What's in a NAME.....

I agree with everyone. I think it looks a lot better than described. This also means that our family has great imagination because I too pictured something really really scary. But it's looking good Mom. I am glad you are cancer free and if you want some skin off my nose, I will gladly give it to you.

Today, my friend showed me this baby name website. You can type in your name it tells you what it means, so I did all of ours because I thought it was fun. Everyone's name was there except Shalene's which means she has the best and most original name out of all of us. Well done, Shalene.

Tanis= Serpent: Greek
Tyler= Tilemaker:English
Joni= God is gracious-Hebrew (you are a form of Joan, Joan is hebrew/ Joni is American)
Richard=Brave ruler: English
Denise= Devotee of Dionysos: French
Kelly=Bright Headed-Irish
Erica= Always ruler
Porter=Door Keeper: English
Hudson= Son of Hud (clever, I know) but is said that it was a spin off of Richard which I thought was interesting.
Claire=I can't remember

Marci=Warlike: American. So you better watch out. Sometimes I do feel warlike.

I come home in just 2 days. I can't wait!!!! Get ready to live everyone, this is going to be the best christmas ever. On Sunday I asked Porter what I should make for his Dad for christmas. He thought for awhile and decided that a necklace would be the perfect gift. Pucashells it is. Get ready Ty.

"Get Well Soon"

Well, I was actually getting on here to write a cheesy "Get Well Soon" note to you Mom, but I know that Tyler would gag at the thought of anything cheesy-but we do want to say that we love you and hope that your spirits are lifted and you get better soon. However, I would have to agree with Joni. You are definitely not Frankenstein and I also agree that it is NOT as bad as you were describing it on the phone. You still look beautiful and just like you said, when the stitches heal you can just cover it with make-up until it heals all the way! Easy as pie, right? We are just glad that you are okay, and not dying of cancer. That just scares us. I am counting on you being around forever since my parents are starting to get older...so scar or no scar we are happy to have you. Your eyes don't look bad at all in those pictures! Your black eye must have gone away really fast, or you have great make-up on. Don't worry, we won't kringe (once again, Marci I am with you on the spell check thing). We are just excited to be with you guys for Christmas!

Anyways, we are just here...ALL DAY LONG, if you need someone to talk to- any of you actually. Claire has double ear infections and a rash and Porter has been throwing up for about what....15 hours now? I think he has strep, because I KNOW I have it, but I can deal with it right? So, we are home bound. Except for I did get a HUGE order for BOWS! YEAH! I was excited and scared at the same time. Hopefully they will like them. So, I have to ship them out today, so I better run to go and finish them up! Love you all and can't wait to see you!

Love, Ty Erica Porter and Claire

Mom you are not Frankenstein!!!

MOM!!! Ok first of all ouch. I am really sorry that you had to go through that, but also it is not as bad as you think. So the way you described it to me I was picturing this monster. Do you remember when Shae Vargas got kicked in the head by a horse, and her whole face was blown up. That is what I was picturing!! You look great. All that matters is that you are ok, and I am sure we are all grateful for that.

As far as my life goes, it is just crazy busy. We are starting the Nutcracker here in Provo on Friday and my life officially consists of that until it is over. School is almost over. Only 1 more final YAY!!!!! I am so excited to be done with finals but other than that life is good. We performed in Idaho Falls last weekend so I got to hang out with mom and dad a little bit which was heaven on earth as always. Oh and actually the shows up there were SOLD OUT!!!! We were all so excited. It is so much fun to perform for a full audience. That show went really good because of it.

Well I miss you all so much, but are time apart is soon coming to an end. I am so excited to see you all. Oh and Marci do you have any ideas for your present??? Anyways, I love you and will see you soon.

Bye, Jones

my nose

Well everyone, I know that you are dying to see what is happening to me. The only ones who have really seen me is Tanis and Hudson and needless to say, Hudson didn't know if he wanted to come to me or not. It looks pretty scary but it feels even worse. My eyes were even more swollen this morning, it has come down quite a bit. I have to look at the positive and say at least it will lay flat without a hole but the stitches are quite a few more than I expected! I think it was for the doctor also. I thought if I gave you the worst shot then maybe when I see everyone you won't be so shocked. I don't plan on going to church this Sunday and probably to finish my shopping, I will have to shop early when no one is shopping otherwise I might scare everyone in the place. Maybe I should have gotten a face lift while I was at it because I look ABOUT that scary. Well, Pray for me because I am going to need it. Eveyone work hard on your finals and soon you'll be done. I love you all! MOM

And the list goes on.

So I thought I would just keep posting. I have so much to say and so many pictures to show you. First of all here is Hudson. Marci talked about the things she is thankful for and I have to continue with her long list and add- Washable Markers. This was Hudson's first experience with markers. He thought they were tasty, obviously, and just the greatest thing on this earth. He is now addicted to coloring and is constantly drawing on everything. I didn't mind until a little while ago, on evening, I heard Tim exclaim from my bedroom, "oh no, Hudson, oh no, no, no". I proceeded to walk in and see a huge dark line on my carpet and a magic marker in Hudson's hand......... Not good. I freaked and could see our security deposit flying out the window. Thankfully I acted fast and immediately ran for mom's carpet cleaner. I started scrubbing and by some unknown power, it came out. It was probably because I just kept thinking "please Heavenly Father, help me to get this out". Blessings come in all shapes and sizes.

Secondly, I thought I would post our Christmas cards that I designed. I couldn't decide which one I like more, and I just kept wanting to design more and more. It was a blast. I think designing cards is my new favorite thing!! And photoshop is my new love. I can't get enough of that program.

Thirdly, I am thankful that Hudson is showing me how he can jump, as we speak. He is trying SO HARD and with some much effort but..........he doesn't get even a little bit off the floor. I am also listening to a little Amy Grant Christmas right now, so his jumping is inter mixed with his version of dancing.....flailing arms and twirling. He is obviously multi talented. I love that I am able to spend everyday with him.

Well that is it more a moment. Marci, I hope your performance goes well tonight. It breaks my heart that I cannot see it. Please, please video.

Till I post again in an hour........

The Most Untraditional Thanksgiving...............

So, I realize that I have much to catch up on, and I think that is part of the reason that I have not written for so long. There is so much!! But I will try to make it as concise as possible and not bore you all to death.

