fact that we kept saying his name to get him to look at the camera.

Getting so big

Grandma and Grandpa "North" (Brooksby) and Porter
Porter reading his book

Porter trying to sit up

Smilin' for the camera

Park Day

Saturday we went on a picnic as a little family and took Porter on the slides and swings. It was fun. The first picture was pretty much his face the whole time, but at least he did not cry.

Jones' Temple trip

Friday night the whole Jones' family went to the Redlands Temple. We are going to go every month to teach all the kids about the importance of it. Job's brother had a lesson for the kids. We went to John's Incredible pizza afterwards. Here are some pictures of the bunch of us.

Stinky-Pumpkins

Porter was a cute little skunk for halloween. These pictures don't have his booties but he is sure darn cute. He even had gas. Not the best on our behalf but it was funny.

We went over to Grandma and Grandpa Jones' house to carve pumpkins. Here is a picture of the crew going at their pumpkins.

Here is Job helping is nephew Marley with his pumpkin. We did not take a picture of our pumpkin because it was not worth taking. We watched a food network challenge on carving pumpkins. They shaved the outer portion so fine that you were able to see the light through it. We decided we wanted to try. We only had one pumpkin so we did half each. Geewh. It was not pretty.

Pumpkin Patch

Last monday night we went to the pumpkin patch with Job's niece and nephew and their cute mom. Here are some pictures. We took pictures of everyone (even Porter) in the scarecrow cut out but they turned out bad so I didn't put any on. When we got there they were handing out free dodger dogs and we jumped at that idea. Here is Marley eating his huge hot dog. You can see the dog hanging out at the end. It was just as big on the other end.Porter and daddy. Porter with his very first pumpkin. Little pumpkin for a little Porter. He is actually holding it by himself. If you let him hold it long enough it goes straight to his mouth.

Porter and mommy enjoying the pumpkin patch.

Porter with his cousins Marley and Te'a.

The whole family.

Porter Laughing

So Porter didn't get great responses from his last video (see below), so he refused to let himself been seen in this one. However, if you turn up your speakers, you can hear him laughing. About a minute long.

Porter's Video Debut

Porter wanted to make his first Video appearance. Here he is jabbering for about 2 minutes. No contracts have come yet, but we anticipate them flooding in any day now!

Labor Day Weekend

This weekend we went up to Job's parent's lake house. For most of the time it was just the three of us. This first picture was Sunday night and Porter was fussy so Job sang to him for over a half an hour. Here is Porter going on a big boy ride in his stoller. One of the first times in it without his carseat.

Job's parents came up on Saturday and we went for a hike. Here is our cute family.

Here we are at Lake Arrowhead.

Porter with his daddy.

Porter's play toys

These first two pictures aren't with anything, I just think he is so darn cute.

Here he is with his hippopotamus.

and his oven mitts.

Sleepover and swimming

I'm all ready to go swimming. Do you think I have my hands full or what?

Porter swimming while daddy was holding up the towel so the sun didn't get on him.

When we got home from the game the other night we came home to a gas leak and had to stay at Job's parent's house for a night. Porter slept for his first time in a pack-n-play. Everytime he moved it squeaked and I woke up. I put him down and a few minutes later he was like this.

The Angels

Job and I took Porter to his first Angels' game. I think he had fun with all the lights but he was so tired that everytime the crowd cheered it scared him and he started to cry. He finally fell asleep while we walked around. Job bought him his first Angels outfit (it's too big for him now, so pictures will come of him in it later). It was nice to get out as a little family.