Good Times with Good Friends

Some of my old high school friends and I went out to dinner to P.F. Changs. It was so yummy! The baby told me all night that I definatley at to much! It was so fun to see everyone and catch up. Aubree brought her cute little one year old. He and Porter are only a few weeks apart. He is such a cutie. It made me miss my cute boys. It was really nice of Grandma to watch and play with them. Here are some pictures!

Jill, Me, Cassia, and Morgan

Morgan and I

Aubree and I

Aubree and Spence, Me, Mel, Morgan, Jill and Cassia

Utah Fun

We (Timmy, Porter and I) arrived safely in Utah on Wednesday night. It was a pretty good flight. I was excited because it was a non-stop flight but, I realized that 3 hours in a seat with two children is a long time. Everything went as planned. Matt dropped us of at 7:25 for our shuttle. We arrived at the airport 2 1/2 hours early and had plenty of time to burn off some energy for our 3 hour flight. We got on our plane and the boys fell asleep right as the plane left the ground. I was so excited that it was going to be this easy. Well, 1/2 hour into the flight a little boy in front of us was having a tickling war with his mom and woke the boys up. This is when I realized that happy noises are just as disturbing as sad noises. So I had to come up with games and things to do for 2 1/2 hours. The boys were really good and we made it fine!

As soon as we got in we started to drive to mom's new home in Eagle Mountain. We got about 10 min from home and Timmy started throwing up. What a great way to start a trip. Luckily I had my mom to help with the throw-up in the car. He threw-up about 6 times but, wasn't acting sick. He wanted to eat and drink so I let him. I thought it was going to be a long night with him but, the throw-up ended just as fast as it came on. We have been fine and healthy since! Here are some pictures of Grandma Hawkes beautiful house. I love all her Christmas decorations. The tree is my favorite. Timmy and I will cuddle on the couch as we look at all the beautiful lights and Porter can't keep his hands off it. She has a really fun bell garland that he likes to shake. Porter loves Grandmas he sleeps better here than he does at home. It's crazy! Grandma is also watching a cute little puppy until Christams! Porter loves her so much. They are little pals already.

This is Lily the cute little puppy!
This is Grandma's Family Room

The boys love watching movies at Grandmas!

Porter loves Grandma and the camera!

Timmy his usual look at the camera and then away before it takes the picture. It's so hard to get a picture of him looking at the camera.

Daddy we love you and miss you and can't wait for you to come on Thursday morning! It's going to be so much fun! Good luck with your homework and finals!

Florida Thanksgiving!

We had so much fun with Tim, Kate and Camden in Florida! It will be a trip to remember! We had a blast driving down through the night on the 18th and arrived at Seaside, FL for lunch. Seaside was beautiful, I hope we can go there again soon! Then we traveled through the long drive of Florida. We didn't know we were only 1/2 way when we were at Seaside. So we didn't get to Fort Lauderdale until 1:30 at night. Tim waited up for us it was exciting to see him. After that we crashed and played and ate! It was so much fun. We enjoyed our Thanksgiving dinner, it was so yummy! Tim and Matt had fun frying the turkey and Matt put the final touches on our honey baked ham (which was awesome). It really was a trip to remember! Thanks Tim and Katelin for such a fun trip we loved it!

Trip Plans

Utah Here We Come!! We are so excited for the Holidays and can't hardly wait. We are starting them off with Thanksgiving in Florida and then on the 10th Porter, Timmy and I are flying to Utah. We come in at 4:10 pm to be exact! Then Matt will drive or fly out on the 17th and we are going to stay until all the parties are done! We have a wedding to go to, CHRISTMAS, a lot of family to see, a farm to visit, and lots of friends we haven't seen for years, skiing, cabin trips and much more is on our list! We hope we get to see you! If Matt flies we will leave on the 31st to spend New Years in Chicago and if we drive we will leave the West around the 3rd of January. I hope you have a great day!

Halloween and Birthdays!

Sorry it usually doesn't take me this long to post but, with the camera lost and the cord missing it just didn't happen. So I hope you are up for posts from now on! Hopefully we will be weekly from now on! First we have our Halloween pictures and then I finish off with Porters birthday!

Timmy in his Red Dragon Costume. I love the wings and tail! Also, I don't know whose trick or treat jack-o-lantern he found!

Porter Loved Halloween this is at our neighbors house he was such a big boy trick or treating! I think this finding Nemo costume is my favorite costume we own! I love to watch Porter walk in it because it moves the fins and tail and it looks like it is swimming!

Matt and Porter

After he went to 2 houses he was happy he had candy in each hand! It doesn't get much better than that for him!

This is after our ward trunk or treat. Tim and his friend Zack were sharing their treats on the stage. I thought it was pretty cute!

