Porterfield Family

It has been ages since we posted any updates; therefore one of my many New Year’s resolutions is “update more”. This is the first time I am actually making resolutions and I have a few…we will see how that turns out.

Now with all major holidays behind us I have no more excuses.

What happened since October? Our Halloween was pretty low-key. Aidan was dressed as a Monkey (see pictures) and even had a real banana as a prop, but he ate it right away. We passed out candy from our porch (it was a super warm night and all the neighbors sat on their porches and gave out candy). We had a very good turnout and most of kids’ costumes were pretty imaginative. Aidan mostly hoarded candy (who can resist shiny wrappers?).

This year we hosted Thanksgiving dinner. Since Nanna and Poppies were going away on vacation next day, Daddy offered to cook. We had a very traditional meal of turkey, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, cranberry relish, and corn and of course a pumpkin pie. Aidan loved it all!

Right after Thanksgiving we were able to visit Grandma and Grandpa Porterfield. Aidan and I stayed for the weekend only, while daddy spent first week of December hunting. Now we have a freezer full of venison.

Since daddy cooked our Thanksgiving meal, it was my turn to cook for Christmas Eve dinner. I made a leg of lamb, mashed potatoes and brussels sprouts. We invited a couple of friends over, put Aidan to bed and had a nice adult dinner. I also made a traditional Christmas wine drink (traditional in Germany), called Glühwein. It was very delicious.

On Christmas Day we went to Nanna’s where we got to see Aidan’s Auntie Dee and his cousins.  Unfortunately neither dad nor I got to talk to anybody that day because of one little boy who did not want to sit around and unwrap his presents. All he wanted to do was climb the stairs, open doors, grab things that were not meant for little boys and so on and so forth. Needless to say we did not get any photos …or video. Oh yes, one of my gifts was a video camera! And a MAC laptop for all my movies and photos! Now I just need to get back to taking pictures and recording all the precious moments.

Ever since Aidan gained his freedom (freedom to move around), it has been almost impossible to get a picture of him. As soon as he sees me with the camera he runs away or tries to grab it!

We celebrated New Year on the couch in our PJs just like most of Americans, or so said Ryan Seacrest during the Dick Clark’s New Year TV thingy. We both sort of fell asleep there for a while, but Jason woke up just in time to pour some more champagne before the ball dropped. Aidan was sound asleep in his bed of course.

Our New Years was pretty low key. We made some food, drank some wine and made it past midnight-which is a huge accomplishment!  

Sunday before we had Grandma and Grandpa Porterfield visit us. They brought some more presents for all of us. We like it!

We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at Grandma and Grandpa Fisher. We got to see our nieces and nephew and everybody got to meet Aidan. Kids were very sweet with Aidan.

Aidan got lots of new clothes and a play mat. Jason got an autographed Steelers helmet and I got a new camera lens and a photo printer among lots of other great stuff.  

As always food was super yummy!

We have a lot of things to be thankful for this year: wonderful and supportive families – grandparents especially; easy pregnancy; beautiful baby boy and so many more. I have to thank Jason for being such an outstanding husband and a great new dad!  

We are also thankful for a yummy Thanksgiving dinner, courtesy of Grandma Terry!