Taytem's Teeth

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Taytem finally has gotten her teeth(yea!) After many miserable days and night the first tooth broke through. Last Monday I was holding her and she put my finger in her mouth and starting chewing. I was shocked to feel that she had #2 tooth, hopefully they all come that way when we can't tell they are coming. It makes it so much easier on all of us! She loves to chew on anything she can get a hold of especially someones finger (watch out she can chomp hard)

MY KIDS

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I love my kids so very much and I just wanted to list a few of my favorite things they do.TAYTEM-I love her bink smile as we call it, she gives you a big old smile while still having her bink in her mouth.-When she is super tired she plays with your face or hair.-She is very ticklish(Rob says she gets this from me) and she can be crying mad and if you just tickle her she stops and laughs.-How darn excited she gets EVERYTIME she sees me(it never gets old to her and I love it)-How Dad comes home and for the first 20 mins she won't look at him, she smiles when he talks to her but will not look at him( I think she likes to tease her Dad!)-Taytem's gorgeous BIG eyes!SAWYER-He loves being the big brother and wants to pack Taytem everywhere-He can play for hours BYU football "play by play" all by himself(you have to see this, he even has the part of the BYU fight song which he hums while he(the team) runs out onto the field-He loves to tell us all the time everything him and his Dad has in common for example: they love: ice cream, steak and potatoes, cereal, candy, PlayStation collage Football, Guitar Hero, BYU Football. This is just a few, ask him and he'll name them all.-He loves when people tell him he looks just like his Dad especially now that they have the same glasses.-When I go and volunteer in his class he makes sure he gives me a hug and kiss before I leave, and he doesn't care if the whole class sees.-Sawyer's amazingly long eye lashes that any girl would die for.

Junior( the dog) and Taytem

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(Side note: to hear the video you need to pause the music on the bottom of my page)
I put Taytem in her saucer the other day while I was fixing dinner,and Junior our dog was out running around. Junior would get up on the saucer next to her and she would freak out!! I thought it was very funny of course, so I grabbed the camera and torchered Taytem one more time with Junior so I could record it. Poor Junior has been nelgected since Taytem was born, he has been replaced, but we still LOVE him.

Bottling Tomatoes

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One of my favorite memories when I was younger was helping pick tomatoes and green beans for my Mom and aunt Staryl to bottle. They would bottle so many and it would take days to do it. The whole house would smell of tomatoes. Us kids were in charge of picking buckets full and also help snapping off the ends of the green beans. I remember doing this sitting around on Kaze's front porch talking and laughing and hearing Staryl yelling at Adriann for one thing or another!!Last week my uncle Taft told us that he had lots of tomatoes left that no one was going to use so anyone that wanted them could have them. So, my Mom and me went and picked all of the riped tomatoes before the big freeze. That next day we spent the whole day bottling them. I didn't know what I was doing so my mom really did all of the work and I just helped here and there.


The finished product! We are ready for lots of taco soup and mac and cheese and tomatoes(NOT the mac and cheese out of the box!!)


We also made Salsa out of the tomatoes, Rob is a big salsa eater so I hope he enjoys it all the hard work I put into it!(I mean my Mom put into it!)

Ward Halloween Party

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My "Little Mermaid" Taytem and her "Prince Eric" (Dad) I told him I had a Prince Eric costume but he didn't want to dress up!
My BYU quarterback! Sawyer had to be number 15 of course his favorite John Beck!




Saturday night we had our ward Halloween Party, Sawyer was so excited to wear his costume, even though he has been the same thing for the last three years! On the invite it asked us to bring a sloppy joe mixture, and I just thought how easier I just need a can of "Manwich". I called my mom and asked if she had one, she brought it over and I was saying how easy that was to take. My mom looked at me and said," I think it means you are suppose to make the sloppy joe mix with the hamburger and all! Duh!! It then click, she was right and nice enough to cook and mix it all up while I got the kids in their costumes.

