Christmas at the Porters

Chirstmas was wonderful! On Christmas Eve we went to David's parent's house and had a fabulous dinner. The kids acted out the nativity scene, Shira was Mary and Asher was Gabriel and a wise man. (Those pictures will come later from Grandpa's camera.) We went home late that evening and I told the kids that the first one to fall asleep would be the first one to open a gift in the morning. Shira was bummed because Asher is usually the first one to fall asleep, but they eventually went to bed and Shira fell asleep first! In the morning I was excited to tell her she was the first one to fall asleep and she could open the first gift. She came running up to me with a gift and handed it to me. She wanted me to be the first one to open the gift she got me!
Every once in a while my little stinkers do something kind and precious and remind me that they aren't just my children, but also children of our Heavenly Father.

Asher with his new car-nivores!

David and Asher with daddy's new push-up grips.
Asher trying out the push up grips after daddy took a turn.
Shira with her new puppet gloves.

After spending a few hours opening gifts, relaxing, and taking naps, we went back to Grandpa & Grandma Porters to open up even more gifts and eat more food. With all the food Angela put out on the table, you'd think the whole ward was coming over! But there were only 11 of us. Needless to say I felt sick that night....too much junk food! But it was great fun. We even had fresh snow on the ground for Christmas, something we were actually worried about!

Tomorrow the kids are going to David's parent's house for the week while I have to accompany David to Puerto Rico, who has to go for business. Poor us. I'll be sure to post some pictures of the beached whale laying in the sun while David works. I'm just over 31 weeks pregnant and I'm sure I'll be a sight to see.

Oh Christmas Tree!

This weekend we put up our Christmas tree.! Yeah! It was so much fun and nice to have David home for the weekend. We played Christmas music and put up decorations all over the living room.

Here we have Asher pretending to put up an ornament,

I got the camera out too late. :-)

Shira doing the same thing!
And here we have the two of them acting as if they never fight.

Much Needed Haircut

Asher's hair was getting ridiculously long, but David liked it and he is the barber in the house. I finally convinced him to cut it and he looks so handsome in his Sunday best now. He was looking so scraggely it was embaressing to take him to church.

Look at those sideburns!
Is he not getting so big!
He actually had a lot of fun during this haircut and couldn't stop laughing.
Shira was getting a little jealous at all the pics I was taking of Asher, so we took a couple shots of her while she 'posed'. This one was the funniest.

Snow at Last!!

It finally snowed here aound the middle of November. We enjoyed it while it lasted, which is usually six months, but about a week or two later we had a weeks worth of warm and rainy weather which melted what we had. Needless to say, our backyard is full of green grass! VERY unusual for us! I almost forgot it was close to Christmas without the snow. Here are some pictures of Shira enjoying the snow while we had it.

Here she is eating the snow, something both her and Asher LOVE to do.
Shira built a castle and was very proud of it. We had dinner at a friend's house and they have a little snowmachine that the kids LOVED to ride and get pulled on the sled. Of course as soon as we got home the kids started asking for a snow machine. Like that is going to happen.