HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYLOR!

My beautiful Taylor had a birthday on Saturday and she is now 3 years old! It is very apparent because like one week before her birthday she started asking WHY about everything!

For her birthday party with my family, we went to an awesome park in Salt Lake and had a picnic! It is fun because Taylor and her cousin Sydni have their birthdays 10 days apart so they always get to celebrate together!

I found a fun idea for decorating! You take the foam swimming noodles which are typically shaped like a flower. You cut them with a bread knife into pieces about 1 to 1.5 inches thick and you end up with a bunch of flowers! So I strung them and hung them from the trees! Turned out really cute! Also, because there is already a hole in the middle you can use them for napkin holders or candle stick holders! Super cute! Total decorating cost for her birthday party, $3.50!!! Not too shabby!

With Jaime's family, we also did a party at his parents house and had a great time! She got so many new outfits that I probably won't have to go shopping all summer! And boy were they the cutest outfits I have ever seen! She had so much fun opening all of her presents that she forgot to look what was in them! As soon as she got done, she would just move right on to the next one!!!

Also, since Taylor was born her Papa has been wanting to take her on a motor cycle ride! He used to theaten to strap her car seat to the motor cycle when she was like 6 months old!!! I always told him that he had to wait until she was 3 years old which always seemed so far away! Well here it is and she had a blast! When they got back she asked, "Papa, why are we back?" and the whole time they rode she would ask, "Papa, why are we going so slow!!!" She is quite the dare devil!

WHEEEEEEEEW! What a weekend!!!

Finally a new post!

We decided for family night to take a trip to the golf course! Let me start off by explaining that Jaime is lucky enough to have a free pass to this beautiful golf course Mondays through Thursdays and he can bring anyone along for free as well! So looks like our date nights this summer will consist of free golf and I am actually really excited! I am definately a work in progress but I really enjoy going! It was also really fun to bring Tay along because she just ran....and ran....and ran! Lots of grass! Needless to say, she slept like a baby that night!

Well... Do I at least look official?;) This is Jaime in his realm! There are not

many things he loves more than golf!

Josh Turner Live Performance

This is my new favorite country song! I pretty much am having a love affair with his voice! Check it out!

Taylor got a hair cut!

I decided to give Taylor a hair cut for the summer and I just love how it turned out! First of all her hair was always in her face because I have been growing out her bangs and second, I just wanted a change! Lets just say I should be a professional hair cutter!!! ;)

BEFORE

AFTER

Before I styled her hair she wanted me to take pictures of her haircut so here are some of the faces she pulled while she was "Smiling" for the camera!




















So Pretty much I can't tell her to smile for the camera any more because this is the result that I get!!! Every kid goes through that stage but it just seems to be funny every time!!!



Here is a shout out to Macie! For you ZOOLANDER fans out there here is BLUE STEEL!

QUICK BIT

Hey I had a couple of questions about that water table and the swim suits in my last post! So for your information, that water table is at Toys R Us for $29.99! And you can find those t-shirt swim suits at old navy for boys and girls and they are fabulous so that you dont have to worry so much about sunburn! I think they are even on sale right now for like $10.00! I know I have seen them at target too!

Apparently summer came and went!

SPLISH SPLASH! We had a fun day on Monday with Taylor's water table! She got it for her birthday last year and I was so excited to finally have a nice hot day she could go out and play! Since last year she went out for about 2 seconds with her cousin Sydni to get in the little pool and they both saw a bee and cried and cried and wouldn't go back out again! It's too bad I can't find the pictures from that incidence cause it was pretty freekin hilarious!

I told Taylor that she was too big to sit in the table and she said, "Well then we better put Macie in there before she gets too big!" She is such a concerned big sister! I love it!

By the way, World watch out because it is only a matter of days before this Macie chick is going to be crawling all over the place! She can pretty much already get accross the room in 2.2 seconds! You know that line they cross from when you can leave them in a room by themselves to when you can't! She pretty much crossed that line this week!

Indoor Soccer

So for those of you who know me pretty well, I consider myself somewhat of an athlete, except for when it comes to Golf and Soccer! I don't know what it is but, I just cant seem to feel confident when I play soccer! About 3.5 years ago I was playing co-ed Indoor Soccer and this guy knocked my good friend Ashley down and she landed on my knee just right! I tore my MCL so was out for a good 6 or 8 months. The next time I came back to play, it was my first game back and I rolled my ankle very hard and couldn't even walk on it for weeks! Needless to say I kind of quit for a long while!

I thought after having 2 kids I should be tougher right!! That's how it seems it should be!

Well, I got up the guts to play and started about 1 month ago with some friends from my ward (Erica and Brandon ;) on Saturdays and I have had a blast, but not so much luck. (Although Sarah C. you would be proud that I did score a goal a couple of weeks ago!!) Last week my stomach was hurting really bad at our 11:30 pm game so I played seriously like 10 minutes of the game. Today I came out with a pretty big bruise on my knee and a majorly sore nose from getting elbowed pretty dang hard by some dude! I guess just because you love something, doesn't mean that you will be good at it right! Maybe I should just stick to Volleyball! Or maybe try women's instead of co-ed! Who knows!

Thanks Erica, this might have sounded like I don't like it, but that is not the case! I love it, I just feel very inadequate!