Porter Post

This morning as I came down from breakfast I walked into our room to hear Sarah McLaughlin blasting from the computer and Cameron making fussy sounds from the bathroom. Curious, I entered the bathroom to find Cameron strapped into the bouncer just outside the shower, with the shower curtain pulled back so that Cameron could watch Jayce sing and dance to the Sarah McLaughlin music while he showered in an effort to entertain Cameron. I love my life.

Last night I watched this movie with some women in my ward: I've been on hold for the book at the library for a while now and I'm even more intrigued by the story after watching the film. I thought that it was soooo good. It showed travesty without being gruesome about it. I came home last night around 11:30 and crawled into bed with Jayce, but it took almost an hour for me to actually fall asleep. I kept on imagining myself in the situations in the movie. Now that I have a child of my own, there is a whole different element to watching things like this. For the first time in a long time I realized how incredibly grateful I am to be where I am in life. I was longing to go hold Cameron for a little while because I was reminded that not every mother gets to hold her children the way I do. There is a scene in the movie where the Nazi's are separating the mothers from their children because they are going to send the women to a concentration camp and leave the children for dead...

December has come and gone, quick as lightning like usual. This is going to be a big fat post just to warn you. The December festivities kicked off with a visit to Temple Square , which is pretty much a tradition every year when you live so close to it. The lights are amazing and it's unbelievable to think about how much time must have gone into it. This year we went with our neighbors, the Steadmans. They are in a similar, "living-with-the-in-laws" situation this year and it's been great getting to know them. Their daughter, Makayla is ADORABLE. P.S. Cameron is there, but it's hard to see him under all of his layers of glory. ;-) Jayce and I got to drive David out on another one of his dates. Cute date idea: They were going to an ugly sweater dance together so at the beginning of the week they exchanged old sweaters with each other so that they could be decorated and then gave them back at the end of the week. They then wore their sweaters all day at school as we...