Grateful for...

It is so good for me to step back and realize all that I am GRATEFUL for... here are just a few of the things I have been thinking about lately:

- a beautiful, healthy, and happy baby boy
- an amazing husband, who is the best stay at home dad a kid could ask for
- modern medicine and technology
- a great doctor's check up to tell us everything is looking a-OK
- an amazing little sister who helps us so much
- wonderfully supportive family and friends
- a good job in this awful economy
- a mortgage payment (that means we are paying ourselves)
- fresh, ripe, garden tomatoes
- every night and weekend I spend with my boys
- students at school who help me remember that I really do LOVE my job
- amazing teachers to work with
- a supportive principal
- Fall (UEA) break
- my student teacher
- beautiful, warm, fall weather
- Friday night football games
- college football games
- a husband who LOVES football games
- a sweet baby boy who will still fall asleep in my arms
- financial security
- a thoughtful husband who: loves and cares for our baby boy, does the laundry, helps with the dishes, does schoolwork while taking care of our sweet baby boy, runs to Wal*Mart to buy a furnace filter for cold weather tomorrow, loves me unconditionally, supports me in all that I am doing, and makes me the LUCKIEST girl in the world to be married to him!
- fresh, homemade salsa
- date nights
- date night at the temple
- prayers that are answered
- trials that make us stronger
- so many more blessings... I could go on forever!

P.S. I will be posting pictures soon of our first Aggie game!

Six Months Old!

Our sweet little angel is six months old! I can't believe how fast time flies... we are having so much fun with our beautiful boy! He is:

- sitting up on his own
- smiling
- laughing
- grabbing everything within reach
- blowing raspberries
- eating lots of solids (sweet potatoes, green beans, carrots, pears, peaches, prunes, graham crackers)
- telling stories
- loving books
- rolling over
- so much more!

Thanks to Jaci for taking these amazing pictures! She truly has such a talent for photography! Thanks for capturing our favorite faces of Beckam!

It Will All Work Out...

Well, school has started and our amazing summer is officially over. It was SO HARD to go back to work and be away from my two favorite boys! I miss them so much during the day, but I feel so grateful that Mark is at home with Beckam. I have been continually reminded the past few weeks of President Hinckley's constant advice,

“It isn’t as bad as you sometimes think it is. If you do your best, it will all work out."

We have definitely seen the hand of the Lord in our lives in so many ways. Mark is now taking care of Beckam during the day and then we trade off in the afternoon. My principal is so GREAT and hired Mark to work at my school in the after school program. So when school gets out we switch and I take Beckam and Mark goes to work. I have been truly amazed to see how everything really does work out as long as we do our part.

Here are some of the sweet memories our cute little family shared this summer...

- Summerfest
- Camped out at Tony's Grove
- Planned and LOVED the Taylor Family Reunion
- Off Roaded up Providence Canyon and enjoyed the beautiful waterfall
- Drove to Porcupine Resevoir
- The Oaks in the Ogden Canyon
- Lots of shaved ice!
- Amazed by the houses on North Logan's east bench
- Cache County Fair
- Morgan County Fair
- Box Elder County Fair
- summer walks (lots of them!)
- Explore Wellsville
- Attend the temple
- Cracker Barrel in Paradise
- Star Valley, Star Valley, and more Star Valley
- Family nap time
- Brown Family Reunion
- Visited our sweet grandparents
- Hello Dolly - Hale Center Theater
- Miniature golfing
- Off roading up Green Canyon
- Elements restaurant
- Celebrated our 3rd anniversary!
- and so much more!!!

What an AMAZING summer and we have so many more to look forward to. Mark is back at school going into Secondary Education, so our summers together have just begun! YAY!!!

Happy Anniversary!

We celebrated our 3rd year anniversary on Saturday and what a sweet day! Mark surprised me with breakfast in bed that morning and these beautiful long stem red roses. I am so thankful for such an amazing man in my life! I feel so blessed to have shared three wonderful years together and I am looking forward to many more! Thanks for making our day so memorable sweetie, I LOVE YOU!

Thanks to my sweet little sister for watching Beckam, we were able to go on a date. It was such a fun afternoon. We went on a drive up Green Canyon and then miniature golfing. It is the greatest feeling ever to be married to your best friend and have so much fun together. Thanks for such a wonderful day babe!


We tried out the new restaurant in Logan - Elements - and it was so good! We were very impressed and they even surprised us with this cute dessert plate.

County Fair

I love the county fair! We were able to watch my cute little sister and niece show their pigs at the Morgan County Fair. What a fun weekend! Beckam didn't quite know what to think of the pigs... but he was such a good sport and just enjoyed every bit of it! We also went to the rodeo that night and to the Cache County Fair Rodeo... I love this time of year!

We LOVE watching him play in his bouncer. This has been the funnest toy for him and for us. We could spend hours watching him play in this thing... he is so darn cute! (Please forgive my high voice... I have really got to work on that :)

Going Private

Well, after a privacy scare we are going private. We would love for you to keep up with the Taylor Team happenings so if you are our friends or family, leave your email address in a comment and we will send you an invite.

Five Months Old!

I am five months old and having so much fun! I can:

* giggle at mom and dad for hours

* put anything and everything in my mouth

* sit up in my high chair and eat rice cereal

* sit up by myself for a little while (but only on mom and dad's bed in case I fall over)

* sleep for 10-11 hours at night

* make silly faces

* give lots of open mouth kisses

* enjoy getting raspberries/zerberts from mom and dad

* splash and play in the water during bathtime

In the next few weeks I will:

- try green beans, sweet potatoes, bananas, and carrots

- say goodbye to Grandma and Grandpa Taylor for two months

- visit Grandma and Grandpa Brown, see the pigs, and go to the county fair

- play in my new jumperoo!

- go on walks with mom and dad

- play with cousin Ike in Star Valley

- go swimming for my second time

We sure love this little guy... He is our sunshine! We feel so lucky to have a healthy, happy baby boy and be able to spend this time together as a family!

Thank You

I just want to say thanks to all of my sweet friends for your comments on my "lemon" post. I am so blessed to have wonderful friends and an amazing family in my life. Thanks for your examples and uplifting words...

More Summer Fun!

Hanging out with Uncle Kyle



Sleeping in Daddy's arms


I love this picture


Grandma Brown is great!


The Logan firework show is amazing... although it was a long week without Mark we really enjoyed all of his hard work! Thanks Sweetie!


First Swim! We spent a week in Star Valley with family and it was so fun! This was Beckam's first swim and he LOVED it! He felt like he was in a giant bath tub!


First time eating rice cereal... he wasn't quite sure what to think of it.


We have the cutest boy in the world!


He really hates the camera flash... poor kid doesn't know what to do...



Mark shot the Logan and Jackson Hole firework shows and Beckam thought it was the greatest thing ever! So much fun to see all of Mark's hard work pay off.... way to go babe!


Our poor little guy is fair skinned just like his dad, so I bought him this cute sun hat to protect his melon. I love that face!


Playing cards with his Great Grandma McCormick. He is so lucky to have two great grandmas and a great grandpa... we love them!


We were able to take Mark's parents up to Star Valley and enjoy a weekend together. We also made it up to Jackson to enjoy some good ole Bar J Wranglers.


Our sweet family