Sam, Michelle, Colby, Jaxon, Raylie and Porter

Porter Murphy Wallace

2011-05-01T13:16:00.000-07:00

I am officially the worst blogger ever. It's hard to blog though you don't have the internet , yes that is what I am going with!! I knew it had been awhile, but I am missing a child for heavens sake. So I am going to introduce you to our last little Wallace baby, and last means two things the latest as well as the very last Sam and Michelle Wallace baby. He is the happiest baby ever, and he loves to be kissed and hugged so I have given him the nickname lover, lover. He was born on August 2nd 2010, and weighed 7 pounds 13 ounces 21 inches long. He was the biggest baby I had and also the one with the most hair. He is now 9 months old and crawling every were and into everything, he is a lot of fun. I have also started doing cakes and have my own business cards and have a cake order forever week for the next 6 weeks, I am so excited and I love doing it. I am going to start a blog for that also!!

As Time Goes By!!! (Catch Up)

2009-09-04T15:43:00.001-07:00

Ok, so I know that I have done this once before, but this time is REALLY bad. I am a stay at home as most of you know, but I seriously have had no time to work on my blog, or when I have had time I have recently become a Face Book Junkie!! Sad I know, but I think it is fun to catch up with old friends. I am going to do a little summery of our last few months events.

In June we had the annual Wallace Family Reunion. It was Jon's year to host it and we spent a wonderful time up by Jerome Idaho.

On July 4th like we do every year we go camping with my Dad and Teresa and the John's family. Normally it has been in Driggs Idaho, but this year it was moved to Spencer Idaho which is clear up almost to the Montana border. We left for the weekend and had a great time. It rained alot, but it was still a lot of fun spending time with everyone and going four wheeling. We left that Sunday and once we got out of he canyon we received a phone call from my mom. She told Sam that she had gone over to our house to check on the garden and that the hot water pipe to our claw tub had broken and flooded our house. We had two inches of water upstairs and four downstairs. It was about a three or four hour drive to our house and Sam and I talked about it all the way home. Both of us could not wait to get home to see the mess. When I first walked into the house it smelled VERY musty and there were huge fans every were because my mom had to call a restoration company in to clean everything up. The carpet in the hallway and some of the master bedroom got wet, and of course everything in the bathroom. It really didn't look that bad to us at first and we packed up a couple of things to go to my mom's for the night since they turned the main water off until the pipe was fixed. The next day I called the insurance company and met with the restoration company. By the next day most of everything had dried out and it was horrible, paint was pilling off the wall and the bead board that was up in the bathroom was falling off the wall. The tile flooring was squishy when you walked on it. It just ended up being a lot worse then first expected. The restoration guy then told me it would take a week or two to fix everything...WHAT? I was shocked. So we ended up living in a hotel for three weeks, but we got a B E A Utiful bathroom out of it!!!

Jaxon's 3 years old

We had Jaxon's birthday party in the hotel, and the hotel was nice enough to let us have a swim party in their pool. They all had a blast!!!

New Bathroom

All I can say is BEAUTIFUL!!! I love my new bathroom, I tell Sam all the time I want to sleep in it..I'm a dork I know!!!

Raylie's 1 Year old
I made Raylie's birthday cake and for my first attempt at fondant I don't think that it turned out too bad!!
She got spoiled by everyone, and had fun eating her cake.

Dad / Mark / Papa

It is my dad's birthday on September 25th, and I just want to let him know that I love you very much dad, and I hope that you have a great day. You are a wonderful dad and papa to my kids who love you VERY much. Thank you for everything that you do for us. I love you!!! XOXO

Happy Easter!!!

2009-04-12T18:27:00.000-07:00

Happy Easter Everyone!!! This year we were thrilled to have Grandma Betty and Grandpa Mel here for Easter from Washington. She was so excited to have a big Easter Day dinner and egg hunt for the kids. She made a huge dinner for everyone and cooked for several days to get ready for the big day. She also made an amazing Bunny cake that turned out so cute!!! This year was the first year that Jaxon really got into it. He was so excited to do the egg hunt, and made out with a bunch of eggs. I followed him around and helped him find his eggs while I sent Colby with Raylie. Like I said Grandma Betty went crazy and put a bunch of money inside the plastic eggs. Jaxon and Raylie made a hall. Jaxon ended up with $24 dollars and a couple of candies and Raylie ended up with $14 and a bunch of candy. I am going to open a saving account for each kid and of course since Raylie can't eat candy yet I'm sure Jaxon and Colby will end up with all of it. We just want to say thank you so much

Grandma Betty for the wonderful meal and for planning such a fun day for the kids, we all had a blast...Nana and Papa Cochran gave each kid a Easter basket with a new summer outfit and sandles. Thank you Nana and Papa Cochran.

