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.