FINAL FOUR BABY!!!!!

We finally made it to the final four!! The first time ever that all four #1 Seeds are in the final four! It should be a crazy matchup, and now we just have to beat UNC-this will be interesting! That game was a little too close for comfort, but we pulled it out!

Easter Day!

First of all, sorry for the fourth post in 24 hours, but I just needed to get it all done! What can I say we've been busy! So Easter morning was a lot of fun, both boys had a great time with their Easter baskets, espeically Porter, and then he got to search for some eggs that the Easter Bunny had hidden. Then there's some pics in their handsome Easter outfits! We're still working at getting a good picture of them both looking at us! Oh well, maybe someday soon! Happy Easter!

Easter EGGS

Porter, Brighton, and Parker and some awesome eggs!!

We had a great time dying Easter eggs with Art, Steph and the boys on Friday night! They all did a great job and had a great time! Porter especially loved to color on all the eggs before we dyed them. We know now that this is one of Porter's favorite holiday activities!

Awful-tear filled tv times

Ok, I just can't take it, it is almost midnight and everyone is alseep but I have to say something to someone. I am feeding Roni, and watching TV while he falls asleep and I have just watched one of the worst things ever in my life. I am bawling, and I hope I will be able to sleep myself tonight. So on Animal Planet, it is this documentary about two little baby polar bear cubs, and they are being followed as they grow for a while. So they get you all into this little polar bear family, then WHAMMO! So these one year old little cubs don't have much fat reserved yet, and there is not much food or shelter either. So I guess when they are hungry enough male bears will eat cubs-can you say awful!! So anyway, besides that the cubs have to find shelter they will freeze. They can walk for quite a while-but not as long as the mom when they haven't eaten in a while... So sorry for the build up but this mom that we have now become extremely attached to is trying to get her babies to safety while a male bear tracks them for hours and hours in a storm. She is looking for shelter, and sees the male bear stalking them but just tries to keep her babies moving, they have no choice but to push on and on. So then the weaker cub just gets too tired, and can't go on, and of course this is all on tape!!! I just kept thinking, do something, do something!! So I watch as the baby bear slides on his tummy for a while trying to follow mommy, slowly pushing with his feet, and then barely able to do that. He is just to weak. So mommy bear now has to decided what to do, to stay with her baby and rest, or keep moving because the male bear is closing in! So she tries to stay and rest for a while, hoping he will get better, but the storm is getting worse, and the baby gets more and more covered in snow, and is freezing to death. The mom comes over and is trying so hard to get him up, and nuzzle him, and keep him awake, then trying to revive him, by bumping him. She knows he is slipping away. you can see that she is frantically trying to save her baby. By staying there, the male bear has come so much closer and she knows she has to leave her dying baby or he will eat both cubs. So she has to run away with her other cub, but all the while turning back and "wailing" if you can call it that. So I'm dying here, it is the worst thing I have ever had to watch. I can't imagine as a mom what she was going through! So not only could she not save her baby from freezing to death, she knows that he was going to be eaten by the male bear!!AGGGHHH! I can't believe the agony:( So if this wasn't awful enough to watch, they then show the male bear feasting-I had to change it. I'm sorry, I did not sign up for such emotional tv right before bed. I just had to talk about it. It really is true what they say, when you're a mom yourself, you will feel love like you never knew existed. I can't even express the love that I have for my babies! Wow, something like this always makes me so emotional and grateful for the blessings I do have of not having had to go through anything like that! I'm just glad that the documentary decided not to name they cubs, like they sometimes do-I really could not have handled that!Anyway, that is my rant-thanks for listening.

Rock Chalk Jayhawk!!!

A Happy Family of Fans


So March Madness is upon us, and we are head over heels in this household!! If you knew Noah before you knew his team was Kansas, and if you know us now-you know that we have all been converted!! The first time March came around when we were dating, the Jayhawks made it to the championship! Sadly, they lost that year:( but I still decided right then and there that being a Kansas fan was awesome. It's been OUR team ever since! So of course as March approaches we can hardley wait to see if this will finally be the year they win it all! we have a good feeling about this year! I was a little slow getting this post up, but we are now safely into the sweet sixteen having passed the first two rounds with flying colors! We'll keep you updated!

You know you're a mom when...

You know you're a mom when you cut yourself and desperately need a bandaid-and all you have is the tattoo style disney ones! So I'll proudly be sporting my lightning mcqueen on my little finger sunday with my pretty easter outfit! You gotta love these moments!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

We found these darling St. Patty's Day knick knacks at the store and I just had to get them. Porter has been wanting to wear them whenever I would let him for days! He is so excited because I told him he could wear his hat and necklace all day today! He is having so much fun. What cute little leprechans I have!