Jaxon got a T-Ball set from the Easter bunny and was outside having fun playing ball with Papa and Uncle Jake...Aunt Alicia also gave all the kids presents, thank you Aunt Eisha!!! As you can tell all the kids got spoiled, Sam and I ate too much food, and we all had a great day.

Our little Bunny!!!

Misc. Pictures

2009-03-24T10:56:00.001-07:00

I have been going crazy lately with crafts. I have made them all from scratch. As I have mentioned before we are remodeling the basement, and you will be happy to know that it is coming along slow, but we are making more and more progress every week and we now have walls separating the bedrooms YAHOOO!!! Anyway with the left over scrap's of wood I have been making all sorts of blocks with vinyl on them. I am pretty proud of myself because I actually cut the wood with a chop saw, sand it, paint it and vinyl it all without the help of my husband!! I just finished decorating for Easter and now my mom, sister, and friends want me to make these for them. I think they turned out pretty cute, and they were way easy and fun to make. I took these pictures of Jaxon this morning. I was doing my hair and getting ready for the day and he wanted me to do his hair also. His new hair style is a "Fo-Hawk", and he is so proud of it. He says he is "Sexy", I would have to say he is just a little stinker, but a VERY cute stinker.. As most of you know we have two dogs. One is an outside dog and the other is Ace a house dog that our friends Nancy & Jayme gave to us. Ace is my little dog and he is the funniest little dog I have ever had. One of the things that he does is he actually smiles. Here is a couple of pictures of him normal, and then smiling. Sometimes when people come over he is so excited and smiling (showing his teeth) that people think that he is going to bite them, but he is just in fact smiling. It cracks me up every time he does it. Last night during dinner Raylie was so tired, but she didn't really want to give up, she wanted to still eat. She finally got so tired she just layed her head against the edge and went to sleep. I even got her out of the seat and she just looked up at me smiled and then went right back to sleep. It was so cute. I think it is so funny when they are that little and can fall asleep anywere. Raylie is almost 8 months old now and she is so much fun. She is the happiest baby I know. She is always laughing, smiling and running around in her little walker following Jaxon. I love this age.

Remodeling Fun

2009-03-05T08:21:00.000-08:00

We were lucky enough to have Lisa, Carson, Parker and Bridger come to Logan and visit for a few days. We had them over for Hot Dogs and Fries one night. This is a picture of all of them toasting at the dinner table. It was so much fun to have them come. Jaxon and the boys ran all over the house playing and laughing. I wish they lived closer so they could play all the time.

Remodeling

Sam and I, (mostly Sam) have been working on two remodeling projects. The first one was on the kitchen that we had just recently painted I may add. We were lucky enough to receive a free fridge that was a lot newer and nicer then the one that we had previously had. However it did not fit into the space that that the old fridge was in so Sam had to cut a couple of cupboards and do some sanding to make it fit. It is all finished now and looks really good. Plus we love our new fridge. Thank you Grandma Anderson!!! The second project is a big one. We are finishing the basement to make a bedroom for Colby first of all, and then Jaxon as well. Sam has been working a little bit on this project for awhile now, and we have finally been working on it more and more. It is coming right along. Sam installed some new water piping and now we are framing, then next we will be doing the electrical work. I am so excited to have this done. It will give our family so much more space.

Sam & Colby's Birthday!!!

