IRON MAN

Jackson loves Ironman. We rented Ironman 2 from Red Box and watched it when Jackson was still awake and we have never heard the end of Iron Man sense. Jackson knows he wants an Iron Man for his birthday (we already told him he wasn't getting it for Christmas)
cute things he says:
"I be Ironman and Porter be Spiderman"
"Ironman kills monsters like this!" and then he does this pose in the pic below.

He was all about that pose for about three weeks then Judd just recently printed this picture out for him and gave it to him tonight...

So this is his new Ironman pose!...I love it! It's so funny...He does jump off the table now and then and we have to tell him no. But this Ironman thing works really good when bribing! We say, Ironman eats ALL his dinner, that's how he gets strong! and then he'll eat his whole dinner! or lunch, or breakfast! Or we tell him, when he gets out of hand with it, that Ironman only hurts monsters (opposed to his little brother) yeah,


We love our little Ironman

Santa!!

Our Library did a "Christmas Extravaganza!" They had crafts, story telling, and Santa. Jackson had a BLAST! He got a BLUE candy cane from Santa clause which he thought was SO cool, b/c we only have the red ones at home. And he did a really good job making the crafts. All I did was apply the glue and he put everything together! I was so surprised...I was joking with my friend, that his hands were so steady when applying the buttons and eyes, etc...that he may be a surgeon some day, and follow in his Grandpa's shoes!!
We had a lot of fun. THank You Madison Library, I just wish I had told more of my friends about it, however, I did see alot of people there I knew =o)
These are what Jackson made, a Santa and a snowman, out of a toilet paper roll, everything was provided and already cut and ready, it was just so fun! And look how proud he is!!!


I don't know why this picture is so dark, sorry, but it was the only shot I got! Jackson was very excited to see Santa and was happy to sit on his lap...but he did not say ONE word to him and he didn't smile once...poor santa

And all I can say about Porter's shot with Santa is.....Classic!


MERRY CHRISTMAS

my boys at one year old

Okay so I just thought it was interresting to see the similarities and differences between the boys at one year of age. This is Jackson at his one year party.

This is Porter at his one year party

Jackson at one year with his birthday cake

This is Porter with his one year birthday cake

And the boys now....with their moose jammies on.

Jackson is just a bit fatter....and had more hair, but just on the back of his head...?

christmas crafts/decoration

Jackson posing as a super hero! He found Porters bright yellow fleece suit and thought that is had to be a superhero costume

My dad bought this christmas boot for his wife, Karie, and she thought it was kind of tacky, I said I LOVE IT! so she gave it to me and I used it as a pattern to make three other boots, they are christmas stockings. I have some pink and brown sparkly paisley fabric for a future little girl (no I'm not pregnant!) So we each have a stocking.

I thought they turned out SO CUTE! I just need to put some rhine stones on them...maybe save that for next christmas!!

I got three wreaths at a garage sale, and I had these pares...probably from Karie too! =o) I bought the bows last year after christmas sale, and then bought the flowers this year for 1 dollar for all of them. and hotglue gunned it all together, I made TWO!

And my snow village. Department 56 that is. I could only fit a few pieces, sorry mom.

Porter

I don't have words...He was just so proud to have these oven mitts on...I just think he is SO cute! I LOVE him so much!!!!




HaHa! you can see some of the long hairs on his head. We have still never cut his hair...b/c it still needs to grow! It's just funny. Jackson had a head full of curls at this age.

Oh Christmas Tree Oh Christmas Tree!

Puting up the christmas tree was SO fun this year! Jackson got so excited to see a christmas tree whenever we went inside a store, so I couldn't wait to get ours up. This event took place over a week or so, the boys were so happy just to have the tree up (prelit) that I put off decorating it until a few days ago=o)
This is Judd and Jackson getting the tree out of it's box

This is Porter loving the colorful lights on the tree. They were dancing around it, crawling under it, it was just fun to see them excited

aww, my boys at christmas time!



Our Tree!!

