Family Pictures

The Taylor FamSo many to list but here we go :D From top left:
Bryce & Hannah, Michelle, Niki, Lucas & Matt F., Grandpa Mike, Grandma Helen, Matt T, Ella & Joelle, Nadia & Aaron, Taylor & Jared.
Bottom Left to right: Izzy& Isaia, Max & Mia, Trey & Cole, Kyle & Sammi

Ella REALLY wanted to sit in this old window frame. Such a Doll! I LOVE this picture of her!!

What a great bunch of guys!
From Left: Bryce, Matt F., Aaron, Mike, Matt, Jared

Oh yeah! Puttin' out the vibe... work it... work it!

A photo shoot wouldn't be complete without the good 'ol Cap'n Morgan
(pose only of course :D)

Girls attempting to be sassy...
some of us made it, others of us just ended cracking up before the picture could be taken
(as you can see, I'm hanging on to sassy as best I could before laughing... didn't quite make it :D)

Boys will be boys ;D
I LOVE this picture!
From top left: Trey, Kyle, Isaia, Cole, Max
Bottom: Lucas (Lukey)

My darling kiddies . . . precious

Our little Clan... even Ella is smiling :D

Great shot of my sexy hubby. I love the "photo-art" Tami did with this shot.

Adorable girls!
From top left: Izabela, Sammi, Mia & Ella on Bottom

I just love all these awesome little people :D

Again... really cool "photo-art" by Tami

My babies!
Trey & Cole are such great big brothers, Ella just loves them!
I love her little feet in this shot

Easter

Yes I am aware that Easter was a month ago! However, better late than never right? We had a beautiful day. It was great.

We started off with a
yummy breakfast then gave the kids their little Easter baskets from mom and dad which were so cute and had scrumptous, no-sugar chocolate in them from AmberLynn Chocolates... awesome!














Ella digging in to her white chocolate Easter bunny. (It was comforting knowing that it didn't have sugar :D)

Mom & Dad even got a beautiful Easter basket... yummy!



Then we went hiking in Snow Canyon with G'ma, G'pa, Uncle Aaron and soon to be Aunt Nadia. We did the Butterfly trail in hopes we weren't too late to see all the butterflies... we saw ONE! At least there was that. ;D

As always, a good time was had by all and my darling Trey came prepared!

Here's the story about the dress. (The bunny ears were soft and fuzzy and only $1 so how could I pass that up?) Now the dress we walked by in Urban Renewal, I held it up to her, she smiled, the boys oooed and aahhhed and then I went to hang it up again. She wasn't about to let that happen. She hung on to that thing... hugged it. She's 1! I didn't think that sort of stuff happened this young. Apparently it does, and it really was precious. So, the Easter dress was chosen.

The boys just need spiderman buckets without the grass (more room for eggs) and they're good.

"Focus. Speed... I am Speed!"

We went to G'pa's for Easter dinner and the egg hunt. The other grandkids couldn't make it so my boys went to town!

Trey had so many eggs he had to switch his basket out for a HUGE one G'pa had, then continued to persuade G'ma to carry it for him as he ran from egg to egg.

Ella actually did find the eggs and put them in her little basket... cute.

She was surprisingly good at getting in to them as well!

Look closely and you'll see the object of his obsession with scaling the window... he had to call in backup.

68 eggs total I think? Thank goodness most of them had money in them.
They made a haul!

Daddy and Cole organizing the money eggs from the candy and hard boiled eggs. Now that is fun.

She managed to get some of her brother's chocolate when mommy wasn't looking.

Trey and Ella just chillin' on G'pa's couch after an eventful Easter.

The Cole-Miester

Cole had a pretty bad sore throat this week so Daddy brought home his cold laser from work, set it to the sore throat rife setting and Trey and Cole worked on getting rid of it. So cute!

I'm looking forward to the day when we can go to the gym without bringing some kind of 'bug' home from daycare! :P

But he obviously felt good enough to do 'yoga' with mom! ;)


Oh yeah...
that's why I don't practice during waking hours :D

My sweet, rough boy!!!

Ella's First Steps!

Ella has officially taken her first steps!!! We were at the park with our homeschooling group, all sitting on the ground and she had a great time walking from mom to mom. It was amazing how sturdy she was in standing. She would stand up and then just laugh & laugh! She was having so much fun. And of course we would all clap & cheer for her, so she would not only clap but blow kisses as well. It was precious.
She is also teething at least 3, possibly 4 of her 12 mo. molars right now and just finished teething her lower incisors, poor thing. She's tough though, hardly fussy at all over them.

Homeschool Literature Fair

We did a literature fair today at Joey's house. It was so much fun. The kids had a blast and it was great to see what everybody worked on, as well as getting some great ideas and books to add to my long list of books I want to read. :D

Even the mom's did their own presentation as well. It was great.

Adorable Aisa next to her sail boat creation.

Rapunzel in her tower

They did such a great job.

Cole having fun driving cars on "the mountain"

The kids played outside for hours while the moms hung out on the patio. It was a perfectly beautiful day to just be outside. Ahhh, therapeutic.

We made a fruit pizza as part of our literature report. Part of the book talks about sharing the good, so that's what we decided to do... and it was good :D

We did ours on one of our favorite special books by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, "Incredible Me"