2009-02-23T08:51:00.000-08:00

On February 21st was Sam and Colby's Birthday. Both of the boys wanted to go to the Skid Row and LA Guns concert in Salt Lake at Saltair (total flashback right!!) We purchased the tickets and made plans with my Dad and Teresa to stay with them for the weekend. We left on Friday and the concert was Saturday. Sam's friends from Idaho Cam and Blaine drove down to go to the concert with us, and my sister Alicia and her boyfriend Shane came down on Saturday. It was a blast from the past for sure, but it was a lot of fun. Colby was right at the front of the stage with my sister and rocked out all night. They actually ended up having four bands play and the third band was LA Guns. Before they got on stage there was a comedian who was entertaining the croud and was asking people questions. My sister told him that it was Colby's birthday and that he just turned 15. The comedian pulled him up on stage and talked to him for a while and Colby and two other kids got to introduce LA Guns. This made Colby's day and probably life for awhile. The pictures that I have attached are from Sam's camera phone so they are not that great, but you can get the idea. Colby is the last one on the left. I was so happy for him that I was crying. I'm such a baby when it come to my kids, and you could just tell he was soooo happy, it was amazing. Happy Birthday Sam and Colby I love you both so much, and I'm glad we had so much fun at the concert. While we were at my Dad and Teresa's Jaxon of course was running around like the wild man that he is and ended up running into the corner of a table at full force and gave himself his first black eye. I say first because I know there is more to come, at least there was with Colby. I had to add this picture of Raylie because I love it. She is almost seven months old now, and loves to be in her little walker. She has just recently figured out how to move it and she chases Jaxon all around the living room and kitchen it is really funny.

Super Bowl!!!

2009-02-02T15:03:00.000-08:00

Jaxon, Haley, Raylie & Gracie

So no big news to tell you this week. We just watched the Super Bowl on Sunday with our family and Ryan and Alisha Pierce's (Sam's Cousins) family. We of course ate a bunch of junk food, which by the way Lish your brownies are so freakin good and I wish you would have taken them home so I don't eat them all!! We decided to make a little family wager between all of us and made a football square sheet with 100 squares at 25cents a square (I know big spenders!!) Between all the kids and us adults we filled the squares and were ready for the game. We decided that it would be fun to have a winner each (Raylie & Isaac) quarter so we set it as 1st-3rd quarter $5.00 and the last quarter was $10.00. This was a lot of fun because the kids even enjoyed it and wanted to know if they were winning. So the winners went: 1st Quarter: Jaxon, 2nd Quarter: Michelle, 3rd Quarter: Hailey, and 4th Quarter: Alisha. Way to go Pierces!!! It was a lot of fun and the kids really enjoyed playing together, thanks for coming over Ryan and Lish.

I couldn't resist taking this picture Saturday. Daddy and Raylie sleeping, so cute!!

Torturing the Kids!!!

2009-01-26T17:06:00.000-08:00

So the other day I was playing with my camera and decided to torture the kids with different pictures. I didn't get a lot of good ones because either Raylie was pulling one of the boys hair, or Jaxon's ear, or not looking at the camera, you know how it goes!!! Anyway here are a few to share with you.

Potty Training Blues!!!

Like I tell everyone Jaxon is my monster child. Colby was so easy to train, he was trained in three days and never had an accident, not even at night. Please, Please, Please, if any one has ideas on potty training please send me a comment. Sam and I have been working with Jaxon on this for couple of months now. He was doing really good for the first couple of weeks, he was wearing underwear and not having very many accidents, then all of the sudden for some reason he went right back to not going in the toilet at all and in pull ups again. We did the treat thing, and gave him a treat after he would go in the toilet, and then it turned into just a treat thing, so now I am trying stickers with a chart, and he is at least going a couple times a day in the toilet, but not like before. The question is, what worked for you and do I go back to the treat thing? It is so frustrating, HELP!!!!

Familiar Wallace Family Moments

December, Oh were to begain???

2009-01-13T19:13:00.000-08:00

December was such a crazy month for our family. As you can tell again I haven’t updated my blog for a long time, but December was so busy. So many things to tell you all about so I guess I will start from the beginning.

Around the first of the month we added another family member to the clan. We adopted a Yorkshire terrier named Ace from our friends Jayme and Nancy Drysdale. He is a small house dog and we all love him. Jaxon and Ace chase each other around the house all day and play ball. It is pretty entertaining.

On December 6^th I took Raylie for her four month check up. She is doing great and growing so fast, talking and moving so much, and just recently started laughing. We all love it, it is so cute, and we try to get her to do it as much as possible.

