Taylor Times

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

First Camping Trip of Season

Our first camping trip of the season was over Memorial weekend. It rained most of the time mostly just a constant drizzle during the day but it poured on Saturday night leaving a lot of mud. Of course Monday the day we are supposed to leave turned out to be beautiful.

Here is Sadie with snails crawling all over her, she loves bugs and things. I bet this brings back memories for my mom. (When I was small I had collected snails on a camping trip and my mom woke to find them crawling all over our camper walls)

Halen and Kaiden

Austin, Jayden, Dakota

Sadie, Skyler, Lexie posing in front of the castle. I love to tease Mark about rolling out the huge green carpet he keeps in front of his trailer to keep the dirt out and bringing a castle. The girls love to play in it.

Little Snail Lady

Lexie and Sadie are best buddies.

Jayden

Kristen and Mike

Kristen is an awesome friend that has known me for a long time, she is such a patient person and looks past any flaws not just in me but all people. She has the highest level of tolerance I have ever seen. Thank goodness she puts up with me.

Mark and Angie

I am really guilty of not taking many pictures this trip. The place was beautiful and green with types of wild flowers that I have never seen before. We had a blast hanging out with friends as always. Ty and I have really come to appreciate some of our close friends these last couple of years and we have realized that good friends are not that easy to come by. I am talking about friends that have stuck with us through the years and know that we are not perfect but still want to hang out, we are lucky. What would we do without them?

Friday, May 8, 2009

Baptism

Sadie and Halen were baptized on Saturday, May 2nd. Grandparents came from all around and even a few good friends were there to share the special occasion with us.

Jayden & Dallin

My smart kids just keep suprising me. Jayden and Dallin got 4.0 's again for the 3rd semester in Junior High. They just keep outdoing my expectations. They make Ty and I so happy, they are such big helpers around the house and yard. Way to go boys! ( I totally had to talk them into this picture)

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Sorry Peoples!

My good neighbor informed me a long time ago that she couldn't get my recipe for countertop cleaner to work. I haven't made my own batch because I was still using up the supply of store bought that I had. I finally checked to see if I had messed when posting it. Sure enough, what do you know! Here is a better recipe. I hope everyone is enjoying saving money and putting these ingredients into their food storage so that they can have their cleaning supplies built up.

Kitchen Countertop cleaner

2 tsp. borax
1 tsp. liquid dish soap
1 quart of warm water

Mix and put in spray bottle

Here is another one to try also- this is one of Sarah Snow's recipe, you may have seen her on John and Kate plus eight

1 cup vinegar and 1 cup water. This works on almost anything especially ward water build up.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Sadie and Halen

I can't believe they turned 8 years old yesterday! It seems impossible. We celebrated with about 25 friends on Friday afternoon, barbequeing hotdogs and making ice cream sundays. They had fun playing freeze tag, doing relay races and anything else they could think of. I think that even the neighbors were happy when the party ended, they were so loud! It was fun choas and Sadie and Halen loved it, they are used to chaos I am pretty sure. Sadie and Halen are best of friends and they are pretty special in our family. It seems like yesterday they were 2 and talking to each other a language only they understood and for Halen it was silent language. They kept me running like crazy. Some of the fun memories that we have of them when they were small was when Halen let Sadie climb on his back so she could reach the door knob. Sadie and Halen purposely hiding from Grandma Taylor while she was babysitting, made her panic when she couldn't find the pair of 2 year olds. They happened to be spotted by the neighbor just hanging out on the side of the house. Another fun memory was watching Halen drive the Barbie jeep with Sadie right beside him telling him how he should be doing it at age of 3. They were arguing as if they were a mini married couple. Life would not be the same without them, they were a suprise in the beginning and they continue to suprise us still.

Happy Birthday Sadie & Halen

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Zip Line

We rode in this buggy up to the ziplines.

There were 9 different zip lines to go across the canyons.

