Stylin' Miss Olivia

I think these are the cutest boots! And I thought the outfit Olivia is wearing today was really cute. Little girls are so much fun to dress.

I am really excited we are having a boy. It gets me thinking a lot about boy clothes and just how much fun it is to shop for girls. After we found out what we are having I went and bought an outfit. It took me a while to find something I liked. I really like the button- up shirt look, and polos. I wish there was a Hollister baby store:) I thought this outfit was pretty cute though:

We will probably end up dressing him like Mike in Hurley, Fox and Billabong shirts- as well as a little preppy look in there as well:) I guess we will see.

Curled Ribbon Clips

So I didn't have any purple clips for Olivia since I don't buy her many purple outfits. But I have to have everything match so I needed to make one. So here is how you make the curled ribbon clips:

Supplies: Wooden dowels, ribbon, hot glue gun, string, scissors, clips, oven

1. Pick out your ribbon- I ended up not putting the star ribbon in the clips

2. Wrap ribbon around wooden dowels- I tied the ribbon on the ends to keep it on but most people hold it on with clips

3. Pre-heat oven to 250' bake for 20 minutes. Let cool completely.

4. Cut ribbon to length of how big you want it:) I cut mine to make two mini clips

5. Since my hand is broken I couldn't take pictures of how I tied it. I took two of each color for each clip, so 8 pieces total and tied them with the string in the center of the ribbons to hold them together. Then I glued them to the clips with a piece of ribbon wrapped around the middle to secure it.

Final Product:

Recent Favorite Pictures

I am hoping to get good at photography but I know I have a lot of practice to do. My sister is doing really amazing with her photography so you can check out her photography blog and website. So I can't really play that much with my camera because of my hand but that doesn't mean I don't take some here or there with it :) so here are some recent pictures of Olivia:) She is 18 months old on the 12th of this month!

Love those baby blues!

And here is Mike's truck :

Last week was pretty much craft week when I hung out at my parents house so we made some fun cards and things:

I made the orange boxes for the ladies I visiting teach.

On the stick poking out I printed off three quotes from this month's message and tied them on the stick, and then put some goodies in the box.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year,...

There is a lot I need to tell. So first off they didn't put a hard cast on my hand- it's still broken but they decided to just put a half cast back on it and its for at least three weeks. I really hope they don't have to keep setting it like this. It's still hard for me to change Olivia. And its annoying to type with one hand so this might not be a very long post. Now, onto better things.

Christmas was wonderful. Olivia had fun opening her presents. She loves her Stuffed animal horse, and her rocking one that moves and makes noises. Mike got me an awesome really nice camera. I love it- I just haven't been able to play with it because of my hand:(. But it takes amazing pictures. I got Mike some clothes and since he had to sell his car I bought him a truck:) I know he loves it. It's a blue Dodge lifted. We spent the day at my parents house. We did go visit Mikes family before we went to my family. It was such a fun day and we got a lot of fun stuff from family. The presents were great but this is what I was most excited about:

Yes, I'm pregnant! It has been so hard to keep it a secret- especially since well its so fun to tell people you are pregnant, and I was really sick the first 13 weeks. I am now 22 weeks (just over 5 months) I'm due on May 8th:) Mike really wanted to wait til Christmas to tell our family. Luckily since I lost all the baby weight from the first pregnancy and more I could hide it really easily- until barely- Anyways it was really fun to see everyones reaction to the news. They are so excited. Oh, and then on the 27th we found out we are having a .... BOY! We are super excited.

Some other fun things we did on Christmas is have a Nerf War at my dad's school. I just watched cause of my hand since It took me too long to load and shoot. So I recorded our fun.

Here are just a few pics from Mike's camera that we took:(we took more on my camera so ill try to upload some later)

(I will post one of his truck later)

Porter Family Fun:

This is me at 22 weeks.

Christmas Eve!

So today is Christmas Eve! This past week has been quite a trial for me. Im so thankful for my family helping me out with my house cleaning and with Olivia. They have been so great! I probably didn't show it to them enough how much I appreciate everything they did. /I know its the last thing they wanted to do on their Christmas break. Im so glad to live so close to thwm. I love them so much. My mom has gone out of her way to do all she could for me. She is the best example of kindness! She does so much! It's definitly not fun with only one hand. I am hoping when I go to the Dr. next week my hand will be all better... I can pray:) I did change one of Olivia's diapers this week- just a wet one and I am stressing over how I am going to change any poopy ones- especially since she likes to run away- Most of the time she is pretty good to lay still but not for every one, and since it takes me longer she gets impatient. And dressing her is a whole other story:) and getting myself dressed is a task too. Mike has helped out so much. He is a wonderful husband:) He doesnt have to work today Im so glad! I love it when he is home:) I know I just have to keep praying for help:) So this past week has been full of fun things(besides my hand throbbing) we have made Christmas cookies, went shopping, we took Olivia to the movies and saw Tangled- so cute! and /liv did so good at the theater. It takes me forever to type a post so I hope its not too long before my next one. It's so crazy that tomorrow is Christmas! Merry Christmas!

Fun Weekend Ends With A Dumb Mistake

The weekend started out fantastic. Mike first surprised me by taking me to the store and telling me to pick out whatever I wanted. After we ran to some more stores to finish up our Christmas shopping. We went to Pizza Factory for lunch and to end the day we decided to go look at lights at Thanksgiving Point to help us get in the Christmas mood. It had been a very relaxing fun day just hanging out with Mike and Olivia. After we put Olivia to bed, Mike and me were going to cuddle by the fire and watch a movie. Mike thought he was being funny by poking me with his popsicle stick and by instinct I turned to hit his leg. Instead, I ended up hitting his knee cap harder than I thought. My hand swelled up instantly and we ran to the emergency room. After they took x-rays we found out that I broke my hand (right below my pinkie). It's my right hand that broke and so it's going to take me a while to get used to using my left hand. It still hurts like crazy and now I have a half cast on it until the swelling goes down but in a week I have to get a hard cast on and have it on for a month or longer. My family is really great to help me out but I know I will have to change Olivia's diaper sometime. I don't know how people do things with just one arm. I just hope it heals faster than they say. It's going to be a trial. Especially with a 17 month old. It makes me realize how grateful I am that I have both arms and thankful for my sister for typing this post :)

Can't forget the guys!

Michael(husband), Kevin(brother), Brady(brother in law), and Jon(brother in law)

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