On December 16^th Sam and I celebrated our second wedding anniversary. We took the kids to my mothers and went to dinner. It was nice to have a couple of hours just with the two of us. Sam I just want you to know how much I love and appreciate you. You are a wonderful father and husband and I am so lucky to have you. Thank you for everything you do for me and our family. I love you.

As I mentioned before that Sam was in the process of adopting Colby. On December 17, 2008 we finally finalized the adoption. Sam and I decided that it was up to Colby if he wanted to change his last name from Womack to Wallace. Colby wanted his last name to stay the same, then at the last minute he surprised us and decided he wanted to be Wallace. We were both very excited about this. So we would like to introduce you to Colby Kyle “Wallace”. This was such a special day. Grandpa & Grandma Wallace drove up from Vernal to be in the court room with us. Along with Grandma Cochran and our really good friend Nancy Drysdale and her daughter Kali. Thank you everyone for all your love and support.

On Christmas Eve we drove to South Jordan were my Dad and Teresa live to spend Christmas with them. It was so much fun. I hadn’t spent Christmas day with them in about five years. This year Jaxon was a lot of fun. He really got into it, and in fact asks me every other day for more presents. Sam’s brother Jon also came to my dad’s from Jerome Idaho. It was a very relaxing and so much fun. Thanks again Dad and Teresa, we love you!!!

On December 27^th my 85 year old grandpa Madsen blessed Raylie at my grandparent’s house in Riverton. This was so neat. Sam’s parents drove up again from Vernal, along with Seth to be there for the blessing, and Dan also stood in on the blessing. My dad and Teresa came over with us, and my mom and Tony drove down from Smithfield to be there also. My uncle Dee (my mom’s brother) also came from Herman with his family and he also stood in. My grandpa arranged everything so a member from there church came to also stand in and take care of he paperwork. My grandpa is a little hard of hearing and asked me a couple of times what Raylie’s full name was just to make sure that he said it correctly, but I thought that was very sweet of him. Raylie looked like a princess. My grandma Madsen had her blessing dress made for her and it was absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much grandpa and grandma for both the dress and also inviting all of us into your home and giving our baby girl such a wonderful blessing.

Well that about rap’s up December, and we are already off with the New Year. We love all of you and wish you the best for the New Year!!!!

Thanksgiving (I know I'm a little late)!!!

2008-12-12T19:47:00.000-08:00

This year we spent Thanksgiving at Mom & Dad Wallace's in Vernal. We had a lot of fun. Of course we did the normal, eating, playing cards, etc... This year we stayed at Ike's and Lisa's. We had so much fun staying with them and playing the wii. Thanks for letting us stay with you Ike and Lisa, We love you!!!
It was also so much fun having two new babies in the family. Grandma has Ainsely and Grandpa has Raylie, not only did we have two new babies, but yes, they are both baby GIRL'S!!! So it is possible. Grandma and Aunt Lani were also really good at babysitting and putting both of the girls asleep. All the Wallace boys also built a nice fire pit out back of Mom & Dad's house that turned out so good. I didn't get an up close picture, but Sam built it out of metal and welded everyone's name on it. You can see it a little bit in the back ground of the kids in the tractor. Can you tell from this picture of the kids and Jake and Lani who the favorite Aunt and Uncle are?
We also saw Grandpa Pierce and her poor broken arm. She was up and about in her little home and was very glad to see us. We Love You Grandma!!! This month Raylie also turned four months old. I took her to her doctor's appointment and she weighs 14 pds 15 oz now. Boy they grow so fast.

Halloween

2008-11-09T11:31:00.000-08:00

Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins
We had a family night of fun carving pumpkins. This was the first year that Jaxon got into the pumpkin carving. He really liked touching the gooey stuff inside!! He just kept saying gooey!!! Colby used some plastic spiders to make his and it turned out so cool and spookie. I copied Martha Stewart's idea on the mouse pumpkin and it turned out so cute.

CostumesThis year for Halloween Colby was a Gangster, Jaxon was a Pirate, and Raylie was a little fairy princess. It was so fun dressing the kids up this year. Grandma Cochran made Raylie's Costume and it turned out so cute. Thank you Nana!!!

