January Birthdays

I try to take a picture of the boys telling family Happy Birthday and send it to them but I am not very good at remembering everyone but I try...I think it is a better birthday card then just a random one in the store...and then the boys get to tell everyone happy birthday :)

End of January Catch Ups 2012

January 22Nd, 2012

I have a new calling as the Young Women Secretary and so I can't leave church to take tired boys home and the 1 o'clock church time is killing us...this day Odin didn't want to go to class cause he was tired but I couldn't take him home so he decided to sleep in the stroller...he looks so big in the stroller and so funny...whatever works right....

Noah enjoyed being the big brother for a day....he loved helping Liam eat and play and do all the big brother stuff...he is so dang cute...I sure love these little boy cousins...

January 20th, 2012

January 20Th, 2012

After several ear infections and trying different methods before tubes we finally decided that tubes were going to be the best thing for our Little Man Liam...it was kind of scary to have him in a hospital gown and having him get tubes but I know it saved him lots of pain...it took about 2 weeks after the surgery for him to finally become our happy baby again but it was well worth it...and I am not against tubes at all I just wanted to make sure I tried all other options before jumping to that solution...he is a pretty cute boy and everyone at the surgery center just loved him and all took turns holding him and playing with him...it was a good experience...

Poppy Charlene Gray

January 18Th, 2012

Welcome Poppy Charlene Gray

My sister-in-law Heather gave birth to the first Granddaughter and Niece on the Taylor side....after 6 boys on the Taylor side we finally get a girl and she is perfect...Chuck and I were able to go be at the hospital in Vegas when she was born thanks to my cousin Amy for watching my little ones...if she hadn't helped us out we wouldn't have been able to be there...it was a LONG delivery and a very painful one but Heather did AMAZING!!!!

January Catch ups 2012

January 16, 2012

Liam enjoying some YUMMY spaghetti....got to love the stage of learning to feed yourself...

January 12Th, 2012

Little man Liam is teething and he is drooling so bad that I decided to put a wash cloth in the back of his pants so there was something always handy for me to wipe his little face up...

January 9Th, 2012

My little man Liam....he is growing up so fast and he is so funny...he is the sweetest boy ever...

January 9Th, 2012

Daddy decided to help Liam wrestle his bigger brothers...Chuck threw the two older boys down and then put Liam on top of them so he was the winner....they all thought it was pretty darn funny...

January 9Th, 2012

Liam going for a ride in the dump truck....he is the cutest thing ever...

January 4Th, 2012
MMMMMMM....Costco Pizza....we love Costco Pizza...the pizza slice is almost as big as Cort...







January 4Th, 2012
I love these 3 little boys...they make me smile all the time and I especially love when they get along and play together and laugh and enjoy each others company...

January 1st, 2012

Uncle Dan gave Liam some Black Licorice....and then he walked away....Liam enjoyed it but I didn't enjoy cleaning him up...hee hee...I guess that is what Uncles are for right...

New Years Party 2012

New Years Party....we just got together at Auntie Hopies house and played games and ate lots of food....that is how we role...it was hard staying awake cause I am a Lazy person but I made it and that is all that matters...

Day After Christmas

The day after Christmas the boys were exhausted and when they are tired they turn mean and ornery and very needy....so when we are hanging out at my Moms playing games Odin got mad about something and ran in the bathroom to cry and throw a fit...which I was fine with cause at least he wasn't by us doing it but after a few minutes he got quiet and I wondered what was going on...I went around the corner of my moms house and looked in the bathroom and there he was asleep around the toilet...isn't that the place everyone wants to take a nap????

And this little man doesn't sleep very good unless he is in his crib or a pak-n-play so when he got tried at my moms house I finally gave him to Grandpa Memmott and within a couple of minutes he had Liam sound asleep in his arms....such a sweet picture...love these two

Christmas Day 2011

Since we live in such a small place and the boys have everything they could ever need we didn't do to much for Christmas this year...

it was just the right amount and they loved everything they did get and that is all that matters...

this is Odin's stuff from Santa Clause

and this is what Liam got from Santa Clause

This is the Skylanders game for the whole family....but really Odin and Daddy are the two that play it the most...

And this was Cort's stuff from Santa Clause

Here is a big picture of everything that Santa left for us...

Cort looking at the bunny Liam got and trying to figure out how it works....

Odin opening his Christmas Presents...

The boys in the shirts their daddy brought them back from Iraq...

they say on them...

"Who's your BAGHDADDY?"

they are pretty funny and cute...

love these boys...

Christmas Eve 2011

Christmas Eve was spent with my family at my Aunt Hopes house...it is always fun when we are all together...we played games and ate a LOT of food and of course had our talent show...it is always a GREAT NIGHT!!!!

I love the two pictures of Odin and Bridger...they are best buddies and have so much fun together...I hope they are always close growing up...

