Sprinkler Fun at Grandma's

Hobble Creek Camping

I have been really bad about posting. This camping trip was probably about a month ago now!! I need to get my other pictures off the camera and do some more posts!! Anyway, we headed up Hobble Creek a few weeks ago with my brothers, Paige (Bill's wife), and our friends the Morans. I thought that we were going to freeze to death (there was still snow on the ground) but it actually turned into a nice little overnighter!! Here are a couple pictures of the girls!! They had a blast...

Working Girl

Rob helped Taylor put on my boots and she was in 7th heaven. I asked her what she was doing and she said "Workin'" I about died laughing...So much for being a workin' girl at age 2!

Spring Fever...we headed for Arches....so did everyone else within 600 miles!!

We've been wanting to get out of town for a while now...and the opportunity finally arrived! We packed up the car...dropped of the girls...and headed for Moab! We headed out about 5 pm and arrived in Moab around 8 pm. We started looking for a camp site along the Colorado River...nothing. Ok, let's try the slick rock trail...nothing. Maybe Canyonlands?...nothing. It's 10 pm now...Maybe the KOA (lame I know, but we were desperate!)...and again, nothing. A nice lady at the KOA showed us a few roads along the highway that people camp on and luckily we finally found a spot about 11 pm! Just enough time to set up camp, have cake for Angie's and Bill's Bday, and head to bed!! The next day was a little more fun! We hiked Delicate Arch and got the last permit for the fiery furnace. Here are a few pics...

Easter - I finally got the pics!!

This is the first year that Taylor sort of knew what was going on for Easter! Well, at least the Pagan side of things. We're still working on the Resurection. We had dinner with Rob's family and then Grandma put a few eggs together for Brad to hide and Taylor to find.
It took her a few minutes to get the hang of searching for the eggs...but once she figured it out, all we heard was "I find it!!! I find it!!!" Over and over and over...

She's pretty dang cute if I do say so myself!

The best part was stuffing as much candy as possible into her mouth after the egg hunt!!Doesn't Jordan look excited?!?! Hopefully she's a little more excited next year!

Spring?!?!

We finally got some nice weather!!! Taylor loves to be outside, and our day seems to go much more smoothly if she is happy!! We decided to have a picnic in the backyard.
Taylor actually ate her whole lunch...maybe we should eat outside more often!! :)

This picture doesn't make it look like Jordan was enjoying herself very much, but she loves being outside too! I can' t believe how quickly she is growing up!!

Happy 2nd Birthday Taylor!!

Taylor is absolutely in love with Elmo, so we had to do the Elmo cake!! My friend Katie gave us a couple of Elmo DVD's that her kids don't watch anymore and Taylor is constantly wanting to watch them...thanks Katie! (I wish you could here the sarcasm in my voice!!) I couldn't get her to smile! She is such a somber child (again the sarcasm! :) ) I baked the cake on Monday and put it in the freezer so that it would be easier to decorate. Taylor saw it and wanted to eat it...Then Tuesday I was decorating it during nap time so that it could be a surprise but Taylor came up from her nap while I was in the middle of putting Elmo's fur on! Of course she wanted to eat it!!

We got Tay this little vanity and as soon as she saw it, she forgot about everything else! Even the cake. So after waiting two days to eat her cake, she was too busy doing hair to even think about her cake!

Her friend Malia was really into the vanity too!! It should be interesting when she comes over to play...they already fight over everything!

So after playing hard all night and turning down cake multiple times I made her get ready for bed. I figured that she had forgotten about cake and got her down the stairs and almost to bed when she yells...."Elmo Cake. I want Elmo cake!" Well, it is the girl's birthday, so back up the stairs we went and had cake. After she had finished her first slice of cake, she asked for milk and more cake. Of course I indulged her and then she gulped down her milk and asked my for some chocolate milk...This girl can work the system!!

All in all...it was a great day and I can't believe that it's been two years since my little girl was born!! We love you Tay!