Introducing...

Our new computer and it is now connected to the internet.  Yeah, so here's some pics from the birthday!

A good friend.

I've grown up with no sisters, no emotion; or you're the erratic emotional one all the time.  No switching clothes, no stealing each other's boyfriends, no late night phone calls, no hanging out when she comes into town.  No default shopping buddy, no reason to leave Pocatello.  I do have, however, an amazing friend.  She is the most amazing person I've ever known and luckily our husbands are friends as well.  She asks me to go and have a girl's night with her.  She brings me milkshakes and talks for a good chunk of the night when my husband is gone.  We cry for each other, when the other is sad.  We know what each other is going through, because weirdly enough we are probably going through the exact same thing.  We watch each other's kids even though one of us just had a baby, like a week ago.  (thank you!)  This friend just recently, yesterday, had a procedure done and I'm praying for her to get better soon.  I look at her as a sister.  Literally!  Someone I could go to and talk and she would make time for it.  Someone who understands what is to be a single mom sometimes because she's been there as well.  Someone who feels my pain, even if she hasn't been there.  I love this sister, I wished I had a sister, but I love having a best friend.

Still no computer, pictures coming soon.

4th Birthday.

My number 1 gal is 4 today!  She's sooo grown and sassy as can be, yet has the sweetest temperament when she wants to.  We're in between computers but when I get it up and running you can see the then and now of all 4 birthdays!!!!  Lib I love yeah girl.

4th Birthday.

My number 1 gal is 4 today!  She's sooo grown and sassy as can be, yet has the sweetest temperament when she wants to.  We're in between computers but when I get it up and running you can see the then and now of all 4 birthdays!!!!  Lib I love yeah girl.

More, more pictures.

DISCLAIMER:

I'm not professional, that said I took some people's pictures again.  My good friends the Lamberts had won a free 1 hour photo shoot from a fundraiser that our ward was doing, so...

Again, please refer to the disclaimer, but I love this family and it was so fun!

Plan on Him.

So in my short 28 years of life, I've learned one thing; you can make plans and yet there's always a bigger and better plan going on.  For example, I always wanted to go to Broadway, looked into schools in Wyoming and BYU to get my musical theater degree.  You know that nagging feeling that tells you that something isn't right?  Well the Holy Ghost, nagging feeling, was the one telling me that it wasn't right.  So what did I do?  Went on a mission to Japan and gained a stronger and more intense testimony of the gospel.  Am I perfect?  H*** NO!  sorry.  But I know that a bigger and better plan was out there for me.

I planned on going to BSU after my mission and what happened?  The nagging feeling!  So what did I end up doing?  Going to ISU, a little bit of a down-grade, ok a huge down-grade but I met Nate.  A bigger and better plan was out there.

So I think you know where this is heading, what were you planning on and didn't end up happening?  Nate and I love our kids and want the ultimate best for them, just like all parents do.  About 6 months ago I had a miscarriage and lost a precious spirit of our Heavenly Father's.  I don't know the bigger and better plan, but I know that I love and appreciate my kids and Nate so much more, because I know the lose that comes from it.  I never thought I would write about this, but I felt that I needed to.  Maybe it's part of the bigger and better plan for someone out there.  I have a strong conviction, I like to call a testimony, that I will see that sweet baby again.  I will be with him/her forever and we will be an eternal family, living with my Heavenly Father forever.

I'm grateful to be able to plan on Him and His bigger and better plan.  God loves us, He tests us, but He loves us.  He wants us to be happy, but He wants us to be what He wants us to be.  So sometimes that means a little hurt and pain.  For some of us we have a lot of hurt and pain.  If you feel like you can't do it, you want help, please come to one of our churches, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  So, yes I'm a Mormon or a Latter-Day Saint.  I'm proud to be one and I'm grateful for the peace and love it brings into my life.  God cares for you, I know it!

http://jesuschrist.lds.org/SonOfGod/eng/

Happy Halloween

So, Halloween...

Again not my favorite holiday, but we actually did a whole bunch of stuff this year.

 This is Libby, Scotty Porter and Jane Porter at the Zoo Boo!  Libby is Punky Brewster, but nobody got it and her real costume wasn't done yet.

 Harrison loving being a giraffe!

 Look at my face, classic.

 This is the Porter's new baby Parley.  So cute!

 Our pumpkin we carved.  We did it with a screwdriver, pretty awesome!

This is her real costume, she was a princess.  Can't be anything but.

This is the costume that almost killed Harrison.  You can't see on there very well, but there's little flowers we glued on there.  Harrison got a hold of the bottle and ingested some.  The bottle said to drink fluids liberally and seek medical attention.  So I called poison control, everyone was busy.  Called Dr. Burton's office, lunch break.  So for an hour at the ER sat Harrison and I.  Not so bad, but pretty long day.  Anyway, Halloween was good for our family!!