Matt and I dressed up for the ward party as Wesley and Buttercup. It was really fun and Matt looked Awesome!

Happy Birthday Porter! We Love You!

He is 1! We love him so much! He is such a happy boy!

We had the stomach flu and it was Sunday so it wasn't very eventful! We had fun together at home ! It was a beautiful day so we played outside in the morning while Dad and Grandma went to church! Then when they got home we opened presents! Thanks Grandma Hawkes for the awesome toys!

And ate Birthday Cake! He was amazed by the candle!

The little princess is Porter's friend Reese they were born on the same day! So we had a joint party where he was the prince and she was the princess. It was so much and fun! Thanks Lori for such a fun birthday party!

He had chocolate cake for this party and it made just as good of a mess!

It has been such a good month and gone by so fast. I can't believe that it is already November! I hope you have a great day! Thanks for visiting with us!

3 Simple Words!

IT'S A BOY!!!

IT'S A BOY!!!

IT'S A BOY!!!

IT'S A BOY!!!

September Happenings

I feel like I have been really busy lately but, when I look at my calendar I guess I have been busy! We started off the month with a trip to Michigan to support our Utes! We are so excited that they are still undefeated. Then the rest of the month just happened. I do have to apologized for the 3 week delay in a post because I've lost our camera. I don't know where it is. I feel like my posts aren't as fun with out pictures so I put it off until I have cute pictures. Well, with no camera I haven't had any pictures so I'm sorry. We have had a lot of fun this fall so far. The weather has been beautiful and I have loved every moment of it. This past weekend we went to Minnesota to visit my wonderful brother and sister-in-law! It was so much fun to see them and spend time with their cute little boy Eli. They have this most amazing park about 1/4 mile away from their house with a biking trail. I love to go their because it's this cute little town that is so pretty! These pictures are of us at the park!

Porter
Timothy
Just the 3 of us!
Eli or Weeli (Timmy's Eli)

Some updates:

Matt -- is teaching and loving school he is very busy so when he is home we love it and try to do as many fun and exciting things we can because it seems like we get about 10 hours during the week with him. He has some exciting projects and loves what he is doing. Last night for FHE he planned a fun campout in the backyard we roasted marshmellows and had our lesson by campfire. Then we got to sleep in the tent. The boys love to be with their dad! He is such a wonderful person!

Me -- I'm pregnant, busy and love every moment of it. I love spending time with the boys! They sure keep me running. I will be 17 weeks on Thursday so I guess the baby is the size of an avacado! If you don't know I'm due on March 7th. Everything is going great we find out the gender on Oct 9. So if you have a guess leave a comment. My little hobby right now is my running group I'm in. We go 3 days a week. But, I think I'm going to have to stop in 3 weeks. Today was kind of hard, I'm tired!

Timmy -- Is talking like crazy! He is such a wonderful big brother! He loves to play with Porter it's so nice for me! I just love him so much he is such a good boy. So sweet loves to clean up and he sings the song "clean-up clean-up". I just love the age that he is at! I wish he could stay like this for a little while! But, I'm excited for him to be potty trained I think we have a while on that one.

Porter -- Is walking! He started taking some steps at 9 1/2 months but was still mostley crawling but, now he walks like crazy and our weekend with Eli just made him a stronger walker. He loves to tag along with Timmy play with him outside eat dirt, whatever! He is pretty easy going and loves dogs!

So that's my update! Hopefully I'll get one up a little sooner next time!

I've been Tagged

Well, I was tagged a couple of weeks ago by my friend Natty but, I hadn't gotten around to posting it yet. So it's 6 random facts about me~ I have no clue where to start

1. I laugh a lot ( I guess that's not random but, it's an easy one) it's probably my first reaction to anything spontaneous that happens good or bad.
2. This is the first year that we haven't moved since we've been married! :)
3. I have been to 42 of the States and after this weekend it will be 43. We are going to Michigan to see my brother.
4.The farthest I've ever ran is 5 miles. Matt and I ran a 5k on Sat. He was awesome! By the way he ran it in 19:17 and won the gold medal for the 25-29. That was without any training. He finished 7th overall and I finished 111th. What a slow poke I am!
5. My favorite fruit for right now is a fresh peach or a cameo apple!
6. I have either been pregnant or breastfeeding for 3 years and 2 months.

So I thought about dishing up some facts from my wild days but, decided I've moved on and nobody cares about 7th grade!

The last of Summer

With school starting back up on Monday I thought that I should update you on the fun that we have had so far into August. I can't believe that it is almost over. It's been a lot of celebrating birthdays and hanging out with family and friends. Matt has been gone a little bit of each week to do some sampling for research, so the boys and I have had some quality time together! I also have probably read the most in the last 2 weeks than I have in my whole life. I've been trying to finish the Twilight series! It's good so far I'm finally to the last book!

