Monday, January 11, 2010

4 Posts a Year?!?

So yeah, at this rate I'll be posting 4 times a year! I rock at this!:) Sometimes I just feel like I'm a terrible writer and I don't have anything interesting to write. But, I LOVE reading everyone's blogs, so I guess I need to contribute a little! ha

Here we go, finally getting to Christmas. Better late than never! We had a great trip to Utah to spend time with both families. We were completely spoiled. We had a blast!

This picture makes me sad. She was soo sick when we were up in Utah over Christmas. She threw up in bed sometime during the night. I got her up around 5 (she was crying) and she had dried puke in her hair and clothes. She was BURNING up. Her temp. got up at 104.3! Scary. She wouldn't do anything besides just lay on us. She did not want us to move either. It lasted 2 days, then she was better. Sad.

She was determined to do her own hair. Funny kid.

Opening her play dough. I don't really know about this present. I have to sit right by her and watch her every move when she's playing with this, or I find it all over the house and ground into the carpet. Lovely. But, she loves it and asks for it all the time.

Christmas morning.

Feeding her new baby from Saren. She LOVES that thing. She does this pretend cry thing along with the baby, and it's pretty funny.

Trying on her hat and gloves from her stocking. I guess we don't really need them down here, who knew!

So, I forgot my camera at my parents house when we went to Eric's parents house on Christmas. How sad. But, let me tell you this, we were totally spoiled! We had so much fun spending time with our families, a little cold weather, and some friends for Tay.

Just a cutie picture of my mom and Tay. Love it.

So, Tay is going through this awesome phase where she takes her diaper off at night, or whenever I'm not paying enough attention. It's pretty awesome. I've come to get her in the mornings multiple times to a naked bum and a peed bed! Luckily it has never been a poopy one! Anway, Kjersten gave me this idea to put her swimming suit over her jammies. Works like a charm. She cannot get it off. We put it on her every night. She actually loves it. If I don't get it out with her jammies, she will either ask for it, or just go and get it. Funny kid. Although she really wants to go swimming when she's in it. Soon enough.

Just a day at the park in January! I am really blown away that this can really be winter! Seriously, it is amazing. Not trying to rub it in, because you can rub it in my face in about 3 months! ha We have been loving it, and really trying to spend time outside!

So, HUGE project of the New Year!!! We painted the inside of our house!! I've been really, really wanting to do this since we moved in 7 months ago! Finally we just did it. Saren came down to AZ to hang out for a week, and (poor thing) we decided to take advantage of that! I did not want to pay a babysitter just so I could paint my house, and we really wanted Kjersten and Kevin to help, so Saren agreen to watch the kiddos...ALL DAY!! We could not have done it without everyone's help. It took the whole day. I started about 7, and we finished at 7 that night. We really didn't like the color after we had finished about 1/2 the house, but we just decided to keep going. But when we woke up the next morning, we started to really like it. Now, I love it! It makes such a huge difference. It was so fulfilling to paint over those dirty marks on the white walls that I just could not get off. It was awesome! THANK YOU to Saren, Kjersten, Kevin, and Eric (who cut-in ALL the paint on the ceiling!). Feels SOOO good to have that done!
"Helping" mama cook. But, isn't that the most adorable apron you have ever seen?!? Eric's mom made one for all the girls, and teeny matching ones for the little girls. I love them!

Just chillin in her baby stroller! I'm sure that thing is going to break with her in it! But, she loves it. She always wants me to push her around in it. Funny girl. Oh, and notice the swimming suit again. It's a nightly thing.

I just love these little curtain holders. They are so fun in this girly room!

When we painted the rest of the house we did Tay's room too. I LOVE how it turned out. It's my favorite room in the house! I still have a couple other things I want to do with it, like do her name over the crib, and a cute vinyl saying over the closet, but other than that, I think we're all done with that one! It's nice to feel like I have ONE room done just the way I want it! Now I get to move to another room! The problem is trying to do it cheap!!

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Happy Fall!

Fall is the best! I love it. I'm loving it even more down in Arizona. Seems like it didn't take us long to get acclimated to the warmer weather! ha. It actually doesn't even really feel like fall at 80-90 degrees, but we'll take it! We did take a quick trip up to Utah again. I swear every time I post we have gone to Utah...sweet. Anyway, it was super hot here, so we were excited for a little cooler weather, but got a little more than we bargained for. I think it snowed one day! ha. We had to buy Tay some warmer clothes! We surprised my family when we came up, so that was soo fun. Stopped in Cedar City to see Hannah and totally caught her off guard leaving work. Saren was super confused when she called the house and I answered, she thought she had just dialed the wrong number. We always love visiting our family.

Anyway, when we were there we took Tay to Cornbelly's at Thanksgiving point. It was super cold and windy so we didn't stay too long, but we still had fun.






This is Tay with her "cousin" Claire. Someday they will like playing together. They totally don't get it yet! They're sure cute, though.


And this is what happens when your 18 month old learns how to climb up the chair onto the computer desk while you're not paying attention. Stinker!

Eric's mom came out for a week and we got to do some fun things with her! We went to the Arizona State Fair. Fairs are always sooo funny to me. The people that come out to them...love people watching there! Tay LOVED the carousel. She went on it 5 times, I think.




The day Eric's mom left, my mom came! How fun. We got to carve pumpkins with Kjersten and her family. Tay loved the guts.


I love Eric's tongue in this picture. Total concentration.

I can NEVER get Tay to even look at me to take a picture, let alone smile. This picture is a rare one, so I had to post it! Pretty soon you'll see more than just those two teeth. Two new ones on the bottom and another one on top, making her now have 7 teeth! Sweet.

And finally we made it to Halloween. Tay was Dorothy. I had to take a gazillion pictures to even get a couple decent ones! I swear.


We went to our ward's trunk-or-treat. Tay had a great time. Eric took her around to the cars, and after the second car she wanted to do it all by herself. She would either hold her basket up for them, or set it on the ground so they would put their candy in it. She loved getting candy!

When we were leaving we put her in the car and were outside talking to Kjersten and Kevin. When we got back inside she had tried to chew through about every candy wrapper to get some chocolate! Silly girl. Also, the first thing she asked for when she woke up today was a sucker! Oh geez.

And this is the face of a happy girl! TWO suckers and drool all over her chin. Doesn't get much better than that! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

1st Haircut and Other Miscellaneous Things

I had another GREAT trip up to Utah over my birthday in August. It was sooo fun to see my brother Curtis. We had a fabulous time. We were sad that Eric couldn't come with us.

While we were there we took a family picture...minus Eric:(


Saren and Tay playing at the park...cuties


Lovin those popsicles! Oh, I think I'm going to have one right now!:) Yummy


Hannah's new haircut. Love it.


All the kids went up to Park City. We rode the zipline and went shopping at the outlet mall.


Tay's first haircut. I forgot to take a before picture. But, let's just say it was looking a little like a mullet! Ha She actually did really well while Kjersten cut her hair.


All cleaned up.


Tay practically swimming on her own.;) Look at those lips!


Olivia doing a dive into the pool...she's pretty good at belly flopping!


Yeah...Eric decided to do her hair one day, don't ask!


My sweet, sweet 16 month old girl. She pretty much refuses to have pictures taken of her, so this is the best we can get! I'm hoping she gets out of that stage pretty quick!


Tay's new rain boots. Her and Olivia got matching ones. Found those cute things on just another too-hot-to-be-outside day spent at Target!


Just playing at the little fountain thing at an outdoor mall. Good times.


We painted our office area and kitchen island red. It was really stupid trying to take pictures of them...but here's what I got.