First and foremost our trip to DC for Thanksgiving was as mom would say "fantastic". We headed down on Wednesday morning and drove straight to the zoo. The weather was unbelievable and in the 70's which was so nice. We had a blast seeing all the different animals and Hudson was having the time of his life. His favorite thing there was the house of birds which he insisted walking through himself and would point to every bird and say "mama" and then do the sign for bird. It was the cutest thing. Another highlight was when he walked up to these two statues of these little foxes and attempted to "honk" their noses.....his new thing. I am sure all of you will experience that in the next month. It was adorable. We spent the entire day hanging out seeing all the different animals and listening to our children go crazy. We went with two other families- Billy, Kristy and Lainey Hull and Jake, Lindsey, Emma and Kenna Irving. Billy is in Tim's class and Jake and Lindsey just moved in to our apartment complex. We had so much fun together and Hudson absolutely adores the Irving Girls. Anyway, after spending time at the zoo we headed to our hotel in down town DC about 2 blocks from the WhiteHouse. It was the Hilton and SUPER nice which we luckily got a great deal due to Hotwire. So we pull up with our three cars and proceed to check in and begin to unload our car. Ok, so picture this 3 young couples- 4 kids- 3 enormous piles of luggage- 3 full sized coolers- a MICROWAVE- a crockpot and a rice cooker, all going into the HILTON. Heaven help us....can we say White Trash. Oh the bonuses of being poor. So needless to say, we took all of our meals and cooked in the hotel except for actual Thanksgiving meal which we spent at, drumroll please........ESPNZONE. Nothing like a good old mushroom burger and fries in place of turkey, mom's stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc. It was hilarious, but actually really fun. The men were in heaven with the 15ft. screen playing the football game with 4, 37" tv's on each side showing every other sport that was playing all across the globe. Even the bathrooms had their own TV in each stall. Classic. Anyway, so Thanksgiving day was spent at the Air and Space Museum, the Washington and Lincoln Monument, National Mall and ESPNZone. It was a great day.

On Friday, we woke up and split where Tim and I went to do a session at the Washington DC Temple. You know, you really don't understand how important the Temple is until you are 4 hours away and can only go once every quarter. How I have missed the Temple. I just love the peace and comfort I feel there every time I enter those doors. We are so blessed to have such a place on this earth where we can leave this world behind and have the opportunity to relish in the spiritual and wonderful things of this life. I love that place. We then swapped children and headed to the visitor's center while the others did a session. Needless to say Tim and I were both staring out the window by the time the two hours were over, just trying to get a glimpse of them walking back. We had both had it....four kids under the age of 3 is nuts. I am glad they come one at a time. After that, we headed down to the Holocaust Museum for a very educational and somber evening. It was fun though. Saturday was spent at the Natural History Museum, National Archives and JFK monument, and then we headed for home about 4 that afternoon. We really had such a great time on the trip, and it was the perfect place for us to go. There is so much to do there and we loved all the history. We had a blast, although I do have to admit I was craving the crusty, burned samplings of stuffing I would get before dinner. Mom, I hope you are ready to break it back out for Christmas....I need my stuffing fix.

Lastly, I just wanted to say that I am so thankful for ALL of you. We have the best family on this earth and I cannot wait to see all of your faces really soon. I am REALLY homesick right now and feel like I am not just counting down days, but hours until I get to go home on Tuesday. It is hard being an entire country away, but we are so thankful for this opportunity and all we are learning and experiencing in our life. We love you with all our heart.

I LOVE INSURANCE

Okay, so I know that this is my third post in what 24 hours? Well, I guess I am on a blogging high right now-or a spray paint high...I have seriously been in my garage for the past two days "flocking" these real greens that I got from Home Depot and Lowe's for the Christmas Party-they look beautiful but my brain is spinning and is taking the fall-I guess my garage isn't "well" ventilated. Anyway-I had to come and post about my LOVE for insurance-because for SOOOOO long we haven't really had great insurance, or no insurance at all! So atleast once each year, I have a "Lehman Girls" meltdown moment where I think that I am dying from something rare, or something common, but I am dying just the same. One year it was blood clots in my legs, one year it was a brain tumor, and this year it just happened to be something with my heart-still don't know what is wrong so the verdict of me dying is still out-Thyroid Cancer-that is still a possibility-I really do need to go to the doctor, but anyways, we got this "THIS IS NOT A BILL" in the mail, my heart was pounding to see that my short stay in the emergency room a few weeks back totaled $3,500!!!! I have been holding my breath now for a week or so since I got that notice. What in the world! I did have some extensive tests and blood work, but $3500? That exceeds the highest out of pocket expense to the emergency room by us so far-that was set at just under $2000 for my "brain tumor"...yes, we were SOOOOOOOO poor, so I think that about killed us-so we ate what ramen for a month? Or more than a month? I still cry when I think of how we struggled through MBA school-but it was for the best. Well, anyways, I was holding my breath until today-when we got THE BILL in the mail! I was panicking when I was opening the envelope-I opened it and closed my eyes and just dreaded that it was going to say that we had to pay it all in full-because come to find out I went to the Mayo Emergency Room-you know Mayo Clinic and I guess that for certain things-or most things you have to have special MAYO INSURANCE or you pay out of pocket-when I could have driven 10 minutes and been assured that I wouldn't have to pay it, but I was unsure up until today. I read through it and it took me a minute. Total cost $3564.00 and patient responsibility......$50.00!!!! Thank heavens, seriously-what a blessing it is for insurance to know that ok, that is a GREAT co-pay and that we don't have to shell out of savings for nothing. I feel sooo blessed for Tyler and how much he does for me and the kids and how hard he works for us-that through him we do have great insurance and my kids can go for well check-ups and get the medical attention that they need when they need it. Porter used to go for weeks sick because we couldn't afford to go to the doctor. I just cry to think of him sick like that. He was sick so often. I am soooo grateful for good doctors, for good husbands to work so hard and for good insurance...what a weight off of my shoulders to know that not only I am taken care of but my children-that is the most important thing. Life is GRAND...and I have a thankful heart!

Aren't these CUTE?

