Babies

The Prom Group

Prom 2012 Senior Year

Sam Judkins asked Samantha to Prom this year

they have been friends for quite a while.

Sam helps out with the volleyball team,

plays lacross and his dad is Samantha's

English teacher right now.  Sam make a video

and played it on the announcements one morning

asking her to prom it was very cute.  Samantha

said that the whole school was asking her about it

which made it fun.  They went with 3 other couples.

They went bike riding up Provo Canyon, ate at Tucanos

for dinner then to the dance.  This was the dress

that we happened to find in California.  It had a long

scarf that Samantha paid a lady in the area to make

sleeves for her.  I think that it turned out cute.

Work, work and more work

 So blessed that the girls have a job.

But they are gone all of the time between

school activities, sports, young women and work.

They work at Model A Cafe in Mapleton.

They work about 2-4 nights a week depending.

Some nights when it is slow they do not

make any money but when it is busy they

do quite well.  I have learned to tip my

waiters and waitresses more because I have

daughters that work hard and some times only

get $1 tip.  It has been fun watching them

work together and try to work out

trading shifts if needed by begging, pleading

and bribing.

Other benefits of working at a Cafe---you get to

make your own food!

4-H After School Program

 Samantha was asked to teach a 4-H club on

volleyball and basketball this year at two

elementary schools-Canyon and E. Meadows.

She had a wonderful time even though

the kids were a little rowdie at times.

She put the money away for college.  Proud of her.

The duplex we stayed in.  It was two bedroom and one

bath.  It was great because we just bough milk

and cereal and had that every morning.

One night we also grilled hot dogs out back.

It saved us quite a bit of money.



Matt called the temple and said if we were there by

8:30 am that we could go with another group

and do baptisms.  We did not factor in the

horrible traffic that time of morning so we were

about 15 minutes late and they would not

let us do them.  That temple was soooo quiet

because it did not seem busy----so weird

they did not try and help us out.  We did

go over to the visitor center and watched a

few good movie that of course make us cry.

But it is not hard to get  Porter family member

to cry.  All in all it was a good day!

More Spring Break

 We stayed in Vegas one night on the way there and on the

way back.  Matt and I realize that we can not drive it

any more in one day/night.  Getting too old.  Plus we

want to enjoy it more.  Of coarse when you stay

in Vegas you have to eat at the buffets.  This

once was located in Excalibur.  The girls loved it.

 Matt also surprised us with tickets to see this

group.  They sounded awesome.  The girls

did not realize that they knew a lot of the Beatle songs!

It was so fun.  They did ask the girls before it

started if they would be willing to go on

stage and both refused---chickens!

When we stayed at Huntington Beach the duplex had

two bikes that the girls would be up early and ride

on the beach.

Vacation to California

So we broke down and went to California for

springbreak.  We have not been on a trip for a while.

It was a much needed break.

We stayed in a little duplex at Huntington

Beach that Matt found it was awesome.

I think that I have a picture or two of this.

We tried to walk the beach every night we could.

I have uploaded the pictures in a weird order

because it is uploading from two different

computers so I will just comment on each

photo. 

The week we get back was going to be Prom and so

we looked for a dress for Samantha.  This

age of girls is soooo much fun but really

sooooo expensive.  So glad they each have

a job.