More Projects

So I started working on more projects. This was my little china cabinet from when I was little. Izzy has all her kitchen stuff in it and on it. I remember loving it as a child, and Izzy loves it as well. So I decided it needed some tweeking & we all would love it better.













































The After Pics! I think it turned out really cute!

I can't decide if I put too many poka dots on it or not. This pic has less, I am trying to decide if its better.

A few months ago our friends Adam and Debbie finished adoption papers with LDS family services. And they are just waiting for that special call to get them a baby. I have added a button on the side of my blog, so that you can click on it and directly go to their adoption page. So if you have a blog, please post this on your blog, so that more people can see their family. And maybe they can get a baby!! Often, in adoptions, the birthmoms find a family to place their baby with through friends and family who know someone who knows someone who is trying to adopt.

You have to go to Adam and Debbie's blog and get the html code to be able to put in on your blog. Click on the red name at the top to go to their blog.

I recently inherited a dresser that was my mom and dads, probaby from the 70's. It was really ugly, had those big tacky gold handles. But is a really nice dresser with big drawers. Izzy hasn't really ever had a dresser or at least one that was meant to be a dresser. So this week while Jared spent 28 hours in the car to go see the Fiest Bowl, I spent my time refinishing this dresser.

These are the before shots, of course you can't get the whole effect without seeing the gold handles. But I forgot to take before pics until I had them all taken off and had started sanding.

The After pics: I think it turned out perfect! I love how it looks, she has a ton of room now.

I had to show what it looks like up against her cute walls! I think it looks even better!

I somehow didn't get very many pictures of my kids christmas morning. Tyler this year, all he wanted was a remote control fork lift. The Soda Springs Santa each time he sat on him, remembered that he was the one that wanted the fork lift. Probably because he was the only kid out there who wanted suck a thing! Izzy, all she would say she wanted was Sorry Sliders, just a version of Sorry.

Sittin on Santa at the ward party. Izzy was so funny, she went to see Santa once before while visiting Grandma and she wouldn't sit on his lap. Which is strange for her, my kids are pretty friendly. So TYler told her one day that she wouldn't get Sorry Sliders if she didn't sit on his lap and tell him. So at the ward party, she was bound and determined to sit on his lap. But it was hilarious because she tipped her head back as to stay as far away from him as possible. She wouldn't even look at me for the picture, I guess she was afraid he might try something if she took her eyes off of him.

I realized that I never posted pics of Halloween.. And I just had to post pics of the costumes! Izzy was a flamingo made my yours truly! I am very proud of it. And Tyler, of course, was Dennis Anderson a.k.a Grave Digger's Driver. My guess is that not many other 7 year olds out there would know who Dennis Anderson is. He was frustrated all night long, because people kept saying he was a snow machiner.

I love my little mobster! We found this hat at the costume store, and he put it on and we had to get it for him. Conveniently, he already at the "zoot suit". He pulled it off quite well I think.

Izzy's Bday

I'm a month and a half behind, but...Our little Izzy turned 4! We can't believe our baby is so grown up. She got to have her first birthday party! 7 3 & 4 year olds was a bit, crazy but she had so much fun! She actually got to celebrate 4 days. Grandma and Grandpa Carwash came on Friday to bring her her present, her cleaning cart. Then saturday was her birthday party, and then came Sunday her actual birthday. Then when Grandma, Papa & Baby jaxson came, she got to celebrate again, by opening up her barbie bike from Grandma & Papa. It actually has a barbie bike attached to the handles bars so her barbie can ride along.

Let me just apoligize for 90% of my pictures. I HATE MY CAMERA! Last year mine cheapy kodak, which was awesome, broke. So I bought a cheap Fuji, which i thought would be fine because it was 10 mp. But nope, its horrible. After Izzy's recital pictures weren't what i thought they were, I told Jared last night I wanted an SLR for christmas. He laughed, so I think that was a no.

So we headed to Vegas again this year for Jared's continuing education credits. We were able to spend several days there this year due to the fact we got really cheap airlines tickets and could only fly on certain days at certain times. I only knew of one thing that we were going to be doing. I figured it would be all that we would do. But when we got there, my husband surprised me with the whole trip planned. Every night after his classes, he surprised me with what we were doing. Of course I forgot my camera in my coat pocket, and left my coat in the car in salt lake. But that's okay, because you can't have your camera in anything that we did anyway.

The first night, which ended up being my favorite, was Terry Fator. He was the winner of America's Got Talent. It is not stop funny! My favorite was when he came out dressed like Michael Jackson, white glove and all!. If you ever have the chance to see him, I suggest do! Plus even though he has a $500 million contract, he is still down to earth. He stays after the show to sign autographs, and he helps the janitors clean up, because he used to be a janitor.