Okay-so I just did a post and messed up and put it on my family blog for Ty and me, but it was supposed to be published here! I too am still trying to figure out the blogging world...however, I HAD to post these pictures. This year we spent Thanksgiving Day at my Aunt Nancy's house with my extended family and my cousin Mike was there-yes, ladies, he is single...hint hint MARCI! Well, he lives down in Huntington Beach (that's convienent)...and he works full-time at Ernst & Young, but he has just started a little business on the side-which he should just do this full-time! He is soooooo GREAT at Photography-I just love looking at his site and all of the pictures that he does. He has a nact-is that the right spelling? Once again Marci, I am with you on the spell check thing...but you HAVE to check out his site. Right now it is under construction but he has forwarded it to a blog photo website-it is AWESOME. Claire's pics along with Elle's (my niece) are under the random section. Seriously folks-he is SOOO talented. This is the multi-talented kid. He cooks, sews-yes he made the most awesome pair of pants my bro in law Bob wanted some just like them-he does photography and he is just awesome in general-he's my cousin of course-awesomeness runs through our veins (j/k). But his site is http://web.mac.com/thedigitalorange/ . IT IS GREAT. I wish that he could have done my wedding. Some of his shots are just beautiful-well most are. So here are the pics that he posted of Claire-but you've got to check them out on his site-and MARCI, once again he is single...that's all I'm saying. My lips are sealed. Okay, enjoy family. (I do have to say-that day Claire had a hard day and I wish that her hair in that one photo wouldn't have been coming out-but you do what you can with kids right?)

Our Intelligent Sunday

We had quite the intelligent Sunday yesterday-from who? Porter of course! Sacrament meeting was quite the milestone for us! Claire sat through ALMOST the whole entire thing-we actually are getting this under control people! I had to take her out the last 10 minutes-and it wasn't even because she was being "bad" but she was talking so loud, even with the binki in that she was disrupting this woman's testimony-so I opted out of it! Not only did we reach a Sacrament Meeting milestone-Claire went to nursery BY HERSELF WITHOUT FREAKING OUT! I guess that most of you don't understand the joy that brings-Tanis, you soon will. I haven't been able to attend Sunday School and Tyler hasn't attended Priesthood for the past what...atleast six months! We trade off with Claire-sitting with her in nursery, but we are FREE! It was so wonderful to actually attend my meetings! Oh, how I loved it. Young Women's is always great though-so atleast I have been taking full advantage of that! I learn so much from those lessons-sometimes I think that they are geared more toward adults than youth-which is great for me! I love my girls and I love teaching them and being with them...but now I get to go to Sunday School! Can you feel the excitement people? Anyways, yesterday while I took Claire out of Sacrament meeting Porter had a moment. Tyler said that he was started to get a little "rialed" up (yes Marci, I too wish that I had spell check-or knew how to use it!). Then all of a sudden he stopped..."Dad, did you know that this bench is made out of molecules?" WHAT???!!!??? He noticed all of the different colors in the bench-blues, pinks, all put together. He had a moment and then went on to give Tyler a lesson about molecules and how everything is made of molecules and the different speeds they move make them solids etc. Then at the end of church we found him in the gym by himself writing on the chalkboard different words-granted they weren't HUGE words, but DAD, MOM, PORTER, HAT....what a kid! We love him-can you tell we are proud? I should say pleased! The joys of parenthood! They finally catch onto the things that you are trying to teach them...the day came to an end with his revelation at the dinner table-kind of like Tyler freaking out about what the o-zone layer? He was sitting in his chair across from me and he was sitting really still. He said, "Mom and Dad, did you know that if our planet was huge that we couldn't move at all and if it was tiny we could jump super high?" I was so confused and I still am, so I might have written it wrong but he was explaining the principle that gravitational force is proportionate to the size of the body/planet??? Still confused here! Really-I need Ty to explain it to me again!

We ended the night with a fun project that was SUPPOSED to be for tonight's FHE...but Porter couldn't wait! I bought him a 10 dollar gingerbread kit from Costco and him and I put it together for like 2 hours last night! It was a BLAST. He kept thanking me for buying it for him! He has always wanted to do one and so when I saw it on Saturday I had to buy it! We had so much fun and so I've posted pictures of him with his house. He did all of the decorations himself-no help! I was so proud of him. He is growing up and sometimes acts like the biggest adult. He is so much fun and we just adore him! Enjoy the pics and wish you all were here to have a taste of it.

We love you all and can't wait for Christmas...only a few more weeks. Pray for me this week if you will for this ward Christmas Party...I am doing all the decorations by myself and wish you all were here to give your ideas. I am not the greatest at this, but I will try my best!

Until next time!!!!

THINGS I AM THANKFUL FOR

FOR SOME REASON I WANT TO WRITE IN ALL CAPS BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT I AM YELLING THIS.

ONLY TWO MORE WEEKS AND I GET TO SEE MOST OF YOU. MOM COMES TO WATCH OUR GRADUATE CONCERT ON TUESDAY AND I AM SO EXCITED. IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I HAVE SEEN ANY OF YOU AND I MISS YOU SO MUCH. YOU BETTER BELIEVE THAT I WILL BE THE MASTER AT THE DART GAME.

HERE ARE SOME PICTURES FROM NEW YORK. I THINK I LAUGHED THE ENTIRE TIME THAT I WAS THERE. I HADN'T SEEN LINSEY IN LIKE TWO YEARS AND IT WAS SO NICE TO REUNITE. WE MADE A DELICIOUS TURKEY AS YOU CAN SEE. THE WHOLE MEAL WAS FANASTIC AND CYRUS WON THE BEST PIE, HE WAS VERY PROUD OF IT. LINSEY AND BRIAN LIVE IN A LITTLE BROOKLYN NEIGBHORHOOD. IT WAS SO CUTE. WE WENT IN THE CITY QUITE A BIT. WE WENT TO SOHO, CHINA TOWN ( NO I DIDN'T SEE OUR MONKEY FRIEND), UNION SQUARE AND DOWNTOWN A LOT. WE WENT TO THE MOMA AND SAW ENCHANTED WHICH I THOUGHT WAS PRETTY GOOD. NYC IS FUN AT CHRISTMAS TIME, EVERYONE WAS PUTTING UP THEIR DECORATIONS. THE STORE WINDOWS WERE ABSOLUTELY AMAZING AND I THINK ONE DAY I WILL SWITCH PROFESSIONS AND BECOME A WINDOW DECORATOR.

OF COURSE I MISSED ALL OF YOU. I MISSED THE NAP IN THE PIT AND THE DINNER AT THE CHURCH. I JUST MISSED SEEING EVERYONE. WE ARE TRUELY BLESSED TO HAVE SUCH AMAZING PARENTS. I DON'T KNOW WHY WE WERE SENT TO MOM AND DAD BUT I AM SO GRATEFUL I WAS.

