My list of priorities....

 Quite obviously blogging is not anywhere near the top of that list.  We have been so busy and having so much fun who really cares about sitting in front of a computer?  Here are a couple of things we have been up to.  Back...well way back at the first of March Shawner came home from his mission in Nashville TN.  We are glad to have him home! 

 The adorable Reddick playing airplane with his dad.  I would have kinda freaked if I had been thrown this high in the air (seriously it was like 8 feet) but he just giggled, brave kid.

 Sir Reddick.

 The massive St. George Easter egg hunt! 

 Dr. Seuss day!  The kids just have loved 1st grade.

 We repainted our bathroom!  It looks great but I noticed when I posted this picture I did not take before pictures (or you would be way impressed) or get a picture of the cabinet that we painted white (which freaked me out but now I just LOVE)

 Playing CHEESE with Aunt Lisa.  This kid is so so so cute.

Easter morning!  The Easter bunny brought panties and underwear!   How did he know?

 Happy kids with their haul.

 Easter morning, not a lot of places to hide eggs at grandma's but the Easter bunny made do.

 Just chilling on Spring Break.

 While we were in St. George we had a dear friend take our family pictures (a couple weeks before she moved to Georgia).  This is the first time since Gid and Grace were 6 months old we had "professional pictures done".  We have not seen all the pictures but we were very pleased.  After the shoot Gracie was really into posing as seen here.

 Cute little bug.

 Handsome bop who is growing up way way to fast. 

 We took advantage of having Grandma around to take some pictures of the kids with her.  They sure had a great time at Grandma's and it was one of the best vacations we have ever had.

We sure love Grandma and love having her home!

Clip up chart.......silly girls.

In first grade they have clip up charts for good and bad behavior.  There are rewards and consequences and each kid has a clothes pin with their name on it.  Your try and get to the top of the chart each day.  I went into the girls room this morning and found this hanging on the wall.  The girls made a "clip up" chart for their dolls.  These were the words they chose

outstanding
good day
great job
redie (ready) to learn
mean day
bad day
very very bad day
perint (parent) contact

as you can see there is a "lillie" and "repunzel" on mean day.  They must not have been very nice.  Made me smile.  Such creative girls we have.

Merry Christmas!

We had a way fun Christmas.  We had our annual Taylor Christmas Eve party and this year we did it at the Fire Station.  We had yummy food and played minute to win it games.  It was so much fun and the kids had a blast.  Cute little Hannah enjoying her food.

The kleenex game.  Amity creamed everyone in this game.  She was a crazy woman pulling out the kleenex.

Tricia stacking nuts. 

Brian is throwing popcorn and trying to get it to stick to the shaving cream on Gids head (of note they lost to Danica and myself). 

Me in my lovely shower cap as I mentioned before Danica and I won but it may have been because she had a bigger head to aim at.

Bouncing ping-pong balls into buckets.  This was just mass chaos.

The cookie game.  You start with the cookie on your forhead and try and wiggle it with your face and get it to your mouth.

Brian is the only one who mastered this game but I was laughing so hard at his facial movements I missed where he actually got it in his mouth.

Present opening.  Gracie got a new Barbi from Harley that had a cute little Tankie dog.  She loved it.

I love this picture of Alan and Christine working on their cookies. 

The boys had so much fun shooting cups off the table with their nerf guns.

Erin, modeling Brian's new bra!  Impressive Erin.

and skirt, Brian was way impressed Erin let loose and did this.

Halle got her number one request-her Dora couch.  She was pretty worried when she did not find it right away.

We made these cute little stars with baby Jesus on them for our sunbeam class.  Gid and Grace liked them so much they made one also.  Thanks to my mom for such a way fun idea.

Tank even got in on the action.  He loves Christmas. 

Gracie got "rachel boots" 

We got to have cute Hogan and Reddick come and spend the night.  We had so much fun with them.  Brian pulled the kids with a sled behind the RZR.  They had so much fun but I was laughing so hard at Gid and Hogan I forgot to take any pictures of them on the sled.  At one point Gid fell off the sled and Hogan stayed on.  Gid was running to catch up to the sled and get back on but every time he got close Brian would take off again.  After about 3 times of this Gid decided to tackle Hogan off the sled so Brian would stop and let him on.  So dang funny.

The kids got a new 4-wheeler for christmas.  It was a huge hit.  They did a scavenger hunt for it and I think Halle got at least 8 of the 12 clues.  She listened really well (now if we could just get her to listen to her mom).  Gid is the only one that will drive it.  Gracie is still a little nervous and we are just kinda thankful Halle has not asked to drive it yet.  Who knows what would happen.

Reddick playing with Lisa and ready to go play in the snow.

Little Reddick with his saggy drawers the next morning. 

Gid flying his helicopter.  We had a great Christmas and hope you all did also.