Fall Break

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For Sawyer's fall break this year Rob took some time off and we tried to do some fun activities as a family. On Saturday we took the kids to South Jordan indoor swimming pool. It was so fun they had a huge twisty water slide, an alligator slide, lots of fountains, lazy river, and a separate kiddie pool.
Sawyer surfing down the alligator mouth!

Taytem loved the fountains and swimming. She is such a water baby, we love it!






She is already such a poser for the camera!



Sawyer taking Taytem down the slide





Sawyer went down the large slide many times, I think he had a blast.





On Thursday we all went to Trafalga in Orem to play.We all did a round of golf. Sawyer and his Dad had fun playing the many games inside. Sawyer also informed me that it was fun but, not as fun as Boondocks!

Taytem taking a swing in her stroller

Rob takes this very serious, he made us all score our games.
Sawyer is very compeitive and wants to do the best(I think he takes after his Mom) so between him and his Dad it was quite the game.



The race track was empty except for Rob and Sawyer. Sawyer wasn't tall enough so he had to ride with his Dad, which was okay because he was driving all crazy and Sawyer loved it.

More Fall Break

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For Fall Break almost all of the Grand kids on my side of the family went to the Scarecrow Festival at Thanksgiving Point. back row:GusMiddle: Maddux, Gerhig, Brielle, Quincey, Boston,Sawyer,Taytem, Kelson, Danielle, KassieFront:Cy, Bently
Danielle was such a good sport and waited in line for the train so we could all ride it! It was a very busy Friday and lots of lines to stand in.




The boys did the rock wall, and Gus went the highest!



I think the second biggest hit of the day were launching rockets. The kids loved this and we had to pull them away to do the other activities.



Sawyer and Taytem


Gerhig, Maddux, Taytem and Sawyer


Brielle, Bently and Quincey. The kids loved the slide, Bently had me taking her down them first(her Mom had foot surgery and couldn't) Then I passed her off to the girls and I think she had more fun with them!


Sawyer




We only lost a few kids that day! First was Kelson, he is only 3, then Sawyer and Gus, and then Sawyer and Maddux. (Maybe I shouldn't post that, because it seems like I'm a bad parent that MY child kept getting lost!)


Taytem and Boston. These two are only a month apart but Boston is bigger! The love playing with each other already.


Taytem kept grabbing Boston's hand and trying to eat it!



The first thing we did when we got there was the trampolines. The kids we so excited to do this.

Sawyer wasn't jumping very high til the man in charge came over and grabbed his feet and bounced him so high I thought Sawyer was going to cry. BUT he didn't and he loved it.

Halloween Party!

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Thank you to everyone for coming and for the pictures. I was so busy with the party that I forgot to take any pictures myself!! Sorry if I spelled any names wrong! Here are all of the cute kids that were at the party. I have pictures for everyone and I will be mailing them out!
BelleBently
Bently was so cute the whole time I was getting things ready walking in and out of the garage she would shut the door and lock me out!
TinkerbellIsabella

Sorry Isabella wasn't to sure about standing by the ghost for his pic.


BYU football player, Vampire, mermaid, vampireSawyer, Maycee, Taytem and Easton

Dad and his girls


Gerhig is so silly, while the kids were playing a game trying to throw the candy corn in the pumpkin, he sat himself down on and started eating the candy corn off the ground that was missing the pumpkins!


Dasiy and Donald
Noah and Zoey
Zoey made my night, when she was approaching the party in her very cute little voice she exclaimed, "It's a Party! It's a Party!" she was so excited.


We had a special guest appearance from Tiger Woods himself!
Trail


Storm Trooper
Justice


ClownBrayden



Curious George, BYU football player, Bunny, BYU cheerleaderKelson, Gus, Cassie, Brielle

Alien, Winnie the Pooh and WitchMaddux, Gehrig, Quincey



Pink Fairy and Blue FairyAudrey and Whitney

Audrey was one of my favorites during the rockets, every time I would launch hers off she would giggle and giggle and giggle non-stop!


Witch and the JokerAvire and Reese



Vampire, Prom Queen, BYU Cheerleader and WitchMaycee, Brooke, Bri and Quincey