A SHORT LIST OF THINGS THAT I AM GRATEFUL FOR:

THAT I CAN CALL TANIS AT 1:30PM HER TIME AND SHE STILL PICKS UP.
MOMS WILLINGNESS TO COME TO MY SHOW
DADS GOAL SHEETS AND DAD JUST BEING DAD
THE GOSPEL AND THE ATONEMENT
RICHARDS NOSE MOVING IN AND OUT WHEN HE LAUGHS HARD
BIG WHITE SNOWFLAKES AND THE CHANGE OF WEATHER
CHRISTMAS MUSIC: EXSPECAILLY HANSON CHRISTMAS AND THE OSMONDS: PINECONE SONG
FRIENDS THAT WILL PICK UP RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT OFF EVEN IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THEM FOR YEARS
A HEALTHY BODY
JONI'S CALLS WHEN SHE IS DRIVING HOME FOR TEACHING
PORTERS CRAZY DANCE
SHALENE'S SPIRIT AND ENTHUSIAISM
TY'S BOOKS IN THE BATHROOM
CLAIRES SCREAM (SOMETIMES)
HUDSONS PHONE CONVERSATIONS
RICHARDS HAMMICK
GRANDMA AND GRANDPA TUTTLE AND THE RITUAL OF SITTTING ON THERE COUCH ON SUNDAY JUST TALKING
COLORS
ERICAS BLOG POST: THEY MAKE ME HAPPY
TIMMY'S WILLINGNESS TO ALWAYS HELP
SUNDAY FAMILY MOVIES
AND I AM THANKFUL FOR POPCORN (THE SALT AND PEPPER KIND)

WELL ANYWAYS, I BETTER GET READY FOR CHURCH. I LOVE YOU ALL AND HOPE THAT YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY TODAY. TYLER I NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU WANT ME TO MAKE FOR YOU- DO YOU WANT SOME CAROLERS FOR YOUR HOUSE BECAUSE THAT IS ONE OF MY SPECIALITIES. JUST THINK ABOUT IT?

WHY DOESN'T THE SPELLCHECK WORK? SORRY EVERYONE.

LOVE YA,
MARC

We're Back in Business!

Well, Tyler, the kids and I pulled into our house around 10pm Sunday night! What a drive, but what a time we had in Utah. Finally we are back in business with our AWESOME computer (seriously for those of you who don't have Mac's you've got to invest!). Ty and I walked in and went right for the computer. Sad huh? Well, now we can actually post pictures, so I thought that it was about time that I write about what's been going on in the last few weeks. I do have to say-I wrote the cutest post a few days back at my sister's house, and yes, it was lost because her computer froze! AHHHHH...I didn't have the patience or energy to retype, so sorry it was left unsaid!

So...first let me say that about two minutes ago I almost wet my pants laughing. Why? Well, Tyler just headed out to the gym, but we were both back in our bedroom. He was charging and updating the iPod and I was laying on the bed talking to him about his day at work. So, imagine this...Claire was strapped into her high chair and Porter was watching "Shrek Christmas!" and all of a sudden we heard screaming. It was Claire-no big surprise right? Well...the screaming went on and on for over five minutes and really sadly enough we didn't think anything of it because of her lovely screaming habit. Until....Porter comes running into our room and stops all of a sudden and with both hands on his hips he says...."Guys, guys...wait a minute, wait a minute. We had a problem....(pause for seriously a long time, then he gets this sheepish grin on his face) Claire's hand in stuck in her yogurt container and she can't get it out!" I felt so bad-we left her in there for quite some time as she must have been growing more claustraphobic since her hand was indeed stuck in the yoplait yogurt container. She had been shaking it to try and pry it off, which was the reason that there was yogurt all over the walls and all in her hair and on her face. Squirts of yogurt. When I got it off, she just looked up at me and said, "Thank you" in her own special language! Then it was followed by, "I Stinky!". Double Whammy folks!

So, we had a blast in Utah-although it was FREEZING cold and yes, I only brought one sweatshirt and the rest of my clothes were short sleeves! I can't find our winter clothes. We had a great time though. We mostly just hung out at my mom's house and at my sister Stef's house. We babysat for my sister while they went out of town-four kids? Wow...but I have to say it was SUPER bad-but we didn't leave the house much. We went to the park, went on walks around the block while Porter rode a big bike! He was AWESOME at it! He would speed down the sidewalk and he was just having the time of his life. Santa...bring him a bike! Ty and I got away for a day or so up in Park City which was a blast. We shopped, went to eat and watched endless movies in our sweet room. We spent a lot of nights up at my sister's watching shows and movies...many sleepovers up that way. We had a great time at Thanksgiving and especially playing dart tag that night at Mom and Dad's house. Dad-you seriously have to find a new place to hide! The kitchen corner isn't working for you anymore, and for the record...I did shoot you in the den-there is NO way I could have missed. The best though was me hiding under Joni's bed and I went to shoot Tyler and the gun went off, so I got shot in the head! Darn! For those of you who missed the game...there will be plenty more at Christmas.

One of the greatest things that we did was go up to Gardner's Village with my sisters and mom and yes, all the kids. Wherever we go it is one big goat rodeo with all five kids under the age of four. Wow! It was a blast. I guess that is just the stage of life that we are at right now, so live it up...right? The kids had a great time up there. They had decorated for Christmas with these little elves-I thought they were cute, Tyler on the other hand thought they were creepy-really creepy, so you'll have to judge for yourselves. We dressed all of the kids in red and white to attempt to take a Christmas picture-you can probably imagine how well that worked. Porter was about the only one that was sitting still, looking at the camera with a constant smile. The others (Brooke is three and the others are between 12-18 months!). Yes...it was quite the experience. But we did get some cute pictures. I just think my kids are the cutest things in the world-I know some of you may say that I am biased, but how can you not love their little faces? Seriously? Well, the moment for me was when we came to this one display. There were two elves there making lists-can you guess? Naughty and nice lists. Porter was so excited and wouldn't let us move on until he found his name. Okay...no one is named Porter, we are realizing...and so you guessed his name wasn't on either list. He first checked the naughty list-does he have a conscience? He got through it and turned around and smiled (photo) saying with a grin..."I'm not on that list!" Although it did disturb him that pretty much all of the rest of us were on that list-Tyler, Erica, Stefanie, Elizabeth, Brooke, Jenn, Carolyn, Wayne...yeah, funny huh? He got very defensive when he found out that his dad was on the naughty list. He could have been a star attorney to save Tyler's name from being on that list! "My daddy is NOT naughty!" Well, then the concerning part came when he looked through all the names on the nice list and did not find his name. "What about me?" He seemed to say....my sister Stef chimmed in..."I guess they haven't decided yet on you this year, so you better be on your best behavior." Wow...a little motivation and the kid was a saint for the rest of the day. His sweet little smile-I just love him and Claire so much. They are such joys. It was a great afternoon-the last day of nice weather in Utah! So, enjoy these few pictures.