Silly Porter!

So Porter has just been saying some pretty funny things lately, and I want to make sure I write them down. He is picking up on so many phrases, it is just cracking us up. The best one though, was the other day daddy was trying to "walk" with Ronan and Porter has a bucket of animals that was in his path. Ronan took a big swing/step with his leg and Porter let out "Hey, Ronan kicked the bucket!" I was gone at the time, so as soon as I got home daddy told Porter to tell me what Ronan did, and to my suprise he said "Ronan kicked the bucket!" It was pretty hilarious, and much better when I knew why he was saying that. We both laughed and laughed. Also, Porter has taken to saying "I'm so sorry about that" instead of just sorry. I think that that one is pretty cute, he sounds so mature!

Anniversary Celebration!!

Well for our five year anniversary, we have a 5 month old who doesn't sleep through the night, so going away for a night was unfortunately not an option. We were able, however to put together a really great anniversary anyway. I have always loved our anniversary, it is one of my favorite days-so for year five we wanted to make sure it was special! So if you know Noah very well, you know that through thick and thin his favorite band was, is and will always be Matchbox 20. He has loved them ever since the day I met him, and the entire time before that. Matchbox has been a staple in our marraige almost as much as the two of us! We have had their tunes to keep us company everywhere we have gone! So many fun times of ours have strong memory ties with Matchbox 20-so anyway, as luck would have it, it couldn't have been planned more perfectly- Matchbox 20 came and we were able to go to the concert on Thursday night!!!! It was Noah's big gift, and such a fitting event! We had a blast, and it was so fun to be there together-the concert was AMAZING, they are soooooo good in concert! To any of you who get the chance, it is well worth it! So my sister-in-law Aubrye is also a huge fan, and she and Grant were able to accompany us! We all had a great time, and it will always be a treasured memory! So after an awesome pre-anniversary night, we had a great day tøgether and then got to go to "the Roof" for dinner! It was so delicious, and had a beautiful view. We were able to wallk around the temple grounds and remember our wonderful wedding day! It was all perfect! Here are a few fun pics for us mostly, to remember the occasion.

5 years!!!!

Today was our Five year wedding anniversary!! I can't believe that it has been five years! I guess time flies when you are having fun! We have had such an amazing ride so far, I can't wait to see what the future holds! I won't go into lots of mush, but I truly do have an amazing husband, and I am so incredibly grateful for him! I am the luckiest girl in the world! I love you Noah!! I thought I would post some of my favorite wedding pics just to remember that wonderful day! We had a blast of a time celebrating-but I will do that in a separate post.

Porterisms-

So one quick funny Porter thing, mostly for my benefit so I don't forget: Last night Noah came down the stairs and called out to Porter "What are you doing, are you making a mess?" and Porter responded confindently "ya, that's my job!" We both started laughing, I guess he knows his place in the world huh!

What we're up to...

So I thought I'd give a few tidbits of the last few days...
1.Porter is so funny, so my favorite saying of his was yesterday he covered his mouth with both hands and said "oh my gosh" when he saw something he liked, he did it several times.
2. I am finally jumping on the band wagon, and I just purchased Twilight to read. All of the young women at church keep talking about it, actually everyone keeps talking about it, so I thought I better see what the hub bub is about.
3. I finished two fun craft projects, I'm trying to do at least one a month. Then it will keep me doing stuff that fulfills me, but doesn't overwhelm me. just one at a time. I'll post pics of those.
4.I have been fighting a month long battle to deep clean my basement, last night I finally made a pretty good dent.
5. I decided I want to try a new recipe for baked potatoe pizza-cheese wiz for the sauce, shoestring fries, more cheddar cheese and bacon. I've heard it is delicious.
6. We got our tax refund, what a great time of year!
7. We're going to try the cry to sleep for at leat 5 hours for Ronan tonight, he has been up between 4-10 times a night the last week, and he needs to learn to sleep at least 5 hours, that is not to much to ask is it? He is now 5 months old-I think I have spoiled him, so tonight I'm letting him cry it out for at least a five hour stretch if he wakes up... I'll keep you updated!
8. Today I got a piece of dust or something in my eye, because it was REALLY windy outside and it took over two hours to get it out!!! I was rubbing, and flushing it out over and over and it just wouldn't come out! It was so uncomfortable, the worst I have ever had something like that! It did finally come out after tons of effort!
-so that's a quick run down, I'm excited that it is the weekend!!