We stayed at the Luxor this year, in the pyramid. It was pretty cool walking down the hallway to get to our room, because it is open over the whole pyramid, and we were almost on the top floor. Everytime we'd walk by, we'd get dizzy! It was a long way down. We actually got to stay for free, due to the fact I'm cheap, and got conned into doing a time share tour. TOTALLY NOT WORTH IT!!! They told us to expect 2 hours. Well we check in and one place, wait and wait and wait for a shuttle. Then we get to the destination and wait and wait and wait for the presentation to start. And of course, none of the employees speak English very well. So we couldn't understand what our lady was saying. Then we have to sit through and hour presentation and then go on our tour. After this, we are not even remotely interested. It wasn't the nice one, trend west. It was a different one. And if we bought we'd have to go to Vegas to use it. Or if we wanted to trade we had to pay $200 everytime. So it was $40,000 plus $200 everytime we wanted to go on vacation. But of course they don't listen and go on and on and on. Bring managers over to try and convince us blah blah. No one would listen to us, when we said it wasn't even remotely something we would want. (the trend west one would have been harder to turn down.) So finally we escape and go get on the shuttle, and ....you guessed it. We waited some more! So by the time we got back to our hotel, we had been gone 4 hours!! So much for the expect 2 hours! All that for a free hotel room for 3 nights!

We also went to the BODIES exhibit. I had always wanted to go, but wasn't too sure if I could do it. But I made it! And it was soo cool!

We also got to go to Bill Engvall, up until this trip he was our favorite comedian! I think Terry Fator surpassed him!

We also went to Blue Man Group. It was....weird. I don't quite get it exactly because there is no talking. So a lot of time they are just looking at each other and looking around. But when they were actuallu doing something it was awesome. Then at the end they unroll hundreds or rolls of toilet paper all over the audience, it was pretty funny.

One night we went to the Tournament of Kings. I wasn't too sure what to expect but I just new I wanted to go. It was actually really good. You eat dinner while the "show" is on. And because of the time period they are trying to portray, no silverware. But it was great. Except for when one time, the horse ran by and kicked dirt up all over us and everything! (we had front row seats). They do a lot of sword fighting and jousting, and it is not acting. THey actually do it. Of course it is all coreographed so no one gets hurt. But those men are very talented. I now no where all the boys who refused to cut their long hair off in the 80's went. They are in tournament of kings.

Our last day, we had nothing to do but wait for our 9 pm flight. So we took the bus downtown to Fremont st. to see what was down there. Then we took the bus back, and the 20 minute trip took us an hour and half. So we missed a show because of it, but thank goodness they refunded our money. Then our airport shuttle forgot to come and get us, so we waited and hour for them. Then we had just gotten past security at the airport and I got a phone call from Southwest saying our flight had been delayed....So we finally get to Salt Lake, and I call our hotel where we parked our vehicle at and they were supposed to come get us. Well 30 minutes later, no shuttle. So after a big pain in the butt, they hire a "shuttle" company to come get us. I say "shuttle" very lightly. It was more like a man with his piece of crap SUV. He pulled out pliers to open the door. So by the time we got back to our vehicle it was 1 AM. Then by the time we got to Wyoming to pick up our kids, it was 3 AM. We got a couple hours of sleep and had to head back to Soda, because Jared had patients scheduled.

Excluding the last 36 hours of the trip, it was a great vacation!

Temple Square

On our way to the aiport, we stopped at temple square! It was soo cold! So we had the kids bundled up pretty good, so you can barely see their faces in most of my pictures.

This is my favorite part of all the lights and displays. The floating Mary & Joseph with all the lights floating in the water as well.

I'm a little bunny....

I know I know, I'm wayyy behind on my blog, and hopefully, eventually I may get this caught up.

But First of all, I have to share...Isabella had her first dance recital tonight. They did a little bunny dance, and she was soo stinkin cute!!

I had been preparing her that she wouldn't be where her normal dance class was, that she would be on stage. So when we sat down in the auditorium, so told all the people around us that she was going to go on stage! I don't even think she knew what that meant! She marched right out on that stage like she knew exactly what to do.

I didn't get very many good pictures because there were soo many people there! And in regular dance class, they have pieces of tape on the floor where they are supposed to stand, and on the stage they didn't have those. So the girls kept looking down to the floor. It was so cute when they did their little dance. Doesn't seem like she should be old enough to be in a dance recital.