We love you all and can't wait for Christmas and for a rematch of the dart game! Get your guns ready folks. Keep posting-we are all falling a little behind it seems! We love reading how you are doing...so keep it up!

Until next time....Love Erica

Here's a LITTLE motivation for you.........

Um yeah, so if anyone ever questioned if Tim could actually fit into our family, I think this pretty much clears it up. Heaven knows that even Grandpa Condie would be flipping out about now. So Tim pretty much had the best day of his life so far on Saturday, when he and 3 other guys heading up to Lake Erie for a day of fishing. They had a blast and landed I don't even know how many. All I know is the allotment of 4 landed in my kitchen sink that night. They walked in with this garbage bag FULL and I was thinking, "Holy, they must have kept everything in the river", but no, it was ONLY 4 fish. They were unbelievably huge!! So just in case you don't know much about this fabulous region of the Northeast, we have what is known as a GREAT LAKE, which is very descriptive of what you can pull out of it.....actually, I guess it is the rivers off of the lake where you actually fish. In the fall, the Steelhead move from the lake upstream into the rivers to spawn. You can see the massive amounts of fish that occupy these rivers and you can basically sight fish them if the weather is right. Just one more reason to come visit and especially a little more motivation to the male gender in the family. Fall/November is apparently the best month of fishing, so I propose Thanksgiving next year in the grand state of Pennsylvania. Just a little something to think about......maybe it will HOOK you.

Lame I know, but I couldn't help myself from bringing in a Tammy joke. Anyway, Tim really had a blast and is addicted to fishing. I was way excited for them since they were the biggest fish I had ever seen except for Uncle Ken's monster at FishLake. Needless to say, we cooked up an enormous mass of fish yesterday and had a feast fit for kings!! No really, it was pretty good. I did the whole BBQ thing and everyone really liked it. It took me back to the good old days of when we would have fish every weekend. I love a good trout.

Anyway, in other news, we just keep plugging along. Hudson is finally starting to get back to normal after all his shots and the enormous growth in his mouth. We still don't what in the world was going on, if it was some type of infection or just him biting on it. I looked in his mouth last saturday and noticed there was a little white dot that looked like a canker, but then he stuck out his tongue on Sunday and I could not believe it. So that is when we took a picture of it and Tim took it took school to get a diagnosis from his Oral Diagnosis teacher. All thought it looked like he was just chewing on his tongue, so we kind of watched it for awhile and I think it is pretty much gone now.....but weird. I swear, it is one thing after another.

So we head out for DC on Wednesday. In honor of Thanksgiving we decided that we would do things completely untraditional. I just figured, if I can't do things completely right by being at home with family, we may as well not even try to mimic it!! So vacation it is!! We are way excited and it should be a lot of fun. We have two other families going with us and will be going to the Zoo, memorials, museums the white house and Thanksgiving dinner in some random restaurant. I am not sure if it will be as great as Thanksgiving in MOTOWN with the Jackson V, but it should be good.

Well, that is it for now. Know that we will miss you terribly this weekend!! There is nothing like Thanksgiving dinner in the church????? Oh well, it is not about the location as much as it is about the family. Tell everyone we love them and miss them so much. Think of me mom, when you are hanging the garland on the banister of the stairs....and get pumped for CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!! Only three more weeks. I can hardly wait. Love you all.

PS. Marci, I will look for the orange and blue spandex....Or I guess I should ask if it will be you or TYLER wearing it........CAPTAIN SASSY!!

Thanksgiving is Coming!!!!

Hello Everyone!!!!

Well this week was a little bit CRAZY!!! I had performance this weekend and I am sure Marci understands the way I feel. Performance week basically runs you over. On Saturday, I was at the theatre from 10 a.m. til 10 p.m. It was so so fun. Actually the performance was really fun.

Thank you to all who came. I am pretty sure we have the best parents anyone could ask for. Thank you so much mom and dad for always supporting me. I really do appreciate it so much. Also Tammy, Amber, Carleen and her kids, and Kris, Mitchell, and Sydney came. It was really fun to see all of them. I hope they had a good time. I know I had tons of fun performing and it was alot more fun cause I knew all of you were in the audience. You are awesome. Thanks Marce for the text :). It was great, I wish you could have been there too. Hopefully I will get to see you perform soon. Please, Please, video tape your piece. I am so sad I can't see it.

Everything else is going fine. I am just so excited for tuesday because I get to go to Holden. YAY!!!!!!! I am so excited. Well that is about all that is happening here in Provo. I love you all and am excited to see you soon. Love all of you so much.

Jones

Still Goods Feel

Not to long ago Joni came to stay with me and we were getting into the car and I had just burned the new rascal flats cd and wrote the title on it. Joni picks it up and starts busting up. I don't know what she is laughing about and then she says "Still Goods Feels, uh Marc" It's suppose to be "Still Feels Good". Kind of catchy the other way if you ask me but I wanted to dedicate this title to Jonified.

I love "My boyfriends back song"! We did one of our big prop routines in high school to that song. I am glad to here that Tyler is home and I wish with all my heart that I was babysitting instead of Richard and Shelane (I don't know how to spell your name yet, but I still love you :)) I am sure Rich will teach Porter all kinds of new tricks. Please share the highlights of their stay.

As for Thanksgiving, I am actually not coming home. Out of the blue I forked over a lot of hard cash for a plane ticket to New York to stay with Linsey and her husband. 4 of my other friends are all meeting up there and so I am going on Tuesday and staying until Sunday. Then two weeks after that I get to come home for 3 weeks. I figured this might be the only time that I get to do this and so I am going in just two days. I think we are going to go to the Macy's Parade so Mom if you could send me that blue/orange/yellow costume that I once wore for the Parade that would be great. I think I will bust out the old moves and make my way down the parade route. Just kidding. Remember when we went to NYC that guy in china town that kept trying to sale that monkey to us. He kept saying: Jumping and Climbing like )*&^%%$#^%^&^ (really bad words). Funny. I'm excited but also a little sad that I will miss the football game and Thanksgiving at the Church (actually, I hate that it's at the church) but I will miss the family the most and Mom's stuffing.