Porter's Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PORTER!!

I am getting so far behind on my blogging!
Porter's birthday and Part was on November 16th
We had a big dinner, friends, family, presents and cake and ice cream! I didn't get too many good pictures but I made an awsome video with our flip camera!!
We had Pork Loin, dressed in bacon onions and garlic, MMMMmmm curtesy of Sam's Club!
I made a Ball cake because he LOVES BALLS! what a boy eh?
Now for the stats: He is 19lbs; 29 inches;can walk and run and climb up on everything; he jabbers ALOT but no real words yet! AND he LOVES his brother!

THis is just unwraping presents, Jackson unwrapped ALL the presents! haha but that made it fun for both of them!






I loved this picture, He was so tired, but he put up with the chananagans anyway!


And of course I bought him some balloons! what boy doesn't LOVE them? he and Jackson fought over them for the next couple of days, but it was worth it!
I love you doot doo!

Halloween costumes and halloween

This was an outfit I had the boys wear one of the days prior to Halloween=o) We got these last halloween the day after sales. I was 8 months prego with porter so I knew exactly what sizes to get. I don't plan for things very often, but when I do, I am just so proud of myself=o)

This is the costume I made. My Dad bought us Porter's costume at Cosco and they only went up to 18 mo. So I thought...why don't I make Jackson a matching costume, only Orange. Than, my dear friend, Heather Bird emailed me 5 different websights with patterns for a Dino costume. I picked PBS' Buddy from the Dinosaur train...mostly b/c it was orange. Well i just couldn't figure out the pattern on the internet, so I just studied the costco one and made one for Jackson off of that. I did get some tips from the PBS websight, and the pattern for those blue scales down his back, and it also told me how much fabric I would need. and vuala!




I am just so proud... can you tell? But I can't take all the credit. I would like to thank my mom for buying me a sewing machine for my high school graduation present! I would like to thank BYU-Idaho for teaching me how to sew in the sleaves and zipper. And I would like to thank my little boy Jackson, who LOVED to wear it, and asked to wear it almost everyday for the whole month of October.

I am happy to report that b/c I made his costume I made Judd help me take our family to EVERY halloween activity there was in Rexburg. HAHA there were 5 full nights of fun and food and candy for Jackson and his costume. Porter had no Idea what was going on no matter where we were or what he was wearing.

Also if you want to keep reading you can...Judd and I planned our ward's halloween party, and we both thought it was really fun. We had SO much food. and lots of fun games for the kids and adults in our ward. Of course we couldn't have done it without our helpers and the people who brought food. But it was really fun! I dress up like a clown and tied balloons into animals...thanks dad for buying be that kit for christmas (12 years ago?) well it finally paid off. the little kids loved it!

We took Jackson trick-or-treating and he was SOOOO cute. It serisously took him about 10 houses before he understood what was going on. But once it got it he was excited to run and knock on doors. I loved this month of October!

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!

Our House

Now that I have lived here for one month, I think I have a good Idea of how it's going to be here......and I LOVE IT!! I love living in a house! I love this house. Some days I wish we could buy it. It is the total steriotypical country cottage. Built close to the early 1900's. It is small and cozy and a fixer upper! Lots of things were done before we moved in. And lots of things we get to do ourselves. Most of it is outside. Like fix the fense, weed the garden, and so

This is the shop. Judd is in here every morning that I sleep in. He has already used it to fix our van, the power steering pump went out. And he rotated the tires in here. And he changed our oil. =o) It's his happy place.

This is the barn!

This is our huge yard, Just the front! which we use almost everyday.

The House!!

This is driving up to our house!

We also have a full garden with irrigation. a place to make a sandbox (not until spring) and a clothesline where I hang all of Jackson, Porter, and Judd's clothes...Not mine, I didn't grow up that way. =o)We have cherry trees, plum trees, and apple trees. I have made three apple pies from scratch. I love it!

I have weeded the whole back patch of dirt by the back door (the door that we use all the time) and planted TULIPS!! I planted 30 of them. So I hope some pop up this spring!

news! news! news!