There was a waterfall and lunch waiting at the end where we could swim. Tubes were there for us to float and they provided a lunch. There was even a pavillion to get out of the sun.

It was a fun last day on the island.

Soccer

Funny things my Kids say

Ok I have said that I would write down the funny things my kids have said for years. I am finally going to do it. Some of these things are recent and some are from long ago but they are just too funny to forget.

6/09- Halen's answer to the question of what he wants to be when he grows up was "I want to be a hobo when I grow up and live in Hobo park in Salt Lake" That lasted quite awhile but recently when Ty asked him what he wanted to be while we were surrounded by friends his answer changed to " a Boob doctor" I do not know where he came up with this and no I do not watch shows about plastic surgery. I think Ty is guilty on this one.

6/09- Halen was not doing what Ty had asked to him to do so Ty told him "quit dinkin around" Halen responded "I am not playin with my dinkin"

5/09- Sadie had gone to a princess party at a friends house across the street. Halen told Sadie after she arrived home that the princess Sleeping Beauty was a fake. Sadie asked me if I thought the princess was a fake and I told her no she was a princess alright. I asked Halen what made her fake. He said "Mom, I saw her take her wig off, scratch her head and slap it back on. She's a fake! Mom."

Halen- 6yrs. Ty got a new guitar for his graduation and after playing for many years on an older guitar he was pretty excited about it. He said "I love this guitar!" Halen replied "Dad you better not marry it or I am moving out."

1/09 We went to Jayden and Dallin's basketball game and Ty left to use the restroom, when he came back Halen asked Ty where he had gone. Ty answered him and so Halen then asked "did you see a hotdog in the bathroom?" Ty thought for a second and said "Yea, I guess I did" Halen was grinning the entire time. Oh man! Where did he get this sense of humor? His sense of humor is definately not of a typical 7 year old. I do not know how he thought of this bathroom humor.

1/09 Sadie and I were in the car and she was asking me when Jayden and Dallin were going to turn 13. I told her they would turn 13 this summer. She exclaimed "Oh no! then they will be evil twin teenagers!"

1/09- Our family went to a park in St. George where you could climb around on the red sandstone rocks. Dallin found a small tunnel in the rocks and went straight to trying to get through it, when I discovered what he was doing I said to him "Do not get stuck" He said, "Its ok, Skipper is a firefighter" I told him "Oh really, do you think that he is carrying his rock cutting tools around with him today?"

Dallin- (4 yrs) Ty had taken the boys to the nearby Hostess bread store while Dallin was looking around he shouted out "Hey dad, can we buy some wheat bread so that we do not get constipated?" Everyone in the store was chuckling.

Halen- (7 yrs) Our family went to Temple square to see the christmas lights and happened to walk right past Elder L. Tom Perry one of the twelve apostles. I informed the kids who he was and Halen shouted "Where's the possum?" immediately all five of my children were looking up into the tree tops to see where the possum was because he heard "possum" instead of "apostle".

Sadie- 4 (yrs) For quite some time while listening to Sadie's prayer before bedtime Ty and I had to try not to laugh because she blessed every thing she could see through her squinted eyes that she was trying hard to keep closed. The prayers would last forever and at the end of each prayer instead of "say these things in the name of" Sadie interpetted it as "Sadie's things" she would then list everyone's things "Aubrie's things, Dallin's things.... "

Aubrie- 1 1/2 yrs. One day Grandma had taken the kids and I out for lunch, and I took Aubrie with me into the ladies room. She was in the bathroom stall talking to me and soon asking questions about my huge belly ( pregnant with Sadie & Halen) she went on and on with comments about how my belly looked and how big it was. The stalls next to me were occupied and I could hear giggles coming from them.

Jayden- 3 yrs. I heard Jayden in the other room talking to someone so I went in to check on him. I found him standing next to the coat closet door talking to my Santa decoration. He was telling Santa that he was sorry for being mean to his brother.