Morris Moments

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Garrett Takes 5th in State!

Kaden and Garrett decided to go ahead and try the State Tournament. Kaden did great but lost his 2 matches on Friday night and so he was eliminated. Garrett only lost one match Friday night so he continued on Saturday. He ended up taking 5th Place @ State! That is incredible seeing how he has been wrestling for 3 months total! WOW~ Way to go G-Force! We're proud of all 3 boys for taking up wrestling! It's a tough-guy sport that's for sure!

Friday, January 22, 2010

Porter is Special

Porter had is "Beary Special Me" this week. He was so excited about his poster and all his baby pictures. He couldn't believe it was him. It was fun pulling out old photos of him and remembering how "tiny" he was! I made this special smilebox slideshow and took it in on Friday for his class to watch. It was very fun to hear all the special things his classmates like about him.

We love you Port-Man!

Click to play this Smilebox slideshow: Porter's Special Me

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Saturday, January 9, 2010

HOPE

Another great reminder today as I attended the funeral for a dear family friend

Dustin Hunter Murdock

Such a young accomplished man (age 35)

It was amazing to hear about all he has done in his few short mortal years.

Incredible was his faith, diligence, endurance and more.

Another life lesson reinforced that HOPE in the eternal plan

brings peace to my soul.

Friday, January 1, 2010

Happy New Year!

This is my motivation to start running again in 2010!

Although this looks more like Ellerie and Porter.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Sledding Day

We arranged a fun neighborhood sledding day.

It was really fun and dangerous! ha ha

We found a really big hill.

The kids had a blast. I enjoyed my 3 trips down...

although I hearda little "pop" in my neck and have had

a headache since! yikes-I'm getting old!

We are sure enjoying our down time this holiday season!

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Family Ski Trip

One of our gifts this year to the kids was a day of skiing.
I grew up skiing and just loved it--I haven't skied in over

16 years (different priorities) ha ha

So we thought it would be so fun to go as a family.
Here are some photos of our very fun day at Brighton!

Just before starting

On the chair lift--look at those smiles :)

Monday, December 28, 2009

Christmas 2009

Click to play this Smilebox scrapbook: Christmas 09'

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

"Porter-isms"

- We had just left my mom's house. We had been there visiting with Jana and her kids and Mom and Ross. We drove off and Porter says "Mom, I don't like when we go to parties with our family and then we have to leave...it makes my tummy hurt real bad!" --Oh my sweet boy, that is called "homesick" Porters first real experience of homesickness for family!

-We had just heard Bon Jovi's song "Make A Memory"...the D.J. said, "That was Bon Jovi.... Porter pipes up from the back and says "That was Bon Jovi Mom? That is my favorite guy! Mom, you should've bought me a Bon Jovi costume for Halloween!"

-Shortly after church he was telling us about how great his new CTR ring was and how he can CTR now because he has a ring...the story went on and on...then he turns to me and in all seriousness says "and my teacher told me my stories are too long!" I had to laugh because I was thinking that same thing!

-During church Porter leans into me after watching a the baby sitting in front of us and says "Mom, I wish I could go back to being a tiny baby so you could name me Bruce Wayne"....

-Porter questioning me about how I could "stack" (his word) all our kids in my stomach to have babies then simple resolves his own question by saying "Oh, I know, we were in heaven first and then Heavenly "Faver" used the force and put us in your tummy cuz he has the force just like Yoda and Jedi's."

-He recently asked me "Mom, when can I get married" I said well first you have to turn 19 and be a missionary and then when you finish that you can come back home and start looking for your wife. He chuckled and then said "well, who will I marry?" I said, we don't know right now it will be someone you fall in love with. He giggles and then says "So you felled in love with our dad?"

-I was up at the pulpit in sacrament bearing my testimony tearfully and Porter leans over to Brittney and says "Hey look, my mom feels the Holy Ghost!"