Porter playing cars
Porter playing in his hut
Porter and Uncle Jeb
Porter gathering pinecones
Getting ready to throw the pinecones
Reeling in a fish with Grandpa
The tough mountain men
Friday, August 13, 2010
Camping Trip Number Two........
The last week of July we went for round number two of camping. Porter really loves the mountains, and never stops the whole time we are up there.
Porter playing cars
Porter playing in his hut
Porter and Uncle Jeb
Porter gathering pinecones
Getting ready to throw the pinecones
Reeling in a fish with Grandpa
The tough mountain men
Porter playing cars
Porter playing in his hut
Porter and Uncle Jeb
Porter gathering pinecones
Getting ready to throw the pinecones
Reeling in a fish with Grandpa
The tough mountain men
A Birthday with Chucky Cheese.....
I know this post is late, but better late then never! We had a combined Birthday Party this year for Porter and McKay at Chucky Cheese. From the second we walked through the doors, and Porter caught a glimpse of all the flashing lights he was in heaven. We couldn't get him to eat much pizza, but he had tons of fun playing games, and meeting Chucky Cheese.
Porter enjoying the ride!
Mom and Porter playing Whack a Mole- Porter did better on his own!
Uncle Cody, Porter, and Chucky
Stacy, Mckay, and Chucky
Porter's two favorite games
Porter and Dad playing guns
Ignore my cheesy face and look at how cute Porter looks in his cowboy hat with his new guitar!
Blowing out the candles!
Porter enjoying the ride!
Mom and Porter playing Whack a Mole- Porter did better on his own!
Uncle Cody, Porter, and Chucky
Stacy, Mckay, and Chucky
Porter's two favorite games
Porter and Dad playing guns
Ignore my cheesy face and look at how cute Porter looks in his cowboy hat with his new guitar!
Blowing out the candles!
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Sunday Thought....
"We need to be kinder with one another, more gentle and forgiving. We need to be slower to anger and more prompt to help. We need to extend the hand of friendship and resist the hand of retribution. In short, we need to love one another with the pure love of Christ, with genuine charity and compassion and, if necessary, shared suffering, for that is the way God loves us....
"We need to walk more resolutely and more charitably the path that Jesus has shown. We need to 'pause to help and lift another' and surely we will find 'strength beyond [our] own.' If we would do more to learn 'the healer's art,' there would be untold chances to use it, to touch the 'wounded and the weary' and show to all 'a gentle[r] heart'"
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Sunday Thought...Prayer
" Using the Supernal Gift of Prayer," Ensign, May 2007-Richard G. Scott
"It matters not our circumstance, be we humble or arrogant, poor or rich, free or enslaved, learned or ignorant, loved or forsaken, we can address Him. We need no appointment. Our solicitation can be brief or can occupy all the time needed. It can be an extended expression of love and gratitude or an urgent plea for help. He has created numberless cosmos and populated them with worlds, yet you and I can talk with Him personally, and He will ever answer."
"It matters not our circumstance, be we humble or arrogant, poor or rich, free or enslaved, learned or ignorant, loved or forsaken, we can address Him. We need no appointment. Our solicitation can be brief or can occupy all the time needed. It can be an extended expression of love and gratitude or an urgent plea for help. He has created numberless cosmos and populated them with worlds, yet you and I can talk with Him personally, and He will ever answer."
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Happy Birthday Little Man.........
I know what your all thinking another cheesy mom posting about her kid on their birthday! Well, your right today is Porter Lynn's A.K.A. Little Man's second birthday!
Porter at Two:
* He is still a little man, weighing in at around 18 pounds
* His vocabulary has really taken off, he repeats everything (good and bad), it is fun to have small conversations with him.
* When you ask him what is name is he says, " Porter Rockwell!"
* He gets the concept of counting, but doesn't always get the numbers right "1,2,3,4,6,4,6,4,6..."
* He is completely obsessed with cars and motorcycles!
*He loves to dance
* He thinks everything is his, and over uses the phrase, "MINE!"
*He loves to read and loves our weekly visits to story time at the library
* He runs and does his own version of jumping
* If you shake his hand you better be prepared to wrestle
July 2008-
July 2009-
July 2010-
Porter sporting his Birthday Boy Shirt
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PORTER WE LOVE YOU!
Porter at Two:
* He is still a little man, weighing in at around 18 pounds
* His vocabulary has really taken off, he repeats everything (good and bad), it is fun to have small conversations with him.
* When you ask him what is name is he says, " Porter Rockwell!"
* He gets the concept of counting, but doesn't always get the numbers right "1,2,3,4,6,4,6,4,6..."
* He is completely obsessed with cars and motorcycles!
*He loves to dance
* He thinks everything is his, and over uses the phrase, "MINE!"
*He loves to read and loves our weekly visits to story time at the library
* He runs and does his own version of jumping
* If you shake his hand you better be prepared to wrestle
July 2008-
July 2009-
July 2010-
Porter sporting his Birthday Boy Shirt
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PORTER WE LOVE YOU!
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Sunday Thought.....
I haven't done one of these in awhile, but I would like to start again! If you have not read/listened to President Dieter F. Uchtdorf's talk given at the April General Conference, entitled Continue in Patience's, you really need to! Here are a few of my favorite quotes from his talk.
-1. " Patience-the ability to put OUR DESIRES ON HOLD FOR A TIME- IS A PRECIOUS AND RARE VIRTUE. " ....... " Without, patience, we can't please God;we can't become perfect. Indeed, patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace." .... " If children are ever going to mature and reach their potential, they must learn to wait!"
2. "..... From that experience, I learned that patience was far more that simply waiting for something to happen-patience required actively working toward worthwhile goals and not getting discouraged when results didn't appear instantly or without effort." ...."Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can-working, hoping, exercising faith, bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring;it is enduring well."
3. ....." I know for sure that the promises of the Lord, if perhaps not always swift, are always certain."
4.. " Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience. Often we can not see the Lord's hand in our lives until long after trails have passes. Often the most difficult times of our lives are essential building blocks that form the foundation of our character and pave the way to future opportunity, understanding, and happiness."
5. " Patience means staying with something until the end. It means delaying immediate gratification for future blessings. It means reining in anger and holding back the unkind word. It means resisting evil, even when it appears to be making others rich. Patience means accepting that which cannot be changed and facing it with courage, grace, and faith. It means being " willing to submit to all thing which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon us, even as a child doth submit to his father."
-1. " Patience-the ability to put OUR DESIRES ON HOLD FOR A TIME- IS A PRECIOUS AND RARE VIRTUE. " ....... " Without, patience, we can't please God;we can't become perfect. Indeed, patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace." .... " If children are ever going to mature and reach their potential, they must learn to wait!"
2. "..... From that experience, I learned that patience was far more that simply waiting for something to happen-patience required actively working toward worthwhile goals and not getting discouraged when results didn't appear instantly or without effort." ...."Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can-working, hoping, exercising faith, bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring;it is enduring well."
3. ....." I know for sure that the promises of the Lord, if perhaps not always swift, are always certain."
4.. " Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience. Often we can not see the Lord's hand in our lives until long after trails have passes. Often the most difficult times of our lives are essential building blocks that form the foundation of our character and pave the way to future opportunity, understanding, and happiness."
5. " Patience means staying with something until the end. It means delaying immediate gratification for future blessings. It means reining in anger and holding back the unkind word. It means resisting evil, even when it appears to be making others rich. Patience means accepting that which cannot be changed and facing it with courage, grace, and faith. It means being " willing to submit to all thing which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon us, even as a child doth submit to his father."
Thursday, July 15, 2010
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