My Little Princesses

For someone who grew up a devout tom-boy...it's interesting to have a daughter that is so girly!! Taylor is sooooooooooo in to princesses right now! She got into Jordan's clothes and found this little tutu that her aunt Jenna bought for her when she was about 6 months old. I never thought that it would button, but it did and she wore it proudly all day! She even convinced me to make a crown for her!

Here she is with Jenna at 6 months!!

Jordan didn't want to be left out!!

I had to include this photo. Taylor naps in our guest room and this is what I found when I went to check on her one day. If you can't tell...she has climbed between the backboard and the window and fallen asleep. She was doubled over on her knees and just snoozing away!

Happy Birthday Grandpa Millard

Happy Birthday Grandpa. We're sorry that we didn't get a card in the mail, but it was fun trying to get Taylor to cooperate to get a video! We never got an amazing take...but here are the top three! We love you ...Happy Birthday!

Jordie

I feel like Taylor does a lot of crazy things that warrent posts...but poor Jordan just gets lost in the chaos!! Here are some pics of my not-so-little girl!!

I finally decided that I wanted her to hold the bottle on her own....it was a little messy at first!

A friend of mine came over for dinner while Rob was away on business and her daughter put Jord into the walker without realizing that the seat wasn't fully attached! Jord was a little concerned.

Jordan loves to steal food from Taylor!! Oh, and Taylor loves to feed Jordan because then she doesn't have to eat as much.

Getting a little better at that bottle thing!!

Girly Girl

I think the picture says it all....

Happy Halloween

Well we have been celebrating Halloween since the Wednesday before Halloween!! Our ward had our annual Halloween/Chili Cook off on Wednesday and Taylor was excited all day for her costume Party. We totally geeked it up. Rob wore a shirt that he won at work that lights up when there is wi-fi available. Jordan was windows seven. I was a firewall...and Tay was our computer geek!!

Sunday night we carved our pumpkin with Rob's family. Uncle Brian drew the face and then Rob and Taylor took care of the rest.

Jordie really really wanted to get involved!!

Proud Mama showing off her pumpkin...which we actually left burning all night Monday night! Ooops...funny thing is that the candle lasted all night and I didn't notice until Taylor told me that the pumpkin was still glowing! At 8 am!!!

Here are some pics of the girls on Monday! The computer nerd made a return appearance. Here she is using her cell phone to take a picture of me...she had to take her glasses off to do it.

Oh...better put the cell phone away!

Grins...

Jordan sported her Ukrainian gear on Monday instead of being windows 7!! I bought this cute shirt on my mission and Tay was too big for it last year. It fit Jordan perfectly and she was darn cute.

Here's a cute one of my girls together!!

My Little Break From Life!!

Well, we decided to celebrate Rob graduating from college a little early!! (He graduates in December) We dropped the girls at my parents house, my sister and her husband Nick dropped their kids off with Nick's Mom, and we headed out for Maui!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At 3 am the first morning in Maui, we got in the car and headed for Haleakala, a volcanic crater, which sits at 10,000 ft above sea level!!
The sunrise was amazing...this picture doesn't even start to do it justice.
We spent an afternoon on a boat doing some fishing....well, not much fishing, but the ride was enjoyable. We had two bites but no luck!
I was amazed that there was this type of dry land...and then a few miles away...rich rainforest...



Bamboo isn't native to Hawaii, but has definitely taken over this hike that we went on. A little further down the trail it was actually so thick that they had to cut a 8 ft pathway through it and it was dark for about 1/2 a mile. Pretty cool.
One day we headed for Hana, a small town on the opposite side of the island. Some people in our neighborhood actually own a house on that end of the island, so they were nice enough to let us stay there for a night. We didn't realize how small Hana was and expected to go out for dinner that evening, but found out that there were like 2 restaurants and 2 general store...The picture says it all...we ate spam and macaroni for dinner for a cheap $27!!!
Gorgeous black sand beach!
Right off our resort!
Ioa, a state park, was a fun stop.
This is a cool banyan tree in Old Lahaina. There is an original trunk and then 16 more that have started from vines coming down from limbs. Pretty cool.
Isn't he cute?!?! I wanted to zipline, and Rob was kind enough to humor me even though it was pretty expensive! It was fun to get up into the mountains and get some adrenaline pumping at the same time.
The views were awesome.
All in all, I could never right down all that we did or all that we saw!! It was just awesome to get away and relax for a while...Rob style...which means not much relaxing, but lots of new things!

Conference Weekend

This is Taylor paying very close attention (the headphones did help) during the Saturday morning session of conference...

Too bad that it was Dora that had her so raptured!! Oh well, it allowed Rob and I to enjoy the session!!
One night I didn't have any clean pajamas for Jordan and so I got out Taylor's halloween pj's from last year. (we're not going to comment on how at 8 months Jordan already fits into 18 month pjs!) Well, since Taylor saw them again she has REALLY wanted to wear them even though they are a little small. So when I saw this pair at Walmart, I could not resist! Now my girls match and Tay is a little happier...not that you can tell from the picture. Jordan was ready for bed when I was trying to take the picture and had had enough! I'll have to get a better one later.

Fall Fun

I guess that you can call it Fall...we've had a really WARM fall so far, and Taylor still enjoys playing in the water with her friends. She keeps asking to go to the pool, and doesn't understand that it is closed for the winter! She and her friend Malia really enjoyed riding her little car in this camping tote that was filled with water!
The real fall fun has been juicing and canning!! We went with Rob's parents one weekend and have quite the supply of Elderberries and Choke cherries. The next week, I went with my friend Kelly and we accidentally stole some grapes!! Ooops!!

A friend of ours told us that the grapes juice much more quickly on a propane stove, so we fired up the camp chef (thanks to Kelly) and juiced all day long! You would think that we would be sick of juicing...but we're actually hoping to get some more grapes...legitimately! :)
I feel like Jordan always gets left out!! She's definitely a second child because she has about 1/100 of the pictures that we had of Taylor by the time she was Jordan's age!! So I just wanted to throw this one in of her! She loves to chill in her car and watch Taylor play! She is 8 months now and is moving all over the place and she can't wait to be as big as her big sister!

Labor Day Hiking

We decided to go hiking the Saturday before Labor Day with out great friends, Angie and Spencer. Angie and I hadn't seen each other in a while and started talking and hiking....and...

here we are at the top of the Y...with Jordan....

And here are our husbands, with Taylor, at the bottom of the Y!! We waited for them for a while and then we finally called them and they decided we should just hike down and meet them.
Taylor kept herself busy playing with rocks while the boys rested!
She was glad when Angie and I got down to them! She was excited to play with Angie's water bottle. It was a fun hike!

My Girl...Tay!

Tay went to the dentist for the first time today. I had my teeth cleaned first and she thoroughly enjoyed watching; they even let her push the button to take my x-rays! She was a little nervous at first, but let the dentist check her teeth and even sat still long enough for them to polish her teeth. Of course it helped that Dora was playing on those glasses!!

Tay also had another first this summer...her first official hair cut. We were visiting my parents in Casper when I went to get my hair cut, and Grandma was nice enough to offer to get Tay's hair cut also. She talked about her hair cut for at least a week!

She loved playing with Grandma in Great-Grandpa's hammock.

This is Tay with her friend Brooklynn at 7 peaks. Taylor became quite the fish this summer and still asks to go to the pool even though it is closed for the winter.