At the end of the talent show my Aunt had put in a DVD and pushed play and I was watching the tv to see what was going on and on the screen popped up my sister Brooke who is away serving her mission and the music I sent her on a CD started playing and it was the song "I hope they call me on a mission" and her and her companion danced and sang to the song...

we had no idea it was going to happen cause she had been planning the surprise with my Aunt Hope...

as soon as I saw her on the TV I started bawling and screamed and then my Mom looked up and saw what was happening and she started bawling...it was the BEST CHRISTMAS EVE surprise EVER!!!!!

I miss her so much and it was so perfect to see her and know she was doing good...

If I can figure out how to put the videos on here I will up load them for everyone to see...

Odins School Treats for Christmas

Odin helped me make these cute choo-choo trains for all his classmates in school...

He Loved helping and the kids thought his Christmas gift was pretty cool...

And then I made these for all the teachers and all the helpers at his school...

I have all these glass baby food jars and didn't want to throw them away so I went on the GREAT website pinterest and typed in glass baby food jars and I saw that someone had made Jack-O-Laterns out of theirs and so I thought I would make little snowmen...

I think they turned out pretty cute...and the school LOVED them...

And then I also got this idea off of pinterest and so I made the teachers and the helpers these too...

and they turned out pretty cute...

before I wrote "No. 2 Pencil" on them I asked everyone what they thought they were...

Odin and Cort thought they were rocket ships...

but no one else guessed a pencil...

Oh well-the teachers still liked them so that is all that matters :)

And then I put them all together in these little boxes for all the helpers at Odin's School...

he was very excited to give them to his teachers and aides...

Chuck comes HOME!!!!

12-14-2011

Chuck FINALLY comes HOME after

192 DAYS

not that I was keeping track or anything :)

He flew into the St. George Airport and the boys and I were so excited to see him...

it was a BIG DAY for us and the BEST Christmas Present EVER!!!

This is everyone waiting up stairs at the airport for the airplane to come in...the excitement in the room was almost unbearable...

Our First Sight of him downstairs was so exciting...I started bawling like the biggest baby ever :)

I even kind of got in trouble by the security guard guy cause I went in to Chuck cause he wasn't walking fast enough to us but it was well worth it...

I think one of my favorite moments was when Liam saw him for the first time...his little face showed such confusion cause he could touch his daddy and he was only used to seeing him on a computer screen...so it was so funny and cute to see him keep reaching out and touching him...

Odin was a little shy just cause of the crowd of people there with us...all he wanted was his daddy, a happy meal and to watch the "blue people" (aka Smurfs) movie with his daddy...

And Cort has such a short attention span that once he got hugs in he just ran around to everyone else playing...

overall it was GREAT getting him Home with US where he belongs :)

Ooopsss

12-12-2011

On this particular day the boys had asked to go outside and ride bikes...

I was in the middle of something and told them they had to wait...

Not even 2 minutes later I look over at Odin and find him like this

He had totally passed out on the couch with his helmet on and everything...Poor kid was so tired and of course I had to laugh and take a picture of how cute he is...

And as I am sitting on the couch finishing what I needed to I could hear Cort behind me somewhere playing with his toy gun...so I thought as soon as I was done then I could take him out side...I kept asking what he was doing and never got an answer so I got worried and decided to look behind me and couldn't see him...so I got up to look for him and this is how I found him...

He had passed out on the floor underneath the kitchen table...

he had his gun in his hand and kept moving it so I thought he was playing-which he was playing with the gun in his sleep...it was so funny...

to say the least we didn't go outside but I got done and laid down myself and slept too...

Randomness

Liam's First little Teeth coming thru...so cute...

12-12-2011

Liam is a COMPLETE Mamas boy...he seriously follows me around the house 95% of the time...I snapped this picture really quick one morning to send to my sister on her Mission because she was online and wanted to see him and it was really easy to get one cause he wouldn't leave my side...in this picture I was in the kitchen trying to make some breakfast and he was under my feet the whole time wanting me to pick him up...sometimes I can't resist giving into this little face...

12-12-2011

Christmas Decorations

--pics taken 12-01-2011--

I just made these simple rings for the boys to tear off every night so they new when Christmas Day would be here...it worked and they loved it...

Our Christmas Tree...I also got our Christmas Tree idea off of Pinterest this year...and it turned out pretty darn good :)

And this is the plate that we put cookies and milk on for Santa and some carrots on for the reindeer Christmas Eve night and they thought that was fun the next morning when it was all gone...so fun...

and Our Christmas Lights outside...I so didn't want to decorate for Christmas but it is all about the kids and they LOVED it...so that made it well worth the time it took to decorate...

Our Christmas Card 2011

I saw this photo idea on pinterest and really wanted to do it with my boys for our Family Christmas Card....

It turned out so cute and I LOVED it...

it wasn't the easiest getting pictures done when I am snapping the camera and trying to get their attention but we had fun...it was really hard to choose what picture to use so I used the one I liked the most and the one Chuck liked the most and the one my Mom liked the most...

here are all the pictures I took....

And then this is what the final card ended up looking at....

such fun I had taking them...