Today she is 2!!!!

Dear Sweet, Sweet, Birthday Gril! I love you so much Mallory and still can't believe it has been 2 years since you came to us. We have had 2 fun and eventful years and you have been such a fun little girl all the way through. We don't know what we would do without our little angel baby! Love you Malli and Happy, Happy, Birthday!!!

 A few pics of the little b-day party we threw for Mallory when my parents were visiting a few weeks ago. Of all the cakes I showed her she wanted the "Owl Cupcake Cake". Silly girl loves owls. ha. She had so much fun partying and playing with her Uncle Taylor and Grandma and Grandpa Dayton. I will post more pictures of today (her real b-day) later.

A few pics of our Florida trip

So, this is a totally random post because blogger will not add any more pictures. I have been trying for days to finish uploading all of the pics from our cruise and Florida trip in May but I can only get a few to work. I will try to get all of the disney world pictures on soon. Mallory absolutely loved Disney World! We had a fun time as a family getting away together before Porter hit the books hard for another 3 years of PT school. The cruise I won on movie phone a year ago and we thought we better use it so we went to Florida for a 2 day cruise to the bahamas, disney world in Orlando, and a few days at the beaches in florida. I am grateful I made it through the flights and cruise without having too much trouble with my morning sickness (thanks to Zofran!). 

May was CRAZY for us. We had to be in Texas a week after our trip so it was a bit hecktic but we made it! We have been here for about 3 weeks. We are getting closed to settled. It seems like a nice place here and I think we will like it. Porter likes school although it is TONS of work already but that was expected. From hear on out our posts will be of our Texas life :) Hope everyone is doing good and we are all about visitors!!! :) Come see us!

In the Bahamas the original "ghost" pirate ship from pirates of the Caribbean was there!

Mallory love the beach. In the Bahamas the sand was sooooo white.

This man riped us off for a pic. haha

Mallory playing bingo on the cruise ship. Yes, we let our 1 year old gamble! :)

On the cruise ship. This was the "glass pool".

Mallory loved the ice cream parlor on the ship. You could get free ice cream all day. We all know how crazy this girl is about ice cream.

At the airport

On palm beach.

Palm beach. Porter and Mallory. Mallory kept saying the water was "salty".

In our HUGE cabin on the ship. We felt like jail mates!

Too many pictures!

 The night we told Mom and Dad we were expecting another little one. Porter took the picture and yelled "Domini's pregnant". Lets just say their response was a bit delayed. haha

 Porter's last day working at White Mountain Physical Therapy. Mallory and I went up to Show Low and met them all for his farewell lunch. He has loved working with these great people and we really appreciate all of their help in Porter getting in to a PT school.

 The annual Snowflake Golf Course Easter Egg Hunt!

 Mallory and her 2nd cousin Swedyn.

 Mallory with her cousins: Brynlie, Cooper, and Brewer. Gearing up for the big hunt!

 Lining up! haha

 And she's off!!! Go get those eggs Mallory!

 Mid-run!

 Then we headed off for camping. We all went camping for our last "Dayton Get-together" before we head off for Texas. We had so much fun spending time with everyone and I think the pictures show how much fun Mallory had. She is still talking about "camping".

 Moose is back for the summer and Mallory is in hog heaven! She rolls around with this dog with not a bit of fear.

 Camping crafts.

 Doesn't she look like me when I was little in those glasses! ha.

 Yes.. that is a fire roasted grub worm (compliments of Aaron) that Porter is about to eat. Why???? He says we needed the $10 Britt was going to give him. Thanks for taking care of our family babe! haha

 In it goes...

 I think the face explains this...

 Washing it down with some DP

 My little camp-a-roo...

 Making snowball bunny rabbits!

 Another egg hunt in the woods.

 These two are such good buddies (and Dayton). They all had a blast.

 Mallory ended up in my clothes by the last day. All of her clothes were filthy at that point. The cute little thing looked like a wandering orphan in my big jacket. haha.

 The fam.

 Mallory was all about the chocolate on easter morning.

 Happy Easter!

 Striking a pose!

Showing off what the Easter bunny brought.

Well, as you can see we have had lots of fun... thank goodness my meds are helping me cope a lot better since we still have a busy month coming our way. Tomorrow we head off for our Florida trip. We are in desperate need of a family trip before Porter hits the books hard again in Texas at PT school in a few weeks. I won the cruise we are going on over a year ago and we finally made time to go! We are also going to DisneyWorld and Mallory can't wait to meet Rapunzel and Flynn Rider! :)

Our first sighting!

Here is our beautiful (little) baby number 2!!!! Why does something so tiny change us so much? All I know is we are soooo excited to meet you in about 7 months!

week 7

Today has been one long Sunday. I am missing my little girl and hubby (since I don't have the energy to play with them).  Mallory and Porter have to stick together since I am not much fun or help. I feel useless because I am so sick. I am only 7 weeks pregnant today and am hoping I can tough it out through this or at least find a miracle cure. I find it crazy how so many women feel fine during pregnancy while others can hardly function. It helps to think of the sweet and perfect baby that is growing in me and that we will blessed to meet soon. Anyway, I will stop boobing, I just needed to vent. We are super grateful to be blessed with another child.

More craziness/excitement coming our way!!!

The Verdict & Conference weekend.

And the verdict is:
San Angelo, TX!

We were sooo shocked when Porter recieved a call from Angelo State Univerity in Texas last Wednesday offering him a position in their Doctor of Physical Therapy program. He was an alternate but they decided to increase their class size and accept 4 more students! How crazy is that! On top of that surprise, they then proceeded to tell him that because his GPA was high he was going to be awarded a scholarship which included him playing in-state tuition instead of out-of-state, and $6,000 per year to help in tuition costs. So, after the scholarship the whole doctoral program will be about $8,000 plus books! I normally wouldn’t bore anyone with the numbers and money part of this but it is just crazy how cheap this program will be. It is a really great program too and fully accredited to. From what we hear San Angelo is a beautiful place to live and we can’t wait to go. The money savings is more than we could have ever dreamed of for him to become a PT. We feel sooooo darn blessed. We have to be there May 20^th so we will be moving mid-May. I hate the idea of moving so far away from family (12 hours) but we are excited to get started on this adventure!

We really enjoyed last weekend relaxing and hanging with family. Monty and Kendra and their kids came to Snowflake for a visit so we had fun spending lots of time with the "Caldwell Cousins" before we move. It was so nice to hear from our church leaders and spending time with loved ones.

 Mallory showing off her new "chick" Grandma gave her.

 Her new "eyes-closed" smile.

The brothers. Oh brother!!!  :)

Silly kiddos. Mallory think she is as old as Reagan and Krew and Cooper. She likes to hang with them instead of the "babies". ha.

Hope everyone had a great weekend! Love ya-all. (I am preparing to be a Texan!)