Other than that I got to do baptisms for the dead yesterday and that was really awesome. I also painted and assembled little toy cars at a service project yesterday. It was an multi-faith service project at our church and it was really cool. I love watching the scouts paint. They had all kinds of puffy paints there and I think most of the cars that the scouts painted are probably still drying because the paint was about a inch thick. Classic. My finger is really sore though from putting on the wheels but all around it was a really good day yesterday.

I am making Cherry cookies today for my visiting teachers. Mom wins best cook ever!! I think I will go start. Love you all and I can't wait to see you soon.

Marci

He's Back...and We're Outta Here!

Well, Richard just pulled out of my parent's driveway with both children strapped in! Wow...it is quiet in here. A little too quiet! Tyler is back-"my boyfriend's back!" (you know that 80's song, well it just came to mind), and we are off for a relaxing weekend at the Stein Erikson's Lodge in Park City! Yeah for us! Another weekend away-we are getting pretty accostomed to this lifestyle! We've had a great week, but the best part for us is that Tyler is finally back and done traveling...well for now. We are excited and anxious for Thanksgiving to see everyone! Marci-we are so excited that you are coming home! Not to mention there is 7 days and counting until the Millard Alum are beating each other down on the HS field! Tyler has been training for two months now, so everyone better be ready to witness a pro in action! Well, I wanted to write a quick note to tell you all that we love you and Joni we will miss your sweet ballet! If Ty wouldn't have planned this weekend I would have been front row! We are grateful for such a great family and hope that Richard and Shelane survive the weekend. In Tyler's words..."I hope they make it through without killing each other..." I was puzzled...my kids killing each other or Richard and Shelane? heheheh! Thanks guys you are the best! We love you all...more to come in a few days!

I miss you all so much :(

Hi my family,

Ok so Erica I love this blog so much. Thank you for setting it up. You are awesome. It is so fun to here how everything is going in the family. Well as far as my life goes it pretty much is the same. I told mom today that I am seriously burned out, but luckily its THANKSGIVING soon!!!!!! I am so excited to be home in holden. Sleeping in my own bed, and oh how excited I am for the all day activities of putting up the Christmas Decorations (if we are still doing that :( sad if we don't ). So basically, I can't wait for the break.

Other than that everything is going good. We have La Coquette this week on saturday. If anyone wants to come call mom k. You should come to the 2:00 performance because that is when I get to be La Coquette, but honestly I think you all (Tyler, yes, even you) will like this ballet. It is Dad's favorite ballet. It is really cute and actually funny so all come. Just a little preview, it is about 4 sisters. The youngest is the flirt (La Coquette). The others are bossy, ditzy (who is Rachelle and she is hilarious), and the other one is shy. Anyways the just of the story is they all get to get married and I don't. So I get mad and flirt with all the boyfriends. Well anyways it is really fun and you should all come, if you can :).

Well I think that is it here in P-town. I love you all so much and miss you with all of my heart. Talk to you soon.

SOUTH DAKOTA!

Well I thought i would get on and give a little more detailed description for everyone of the most awesomest hunting trip of my lifetime! So here it goes... Tyler and i drove from utah up to idaho falls to meet dad and we got there around 6:00 pm. on the way we took a brief stop in tremonton to have a little arbys with mom who was on her way to utah and that began a long five days of the sick road gut we all experienced. we rolled into the shelley are with the gas light on so to prevent running out of gas i called dad to see if there was any gas out at his tanks off the shelley exit. dad immediately assumed we had run out of gas a was NOT happy about it thinking he was going to have to come rescue us, which made for a good laugh, but we made it to a gas station and all was well and dandy. after a quick stop at sportsmans warehouse, we were on the road headed for bozeman montana. from there we passed through good ol red lodge and billings. dad drove to bozeman and i took over til about 230 am where i began entering into what tyler and i refer to as the "hallucination stage" where you are so tired you begin to see things that arent really there. in my case i kept thinking the black skid marks on the road were huge pieces of tires to which i was swerving to avoid! tyler took over for a while followed by dad and then i went in for the final leg through the gauntlet. i call it the gauntlet because there are so many deer on that road. we finally arrived in gettysburg south dakota at 10:05 and bought our licenses and headed out to hunt. we hooked up with our local mormon friend frank, who is about 65 or something like that and has sooooo many cats! so we hunted alot of his property and on one push i had a big ol rooster come right over the top of me and i just rolled him over! i ran to pick him up and he started running from me so i swung i gun at him as i have done so many other times in my life, and my gun snapped in half! i broke the whole back end of my gun off and when i realized what had happened my heart just sunk and i really just wanted to cry. ive had that gun for ten+ years and has so much sentimental value to me. so now i have to get it fixed and i guess it just adds to the value. luckily for me i had told uncle steve earlier in the week to bring his old shotgun for a back up which paid off. so after that we split up and we went off on our own, dad, rob, tyler, and myself and started driving around. we ended up getting into them pretty good and shot our limit in no time. that night we ate at the firehouse cafe, food and board is never a luxury in gettysburg, and then crashed for the night. at dinner steve ordered an apetizer plate for everyone to share which consisted of anything they had deep fried and served on a big platter. curt ate a bunch of that stuff and then ordered fish and chips and ended up getting gut sick probably because everything he ate at dinner was deep fried. satuday we found what came to be known according to rob as the "field of dreams" which was a corn field out in the middle of nowhere just full of literally hundreds of birds. sunday we went to church at the branch, we more than doubled their attendance as they only had 7 members. after church they had a break the fast potluck dinner that they had us stay for and even with all of us they had enough food. monday we shot our limits and then some in less than 2 hours and headed back to montana. i had the late driving shift again and i really think i saw a wolf but i was approaching hallucination stage so i could be wrong. anyway dad told the buffalo story so i will pick up from after the killing of tatonka as mom calls it. we were low on fuel so we finally found this tiny town in montana that had a gas station. the gas station ended up being a bar with an old gas pump, you know like the ones down at sids y service, and we fueled up there. tyler and i went in to use the bathroom and it was just creepy with all the old locals in there smokin it up. so we went back outside to find dad chattin with some good ol boys about his buffalo. we loaded up and dad started pulling out and then BANG!!!! the truck came to a complete stop in no time, crushing my knee caps into the dash. we jumped out to see what we had hit and it was a huge cement post that put a big dent in the bumper to which dad responded, "this truck is on its last leg" so that was it we jumped in and were off. so that pretty much completes the trip. we missed you tim so get done with that school so you can come again. all is well here in springville. we both got callings in our ward, i am a teacher in the elders quorum and shelane is a teacher in the relief society. hope all is well with all of you. we love you!
Rich and Shelane
P.S. thanks for all the great compliments on my past christmas presents! Mom your hammock is almost done, i really can make hammocks marci!!!:)

I am here now!

