Snow Day

On January 16, 2011 we took AnnaBeth up to Flagstaff to play in the snow. She was a fairly unhappy camper most of the time. First, because she didn't want gloves on her hands. Second, because then her hands got really cold from touching the snow. Ah, the life of an almost two year old :) Here are some pictures . I have a video but it's not uploading right now for some reason so I'll try again another day.

Christmas 2010

Please forgive me, I am SOO very far behind in keeping with the blog. I'm such a slacker! Christmas was wonderful and we had a fantastic time with both sides of the family. Here's some pictures from our celebrations.

What is that you're saying?

I had almost forgotten about this video that I took on December 7th. AnnaBeth was in the bath and was repeating some phrase something fierce. I can't tell if she's saying she missed me or if she's wanting to go to the store or if it's something entirely different. And her screeching is her way of mimicking Rufus' meowing.

Orlando/PRI show

Late last week, Kent and I went to Orlando for a performance race trade show convention. AnnaBeth stayed with his parents while we were away. It was my first time leaving her overnight and I did tons better than I expected to! I didn't realize how important the need for alone time was until this trip. There wasn't anything super spectacular about Florida but it was certainly nice to get away. One of my favorite parts of the trip was seeing the new Narnia movie in 3D. It was totally amazing!! Anyway, here are the pictures from our little trip. And here's a little video of one of the rooms in the Ripley's Museum. It was tilted all funny and was REALLY hard to walk in there.  I was constantly stumbling while trying to make my way across and out of the room.

Christmas Pictures

Laura was kind enough to snap some pictures for our Christmas card at Freestone park a few weeks ago. The weather was perfect and the pictures turned out so nice!! We brought lots of bread for the ducks to keep AnnaBeth occupied for the pictures since we knew she wouldn't sit and pose and I'm glad she didn't want to because we got some really good pictures this way! Enjoy the pictures!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is when we do our annual Porter family pictures and this year, AnnaBeth did NOT want to cooperate and sit still for the pictures. She constantly wanted to get down and explore but we somehow managed to get some good shots. We took her to feed the ducks after lunch and she was just in awe over all of the ducks!! We were also able to celebrate Thanksgiving at Nanu's where AnnaBeth had fun coloring. She nearly refused to sit at the table and eat with us (kept saying "awwww man!") so coloring was really the only way to get her to sit still. Here are the pics. Here's a video of her feeding the ducks at Freestone Park on Thanksgiving day. She had SOOOO much fun!

Coloring, Brownies, and Videos

AnnaBeth has really been into coloring the last few months. These are from last month (at 19 months). She colors quite vigorously and even holds the crayon properly (now...doesn't show in these pictures)! She uses mostly her left hand for coloring (picks up the crayon with her right and will transfer it to her left) but will occasionally color using her right hand. Either hand she uses, she holds the crayon as you or I would. The lid for the container is now totally covered in scribbles =)

 Lounging around with her boof

 And one day she helped me make brownies. She got a little taste of the batter and didn't care for it at all but she sure enjoyed them once they were baked with a little vanilla bean ice cream on top!

Here she is getting a big kick out of Bondo pulling her around by his tail.

And here's a short video of her talking on my phone....its too cute!