Things we do with Porter

We love Porter---duh...he's ours AND he just happens to be awesome. So here are some things we do with him:
We feed him
both things that are good for him



and things that aren't


We put cowboy boots on him


We build forts with him


We take him on car rides


We play ball with him


We have a good time


We take him on horsey rides



Fun fun fun!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was great--we went to St. George to be with Jordan's parents and grandparents, and to be with one if his best friends growing up (Drew) and his wife Sarah (check out their rad blog). On the way down we picked up Jordan's dad (Merrill) from Grandma Lynn's house in Springville (we didn't get any pictures of her--sorry!) Merril entertained Porter in the back of the car. It was a good time.



There was lots of cooking (not really any by me--the Bloxham women stay pretty on top of things...), lots of eating (Porter had pumpkin pie with whipped cream for the first time...didn't really like it), lots of football watching, and lots of shopping the next day! We got all of our Christmas shopping taken care of, and hit up a ton of sales!

On the drive up we stopped at In-N-Out and Porter had it for the first time--it sure is a great place to eat! I always get the fries animal style--yum! Porter'd better be famous cause he's already used to the paparazzi cause all I do is take pictures of him!


On the way back we stopped by Jordan's Grandma Lynn's house again and then went to my Grandparents in Provo. Grandma made us a great dinner of roast and lots of vegetables! We also had very yummy pumpkin pie with homemade whipped cream (yuuuuum)--can't get enough of that! It was a great visit! We also stopped by to see my sister too, but didn't get any pictures of that either--it was great to see her!

It was a good trip and we were happy to have done it!

HAPPY DECEMBER!!!!!!!!

Let's be honest---the holidays are AWESOME. To jump start the Christmas spirit (if you don't have it already...I've been listening to Christmas music since the second week in November), have your family do an advent calendar! I looooove advent calendars and plan on sending one to the people in my family every year but don't remember that I'm going to do it until December 1st when it's time to start them! So, here's the site to print out one that you cut out and read the Christmas scripture to go along! The picture of this particular calendar is the picture at the top of this post. Something else, there are 25 articles in the Ensign this month (they could do that every month, but I've never counted them before), so you might want to do that too! I'd probably start from the back and go forward so Christmas day you read President Eyring's talk on Christmas day.

Also, if you don't have any Christmas music, there are a ton of Christmas radio stations you can listen to online, or you could go to pandora.com and put the kind of music you want to listen to. I typed in White Christmas Bing Crosby and it's playing Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, and lots of others! Nothing beats the classic Christmas songs!

Merry Christmas and Happy December!

Etsy Shop - mommaginger

So, I have an Etsy shop. If you don't know already, Etsy is a site where the only things that can be sold on there have to be handmade or vintage. Well, I have a site that sells things I make! I started out doing things that were mostly for babies but I didn't sell one thing for a baby, and to be honest, that stuff really isn't in my brain...but stuff for adults is! So, I've started up my business. That's what the craft fair was for, and I'm doing another one on December 12th! Black Friday was good for us in that we got a LOT of fabric REALLY cheap, and Jordan is going to spend the next two weeks (when he isn't at work earning us a living) cutting out fabric while I sit next to him happily sewing away at the same rate that he cuts them, as Porter plays calmly and happily beside us...oh wait, that isn't real life. Real life is that there'll probably lots of sleepless nights ensuring that we're getting all of it done. But, the moral of the story is that you should go look at the things at my shop! I'm not really pushing you to buy anything, I'm just excited that I've got stuff that I MADE out there. My site is mommaginger.etsy.com. I also have a separate blog that I put stuff on--some I put on this blog too, but some I just put on that one: mommaginger.blogspot.com.




Merry Christmas and when I get a second I'll post about our great St. George Thanksgiving!

Holy Cannoli Part Deux

Success! Our friends Emily and Steve Cook came over for dinner for sopaipillas (we cut them into gingerbread shapes), and after dinner we made cannolis! They were so good...sigh...so good. We didn't have anything to wrap them around when we were frying the dough, so we wrapped them around 4 clothes pins and it worked great!

Holy Cannoli

I love cannolis. They had an episode of Cake Boss where they showed hundreds of cannolis and it just made me want them more and more until I finally caved and spent the $2.29 on ricotta cheese to make them. I'm going to go make them now and I'll put pictures up of them because they are going to be SOOOOOOO GOOD!

Edit to No More Texting

Not only is my screen broken so there's no more texting, but my whole phone's broken, so don't call me at all. I'm trying to convince myself that I can wait until Christmas, but we'll see how it goes.

Falltime Hot Chocolate

Jordan's been requesting hot chocolate on a pretty regular basis, but we only have chocolate milk mix (not that good...disgusting actually, but somehow he doesn't mind), so in order to make it taste acceptable I've been adding two dashes of nutmeg and cinnamon to mine and it is divine.

Happy Fall!

First Craft Fair Ever!

I had my first craft fair ever, and it went ok!

I didn't know I was doing it until the day before, so I spent the whole day and night working on the stuff I'd be selling. I was really scared about it when I got there, and felt really ghetto but it ended up going well in the end. At the beginning I only had a card table and two chairs, so this is how I set it up.



A few hours later I got another longer table, so we put the quilts on those.


At least I got my name out there, and had my first experience at it. I'll know what to do better next time!

MADISON CRAFT FAIR

I AM A VENDOR AT THE MADISON COUNTY CRAFT FAIR TOMORROW---YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!

Just a couple more Halloween pictures, and a cute one in the swing

Happy Halloween!

We had a very happy Halloween! Porter's 1st Halloween was a blast! He had a lot of different costumes we tried--we borrowed a couple different costumes from Jordan's work buddy, and then we found Superman pajamas from my mom, and then we saw a giraffe costume for 50% off at Kmart and just couldn't help ourselves...he's such a cute kid! Earlier in the week we went to a Halloween Playgroup where all the kids were dressed up--soo cute! We dressed him up in the Elmo costume, and even though it was too small, it was still adorable. He wore the Superman outfit for free pictures at a copy shop in town. There was a special Halloween storytime at the library, which was a BLAST. I loooove the library, and Thursday's my favorite day of the week for the sole reason that it's story time. That night, we went to our friends', the Young's, for Halloween night. Since Porter was a giraffe, I was a lion (I know--a lion's a boy...whatever), and Jordan was a safari tour guy. It was so fun! I had to put in a ton of hairspray and tease my hair, and to be honest, at the end of the night my hair looked like Edward Scissorhands , but it was great in the beginning and so fun! We played 15,000 which is a dice game...what a blast! The food was great and so was the company! It was a great Halloween!