A much needed update!!!

It wasn't ME!!!

So it has been way toooo long since I have posted! Our computer crashed, we got rid of the Internet, and we are too impatient to use my in-laws computer to blog! Talk about like 20 min to load a page at times!!! Not worth it! Excuses excuses I know!!! Danny started school at BYU this summer semester so we needed to buy a computer for homework, since everything is online these days! I am happy to now be at home on a fast computer instead of the ancient one at the Robertson's house. :) We are very grateful to them though for letting us us theirs in the meantime!

Since February, much has happened in our lives. Taelin is growing up way too fast but we are loving almost every minute of it. The bad sleeping habits I could do without! :) But everything else is wonderful. From learning how to walk, saying Mama, Dada, going up and down stairs, to eating normal food (no more baby food). Taelin is almost bottle weened, and she is finally getting her upper four teeth! Ouch, I have soo many cute pictures, but they are a pain to put on here, so we will see how many I post!

St. Patrick's Day at G-ma and G-pa Robertson's!!

Mountain View Easter egg hunt with Flake family!
(Holly, Dallas, Celeste, Janell, Natalie and Taelin)
Thank you Michael for getting up and driving Taelin and Me to the Orem and Provo Easter egg hunts! It was a blast!

This was the best way to get Taelin to pick up eggs by herself!

Easter with the cousins!

Taelin learned how to walk! These are her first few steps!

March 24, 2008

May 12, 2008

Grandma Elaine & Grandpa Doug came for General Conference! It was so much fun to see them!

Grandma Becky & Grandpa Briant also came for General Conference. This is their eight month anniversary celebrated at JCW's!

Taelin and Logan playing on the back porch!

Family Vacation

We took a family Vacation with the Robertsons to Goblin Valley, UT. This was quite the trip. We drove down to meet everyone on Sunday after Work and Church. Then on Monday we all hiked Wild Horse Canyon! It was beautiful! The sand stone shows perfect lines from the wear and tare of water and wind moving through the canyon. My cousin Jamie let us barrow her baby pack! Thank you!!! It was a life saver. Danny said that by the end of the day his shoulders hurt, but it was nice to not have to hold Taelin the whole way. It was a five mile hike! Taelin slept, watched, cried, ate, etc... all in the back pack and came out for a little break in the middle. After the hike, the wind started to pick up. We got in the cars and went for a quick trip down to visit the goblins. These are statues formed by the wind. It was sooo windy down there. The wind pelted my legs and it felt like tiny needles hitting me everywhere. We covered Taelin and hurried down the hill to the goblins. It was fun to hike around them for a while. Alex and Matt had fun jumping from goblin to goblin.

Scott & Logan, Alex, Danny & Taelin

Natalie, Taelin, & Danny

Danny & Taelin

Alex on top of a Goblin

Scott, Logan, & Amanda

Ian, Kadrynn, Schaefer, & Celisa

Danny & Taelin

Russ & Karen

Danny and I provided Chili for dinner that night and then everyone retired to their tents, due to the wind. This was a long night! The zipper on our tent wouldn't close! After much patience Danny and I finally got the door closed. I went to gather some things and when came back noticed Danny in the tent, and thought to myself, oh, he must have fixed the zipper and then proceeded to open the zipper. Ahhhh... I should have just shot myself in the foot. He had entered the tent through the door on the other side of the tent!!! We never got the door closed again. We tried duct tape but it was no match for the sandy wind. Luckily the tent had three different rooms so we closed Taelin's side off, from the main part, so the sandy wind would not get to her. Danny and I took turns through the night holding up the poles to the tent. At one point Danny fell asleep and woke with a bonk on the head. The wind felt like it could have been blowing about 70 mph. That morning it was pretty much hurry and pack up as quick as possible for everyone! As we were emptying our tent I started to hear snapping. Two of the spring poles had snapped. After that we hurried as fast as we could to pack up the tent! I don't even remember if we had breakfast! I don't think that we did. The babies, Taelin and Logan chilled in the van with Megan while we were taking down the tents. Scott and Amanda, Danny and I headed back to Orem while the rest headed to Denver. This was a fun yet interesting vacation.

Our tent before the sand wind storm

Sergent JD Thornock Home from Iraq
We had so much fun getting ready for JD to come home from Iraq. When Laura told us, we called around to see who would donate things to welcome home a Marine from Iraq. WalMart decided to donate yellow balloons and Maceys helium and string. The ward put up flags down our street and Laura and I made signs to put up. It was going to be perfect. Well each day we waited for the final I'm coming home and it finally came on May 1st, 2008 he would be arriving at the base around 4:00 p.m. The wind was horrible. We were going to steak balloons between each flag but they were popping on the grass. So we ended up putting bunches around their front door and up the banister in their house and by the sign at the beginning of our street! It looked great!

I know that many of you are waiting for Taelin's Birthday Celebration pictures etc... but it is too late to start on that. So I will post again hopefully tomorrow! Until then thanks for reading!