This is my pancake bar breakfast for my birthday! It was amazing I loved it!

This is Porter practicing for his birthday in October. He did a really good job!

Boy does he love cake!

Matt's sampling! Those are baby plants just planted this year.

My birthday party! My mom made the most amzing boston cream pie!

Timmy and Zack sure loved it the next day. They both had a spoon and dug in!

It's been a really nice summer! We have had a lot of fun but, we are so looking forward to the fun holidays to spend time with family we haven't seen for awhile!

Little Family on the Prairie

We got our family pictures taken last Friday! This is just a little sneak peak. I love them and I can't wait to see more! I also have one of Timmy that Ashley took that I really like but, I can't upload it. I am so lucky to be close to two really amazing photographers. Linda who took our family photos works with me in the primary presidency and she does some amazing work. She has just recently went on her own to start being a professional photographer. I like her to experiment with our family! You can see more of her work at www.throughherlensonline.com

Ashley my sister-in-law has started a hobby business and she is amazing with her photography I just love her pictures. You can see her work on her business blog http://hawkeyephoto.blogspot.com/ I wish she lived closer so that she could experiment with us. I'm hoping in the fall when we see her she can get some amazing photos with the leaves changing!

I just love looking at pictures of my family! When I do I am filled with joy and love. I couldn't be happier. I just love life, even though it has it's rough spots! I find so much happiness in my family! Thanks to all of you for being a part of my family I love you all!

What do you do?

So we ran out of dishwashing soap yesterday. Me being lazy right now loaded the dishwasher anyway and just let the rest of the dishes pile up. Last night my wonderful husband went to the store and got some soap and started the dishwasher. So I got up this morning and unloaded it, so I could load the 2 sinkfuls of dishes. I finished loading and I went to put the soap in and there was soap already in there. I was wondering why the dishes weren't very clean! Some of them looked good so I put them away but, some I left in there. I just thought sometimes dishwashers have a hard time. So now what do I do because I can't remember what was in there that didn't get clean? Do I clean ALL the dishes? Do I just leave them in the cupboard and let them cycle their way through? Oh, I get tired just thinking about it! Somtimes I just wish I could play with my boys all day and not worry about the housework!

Last Week

So last week was a blast and a flash! We started it out with our Anniversary then we went to Nauvoo and this weekend we had a visit from Batman! It was so amazing I wish you all could have been here to be with us!

For our anniversary we have a tradition of doing a fun activity like on our honeymoon we took a 12 mile hike (It was Crazy!) So this year we decided to bike 20 miles. It was so much fun! We went and did the Lincoln Pilgrimage trail from New Salem to Springfield except we went from halfway from Springfield to New Salem. It was the more country route and we saw some amazing things!

This is my wonderful Mr. Fix it husband fixing the bike rack! It came loose while we were driving!
This is at the New Salem Lincoln statue at this point we had gone 10 miles and up 1 hill! by the end we had gone up 3! How does that work when we only went up 1. Long story short, I took a wrong turn. Matt being the nice husband he is was helping me feel like I was right by just following me!
A Spainish Long horn it even has a nose ring! It was pretty intimadating. We coulnd't get to close. This is as close as Matt got! And for the record he ran over a snake too!
My hot date to Olive Garden! It was 100% yumolicious!

Now our Nauvoo and Carthage pictures. My brother Noah and his wife Ashley came and met us it was so much fun!

This is Carthage! It was a really wonderful neat place. I'm so grateful for the Gospel and I'm so thankful for those that have and that do sacrifice and serve the Lord so willingly to bless us with the wonderful blessings of the Gospel!

This is in Nauvoo! We were camping don't look to closely!

He is giving the look! You don't know who I am? Don't mess with me!

I am BATMAN

Non na non na non na non na BATMAN!

We bought this at a garage sale! Thanks Jennifer for the cool dress up costumes for boys. Timmy loves them and loves to run around in them! Thanks all for being a part of wonderful blog life!

Memory Game

Some of my friends have put this on their blogs! I love memories and I think I have a pretty good memory! So Let's Play the Memory Game!

Here are the directions:

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you know me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.

4 is not our number :)

So I thought I would post that we have some surprisingly exciting news! Sure enough anyone that knows me I always am full of surprises (or randomness). So 4 won't be our number for long because next year we will be 5!!!!!

Yes sometime next spring we will be having another baby!!!! How much fun!!! We can't wait!!!

4 is our Number!

4 nights a week we wake up with someone in our bed

4 hours before 5:00 pm I start counting down until Matt comes home

4 is the number of people in our family

This picture was taken 4 weeks before we got engaged

4 times I saw Matt while we were engaged

4 wonderful years we've been married

I love you honey Happy Anniversary!