Porter is ONE!!!

Happy birthday to Porter!

Porters birthday is July 26th and the day before we were flying back home to Georgia, so we decided to celebrate it with family and friends before we left. It was quite laid back as you can see by the pics. Alan won our little birthday cake discussion. I really wanted to make a cool cake just for porter and Alan was all about something simple like icecream sandwiches and popcicles. Who uses icecream sandwiches for a birthday cake, especially for your first birthday. Well, apparently we do! I gave in!! Sorry Porter!! Hope you don't think we are too lame when you grow up!


It was funny/sad/embarrassing because Porter wanted to just stuff it all in his mouth, but it was so cold that he started crying!

As for opening presents porter was happy playing with a package of course so it was Kalin and I who got to open the presents. Aren't birthdays fun?!

Utah vacation

We spent three weeks in July visiting family and friends in Utah. I really love Utah and miss it there. The kids and I stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Tubbs while Alan lived it up in his executive suite at the Marriott with no kids!! I think g-ma and g-pa are still recovering, right?!! It was fun and I really appreciate all that you guys did for us. Thanks ya'll (family and friends) for spending time with us and wanting to hang out. We had a great time because of you!

Utah Trip and the Childrens Treehouse in Ogden

This was probably the best place I could ever take Kalin. Great idea Grandma and Grandpa! There was so much to do at the treehouse it was amazing! We climbed the big tree which has a slide at the top (Kalin was just too nervous to try it out), we saw how indians lived in teepee's, we made necklaces with feathers, we made tissue paper flowers, then played in a music room and made cards with scissors and a glue stick. There was so much to do. We stayed for two hours and still didn't get to do everything! I never even got bored!!! I can't say for sure about Grandma and Grandpa, but at least they do love their grandkids! Thanks for taking us Grandma and Grandpa!

Utah Trip and the Dinosaur Museum

For the 24th of July holiday we went with daddy to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point.


Kalin was a little scared at times but loved that they were "sooo big". She enjoyed playing in the sand with the water, trees and dinosaurs, but especially thought it was neat to wear that big apron! At the end she was able to dig for her very own dinosaur bones. What a cool place!!

Kalin and Porter

Trip to Savannah Georgia and the beach at Tybee Island

For so long Kalin has bugged Alan and I to go to the beach so a few weeks ago we decided to take a little road trip to Savannah. The picture at the very top is a bridge on the Savannah river, we just thought it looked neat! The next is of the main street in downtown Savannah just off the river walk. The trees were beautiful with all this moss hanging off them. We walked along the river walk stopping at a few shops. Kalin liked seeing the huge river boats in the water.
We weren't too prepared for the beach experience, so we lasted just over an hour. Kalin went in the water once with daddy then she didn't want anything to do with it! She just wanted to collect seashells and build sand castles! She had a lot of fun playing in the sand. And porter had fun eating it! We did see a pretty big jelly fish that Kalin almost stepped on. That would have been bad seeing as it was much bigger than her feet!

Lizards

Here's the lizard we keep seeing on the deck.