Okay, so a lot has been going on, that is why I haven't posted in a long time. Number one news flash: PORTER IS WALKING!!! he started just a few days after he turned 10 months old...We are proud but not too surprised, considering that Jackson walked at 10 1/2 months we knew Porter would want to try to keep up with his brother.

number TWO news flash: JACKSON IS POTTY TRAINED!! yeah!!! he has had two whole days of no accidents (I know it doesn't seem like much, but after days and days and days of accident, two days with none is AWSOME!!)

number THREE news flsh: WE ARE MOVING! we are going to a house just a mile away from where we live now. And we are getting really excited. We took our first few loads of stuff over today, and we officially move in oct 1st!

Pictures to come later!!

THE TRAILER PROJECT

Okay, So, we got this trailer in MAY from Judd's cousin. They live right behind Judd's Dad's house in Rexburg. Her husband hauled the trailer across the fields and the ditch with his escavator. it was pretty cool. So yeah, that is a tarp on top becuase the roof blew off and few months before, and we couldn't reuse it (judd said) bc it leeked, I think he could have just patched it.
When we moved it onto the property we realized we weren't really ready for it. We didn't have the power or water lines. So we spent a week with the power box, judd had to buy parts and put it together on a post and then an electrician had to come out and inspect it. Then we had to dig up the water lines which was a hit and miss. Judd's Dad thought he knew where they were so he just started digging with his skidstir and LUCKILY they found the line the same day. Judd had to buy some more parts to bring the water up and we had to check the water pressure, which was good, and which was LUCKY too.

Judd and his power box.

So we got this trailer to turn it into a commercial kitchen. YUP it's true. We have to do weird things like put a sink in the floor and a drain. We have to finish the walls with a washable paint, or put up plastic. We have to get the whole thing signed off and approved as we go. We want to start catering, and this is the way the city/state says we have to do it.
Okay so the power was suppose to cost us another $300 but when they came to hook it up they said, "oh this power line is twisted and old, and bc it had a transformer on it the city has to replace it for you." and while they were doing it they gave us the power for free. or something, it was LUCKY.

trailer cont.

okay so this is the inside of the trailer when we first got it. Well, Judd had already started ripping stuff off, as you can see the mess on the floor. It smelled like mice, so we had to tear off all those walls and the cabinets. And we had to tear out all the insulation too bc it was basically a big mouse nest...yeah...so these are pictures of one end and then the other end.


and these are pictures of the new insulation, and later you will see pictures of the sheet rock. I put that insulation in by the way!! Judd was doing stuff on the roof while I worked cutting and measuring insulation and instaling it. I had a sore throat for 3 days after from the fiberglass, and I luckily knew to wear long sleeves and gloves so my skin didn't get it too bad...aren't you proud of me?

after the insulation is done, then you have to put up big sheets of plastic, then the sheet rock...I learned so much!

The Roof

First Judd had to measure then build all these tresses for the roof.

Then when he had made enough he nailed them on the trailer(Judd and his Dad on the roof)Okay so when we got to this part we got a notice on the trailer that we had to get a building permit (we were hopeing to skip that part) And they would have to come inspect the trailer and we had to tell them our plans for it and we would have to pay this big fee... SO Judd got me stressed out saying, well they may make us tear the roof off, bc technically we aren't suppose to do ANYTHING until we get our permits...But LUCKILY they were nice and said the roof looked good and to keep going (and really they just wanted their fee) which was almost $300.

and then they laid cross boards to stablize the tresses, and for something to screw the tin onto.

This is a storm that went around the farm. Really. It rained everywhere but where we were working. (I thought that was a blessing) So we had the whole thing with out a roof for 3 or 4 days and it didn't rain once, even though it was in the forecast.

This is the tin they screwed on the roof. next Judd cut all those boards so they were even, and then he covered the end with plywood and then tin to finish it off.(And that is Jackson climbing on the latter.)