Morgan Senior Pictures

My niece Morgan is graduating, so we went and took some senior pictures. She is so pretty and fun! I'm getting old... its almost time for my 10 year reunion! Crazy.

College Savings

Guess quick!

Which one of these things is more expensive? 

You only get one guess so make it good.

Happy Mother's Day to me! We just got a bill in the mail for a lost library book. Pretty sure they are starting construction on a new wing in our name with the fines we've paid the place. Who ever said going to the public library was free was apparently way more organized than we are. And of course, just days after the bill the size of our mortgage came for a silly I can Read book, Eden found Fred and Ted in the My Little Pony box. Apparently Ponies like to read too.

So the answer is.....

Fred and Ted is more expensive! Especially since I just picked up a new straightener (to replace mine that got lost in Honduras) from Costco for $59! Not a bad price if I do say so myself! And yes they had many more so run and get yourself one too... Happy Mother's Day to you :)

Honduras

Liz (Lee's aunt/I pretend she is my mom) called it right when she said Honduras was the longest shortest week ever! 

We left late evening Easter Sunday. Our plane left at 11:45 Az time, we traveled to Atlanta where we had a 3 hour layover (so from 3-6am our time!)

 Lee's computer crashed the day before we left with half his paper for school written, so he spent the layover writing a paper in the Atlanta airport. Then at 6am we got on the plane to travel down to Honduras. After 2 hours of waiting in the plane to replace a windshield wiper blade we were finally off and more than exausted! I might have gotten sick the whole second flight and the whole 6 hour bus ride after we arrived in Hounduras. I am not even going to tell you my throwing up tally :) 

But once we got there we were excited for the days to come!

After a FULL day of travel, we headed to bed early because our first day of shooting started at 3:30am. 

I've never been out of the country besides Rocky Point or Canada, so it was such an amazing experience getting to know the city and people. (Not sure if a town spread out over the jungle with 7,000 people is considered a city, but whatever)

1/3 of the cast came from cities an hour away so they came on a bus and and stayed in a motel in town. Someone said that this opportunity would probably be the only time they would stay in a  motel in their life, so they were excited. Each person I met/ kinda got to know (only 2 years of spanish in 8th and 9th grade so I spoke pretty crappy but got along ok) I LOVED! The people were so humble and fun and converted to the gospel.

 As we drove to their town we passed a brand new church building... it had 6 parking spots in the parking lot because everyone walks, no one has cars even if they live far away. Now how do I feel about complaining about driving down the street to attend 8am chruch? Hey I have a car! 

The town did have TONS of little of taxis to drive tourists around. 

They were called toot toots and the drivers were crazy! We spent most of our freetime in the afternoon hanging out on the backporch with everybody there. We began shooting each morning at sunrise so prep began an hour or two before that. By the time we were done and came back to the motel for breakfast at 8:30 we were all ready to kick back in a hammock and sleep. 

So many more random things I want to remember.....

the 1st morning we started with a destruction scene. We dirtied up the cast with some theatrical dirt and it was everywhere. I took a picture of my discusting feet. So so so so dirty... and puffy.

 Not sure if it was just the traveling or the fact that I was 5 months pregnant, but I had some serious kankles. 

Speaking of large bellies... there were 5 of us pregnant on the trip :) weird. One of the cast (who couldn't remember how old she was) is a midwife and she went around and felt each of our bellies. With in seconds she told us how far along we were and what we were having. And she was right! Crazy! Someone took a picture of all of us and she has her hand on my stomach, but I didn't get it on my camera... so I'll have to get that picture still.

My mother in law (who is amazing) was in charge of all the costuming for the whole production. 

There were 70 members in the full cast and 3 different sets of costumes. I helped and did my little part, but she was a machine and everything looked amazing! Here's us costuming ladies who came on the trip, together with Mark.

 Well everyone helped with everything, but besides me these ladies were the head honchos and worked their booties off! I guess its good to rub shoulders with awesomeness.... maybe some will rub off onto me! 

There were mcaws the flew all around in the park where the ruins are and we did most of our shooting.

 They were so loud!

Lee helped Jake with the lighting and by the end of the week I don't think there was a single line from Nacho Libro that hadn't been quoted. Oh them.

Our favorite place to eat was a restaurant that had a full blown bellows that blew to keep the charcoal grill going. The food was so tasty and the waitresses carried everything on their heads. 