IT'S A PARTY!!!This year Sam, ok mostly me decided to have a Halloween Costume Party at our house and invite all of our friends. We had a really good time and a lot of people showed up. It was so much fun to have everyone there and all dressed up.

Jayme & Nancy Drysdale (Left) Lisa Wallace (Right) We were so glad that Uncle Ike and Aunt Lisa were in Logan so they could come to our party also. This is Jaxon and Kali. Kali is Jayme & Nancy's little girl. The other picture is of Kali and Maron who is Devin and Jessica's little girl.
Lisa & Julie are the witches, pretty fitting!! Just kidding girls, I love you!!!

Our Pretty, Pretty Little Princess. We also had a special celebrity appearance by Shawn Michaels!!!

Crazy Kids!!!

2008-10-12T13:20:00.000-07:00

Cookies, Cookies, Cookies

Last Weekend Colby, Jaxon and Nana Cochran got into the Halloween spirit and decided to make Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies and also Sugar Cookies. These cookies turned out sooo good. Here is the Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe if you are interested. This recipe makes TONS of cookies so you better be in the mood to make a lot of cookies or cut it in half.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
1-1/2 Cup Shortening 3 Teaspoon Baking Powder
1 Large Can Pumpkin 2 Teaspoon Cinnamon
3 Eggs 1-1/2 Teaspoon Salt
7-1/2 Cups Flour 4-1/2 Cups Sugar
3 Teaspoons Vanilla 1-1/2 Teaspoon Ginger
1 Large Package Chocolate Chips (or Raisins)

Cream Shortening, Sugar, Eggs together, then add remaining ingredients.
Drop onto Cookie sheets and bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes

This is at the end of the cookie making, and I don't know if you can really see it or not, but everyone is completely covered in Flour. They all had a lot of fun and we all got yummy cookies at the end!!! Thank you Nana, we love you.

HOLY COW!!!
So a couple of weeks ago I was up with Raylie about 7:00am and had just got done feeding her and put her in her swing when I heard Jaxon moving around in his room waking up. He was yelling at me from his room that he wanted some milk and cereal and wanted to watch Nemo!! I told him to bring me his sippy cup, I was getting my coffee ready and he was standing next to me with his sippy cup waiting patiently for his milk. To my surprise I look down at him to get his sippy cup and find this.......
I nearly died. I asked him what was on his face and he had no idea what I was talking about. I then took him to the mirror and he started laughing, then I started laughing, until I went to his room and found this blue stuff all over his sheets, pillow case, etc. I started digging through everything to find the source and finally found a "Sharpie" blue marker. That's right!! A Sharpie marker, from Colby's backpack. I then started to freak out that he was going to be blue for several days and we had family pictures plained for that weekend. Thank goodness it ended up being a white board marker, so it washed off with soap and water, except for the blue in his hair, but that was out in only a couple days and some strong scrubbing. It is funny now, but at the time when I found the marker I was not very happy:(

Dance

Colby went to his first school dance two weeks ago. This was just a sock hop, it was an Hawaiian theme so his is dressed and ready. As you can tell he is not to happy with me at all about this picture being taken. I took him and picked him up, and he said that he had a lot of fun. (This made me feel really OLD!!!)

Raylie
Our little baby girl is now 9 weeks old. I took her last week for her two month doctors appointment. She now weighs 10 pounds 15 ounces and is doing great. She is just starting the fun stage of smiling and trying to talk or goo at us. It is so much fun.

Michelle's Hair Poll!!!
Ok everyone, I need your help. I have always had blonde hair since I was born. I just died my hair Dark Brown yesterday and since my husband has no opinion on anything that I do to my hair, or at least he says he likes everything that I do to it, I need some honest opinions from my loved ones!! Will you please send me a comment on what you think?

FAMILY PICTURES!!!
We went last weekend and had our family pictures done at Mack's Park, just up the street from our house. Most of you are going to get one of these printed out for Christmas, but here is a heads up. Sam wanted pictures with him and the boys in their camo. So Raylie and I had ours done in pink to counter balance it. I have to say it was a great idea and the pictures turned out great!!!

