MARCH

Annual Lake Tahoe ride Trip 2009

For about six years now friends have been making the trek out from Utah to south lake Tahoe once a year, sometimes more to have a rockin' good time. Filled with good skiing, great friends, food, dance parties and some serious lovin'. This year was no different, it was so great to have everyone out, we had some serious spring skiing this year. porter's two younger brother's came to keep us entertained and make us feel old out on the slopes.

Fierce-some Four-some. Tahoe Style.

Thanks for coming everybody! And hope everyone is gearin' up for 2010.

I don't even remember how to blog

So it's been extremely long since we have blogged last, not that we have too many followers or anything but sorry, and I'll try to work harder at it. But thank you to all you avid bloggers cause I love, love, love to be able to see what everyone is up to.

I'll try to hit our 2009 highlights month-to-month for ya.

FEBRUARY

We went on a cruise to the Caribbean. It was amazing, beautiful, perfect weather, and as always; way too much food. We took one million pictures, sorry i didn't narrow them down too much, and they are basically all the same...just porter and I, again, and again, and again. Scroll quickly if you're not into that, but if you are into two attractive people on beautiful beaches in swimsuits...stay tuned.




our ship was the best part:it was brand new, big pools, hot tubs, water park, rock climbing, golf, surf simulator (porter's favorite) , endless entertainment, sweet gym, a clean room sheets and towels 10 days in a row, not many obnoxious kids running around, plenty of dance parties and eat your heart out buffets/restaurants.

Poolside

Theater room, performance every night

Relaxing at the beach, cute masculine porter :)

First night on the ship was dang windy!

Surfing it up. We spent a lot of time here at the flowrider, Porter got pretty good.

Here we are in San Juan

The next day we were in St Thomas. This was are favorite day, we woke up extra early (my mistake) Your room in the ship are so dark you never know what time it is.:) But we went to beautiful Meagan's bay. Cause we were there so early we were just about the only people there. It was amazing.

Here we are at our own private beach. Beautiful.

After the beach we boated to the island of st. John, went on a hike and ended up at honeymoon beach and snorkeled.

The next stop was st. Maarten. Fun shops and beautiful island. We mostly just hung out at the beach.

Endless amount of diet coke. Thought of you mom, every time I ordered one.

Clubbin it up.

our last stop was an island off of Haiti, very hot yet beautiful. Royal Caribbean owned the island and hired a boatload of Haitians each day to come work on it, it was pretty cool to talk to some of them.

Here I am at the end of the ten days feeling 10 pounds heavier.

Oh yes, and we were there on Valentine's, quite romantic.

So full.

Here are our Cruise BFF's Liz and Josh from Holladay UT. We spent lots of time with them, fun to have met them and partied Mormon style.

Memorial

Porter's dad's funeral/memorial was about a week after he passed in January. We were able to drive out to Alton, Ut to attend it.

Alton is quite the town, for those of you who have never heard of it; (hopefully everyone) Alton is about an hour and a half north east of St. George. It's population is 132 and I believe 130 of them are active LDS. Although it blows my mind how incredibly small it is...it sure is beautiful, and the residents have giant hearts, who all truly loved David.

The Foulger side of the family owned a big piece of land in Alton, and David has always loved the town, the great people and even the tiny-ness of it all believe it or not. He has lived in Alton off and on thrughout his life. A few years ago he started his life long dream of building his own home in his favorite place. besides a few finishing touches he was able to complete his home before he became too sick. Th finished product is pretty amazing, he did a wonderful job. The home is customized, effeciant, and beautiful. We were all so grateful he was able to accomplish his house before his passing, and hopefully many will be able to enjoy it knowing the builder was such a wonderful man.

Porter spoke at the service, he was a little nervous but of course did an amazing job re-calling some of the greatest moments he spent with his father; on the hill, skiing.

Our bestest friends were also able to make the long trek down frim SLC; Cam, Mark, Britt, and the Bowens. We are so thankful for them, their support, love and friendship. We love you guys and were so grateful you were able to make it, meant a lot.

And Deb sure was a proud mama getting to have all four of her kids at the same place, at the same time. Steph and David (porter's older sister and hubby) flew out from St Louis...yay! (oh Jordan, some things never change)

Oh Cam, although you are a little red-headed height-challenged boy we still love you to death and know you are quite the CATCH!...Ladies??

(above) Classic.

And of course we couldn't leave with out showing off Alton's STOP signs. These are for real, they only have about 4 STOP signs in town but you sure do notice them!?

Porter with a couple of his step siblings; Hanna and Hank. He has four so we're missing Jared and Carmella but these two are closest Porter in age and it was great to spend time with them and re-call old high school memories of living in Alton with their dad.

(quite the stories! yikes!)

Superbowl!

Superbowl Sunday was spent in Sandy this year, we hung out with family and friends and ate lots and lots of football snacks! The boys even "rented" TV from Walmart...Deb was not too happy about that but it sure was nice to watch the game on!

Cousins came over, they're getting so big!

steelers' cheerleading section

Brandi was even able to stop by! She's one of my oldest college friends, she was actually the first cool girl I met the day I moved into the dorms which I was so grateful for. Since then, she has moved many many times, served a mission in Japan and is now living back in Utah. I love that girl and was so happy to catch up with her. And you all know Tia of course, but did you know she does hair?! Just one of her many talents really. Thanks T.

And of course we didn't miss Jordan's birthday, 17! wowza