Porter family visit

Let's start this post off with a video. I LOVE to hear laughter and Brody has the cutest little laugh.



Trace, Taralee and Brody came to Arizona this weekend to see Trace's little brother wrestle in the state tournament in Prescott. So we went down to spend a day and visit them as well. We had a great time and of course had to take a couple pictures. Well, maybe more than a couple. Take a look.

Here's Brody watching cartoons. He loves cartoons.

Don't mess with me! :D

Two handsome lads!

Oh, how sweet. Brody loves his Grandpa.

Isn't Taralee beautiful? and Brody so handsome?

Brody found these old reading glasses and he thought he was so funny when he put them on. He reminded me somewhat of an old picture we took of Danica, years and years ago. see for yourself.

Either Trace is totally worn out or he's totally bored with the Reidheads. haha

On Friday night Taralee and Trace stayed with his family so we got to keep Brody with us. He was so much fun and is quite the little entertainer.

Saturday actually didn't turn out to be that great of a day other than the fact that we got to spend time together which we totally enjoyed. But Nolen wrestled and he didn't do as well as he wanted. He was hoping to repeat his state championship but he didn't. He was so disappointed. He's a senior this year and we felt really sad for him. But he should be proud of his record. He has been a tremendous wrestler. But that was kind of a downer for everyone.

Then Saturday evening, we wanted to go out and eat but Trace was still at the wrestling tournament and Brody was asleep so Taralee and I went and ate and brought food back to Jim. So we are sitting in the camper after we got back and it started getting colder and colder. I went to the oven to light it to warm something up and it wouldn't light. We couldn't figure it out and Taralee said, well, maybe you're out of propane. Well, duh. Yes, we were totally out. No wonder it was getting cold in there! Here it was 8:00 and so we left to go find someone to refill our propane tanks. Drove around for two hours probably. NO STINKING LUCK. ARGGG!

Anyway, after wasting all that time, we finally went to Wal Mart which we had driven past 2 hours earlier, and bought a little electric heater to use. Then as we were leaving we saw they had 5 gallon propane tanks for sale so we got one of those. After wasting $70 bucks, we got back and hooked it up and it worked. The little electric heater kept the chill off, too, so it was a good investment I guess. But we were all grouchy because we had driven around and around and Brody was tired, Taralee was completely exhausted and Jim was turned around and couldn't find his way back to where we needed to be. It was a disaster of an evening. Anyway, after we got back and warmed up then we felt a little better. But then Trace called to find out where we were and asked for directions how to get to the place. We all gave him our versions of how to get to where we were and probably an hour later, he still hadn't arrived. After several more frustrating phone calls, he finally found us and made it in. So aggravating for him.

Anyway, so we were all doing fine and then all of a sudden some fuses blew because of the electric heater I guess. So Jim took the cover off the fuse panel to see what the problem was. So after figuring out the problem, he went to put the cover back on and apparently, he touched the wrong thing with the metal cover because sparks flew out at him and he got shocked and the cover flew out of his hands and he was totally caught off guard. Then of course, I started laughing..... and laughing and laughing. I was still laughing when I got in bed and he mumbled something under his breath about me being "evil." hahaah

I'm sorry that I inherited this sick Gaines sense of humor but it is deeply ingrained in me and I cannot help it. Anyway, Taralee said I needed to blog about this "vacation" because if any of you remember a blog post that Danica did last year, she said that "every family vacation we have ever been on has had a 'well hell" moment. ....EVERY VACATION."

Well, Danica, you would not be disappointed because this "vacation" was no different from any of the others. hahaha

I guess we'll end like we started...with a video of Brody's cute little laugh. His daddy can get him laughing like none other. :D