Big sister!

We're kind of letting this news slowly spread but I can't help but share this picture! This is baby #2 at 8 weeks! Haylie is going to be such a good big sister.

Dinosaurs

We went to the Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum on Monday. Haylie had such a blast playing in the "motion" room, running through the museum and playing in the sand and water at the end!

Haylie and Shelby

Digging for fossils

She needed Unlce Tay's help to find this one.

Shelby and Haylie getting all sandy!

It was such a fun, cute place to go!

Christmas

At our Ward Christmas breakfast.


We flew to Utah on Wednesday and spent time with mine and Jake's parents.
Thursday, more family time, a bit of Christmas shopping and Haylie and I went shopping with my mom that afternoon for some clothes for me! Jake got to play lots of basketball with his brothers, which he loves doing.
Friday is when Heather, Tom and Shelby got into town and we all went to see the Christmas lights at Temple Square. It was quite chilly and a bit crowded but the lights are always so beautiful. I love seeing the temple and the navitity scene out there on the water.
Saturday (Christmas Eve) we spent some time with Jake's grandparents and they got to get to know Haylie a bit better without so much family chaos around. It was great to spend that one on one time with them. Then, that evening was the Taylor Family party. I need to get the pictures from my phone on here eventually of that night. We had delicious food, lots of chatting and laughing, a tie exchange, dessert exchange, cousin gift exchange, cousins in their matching jammies and nightgowns and an all around fun night. Haylie is usually overwhelmed with Taylor gatherings because there are a lot of people around that she isn't too familiar with yet but she was eating up all her time with her cousin friends this night! She loves being with older kids. I'm so grateful for sweet nieces and nephews who are adorable with her and take good care of her. I wish she was able to see them more often and create strong friendships with them. Jake got a new pair of awesome work gloves from his parents, Haylie got a Tinkerbell nightgown and I got a beautiful pair of pink pearl earrings! I looove them!
We then went back to my parent's house to open our Christmas Eve Jammies and go to sleep!
Hanging out with Uncle Tay on Christmas Eve night.

Playing with all the pretty bows!

With Grandma! Haylie's eating a marshmallow here. Grandpa and Uncle Tay got marshmallow guns and were shooting them everywhere and the little girls were running around eating them!

Us before changing into our new Christmas Eve jammies.


This was Haylie Christmas morning. It reminded me of the same way I found her last year only she was sprawled on our bed with us. I can't believe how big she looks in there!
Christmas 2011

Christmas 2010

Climbing the stairs to see what Santa brought us!

Sorry for the red eyes. Haylie LOVES Mater and was excited to have her own Mater pillow. :)

Haylie's new baby doll. She is such a sweetheart and takes good care of her babies and stuffed animals. :)

Rawr! I got some new workout gloves for my BodyCombat class. I love that class!

Haylie decided she wanted a ride on the horsie, too. ;)

We're so spoiled every year!

Haylie got pretend food that you cut in half (they velcro together) and she had a blast with them for the longest time!

I love that Christmas was on a Sunday this year. We were able to attend church with Haylie's Nana, Papa, Aunt Kelly, Aunt Candace, Uncle Judd and cousin Mya! It was great to be in church with them and to hear the beautiful music performed. Their ward had a great choir! We spent some more time at Jake's parent's house and then had a big turkey dinner with my family before heading out to my grandparent's house to see everyone there.
It was such a wonderful, perfect Christmas. We're grateful for the amazing family members we have who love and support us.

Thanksgiving

Here is my brand new stove we got just before Thanksgiving this year. It certainly passed the test with flying colors! It kept up with the cooking of our feast and everything tasted great! I love it. :)

We had our friend's the Vander Vloedt's over for dinner this year. Here is Korey and I working hard in the kitchen!

The delicious feast! Everything was soo good!

Everyone ready to dig in!

My sweet little family. :)

Haylie's own plate of Thanksgiving dinner.

Us by our Christmas tree!

We missed being with our families but were grateful to spend the day with good friends in our beautiful home. Ours is most definitely a blessed life!

