Sunrise/Pinetop

On Friday after work Alan and I took off to Pinetop for the night so Alan could get some snowboarding in before school starts back up next week. I probably wouldn't have gone along being that I obviously can't ski or attempt snowboarding until the end of June but I wanted to spend some time together away before school too and it was nice to be in the snow! I also went along cause last year in June some of the family went to Canyon Lake to ski and wakeboard and Alan totally ruptured his pec major doing his crazy stunts on the wakeboard, so I wanted to make sure he would be okay and not do anything too crazy! Alan has needed an MRI and surgery for the last couple of months on his shoulder but REFUSES so when he mentioned snowboarding I made him a deal that if he went snowboarding and RISKED his bad arm he would then make an Appt for an MRI as soon as we returned home. Appt is Monday the 19th! :) Thanks babe!

Baby Appt #2

Yesterday Alan and I went to our second Baby Appt. Well...to start, my sister Sarah always rents a Baby Heartbeat Doppler when she is pregnant (you know, the same thing the Doctors use to hear the heartbeat at your appts) so Alan and I, of course, jumped on that ordering as soon as we knew we could hear the baby's heartbeat. So for the last couple of weeks Alan and I will use our Doppler at home to hear the baby's heartbeat and let me tell you, we are pros at finding it now! So yesterday at our appt the Doc was trying to find the heartbeat with the same kind of Doppler but she was waaay to high, but I wasn't going to tell her that since she's the Doc and I didn't want her to think I was trying to tell her how to do her job or anything! After a few minutes of no success (Side Note: If we didn't have a Doppler and known that the baby was fine, I probably would have been hyperventilating at this point) she decides to get none only than the ultrasound machine! Yeah! So lucky Alan and I got to see baby again and watch its little heartbeat tick away. It was super cool being that we got to see the baby kicking and moving around this time! Everything looks to be going along as planned and healthy. We have our 2D Ultrasound on the 29th that we are getting so anxious for to hear that everything is healthy and find out if Baby is an Alan or Alice!

Christmas

We got to spend this Christmas with my parents and of course all of the family! On Christmas Eve Alan and I and Mom and Dad spent the night at Sarah's so we could be there in the morning when Santa came! We had a great holiday this year full of family and fun not to mention sleep! We can't believe the Holiday season has already come to a close!

Cole and Grandma

Grandma reading Christmas Story
Porter Boys (Up: Cole, Hyrum Down: Jake, Brock)

Porter Girls (Jessica, Brianna)
Jessi
Grandkids (Minus Port, Katie and Carson-who were enjoying Grandparent time themselves!)

Logan
Isaac and Cade

Temple Lights

Last night some of the family got together for Temple Lights and Krispy Kreme...here are some pics!

Alisa FamilyPorter Family
Fletcher Family
IsaacHyrum and Brianna
Jessi tugging along

Uncle Alan, Cole and CadeBrock

Free till Jan 21st!

Today offically marked my last day of Block One Nursing School ! I have completed one Block with three more left! I'm free (minus work) till Jan 21st when I have to report back to Block 2. This semester actually flew by pretty quickly, you are so busy with so much to do that you really dont have time to breath and then the next time you look up you are in finals. I came home today from Finals and crashed on my couch for a couple hours! It was so nice not to have anything to do! So, on this vacation break I plan on relaxing, enjoying the holidays and using my brain as little as possible! :)

First Baby Appointment

Today Alan and I got to go to our 1st Doctors Appt to see how everything is coming along on Baby. We were so excited to actually get to SEE the baby and watch the heartbeat moving along super fast! When the Doc started the ultrasound and said to Alan "Come take a look, Daddy!" I have never seen Alan move so fast! :) Everything looks great and healthly! Just a million more days to go! :)

10 weeks 6 days Due: June 27th

Nursing School

I officially after today have three weeks left of school until the end of Block One. (Three more Blocks to go!) I finished my last Clinical today at Long Term Care in Chandler so these next three weeks are Alternate Clinical (which means at the school) and one week of finals. These next three weeks also consit of two days off for Thanksgiving and no more Pharm class after Tuesday! (So can't we really just say two weeks left?!) In all honestly, this semster flew by and somehow I managed to get through it! I 'm just not sure what I'm going to do with a month off! Hopefully, use my brain as little as possible! :) Let the countdown BEGIN....