Porter Post

For the past few summers, Jayce has volunteered with T.E.R.T. (Timpanogos Emergency Response Team). Sounds pretty snazzy right? This is my second time going up there with him. He goes up there with other EMT people and they camp out for the weekend and help take care of injuries that happen on the mountain, call life flight if need be, etc. So really, this is what we did the whole time: Played some mad UNO with the crew by the shack next to Emerald Lake! Haha, just kiddin' babe, I know you've done some pretty cool stuff up there. ;-) But really...this time things were rather uneventful as far as injuries go except for a couple of blisters and cuts. However we had an AWESOME time. Here are some treasured pictures from our eventful weekend: One of the many waterfalls on the way up from the bottom of the Aspen Grove trail head. Let me tell you how this picture came to be...Chad: "Whoa..I kind of want to go under the ice pack..." Jayce: "No way man. Me too!...

This is a clean sink: You don't want to know what that looked like last night. Isn't it great to come home from class and a busy morning and find a clean sink? :-) What a babe.

These days have been exciting, funny, packed, and let's face it...even a little bit scary. However Jayce and I have quite enjoyed "these days." We'd like to share a little bit of them with you: *Spring Term and the MCAT are out of the way= a big plus. Now lots of more decisions to be made and on to summer term! Jayce and I rather enjoyed having two new roommates for a week: Aren't they just so gosh darn cute? Lindsey and Porter spent some of their last days in Provo shacking it up in our living room because a. their apartment is in boxes, b. Josh has been in Alabama doing Air Force training, and c. there are some creepy people in Provo, so there's always safety in numbers! Part of the reason why it was so fun for Jayce was because he could have male bonding time in the mornings while watching the World Cup! I'm just not quite as fun to watch sport games with... These days my sister-in-law is the Belle of the Ball. Literally . She was Belle in the Princess...

She says: My dad has always been one of my biggest fans. He's great that way. :-) We like to call him Clark Kent because he's so dashing and looks like he could pass as Superman and his theme song is "Secret Agent Man" by Johnny Rivers. Voila: Some of my favorite memories of my dad revolve around historical sites, dance concerts, and family time at home. Many families enjoy taking vacations on cruises to tropical, relaxing beaches, but our family has always much preferred outings to historical sites. :-) (Especially since there are so many fabulous things within our range on the east coast.) I have seen my dad tear up outside John Adams home in Massachusetts, in the house where Joseph Smith grew up in New York, and in the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, VA just to name a few. My dad arranged for us to be taken down into a vault at the Museum of the Confederacy so that we could look at our ancestor's regiment's flag. It was so neat to have something tha...

Have you ever played the "Ha-Ha" tummy game? It's rather enjoyable... Jayce giving his sibblings a little lovin' We had a girl's night...and Jayce was invited. :-) Mulan! It was a grand weekend! It felt like I wasn't even in school. We played games, we ate, we talked, we relaxed, we watched movies, and the list goes on. (And don't worry Dad Porter, we did do some cabin maintenance!) We're back to our normal regiment: school, dance, work, med school applications, blah blah blah, but we're enjoying it. We are rejuvenated and ready to press forward. After reading a particularly good talk in the Ensign this month, " Don't Be in a Hurry ," we've decided to take time out every day just to meditate, or as Brother Bott always says, "to take time to sit and watch the paint peel on the wall." Life is so chaotic these days, sometimes the important things start to take the back seat. Taking time out to just ponder allows time to slo...

She Says : As I have gotten older I have come to appreciate Mother's Day more and more. Probably because I've matured just enough to skim the surface of understanding what it really takes to be a mother and because I'm coming closer and closer to becoming a mother myself. To me it has sort of turned into a international woman's day. :-) It's like a celebration of womanhood. You don't have to be a mother yet to have motherly attributes. Every woman has the capacity to nurture and the potential to create. In the words of President Gordon B. Hinckley, "You are creatures of divinity; you are daughters of the Almighty. Limitless is your potential. Magnificent is your future, if you will take control of it." For example, this is my mom: Lorie Ann Buchholz Terry. I celebrate her today because she has done so much for me throughout my life (more than I know, I'm sure). She has sacrificed a great deal for me while I was growing up: dealing with my teenage m...