Family

2008-10-04T13:15:00.000-07:00

The John's Family Reunion

On September 13th we were invited to the John's Family Reunion. For those of you who do not know, Wynn & Charlene John are who Sam considers to be his second family. They are wonderful people and we enjoy spending time with them. We spent a few hours at the reunion were Wynn & Charlene got to see Raylie for the first time. We also had lunch, home made ice cream and Jaxon got to go fishing!! It was a lot of fun and we were so glad to be invited.

Happy Birthday Everyone!!!

September was a busy month for birthday's and we would like to wish everyone a "Late" birthday since I haven't updated the blog for a few weeks.

Grandma Jolene Wallace - September 10th
Uncle Jon Wallace - September 9th
Nancy Drysdale - September 17th
Grandpa Mark Murphy - September 25th
Grandma Alene Pierce - September 30th (81 years old!!! YAHOO!!!)

Again, Happy Birthday everyone, we love all of you have hope you had a wonderful day.

Papa & Nana Murphy's

As I said above it was Grandpa Mark Murphy's birthday on September 25th and we went down last weekend and spent the weekend. It was fun and relaxing. We went to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner and it was delicious. We also did the usual and played Darts and Pool at their house, and Uncle Jon came with us to dinner and also stayed the night with us. So much fun!!! I just want you to know dad that I love you so much and hope you had a wonderful birthday. It was so much fun spending time with you guys and I can't wait to see you again.

Pictures, Pictures, Pictures,

I took the kids and had there pictures taken, here are a few!!!
Colby is 14 and HUGE to me now, especially in this picture. He is so handsome!!! He also had his first school dance this last week. Talk about FREAK ME OUT!!! I remember those days and it is crazy to think that our son is now there.

Jaxon is two and sooo mischievous. Can you tell???

Raylie is now 8 weeks old and growing bigger and bigger every day. She is getting a little pot belly and chubby cheeks!!!

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

As most of you are probably aware, this moth is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I found this website along with MILLIONS of other's that talk about Breast Cancer (www.efluxmedia.com). We have recently found out that Sam's mom Jolene has breast cancer. She of course is in good spirits and we all have good hope that things will be just fine since she has found this so soon. We want you to know that we are praying for you and we know that things will all be just fine. We love you so much and you are so strong and brave!!!

Sam & Michelle Wallace & Kids

2008-09-10T12:48:00.000-07:00

I thought that I would start a blog today since some of our family members and friends are now doing it and I thought it would be a good way for those who do not live close to us to be able to see pictures of the kids and see how they are growing and how they are doing. Things are going wonderful for us. We just had a baby girl Raylie Lyn on August 6th. She is beautiful. I really didn't think it would be that much different to have a little girl, but it is. Of course I get to dress her in fun girl y clothes, but I also feel like I just want to be more gentle and soft with her. She is my Angel and is Sam's little Princess!! This first picture of her was taken in the hospital on the 7th, only a day old.

The second picture is a current picture of her. She is now 5 weeks old and is growing like a weed, even though I think that she is still really little. Jaxon is now two years old and is a monster!!! He is into everything of course, he loves to play with is bike and be outside with Daddy!! Every day when Sam comes home from work he helps him take his work boots off and then wants to go outside with him. I am now staying at home with the kids and I think that he loves it. He just recently started watching movies and loves, Finding Nemo, The Bee Movie, and 101 Dalmatians (Puppies!!). He is talking so much and spits out new words every day.
He is like I said such a monster, but is also my big helper. He loves to hold Raylie and he is always very helpful when I am changing her by bringing me the wipes or a diaper.

Colby is fourteen now and is in ninth grade. He is growing taller every day and has now passed me up, yes I know that is not hard to do, but it is still hard for me to think of him like a teenager instead of my little boy. He loves to go hunting with Sam and ride his bike and skate board. He also has recently been getting involved with school activities like football games, etc. Last week Sam and him went Dove hunting and didn't do to bad. I'm sure it is the first of many more hunting trips for the year!! The most recent news with Colby is that Sam is legally adopting him as his son. Of course there is a lot of legally paperwork and forms that need to be taken care of, and we are in the process of completing them. We are hoping to have this completed by the end of this month. It is VERY exciting news. Colby is thrilled to have Sam as his dad and words can not explain how I feel about it. Sam is a wonderful dad and I and the kids can not ask for more. Well here is the latest update on our little family!!