I have been sitting here for about an hour trying to decide what to say since this is my very first post but I realize that if I try to be perfect, I won't ever write anything. We have posted some pictures that show you what we have been up to for awhile. If you will notice our garden, this was the last pictures we took of it before the freeze. This is one of our spots at the community garden. This was our flower garden that of course Marci helped me design and I think that Joni helped some of the time. Everyone called it the Parisian Cafe! Anyway, you will notice that Dad is showing our huge Sunflowers. (Dad is doing what he always does, in the background, questioning my blogging you know how he always questions my driving) But needless to say we still didn't win the garden competition which of course was a consternation to me because you know how I love to be the winner! And sorry to the Millard Football team, Tammy and I will both tell you that the stars all have to line up to win the big one! Make sure all the grandkids see the infamous witch costume. Dad and I also dressed up that night to go to our friends birthday party. He turned 60 years old so we went dressed up as mourners. I had some kleenex in my purse and when I walked in I got my kleenex out and went through my crying spell telling him that I was so sorry that he had turned 60 and then we gave him 60 kleenex. Notice dads attire carefully, he is wearing a black shirt and a black tie that we bought of course at Ross. He has never owned a black shirt in his life but he looked pretty sharp! Like a gangster or something. I found my fantastic hat at Deseret Industries. It was in the antique area. We had a great Halloween! Last night we had our POTLUCK dinner for Thanksgiving at our ward and after that we came home and I found my new favorite TV shows. "I want to be a cheerleader again" it was hilarious but the next show was even better, "Trick my Trucker" now this might be worth watching again!!!!!!!!!!!! Wives turn them in for a truck driver makeover. They change their eating habits, excercise habits, of course cut their hair not only on their head but their face. They just don't know what to do about their teeth!
It is on Saturday night at 9:30 pm on CMT, I'm sure you will want to see it.
Well Marci, I hope that those people have recooperated over your dance and Tanis you just keep informing us about the dangers of this world! The rest of you don't worry about the Christmas presents! By the way, I still have the white blanket with the puffy paints up in my closet. All presents mean something wonderful to me!!! I still have my board with the Peruvian signs carved in it that Tyler gave me! I still have a lot of those presents so we will get them all together during Christmas and take pictures of them. Well, everyone have a great week I am sure I will talk to you all soon! You are the best family in the WORLD! LOVE MOM

And I've decided....

And I've decided that Tanis and Dad should both write books-why? Because when I am reading their posts, they sound so professional and eloquent-not to mention Dad's excessive plan...that took some effort! Dad gets an A on my blogging report card! I can't wait to hear more about this "plan" of Dad's-so where are we moving to? Even though we are the professionals at moving, we do not offer our talents and/or services to help pack and move! Well, I guess for the right price we are willing to help! j/k...we do hate moving. Tanis, thanks for the update on Christmas this year. As Joni and I were driving back from Asher's shower last night we were talking about it and trying to figure out who had who! Your list is much easier to figure out than our counting and recounting! And, Shelane...don't be fooled-THE PRESSURE IS ON! We only accept top notch gifts-just ask well anyone I've made gifts for! In reality, I am soooo bad at this Christmas gift making but this year I hope to redeem myself! I am sitting here laughing thinking back over the past five Christmases and how I still wear that homemade sweatshirt that Tyler and Porter made for me! Hint Shelane: puffy paint can really do wonders! Well, ironically that is about my favorite Christmas tradition ever-the making gifts and the "spotlight" in the chair even though I am still working on fitting in to the gifts of the family. I figure that I entered the Tuttle Family equation atleast 15 years after the start of the tradtion, so I've got atleast 10 more years to get my gifts up to par. I figure that is only fair. It's like I have a handicap in golf, but it is in Christmas presents. Tim and Shelane, I declare that you both have the same handicap! For our ward Christmas party they came over and video taped our family talking about "White Christmas" and they asked me what my favorite Christmas tradition was-and this was it. Tyler also chimmed in about sledding on the farm in the hood of the car-now I've never experienced that myself, but maybe this christmas we could make it happen-what do you say? Who's in charge? Dad, Richard? Anyone?

Well, this week I feel like Tanis-groundhogs day. I have been watching my sisters two children (Brooke-3, Davis-1) along with my two children and at the end of the day I look back and wonder what I did all day long. It is groundhogs day. I remember talking to Tyler this week and he asked me what I did all day-and I said, "I have no idea-obviously something, another day of my life gone and I can't remember what happened over the last 12 hours-its all a blurr!" I guess that is what happens with four children-mom how did you do it? Have we left the house? No-only once and we all stayed in the car. I have mastered-ok maybe that isn't the perfect word-my own two children out and about. We go to the zoo, to the park, to the mall and even to the grocery store-which I have vowed recently it would never happen again with both of them. They just egg each other on-as Joni was witness to in the car last night on the way to Asher's shower in Holden. Porter would scream, count 1, 2, Claire would scream. Count one, two, Porter would howl, count one, two, Claire would howl. It is pure chaos but how I love it. I just have to roll with it and let the good times be. Claire is growing up so fast and now she is starting to be at an age where she and Porter love to be together and play together, and oh how it makes me want to add more to the family....ONE DAY. I guess that is why Heavenly Father sends the children one at a time-to give the mom's time to adjust and regroup. I love my dear children.