Randoms

Playing in the leaves in our backyard.

Kissy face! I had never seen her do this before this picture.

Lounging on the counter, eating some cheese. The usual, right? ;)

Painting time! I was painting a board for a craft project and Haylie wanted in on the fun.

She was adorable to watch paint!

I made Haylie her own cardboard box house complete with a door, 3 windows, a chimney and a shelf inside! It was pretty awesome!

Brushing teeth!

I love this picture! I got her pictures taken at JCPenny. I'll never do that again. But at least I got this cute picture out of it! :)

Halloween

Here's my Halloween wreath I made! I looove it! :)

At the pumpkin patch picking the best pumpkins to carve!

Peek!

Strong girl!


Found them! Now time for a ride!

Carving pumpkins!

Yum! ;)





Haylie's Minnie Mouse pumpkin and Andrea's star pumpkin. I don't know why we don't have one of Jake's awesome tiki man pumpkin! :(


Haylie, I mean, Tinkerbell at the ward's trunk-or-treat! She loved all the chaos and had fun collecting candy and seeing all the kids running around in their costumes!

Disneyland and CA 2011

For my "family reunion" we decided to make another trip to CA for some more Disneyland fun together!
This is in the car in the parking garage just getting to Disneyland.

I took this picture in the same place just getting to Disneyland for her first time last year. Look at how much she's grown!

Family picture by the famous flower Mickey! Haylie likes to flash a "hang loose" sign in pictures, apparently. ;)

The girls playing in the ball fountain. This entertained them for quite some time!

The longest, hottest line I stood in was waiting to take Haylie to meet Princess Rapunzel. I wish I hadn't wasted the time. Normally the princesses are so sweet and really into their character but this girl didn't seem into it at all. Oh well. Here's the photo that I stood in line forever for.

All the other lines for the rides were so short! I think we waited for about 15-20 minutes at the most. It was the PERFECT time to be there! However, Pirates and the big Screamin' rollercoaster were both closed while we were there so that was a bummer.
Haylie LOVED Dumbo! When we came back down out of the air to get off the ride Haylie signed "more" while asking for "more fly? more fly?". It was so sweet!

My gorgeous girl! Waiting as patiently as an almost 2 year old can for the Peter Pan ride!

Haylie and Shelby took a moment to test out there crazy driving skills.


We watched the amazing World of Color show that night before heading back to the hotel. That was the end of day one at Disneyland!

We spent the next day relaxing on the beach and swimming at the hotel pool!

Taylor is the most darling uncle! He loves his little nieces.

Headed to the water! Jake and Taylor were the only two that got in to play in the waves on their boogie boards.

Haylie and her daddy.

Checking out the "big water"!

Hanging out with grandma and grandpa.

Shelby and Taylor "surfing" the sand. ;)

This is how Shelby and Haylie spent their time. They loved playing in the sand!


The next day was back to Disneyland! We had to grab a picture by the big Mickey Jack-o-lantern since we were there while it was decorated for Halloween!

Haylie and Shelby loved hanging out with Lightning McQueen and Mater!

Shelby decided to acknowledge Haylie quite a few times on this trip! ;) Here they are discussing the water fountains they were about to run through.

This is one of my favorite memories of the trip for some reason. I bought corn on the cob and was munching on it while walking around. While my sister ran to the bathroom I was offering bites to Haylie and asked Shelby if she wanted some too. So, we sat there all taking turns munching some corn on the cob together. It was so cute and fun. I love these girls.
Haylie's pants got wet from the fountains I mentioned in the last picture so I took them off her to dry in the sun so that's why she is hanging out in a diaper in this photo. ;)

We were also able to watch the cutest parade that night that Haylie sat in awe while watching. We stayed there until the park closed, the streets were so empty! Heather and I took this opportunity to run all around pushing our strollers through the empty main street! ;)
The next day was spent relaxing, swimming in the hotel pool again and going out to eat! We had a fun trip!
Then it was time to head home and get back to everyday life!