Happy New Year!

To you..you..you..and YOU!

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas!

What a fun Christmas! Thanks to Mom & Dad for all of the wonderful gifts, food, and company! Although Mom's dream of a white Christmas didn't entirely come true, it was still a great time. Enjoy some photos of the big day.

What! Santa brings presents to Grandma's house too! This is the best day of my life!

Happy Birthday to Lindsey!!

Happy Birthday to Lindsey. I am writing on behalf of everyone when we say that we hope that you have a wonderful Birthday. And like Taylor was Mom and Dad's beautiful Christmas present, so were you. You are an amazing example to all of us and are beautiful inside and out. Thanks for being a wonderful Daughter, sister, sister-in-law and Auntie...We love you!!

Father Christmas

She didn't ask for anything, just if she could pull at his beard.

Too Big Too Fast

This is how I found K in her crib the other day, luckily I had the camera right there.

She works hard everyday to get her crawling down so she can move move move!

Hmmm... Suspicous

BYU has a newspaper called 'The Daily Universe'. It is a pretty ridiculous newspaper in many ways, but so hilarious. They publish 'Police Beats' once a week which is all the different crime that happens on campus that is reported to the campus police. I opened it up this week and read one of the all-time funniest police beats I've ever read.

Suspicous Activity

"Police received a complaint about a man with a rope on the east side of the library trying to lasso people as they walked by. The man was gone when police arrived."

Hahahaha, this is where I live people. Where people not only try to lasso people, it gets reported to the police. And then put in the newspaper.

Sweet Sixteen

16 years ago you were our Christmas miracle...We finally had another boy in the family, we were ALL so excited! You were over 10 lbs when you were born and now you are over 6 ft. tall! You are always the first to help any of us when we need your help and you are a wonderful son, brother, brother-in-law and uncle. Happy 16th Birthday, We Love You! (dictated from Mom)

Whatayatalk?Whatayatalk?Whatayatalk?

You all missed out on this one

Thanksgiving

"In all things give thanks..."

Thanksgiving went by way to quickly for me. I was and am still not prepared for the Christmas holiday, even though I love Christmas. I feel overwhelmed this year with gratitude to a loving and very gracious Father in Heaven. Thanks for a wonderful family, shelter over my head, delicious food to eat and a beautiful little girl that makes everyone smile. A few pictures from a wonderful Thanksgiving.

When I Grow Up I Wanna Be Famous!

Yes, Kari might be the great blog stalker and Brianne might be the "celebrity guru," but it is Kristen and I that are famous! Who know, for months now there has been a pictures of us circulating the internet, making us famous, and we didn't even know it! Good thing Cory clued us in. Check out this and this link (you have to click on another link in the story) to find two postings of our famous picture...(and thank you Dad for making it all possible).

Well...what do you know

you did have dino shorts...

spiritual thought of the day

yesterday me and two girls from my major made the trip to salt lake to see the "Body Worlds" exhibit at the salt lake library. it was soooooo cool. when people die they can choose to donate their bodies to science, and this is one of the ways they use it. they have so many different areas and you learn so much about the human body. this is what they look like, its kind of weird...

they are real human bodies that they preserve so you can see the different muscles, nerves, and organs in your body. one of my favorite parts was about the lungs. they had a set of healthy lungs and a set of smoker lungs... wow. seeing that will be reason enough to make someone quit. they had another part where they had (again kind of weird) baby fetuses ranging from barely formed to full term. it was so interesting to see this little tiny thing, 6 weeks old, and realize it has a heart. it was so neat.

anyway, youre probably wondering how this is a spiritual thought? let me explain. seeing that exhibit and the all the nerves and veins and how this organ works with this organ... its just impossible that it was all created "by chance". i truly beleive the human body is a masterpiece of work, God's masterpiece. there is no way to understand how different things in the body work and say that it all happened from a big bang. God really created every body and every body is an amazing masterpiece. thinking about this then led me to remember 1 corinthians 6:19 which reads, "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"

i would definitely recommend going to the exhibit. it is awesome and brought me such a respect for this amazing gift that God has given me. (see i tied it all together nicely, didnt i?)

Happy Birthday to Kristen!

21 years later and still just as cute!

We Love You!

A very Happy Half-Birthday to You!

Can you believe that Little K is 6 mo. old today! I know...neither can I. It seems like just yesterday I held her for the very first time.



Now she is growing and changing every day.



She sits up like a champ and has started leaning forward to move onto all fours thinking she is going to just crawl away. She loves to eat her rice and baby food and has been patient with her Mom while she hasn't been very consistent and tries to make all her food homemade. She is the most easy going baby, which she definatly gets from her Dad because we all know there isn't an ounce of that in me. I have had her at a few different places where people always comment on how good she is being. Most recent was last week when Little K really was pretty sick and as I sat in a chair next to the Doctor with her on my lap while he looked over her blood work he said he couldn't believe how smily and happy she was based on her test results, but I could...it didn't surprise me a bit. She loves to be played with and will giggle and giggle and melt anyone's heart.

Well she is 6 mo. old officially so everytime my Mom reminds me of that I can't scoot around it. Thanks sweet girl for making us all so happy. Love you.

PS. If you feel like giving out a present in return you are more than welcome to sleep through the night!

The Time Has Come...

for this little bloggy to go private! I know, we don't want to either. But, all news reports point to private and well we have learned that what the media says we do. We would love any of you out there that check in on our blog to continue to visit us and keep up on our family so please leave us a comment with your email address so we can send you an invitation to continue to follow all 10 of our stories.

Don't be shy...

proud to be an american

alright, so maybe the presidential election didnt quite turn out the way we hoped it would. but on this day after the election i must say, i am proud to be an american for many reasons. i will list a couple and feel free to add your own reasons why youre proud to be from this wonderful country...

1. we have a president-elect that has the potential to inspire good things in this country and around the world. people are feeling positive about this election so i will too.

2. i got to vote for the first time and feel very blessed to be a part of a democratic country. there are people all over the world that would love the chance to vote. i feel very lucky!

3. mccain gave a wonderful and beautiful speech as he conceded the race. i think he is a very respectable guy and i think he promoted a great message of unity.

4. george bush was not the greatest president this country has ever seen, but i believe hes a good guy and i think its time for him to enjoy life again.

you dont have to agree with everything i say and maybe you think im wrong, but im feeling optimistic about the future!

It's Halloween Eve...

We have our pumpkin to carve...

And we are so excited for tomorrow...

(can't you tell)

if youre REALLY wondering...

not that i need any of this stuff but people keep asking. so here are some things i wouldnt mind getting for my birthday...
this neckalce from nordstrom

and i guess thats all because the sweatshirt i wanted is not on the website anymore.
so.. surprise me!

Look who else shops the Crew!

I debated whether to post or not (i don't want to take away from those AMAZING pictures!) but this just made me laugh. Here is a preview of what you are about to read!Read here about a celebrity J. Crew shout out

sorry its taken so long

i havent had time to post these yet, ill post some of them here because i know you guys want to see them. these are some of my favorites

spiritual thought of the day

"Let us relish life as we live it, find joy in the journey, and share our love with friends and family. One day each of us will run out of tomorrows."

-President Thomas S. Monson

Boo!

Did I scare you?

preview

of some of the cutest photos to hit planet earth.