Happy Birthday Taylor!!!

I can't believe our little girl is 5. It has gone by so fast. Taylor is so sweet & loving. She is almost always willing to give a helping hand for any of us. We love you so much Tay. You are such an amazing little girl that is full of life & teaches us new & amazing things every day.

WE LOVE YOU!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Taylor excited about her new Leapster she was begging us for.

The famous doll cake. I am sure this is not the last doll cake I will have to make for my girls birthdays. Taylor wanted Princess Belle. This is the closest thing I could come up with.

All the girls from the Birthday Party. Tay was so excited to have all of her friends over this year.

Pictured: Taylor, Hadley, Jayden, Addie, Maddie, Anna, Cali

August 2010

August 2010

August seemed like a busy month, but I guess I don't have a whole lot of pictures to show for it.

Dinasuar Museum

It is always nice to do something fun and different with the kids. So we decided to go the the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point on their $1 day. Bad Idea by the way since all the other moms in Utah were thinking the same thing. Even though it was crazy packed with people we still managed to have a little fun.

Me & the Girls getting ready to be eaten by a shark.

It actually took some convincing that this wasn't real.

Taylor & her Best Friend Jayden. What cute girls!!

Cute Kids!! Carter, Taylor, Lexi, Jayden.

I love Carter's & Taylors faces in this pic.

Random Picture of the girls. Even though they can fight A LOT,

they still are the best of friends.

The month of August is both of our birthdays. Happy Birthday to US. This year was TJ's 30th, which I like to point out since he is one year older than me. It is always GREAT :<>

July 2010

It has been a busy summer. We have had a ton of fun being with Family & Friends. Here are some pics from our July 2010.

Taylor folding the laundry. She LOVES to help me with the towels, and I will take the help. She is actually really good at it.

4th of July

We went up to the Bear Lake cabin over the 4th as always. The lake was a little on the FREEZING side, but the kids could have cared less. It is all about the sand for them. We also went to the annual Paris Parade (Paris, ID not Paris, France - haha) where they give out more candy to the kids then you can even imagine. It is such a small little town, and they give out more candy then any parades around here.

Taylor & Hadley starting their sand castle.

Addie doing what she does best. Getting dirty & being mischevious.

Grandpa Carlson, Lexi, Taylor, TJ & Addie taking a little walk out in the FREEZING lake. BRRR

Our little Fam at the Paris Parade.

Little personality. I could sometimes just squeeze her she is so cute.

Taylor & Hadley being best friends & waiting for the Parade to start.

Park City

My brother Milan and his family came into town so we went up to Park City to spend some time with them & the Fam. I hate them visiting because we all hate to see them go. Miss you all TONS!!

Taylor & my Niece Erika. Tay thinks the world of her.

Addie & my little Niece Payton. What a cute little pair.

Addie being miss personality again wearing Ethan's googles.

Family Pics 2010

Of course we had to do family pics since my bro was in town. My mom can't miss ONE year of family pictures. Sometimes we all wish she would forget about them, but it is good to keep updated pictures of everyone.

TJ & the girls waiting for our turn

Me & the girls waiting for our turn

End result. We are a pretty dang cute family.

24th Weekend

We went back to the cabin over the 24th. We always have a blast getting away to a beatiful cabin & lake.

Addie with her Papi. She usually stays pretty close to him. It is so funny how attached she is to her Grandpa's. What would we do without those two great men.

June Summer Fun!

FINALLY!! It is starting to be more like Summer. Our girls have more than enjoyed the Summer heat.

Orem Days!!

A couple of weeks ago we decided to go the the Orem Days with our friends Brad & Jamie. I will say that Orem does have one of the better parades that I have been to. Taylor's favorite part is when she saw one of the guys working on the parade driving by in the Rhino like her Grandpas. Who would have thought that out of the entire parade the Rhino was the coolest thing.

SWIMMING!!

The girls have LOVED being outside in the backyard swimming in their pool and playing on their slip and slide. I think they would be outside ALL day if they could. They have loved having friends and cousins over to play in it with them.

EVERYTHING ELSE

About a month ago I made Taylor & Addie these dresses. They actually turned out pretty cute especially since I am not even close to an expert at sewing. Not too bad for my first dresses. (Thanks Annalee for the pattern)

We got this GIANT love sac from our friends. It honestly takes up the majority of our living room when we have it in there. Taylor & Addie think it is the best.

Updates

This is going to be a little long since I haven't posted since April. The truth is that we don't do too many fun things to blog about so here are some random things that we have done of the last few months.

Bowling

The girls love to go bowling, and we got the chance to go for their cousin Carter's birthday and then with our friends Brad & Jamie. Here are some pictures from that.

TJ & Addie getting ready to roll the bowling ball.
The cousins! Lexi, Hadley, Carter & Tay. Who knows where Addie is??

Hadley & Taylor loving being together. They play so good together now. I Love it.

TJ & The Girls! They are a cute bunch.

Taylor & her best bud Jayden.

Addie
As most of you already know Addie is our crazy girl. She is constantly into EVERYTHING, and if you turn your head for a second she is most likely being mischievous. She is pretty easy to forgive because she is so cute, but she keeps us on our toes. A couple of weeks ago we were getting our stuff ready for the cabin and Addie came into the bathroom where I was bathing the dog holding an empty bottle of Nighttime Triaminic in one hand and the measuring cup for it in the other. She had medicine all down her chin and her clothes. I instantly freaked out and grabbed her and ran to the kitchen to start getting fluids in her. I had no idea how much she drank. There was quite a bit of medicine on the floor, so I knew she didn't have the whole bottle. I still was worried so I decided to call poison control (for the second time in Addie's life) to make sure she was going to be okay. The is just a little glimpse of life with that little girl, but I don't know what I would do without her.

Addie LOVES to swing. She cries every time you take her off.

Our cute girl enjoying being a kid & getting dirty.

After church one day I sat Addie on the couch with some crackers and when I came back in the room she was OUT. That doesn't happen very often for her, so we have to cherish these moments.

While I was in the shower the other morning I noticed when I got out how quiet it was. Which means BAD news for Addie. I found her in my closet trying on all of my winter gear. She didn't take these gloves off for a couple of hours.

This past week we had a busy day where I couldn't put Addie down for a nap. After we got home I decided to go get on the Treadmill & run for a bit. While I was running I looked over and Addie began to fall over on top of her toys & fell completely asleep. She was so cute.

Taylor

Taylor just graduated from her first year of preschool. She LOVES school, and is bored to death already. She is the biggest helper ever, and Addie LOVES her to death as long as Tay doesn't bug her too much.

Taylor snacking after church. She could snack all day and never eat a meal if I let her.

Tay loves to do anything outside. She hates to stay in the house all day, it is WAY TOO Boring

Taylor, Carter & Garrett. Tay loves to be with her cousins.

The Cabin

We went on our yearly vacation to the cabin in Bear Lake over Memorial Weekend. It is actually one of my favorite times to go because it is a relax time. I think my kids would live there forever. They love it, and never want to leave.