I know I'm slacking on my blog, according to my Aunt! But if you remember about 6 months ago or so, I got way behind because my computer was broken. We sent it off to HP and there was a recall on the motherboard. So they replaced it. Well 6 months later, it has gone bad again. But they are refusing to fix it because they say our original warranty ran out. So we are waiting on parts to see if Jared can salvage it enough to get all my stuff off there. Which includes all my pictures!!

We haven't been up to much anyway. Tyler started Flag Football, I'm not sure he was enjoying it too much. Friday was his first game and he was just standing around. So at half time I told him he needed to chase the guy with the ball and rip off his flags. Well after that, he caught several kids and scored a touch down, then he decided that it was pretty fun after all.

A couple weekends ago I was able to go to something calle SCRAPPINK. Its a scrapathon fundraiser for Breast Cancer awareness. So I got to go scrapbook from noon to midnight! It was a blast. I have been so busy that I haven't had time to scrapbook much over the last couple years. I forgot how much I love it. So because of that we now have a new addition to our family.....I got a new cricut expression! It is so fun. My husband couldn't even get mad, because he thinks its pretty cool too! Then this past saturday I turned the room that holds all the crap aka the office, play room, scrapbook, sewing but mainly toys. Into a scrapbook room. Its nice to be able to sit down and scrap and not have to dig through cupboards to find what I'm looking for. Maybe I'll post some pics of the new pages I've been working on.

I am the choruster for our primary, and our primary program is coming up in a few weeks, and needless to say I am very stressed out. I sure hope the kids remember all the words I've taught them. I only have 2 weeks left with them because of stake conference, so I'm hoping for some major inspiration in those weeks to help them out.

My baby sister recently had her first baby. This was a bit confusing for my kids, I think it was the first time they were old enough to ask some of those "duh" questions. When I told my kids Aunt Cami was going to have a baby, Izzy asks where the baby was at, so I say in her tummy. She gets this really confused look on her face and then says " Why, did her eat it?" Too cute for her own good. I explain no it was just in there. Then Tyler gets the same confused look, and goes "if the baby is in her tummy, how does the food not hit its head?" Well thats a very good question. So I explain a tiny bit, that its kind of protected in a sack type thing. He goes "thats disgusting." He never asked another question about that baby in her tummy.

So for literally 8 months everyday, all I heard from my kids, was " Is Cami's baby out of her tummy yet." At least 3 times a day. Then when I would say no, Izzy would say "Because her ate it." It was hilarious, no matter how many times she said it, it made me laugh hysterically. At this point I don't think Aunt Cami thought this was too funny.

Then the next question would be "Is her tummy still big (holding arms out)?" Izzy was obsessed with the big tummy. She would just stare at it, then she would poke it. One time she put her ear down on Cami's belly, and then goes " Oh I just heard it swimming around in there." Funny Funny.

Every store we went into, my kids were picking out everything they wanted to get Cami's baby.

Then when he came out (thank goodness they didn't ask how!)

This is what happened....

Neither one of them wanted anything to do with the cute little thing.

But I knew that wouldn't last long.

The more they were around him, the more they wanted to hold him, I was fighting with my 2 kiddos to be able to hold him!



I hope my sister doesn't mind, but you have to see what a cutie he is, go to her blog, to see more pics.

http://www.tcgilmore.blogspot.com/

I'm a bit behind on my blogging, while I was was giving people time before I went private. The beginning of August, our baby boy turned 7! I can't believe it.

Once again, his birthday fell during the annual Taylor reunion, so we celebrated at the reunion. He thinks the reunion is just one great big birthday party for him.


This is the first year since he could talk, that he hasn't asked for a Grave Digger cake. He asked for a John Deer Cake! I thought it turned out pretty cute.






I have a tiny little aunt who is smaller than most the children, and it wouldn't be the Taylor reunion without my uncle picking her up! Here he was lifting her up so she could reach the pinata. Of course a John Deere pinata.









My itty bitty neice trying to hit the pinata, she wasn't strong enough to pick up the stick though.

















Here's my cute little cousin attacking the pinata!

















Here is the cake I made. I was quite proud of the color matching in the frosting.

Of course, just because he didn't want a specific grave digger birthday party, doesn't mean we got too far from all the grave digger items. Including a backpack, a lunch box, and poster, and all his favorite monster trucks in huge vinyl.

For months all Tyler would say he wanted for his birthday was this squirt gun! You fill it up with water, and then the bottom half you fill with ice, to make the water extra cold. Of course it broke after using it one time, so boy am I glad I didn't pay the $30 for the regular price.