 They said after 15 days of training they usually didn't break any more dishes :) 

The last location/ scene was baptisms and was at a hot springs and pure jungle. I might have fallen in love with one of the little boys (Tara and I dressed all the little kids each day, so I got to know them pretty well) I sized up this little squirt pretty quick when he was begging me for candy at 4am... with a bottle or orange pop in his hand. Guess they don't worry too much about dental there :) 

His name is Moroni and his naughty little sidekick is Nephi. They were the cutest little boys ever and we were buddies. He would hit me up at each shoot for whatever treats I had in my bag. And I might have bought stuff not necessarily for me to eat, but just because I knew they would want some.

K, this is an extremely long post, so I would be amazed if anyone read through the whole thing... but, its my journal. Hopefully a few of the pictures were interesting! 

LOVED everyone that came to the shoot (like the crew), banana pop(not!), speaking better spanish than I thought I would have, taking a sleeping pill on the way back so I didn't have to re-live the traveling, getting Steve a traffic ticket because I wasn't wearing my seatbelt and we were gringos:), 

 passing a semi with a schoolbus in the other lane and serously almost dying like 6 times(good thing my unisom chilled me out so I was laughing at the scariness of the situation), Lee paying a rediculous price for his yellow slip of paper to get out of the country(too bad he threw it away that morning) and finally being able to drink a tall glass of water with ice in it. Ahhhh it hit the spot.

Like Liz said... the longest shorest week ever... and priceless. (And that's not even including the spiritual side of the trip)

Happy Easter! Hope your weekend was as fun and crazy as ours! Thanks in advance to the Drews and Martineaus for putting up with our girlies! Lee and I are off to have some fun! If we don't pick up too many parasites along the way :) 

What's more fun?

What is more fun than 2 little Porter girlies? THREE little Porter girlies! Holy cow! we found out we are having another girl and I secretly couldn't be more excited! (I had to put on a little disappointment to comfort Lee;) We had an ultrasound last week and apparently we make a pretty great girl baby because we seem to be pros!
Delia has been wishing for a girl, and Eden is realizing she is missing out without a brother in the house... so when I told the girls, Delia sat there with her mouth wide open in amazement for a good 30 seconds. They are so excited!
If you'd like to donate to the Porter Girl wedding fund that Lee has already set up.... just kidding! And bring on the ruffles!

delia aka picky

It's happened... my baby is THREE years old. That's not quite a baby anymore, would you agree? Last weekend we had what seemed like the whole neighborhood over for a BBQ to celebrate delia turning into... as she calls it "a big girl" (I'm not convinced yet)
delia has started going to girls chorus on Wednesday afternoons with Eden, so I guess she isn't a toddling baby anymore. The songs they are learning right now are my favorite! They are Shirley Temple songs... so I suppose that is how we decided to have an animal cracker birthday party. delia and Eden walk around all day singing about the animals they have swallowed :)

Lee is always so sweet to contribute with his skills in the crafting department and made the animal balloons and her birthday hat. I love how everything turned out. (Lee also painted our lawn chairs for my birthday. You can see one in the background of this picture. Behr paint has a primer they can add to any color so that it can be painted on metal. Way more selection than rustoleum's bright yellow and brighter yellow. The paint was called A June Day and I can't wait for the June days we'll relax in them with me and my big belly and watch the girlies run around in the sprinklers :)

I was talking with my friend about how delia makes so so so so so so many silly faces. It is almost impossible to get a picture with her where she is smiling and looking at the camera. She might have a little too much of her Dad in her :) Exhibit a:
Things that I am loving about my delia right now:
-she is so excited for us to have a baby. She wants it to be a girl and kisses my little bulge every second she can.
-delia is so proud of the little things she is starting to accomplish by herself. Like buckling her sandals, and doing her car seat latch. She even made her bed today all on her own without being asked :)
-She will spout out twinkle twinkle little star to anyone anywhere for an impromptu concert
-delia literally spends half of her day in the bathroom. Ask me where the restroom is in any store in the valley and I can tell you. We have become pro at not touching anything in public bathroooms (I HATE public bathrooms)
-delia is my best eater
-she can keep up with us on bike rides even though her little bike's wheels are 2 inches around and her legs are just a blur she has to pedal so fast
-I think I have had post traumatic stress syndrome for all of delia's life and worry about her every day...

I am so so grateful she came to our family and she will guarantee make us laugh all the day long. I love you pickily poo!

Yellow Posies

Is it really almost half way through March?! I guess I have been hearing a lot from Eden lately about March coming in like a lion and leaving like a lamb.

I've been super busy lately repainting our kitchen and hosting a baby shower. I took a picture this morning that shows a little from each project I did. HUGE thanks to Candice and Leah for all their amazing help and sorry if I was bossy, now you know to never get roped in to throwing a party with me huh?! :)

We are now the proud owners of a 6'x4' chalkboard in our kitchen and I can't wait for all the fun things we will do with it!

Next Up: delia turns three!