Well, Tyler has now been gone for two weeks straight, except for a lovely few hours that I got to see him on Tuesday night after the hunting extravaganza. He changed his flight so that he could spend some time with me and the kids, but oh to our surprise that time was spent not exactly as planned. Here is how it went down.
5:45pm Left my parents for the airport to "take Tyler his clothes"
6:15pm Arrived at the airport and waited in the park and wait-watched a little Ninja Turtles courtesey of Mom
6:45pm Richard and Tyler arrived
6:50 pm Tyler decides to change his flight to leave in the morning
6:51pm Tyler unloads his things from Richard's truck into our car
6:55pm Tyler goes into the airport to change his flight-to a 7:00am flight
7:10pm We leave the airport
7:45pm We arrive my sister Stef's house to drop off some photos
8:00pm We arrive at my parents house
8:01pm We sit down to watch the Biggest Loser
8:15pm Tyler decides to unload the car and repack his things
8:16pm PANIC ATTACK BY THE WHOLE FAMILY=when Ty can't find his work computer
8:17pm Tyler is in a mass sweat attack thinking of how in trouble he is
8:18pm Tyler calls Richard and Shelane answers to have him look in his truck
8:19pm Tyler calls Richard-no answer-ok
8:21pm Tyler calls Richard-getting a little frustrated-no answer
8:25pm Tyler calls Richard-face getting really red-no answer
8:30pm Tyler calls Richard-PANIC-no answer
8:35pm Tyler calls Richard-really mad-no answer
8:36pm Erica calls Richard-no answer
8:37pm Richard calls a happy Erica back-and has found the computer
8:45pm Porter throws a tantrum about wanting to drive down to Springville with us to get his computer
8:50pm Tyler gives in
8:51pm We leave for Springville
9:15pm We arrive at Richard's-to some yummy Oreo cookies thanks to Shelane
9:45pm We get the computer and a little Del Taco-not me, no no my stomach says.
10:25pm We arrive back at my parents.
10:45pm Tyler packs and Erica falls asleep.
5:45am We leave for the airport.....

What a great few hours together we had! Atleast we found the computer. So now we are days counting until Tyler returns. It is like countdown to Christmas for us. So...7 days and counting!

Well, we love you all and thanks for posting on this site! It makes it worth it. I love reading all your blogs and hope that you will continue! Peace out until next time....Erica

Choo, Choo

CHOO, CHOO, Well I decided I'd better jump on this blog train or it may leave me behind forever. Besides being half the reason this family exists, I think at times it still needs alittle guidance. Although everyone SEEMS to be doing quite well. Also Erica this blog is going to be great for this family!! WELL DONE!!!!. Keep the goal in front of us. @ 2 pages/ day everyone should be finishing 4 nephi this week. Yes, we are trying to catch up in order to start agian in January.The south dakota hunting trip may have been the best pheasant hunting a man could hope for in a lifetime. To have four men get their limit in 2 hours or less is something to behold. The best was watching everyone bite the dust trying to get a shot at roosters running all over creation. The buffalo hunt was monumental because it took me 3 shots to bring the beast down! I do have the excuse that it wasn't my gun and Kim told me I had to shoot him in the ear hole. Now that is pretty tough even at 50 yards. Anyway, We'll all have some buffalo steaks for dinner at christmas time. This week I started work on my new project. We're (mom & I) are going to build a community. And the best part is you are all invited to come live in it. Your mother is going to kill me but a dad has to do what a dad has to do. I want you all to live by us and the only way that is going to happen is begin to build. SO HERE GOES! This is the vision. A place in rural america where you live in wide open places. Farmland all around your house, maybe a beautiful river, but a place for your kids to hike and fish and build huts and run down the road to grandmas house. If you can't tell we're getting kind of lonely in Idaho. Anyway I'm working on it. And here is the vision of the community.

Mission Statement:

1. Save the delicate ecology of the Upper Snake River.
2. Support and maintain the beauty of the Upper Snake River Plain.
3. Provide a blueprint to make the family farming heritage sustainable for generations to come.
4. Support local organic and sustainable farming practices.
5. Support rural living as sustainable.
6. Support local, natural, organic food for those who reside here.
7. Provide a HOME for institutions dedicated to:
a. The education of children; teaching them where their food comes from.
b. The education of farmers in organic and sustainable practices
c. Research pertaining to links between the food we eat and disease.
d. Medical research on organic cancer therapy.
e. Organic, Holistic cancer therapy
f. The collection and dissemination of natural medical cures.
g. The education of all of the above through eco-tourism.

8. Provide a blueprint of sustainable rural living by:

a. Demonstrating how farming, dairy and livestock production and other agricultural enterprises can not only co-exist but thrive and enhance the living experience of families, friends, neighbors and eco-friendly, green businesses.

b. Commingling homes, businesses, farms, dairies, commerce and enterprise to minimize the carbon footprint of this planned community.

c. Making it possible to walk or bicycle to work.
d. Sound sustainable rural green development with an emphasis on permanent conservation easements to maintain open space and rural lifestyles.

Anyway that's it for now, Love dad

And that's good..........................

Happy Friday Family. I seriously am so glad that it is Friday, but now that I am thinking about it, I don't know why.....everyday is the SAME day for me, regardless if it is the weekend or not. I live in a sort of world comparable to the all too familiar GROUNDHOG DAY. I don't know what I was thinking, but nonetheless, I am glad.

Life has been good this week except for the fact that I am sick.....Tim is starting to get over his sickness and Hudson had shots a couple days ago and is now sick. We are the sickly family. Thank heaven for Vicks and the wonders it can pull in helping to make it through the night without your nose and lips falling off in sheer dryness. Yes, my face shines at night. But all in all, we are doing good.

Anyway, I wanted to get on and Post the Christmas List for this year.....get your creative caps on and get constructing!! PS. don't think you are going to do a remake on the gift Mom was given when Richard was in the fourth grade....Marci has decided to take that one on. Do puffy paints, cream hospital blanket and smears ring a bell? Oh how I wish we kept some of those gifts. Let's think of them and take time to write them down at Christmas. So, here it is: Be aware that things have changed slightly since we have a new addition!! Shelane, we love you and are pumped for you to join us this year. I know it sounds intimidating, as I recall how it was when it was Tim's first Christmas, but really we are pretty easy going. If all else fails, coupon books work and they NEVER get redeemed.

Dad gives to Richard
Mom gives to Joni
Tyler gives to Shelane
Tim gives to Dad
Tanis gives to Mom
Marci gives to Tyler
Erica gives to Tim
Richard gives to Tanis
Joni gives to Marci
Shelane gives to Erica

Porter gives to Claire
Claire gives to Hudson
Hudson gives to Porter

PS. In thinking about what Hudson will get Porter for Christmas this year, a caution....Mom had mentioned to me that she took Porter to the store during the sleepover or something and he told her he wanted Aqua Dots for Christmas. Under no circumstance should anyone purchase this toy for him or anyone else since they are recalling it due to the fact that the chemical used on them turns into the equivalent of the date rape drug when swallowed.....yeah, nightmare. They are pulling them all of the market as we speak. I fear that all toys coming out of China are toxic. I want a lead tester for Christmas.

Well, that is all until Sunday. Just in case you were wondering, Hudson is excited for Christmas.....good times with the cousins, like the one above.

Love ya,

Tanis